Dark Splinter jump glitches - Metroid Prime 2

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Published on October 3, 2015 6:48:38 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrXWGPDEkfw

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Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004)

Duration: 1:55

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Just follow the instructions in the video: after the cutscene where the Splinters become Dark Splinters near the start of the game, enter the room with the Energy Tank, and from within, watch as they come to you. When they're close, lock-on to one and shoot at it, but from behind a wall, so that the shots don't actually reach it. Alternately, just shoot in the general vicinity. Eventually the group will scatter, and more often than not, one of the Dark Splinters will get stuck on the small ledge to the left of the exit. Wait a minute or so and get close to it. Most likely, nothing special will happen, but every once in a while, you might get it to do a crazy high jump! The longer it is running against the wall, the higher it'll jump.

I could get it sort of consistently on console, but it was hell to get it to happen on an emulator. If you want to recreate this, get ready to retry a lot. The different clips you see on this video are from different tries at the glitch, so don't be surprised. I tried to recreate this several times on Dolphin, but could only get it to work once (luckily it's probably the funniest jump I've seen yet, since the enemy goes out of bounds). It's a shame; I really wanted more crazy jumps. However, while recording, I got some other Dark Splinter shenanigans to happen, so I included them in the video.

I stumbled upon this glitch back in October of 2013. Don't tell me how I found it. I might've looked away to point down that I had gotten the Energy Tank (it really helps to have some sort of log if you're doing 100% runs), and must've noticed the big jump when I resumed playing. I talked about it here and there and left some shoddy notes, and ever since, I've been trying on-and-off to recreate this glitch. Mostly off. Anyway, memory fails me, and the details are hazy, so don't lynch me if some of the details in this description are wrong.

Apologies for the missing audio and the quality of the video. Speed, cropping, brightness... Dumping audio on Dolphin always goes wrong, at least to my knowledge, and the frame dumps looked horribly sped up, by slightly varying degrees. I DID record some of these over entirely different sessions and even emulator versions, so I'm pleased with the final video, even if it does look all patched together. Look, it's just a demonstration of a funny glitch, not a Hollywood blockbuster.

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