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SNES "any%, glitched" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) in 22:01.18 by Filip Roskvist (aka. Cpadolf) & Ryan Foley (aka. hero of the day).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 55 MB, length: 26:12)
Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-06-29)
Read author's comments in submission #2022
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Obsoletes movie #260 (51:05.75)
Rating: 7.5 (24 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Super Metroid (1994) is widely considered to be the pinnacle of exploration-driven game design, and limits to the freedom of action it allows are yet to be found. As such, surprising improvements come from a lot of esoteric tricks and optimizations, quickly making seemingly optimal movies obsolete.

Timewise, this movie is a significant improvement to any previous Super Metroid TASes. It includes the use of a glitch that allows the authors to skip most items in the game, and indeed, even skip the final boss.

Miscellaneous information:

  • Item collection 6%
  • In-game completion time 00:12 (but aims for fastest real time)
  • New category (compared to predecessors): Uses death as a shortcut
  • No bosses fought
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Added [1139] SNES "any%, glitched" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Cpadolf & hero of the day in 22:01.18 (2008-06-29)
- obsoletes [260] SNES "minimalist" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Terimakasih in 51:05.75 (2004-12-12)
Added [1075] SNES "any%, in-game" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Cpadolf in 41:02.4 (2008-03-02)
- obsoletes [1074] SNES "any%, in-game" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Cpadolf in 41:22.47 (2008-03-02)
Added [1073] SNES "any%, real" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by hero of the day in 39:32.8 (2008-03-02)
- obsoletes [793] SNES "any%, real" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by hero of the day in 40:57.85 (2007-02-09)
- - obsoletes [311] SNES "any%" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Terimakasih in 46:37.08 (2005-03-28)
- - - obsoletes [265] SNES "any%" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Terimakasih in 47:07.23 (2004-12-18)
- - - - obsoletes [249] SNES "any%" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Terimakasih in 48:09.9 (2004-11-30)
- - - - - obsoletes [245] SNES "any%" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Terimakasih in 47:50.93 (2004-11-27)
- - - - - - obsoletes [165] SNES "any%" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Frenom in 51:52.3 (2004-08-16)
- - - - - - - obsoletes [146] SNES "any%" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Frenom in 53:09.78 (2004-07-28)
- - - - - - - - obsoletes [136] SNES "any%" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by Frenom in 53:40.07 (2004-07-21)
Added [817] SNES "all items" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by JXQ in 1:10:45.02 (2007-03-19)
- obsoletes [528] SNES "all items" Super Metroid (JPN/USA) by JXQ in 1:13:10.22 (2006-04-20)
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