Time, %, and more

2007-01-07 02:49:51 pm

I was checking neoseeker.com, and I found out someone did a run of 1:17. The main thing is, what did he do to get such time (are there new sb-s found?) or is it a bunch of yada yada? :|

Here's the link:

http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/index.php?fn=view_thread&t=789303&p=1

In my opinion it's still impossible.

primetime

2007-01-09 12:09:27 am

Well, instead of saying "explain please", you should be more specific and say something like "did you use any sequence breaks." What you said almost sounded like an insult to me, although I'm sure you didn't mean it.

And since I don't really do any speed running, I don't know what would seem impossible, so I can't really judge that.

Tahngarthor

2007-05-01 12:56:59 pm

Bangaa Bishop

(You can shoot me for the necropost if you want, this is a sticky)

There's all kinds of short videos out there on the net, has anyone tried to record an entire run by now? Because I'd like to get an idea of what the WR (any% or 100% I dont care) is but as the end of this thread shows, unless you see a video of the whole run, the records screen could easily be fudged.

iamthejackie

2007-05-01 05:19:01 pm

Seriously, I really don't know how to capture videos with my Windows Movie Maker. I plug the camera via USB but it says that it needs a CD. Ive used the CD but if i do, the videos will be a gig for a clip thats 10 minutes. Thats not good for my computer. Anyways, I don't think I'll actually do any DS recording if I get it to work soon.

nate

2007-05-01 09:13:41 pm

that's normal for uncompressed video. you have to compress it to get it down to the size you're accustomed to seeing around here.

Ratman

2007-05-02 09:04:25 am

I beated Gorea 2 in one minute and fiveteen seconds lol. ^.^ \/,,

DSG3002

2007-05-20 06:31:50 pm

ima chargin mah lazr

1:26:16

It took me like 3 tries using Mr Potter's speed run to finally beat 1:27, but I finally did it. I might be new here, but I've been playing MPH since the day it came out. 8-) Anyways, I doubt many people really care about single player anymore, but yeah... I did this run a couple of weeks ago, and just decided to join this site today.

Is anybody still working on a MPH speed run?

primetime

2007-05-20 08:43:57 pm

Speed runs are pretty much dead here for this game, but that's pretty cool that you beat the record. I wish I could speed run but I suck at it.

nate

2007-05-20 10:22:49 pm

DSG3002

2007-06-23 03:05:56 am

ima chargin mah lazr

1:22:38, a time I never thought I could EVER achieve. aiwebs_016

iamthejackie

2007-06-23 11:10:09 am

That's a pretty big jump from 1:26 to 1:22. Care to share what you have done? Anything new?

DSG3002

2007-06-23 02:21:31 pm

ima chargin mah lazr

Quote from iamthejackie:

That's a pretty big jump from 1:26 to 1:22. Care to share what you have done? Anything new?

All that was different between the two runs was trying to get each segment perfect, as in restarting if I made a single mistake, and faster MB boosting. Although I did make about 35 seconds of mistakes total in the run, I still improved by almost 4 minutes.

I'm sorry I doubted you before about 1:24. When I did my 1:26 I didn't think I made that many mistakes, but I was apparently wrong. I can now say that anything below 1:22 would be a perfect speed run of this game.

In addition to restarting a lot and faster MB boosting, I took time before each segment to get an idea of each enemy's AI so I know where to shoot them and where they're headed. In Data Shrine 02 of the second visit to Celestial Archives, I used homing missiles on those two Volt-Guardians. I took them out in like 10 seconds. grin new

Max

2007-06-23 08:08:58 pm

Waaaaaaa i want insanity

Hey I just started running this game and i got 2:45, it seems pretty crap compared to you guys runs.
How did you do it?
What route did you take?
Are there any worthwhile sequence breaks?

Mr Potter

2007-06-28 06:08:43 pm

Quote from Max:

Hey I just started running this game and i got 2:45, it seems pretty crap compared to you guys runs.
How did you do it?
What route did you take?
Are there any worthwhile sequence breaks?

Quote from nate:

IUniverse

(user is banned)

2008-03-23 12:25:52 pm

[BANNED]

My stats:

Total Game Time (fastest)= 2h 00m 04s
Gorea Phase 1 (fastest)= 0h 02m 25s
Gorea Phase 2 (fastest)= 0h 01m 10s
Enemies Killed Total= 23,260

SuperMissle

2008-07-28 06:12:27 pm

Mysteries are slowly becoming extinct.

Thats an Absolutely great speedrun.
I wish i could've done something that good.

Metroid Kong

(user is banned)

2008-10-12 08:51:28 pm

Here are my stats for this game...

Fastest Game Time: 1h 30m 27s
Gorea Phase 1: 02m 18s
Gorea Phase 2: 01m 10s
Total Enemies killed: 33,740

Hitaka

2009-02-08 05:02:00 pm

Phoenix

100%
Time: 4:36
Gorea Time: 7:50
Deaths: 0
Hunters/Guardians killed: 58

Only my second playthrough, and now I'll probably never play adventure mode again.

Okay, so I died a couple times but I reset. Instant death pits in Metroid is bullcrap. I never did die in the piston tunnel though.

Tahngarthor

2009-02-10 05:32:34 pm

Bangaa Bishop

Quote from Hitaka:

100%
Time: 4:36
Gorea Time: 7:50
Deaths: 0
Hunters/Guardians killed: 58

Only my second playthrough, and now I'll probably never play adventure mode again.

Okay, so I died a couple times but I reset. Instant death pits in Metroid is bullcrap. I never did die in the piston tunnel though.

I probably died more in this than any other metroid except prime 2 on Hard. My first playthough, that goddanged piston tunnel killed me like half a dozen times.

