How To Do 3 Secret Techniques in Super Metroid 

Wow this video is a late bloomer I guess lol. But hey, I super appreciate you watching this!! A few notes since so many of the comments are asking the same questions: -I don’t know why I didn’t mention the Spazer Beam combo either sorry. I said all the beams have combos, but only showed three of them. We'll call it an oversight while editing the script. -If you're asking "why didn't you include [blank technique] in the video?" the video itself and description state "here's some of the techniques" and "here's three techniques". At no point do I claim that these are *all* of the game's hidden moves, just a few for people to get started with if they're just getting into the game. -I mentioned that a lot of these moves aren't superbly useful or some of them being outclassed by normal item pickups. Many people have corrected me saying these can be quite useful during speedruns or randomizers. That's fair, but when I said that I was really talking about during a normal, casual play through of the game. -I absolutely should not have said the game is “free” since it’s really locked behind a subscription. That was just a poor choice of words. My b. Sorry. -Sorry that the sound of my voice upsets some of you. You'll just have to deal with that. Thanks again for watching folks! I appreciate it.

It's important to note that when doing the crystal flash, you must have at least 10 missiles, 10 super missiles, are 11 power bombs.

I'm surprised that you didn't mention the Spread bomb. Charge up your beam and go into morphball with a full charge. It's useless but cool to do.

Great video! You forgot the spazer charge beam combo which makes sparks circle around Samus and then rain down. I think you’re right the wave beam combo is most versatile. Crystal Flash is really cool but I feel like it’s rare you would be less than 50 health AND in a safe spot to use the technique.

Some important notes I'd like to point out: - Samus has no IFrames during a Crystal Flash. If an enemy walks into you, you'll take an absurd amount of damage, and the healing most likely won't be able to make up for it. - I always struggled with horizontal Shine Sparks as a kid, so if you're struggling, try this: If you hold A instead of tapping it, Samus will hover in the air for a brief moment before launching. If you press forward during this time, Samus will launch forward. This is also helpful for trying to initiate Sparks in mid-air, which you can do by pressing R during a spin jump (though you have to let go of it before you try to spark)

I remember learning how to shine spark as a kid and I thought I had gotten myself stuck. No instructions just a bird jumping super high over and over. Put 2 and 2 together and shine sparked out that hole and I nearly orgasmed. Easily one of my favorite gaming memories

So cool that the heal is possible. I tried as a kid so many things trying to do this move. Never knew though whether it was even possible but the cinematic tease had me obsessed

While it's not an advanced technique, an often overlooked one is the Moonwalk option in the settings. It allows you to walk backwards while shooting. There aren't a whole lot of situations where that even comes in handy, let alone is necessary, but it's fun to try.

I was today years old when I found out about those charge beams tricks. This game came out 30 years ago and I'm just now finding out about them.

When shinesparking horizontally, make sure you HOLD A, and then immediately hold left or right. Pressing the direction first results in a somersault, while letting go of A before pressing the direction just results in an upwards shinespark.

Great video thanks for showing! Been playing 30 years and never thought outside the box to find these.

You can do a Charge Power Bomb shot with the Spazer Lazer, it's a vertical room clearing move and it is shown in the demo...kinda surprised you didn't cover that one

Awesome tutorial on one of my favorite games of all time. I still have the Super Metroid cartridge and SNES console and both still works after all these years. Might be a collector's item or worth money one day. Thanks for sharing!

Very cool. After I beat dread I decided to go back and replay all the 2D Metroid games saving this one for last since it was my very first Metroid game. I knew about shinesparking but never knew these combos existed. Can’t wait to dive back into this after like 25 years lol.

Excellent video, great production quality and straight to the point. 10/10

After all these years, I’m embarrassed to say I’ve been using the dpad to diagonally shinespark and didn’t know R works. God dammit.

How did I not know about the charge beam combos until now? It's only been 30 years!

Once you get the rotating ice or wave shots on the screen, you can go back into Samus' weapons, reactivate them, and those beams will be part of the shots on screen as well.

I had no idea how to do any of these. Incredible video!

Wow, 30 years and I didn't know these. Thanks!

I remember watching those special techniques during the demo/intro of the game and wondering how to do them (and also what they did exactly), but never figured it out. Thanks for sharing!

