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Norfair

2021-07-15T23:41:10Z

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=Ice Cream Spark=

Named after the Ice Beam room which is immediately after this spark, this is one of the toughest shinesparks to pull off in the game. The window for climbing the first room and recharging on the slope is very tight, and the room for activating the spark itself is just about pixel perfect. Too low and you'll bonk the platform, too high and you'll clip into the ceiling and bonk without traveling anywhere.

This spark is used in the 100% run when doing the original Norfair route, you do not have the opportunity do attempt this spark in the Newfair route.

[[File:Norfair_Ice_Cream_Spark.mp4 | 700px]]

=Mapo Ice Cream Spark=

There is an extended version of this spark which is used in the [[100% Map Completion]] category.

[[File:Mapo_ice_cream_spark.mp4 | 700px]]

=Shinebreak=

Used in the 100% run on the way to Hi Jump. Saves a second or two in Normal Mode, saves a bit more time in Hard Mode because without this spark you have to wait longer for the harder enemies to move out of your way before getting Hi Jump.

[[File:Norfair_Shinebreak.mp4 | 700px]]

=Money Spark=

Also written as $park, this shinespark was named after a donation bounty sent by Kirbymastah during an ESA run. This spark is very hard to pull off because of the random enemy patterns underneath a 1 tile wide gap. Your options are to either spin jump into the gap to kill the enemies with screw attack, or walk into the gap and fire a missile straight down. The missile strat will not work if both enemies are underneath you, and since their patterns are random and you don't have time to see them and react, the missile strat is more of a yolo strat. You have to make sure to fall all the way down the room and spark into the lower half of the door, if you spark too high you will miss the slope in the next room. Getting this spark successfully saves about a second.

[[File:Norfair_Money_Spark.mp4 | 700px]]

=Newfair Spark=

One of the routing choices for 100% involve going down into Norfair first and saving the Ice Beam as one of the last items, and this route is called the Newfair route. There is a difficult shinespark which saves enough time to make this route a viable option, so because this trick ended up defining the route it became known as the Newfair Spark.

After collecting the Energy Tank behind the caterpillar miniboss, you need to run back enough to have enough room to get a speedbooster going into the next room. I like to jump into the corner of the ceiling the drops to the left because it sets up a nice consistent distance that doesn't require running all the way to the left. You need to be holding a charge shot going into the door, so you can open the door early by firing a missile at it and then holding charge, or you can time a beam shot right as samus's sprite touches the first purple plant behind the caterpillar's pupa and holding charge when the shot is fired. You don't need a fully charged beam entering the door, just enough of a charge started that samus will automatically fire the shot when you enter the next room after letting go of B during the door transition.

When you enter the next room after letting go of B during the door transition, samus should automatically fire a shot that breaks the block in the way and you should start your speedbooster animation around the same time if you did the ceiling setup. Here you need to perform a [[General_Movement#Shine_Breaking | Shine Break]] by pressing down to store your shinespark late enough that the speedblock in the floor breaks, but early enough that you don't fall off the ledge. The next step is collecting the missile below because you can't shoot the missile block behind it until it's collected. I like to press down twice when storing the shinespark so that I morph on the ledge above, and roll off the ledge and springball into the missile.

After collecting the missile you need to roll to the right where you can stand up again, face left and shoot out the missile block, then run off the ledge to the right and spark straight up. You need to shoot this missile block because it allows you to fall back to this area later without having to break the speedblocks or climb into the long shortcut room that gets used in any%.

[[File:Newfair_Spark.mp4 | 700px]]

=Norfair Spaceboost=

This trick is used during the cleanup portion of the 100% run. There is a room with a Green Door and it has a speedblock in the floor, which will break and cause you to fall and lose your speedbooster if you run over it. The safe way to continue your speed into the next long room is to store your shinespark before this speedblock, walk into the next room, and active it in there. This is slow because you need to stop moving, and then deal with the windup and bonk animations of the spark itself.

To do the spaceboost you need to fire your super missile as soon as you enter the room, and then jump shortly afterwards. Don't jump too soon or your position won't line up right with the blocks above your head and you'll jump into the side of them. If you delay your first jump a tiny bit, your first jump hits the blocks above you and your second jump hits the ceiling right in front of the door. With this setup you should be entering the next long room while falling, and you need to do a third full space jump soon enough that you don't hit the pillar in front of the door. Once you're this far, you just need to mash A at a steady rhythm to stay close to the ceiling.

[[File:Norfair_Space_Boost.mp4 | 700px]]

=Newfair VS Late Ice Route Comparison Video=

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Zeb Skip

2021-07-15T19:24:24Z

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If you're already familiar with Super Metroid's Zeb Skip, there is a similar concept with a similar result in Zero Mission. The biggest difference for Zero Mission is the trick is much harder and with a smaller return on investment. Shoutouts to ZX497 for the original finding of Zero Mission's zeb skip.

