That reminds me. Probably useless, but if you charge up a Power Bomb and unmorph, you fire a charge shot. Works even if you don't have power bombs yet.
I just realized something. If you WERE able to fight Ridley early, you would get stuck because of the lack of Grapple Beam. That could be why the developers prevented him from being fought early no matter what.
Hm? Ohwell, have to play it through again today then. I'm currently at Sector 1 after killing King Kihunter, so that won't take long. Expect that my main plan is to open a 5 Seeker Missiledoor with normal ones. At what point did the first one come by?
I know I'm going to walk past it. -.- How many Accel Charges are available by then? The one from the bathroom (Whole station has 1 of them?) atleas, but we're there other one before it?
#1: On the way to Diffusion Beam in the Bathroom #2: Sector 3, in the room where you get the ice beam; bomb the third round plate on the floor #3: Sector 2, underneath a rock #4: Sector 3, before Ridley
The one in sector 2 is in the room with the tree spider giraffe. You may be able to backtrack to the seeker door if doors don't lock behind you. But I don't see the point. Accel charges don't let you fire missiles faster, they wouldn't help with opening the seeker door early.
I know this would be useless but is there any way to get into the area where the exam center is without a cutscene? e.g. is there any way to just walk around that big outdoor room?