For people who play on emulator: It works with bsnes hd beta 10.6, but not with ZSNES 1.51. This is probably because ZSNES can't read four inputs at once. I just tried it and put L and R on the same button as X and suddenly it works.

Cant wait to try these out! Finished Super a couple years ago, but never 100% completed it. The shinespark details eill help greatly

Wow !! As if Samus wasn't already overpowered, I didn't know she had ludicrous mode too !! This is so cool l

I’ve been playing this game since the SNES days and I never knew the shine spark could be aimed diagonally. Nice share!

The Wave Charge ability is called "X Factor" by the fandom and speedrunners like to use it for scoring quick kills on later bosses like Botwoon, Phantoon, and I think Ridley.

When the game came out there was an accompanying comic that referenced the “spirit bomb” thing to recharge health. I pulled it off once by mashing buttons. Never knew how to actually do it until til now.

Feels weird to have known this for 30 years.

0:42 - oh, that's a nice move, let's see how OP will explain how to do that end of the video - never mind...

I need to try these for sure thanks 😊

I remember her using Crystal Flash in the comic that ran in Nintendo Power at the time.

I'm sure someone has pointed this out already, but iirc after you trigger a charge beam combo you can change your equipped beam and the already-released projectiles will change to match that beam output. So release an ice beam bomb and switch to plasma for a more effective shield, for example.

I never knew about the healing move 😯 This is a game changer. I can play without worrying about health 😄

Nice video! Im playing super metroid for the first time, and im so amazed... but these tricks are amazing!. I'm a little stucked with the space jump (i dont know how it works exactly, sometimes Samus mid-airjumps and sometimes she dont). I will practice these instead. Happy new your! Thanks for the video!

Seen the crystal flash but didn't know what it was called or how to do it and I did NOT know you can shinespark at an angle! WTF! This game was SO far ahead of its time.

Crystal flash can be useful on challange runs/speed run categories like reverse boss order. It can help you get through norfair without the varia suit.

I was 13-14 when this came out, mind blown. There wasn’t a Game Guide or anything to show you how to do these. Always wondered smh I’m 40 now. Nostalgia

Omg these were so cool using the first time omggg

Charge Beam by itself (w/o any other beam selected) let you charge it until you glowed, then jump and act as a low-grade Screw Attack. This was useful if you had to jump up or down to platforms where some enemy was camping out, but you couldn't shoot them. You could play the whole game without it, but it was yet another interesting move.

It took me forever to figure out how to do the crystal flash ngl lol, that one was a bit puzzling, but I figured it out waaaaaay back in the day. XD I already knew all those other secrets lol.

i knew these just didnt know how to do them thanks bro

Thanks for the video! I truly gotta get my hands on a good copy of this game again, my childhood copy was lost to time 😞 I own every Metroid game physically except for super ironically. I know I can play super elsewhere but I’d love the authentic feel of playing the original

I didn't knew about the diagonal shine spark jump.😮

Don't say something is free if I need a subscription to access it, that's not free

Well explained, thx.

Crystal flash could help in hell runs

Walljumping in SM has always eluded me, which makes doing randomizers extremely difficult.

Most of the time I see or hear about people using Crystal Flash it's in a randomizer race, where they are trying to go as fast as they can.

As someone who loves metroud but is super terrible at it, I WISH I had known about the healing ability

Last time I played I couldn’t remember how to do the charge beam tricks. I knew they existed. I experimented with them when I was a kid. But I didn’t remember how they worked.

Awesome

Chained bomb jumps. Pretty hard to pull off compared to later games, but can let you sequence-break some areas.

Great vid. I ❤ this game 🎮💯🎮💯

I'm suprised not many people knew how to use the "shields" on Super Metroid, it was something I knew for like 20 years lol.

Poor forgotten SPAZER beam😢

Please do a tutorial of how to become better at walljumping. Also, how to hold on to the shinespark charge. There are some bits of Fusion and Zero Mission where I can’t get certain missile packs cos I don’t know how to hold/release/hold/release the charge.

Crystal Flash is a new one for me.

