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.
@@CaptBurgersonAwesome video, but a liiitle incomplete. The techniques aren't mandatory casually but speedrunwise, they sometimes are not an option, but a necessity. The wave beam charge combo, known in the community as X-Factor, is the best way to quickly deal with bosses, but its really hard to aim right. Well-timed crystal flashes make it possible to do reverse boss order. Still, very entertaining video
I did want to mention there is a point right at the end of the game where the Crystal Flash is appropriate to use. Without giving away spoilers, it is where you are drained of all your health and then left that way. You do have to manually use your reserve tanks in order to do that, as they are not drained automatically in that scene Though it is still useless, as there is a place to recharge your energy right after that, but it is still fun
Your voice upsets people? Shameful to write something like that. :D I consider your voice and clear pronunciations comfortable. Otherwise, I wouldn't have kept watching all the dungeon analyses. I know it's subjective, just wanted to give the "narrator" some positive feedback.
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.
I'm curious as to what would happen if you do it with enemies around you? I've only done it in safe places and can't imagine monsters being able to interrupt it anyway, but I'd love to try it out.
@@Lordcamilli Samus has no s during a Crystal Flash, so she'll take damage for every frame an enemy is in contact with her. It's very possible that you'll die instantly that way, so they can be very risky to pull off.
I have no idea why I did everything he said and still the crystal flash didn’t work I held on the buttons and tried to press the buttons at different times and still it didn’t work. I was using the switch. So maybe it was a problem with that I give up on trying to do the stupid crystal flash other ones worked but not the crystal flash and I don’t get why
@@goob6355Another thing that isn’t mentioned when doing the crystal flash is that you must have less than 50 energy to do it. This means nothing in your reserve tank, no extra e-tanks and below 50 health. And it does work on the switch version I have tested.
@@yorelyoung6407So that clip of Samus spreading out bombs around her is a healing technique? Did you watch from the timestamp or just look at the exact second I marked?
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.
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.
@@pivotguydc1149 thank you. I just got into trying to run map randos and I ran into an issue where I needed the horizontal spark. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me how to do the jump and not burn the shine spark 🫡
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)
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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!
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
The explanation for sideways shinespark is extremely imprecise. The issue is that if the direction is pressed (and held) before A, Samus will end up performing a somersault. It is very important that A be pushed (and held) before. Note that this doesn't apply to airborne shinespark. - - To perform Airborne shinespark, do a somersault while in charge and then, in the air, press Up and then quickly press (and hold) the direction or R then A.
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.
zsnes is outdated anyways. you can be susceptible to bad links through the app. Better to use snes9x. If you use a front-end like Retroarch, it uses "cores," which are like emulators that work as plug-ins, and you can use the snes9x core for snes games.
Ah wow I have beat a lot of Metroid games but I never knew about no.2 and I had accidentally done some of the special beam attacks but never figured out how to replicate the effects lol just needed the power bombs selected. Nice video.
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.
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.
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 couldn't find the video of him doing it but OatnGoats uses the crystalflash during a tournament or speedrun, or something out of the ordinary, it might have been for the sm arcade series he did it in. He even stated that he basically never uses it, but in that case it was super useful because of the situation he was in.
There was a time where I needed to use the Crystal Flash. I just beat Ridley, but didn't have enough health to survive the trip back out (especially with the lava), so I had to go in & out of rooms to replenish my ammo enough to perform a Crystal Flash and restore my health.
The only time I saw where the Crystal Flash was used to actually survive was in a Reverse boss speedrun. They have to kill Ridley 1st with no Varia suit so they have to time when they use the crystal flash to stay alive in the heat. Was super impressive
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.
Thanks I've been playing Zero Mission and Fusion and super Metroid and I didn't know you could shut down certain weapons 😂 Thanks you've been a great help.
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.
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.
Hey @CaptBurgerson you forgot that you can change your weapon type in the middle of the charged power bomb move. For example do charge beam and Plasma and after the move activates swap plasma for ice or wave
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'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.
