neat run!
edit: also here's an interesting bit of information:
kejardon and I were on ZSNES netplaying when we discovered the x-ray climb. he was showing me his arsenal of neat tricks (he doesn't post a lot of them because most are eye-candy), one of which was him going through a transition and wall jumping/getting stuck in the door. later on, we were at crocomire, and he was describing to me why that energy tank wasn't obtainable; even if it was, he described the problem with exiting the room (since we were trying to improve upon the NBMB run thus being unable to kill crocomire). he showed me that crocomire charges you actually INTO the spikes on the left wall before backing off a little bit. when stuck in the spikes, i figured out that we could climb up by the crouch x-ray stand method, something he told me that he thought about but never tried because he thought it wouldn't work. soon, we found out that using the door trap glitch from early, we could climb the wall of any room practically (given it had to be a door facing rightward), and he proceeded to explain to me how the BTS system works in Super Metroid; the secret worlds in SM if you will. it's pretty darn interesting, but rather complicated, so i'll just say in simple terms: when you climb high enough, you'll enter "rooms" scattered with random (sort of) tiles and random (sort of) room transitions, but usually conforming to the tile boundaries of either the room you're in or surrounding rooms. e.g. in this run, while in the statue room, samus climbed up through the ceiling (appearing at the bottom) many times. the first time you see samus appear at the bottom, if you looked at the map, it would say you're in the room above the statue room, and so on. also, you may be wondering why the speed runners saved in veg. brinstar and reloaded? that's because it changes the out of room data (the BTS data outside the statue room), so that there will be an elevator transition leading to tourian that samus can use. finally, kej and I originally tried this the first night (after many, many other things like skipping croc and getting the grap, kraid's e-tank, etc.etc. that night was a blast)! the only problem we encountered is that there wasn't an elevator transition anywhere we climbed. how did we know this? kej had a program that showed the BTS data of the rooms we were in, and color coded/numbered them to show us what kind of tiles were in the "secret worlds". kej. knew that different BTS data was loaded depending on where you come from (brinstar save room, norfair save room, etc.), but we ended up calling it a night after kej posted everything on metroid2002's forums.
so, tldr: kej. is my hero, and this run is a piece of history for all metroid fans. :) congratulations cpadolf and hero of the day!