Tool-assisted movies (37)

This is like a SNES version of the NES metroid, with the consequently better (and bigger) graphics and music.

Selected notes from the author:

Item Collection: 24%. Game clear time: 34 min.

Glitches: Morphing through the platforms at Ridley. Jumping through Zebetites. Murderer Beam.

I let the friendly aliens die in the end. ;) and I didnt take Ice beam until I kill Ripley.

This is like a SNES version of the NES metroid, with the consequently better (and bigger) graphics and music.

This movie is 31 seconds faster than the previous version and features a completely different route. Due to how the game tracks time, the in-game completion time is 34 minutes.

Items collected: 23%

Selected notes from the author: Glitched used:
Murderer Beam at Ridley and Motherbrain, Morphing though 2 platforms, Zebetites Glitch, The missile/energy reload trick.

This is like a SNES version of the NES metroid, with the consequently better (and bigger) graphics and music.

Due to how the game tracks time, the in-game completion time is 32 minutes.

Items collected: 26%

This is like a SNES version of the NES metroid, with the consequently better (and bigger) graphics and music.

Due to how the game tracks time, the in-game completion time is 30 minutes (2 minutes better than the previous version).

Items collected: 27% (1% more than the previous version).

Note: This video skips the intro sequence using a save slot. That shortens the movie file by about 2 minutes, but it has no effect to the completion time reported by the game.

This is like a SNES version of the NES metroid, with the consequently better (and bigger) graphics and music.

Due to how the game tracks time, the in-game completion time is 28 minutes (2 minutes better than the previous version).

Items collected: 25% (2% less than the previous version).

The author wishes to say this:
This movie's existence, thanks to many Kindly&Technical people.
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The movie file (SMV and AVI) is longer than the previous one because the previous one didn't include the intro.

14% item collection at Super Metroid.

The only beams used are Charge and Ice. This unique path makes the run very interesting but unfortunately causes the later boss battles to be long, as not many missiles are available.

Goal: Fastest time for least items.

This is like a SNES version of the NES metroid, with the consequently better (and bigger) graphics and music.

Due to how the game tracks time, the in-game completion time is 27 minutes (1.5 minutes better than the previous version).

Items collected: 24% (1% less than the previous version).

This is like a SNES version of the NES metroid, with the consequently better (and bigger) graphics and music.

Due to how the game tracks time, the in-game completion time is 27 minutes, and 24% of items were collected.

This movie does not use the Murder Beam glitch, which makes the final battle more interesting to watch.

Goal: Fastest time.

In accordance with standard procedure, Samus discarded all of the items she collected on previous adventures before embarking on this one. This run aims for 100% item collection in the fastest time.

Super Metroid has a wide variety of time-saving glitches to exploit, many of which are explained on the Super Metroid Tricks page.

The in-game time of this run is 39 minutes 55 seconds, but since game timers have never really been good at rounding things up, it is shown as 00:39 after the game has been completed.

Super Metroid is a sequel to NES Metroid, with bigger and better graphics and music.

Due to how the game tracks time, the in-game completion time is 25 minutes, and 18% of items were collected. However, this movie aims for lowest real time as opposed to lowest in-game time. Compared to the predecessor movie, it accomplishes that 5 minutes and 39 seconds faster.

We also have a movie by Cpadolf which aims for in-game time, making use of the fact that the in-game timer is stopped during certain events. It's 4 seconds slower in real time, but completes the game in 23 minutes and 45 seconds by its timer. It is available only in emulator movie format.

In accordance with standard procedure, Samus discarded all of the items she collected on previous adventures before embarking on this one. This run aims for 100% item collection in the fastest time.

Super Metroid has a wide variety of time-saving glitches to exploit, many of which are explained on the Super Metroid Tricks page.

The in-game completion time of this run is 00:37:54, but since game timers have never really been good at rounding things up, it is shown as 00:37 after the game has been completed.

If you prefer to watch the fastest completion without getting all the items, check out Super Metroid in 38:41 by Taco & Kriole.

