World Record Progression: Metroid 

Hey this is Chris Knight. I am honored by this video, and by the fact that people are still enjoying my speedruns. Thank you.

"Metroid, it's one of Nintendo's most iconic franchises." Tell that to Nintendo.

Glad you guys found the footage of my run considering I was 2 weeks late to the party... Been out of the scene for awhile and it amazes me that the door glitching is consistently possible in RT. Great job making the vid guys. Pretty cool to see the progression of one of my favorite games!

I like how you don't always give away the end of what happens when showing potential world records. When you say "And on that day, (s)he was on world record pace..." and then cut to the footage near the end of said run... those of us that have no idea what actually happened *also* don't know the answer based on how you set up the attempt, so it remains extremely tense and exciting. Just a small detail that I really appreciate with your videos.

That was a great watch! Seeing my TAS in there was a cool surprise as well.

This is one of the only claims to fame I have in the speedrunning community. Known as CtrlAltDestroy on TASvideos, I discovered the Kraid wrong-way door route as a TAS route, and the fast bridge skip trick with jumping up through the floor. Brings me a silent bit of pride to see that I've helped these legends even in some small way.

I realize that hindsight is 20/20 but.. wow twingalaxies just sounds more and more incompetent over time, and even sometimes downright negligent

This is gonna sound weird, but I love falling asleep to your videos. Your voice is soft but low, the background music is quiet and hypnotic, and the content interests me, but is perfectly dull enough to bring me to sleep. I love it.

16:41 I support "Craig" being the new name for the mini-Kraids you sometimes fight before/instead of giant Kraid.

Hello the next 27 minutes of my life

*****UPDATE***** As of the posting of this comment, the (NES) Metroid WR is held by a newcomer (not in the video) CHX42 (USA). With a time of 9m 12s 150ms. CHX42 is one of three runners with a time that is sub 10m, as of this comment. CHX42's WR was set a year ago, from this comment.

I'm always astounded by how low key most of the world record reactions are, so many speedrunners will beat a previous time by like 20 seconds and just go "Ah, good."

Feel free to contact me if you need to get better details on the history of certain speedruns, strategies and world records. 1:25 Red Scarlet would have had the first published record, in which bridge skip wasn't even used. 12:44 Up+A or death was always allowed but would be it's own category and runs using these were eventually made later 13:34 It was actually "no mysterious teleporting", a rule made by Radix who first was in charge of and for the most part founded SDA, eventually around ~2005-2006 some of Radix's original rules were under such heavy criticism from members of SDA that they were revised and this rule along with "no going out of bounds" were ommited. 14:09 Actually the problem with this route previously was preforming the bridge skip without bombs. A non-frame-perfect-plus technique hadn't been developed until ~2006-2008, when someone posted on the forums that they were looking through the Metroid tricks page and saw the morph jump through 1 block ceilings trick and showed how it could be used to make the bridge skip better, somehow everyone including myself previously had missed that application for many years. (I had even developed a convoluted, difficult, Double Rio lure method to do it during this period of years.) ...CAK could have easily used this strat in 2013 for his 15:43 run; however, he didn't research it and think to use it, or decided not to use this better but slightly harder bridge skip that had been used in TASes for 5+ years at the time. 16:34 CAK first used that 1 jump e tank strat in real time runs which I believe was first used in 100% TASes around 2005 16:34 Controllerhead was the first to figure out how to reproduce the "god jump" technique, which I first posted on the forums many years earlier but no one including myself could reproduce it. It can be used to get out of the icebeam column without waiting on the reappearing block, and he started using in it WR runs first as well which was a REALLY big deal. 21:30 You have to get the icebeam for both routes so you only save the time to go down to the first missile pack plus going back from pallet swap bridge to Kraid's short Brinstar column and back again. 22:35 these door/screen wraps were NEVER thought to be humanely impossible, they were always very easy. I first found the "sweet spot" glitch ~2006 and the Zeb hit through a red door and I was able to couple them with the wrong way door glitch CntrlAltDelete found, to first develop Kraid first as a faster strat. I was doing this in real time first before any TAS was and shared this on TASvideos forums. This was how the strat was first developed and TASes first started using it. ...Anyone could do it, it was never that hard or precise on inputs. Doing the wraps fast, but most especially doing the Kraid fight in real time with no auto fire fast enough, and getting back to the elevator without ice beam, requiring a Dboost and god jump, and beating the Zebetites and MB with 75 missiles, 2 to spare, instead of 80, 7 to spare, and having 199 max Health instead of 299 and dealing with all the extra difficulty in a way that makes for a net time save were the real human challenges. ...I had also worked out how to do this effectively in a time efficient manner for a real time speedrun and was working on doing this on my twitch channel and told AceEbb about it in early 2017. Soon later Tycon made instructional video breakdowns for the easy door wraps that had been for many years, to merely spoon feed the technicals for the door wrapping used before Kraid to try and get more people, like McFly, to try using the strat for real time runs. ...McFly then took this help and improved the Kraid fight with his excellent select spam. 23:21 I first found this solution of Dboost plus god jump many months earlier and Tycon also later found it and shared it with Mcfly. There's plenty of other techniques, strategies and details, like the REALLY important time saving MotherBrain fight which CAK first did exceptionally well and McFly slightly improved it even more, and lots of other places time could be won and lost, risk vs reward, ect.

