Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - 100% Speedrun in 1:36 Draconif 2025-05-17 | Tied in-game time World Record with MrMiguel as of May 16th, 2025. This is a faster RTA completion than his run by 40 seconds, however.100% Attempt 258RTA: 2:03:47━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This run is 13 minutes faster than the 1:49 I did back in 2018. Many, many routing improvements and strategies have been found since then. Power Bombs before Bombs allowing us to enter Sanctuary early saves quite a bit a time, as it allows us to get Screw Attack, Spider Ball, and Cannon Ball early. Having Cannon Ball early means we can Boost without needing Boost Ball, and it also allows us to kill Chykka adult instantly. Barrier Skip in Torvus saves quite a bit of time as well, as it allows us to leave Sanctuary through Torvus, and also allows us to set up Torvus for cleanup, since we can defeat Power Bomb Guardian and collect the Torvus Key down there early. There's many more improvements, but those are the major two.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This run is okay, I suppose. Pretty rough Light Beam section and first Torvus Entry. The best sections in this run are definitely Agon cleanup and final bosses. Final Bosses were pretty much perfect. The Quadraxis and Chykka fights were also perfect.This is a really, really low 1:36. I beat my best time by 1:24 RTA, and it's a 1:36 still. It's probably a 1:36:0x.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Compared to Miguel's run, I lose about 30 - 35 seconds on routing. I don't do Amorbis Key skip (which saves around 15 - 20 seconds), as I find that SAU inconsistent. I also don't do the Mine Shaft out of bounds, which also saves about 15 seconds, due to it being very finicky. I do a slightly different route to Light Suit, where I head to GFMC compound after Dark Missile Trooper. This route only loses 5 seconds, and is much safer (avoids softlock potential). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This run cannot do Item Loss Skip. There is a Missile in Hive Chamber B that doesn't exist until the room is reloaded, which currently, can only happen when you trigger the Item Loss cutscene.Scans do not count as part of the 100% definition. Only items that increase the percent counter are required (The Mission Final screen does not show anything related to scans).━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Captured on an Elgato HD60S using a Retrotink 5x Pro.Highlight Version: youtu.be/0acwl1Z-TNM
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - 100% Speedrun in 1:37 Draconif 2025-05-10 | RTA: 2:05:11I was robbed of 1:36. This has to be the lowest 1:37 possible. I will keep trying to get a 1:36, this run still has some really bad spots that I'm not proud of.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - 100% Speedrun in 1:39 Draconif 2025-05-02 | RTA: 2:07:34━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Second person to ever get 1:39 in 100%. A pretty bad run overall. The run up to Light Suit was pretty terrible. Mistakes on pretty much every split again, but a bit cleaner than last time.Lost around 20 seconds on Emperor Ing 3, that was really rough.Will try to get a 1:37 or better.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This run cannot do Item Loss Skip. There is a Missile in Hive Chamber B that isn't there until the room is reloaded, which currently, can only happen when you trigger the Item Loss cutscene.Scans do not count as part of the 100% definition. Only items that increase the percent counter are required (The Mission Final screen does not show anything related to scans).━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Highlight Version: youtu.be/GyHnRi_qtLc
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - 100% Speedrun in 1:41 Draconif 2025-04-27 | RTA: 2:09:38━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Very bad, but an 8 minute improvement over my old time from 7 years ago. This run is much, much worse execution-wise than that run, but it's still a lot faster because all of the improvements found since then save so much time.Horrible cleanup, mistakes on pretty much every single split. I should be able to get 1:3x with more practice.I need to practice cleanup sections and Dark Samus 2 lol.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This run cannot do Item Loss Skip. There is a Missile in Hive Chamber B that isn't there until the room is reloaded, which currently, can only happen when you trigger the Item Loss cutscene.Scans do not count as part of the 100% definition. Only items that increase the percent counter are required (The Mission Final screen does not show anything related to scans).━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Highlight version: youtu.be/RZul-rp9s6wGot a 1:44 also today. I unlisted it since I'm uploading both at the same time, but you can watch it here if you want: youtu.be/YyNPz7xeAyo
