2. I like the route change, but I still feel that you had too much equipment for the need of this run.I really think green brinstar cleanup could have been comfortably omitted. If you got the pink brinstar PB pack, I think LN would have been just as doable without the extra etank and super missiles. This route change is something I was even considering for our run, but I didn't think we could do LN with 1 less etank. In retrospect, it seems very possible. The ridley fight ends with a full etank being burned in acid, and everything prior to and after the ridley fight can be compensated by with a little more time spent on enemy energy drops. Maybe my math is wrong here, but I would love to here from you on the topic.

Hero your funny man!!! You do realize you guys collected 4 more items then Saturn right? You might be right about Norfair though by manipulating drops and collecting more from the pods or bugs before Ridley. That would definitely have to be tested.

That's not what happened at Draygon though, because he doesn't have gravity suit and can therefore not charge up a shinespark by running at all. It is done by letting Draygon catch you while performing a Crystal Flash. While doing a crystal flash your shinespark timer oscilates between 5 and 1 (for whatever reason), and when it's finished it goes back to 0. Having Draygon catch you breaks the crystal flash unnaturally, so the spark timer never goes back to 0 but keeps oscillating until a shinespark has been performed (or, I assume, until you charge another one), this essentially gives you one free shinespark that can be preformed at any time without any charging up.

He had already hurt him a lot with PB combos and missiles, so he didn't have much HP at the end. The shinespark itself didn't actually do too much damage, but there were some PB combo projectiles that trailed behind just after he hit draygon with the shinespark that killed him (this is necessary, as killing him with the shinespark itself would break the shinespark before reaching the ledge).

I'd just like to add that because he killed Draygon with the shinespark, he was able to maintain this odd property and get a second "free" shinespark which he used to escape the room outside of Draygon's.

That's not what happened at Draygon though, because he doesn't have gravity suit and can therefore not charge up a shinespark by running at all...

So pausing the game to do it manually saves in-game time, even if it would otherwise be slower in realtime.

The story is about a bounty hunter called Samus who has the goal to explore a foreign planet called Zebes[..]

Actually, it's a different glitch that allows him to do the second shinespark. If Draygon dies while you are in a shinespark, Samus state resets into standing position and she goes out of the shinespark, but the booster level, which isn't reset, maintains the max level as that's where it is during a shinespark, and when the booster level is maxed you can crouch to charge a new shinespark. So the first one (after the crystal flash) is pre-charged, and can be performed without crouching first, while the second one is the standard bluesuit glitch that allows you to charge a shinespark anywhere by crouching.

Very high quality encode (886MB): H.264 10bit444 CRF 0, FLAC lossless audio https://mega.co.nz/#!CI5GgTiR!Z4j91yUF8rZAxNI8EgwIxjmig2YRsUisByQu4yRnrIA

I got 2 comments:2. This may sound kinda dumb, but is there anyway to kill Mother Brain first?