There are 4 zebitites in the Mother Brain room, and each one takes 7 missiles to destroy. With the optimal ammo of 50 missiles and 4 supers missiles, you normally would destroy the first two zebitites, go back and refill in the previous room, and then come back with just enough ammo to destroy the last two zebitites and defeat Mother Brain.

If you perform the zeb skip, you don't have to destroy the first one and the third one doesn't spawn, which means you enter the room with max ammo and don't have to refill because you only destroy the 2nd and 4th zebitites.

The way to perform the zeb skip is to run into the room and immediately drop to the floor and hug the left wall. Freeze the rinka that spawns in the wall so that it doesn't touch you and knock you around. You'll see a rinka come at you from the top left of the screen, jump and freeze it at a point where the top of the rinka is barely above the floor. I don't yet know the exact window for getting this correct, but if the rinka is too low and lower than the floor than you can't stand on it for the next part, and if the rinka is too high and way above the floor, you can still get the hover state in the next part but you won't clip through the zebitite.

Once the rinka is frozen, refreeze the rinka in the wall next to you so that it stays frozen longer and gives you more time to do the trick, and then run up and jump onto the rinka you froze in the platform. You need to place a morph bomb high enough that it doesn't kill the rinka, but still low enough that it will make you bomb jump while you're morphed on the rinka. Some people do a spring ball to set it up, I personally do a normal jump and a mid-air morph because that works in the 9% category where you won't have springball.

This is the hard part, you need to unmorph on the same frame the bomb explodes. If you unmorph and never move, you did it too early. If you see the bomb push samus off a ground a little bit before you unmorphed, you did it too late. If done correctly, you'll be in a hover state where Samus's legs are dangling underneath her. (You can practice this on any frozen enemy in the game to get in this hover state). While hovering, hold left and you should slide right through the zebitite.

[[File:Zeb_Skip.mp4 | 600px]]

==Faster Version of the Zeb Skip Found by CScottyW==

[[File:Faster_Zeb_skip.mp4 | 600px]]

=Fastest Zeb Skip also found by CScottyW=

The fastest but also most difficult setup for zeb skip starts by running into the room while holding L to angle up. As soon as the room loads, do a semi-medium jump and shoot to freeze the top rinka. After you land, run up against the zeb, turn around, and hold down so that you're crouched while still holding down. Wait for the rinka below you to move towards you, and then time a jump so that you freeze the rinka and its top half is just barely above the platform. If you're holding down the entire time, this is much easier than trying to press down after jumping. While still in midair after freezing the rinka, tap down again to morph and lay a bomb high enough that it won't destroy the rinka. You should land on the rinka still morphed, and unmorph on the frame that the bomb explodes to finish the trick.

[[File:Fastest_Zeb_Skip.mp4 | 600px]]

Gate Clip

2021-07-15T19:17:57Z

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Gate clip is used in the 100% Normal speedrun to skip a longer section of the Mothership between the Glass Tube and Early Power Bombs location. Normally you would continue to the top right of the ship and navigate some extra rooms to reach the early power bombs, but performing the gate clip allows you to skip that section completely and reach the early power bombs through much fewer rooms. The downside to gate clip is the pirate manipulation takes quite a bit of time to setup, and you till take 6 hits during the setup which makes the required refill later on take a little bit longer. There is also a frame perfect input required to complete the clip which makes it very hard to perform consistently. Overall this clip should save about ~10 seconds off the run.

[[File:Gate_Clip.mkv | 600px]]

The way to set up the clip is to run into the room with the alarm on and grab the right side of the floating platform as soon as you can. Do not hold any directions or any other buttons after grabbing the ledge, just let Samus hang there with her arm pointing down. If done correctly, the pirate will run into the room and knock samus off the platform, do one jump against the gate before turning around. While you have iframes from the first hit, you will want to also run against the gate and turn left. At this point you and the pirate will both be facing left and it'll start shooting at samus continously, and you want to let go of all buttons during this time and take 4 more hits from the pirate, for a total of 5 hits up to this point. After you take the 5th hit, start holding right during the hit animation so that when you land you immediately turn right and run past the pirate. You should have enough iframes to make it back to the gate, at which point the pirate's subpixels will be manipulated into making this clip work. The pirate should turn around and hit you for a 6th and final time, at which point you look straight up and fire your beam once to freeze it.

Once the pirate is frozen, tap down to make Samus crouch, and then tap right for a few frames to make her step into the gate. This clip will push her entirely forward into the gate and will also push her down one tile. Once you're in this position, tap Right and Jump at the same time to make Samus spin jump, and press Jump again after exactly 8 frames to make her clip below the floor. This is the frame perfect input, if you time your second jump incorrectly you'll be stuck inside the gate in a crouched position and unable to move until the gate opens. You can kill the pirates in the room to open the gate and reset the room to try again.

