I voted no. I dozed off mulitple times watching the run and I had to stop and take breaks several times in order to give as much attention to the run itself as possible. This isn't a criticism on the performance of the author so much as the fact that a 100% run is just not entertaining. The hack doesn't really introduce anything new to the game beyond a different map, nor is the map design inspired or new enough to make the different level design interesting for a TAS. 90 minutes is a long time to be sitting watching any individual speedrun, especially speedruns which do not significantly vary from existing runs (the regular Super Metroid runs on the site were actually more interesting because I was unfamiliar with the tricks associated and seeing them used in familiar places to do unfamiliar things made the runs interesting. Seeing them used again in unfamiliar places is not as novel).
Wow, that was utterly unpredictable, to mention a game (not really a game on its own, but it doesn't really matter, does it?) in some thread on Nesvideos, and then to receive a full and extremely well executed TAS on it. What can I say? Voting yes! This movie really entertained me. It really is one of the best (if not the best) complete SM-based movies around, I'm with Graveworm here. Considering the fact most of the items in Metroid Legacy are very well hidden, it was rather pleasant to watch these obscure locations unveiled (and the hack itself is a gift for various tool-assistance and sequence breaking). Not that it doesn't have some flaws, and may look somewhat unpolished for an established TAS community, those flaws are all minor and not really noticeable for an unexperienced player. Having a revised version would be good, but (at least considering the movie length, not to mention the difficulties of SM optimizing) it hardly costs the shot. As Saturn said, there will always be a first version. I say thanks to catnap222. Man, your movie is great! Do you plan to make another one (say, fastest possible any% or another version of 100%) using all the modern techniques?
This hack is...strange. I don't know if I would enjoy playing it or not. You made excellent use of spinesharking, short charging, and speed-mockballing. I also feel your pain of trying to stay ahead of the Super Missle count. I'll vote yes. A good addition to the hacks section.
It's understandable that Catnap222 didn't want to start the movie all over when new tricks were discovered.
Worked for me. While the movie may lack some newer techniques and some situations may have been suboptimal (like the lack of edge jumping), others have been handled impressively well so I've voted yes, the movie definitely had enjoyable moves I haven't seen before. I think there was one place in Norfair where you passed by a yellow hatch, later on you went through it but had a short delay waiting for the powerbomb to open it (sorry, don't know the frame number). I think it would have been faster to drop the powerbomb on an earlier pass, unless that would have introduced lag or opened hatches don't turn blue unless you walk through them.
the following 2 things I question: 1) When you fought Mother Brain, I'm not actually sure on if it did or not, but it almost looked like one of the hyper beam shots missed and hit the hand and not the head. Did that actually happen? 2) You could've ended input earlier, as the moment you pressed down on Samus' ship nothing you press can actually make a difference as to what happens. Overall, it was well played, but the item collecting was kind of dragged out a bit, which made it far less interesting (for me) to watch.
This run desynced for me when entering the water area. Using Super Metroid (J) with patch applied. What switches should be turned on besides WIP? edit: Tried with "Super Metroid (JU).smc" now and it desyncs in the same spot as the (J) version did. Its the second room of the water area. Samus doesn't seem to make the jump and get's stuck instead.
* Draigon quickest kill by using X-Ray on/off technique Could someone school me on this?
I downloaded Super Metroid (JU) [!].smc and applied the patch to it, but it won't work no matter what emulator I try it on--it just freezes up right after Samus lands on the Space Colony. Lame! I really want to watch this. Can anyone help?
Making a version 2 of this run would probably not be worth the effort if the route isn't drastically changed or more new tricks are discovered, most improvements would come from more accurate playing, more testing and better usage of the "mockball technique". Really, one of the best parts of this movie is the fact that the "Shoulder button pump" isn't used, if a version 2 was to be made, I hope it wont be used in that one either.
I'll show you some time.
meant this is the best Super Metroid based/related movie I've ever seen.
JXQ is using this trick to run faster in his Super Metroid 100% run. Why wasn't it used in this run?
The thing I noticed most was the fact that many times the player ran off ledges even though he/she could've jumped, but there was also other irregularities in the movie.
And really, the boss battles weren't that slow, Kraid was good, Phantoon could've been killed with missiles instead for greater speed and Draygon could've been killed abusing X-ray. (Might be faster, I'm not sure though.) Other than that I see no way to vastly improve boss battles.
No one has confirmed the fastest route for Super Metroid, and many people have different theories, even I make new changes every now and then to my Super Metroid 100% routes, Super Metroid has existed for 12 years, and it might take another 12 years to figure out the fastest route. I believe using a route which you feel comfortable with and that makes it possible to show off is the best one to use.
Wow, a little more accuracy/precision a using newer techniques and stuff and maybe a little more planning and a movie like this will be the best thing ever. I enjoyed this movie alot, and even if it's not of the original Super Metroid, I believe it might be the best Super Metroid based movie I've seen so far. And by the way, I believe getting 10 missiles before Spore Spawn to kill it in one round is the fastest way of killing it, so I wouldn't really call a 2-round "Spore Spawn quickest kill"
The thing I noticed most was the fact that many times the player ran off ledges even though he/she could've jumped, but there was also other irregularities in the movie.
im voting meh on this movie There are a lot of tricks that have been discovered since this was made so the boss fights are really slow and the way he runs also. Also he said so in the description but the route is obviously not the best ( though i found it entertaining this way )
