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JaggerG: 2013-04-29 12:06:03 pm
JaggerG: 2013-04-29 11:27:21 am
JaggerG: 2009-05-14 01:48:22 am
everybody knows it's true
So, here's what I propose. Post your best times in each of the Metroid games, to obtain your TMT. The following rules apply:
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1. This is an informal leaderboard. I am not going to require video proof, route commentaries, or anything like that. There will be no prizes given - you are competing against yourself. The satisfaction will come from taking a game you've never given much thought to, and becoming competent at it - thus seeing a HUGE improvement in your TMT. Accordingly, please don't lie. Just don't do it. I reserve the right to reject any times that are obviously BS. Don't try claiming new world records in here. In fact, any time you claim that's even close to a world record is likely to alert the BS-sniffing guard dogs, unless you're already known by the speed running community for that game.
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2. Pick your lowest time for each game. If you've got a 2:30 any% Fusion run, and a 3:46 100% Fusion run, submit the 2:30 time.
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3. To the best of my knowledge, the original Metroid 1 game does not show you your completion time. (I'm not sure if this is the case for the "bonus" Metroid found as an extra with MZM, or with the Prime-Fusion linkup.) If this is the case, use a stopwatch/clock to time yourself, and report the actual clock time used as your completion time. (Alternately, you could record the run, download it to your computer, and count frames. Be my guest if you want to go to that much trouble.) It's not perfect, as you'll be including elevator time, item acquisition time, etc... but it's better than no time at all.
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4. I realize that not many people own every Metroid game out there. I also realize that some people may have completed a game before, but not remember what their time was. Here's the deal - if you have not completed a game in the series, give yourself a time of 20 hours. If you have completed a game in the series, but don't remember the completion time, give yourself a time of 15 hours.
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5. Emulated runs are acceptable, assuming that no savestates or cheats (slowdown, etc.) were used. Emulated runs using savestates or cheats should not be used. EXCEPTION - if the only completed run you have for a Metroid game was emulated, and used "cheats", then you may enter a time of 15:00 for that game (the "completed but don't remember my time" penalty) instead of 20:00 (the "never finished it" penalty).
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6. After you've submitted your times, calculate a TMT for yourself. Round all game times DOWN to the nearest minute. (An MZM run of 1:35:44 would be recorded as 1:35.) Please try to be accurate with your math. (Add hours together; then add minutes together; then convert - example - add all times to get 45 hours and 145 minutes; 145 minutes = 2:25; 45:00 + 2:25 = 47:25)
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7. Post your results. I will keep track of the leaderboard at the top of this post.
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8. Times over 100 hours will be noted as Oh Dear. Times over 130 hours will be Oh Dear*2 Since Corruption came out, I'm just gonna go ahead and list the times over 100 if you post them. Especially if you've beaten 8 of the 9 games and still have such a high time, because jebus, are you kidding me? Oh man. I mean, I can understand if you list Metroid as 15, just because you're too lazy to time it, but the rest of them do it for you. [/rant]
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9. Posting your times without an accurate TMT will not be submitted unless I'm feeling like a really nice guy, or I have a chance to make fun of you.
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10. Have fun. Or, I will sic my avatar on you :).



Here's an example of ME (Mr. Aran)! :o

Metroid - 15:00
MZM - 00:41
MP1 - 3:24
MP2 - 3:13
RoS - 2:34
Super - 3:57
Fuzion - 1:26
TMT - 30:16

Taken from SCU with permission by MonsterERB (it's true), so yeah. Here ya go. I grabbed the times from posters there that are here :0. I didn't feel like showing the individal runs inside due to my disease of lazy.

Everyone is familiar with speed runs - how fast can you finish a game, using whatever skills and tricks are at your disposal. Here are the recognized world record holders for the 9 Metroid games currently out there (info from Speed Demos Archive):
NOTE 1 - these are the lowest times for an any% (pure speed) run - not for low%, 100%, NBMB, etc
NOTE 2 - for simplicity, seconds are omitted
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Metroid 1 - 0:18 by Spider-Waffle (Blake Piepho)
Metroid: Zero Mission - 0:28 by spidey-widey (Andrew Brockmann)
Metroid Prime - 1:03 by zoid (Besmir Sheqi)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - 1:38 by DJGrenola (Alastair Campbell)
Metroid Prime: Hunters - 1:16 by DSGamer3002 (Zack Mintzer)
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - 20:00 YourMother (Arkarian's Mother)
Metroid 2: Return of Samus - 0:59 by carlmmii (Carl Megaman2)
Metroid 3: Super Metroid - 0:32 by Hotarubi (Satoru Suzuki)
Metroid 4: Metroid Fusion - 0:48 by BioSpark (Kirk LaBuda)
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This means if you could create the perfect speed runner, with optimal skills in every Metroid game - someone who could simultaneously match all of these world records, their "Total Metroid Time", or TMT, would be right around...27 hours and 2 minutes. O_o That's a combined time for all 9 games, mind you - for someone combining the skills of Spider-Waffle, spidey-widey, zoid, DJGrenola, DSGamer3002, Arkarian's Hot Mother, carlmmii, Hotarubi, and BioSpark into one uber-package. 