Summoned me instantly..

Metroid McFly: "Hey McFly! I bet you can't beat my world record!" Metroid McFly: "No thanks, man." Metroid McFly: "What's the matter, chicken?" Metroid McFly: "Nobody calls me chicken." *Beats his own world record ten thousand times*

I'd love to see a WR Progression on Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. It's such an odd choice to speedrun considering it's length, I'm curious to think how long the first speedruns for that game could've taken lol

A new WR progression?! At 11 o'clock on the Sunday before Midterms?!?! Mark my words: We will meet again.

revolutionary video game imho Nice vid Salt!

I recently watched this video and tried to look up Metroid Mcfly. Nothing exists of his speedruns today. It's fine that he decided to quit speedrunning if it was getting to him, but I find it sad that the vods of the man who took whole minutes off this speedrun is now no longer found. Hopefully, he comes back.

McFly has a sup 10 record now. and has held it for 6 months as up 9/12/19

Dude, the production quality keeps going up and up with every video. I simply love it! It's visible progression that we can all see. I might not be inspired to become a speed runner, but these videos do inspire me to double my efforts in my own videos.

I have no interest in speed running, but these videos are so well done that I have to watch every one.

Please never stop making these videos. Or if you wanna make up a new series of videos over time, go for it. You present thoughtful analysis. Fantastic overlay over video content and your audio commentary. People should study your channel to learn how it's done. :)

I know im late but is anyone going to talk about the 8bit rendition of “Highway to the danger zone”?

"Most of you probably hate glitches and want to see them banned from speedruns" Actually my fascination with glitches and seeing games being utterly broken is what got me into speed runs in the first place.

*Me:* Who would release a new high quality video at 3 in the morning? *Summoning Salt:* Oh boy, 3 a.m.!

And here we are, two and a half years later, and the current record stands at 9:39. That's another two minutes shaved off the record. Very impressive!

I held my breath every time I watched someone do the escape in this video.

Love the random-ass stage names the streamers used.

Hey Summoning Salt. I've said this before in other videos you've made, but I just want to say again that I think you make some of the best content on RU-vid. Your careful composition of each video, laying out specific dates, names, and achievements are outstanding. You really turn it into a more proper "history lesson" as to the evolution of each specific speed run. It always seems as though achievement A is unbeatable, and then you lead into achievement B that just continues to amaze. You also do a good job of balancing your speaking voice, music, sound effects, and actual footage of the speedrun and what the speedrunner is saying as it was live when recorded. Thanks again for doing a great job. These videos are just a pleasure to watch.