The first streaming YouTube link leads to a high definition encode without input display. There is a second video encode that shows the gamepad input over the game video. The author has hidden some secret messages in it that might be interesting to see!

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.

This is hero of the day's second attempt at this game, improving his previous movie by 85 seconds. A good bulk of the improvement comes from skipping Torizo, implementing additional continuous walljumps, and better boss fights. As previously, only 18% of items are collected.

As with most movies at TASvideos, this one aims for lowest frame count, as opposed to the lowest in-game time. By internal timer, it completes the game in 24 minutes and 16 seconds. Read about the specifics of in-game timing here.

If you prefer going by the lowest in-game time, be sure to check Cpadolf's any% in 23:45.

The encode without door transitions is available here on YouTube.

This Super Metroid movie by Cpadolf aims for in-game time, making use of the fact that the in-game timer is stopped during certain events. It's 25 seconds slower than Hero of the day's Super Metroid any% TAS in real time, but completes the game in 24 minutes and 4 seconds by its timer.

Here we have Super Metroid completed in only 23 minutes and 45 seconds by its internal timer, with 22% items collected.

This is Cpadolf's second attempt at this run category, saving 19.37 seconds over the previous one thanks to improved ammo/energy management and better optimization all around.

Note: This movie aims for in-game time, making use of the fact that the internal timer is stopped during certain events. However, some insignificant sacrifices, such as not using the murder beam, were made in order to keep high entertainment level throughout.

If you prefer watching a realtime-oriented movie of Super Metroid any%, check the 38:41 version by Taco & Kriole.

Super Metroid has always been a game filled with obscure tricks and glitches, but, as with other games at this site, it has also become broken wide open thanks to a joint effort of Cpadolf and hero of the day, as well as Kejardon — the glitch master of Super Metroid who made the key trick of this movie possible.

With the use of X-Ray Scope to get out of the rooms' bounds, some non-trivial physics abuse, and esoteric RAM data manipulation via dying in a certain room, the amount of tasks Samus usually has to do on Zebes has been cut to almost nothing. No boss is ever fought in this TAS, and even Mother Brain is skipped completely. The in-game completion time is 00:12.

Because the movie results in an item completion of 6%, it obsoletes the previous low% TAS by Terimakasih which collected a total of 14 items. If you want to see an up-to-date 14% movie completed without using the out-of-bounds glitch, see this movie by Saturn. It completes the game in 42 minutes and 37 seconds (00:27 by the in-game timer).

In accordance with standard procedure, Samus discarded all of the items she collected on previous adventures before embarking on this one.

This run aims for 100% item collection in the fastest time, and it does so 2 minutes and 34 seconds faster than the previous movie by JXQ, thanks to various new tricks, route changes, and general optimization. The in-game completion time is 36 minutes and 3 seconds.

Super Metroid has a wide variety of time-saving glitches to exploit, many of which are explained on the Super Metroid Tricks page. Be sure to check it, as well as the author's comments, for more information on the improvements.

If you prefer to watch the fastest completion without getting all the items, check out Super Metroid in 38:41 by Taco & Kriole.

This movie features a perfect example of what can occur when TASers will go to any extreme to sequence break a long game. Very little that is recognizable remains. Cpadolf forgoes key items, yet bothers to collect the X-Ray scope, an item normally useless to an experienced Super Metroid player.

With the use of X-Ray Scope to get out of the rooms' bounds, some non-trivial physics abuse, and esoteric RAM data manipulation via dying in a certain room, the amount of tasks Samus usually has to do on Zebes has been cut to almost nothing. No boss is ever fought in this TAS, and even Mother Brain is skipped completely. The in-game completion time is 00:12. Only 6% of the items are collected.

This is an improvement of 00:25.62 seconds real-time, or 00:22.98 seconds in-game, over the previous glitched any% run. The main improvement comes from a new method of skipping the cutscene with the big metroid, although the author found many other improvements along the way.

The peculiar effects of the Space/Time Beam, if properly utilized, can cut this run's time further in half. The movie will have to begin from a savestate, but Samus will start the game fully powered-up, so item collection and all detours associated with it are no longer required.
Such a movie, also made by Cpadolf, can be found here; its completion time is 12:46 (00:06 by the in-game timer).