Some advice for pressing jump twice after exactly 8 frames is to watch the blinking minimap in the top right of the screen. Scotty found that blinking animation happens to blink at exactly 8 frames, so you can watch it and try to time your jumps with it. Another tip is to set a metronome to 450bpm and tap along to the beats. Once way I found to do this is by using metronom.us, setting it to 225bpm and doubled it with the eighth note setting.

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Ridley (Boss)

2021-07-08T16:46:23Z

Nick: Created page with "Ridley takes 50 regular missiles to kill, or substitute 5 missiles for every super missile you have to use on him. The small fireballs he shoots to start the fight will do 15..."

Ridley takes 50 regular missiles to kill, or substitute 5 missiles for every super missile you have to use on him.

The small fireballs he shoots to start the fight will do 15 damage, the larger fireballs he shoots for the rest of the fight will do 30 damage, touching ridley's body also does 30 damage, and touching his tail will deal 50 damage.

In most situations except for low% categories, you will want to just run into ridley and fire all your supers and missiles into him because you can kill him before he kills you. In 100% this is very trivial and you can kill him before he even leaves the ground. In Any% this takes a little bit of practice to do with 1 etank, you want to shoot him when the fight starts and wait to run into him when he starts spitting the tiny fireballs so you tank less damage and can kill him before he kills you. You can also grab the optional energy tank from behind his unknown item and make the fight free at that point.

=Kirby's Air Ride a.k.a. Ridley's Unrage=

There is a strat to skip the tiny fireball phase and make ridley immediately fly into the air, and this is done by forcing him to turn around several times at a very precise timing and point in the room. The easiest setup to make this work is to enter the room while morphed and roll far enough right that you get some speed while you roll to the left to start the fight. Keep holding left while Ridley drops on top of you, and try to unmorph while you're in the air during the knockback animation you get from getting hit by ridley. While in midair, you want land to the left and fire a super, turn around after landing and fire another super or two, and if done correctly ridley should look like he's hesitated for a second and then fly into the air. This trick is very precise and takes some playing around with the timing to see what works for you.

This strat also does not immediately save much time by itself. The first benefit to skipping the tiny fireball phase is being able to shoot more missiles at ridley without being interrupted by the damage you're taking in the normal strat, and you also have an opportunity to farm the large fireballs depending on what pattern you get. The next benefit to this strat is you should save a lot more health when the fight is finished, which will make the refill slightly faster later on after killing kraid because you have less health that needs to be refilled.

Example clip created by CScottyW:

[[File:Engage_ridley.mp4 | 600px]]

=Low%=

There is a kind of a dance you will get into with Ridley in order to survive the low% fight with only 5 missiles and no extra energy tanks. During the fight ridley will hover back and forth over the platform, and you want to stay underneath him between his front claw and his tail. As long as you don't jump, this is 100% safe to stay directly below Ridley and he will never hurt you as long as you don't move into his front claw or his tail.

[[File:Ridley_position.png | 400px]]

For the fight, you will need to wait for ridley to fire his large fireballs and farm those to refill your missiles. There isn't much else to the fight besides surviving, farming, and shooting when you can.

The only other detail to watch out for in low% is that ridley will go into an enraged phase when he takes 10 missiles worth of damage. You'll know he's enrages when he suddenly fires a burst of fireballs and starts pogo'ing the ground with his tail and chasing after you more aggressively. This 10 missile counters gets reset every time he fires his regular fireballs, so if you're really good with your farming and missile management and manage to fire 8 or 9 missiles into him with more left over, you will want to just wait for another round of fireballs before firing more missiles. This is one of those situations that you don't generally need to worry about until you start getting really good at the fight, so if you're able to enrage ridley in low% then that means you're doing good damage.

File:Engage ridley.mp4

2021-07-08T16:46:01Z

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2021-07-08T16:39:14Z

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Zeb Skip

2021-07-01T18:59:13Z

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Early Power Bombs

2021-07-01T18:57:23Z

Nick: Created page with "This clip makes use of manipulating the space pirate's subpixels combined with the properties of frozen enemy hitboxes being able to push Samus around in unique ways, and sets..."

This clip makes use of manipulating the space pirate's subpixels combined with the properties of frozen enemy hitboxes being able to push Samus around in unique ways, and sets all of this up in order to clip Samus's position exactly 1 subpixel inside of a crumble block that is normally only accessible from the right side. Once inside of the crumble block, attempting to jump with springball will trick the game into thinking you're on top of the crumble block which will cause it to crumble away and let you into the tunnel from the left side.