I’m going to be honest I couldn’t care less about speed running but the way you show passion through your videos and the editing quality makes me binge watch these and I feel like I’m starting to like speed runs

MetroidMcfly might have had one of the most insane shows of speedrun leaderboard dominance ever, in any of these videos I’ve watched. lowering the record by 30 seconds at a time for a month or so is outrageous

This was just the relaxing and interesting thing I needed this morning after another night of insomnia, stress dreams, and nightmares; typical. Thank you, Summoning Salt.

Controllerhead totally wrecked me

I love these. And thanks for taking the time to go through these. They obviously take a lot of time and attention to detail. Shout out to the credits as well for helping make these videos great!

I love how when Metroid Mcfly would beat his own record he’d mostly just quietly say “all right”

This was truly a great documentary to watch, thanks!

This is production-worthy content that belongs on TV/movies; I can't say how excited I am to watch these... If anything else comes out of this great work is a new generation of runners

I don't know what the stigma agasinst glitches is. They're often hard to execute, so what makes it easier? It's just faster. PS. If you can give a reason why people hate glitches, tell me.

These are very well edited. The pauses where you let a sentence linger and the music sustain are fantastic. Well done.

Only person able to describe speed running, literally doing games as fast as possible, in a juicy 27 minute video and not bore us.

When I was a kid my friends mom made him give me this game because she said it was satanic

Stumbled on to this channel. It’s awesome to see the progression. Nice work🙌

Came for the vid, stayed for the Halo music

OH BOY 3 AM!

that 8 bit danger zone really got me

I found this channel recently and now i'm totally addicted! This is pure gold! I need MOAR World Record Progression Videos!!

I'm currently rewatching this again, (all of these in fact) they are just so informative. I really love speedruns and this series is fantastic to watch. I'm looking forward to what you come up with next. I'd love to see some of the Resident Evil series one day. Keep up the great work, these videos can't come soon enough lol

Congrats on 200,000!!! Some of my favorite videos on youtube

I know it's probably daunting, but are you planning on a Doom speedrunning video? That's where the whole scene started after all.

Now Metroid McFly has taken the WR down to 9m 42s, incredible! What an inspiration. I want to do my own speedrunning now!

Thanks for the great videos, and extra thanks for including the list of music you used. Really appreciate it

Did you really use a 8bit ver of danger zone?

love the series man. keep up the good work

i loved the explanation of the OG strats and improvements. your best video yet and if this is any indication of future quality I'm excited

5:16 this has to be my favorite moment in any of your WR progression videos, the use of erie music and heartbeats is top notch.

I checked the Any% Deathless leaderboard today and now 7 players have a sub-15. Apparently MetroidMcFly privated his account or something because there's a gray "Anonymous" with no sign of "MetroidMcFly" anywhere. As for the current world record, it goes to CHX42 with 10m 52s as the only sub-11 player right now

I just love these videos^^ I don't Speedrun myself, I love taking my time in games. But watching speedruns is awesome. These little history vids are so interesting. Thank ya so much🐏

I freaking love your videos man... keep up the great work!

So happy I found your channel. It’s my new addiction. Awesome videos man.

I love how in Controllerheads’ stream’s chat at 16:33 they’re talking about Melee/Smash 4 and Mango lmao

Keep it up Salt, this series is the definition of good content!

You are already amazing at these videos. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next.

I absolutely love your world record progression series. Keep up the great work!

19:00 DANGER ZONE!!!, I always appreciate the rewatchability of your videos.

I see new Summoning Salt vid...I click. I upvote. Then I watch.

Really well done, man! Love your videos, please keep up the great work!

Your storytelling ability is unbelievable! I'm not interested in speedruning or any of the games you've upload a video from, but I find myself coming back to watch your videos time and time again!

This video is so awesome, I actually uploaded the Speed Demo Archives in 2005 when i was 14 i had a run which placed top 80's to watch this game come as far as it has is unreal i swear so unreal.