If you want to see up-to-date low percentage movies completed without using the out-of-bounds glitch, see these:

Although newcomers to TASVideos's player list, Taco and Kriole are both experienced TASers in regards to Super Metroid, this time having teamed up in a mission to perfect one of the most contested games in the site's history.

Using a new route and taking advantage of several techniques, never demonstrated before in other Super Metroid runs outside of waiting areas, they made short work of Mother Brain and her space pirates. The in-game completion time is 23 minutes 29 seconds, and 18% of the items have been collected. Thus, both the realtime and the in-game any% movies were obsoleted. (The in-game time category has since been improved to beat this run in in-game time, although not real time.)

Note: The actual rerecord count in this run is unknown. Please read the authors' submission notes and the discussion thread for more information.

Super Metroid is a game that requires very little introduction. Samus Aran, a bounty hunter, returns to the planet of Zebes, in order to explore its depths, and defeat Mother Brain and the Space Pirates.

This movie sees the reinstatement of the in-game category, which was previously merged with the realtime run. Despite being slightly slower in terms of real time, this speedrun is both extremely optimised and breaks previous records once thought to be the limit of the game. The completion time stands at 0:22:38, and is displayed at the end of the game as 0:22, considered the lowest minute breakpoint attainable without resorting to game-breaking exploits... at least until another run comes and smashes that expectation to bits, as they often have here at TASVideos.

This movie takes a different approach to Super Metroid. Rather than simply beating all the bosses as quickly as possible, this run deliberately defeats them in reverse order. This makes life more difficult for Samus since she does not have the protection and mobility granted by her suit upgrades. In some areas her health is constantly being drained, making for some intense drama not seen in any other Super Metroid movie.

Due to the circumstances mentioned above, many lesser known tricks and techniques are used in this run, such as charge beam combos and multiple uses of the crystal flash technique. Read about these and other tricks on the Super Metroid game resource page.

For a more detailed description of the routes and strategies used in this movie, read the author's comments.

This movie features a perfect example of what can occur when TASers will go to any extreme to sequence break a long game. Very little that is recognizable remains. Cpadolf forgoes key items, yet bothers to collect the X-Ray Scope, an item normally useless to an experienced Super Metroid player.

With the use of the X-Ray Scope to get out of the rooms' bounds, some non-trivial physics abuse, and esoteric RAM data manipulation via dying in a certain room, the amount of tasks Samus usually has on Zebes has been cut to almost nothing. No boss is ever fought in this TAS, and even Mother Brain is skipped completely. The in-game completion time is 00:12, and only 6% of the items are collected, making this the lowest legitimate percent completion ever achieved.

This is an improvement of 00:10.45 seconds real-time, or 00:02.38 seconds in-game, over the previous run of this category.

If you thought this was fast, check out the run that beats the game even faster using the glitchy charged Space/Time Beam.

Super Metroid is a very well-known game in the world of TASing, and there have been many speedruns of this game published here at TASVideos over the years. This run demonstrates one of the hardest categories of speedrun possible for the game, Reverse Boss Order. In this category, Samus kills the four main bosses backwards from the game's intended order.

This category is especially difficult since Samus does not receive her extra suits until quite late in the run. As a result, most of the gameplay in Norfair is a desperate race against the clock as Samus's health decreases constantly in the heated areas. Needless to say, every single energy tank matters much more than it ever would in a normal run. Also, water areas in Maridia are quite difficult to navigate quickly without the Gravity Suit.

This run by Saturn improves on the previous movie by 01:24.27 due to a number of new tricks and strategies. See the submission notes for more details.

Super Metroid is a game that requires very little introduction. Samus Aran, a bounty hunter, returns to the planet of Zebes, in order to explore its depths, and defeat Mother Brain and the Space Pirates.

In this run, Saturn completes the game with the minimal amount of items, without skipping bosses or major glitches, which was considered "legit conditions" by the community. This movie had a notable flame war about its acceptability, see the discussion thread. Its submission also was revived and rerejected several times in a row.

