Hey, as some of you know I have completed an any% run in 1:02. I have been trying to polish up on the lats segment so that my time will be 1:01 and tied with the world record for any%. Well...I dont think that i can do it, BUT I found some usefull tricks to save a couple of seconds and here they are.
i saved at the save point right before the SA-X with :59 on the clock. I go through the rooms and come to the fight and pound the SA-X with point blank range shots and beat its first form with still :59 on the clock. Then i kill its second form with three shots(is there any way to do it in 2?) Next I kill the third and final form on the sweet spot and then go and activate the controls. after doing that I run left instead of right to get enough room to build up a boost and then run right and proceed to do a boost jump of of the top ledge in the room where you had the fight and land right next to the door. I go down the elevator and go through all of the rooms. until I get to the long straight hallway. I build up a boost and charge a shine as late as possible in the next room.
Here is a hard trick(at least for me) after you have store your shine, screw attack down the shaft. about 3 4ths down press up on the control pad(or shoot)to straighten yourself so that you fall just right of the platform with the kihunter on it(or atleast he used to be) this is the hard part: just before you touch the ground tap A and hold right so that you will do basically, a low-hight shinespark through the next room and into the right wall of the hanger. An alternate method of doing this is harder IMO but you might find it easier. drop the the bottom of the shaft just like above but instead of pressing a in the air, land and go under the platform where the kihunter used to be and do a regular low-hight shinespark. i have yet to do this method but i think it is possible. Anyway, just fight the omega metroid and win the game! I used these tricks but it still wasnt enough to get 1:01.
I am about 20 seconds away from doing it and it just so happens that the "cutscene" that shows the SA-X getting killed (again) takes exactly 21 seconds! :x I hope that these tricks are helpfull to you guys in your videos(and everyone else). If someone has already discovered this stuff then sorry about this useless long post!
i saved at the save point right before the SA-X with :59 on the clock. I go through the rooms and come to the fight and pound the SA-X with point blank range shots and beat its first form with still :59 on the clock. Then i kill its second form with three shots(is there any way to do it in 2?) Next I kill the third and final form on the sweet spot and then go and activate the controls. after doing that I run left instead of right to get enough room to build up a boost and then run right and proceed to do a boost jump of of the top ledge in the room where you had the fight and land right next to the door. I go down the elevator and go through all of the rooms. until I get to the long straight hallway. I build up a boost and charge a shine as late as possible in the next room.
Here is a hard trick(at least for me) after you have store your shine, screw attack down the shaft. about 3 4ths down press up on the control pad(or shoot)to straighten yourself so that you fall just right of the platform with the kihunter on it(or atleast he used to be) this is the hard part: just before you touch the ground tap A and hold right so that you will do basically, a low-hight shinespark through the next room and into the right wall of the hanger. An alternate method of doing this is harder IMO but you might find it easier. drop the the bottom of the shaft just like above but instead of pressing a in the air, land and go under the platform where the kihunter used to be and do a regular low-hight shinespark. i have yet to do this method but i think it is possible. Anyway, just fight the omega metroid and win the game! I used these tricks but it still wasnt enough to get 1:01.
I am about 20 seconds away from doing it and it just so happens that the "cutscene" that shows the SA-X getting killed (again) takes exactly 21 seconds! :x I hope that these tricks are helpfull to you guys in your videos(and everyone else). If someone has already discovered this stuff then sorry about this useless long post!
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