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Beginner Any% Speedrun Tutorial (2025) Draconif 2025-04-20 | This is the current Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Any% (Beginner's Route) tutorial. This was a much needed update on the one I did in 2018. This one now features a proper input display, and this was written ahead of time, so it was not just done on a whim. This route is slightly harder, as there is fewer Energy Tanks to get before Quadraxis. The route is much faster though, as it's able to do Early Sanctuary without needing to the 1 try only Grand Abyss dash anymore.If you have any questions, feel free to comment, or join the Echoes discord and ask for help!Demonstration Run (1:08 IGT): youtu.be/DMiceoVD4l0━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TIMESTAMPS0:00 Intro/Options6:28 Item Loss Skip and Out of Bounds Explanations28:33 Power Bomb Wallcrawl Backup39:29 Agon Wastes45:27 Early Beam Ammo47:41 BSJ Explanation54:56 Drop System Explanation1:01:59 Bioenergy Trick1:09:19 Dark Samus 1 Explanation1:13:42 Doomed Entry1:23:37 Menu Mod Brief Explanation1:26:28 Feeding Pit1:37:35 Mineshaft/Amber1:41:50 Sanctuary Fortress1:43:34 Gyro Puzzle Solution1:44:27 Boost Jump/Rolljump explanations (Crossing Watch Station Access)1:48:30 Watch Station Bomb Slot1:54:37 Grand Abyss1:56:35 Vault2:10:07 Quadraxis Wallcrawl2:20:37 Quadraxis Fight2:42:28 Escaping Dynamo Works2:45:32 Agon Trip 2 (Brief explanation of Amber later if skipping Mine Shaft)2:48:24 Light suit to Seekers2:50:29 Seeker Missile Puzzle2:50:55 Seeker Backup (Faster method not recommended)2:55:21 Abandoned Base2:57:45 Torvus3:00:18 Pirate Fight3:03:20 Air Underwater/Underwater Dashes3:13:08 Alpha Blogg Skip3:15:08 Power Bomb Guardian3:27:52 Dark Forgotten Bridge3:31:05 Chykka Larva Explanation3:40:43 Chykka Adult Explanation3:55:02 Begin Key Collection3:57:54 Catacombs Portal Explanation4:07:48 Spider Guardian4:14:11 Hive Dynamo Works Key4:17:43 Hive Entrance Key4:23:50 Battleground Key4:27:30 Dark Oasis Key (You may use the ammo station here if needed, did not point this out.)4:32:35 Temple Grounds Key Cleanup4:43:30 Defiled Shrine Key4:46:25 Sky Temple4:48:35 Emperor Ing I4:53:30 Emperor Ing II4:56:44 Emperor Ing III5:08:00 Dark Samus 3/4 Explanation━━5:38:49 Quad Skip5:49:12 Qaud Skip Second Half6:08:08 Post Quad Skip Routing6:14:57 Chykka without Annihilator6:20:47 Spider Skip Routing6:32:04 Spider Skip trick6:36:55 Escaping Dynamo Works6:41:15 Post Dynamo Works Route6:47:03 Finale (Dying to Phazon Crates)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━LINKS/RESOURCESGeneral Links• Movement Guide (by Rayshai): youtu.be/584GJqlLtz4• Echoes Leaderboards: speedrun.com/mp2_echoes• Echoes Speedrunning Discord: discord.gg/tjSDqV2Y8s• Dark Samus 3/4 Guide: youtu.be/y_QNoTszUUYDocuments• Route Document: docs.google.com/document/d/1aOlz13bKVSZ1fO48uSL7feHCakBL7rp6fZCKC2hTmN8/edit?usp=sharing• erinexplosives' Dolphin Setup guide: docs.google.com/document/d/16Knvj8sfz1Tw7blEqfHbjn59jNlKY1cmtWmHLL5_cSU/edit?tab=t.0• Load Trigger Document: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CNSEchxeLWTVJmIr3rMmbpt-V78uLaZS_MQjUqZpoUc/edit?gid=462003606#gid=462003606• Prime Series Damage and Health Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dPk8w2-Bm7BMrz0XEX2_y0u9wLKXLPQK9dsBGnkF3S4/edit?gid=1537761029#gid=1537761029• Chykka Larva: docs.google.com/document/d/1BLXoQcSYQJQfcyfYHi_5I7J2ZD8gS2Lp/edit?tab=t.0Downloads• Menu Mod: github.com/henriquegemignani/echoes-menu-mod-gui/releases• Prime World Editor: github.com/AxioDL/PrimeWorldEditor/releases• 100% Save File (To skip Cutscenes): speedrun.com/static/resource/jv7qe.gci?v=cf6d5fb• GameCube Memory Manager: github.com/suloku/gcmm/releases━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CREDITSerinexpolsives, for helping me write this/giving me feedback on the routeClaris, for creating Menu Mod━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Old Tutorial: youtu.be/-hmMzvVX6A8
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Any% Speedrun in 0:47 Draconif 2025-04-17 | Any% Attempt 1235RTA: 1:03:15IGT: ~47:33━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Meh run. Lost 20 seconds on Light Beam, Power Bombs, and Chykka. Will probably try to get 46 sometime soon.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Captured on an Elgato HD60S using a Retrotink 5x Pro.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Highlight Version: youtu.be/qQ4CMlmE2BUGameplay and IGT only: youtu.be/0GdpDKu0y5Y
Echoes 22 Draconif 2025-04-17 | I have no idea why this happened? I can't re-crate this on any other savestate...