Time board, including Corruption:
1. Prime Hunter - 15:31
2. Sneeky Paradox - 25:10
3. rekameohs - 32:10
4. mightypoo007 - 36:18
5. MASTER-88 - 39:42
6. Secret Key - 40:22
7. BlackDays - 47:13
8. Jagger"OM"G - 48:53
9. Kirby"HePlaysKirbyGames?"mastah - 56:29
10. King Broly - 72:05
11. MASTER-88 - 77:01
12. Bio"TDK"Spark - 87:21
13. Gu3st - 89:11ish O_o
14. The Link - 92:07
15. Initial U - 100:07
16. Tyjet66 - 102:06
17. SuperKeenenBell - 121:28
18. tomato"HeActuallyDoesKindofLookAThingLikeJesus"bob - 124:35

Old board, excluding Hunters and Corruption (no longer updated):
1. Graveworm? - 7:10
2. Sparky - 7:35
3. Silent ((((Echo)))) - 7:58
4. rekameohs - 9:50
5. Prime Hunter - 9:55
6. Red Scarlet - 10:07
7. SAL - 10:49
8. Arkarian - 12:45
9. MonsterERB - 14:13
10. Dragonfangs - 14:29
11. mightypoo007 - 14:38
12. Sarah - 20:12
13. Mr. Aran -  26:53
14. JaggerGee - 31:07
15. SamuraiSamus - 35:04
16. Jack - 36:14
17. carlmmii - 40:55
18. Nacroleptic - 43:34
19. Ajbolt89 - 49:21
20. Lifemega - 50:04
21. RZP - 51:54
22. Spine Shark - 61:45
23. sethboy2 - 66:45
24. PiccoloCube - 68:20
25. Miles - 69:22
26. USBCD36 - 83:35
27. Teh Link - 86:08
Oh Dear - Transience Chanoire Duo Maxwell

100% (I don't even remember if this is up to date so didn't bother changing it)-
Jagger"ILikeYourHat"G - 70:58 OMK He's so kingly ^.^
Mr. Aran - 81:04
Merb - 99:05

minimalist-
Just in case anyone has done enough to put up times here



JaggerEdit: updated some info and reorganized the post. I have no clue if Mr. Aran's still here. I could just add 40 hours to everyone's totals, but I'm really lazy at the moment. Ask again later.

JaggerEdit2: Updated up to 2011 (and kirby's times because I've actually been in his streams regularly, and mine because I'm me), ignored Other M times.
Thread title: 
red chamber dream
Quote from Mr. Aran:
Tooken from SCU [...]

*Taken.

Quote from Mr. Aran:
Fuzion

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To clear up any potential confusion (though unlikely), the vast majority of the text in Mr. Aran's post is the words that I wrote several weeks ago for the topic over at SCU.  The times at the end of the post, however, are Mr. Aran's times, not my times.
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Also, my TMT of 25 hours and 5 minutes should now be updated (even though I haven't updated the SCU leaderboard yet...  Embarassed ).  The 25:05 was with a Metroid 1 run of 1:17.  This last weekend, I completed my first ever 1-boss run of M1, and got a completion time of 41 minutes and change.  That's 36 minutes faster, so my TMT is now... 24:29.
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I'm just waiting for Red Scarlet to post some of her times up here, so that her and Sparky can get into an uber-speed war.  kip, Radix, Ekarderif, etc... I know there are plenty of m2k2 members who are accomplished speed runners at multiple games.
Well, here's my best times:

Metroid: 15:00
MZM: 00:43
Prime: 02:01
Echoes: 03:12
ROS: 01:55
Super: 01:00
Fusion: 01:17

Total: 25:18
everybody knows it's true
Quote from MonsterERB:
I'm just waiting for Red Scarlet to post some of her times up here, so that her and Sparky can get into an uber-speed war.  kip, Radix, Ekarderif, etc... I know there are plenty of m2k2 members who are accomplished speed runners at multiple games.
The only time I saw a Kip post in the social board is him saying that he prefers Halo more than Metroid :/
Metroid 1: 20:00
Metroid Zero Mission: 0:57
Metroid Prime: 15:00
Metroid Prime 2: 20:00
Metroid 2: RoS: 3:13
Super Metroid: 2:57
Metroid Fusion: 0:58

Total: 64:05
in the name of justice!
metroid 1: 20:00 (though i pulled a 'red scarlet' after a 2:47 run...can i count that?)
metroid prime: 20:00
metroid prime 2: 25:35
metroid 2: 20:00
metroid 3: 1:32
metroid 4: 1:21 (with a friend telling me i was an idiot for bombing the wrong tile, charging the beam for omega metroid, etc.)

the funny thing is, i think i can improve all these times (except 2 and 4 which i do not own) before i go back to school.

total: 87 hr 88 minutes
88 hours, 28 minutes.

