World Record Progression: Metroid

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• CA

  @CAKmusic · 8 years ago

  Hey this is Chris Knight. I am honored by this video, and by the fact that people are still enjoying my speedruns. Thank you.

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• KU

  @KungFucianist · 6 years ago

  &quot;Metroid, it&apos;s one of Nintendo&apos;s most iconic franchises.&quot;<br>Tell that to Nintendo.

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• XB

  @Xbob42 · 8 years ago (edited)

  I like how you don&apos;t always give away the end of what happens when showing potential world records.<br><br>When you say &quot;And on that day, (s)he was on world record pace...&quot; and then cut to the footage near the end of said run... those of us that have no idea what actually happened <b>also</b> don&apos;t know the answer based on how you set up the attempt, so it remains extremely tense and exciting.<br><br>Just a small detail that I really appreciate with your videos.

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• EL

  @elucidator1277 · 3 years ago

  <b>****UPDATE****</b><br><br>As of the posting of this comment, the (NES) Metroid WR is held by a newcomer (not in the video) CHX42 (USA). With a time of 9m 12s 150ms.<br><br>CHX42 is one of three runners with a time that is sub 10m, as of this comment.<br><br>CHX42&apos;s WR was set a year ago, from this comment.

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• BL

  @BlueTyphoon7 · 8 years ago

  I realize that hindsight is 20/20 but.. wow twingalaxies just sounds more and more incompetent over time, and even sometimes downright negligent

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• DO

  @DoctorPorkenfries · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=1001">16:41</a> I support &quot;Craig&quot; being the new name for the mini-Kraids you sometimes fight before/instead of giant Kraid.

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• ST

  @Strakester · 8 years ago

  This is one of the only claims to fame I have in the speedrunning community. Known as CtrlAltDestroy on TASvideos, I discovered the Kraid wrong-way door route as a TAS route, and the fast bridge skip trick with jumping up through the floor. Brings me a silent bit of pride to see that I&apos;ve helped these legends even in some small way.

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• LO

  @LordTom77 · 8 years ago

  That was a great watch! Seeing my TAS in there was a cool surprise as well.

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• TH

  @thenoseguy · 4 years ago

  Metroid McFly: &quot;Hey McFly! I bet you can&apos;t beat my world record!&quot;<br>Metroid McFly: &quot;No thanks, man.&quot; <br>Metroid McFly: &quot;What&apos;s the matter, chicken?&quot;<br>Metroid McFly: &quot;Nobody calls me chicken.&quot;<br><b>Beats his own world record ten thousand times</b>

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• SP

  @SpiderWaffle · 8 years ago (edited)

  Feel free to contact me if you need to get better details on the history of certain speedruns, strategies and world records.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=85">1:25</a> Red Scarlet would have had the first published record, in which bridge skip wasn&apos;t even used.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=764">12:44</a> Up+A or death was always allowed but would be it&apos;s own category and runs using these were eventually made later<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=814">13:34</a> It was actually &quot;no mysterious teleporting&quot;, a rule made by Radix who first was in charge of and for the most part founded SDA, eventually around ~2005-2006 some of Radix&apos;s original rules were under such heavy criticism from members of SDA that they were revised and this rule along with &quot;no going out of bounds&quot; were ommited.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=849">14:09</a> Actually the problem with this route previously was preforming the bridge skip without bombs. A non-frame-perfect-plus technique hadn&apos;t been developed until ~2006-2008, when someone posted on the forums that they were looking through the Metroid tricks page and saw the morph jump through 1 block ceilings trick and showed how it could be used to make the bridge skip better, somehow everyone including myself previously had missed that application for many years. (I had even developed a convoluted, difficult, Double Rio lure method to do it during this period of years.)<br>...CAK could have easily used this strat in 2013 for his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=943">15:43</a> run; however, he didn&apos;t research it and think to use it, or decided not to use this better but slightly harder bridge skip that had been used in TASes for 5+ years at the time.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=994">16:34</a> CAK first used that 1 jump e tank strat in real time runs which I believe was first used in 100% TASes around 2005<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=994">16:34</a> Controllerhead was the first to figure out how to reproduce the &quot;god jump&quot; technique, which I first posted on the forums many years earlier but no one including myself could reproduce it. It can be used to get out of the icebeam column without waiting on the reappearing block, and he started using in it WR runs first as well which was a REALLY big deal.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=1290">21:30</a> You have to get the icebeam for both routes so you only save the time to go down to the first missile pack plus going back from pallet swap bridge to Kraid&apos;s short Brinstar column and back again.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=1355">22:35</a> these door/screen wraps were NEVER thought to be humanely impossible, they were always very easy. I first found the &quot;sweet spot&quot; glitch ~2006 and the Zeb hit through a red door and I was able to couple them with the wrong way door glitch CntrlAltDelete found, to first develop Kraid first as a faster strat. I was doing this in real time first before any TAS was and shared this on TASvideos forums. This was how the strat was first developed and TASes first started using it.<br>...Anyone could do it, it was never that hard or precise on inputs. Doing the wraps fast, but most especially doing the Kraid fight in real time with no auto fire fast enough, and getting back to the elevator without ice beam, requiring a Dboost and god jump, and beating the Zebetites and MB with 75 missiles, 2 to spare, instead of 80, 7 to spare, and having 199 max Health instead of 299 and dealing with all the extra difficulty in a way that makes for a net time save were the real human challenges.<br>...I had also worked out how to do this effectively in a time efficient manner for a real time speedrun and was working on doing this on my twitch channel and told AceEbb about it in early 2017. Soon later Tycon made instructional video breakdowns for the easy door wraps that had been for many years, to merely spoon feed the technicals for the door wrapping used before Kraid to &nbsp;try and get more people, like McFly, &nbsp;to try using the strat for real time runs.<br>...McFly then took this help and improved the Kraid fight with his excellent select spam.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCF4I09Avc&amp;t=1401">23:21</a> I first found this solution of Dboost plus god jump many months earlier and Tycon also later found it and shared it with Mcfly.<br><br>There&apos;s plenty of other techniques, strategies and details, like the REALLY important time saving MotherBrain fight which CAK first did exceptionally well and McFly slightly improved it even more, and lots of other places time could be won and lost, risk vs reward, ect.

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• JP

  @Jprophet222 · 8 years ago

  Glad you guys found the footage of my run considering I was 2 weeks late to the party... Been out of the scene for awhile and it amazes me that the door glitching is consistently possible in RT. Great job making the vid guys. Pretty cool to see the progression of one of my favorite games!

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• US

  @user-vz8rl5tq4u · 6 years ago

  I know im late but is anyone going to talk about the 8bit rendition of “Highway to the danger zone”?

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