Haven't played the game, but this was real fun to watch. The only parts that looked inoptimal enough to bother me were the metroid fights. I'm voting yes on this canceled run :)
Some testing revealed that the speed while running with Varia suit equipped is equal to rolling in ball form (everything else doesn't matter). That means every time you roll instead of running after having acquired Varia suit, you're likely to lose frames… many of them. (At least until you get to Spring Ball.) Sorry to present it so late, Alter, now you'll most likely have to redo everything after the acquision of Varia. :\
[...] Alter: How much of the game have you done now?
some questions regarding the wips/posts now: what high jump gltich do you mean? and how to perform it? and sometimes it looks like you fall with accelerated speed is this a glitch or a phantom? ps: and sure its time to nail this game :)
That looks much better, although you might still want to experiment more with frame precision and more careful jump testing. Here's a very short test demo I made two hours ago, it ends landing on the turf 5 frames faster than Ferret Warlord's WIP, 47 frames faster than Cardboard's WIP and 73 frames faster than Alter's WIP. Boo on you guys! I suggest that you examine it and clean up your mistakes (or better yet, find any in my demo). ;) ...
I'm up for an any%-run, probably without abuse of the select-glitch.
I think you should cancel this to save judges spending time looking at something which such an obvious outcome. I tried to watch it but it was clearly unoptimised so I didn't last out which is why I won't vote. Also, if you ended input on the earliest possible frame then this is slower than the SDA run. Don't get discouraged. Give this another bash and post up WIPs in the forums for review and you'll get there ;)
[...] When I saw this thread, I was like "Well, it's about time!" I have been waiting a long time for someone to put time and effort into this game. Unfortunately it looked there wasn't any put into this movie. 258 rerecords for over an hour of gameplay?
Sorry, voting no :/ I tried the first room, and played it a little sloppy, and left the room 22 frames ahead. I'm a little concerned when it comes to taking damage. Wouldn't it be faster to take some damage in the beginning of the run, instead of trying to kill/avoid enemies (Refering to the... thing that jumps around before the first Metroid-fight, among other)?
Lots of jumps seemed to be too high and/or too long.
The Metroid-battles themself seem a little... well... bad, I mean, couldn't you do the machine-gun-style used against that big mofo in the end against all Metroids up until that point?
Too make matters worse, I'm afraid this run is actually slower than the SDA-run (It lands on 1:09:23, not sure about the timing in that run though, but still, the runner claims that 1:07:xx is possible).
Finally, I think that an any% would be a better idea.