or 69 hr 135 minutes (71 hr 15 minutes)

edit: oh craps, i forgot zm

that's 1:11 for me, so make that 89 hr, 39 minutes

(or conversely 72 hr 26 minutes)
Hmm, my times are going to be crappy…

Metroid: 20:00
MZM:  2:01
Metroid Prime: 6:20-ish
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes: 13:43
Metroid II: ROS: 20:00
Super Metroid: 20:00
Metroid Fusion: 1:32

For a grand (and I do mean GRAND) total of: 83:35

I could probably play the rest of the Metroid games, but I don't have them, nor do I have a SNES for Super (though I wish I did).
LOL
OMG topic theft w/o credit!!!  Must kill Mr. Aran!!!  Evil or Very Mad
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Just kidding.  Wink
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Finished my third ever run of Echoes last night.  My best time in Echoes drops from 11:13 (embarrassingly slow) to 6:28 (just plain slow).  My TMT drops from  24:29 (not 24:25 as you have listed) to 19:44.
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And, FYI, sparky posted in the SCU topic that he completed Fusion in 0:51 (previous was 0:56, so his TMT drops 5 minutes to 7:54).  He mentioned that he was disappointed in the run.  Shocked  I hope he was kidding.
in the name of justice!
naw, he said that here too.

besides, it's fusion.  you HAVE to be disappointed in the run.
Quote from Spine Shark:
naw, he said that here too.

besides, it's fusion.  you HAVE to be disappointed in the run.

I know Mr. Aran said it here.  I was referring to the link SAL posted.
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And, perhaps that is what Sparky meant - he was disappointed in himself for stooping to play Fusion.  I guess I'm in the minority, but I'm not a Fusion hater.  It's not my favorite game in the Metroid Series (<3 Prime), but I think it's a fun game to play.  It would be even more fun if you could skip your chats with Adam, but that's a minor point IMO.
always move fast
no, i meant that the run wasnt too great.  i kinda like fusion...
Beware: off duty ninja
hmm let's see how I fare here

Metroid 1: 5:40 (ish, what with the lack of game clock and all)
RoS: 20:00 booo not having RoS T_T
Super metroid: 2:26
Metroid Prime: 1:49
Metroid Fusion: 6:43
Metroid Zero Mission: 1:02
Metroid Prime 2: 3:06

soooo my TMT would be. . .40:46  (man do I have some work cut out for me if I want to lower that time. . . *runs off to play various metroids despite various warnings from the g/f not to hog the consoles*)
red chamber dream
No more stupid spam, like that posts I just deleted, please.
in the name of justice!
Quote from Spine Shark:
metroid 1: 20:00
metroid prime: 20:00
metroid prime 2: 25:35
metroid 2: 20:00
metroid 3: 1:32
metroid 4: 1:21

new scores!
metroid 1: 1:53
metroid prime: 11:49

so with all that (nearly 30 hour) reduction the new time is 59 hours 190 minutes

62 hours 10 minutes (i think). with an echoes replay i can almost get sub 40:00.  throw in a decent prime run and a hopeful copy of ros, and i could get somewhere with this.
Beware: off duty ninja
Quote from SamuraiSamus:

Metroid 1: 5:40 (ish, what with the lack of game clock and all)
RoS: 20:00 booo not having RoS T_T
Super metroid: 2:26
Metroid Prime: 1:49
Metroid Fusion: 6:43
Metroid Zero Mission: 1:02
Metroid Prime 2: 3:06


well I borrowed fusoin from a friend to see about lowering my time, and I did.  my official fusion time is 2:10 (curse having to restart all the time due to a lack of fusion skills. stupid everything. >.<) soooo new TMT would be: 36:13 (I think. . .I did the math, but think it's wonky math X_X)

Question: if you have a new TMT, should you re post and quote yourself like I did, or just edit your origianl post? I direct this at mr. aran (or monsterERB seeing as he started this concept over at SCU. . ..  if that's ok with everybody)
everybody knows it's true
We just post our improvements and calculate another TMT. No quotage.
red chamber dream
Quote from Mr. Aran:
We just post our improvements and calculate another TMT. No quotage.

What the fuck? They can quote their old times if they want to. Don't try to mini-mod.
Is it mini-modding?  He was asked a direct question about how this topic is "done", since he's the creator of it here.

Quote from SamuraiSamus:
Question: if you have a new TMT, should you re post and quote yourself like I did, or just edit your origianl post? I direct this at mr. aran (or monsterERB seeing as he started this concept over at SCU. . .. if that's ok with everybody)

Quote from Mr. Aran:
We just post our improvements and calculate another TMT. No quotage.
red chamber dream
Oh, me with a broomstick. Ignore my post, Mr. Aran. I totally didn't see that he was asking a question. Go me being in a bad mood. Embarassed
everybody knows it's true
That's the second time you accused me of midi-modding  :P
red chamber dream
;'[
Heh, it's really not on purpose, man. I just happen to skim the wrong posts at the wrong time.
Quote from Mr. Aran:
That's the second time you accused me of midi-modding

mr aran, don't mini mod the moderators' mini modding modding.
How is his observation that Ark's twice accused him of altering music files a mini-mod?  Regardless of accuracy.