This isn't a technique per se, but it's fun to see. Try using a charge beam combo, then enter the menu and swap your weapons. The combo's sprite will change accordingly.
Thank you but I would love to see the technique at 5:21 please because after I got the space jump I cannot continue the game to get to a certain door, is tricky to use :(.
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.
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.
It’s not that you take damage while using the shinespark. Rather, the suit’s auxiliary power cannot cover the cost of the technique so power is drawn from the tanks normally used to repair the suit
I’ve never heard this, so that’s interesting. That said, this is a semantics argument isn’t it? The end result, from a gameplay standpoint is the same. You lose health.
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
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.
Shinespark/damage: "So don't abuse it too much, if you don't have to." But, MooOOOM, I want to. I have to. I promise to use crystal flash when I need. Please Mom, let me do the thing. On my honor, I will tidy my room and collect springball, if that's what it takes! 🥴
ive seen it on weird order speedruns, hot norfair with no suit upgrades. i remember thinking, there's no way they can make it back. i was proven wrong.
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 wasn’t really taking randomizers into account when I said that, just thinking of the original game. And definitely shinesparking is always useful haha, you’re right about that
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 ?
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.
@Muni_zklzpro it’s one of my favourite games of all time. I really hope you’re enjoying it!
@@CaptBurgersonAwesome video, but a liiitle incomplete. The techniques aren't mandatory casually but speedrunwise, they sometimes are not an option, but a necessity. The wave beam charge combo, known in the community as X-Factor, is the best way to quickly deal with bosses, but its really hard to aim right. Well-timed crystal flashes make it possible to do reverse boss order. Still, very entertaining video
I did want to mention there is a point right at the end of the game where the Crystal Flash is appropriate to use. Without giving away spoilers, it is where you are drained of all your health and then left that way. You do have to manually use your reserve tanks in order to do that, as they are not drained automatically in that scene
Though it is still useless, as there is a place to recharge your energy right after that, but it is still fun
Your voice upsets people? Shameful to write something like that. :D
I consider your voice and clear pronunciations comfortable. Otherwise, I wouldn't have kept watching all the dungeon analyses.
I know it's subjective, just wanted to give the "narrator" some positive feedback.
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.
I'm curious as to what would happen if you do it with enemies around you? I've only done it in safe places and can't imagine monsters being able to interrupt it anyway, but I'd love to try it out.
@@Lordcamilli Samus has no s during a Crystal Flash, so she'll take damage for every frame an enemy is in contact with her. It's very possible that you'll die instantly that way, so they can be very risky to pull off.
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.
11 power bombs so you can lay one and stay on 10 or 11 after laying the first bomb? If the latter, it mildly bothers me lol
@@relinquiem
11 so you can stay on 10. Have to lay that first sacrificial one down first.
@@Zexidous I always wondered if there was a way to avoid spending that 1 extra bomb.
I have no idea why I did everything he said and still the crystal flash didn’t work I held on the buttons and tried to press the buttons at different times and still it didn’t work. I was using the switch. So maybe it was a problem with that I give up on trying to do the stupid crystal flash other ones worked but not the crystal flash and I don’t get why
@@goob6355Another thing that isn’t mentioned when doing the crystal flash is that you must have less than 50 energy to do it. This means nothing in your reserve tank, no extra e-tanks and below 50 health. And it does work on the switch version I have tested.
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.
0:40
@Espartanica That's not the spread ball. The spread ball spreads alot of bombs around you.
That's completely different from a HEALING TECHNIQUE!
@@yorelyoung6407So that clip of Samus spreading out bombs around her is a healing technique? Did you watch from the timestamp or just look at the exact second I marked?
@@Espartanica the time stamp shows her in an energy field, being healed.
Oh wait. You meant 0:42.
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
Thank you for sharing your anecdote regarding this amazing game. ❤
That... Could've probably been worded diferently, but it's a good way to put it
Wall jump had me feeling this way when the snes mini came out lol
@@Skulysoul please explain
@@Commander-peepers "...Nearly orgasmed..."
