All Major Upgrades
All Major Upgrades requires completing the game after viewing all of the item text boxes that appear when grabbing a new item. This route is unique in that it is one of the only categories that requires you to actually visit the Varia room and pick up the Varia Suit item.
There isn't yet a lot of research or testing done to optimize the best route for this category, so for now I'll link a run I've done to demonstrate one of the possible routes. The path I took was:
- Regular Kraid-First style any% path to get speedbooster early
- Use speedbooster to grab crateria supers
- Use speedbooster to go down into Norfair to collect Hi Jump, Screw Attack, and Wave Beam on the way to Ridley
- After exiting Ridley, take the ball cannon up to Ice Beam and open the Super door to leave Ice the way you came in
- Grab Varia and Long Beam on the way to Tourian in a path similar to late brinstar in 100%
- Don't forget to grab power bombs before Mecha Ridley