The Speedrunning Thread

[Dynam0]

Originally Posted by shenjoku

I got pretty close to losing to Ridley during my run on Saturday. And that was with five tanks. Had like 51 left or something and a full reserve that I got just in case.

How low of an any% do you go for? I think I'm getting somewhere around 26-30% at the moment while learning stuff.

I'm pretty sure I get 28% of items but I could be wrong...in addition to the items in the current WR route, I grab:

-Kraid E-tank
-Moat missile expansion (only sometimes, usually by messing up Ocean Fly)
-Super missile expansion in beginning of Meridia (slow but should make up for it in Draygon fight, still haven't really seen how this affects my time yet though)
-Lower Norfair E-tank (This wastes quite some time but I'm usually low on health and more importantly power bombs from the pillar room before anyways) ^^^any alternatives for this problem dbx??
-Ridley E-tank (I really don't need to grab this one but it only wastes like 10 seconds)

I also grab ice beam on my way to power bombs (no ideas on how to do red tower easily without it) and haven't learned to x-factor anyone yet. My general movement is fairly strong and imo I could sub 1 hour without grinding specific tricks or boss fights right now. I'd really like to learn this game more but without a snes controller or console it's quite hard to learn any techs that involve shoulder buttons (probably one of the reasons why I suck at Ridley and Draygon fights) :/