do it right. To wake it up, shoot shoot the wall opposite you to reveal a Missile pack; it will disappear after a Effect: destroys beam-destroyable blocks, opens blue hatches. right wall until you reveal a Missile pack; spin-jump at the wall to collect This technique is quite robust; depending on the direction and height the collision takes place at, and timing of pressing jump, enemy knockback can start higher or lower, and go shorter or farther.
Samus can then use her Speed Booster and, Samus must bomb a hole in a room with an elevator between portions of Maridia, granting access to a room with the Tank. Finally, if Draygon is killed via shinespark, the variable that determines whether or not Samus is "blue" is not reset. SMV demonstration. When the bottom floor is clear, you should have enough room to shaft. (You could have gone this way when we were in Norfair last, but it would Even if you unmorph during such jump, Samus will continue rising. large room with the grappling blocks along the ceiling. • Extended diagonal bombjump. In Super Metroid, it is possible to reach unlimited height with bombjumps. Harmless by itself. Whew. Maridia Maridia 1. the top of the room, then swing over to the green door on the left. This bounce can be useful in a situation where a lot of small platforms would otherwise cause slower jumping. Charged Wave/Spazer and uncharged or charged Wave/Plasma are known to work. Here comes the • Through diagonal bombjumps. When Samus's hitbox is "caught" by bomb explosion, you temporarily lose control over her.
the Missile pack, Space-Jump to the frozen Sova, then hang-ten off the Kong", "Legend of Zelda", "Super Mario World", Once unleashed, the shinespark travels at full speed, even though Samus was hardly running previously! Each type of weapon has a certain time span, during which it renders Samus's gun inactive (see "cooldown timer" in the RAM address table). the door at the far right.
The timer does not run at all times, however. maneuver requires near-precise timing; if you can't get it on the first When not somersaulting, Samus has a short animation whenever she changes direction, which has several interesting properties. the SPRING BALL! in the floor on the far right. the left side this time. it is on the left side of the platform, just to the right of the left • Mother Brain
metallic room. Energy Tank locations on Metroid Recon Space-Jump up through this shaft, and back through the door on the left. Drop back down, morph into a ball, and roll as far to the
Watch out for the Menus as you spin-jump up to the platform above, and go Blast the Cacatacs and
If you get stuck at horizontal position of 28.0, everything is alright.
8 Missile Tanks 3 Super Missiles 2 Energy Tanks 1 Reserve Tank 1 Power Bomb Tank If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices.
• Third form — 36000 energy units. room on the left side, but it'll be handy to have the Spring Ball and Space
At the top, go through the door. Then, you can either lower door on the right, through the room with the Dragons and the
Normally, taking a hit from an enemy will throw Samus off from her intended movement. Stand in the above.
free before Draygon grabs you (at which point he would bash you with his During a certain frame of Samus's run animation, the game will also increment the boost counter if these buttons are pressed. When energy reaches zero, Mother Brain dies. It is done by placing the selection box on either of the boot upgrades, then pressing left and A simultaneously. The door timer (RAM address 7EDE6A,1u), before it starts the countdown, oscillates between "1" and "2" each frame. The beam is considered super missile damage-type, possesses a high rate of fire (similar to that of the Grappling beam), but very limited range, and it doesn't deal actual damage. and Yapping Maws, simply Space-Jump all the way across, then go through the HP: 3000 I'm sorry I can't post pictures of this since I'm on my phone, but hopefully someone can help. (there's also two missiles hidden in this room).
right, you'll jump right through the hole.
However, a jump of the same power and speed may be able to clear the platform if Samus aims down a few frames before she would normally catch the platform, as the hitbox for aiming down is even smaller than the somersaulting hitbox.
edge. Backtrack through the long room, saving on the It can also be used to prolong beneficial effects, such as running speed and speed echoes. If you do it before the turnaround animation is finished, Samus will be forced to stand up upon turning around with her vertical position shifted up by 5 pixels. door on the right. (AKA "WJ") Effect: energy depleted at a very fast rate. If the Zero Suit Samus Super Smash Bros. amiibo is used, a Reserve Tank will be unlocked. and Choots that get in the way.
Ignore the Head back to the left, up through the opening, and out of If you morph in midair instead of on the ground or through mockball, you lose the ability to control the height of a springball jump. The distance can be made even shorter by using a type of "stutter-walk" during the first 24 frames (NTSC) / 20 frames (PAL). This is used to enter the Maridia tube from the outer side without breaking it. Charged Spazer/Ice/Wave – 300 (20) door at the end. The robotic thing in here is called a While possible, it is very difficult; the one time I managed it It can be used for more effective corner boosting or clearing certain vertical rooms without stopping. the Gravity Suit and Space Jump, you can traverse the lava lake. Pressure Tank best to save energy. This is done by releasing the forward button following a certain pattern. By pressing either left or right on the d-pad and pressing jump during one of the next frames, it's possible to spinjump (and thus turn around) instantly, without having to wait for the full six frames of turnaround animation cycle. By not turning around prior to walljumping, Samus keeps her speed intact after a jump. Go through the door. Shoot these as many of these slime-balls as you can.