These are the only videos that I ALWAYS watch totally throughout from start to finish every time

Man your videos are amazing I always come back for more! I love the music you play, and you just make it all sound so interesting keep it up 👌

I have never played metroid before but i watched all 27 minutes of this video and didn’t get bored at all. You deserve way more subscribers and your videos are on another level.

Nobody: Summoning Salt: "There are people who play games to be entertained for hours at a time. But there are also different people."

8:46 "And also his run apparently stood for 7 years" Like "oh yeah, that happened too." 😆

You really rock my friend. I hope you'll keep uploading these videos until the end of eternity

Your videos are strangely comforting. I often keep them playing in the background; it helps with my anxiety. So uh... thanks!

14:04 Why didn't they just make a category for glitch-less speed runs? BOOM problem solved. Honestly if there was SUCH a market for it then why didn't people just make their own site advertising that they allow glitch less speed runs and glitched speed runs in two different categorizes?

2:02 "Get items that let you deal more damage" Pictured: Samus getting an item that makes her deal half damage

These videos are fantastic, dude. One of the best channels on RU-vid. Keep up the good work.

These videos are so insanely good, man. I appreciate the hours of work this all must take to research for and create

Wait, hold up! Twin Galaxies has been *that shady* for *that long* and we're only just now getting wise to this sort of stuff? I mean, really, only the referees needed to see the footage, then it just vanished into nothingness? That's like if the Olympics were never televised and completely barred to live spectators, and the public only ever got a news report from the judges after the event is all said and done. I've seen picky people go on about how speed running needs all these rules and standards and so on, yet these same people have apparently let all sorts of stuff slide for years. It makes me feel like a lot of these "purists" are less concerned with integrity and more concerned with keeping the hobby's accessibility to a minimum so they can enjoy long rides on high horses. I'm no longer surprised that the hobby (including high score records) was built on fraud. I'm starting to understand why so many serious runners have more salt than a Centurion's meat locker. Thank you, Summoning, for providing these great and genuinely entertaining documentaries entirely divorced from all the unsavory elements of the communities at large. I used to be a huge spectator and follower of this stuff, but now I only really trust or enjoy content like yours.

We miss you summoning salt :( hope everything is good on the home front!

Love your videos man. Please keep it up. Well done.

Today i found this channel and it became one of my most favourite youtube channel of all time. Keep up with the great work man!

Though there are quite a few sunshine record progressions already on RU-vid, I can't wait for when you cover sunshine yourself.

What a beautiful channel

The beach theme from Plok was such an awesome surprise, I love that track. And Metroid is the best NES game in my opinion. Great video, thanks for the great production value and effort. I love exploring with the door jump and feel like there are still unknown discoveries out there.

Awesome vid as usual, the 8-bit danger zone sound track is class haha!!

When I saw your name (Summoning Salt) at first I thought you made salt montages lmao.

I'm gonna have welcome to the danger zone stuck in my head all day now

These videos are do much fun to watch if you're into speed running. Very good. Thanks

Great video! I love the music

Hearing Metroid's music to this day still has a physical effect on me.

I see you with that Plok music at 14:15. Sneaky, sneaky...

Dude.. I don't even play video games and I've never once played metroid.. But I believe this is my 3rd watch of this video alone. Your content has become one of my go-to choices for chill casual viewing. The production value is off the charts and you do a great job of giving enough history and details about the games so that even people unfamiliar with them can still go along for the ride and enjoy the progressions. Keep up the great work, brother.

Your videos are awesome. Well narrated, edited, engaging, nice music...man please keep making more!

I'm at the airport and my plane leaves in 40 minutes. I will have to speed run to my gate after watching this!

when you said "he should be known as a legend in the speedrunning community" I was preparing for you to say "Matt Turk"

I don’t know why, but I keep coming back to this one... I really like it, especially for falling asleep too.

Just found your channel and I love your stuff man! Keep it up