Super Metroid is a game that requires very little introduction. Samus Aran, a bounty hunter, returns to the planet of Zebes, in order to explore its depths, and defeat Mother Brain and the Space Pirates.

Watch as Samus smoothly glides through the game, cheating death by hitting 30 energy at multiple areas, collecting refills at every turn with minimal to none delays, defeating everything with the omega, the unstoppable, the almighty POS Power Beam, and taking on the Metroids with, not the Ice Beam, but Power Bombs!

In accordance with standard procedure, Samus discarded all of the items she collected on previous adventures before embarking on this one.

Super Metroid has a wide variety of time-saving glitches to exploit, many of which are explained on the Super Metroid Tricks page. Be sure to check it, as well as the author's comments, for more information on the improvements. (Note that this run is an improvement on the previous, even though the time seems slower, because this run was done on a more accurate emulator which unfortunately produces more lag.)

If you prefer to watch the fastest completion without getting all the items and without any large skip glitches, check out Super Metroid in 37:39 by Sniq.

Every second encode link leads to a version where all door transitions, elevators and item jingles were cut out.

Super Metroid is a very popular game with a long history of speedrunning and glitch exploration. One such glitch involving pressing Left and A together allows selecting glitchy beam combinations with a wide variety of side effects, most of which cause the game to crash. However, it was recently discovered that under the right conditions, one of the beam combinations (known as the "charged Space/Time Beam") can be used to reprogram the game! Thus, like Pokémon and Super Mario World, Super Metroid joins the collection of games that can be tricked into executing arbitrary code.

In this movie, amaurea, cpadolf and total travel to the Lower Norfair region much sooner than you would normally be able to in order to use a hidden debug code to obtain beams and weapon ammo. After this, they use a glitch to trigger the ending credits around seven minutes faster than the previous fastest completion of Super Metroid. For more details, see the run's comments and discussion thread.

We have many movies of Super Metroid on this site. Among them are runs that complete the game using the X-Ray glitch, using no heavy glitches, aiming for the lowest legitimate ingame time, backwards, and while collecting 100% of the items.

This movie features a perfect example of what can occur when TASers will go to any extreme to sequence break a long game. Very little that is recognizable remains. Cpadolf forgoes key items, yet bothers to collect the X-Ray Scope, an item normally useless to an experienced Super Metroid player.

With the use of the X-Ray Scope to get out of the rooms' bounds and gratuitous amounts of RAM rewriting, the amount of tasks Samus usually has on Zebes has been cut to almost nothing. No boss is ever fought in this TAS, and even Mother Brain is skipped completely. The in-game completion time is 00:06, and only 6% of the items are collected, making this the lowest legitimate percent completion ever achieved.

This is an improvement of 01:58.17 minutes real-time over the previous runs of this category.

Super Metroid is a classic game that normally takes much longer to beat. However, by abusing a glitch involving going through a door as the game is returning from the pause menu, total, sniq and cpadolf manage to corrupt the game's memory and make it jump to controller input. Once they gain control, they execute arbitrary code to tell the game to immediately jump to the ending only seven minutes in!

This run improves the previous one in this category by over five and a half minutes through a totally new glitch. It also finishes with a record ingame time of 00:02 and a completion rate of 2%!

Super Metroid is a platform game and a follow-up to Metroid II. Like the previous games in the series, it is not divided into separate levels; the planet Zebes is an open world which Samus traverses back and forth. This world is divided into rooms separated with doors which must be shot to be opened. Shooting is also used to open up secret passages, some of which contain nifty bonuses, but finding most of them is required to proceed in the game.

With new tricks and room strategies, this improves the previous speedrun by 74 frames. Read the author's comments for more information.

At the end of Metroid II: Return of Samus, there is but one Metroid left in the universe. Bad things happen, and Samus Aran must once again head for Planet Zebes to battle Mother Brain, Ridley, and the Space Pirates. (And a few other bosses too.)

