Fantastic, will watch this soon. Was going to Metroid2002 from time to time but found the forums were pretty dead. Had no idea there was still speedrunning going on for this game. Great to see it is still alive 20 years later. Amazing run with this new route, it is really refreshing. I still remember the times where we were discussing that sub hour was not possible. Look how far you guys have come.
haha me 2, Stefans run are a big reason why im speedrunning today and his runs are amongst the first speedruns i've ever seen. I like thinking back to 2006 or 2007 when i watched those runs. You can still find them on speeddemosarchive, if anyone wants to check them out, there in really good quality too.
Stefan!!! My days, very longtime, no see. I re-watched your PAL 1:07 promo video again recently on the MIM DVD (Andrew from SCU here), still love the editing and timing of the music to the movement. Hope life's been treating you well.
@@AlphaStrategyGuides Hi Andrew, that is great to hear. Good to see you here after such a long time. You mention 1:07. I believe Paul beat my 1:09 and his time was 1:07 or do I remember incorrectly? Could you sent me the link to that music video? I have lost all those videos and would love to see that one back.
@@mrspeedrunwastaken1348 right, those were the good days. Playing this game endlessly for hours each day. How much dedication a man needs to get a record in, and now all just a memory of the past. Good to see my videos have inspired others to take on the same task. It will not go in vain :D
I played through Metroid Prime Remastered and thought I'd like to see a speed run of the GCN original. I miss the original controls. It's funny how just the controls alone and the glitches they brought with it like the L-lock scan jump and R-lock jump (I don't remember their actual names) made the GCN version so much funner to play. Space jump first is one of the best sequence breaks ever. It opens the game up in an entirely new way. Great run, thanks for letting me take a run through memory lane
Incredible run, What a great watch. Keep it up, youre single handedly carrying the progress in this game right now, unreal how low you've pushed it by now.
Congrats! This is amazing!!! Was wondering how much lower things had gotten in the last decade. This is a long ways away from the old days of theory crafting routes to get below an hour.
What in the actual shit. I've only now started playing metroid prime and you've gotten the upgrades I did in about 6 hours of playtime within the first 15 minutes wth.
This is smilingjack13. I was watching Josh C's 21% speed run and he told me to come check this out. I haven't touched the game or kept up with new advancements in about 17 years. Wow, is this ever different from the route I remember! The wave beam + artifact trick was a bit mind boggling. Huge congrats to you - this level of play for a single segment run is incredible! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing so many surprises in one place. Time for me to ask a n00b question. Given you got Artifact of Newborn without fighting Omega Pirate, doesn't that make it possible to skip x-ray visor? What makes it infeasible to get 20%? Do you need to get boost ball or something?
Whoa, thanks a lot! Your low% runs were some of the earliest runs I watched. 1:13 in any% in 2004 was ahead of its time and your 3 tank VMR is a classic video. Phazon suit is needed to damage Metroid Prime's second phase, so you still need to kill Omega Pirate. 20% has been solved for TAS by skipping varia suit. It's not feasible for non-TAS though as it requires a super precise trick: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jaF8cewBogo.html. In essence, you avoid going through magmoor by going from the front of mines > back of mines (via wallcrawling) > magmoor workstation sw > far phendrana > bombu sw in the e-tank room > wave beam. Then, you leave phendrana from the back and get phazon suit which gives heat protection.
@@TRR010 Thanks! Ohhh, that does ring a bell now, that phazon suit is needed to damage MP. Thanks for explaining. Has anyone posted a 20% TAS run? That would be entertaining to watch.
Congrats on the sub 45 TRR, that's just a seriously impressive run! Any reason why you didn't SJF to the left off the ship? Is it really *that* inconsistent to pull off at WR-level? BTW, does that mean it's SJF, and now PBES (Power Bomb Expansion Second)?! Never thought I'd see that one in an MP run (with no IS in sight either). Amazing execution.
Which one did he not pick up? If you're thinking its the Artifact of the Sun, he gets that when he does infinite speed to pick up wave beam and artifact at the same time. Pretty neat trick, Im going to have to try that one since it looked pretty easy setup
