User Files for Super Metroid

This is the final version of my submission to Super Metroid TAS Competition Round 4 hosted by UNHchabo over at Super Metroid Speedrunning Discord: https://discord.gg/rT2fWZt.

The goal of this competition round was to start the game pre-patched with a specific modification of the Map Randomizer ROM hack that spawns the player in the Wrecked Ship Energy Tank room, then go grab the item at the Gauntlet Energy Tank location.

Timing starts on power-on (frame 0) and ends when in-game timer (RAM address $1842) starts counting up after the item acquisition message is gone.

Total time from start to finish: 01:30.03.

Contest placement: 2nd. This time I'm the one who's 5 frames behind the #1. :D

The goal I set for myself after the preliminary route tests was getting under 5400 input frames. Would've loved to take it under 5400 total, but couldn't find any more improvements. Moonwalk wasn't used because I couldn't find any uses for it that justified the 62 frame upfront cost of enabling it.

Link to contest rules, hack patch, and chat log: https://discord.com/channels/98929157894836224/1186390481358311474/1225738197468708905

Another post-contest update to UNHchabo's Super Metroid TAS Competition Round 3.

Roughly a day after making this movie, I thoroughly studied sniq's submission that took a different route compared to mine and found improvements we've both missed, which resulted in this combined route that is, in all likelihood, the fastest way to do this room. It's a further 15 frames faster than Bonus v1 and 38 frames faster than my winning submission. I can't think of any other improvements, and so I won't touch this anymore. Bring on round 4!

Further details here.

A quick and lazy movie that is 23 frames faster than my winning submission for UNHchabo's Super Metroid TAS Competition Round 3. Basically a victory lap. :D

Improved version here.

Further details here.

This is the final version of my submission to Super Metroid TAS Competition Round 3 hosted by UNHchabo over at Super Metroid Speedrunning Discord: https://discord.gg/rT2fWZt

The goal of this competition round was to start the game pre-patched with a provided modification of the Map Randomizer ROM hack that spawns the player in the Plasma Tutorial room, then go grab Plasma Beam, kill all space pirates in the room to unlock the door, and take damage from a puyo (one of the enemies in the Plasma Tutorial room).

Timing starts when game state (RAM address $0998) reads 8 and ends when Samus HP (RAM address $09C2) decrements as the result of contact with a tutorial room puyo.

Total time from start to finish: 1308 frames (21.45 seconds @ 60.988 fps).

Moonwalk wasn't used (even though it was free to turn on by the contest rules) because all the uses I've managed to find for it were nullified by things outside of my control. My goal was to make it under 2000 frames, and that goal has been achieved.

Contest placement: 1st.

Results presentation VOD:

Link to contest rules, hack patch, and chat log: https://discord.com/channels/98929157894836224/1186390481358311474/1210882848878366740

Post-contest movie that incorporates improvements from other submissions is available here.

De principio a fin con el 104% de objetos de este hack basado en el Project Base

Anciento Chozo V. 1.1.5

BizHawk Ver. 2.9.1

Core: BSNESv115+

(Ported from Legacy Address Set 20) BizHawk Ram Watch file for SNES Super Metroid

A 100% full clear of Super Metroid in 1:13 game time. Enjoy

By me and Aran Jaeger :) This is the Normal version 2.3 Used: snes9x-1.51-rerecording-v7-win32

My first attempt! :)

From the beginning to red brinstar 2nd visit. Uses a new route.

Used: snes9x-1.51-rerecording-v7-win32

Used: snes9x-1.51-rerecording-v7-win32

Used: snes9x-1.51-rerecording-v7-win32

Author's description: You'll be done with the hack after reaching a certain room and then back-tracking to the ship, the room in question may not be immediately obvious but aim for 100% item collection and you're sure to pass it!

Route test TAS for the 13% Charge/Speed category

Super Metroid "Glitched" by Cpadolf, Amurea and Total, with rerecord count changed to 40365.

Final WIP, reaches the point where the ending should be triggered.

New WIP up to GT using another route. ~30 seconds faster.

Updated WIP for the glitched run with a couple of improvements.

WIP of Super Metroid up till GT code on Bizhawk 1.6.

This is the fruit of the last two day's labours. It uses the charged space-time beam to jump to the super missile count in RAM, and uses that to jump to OAM. The OAM in this game is very fickle, but I managed to get it to jump into the middle of the gamepad auto-read registers, where I built up a total control loop, letting me execute arbitrary code at a rate of 4 bytes per 6 frames. As a test-case I set the game mode to 26 and returned control to the game, resulting in the ending sequence.

This movie is based on the 100% TAS. I had to truncate the part where I walk to the green pirate room in crateria in order to start a new movie with the correct number of controllers. The resulting movie is therefore very short, and the interesting stuff happens in a fraction of a second. It is best watched frame by frame - ideally while tracing in a debugging emulator.

This was done in snes9x 1.43-rr. It should be ported to a more capable emulator.

Norfair bubble room alternate strategy

WIP of Super Metroid 100% up till after wavebeam.

WIP of Super Metroid 100% part way through Norfair.

WIP of Super Metoroid 100% up till Norfair elevator.

WIP of Super Metoroid 100% up till Green Brisntar elevator.