This movie improves on both prior low% runs (one that collects the Ice Beam and one that collects the Speed Booster) by collecting the Speed Booster and using various Shinespark-related glitches to render the Gravity Suit unnecessary, pushing the total required number of items from 14 down to 13. The author's comments are very detailed, and well worth a read if you're curious about just how everything was done.

There are a number of other routes that can be taken while still getting 13 items, but all of those routes require a specific glitch when fighting Draygon which gives you a non-infinite but arbitrarily large amount of ammunition; the item route in this movie does not permit the use of this glitch. If you would like to see this glitch, it is featured in the following (now-obsoleted) iteration of the any% run.

Super Metroid is a platform game and a follow-up to Metroid II. Like the previous games in the series, it is not divided into separate levels; the planet Zebes is an open world which Samus traverses back and forth. This world is divided into rooms separated with doors which must be shot to be opened. Shooting is also used to open up secret passages, some of which contain nifty bonuses, but finding most of them is required to proceed in the game.

With new tricks and room strategies, this improves the previous speedrun by 5 frames. Read the author's comments for more information.

Although a relative newcomer to TASVideos's player list, Sniq is an experienced TASer in regards to Super Metroid, this time in a mission to perfect one of the most contested games in the site's history.

This run beats both the real time and game time of the previous any% records by Taco & Kriole (2009) and Saturn (2011). The real time improvement is 00:58.60 seconds whereas the game time improvement is 2 seconds, resulting in a real time of 37:39.1 and a game time of 22:36.

Sniq makes short work of Mother Brain and her space pirates, largely due to a major route change. Please read the author's submission notes for more information.

Super Metroid is a platform game and a follow-up to Metroid II. Like the previous games in the series, it is not divided into separate levels; the planet Zebes is an open world which Samus traverses back and forth. This world is divided into rooms separated with doors which must be shot to be opened. Shooting is also used to open up secret passages, some of which contain nifty bonuses, but finding most of them is required to proceed in the game.

With a new moonwalking technique, this improves the previous speedrun by 00:04.99 seconds.

Super Metroid is a platform game and a follow-up to Metroid II. Like the previous games in the series, it is not divided into separate levels; the planet Zebes is an open world which Samus traverses back and forth. This world is divided into rooms separated with doors which must be shot to be opened. Shooting is also used to open up secret passages, some of which contain nifty bonuses, but finding most of them is required to proceed in the game.

Super Metroid is a platform game and a follow-up to Metroid II. Like the previous games in the series, it is not divided into separate levels; the planet Zebes is an open world which Samus traverses back and forth. This world is divided into rooms separated with doors which must be shot to be opened. Shooting is also used to open up secret passages, some of which contain nifty bonuses, but finding most of them is required to proceed in the game.

This run not only beats the previous any% but also obsoletes the previous reverse boss order TAS due to similar routes. This is an improvement of 1:40.95 over the predecessor movie. As well as an improvement over the reverse boss order TAS by 10:40.51.

Sniq makes short work of Mother Brain and her space pirates, largely due to a major route change. Please read the author's submission notes for more information.

Every second encode link leads to a version where all graphics have been fixed.

Super Metroid is a platform game and a follow-up to Metroid II. Like the previous games in the series, it is not divided into separate levels; the planet Zebes is an open world which Samus traverses back and forth. This world is divided into rooms separated with doors which must be shot to be opened. Shooting is also used to open up secret passages, some of which contain nifty bonuses, but finding most of them is required to proceed in the game.

This run was console verified in spirit using total's PSoC5-based replay device during SGDQ 2018 but is not marked as console verified because the run shown at the event differs from this submitted movie due to console reliability factors and a different ending payload.

Super Metroid made waves upon its release in 1994 for having a large continuous world open for nearly completely unguided exploration and a vast assortment of movement- and power-enhancing item upgrades hidden throughout.

Having transcended the need for all of that collection and exploration, Sniq immediately goes out of bounds to manipulate stray RAM data and force the ending sequence directly—within just a couple minutes from landing on the planet. As a result, no items are ever collected.

The improvement over the previous run in this category comes from a more optimal ACE setup. See the author's submission notes for more information.