DSG3002

2009-03-08 01:41:19 pm

ima chargin mah lazr

I just thought I'd let everyone here know that I re-did my previous any% run and did a new 100% run a few weeks ago, and ended up with 1:16:33 and 1:22:57 respectively. Here are the links to the final segments I uploaded to YouTube:

Any% 1:16:33
100% 1:22:57

Both runs are currently in the verification process on SDA and I believe each can be improved by quite a bit if less hunters and guardians were encountered in various escape missions. I'm not sure if anybody is even somewhat interested in this game anymore, but I thought I'd let m2k2 know about this. The times for the any% run are getting awfully low, and just one or two new sequence breaks or OOB's that help would probably be able to bring it down to ~1:03 like Metroid Prime.

PS: The 100% run didn't require scans because MPH is the only game in the Prime series that actually counts logbook as part of game completion, so 25% is the 100% percentage without scans. Who would have thought that 3/4 of the game was scanning? :P

I just thought I'd let everyone here know that I re-did my previous any% run and did a new 100% run a few weeks ago, and ended up with 1:16:33 and 1:22:57 respectively. Here are the links to the final segments I uploaded to YouTube:

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GtAR50wGvE]Any% 1:16:33[/url]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYWX5Dbm-s]100% 1:22:57[/url]

Both runs are currently in the verification process on SDA and I believe each can be improved by quite a bit if less hunters and guardians were encountered in various escape missions. I'm not sure if anybody is even somewhat interested in this game anymore, but I thought I'd let m2k2 know about this. The times for the any% run are getting awfully low, and just one or two new sequence breaks or OOB's that help would probably be able to bring it down to ~1:03 like Metroid Prime.

PS: The 100% run didn't require scans because MPH is the only game in the Prime series that actually counts logbook as part of game completion, so 25% is the 100% percentage without scans. Who would have thought that 3/4 of the game was scanning? :P

Phazar

2009-03-09 09:51:06 pm

...

Well, M2K2's MPH section of the main site was completed a few months ago, and there are at least two or three new tricks on there, including the Compression Chamber trick that you have asked me about in the past. Actually, I am still speedrunning this game as well, so this game isn't that dead to runners yet. From what I have seen and done myself, however, sub-hour seems very likely to happen eventually, since Hunters is a shorter game. I actually would have recorded my runs by now if I could find a decent way to, how did you record your runs so perfectly without movement?

DSG3002

2009-03-11 05:33:39 am

ima chargin mah lazr

Quote from Phazar:

Well, M2K2's MPH section of the main site was completed a few months ago, and there are at least two or three new tricks on there, including the Compression Chamber trick that you have asked me about in the past. Actually, I am still speedrunning this game as well, so this game isn't that dead to runners yet. From what I have seen and done myself, however, sub-hour seems very likely to happen eventually, since Hunters is a shorter game. I actually would have recorded my runs by now if I could find a decent way to, how did you record your runs so perfectly without movement?

Out of curiosity, what times have you been getting? You're already thinking sub-1:00 is possible when there has yet to be any major skips aside from the ones already utilized in the "current" route? o_O Also, that Compression Chamber trick doesn't save any real time, since you have to jump-scan in VDO2 (Segment 8 iirc) when there are Judicator Psychobits constantly attacking you and finding the scan is difficult as-is.

As for recording, I've gone over how I record several times in the topic on SDA. It's a little complicated and takes some getting used to, but it works really well (unless you use Dual Mode).

[quote="Phazar"]Well, M2K2's MPH section of the main site was completed a few months ago, and there are at least two or three new tricks on there, including the Compression Chamber trick that you have asked me about in the past.  Actually, I am still speedrunning this game as well, so this game isn't that dead to runners yet.  From what I have seen and done myself, however, sub-hour seems very likely to happen eventually, since Hunters is a shorter game.  I actually would have recorded my runs by now if I could find a decent way to, how did you record your runs so perfectly without movement?[/quote]

Out of curiosity, what times have you been getting? You're already thinking sub-1:00 is possible when there has yet to be any major skips aside from the ones already utilized in the "current" route? o_O Also, that Compression Chamber trick doesn't save any real time, since you have to jump-scan in VDO2 (Segment 8 iirc) when there are Judicator Psychobits constantly attacking you and finding the scan is difficult as-is.

As for recording, I've gone over how I record several times in the [url=http://speeddemosarchive.com/forum/index.php/topic,6869.msg233337.html#msg233337]topic on SDA[/url]. It's a little complicated and takes some getting used to, but it works really well (unless you use Dual Mode).

iamthejackie

Edit history:

iamthejackie: 2010-06-18 11:16:29 pm

iamthejackie: 2010-06-16 11:30:12 pm

2010-06-16 10:53:48 pm

Well, looks like sub 1:20 is doable... though it's done on an emulator (and most likely TAS'd)

Skip to the end. He can definitely do better though. I didn't watch the whole walkthrough but I did see one part where he waited instead of charging through a fence that will only do little damage to him.

EDIT: Oh wow, didn't read your previous post there DSG, looks like sub 1:20 has been done a long time ago. So sub 1:00 is the new mark or something? I want to do a MPH TAS but really, I just don't have time for it.

JaggerG

2014-02-01 07:50:50 am

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

14:22 97% 19 deaths ;-_-

I freaking hate the logbooks.

JaggerG

Edit history:

JaggerG: 2014-02-03 03:56:33 am

2014-02-03 12:02:14 am

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

4:05 any% (95%), finished it off for 5:03 100%. Let's do any% this time!

EDIT: aaaand did an any% run. 2:33. :^D