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
Same. I never knew you had to be below 50 health with no reserve energy in order to pull this off.
@@bladegtr34 and hold a combination of 4 buttons same time, with 2 of them are upper buttons
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've been playing this game for almost 20 years and still find new things about it, that's why it's my all time favorite game alongside Chrono Trigger
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.
@@pivotguydc1149 thank you. I just got into trying to run map randos and I ran into an issue where I needed the horizontal spark. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me how to do the jump and not burn the shine spark 🫡
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)
That's how I learned to do it too. It's so satisfying when you finally get something and it's by a different/uncommon method
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!
It's worth a shit ton of money already today
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.
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.
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.
@@bigfatiori Same!
You didn't have Nintendo Power...
@@Iohannis42 I guess I missed that issue.
Excellent video, great production quality and straight to the point. 10/10
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!
Wow !! As if Samus wasn't already overpowered, I didn't know she had ludicrous mode too !! This is so cool l
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.
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
The official guide by Nintendo actually covered all of these, but it was only in print for the initial release
How did I not know about the charge beam combos until now? It's only been 30 years!
Cant wait to try these out! Finished Super a couple years ago, but never 100% completed it. The shinespark details eill help greatly
I had no idea how to do any of these. Incredible video!
Wow, 30 years and I didn't know these. Thanks!
Great video thanks for showing! Been playing 30 years and never thought outside the box to find these.
I’ve been playing this game since the SNES days and I never knew the shine spark could be aimed diagonally. Nice share!
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!
There’s definitely a rhythm to get space jump working properly, it takes practice! You’ll get it! Cheers
😲... I've been trying to figure out Crystal Flash Since 1994. You are spot on - its not even well known on the internet.
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 guide, just to add you can add the grapple beam effect to charged beam combos when you quickly switch to grapple beam when it's going off.
The explanation for sideways shinespark is extremely imprecise. The issue is that if the direction is pressed (and held) before A, Samus will end up performing a somersault. It is very important that A be pushed (and held) before. Note that this doesn't apply to airborne shinespark. - - To perform Airborne shinespark, do a somersault while in charge and then, in the air, press Up and then quickly press (and hold) the direction or R then A.
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.
Since when?
zsnes is outdated anyways. you can be susceptible to bad links through the app. Better to use snes9x. If you use a front-end like Retroarch, it uses "cores," which are like emulators that work as plug-ins, and you can use the snes9x core for snes games.
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.
I remember her using Crystal Flash in the comic that ran in Nintendo Power at the time.
Ah wow I have beat a lot of Metroid games but I never knew about no.2 and I had accidentally done some of the special beam attacks but never figured out how to replicate the effects lol just needed the power bombs selected. Nice video.
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.
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.
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 couldn't find the video of him doing it but OatnGoats uses the crystalflash during a tournament or speedrun, or something out of the ordinary, it might have been for the sm arcade series he did it in. He even stated that he basically never uses it, but in that case it was super useful because of the situation he was in.
There was a time where I needed to use the Crystal Flash. I just beat Ridley, but didn't have enough health to survive the trip back out (especially with the lava), so I had to go in & out of rooms to replenish my ammo enough to perform a Crystal Flash and restore my health.
The only time I saw where the Crystal Flash was used to actually survive was in a Reverse boss speedrun. They have to kill Ridley 1st with no Varia suit so they have to time when they use the crystal flash to stay alive in the heat. Was super impressive
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.
Thanks I've been playing Zero Mission and Fusion and super Metroid and I didn't know you could shut down certain weapons 😂 Thanks you've been a great help.
I never knew about the healing move 😯 This is a game changer. I can play without worrying about health 😄
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.
All you do to hold your charge is crouch while speed boosting then to spark you gotta press jump and quickly pick a direction.
For advanced shinesparks you can store them on ramps, but only in fusion/zero not super.
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...
You just go into morph ball while you have a charge shot lol
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.
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.
Mmmhm, it's particularly useful in the early game
Hey @CaptBurgerson you forgot that you can change your weapon type in the middle of the charged power bomb move. For example do charge beam and Plasma and after the move activates swap plasma for ice or wave
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'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.