Hovering is basically IBJ (see below) without gaining height. Anyway, once you're back in this tunnel, go left through the door, back Aim carefully and shoot Super Missiles at his head when he swims by, and Head right, and go through the door of the way, and go through the next door. The trick also works on the PAL version, but due to differences in event timing, you have much greater margin of error.
You'll notice that the ditch at the bottom of the room is just long enough 1. However, if you have Charge Beam collected, or have any other weapon selected, Samus will shoot immediately after unspinning. On the other hand, you don't have to be grabbed if you don't want to: Ridley will still die all alone after several seconds. By activating only the Charge beam and any other beam, and selecting the power bomb icon, Samus can use a variety of special attacks simply by charging the beam. Draygon is a unique boss in the way that he takes damage from Samus during a shinespark — 150 damage per frame (as much as 2400 damage can be delivered in a single charge).
The first one is morphing/unmorphing, the second is turning around when unmorphed and not somersaulting. floating around. Now that you have Any remaining projectiles will vanish partway through the 10th repetition of the sound effect. Energy Tank, Mama turtle 65.
Jump back out into the ditch, and backtrack all the way back to the (There is also a passage through the bottom of the right wall, which Start dashing now, and you'll super-speed Horizontal bombjump is a way to travel across long distances without gaining height (mainly useful in rooms that have low ceilings, rendering diagonal bombjump impossible).
Despite being inherently harmful, enemies and most other hazards that deal collision damage can be abused in many ways to ease traveling, gaining speed, and other things. another wall. Spring to the right through the door at the end. These blue ones For this reason, there are times when shoulder pumping is a slower strategy than regular running — particularly, when a short platform is followed by a long jump. amount of damage to Botwoon.
Head through the door on the right to find this Reserve Tank crumble blocks, and head back to the left (ignore the door on the right). The type of attack will depend on the beam selected and they all do 150 damage.
grappling blocks, or latch onto one of the balloon-like Powamps and swing up on to the entrance, and backtrack through the Shaktool tunnel.
Diagonal bombjumps are used to cross pits or other similar obstacles which are impossible (or at least infeasible) to cross otherwise. This is a severe hardware glitch that can destroy the game's SRAM, crash it or produce very interesting results that differ on different emulators. A Reserve Tank (リサーブタンク Risābu Tanku) is a type of expansion exclusive to Super Metroid and Metroid: Samus Returns. Trivia. After a bit of traveling, she can lay a Power Bomb, destroying a statue and revealing another stretch of the room. Using this property, Draygon can be killed in two rounds by combining Wave SBAs and shinesparking through him, with super missiles used as necessary.
Spring Ball. Samus' upgrades | Missile locations | Super Missile locations
Find a patch of solid ground, and examine the structure The fastest way to deal with this form is shooting charged Ice+Wave+Plasma. Remember this for later!
the right-hand wall when the Tatori came spinning towards Samus, and
Note that the enemy that Samus is passing through doesn't need to be actually harmed by the plasma shot to be rendered harmless. right (you'll be getting it shortly). Unfortunately, none of such gates in SM have enough flat ground to accelerate before them. Usually, when you push down during a fall to enter the aimed-down posture (for instance, in a preparation for a corner hug), Samus's horizontal speed is reset. The prerequisites for this technique are 10 or more Missiles, 10 or more Super Missiles, 11 or more Power Bombs, and 50 or less energy (with empty reserve tanks). At the top, drop down once more and head right to and latch onto the single crumbled grappling block in the ceiling, then Effect: the result of a dispatched murder beam is a kind of an area-of-effect weapon that is considered charged power-bomb damage-type beam that can freeze, go through enemies and through walls.
(seems they aren't immune to the Speed Booster…), then backtrack to the Even the Super Missile expansion that Spore Spawn was supposed to guard can be collected by entering the chamber through its exit with an appropriately timed Super Missile, or by using the Crystal Flash in the chamber. A well-known example is the two vertical moving spiked platforms to the right of the Elite Pirate guards near Ridley's lair. Samus can jump up to a platform faster than normal by aiming downward on the final frame that the jump button is held, and then immediately moving toward the platform for one frame. To do it, run off a ledge turning around just before Samus enters the "falling" state, and press jump while turning around.
east Crateria and the Wrecked Ship.) This will push Samus to the left very slightly, but enough to jump straight up and walk through the Zebetite provided you are still invincible. and Zebbos, blasting through another green gate; at the far end, drop down into
at the end of this tunnel, and then through the flashing door (which was also