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Super Metroid (1994)

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Well, I decided that this here deserves its own video, although I rather collect lots of short clips of new game mechanics into one video usually. A lot of stuff could be said about what this trick here potentially might be capable to achieve *13% cough cough* (for rather obvious TAS improvements and for potentially humanly doable strategies aswell as general sequence break analysis et cetera), but I am at the beginning of investigating this, so I will keep it short for now, since the full information as usual will be gathered in the physics compendium anyways. So, in principle all that one needs are some kinds of spikes and shinespark charge (i.e. some place to load a shinespark near the spikes), then one needs to get knockback in ballform by the spikes and well, immediately upon getting hit, there are only a couple of frames (the same range of frames within one would have to obtain X-Mode after getting hit by spikes on the ground) during which one needs to manage to stand up quickly enough by mashing Up and Jump to start a midair-stationary jump. But one needs to make sure that the shinespark that is started that way is of the delayed type (i.e. one does not press Up or R at the moment when Jump is pressed for starting the shinespark), since otherwise the shinespark will start immediately and Samus will not float in the air like that.
As I mentioned above, the field of environmental variations in which this trick can still be executed aswell as this state´s stability properties and the effects that can be generated aswell as obstacles that can be constructed such that applications of this trick are (the only) solutions to those are still under development. Maybe one can get Samus out of that floating BlueSuit state to be able to use the BlueSuit instead of the free spark aswell. This here also works on PAL. Also, huge thanks to SUPERMETROIDFTP (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyqhofBQTrcm0oThGeFlU2g), because without his latest video (at Draygon), I would not have tested and found this quirk here.

Aran;Jaeger

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