This was skanktacular my boi.
I didn't knew about the diagonal shine spark jump.😮
Walljumping in SM has always eluded me, which makes doing randomizers extremely difficult.
Well explained, thx.
Feels weird to have known this for 30 years.
The Crystal Flash is used very much in the reverse bosses challenge runs.
This isn't a technique per se, but it's fun to see. Try using a charge beam combo, then enter the menu and swap your weapons. The combo's sprite will change accordingly.
i knew these just didnt know how to do them thanks bro
Thank you but I would love to see the technique at 5:21 please because after I got the space jump I cannot continue the game to get to a certain door, is tricky to use :(.
This is super cool.
Chained bomb jumps. Pretty hard to pull off compared to later games, but can let you sequence-break some areas.
I knew about shinesparking, but never even heard of the other 2.
Omg these were so cool using the first time omggg
I need to try these for sure thanks 😊
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
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.
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.
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🤕
You can also do a morphball spark .
Crystal Flash is a new one for me.
Well, this would have been useful information. Just finished playing this game yesterday!
Hope you enjoyed it! It’s one of my all time favourites
The Spazer does a Charge Combo also.
It’s not that you take damage while using the shinespark. Rather, the suit’s auxiliary power cannot cover the cost of the technique so power is drawn from the tanks normally used to repair the suit
I’ve never heard this, so that’s interesting. That said, this is a semantics argument isn’t it? The end result, from a gameplay standpoint is the same. You lose health.
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
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
Oh these are all from the actual game OSTs. Some from Super Metroid directly, a few are from Samus Returns.
I already know all of these as I have mastered the original game on snes!
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.
Great vid. I ❤ this game 🎮💯🎮💯
I only ever used the crystal spark once in fusion to see if it was possible.
Can you MorphBall--SpineShark, or was that not available until later games?
Crystal flash is the only one I never accidentally came across lol
Shinespark/damage: "So don't abuse it too much, if you don't have to." But, MooOOOM, I want to. I have to. I promise to use crystal flash when I need. Please Mom, let me do the thing. On my honor, I will tidy my room and collect springball, if that's what it takes! 🥴
I had no idea about the crystal flash
Crystal flash could help in hell runs
ive seen it on weird order speedruns, hot norfair with no suit upgrades. i remember thinking, there's no way they can make it back. i was proven wrong.
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 wasn’t really taking randomizers into account when I said that, just thinking of the original game. And definitely shinesparking is always useful haha, you’re right about that
Why skip the Spazer combo?
I don't know for sure, but maybe he never tried that one?
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 ?
Is there a reason you didn't include the spazer charge?
Samus becomes alot more powerfull with those beam combos
Damn I had 10 health left in Norfair omw to Ridley and the crystal flash woulda actually been so useful
You can farm infinite health from the enemies that spawn in those rooms if that helps
Why did you not cover the charge and spazer beam? It has a combo too. Video feels incomplete.
I’ve been playing this series and especially this game way too long to not know the last 2 moves.
They need to remake this in the Metroid Dread engine. But change nothing except movement fluidity and graphics.
How speedruners can charge de speed boost in a short room with no space to run?
Metroid speed runners are just built different
All that learning to code paying off lol
Charge beam with ice.. go to start screen and swap beams for glitchy effects.. youre welcome!
Poor forgotten SPAZER beam😢
May it rest in speaze
Crystal flash doesn't work for me, may need some kind of suit/armor for it to work
You do need morph ball, power bombs, missiles, and super missiles for it to work.
you need 10 of both missles and 10 powerbombs
11 power bombs are necessary along with 10 of each missile
Remember:
Less than 50 health
At least 10 Missiles
At least 10 Super Missiles
And at least 11 Super Bombs
11 PB is because we place one for the CF correct? Also, reserves need to be empty?
I'm a little sad that you didn't show off the Spazer beam combo
I didn’t mention it directly I guess but I figured it was covered when I said that all the beams had combos lol