RIDLEY'S CHALLENGE : Final

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squishy_ichigo: 2008-04-11 12:30:19 pm

2008-04-01 11:19:48 am

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Well its time for another one room hack! (Well sort of, theres 4 rooms...)

SUPER METROID : RIDLEY'S CHALLENGE
(its headered!)

A non-linear one room hack that will have you scanning the area for as many items as you can find before fighting Ridley!

SKILLS NEEDED:
-Mockball
-Speedball
-Walljump
-IBJ
-Short Charge
(maybe more)

ITEMS: 25 in all

Will take any comments you have! Please post if you find bugs.
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It is April 1st... But why would I fake something like this? That would just be cruel! Come on! I'm not Kejardon! Trust me!

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Quote from Kejardon:

I have empirical evidence showing that chozo warriors are indeed faster than hedgehogs

HONORS:
Cpadolf
ICheatAtGolf
namespoofer

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Ridley's Challenge Final.IPS

Cpadolf

2008-04-01 03:00:41 pm

Almost happy

I completed it in 38 minutes by the clock. (probably 2 hours of playing) Very fun hack, some annoying parts though (basically everything in the lava) and some non obvious solutions here and there that annoyed. Also I have no idea of when I broke the hack and when I didn't... it's really non linear and no obvious paths once you are halfway in.

I beat ridley with

4 E-tanks, 15 supers 1 missile pack, grapple, X-ray, Charge, Ice, Wave, Plasma, Gravity suit, Springball, Speedbooster, 1 PB pack, Space jump, morphball and bombs. Possibly also something I forgot to mention

Kriole

2008-04-01 04:34:58 pm

Meri Kurisumasu! ^_^

Played for like 5 minutes, got stuck. Then I played for like 10 minutes and got stuck again. Now I have given up.

Cpadolf

2008-04-01 05:35:44 pm

Almost happy

That doesn't sound like you... getting stuck and all : )

Also I got the first super the wrong way I'm quite sure, I was able to pick the one at the first missile pack from outside the wall with a spinjump after I got wavebeam.

Fano7

2008-04-01 07:30:40 pm

Every Bit Counts

Quote from Cpadolf:

That doesn't sound like you... getting stuck and all : )

How true.

squishy_ichigo

2008-04-02 08:24:57 am

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Quote from Cpadolf:

Also I got the first super the wrong way I'm quite sure, I was able to pick the one at the first missile pack from outside the wall with a spinjump after I got wavebeam.

Well that not good! Fixed that in a heartbeat! Beta 2 is up!

DonnyDonovan

2008-04-02 11:06:44 am

Is IBJ absolutely required? I suck at it, so it's always been kind of a dealbreaker for me. Mockball (provided adequate space to do it) and reasonably tricky walljumps are fine.

squishy_ichigo

2008-04-02 11:58:46 am

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IBJ - Yes its required!
Mockball with adaquent space - is a few tiles adaquent? Eh... probablly not!
Walljump - mostly dodging hazards!

Cpadolf

2008-04-02 01:08:21 pm

Almost happy

Is very short charges necessary? I used that a couple of times but the space was so short that it was just barely possible in realtime.

squishy_ichigo

2008-04-02 01:14:11 pm

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Quote from Cpadolf:

Is very short charges necessary? I used that a couple of times but the space was so short that it was just barely possible in realtime.

I would say the latter. That part was designed to be really hard in realtime.
Very short charge would only be an extra advantage to know! Not a mandatory move, good timeing is all that is neccessary!
edit:
Thats not to say that short charge is not needed! Short charge is very neccessary!

DonnyDonovan

2008-04-02 03:03:36 pm

Methinks I'll take a pass on this one.

Dark__Echoes

2008-04-02 04:37:42 pm

darn it, i can't finish it, cuz i can't mockball. =/
from what i HAVE played, this is a pretty solid hack, with lotsa cool moves to pull off.
(still, i wish the mockball wasn't required)

Jeogigo

2008-04-02 06:27:28 pm

I found that the low ceiling made the mock ball easier to preform.

