Game:

Super Metroid (1994)

Duration: 43:42

642 views

22

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see http://tasvideos.org/1073M.html

This movie has been obsoleted by http://tasvideos.org/1368M.html. TAS originally published on 2008-03-02.

Super Metroid (1994) is widely considered to be the pinnacle of exploration-driven game design, and limits to the freedom of action it allows are yet to be found. As such, surprising improvements come from a lot of esoteric tricks and optimizations, quickly making seemingly optimal movies obsolete.

This is hero of the day's second attempt at this game, improving his previous movie (http://tasvideos.org/793M.html) by 85 seconds. A good bulk of the improvement comes from skipping Torizo (http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/SNES/SuperMetroid#BombTorizo), implementing additional continuous walljumps (http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/SNES/SuperMetroid#ContinuousWalljumpCwj), and better boss fights. As previously, only 18% of items are collected.

As with most movies at TASvideos, this one aims for lowest frame count, as opposed to the lowest in-game time. By internal timer, it completes the game in 24 minutes and 16 seconds. Read about the specifics of in-game timing here (http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/SNES/SuperMetroid#MechanicsOfTheInGameTimer).

If you prefer going by the lowest in-game time, be sure to check Cpadolf's any% (http://tasvideos.org/1075M.html) in 23:45.

The encode without door transitions is available here on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ13mJUtqEY).

Other Statistics