I unironically, totally already knew these techniques!!!! I SWEAR I DID!!!!🤯 Great video, sir. Sadly won't be able to attend tonight's stream, sir🤕

Only used that recharge thing cause GamePro said i could. Lol. And I learned to bomb jump cause I wasn't able to wall jump. I remember bomb jumping all the way up to that entrance on the left on the surface.

You can also do a morphball spark .

Muito top!!

Is not difficult to find a video on the tricks found in this game. I have one of those in my favorites from over 10+ years ago! 😊

Man I could barely hear your commentary over the MUSICS PLEASE tell where I can hear these reimagined versions of the old music that's in this video, the best redux's I've ever heard....and that's alot

Why did you not cover the charge and spazer beam? It has a combo too. Video feels incomplete.

Samus becomes alot more powerfull with those beam combos

I played this game when it was first released. I never discovered any of these. Back before internet everywhere you had to have a magazine subscription to Nintendo Power to get all the intel on features like this. Or a friend who did. Or trip over them by accident. If you had Forbidden Jutsu knowledge of a game you became a god on the playground for a few days. Now we can exist in a Schrodinger's box of knowing everything and nothing at the same time. I don't know if this was ultimately good or not.

I honestly actually learned to wall jump on a snes emulator on my phone. Surprised me i got really good at it still can't mach ball at all though

I’ve been playing this series and especially this game way too long to not know the last 2 moves.

I only ever used the crystal spark once in fusion to see if it was possible.

Charge beam with ice.. go to start screen and swap beams for glitchy effects.. youre welcome!

Damn I had 10 health left in Norfair omw to Ridley and the crystal flash woulda actually been so useful

Is there a reason you didn't include the spazer charge?

That's it for Dread and experiment n°Z-57 that guy should have dropped the function to Crystal Flash. Edit and why they removed those move in Fusion, Zero Mission, Samus Returns and Dread ?

You missed the Spazer Power Combo.

Mmm maybe murderbeam tutorial...?

I'm a little sad that you didn't show off the Spazer beam combo

Best game ever

Crystal flash doesn't work for me, may need some kind of suit/armor for it to work

Why aren't more of these in more games?

Why skip the Spazer combo?

How speedruners can charge de speed boost in a short room with no space to run?

Or bomb climb

where's mockball ?

Did you skip the Spazer Charge combo? If so, I don't really blame you, that one was kind of bad.

Super zelda and super metroid had super dash movez.... somethjng new games need to bring back in all genres

0:41 He says these moves aren't mandatory and are outclassed by some other items and equipment later. However if you play randomizer the beam combos are actually quite useful. I had a seed recently where I had to enter a room with two giant sidehoppers without any upgraded suits, and no E-tanks. I used the beam combo since I had power bombs, plasma beam, and charge beam. It was able to wipe out the sidehoppers without me getting killed since they would have easily taken me out in 1-2 hits, losing some progress. Crystal Flash is a rare one to need, but can be useful in a pinch. And I'm certain that assessment didn't apply directional shinespark which is frequently used by speedrunners and randomizer racers.

I think I have wrong copy of my game cuz this tricks don't work. Even charge combos.

underrated game

You do this great vid, but then completely skip over one of FOUR beams for the beam combo and just ruin it. Did you do this? Are these someone else's clips? Couldn't find or create footage of it? What happened here?

you forget a murder beam

That’s a Lie

I came to learn to do wall jump and he skips explaining it

Your intro is so damn long, bro.

How is the free when you have to pay for the service? You can't play the game without paying a monthly fee. Also, I found a bunch of videos showing how to do this and some of them are all way older than this, by a decade. But better late than never right?🤦

Don't say "lovely people." You're not British.

Great video! No mention of the short Shinespark? I'm playing Subversion 1.2 (should have called it Kuntroid), there's SO MANY unty things in this hack. The Shinespark seems to work when it wants to. Never had such a hard time Shinesparking. Idk if the dev has an upgrade in the game for super short Shinespark or they're just an obnoxious a hole, but some of the SS blocks are in areas where there's little to no room to run up to speed. It seems a LOT of youtubers cheat their way through a lot of these rom Hacks. Maybe the only way to play this one is with cheats? That's wack impo. I don't like using cheats. Anyone else out there play Subversion and have issues with Shinesparking?