Sturmvogel Prime

2008-04-05 01:19:47 am

Phazon Vasteel Autobot

Anybody knows where i can find the varia suit and the charge beam?

Cpadolf

2008-04-05 08:12:10 am

Almost happy

Varia doesn't exist to my knowledge, only gravity. And charge beam... don't remember.

squishy_ichigo

2008-04-05 09:30:20 am

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Sadly no Varia Suit... Its not needed anyways!

Charge Beam is hidden behind some descreet Speed Booster Blocks!

ICheatAtGolf

2008-04-08 06:27:38 pm

I Completed this hack with the same stats as Cpadolf. Nice, fun, hack, although I think people's definitions of "challenging" are getting harder as time goes on. I had to use quite a bit of save states on this one.

With the exception of Ridley.

The crumble blocks, to my amazement, made that battle pretty epic

I think if you make another hack, you should tone down the difficulty just a bit. I'd say a good 75% of the people here wouldn't complete this hack due to difficulty.

squishy_ichigo

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squishy_ichigo: 2008-04-09 12:05:28 pm

2008-04-09 08:44:39 am

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Yeah, the only reason its so hard is because its a one room hack.

I myself would rather make easier hacks, with hard challenges for extra items like super missles, etc.

With Ridley I wanted to do something no one else has done! I will be using that idea again in the future!

edit: If I can beat it, then I guess that I'm getting better after all! Maybe I should take another swing at Impossible...

Black Telomeres

2008-04-09 01:01:37 pm

Quote from squishy_ichigo:

I myself would rather make easier hacks, with hard challenges for extra items like super missles, etc.

Do this plz. You'll be able to reach a wider audience. Are you working on a fullhack or a minihack or anything?

squishy_ichigo

2008-04-09 01:14:27 pm

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I wanted to wait alittle longer to release this but....

I've done a half hack = Rewind
a one room hack = Ridley's Challenge
planning on a full hack = Pantheon

I'm done with the blueprints and am currently testing all my ideas before any real progress will be made. It'll be awhile before you hear anything concrete.

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Random SMILE quirk : Setting a rooms FX2 pointer to C124 will make for explosions! A few other ones will work as well such as... E5A0, E57C, E5A4, C120. This is used in the Tourian escape sequence.

Sturmvogel Prime

2008-04-09 08:19:26 pm

Phazon Vasteel Autobot

Quote from Cpadolf:

I completed it in 38 minutes by the clock. (probably 2 hours of playing) Very fun hack, some annoying parts though (basically everything in the lava) and some non obvious solutions here and there that annoyed. Also I have no idea of when I broke the hack and when I didn't... it's really non linear and no obvious paths once you are halfway in.

I beat ridley with

4 E-tanks, 15 supers 1 missile pack, grapple, X-ray, Charge, Ice, Wave, Plasma, Gravity suit, Springball, Speedbooster, 1 PB pack, Space jump, morphball and bombs. Possibly also something I forgot to mention

Where's the Plasma Beam?

squishy_ichigo

2008-04-10 08:32:52 am

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Its well hidden! You'll need to SB to get it, I'd get the X-Ray if I were you!

X-Ray is near the top...

Sturmvogel Prime

2008-04-10 07:53:21 pm

Phazon Vasteel Autobot

I have the X-Ray, but i still can't find it, i need help for find the beam

namespoofer

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namespoofer: 2008-04-11 10:26:05 am

2008-04-10 11:45:06 pm

Trained by Cpadolf. Mission: To Perfect.

Um, was I supposed to get the super missles in the left corner blocked by a super missle block right after getting bombs?
Or is this early? -.- Just get underneath the SM block, shoot the hidden supers, and turn around..

Early supers?

Edit: I don't think this was intentional as Ridley suitless isn't fun =\
Edit2: Completed with same as Cpadolf but 1 less tank.. (ownt)

I didn't think it was over after Ridley, so I held the fast-foward button through the tubes for like 5 minutes.. -.-

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Early supers.smv

squishy_ichigo

2008-04-11 12:28:58 pm

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Early Supers again! Ok, ok, I know what I need to do... *fix fix fix* done! This should be the last update! Lets slap a big FINAL on it!