There are two ways to set up the clip, one takes 4 hits from the space pirate and is very simple and easy to perform while the other method only takes 2 hits from the pirate and requires some more precise timing to get the setup to work.

=4 Hit Setup=

[[File:Early_PBs_4_Hit_Setup.mkv | 600px]]

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In order to do the 4 hit setup you need to run into the room while the alarm is on, and let go of all inputs during the transition. Once the room loads you should be standing in front of the door while the pirate comes in, and he'll immediately shoot you. As soon as you get shot, hold Right in midair so that as soon as you land you'll start running towards the right wall. Once you're up against the wall and still holding right, hold Jump so that you spin jump and your screw attack breaks the bomb block on the floor. Continue holding Jump and Right until you're at the peak of your jump, and then morph so that you land on the pirate in morph ball form. If done correctly, the pirate will start crawling into the tunnel, and you should roll into the tunnel with it. When the pirate crawls out of the tunnel and turns around, you should get your 4th hit from it and that's your time to roll out just enough that you can unmorph and freeze it. Once frozen, you can morph back into the hole and press Jump again to attempt a springball jump, and this should destroy the crumble block and let you in.

Things that can go wrong:

* The pirate climbs up the wall instead of crawling into the hole. This happens when your first jump is too early. It's not about jumping as soon as possible, there is a slight timing to it.
* You shoot and the pirate doesn't freeze. This happens when you roll too far left, you need to just barely roll out of the tunnel enough that you can unmorph and not much further.
* You did everything correctly and froze the pirate but you can't break the crumble block with springball jumps. This happens when the pirate's subpixels are not correct, which if you followed the setup can usually only happen if you waited too long to freeze it. Try freezing it faster after you take your 4th hit from it and you should get it.

=2 Hit Setup=

If you're comfortable with the 4 hit setup, the 2 hit setup should look very familiar with some extra movement added to dodge the pirate. As soon as the room loads you will be able to see the pirate behind you stopping to shoot at you. Once he lines up his shot, run off the platform and try to land about where you would've landed if you had been shot. This dodges the 1st hit and enables the rest of the same setup to happen. After the laser passes over your head, run up to the wall and do the same spinjump to break the crumble block, but hold left at the peak of your jump so you land behind the pirate instead of on it. This dodges the 2nd hit, but the timing is tricky. You need to wait long enough that it'll crawl into the tunnel, do it too soon and he'll climb the wall instead and you need to reset the room to try again. After that if he's crawled into the tunnel, you can morph and continue the rest of the same setup and take the last 2 hits from it to finish the clip.

[[File:Early_PBs_2_Hit_Setup.mkv | 600px]]

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File:Early PBs 2 Hit Setup.mkv

2021-07-01T18:35:31Z

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2021-03-10T15:24:21Z

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Power Bomb Expansions

2021-03-10T15:24:04Z

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=Chozodia=

==Alpha PBs==
[[File:72-powerbombs.png | 400px]]

==Beta PBs==
[[File:73-powerbombs.png | 400px]]

==After Crateria PBs==
[[File:93-powerbombs.png | 400px]]

==Out of the Way PBs==
[[File:95-powerbombs.png | 400px]]

==Glass Tube PBs==
[[File:96-powerbombs.png | 400px]]

==Under the Ship PBs==
[[File:98-powerbombs.png | 400px]]

=Crateria Powerbombs=

[[File:80-powerbombs.png | 400px]]

=Tourian Powerbombs=

[[File:81-powerbombs.png | 400px]]

=Norfair Powerbombs=

[[File:86-powerbombs.png | 400px]]

This specific power bomb expansion is commonly referred to as "Early Power Bombs", because theoretically these are the only pack of power bombs that appear likely to be obtainable early if a method can be found to do so. The only thing preventing us from accessing these power bombs before Tourian is the large lava dive required to get to them, and there simply isn't enough obtainable health in the game that allows us to survive the trip and back, and even with enough health to survive the lava there also isn't a known way to reach these power bombs without the [[[[Gravity Suit (Unknown Item)]] | Gravity Suit]]. There is a known glitch that involves dying on the same frame you enter the door to the powerbomb room that puts Samus in a hover state, allowing her to move off screen and collect the power bombs, but even this method involves finally dying after collecting the power bombs and not being able to use them in a run.

Power Grip

2021-03-10T15:22:44Z

Nick: Created page with "Return to List of Items Power Grip allows samus to grab ledges and pull herself up onto them, and samus will automatically morph if the ledge pulls up into a one tile hig..."

Bombs

2021-03-10T15:17:10Z

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Bombs are used for many things, they deal 8 points of damage, allows Samus to Bomb Jump, and breaking bomb blocks.
To set the bombs Samus needs to be in morph ball.

[[File:Bombs.png | 400px]]