This is nice run. very good! time counter is 24:16.02

saturn this was even known at the times armpumping was unkown cool reward :D :D :D :D

If that's so, I wonder why everybody preferred to use 30+ frames slower strategies in this room. Stylistic choices of course, how could I forget that. ;-)

And congratulations ... As a reward for this nice run

....what. Hurry up and post nice runs people! If so we might be rewarded by more spoilers from Saturn's any%! This is a chance of a lifetime. Isn't it time you just released your old any%, since you don't work on it anymore ._. Furthermore, why didn't you just savestatify it. Does your any% even exist? Or do you just create randoms smv's on things other people have found, record them as AVI's and give them to us as 'rewards' for countless hours of TASing?

Furthermore, why didn't you just savestatify it. Does your any% even exist? Or do you just create randoms smv's on things other people have found, record them as AVI's and give them to us as 'rewards' for countless hours of TASing?

Wow Kriole, so distrustful? Of course my any% exists in one full and legit smv that goes till Draygon and was to 95% done in late 2006 (a time where almost nobody worked on a SM TAS), and all new things in the run were done entirely by me. The reason I do vids off it instead of smvs is because they can be watched by many more people who otherwise aren't into emulation. I have enough proof because there are videos available that show the Botwoon and the Torizo fights of this run, with all their unique item drops that can't be reproduced with a better possibility than ~1:100000000^99, so when you see the smv with exactly the same refills, you'll know to 100% it's my old any%. Keep in mind that I still didn't quit the any% project yet, so posting that run is too early as of now. When I finish it, or decide to give it up, I will post the old any% without hesitation for comparisons sake or those who just are curious to see it.

For our scripture today we shall be reading from the book of Saturn, chapter 3, verse 16. "For Saturn so loved the world that he gave his one and only perfect Super Metroid run, that whoever believes in him shall not be bored but have eternal entertainment." Now let us give thanks. Our Saturn, who art in teh interwebz, great are you at SM. Thy perfectness come, they awesome runs be done, on TASvideos as it is in your mind. Give us this day our daily AVI, and forgive us for our distrust, as we forgive those who make risky statements. And lead us not into unoptimal movements, but deliver us from stray frames. For yours is the greatest, the perfect, and the best, forever and ever. Amen.

Not bad, mmbossman. Nice poet skills. ;-)

Been waiting for this one! Outstanding, a much larger improvement than I expected! I like your at times minimalist style in fighting bosses, e.g. when you stand on the same x coordinate for the entire 1st half of the Ridley battle. Easy yes.

I like your at times minimalist style in fighting bosses, e.g. when you stand on the same x coordinate for the entire 1st half of the Ridley battle.

I think that was mostly to save time not triggering turnaround animations. But impressive nonetheless.

Speaking of that, this is a place where you lose some time, each time you turnaround you do so normaly which is a loss of I believe 6 frames, you can turn around fully while only having the chargecounter stand still for 1 frame. I think I did this in both my latest versions of the any%.

Speaking of that, this is a place where you lose some time, each time you turnaround you do so normaly which is a loss of I believe 6 frames, you can turn around fully while only having the chargecounter stand still for 1 frame. I think I did this in both my latest versions of the any%.

I hope this is not directed at me, taken that I do what I can to avoid turnaround delays in my RBO. I do turnaround pretty often, but everytime I do, I do a canceled turnaround costing 1 frame only.

No it was directed at this movie.

Voting yes. Like the movie, love the choice of goals.

Holy shit. Just. Holy shit.

How about using a super missile each time you turn around, thus losing no charge time. And would a CWJ on that little platform just above the middle of the noob tube help in getting to get to the wall quicker

There is a 30 frame cooldown period after a charged shot. Within those 30 frames you can charge up the next shot half way. Switching to super missile in between shots would be considerably slower. noob tube?

Is anybody encoding this run already? If nobody plans to do it in the next days, let me know please. I could make a max quality vid in ~3 days if you want me to. Hero: I guess it's the Maridia Tube.

And would a CWJ on that little platform just above the middle of the noob tube help in getting to get to the wall quicker

CWJing does not increase speed. It increases distance and height. Although it might save time ultimately, thanks to increased vertical positioning. Definately worth testing.

I meant so that you would get more vertical speed so that you can reach the wall sooner, a normal wall-jump might suffice as well

Hey Saturn, Since you are willing to encode this run, can I ask you for a favor? Could you please record the movie using the lua script version of Snes9x? I think gocha even has a version which fixes the colors of the sky on the landing site. If you can, please use this code when recording;

while true do

	if memory.readbyte(0x7e198e) == 128 then
	gui.drawbox(0,0,255,31,"#000000")
end
	snes9x.frameadvance()
end

It draws a black border around the entire status bar at the top of the screen. It only appears while the status bar is on screen, so it does not interfere with cut scenes. It blends in perfectly and eliminates the horrible strobe like glitch that is normally present at the top of the screen. This will make the run look so much nicer.

Awesome idea, hero! This is a great solution to remove the glitched line, and should definitely be used when encoding further SM runs. As of encoding this run, Bisqwit is apparently doing so already, so no need to do it for me.

Alright, I just finished watching this, and here's my feedback: I liked the common use of CWJ, you make them look so easy to pull off. Seeing Samus breeze through these tricky maneuvers is what makes this TAS stylish. I also liked your strategies to get through rooms faster, such as shooting down with the spazer after the ice beam, and the enemy boosts in the diagonal room just before the noob bridge. We all know you have a knack for this. The only cons for me is that it doesn't seem to be as optimized as i'd hoped and you seem too up-tight when it comes to entertaining in waiting periods. To be honest i'm just sick of bomb jumps :/ Edit: Something else that I wanted to add is that there are a few spots that were visually noticeable that could have been done faster. The botwoon escape, for example, looked like it was pulled off a little late.

Botwoon escape has to be delayed by x frames otherwise he won't be dead when you later return to the room (the middle wall has to be completely blown up before the room state changes I think)).

Botwoon escape might have looked slow due to not having the high jump boots. What other places looked noticeably (more than a frame or two) unoptimized? I may have done too much bomb jumping, but I wanted the run to look different than Cpadolf's. I know he is much better at making stylish samus moves, and I would rather look more boring than to copy him. I did try to do as many quirky things as possible, for example the shinespark in the mother brain room. I will also agree that his run is more entertaining overall. I should know, I designed both my route and his route. The ridley and mother brain battles are very boring in my run, but that is the sacrifice I must make to save real time. There is no win/win situation. It's either time or entertainment.