Twilight Princess - Any% Speedrun in 2:54:43 Draconif 2025-03-29 | Got a 2:54 :)Run is meh, lost 2 minutes from Clawshot to Spinner, some really bad things happened. Pretty solid endgame aside from dead pixel on Argorok.
Wii HDMI Solution Comparison - RT5X Pro/Mayflash/Generic/Electron Warp/NEWCARE Component to HDMI Draconif 2025-03-20 | This is an updated video to my old HDMI Comparison video. Now included is the Retrotink 5x Pro, and a generic Component to HDMI converter.For the RT5X Pro specifically, I have color corrected it within the software. By default, it has an extremely green tint, so I adjusted it using the Video ADC2 Settings.Use this video to educate yourself on what to purchase. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Original Comparison: youtu.be/PrJi-mBkSGkAliensqueakytoy's video: youtu.be/4de87XogFYk━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Some important things to note:- *The Retrotink 5x Pro should NOT be purchased just to have an HDMI solution to your Wii. This is an upscaler meant for hardocre retro game enthusiasts, as it's versatile for all sorts of game consoles. I'm simply adding it here because it's the best solution for a non-modded Wii.*- To get the capture to look correct on OBS, you may have to tinker with the Color range and Color space settings. For every single one (except for the NEWCARE), I have the Color Range set to Expanded. For the NEWCARE, RT5x Pro, and the Electron Warp, The color space is set to 709. For the Mayflash and Generic adapters, the color space was set to 601. For the NEWCARE, the Color Range was set to Shrink.- I'm capturing this using an Elgato HD60S, so there is a very small green tint due to this capture card.- The Wii has a natural green tint. Some adapters are accurate with this, while others will either make it appear more red, or more green than normal.- For the Retrotink 5x Pro, I'm using HD Retrovision Component Cables. For the Generic converter, I'm using OEM. The difference is pretty negligible, however, the HD Retrovision Component cables have a bit less noise, but the OEM ones are still very good.- My Electron Warp has some issues with the colors occasionally going from a prominent green tint to a subtle one.- The Generic HDMI adapter and the NEWCARE Component to HDMI converter have diagonal line interference. I don't know how well it will show in the video, but trust me, it is there.- The Generic HDMI adapter has an extremely prominent red tint.- The Generic adapter has much louder audio for some reason.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Costs for each adapter (Shipping included, though may vary. Prices USD):- Generic Wii2HDMI: $7.00- Mayflash Wii2HDMI: $20.00- Electron Warp Wii2HDMI: $35.00- Retrotink 5x Pro: $335.00- NEWCARE Component to HDMI: $20.00Prices for Component Cables:- HD Retrovision: $30.00- OEM Component Cables: Between $20.00 and $35.00━━━━━━━━━━━━━━My opinions:- Best bang for buck, I'd go for either the Mayflash Wii2HDMI or the NEWCARE Component to HDMI converter. I would never recommend the Generic adapter to anybody.- The Electron Warp is great and is very color accurate to component. It's a bit more expensive than the Mayflash, but it's good.- The Retrotink5x Pro is a very expensive device, and I can only recommend it to hardcore enthusiasts of retro game upscaling. If you're just looking to hook up your Wii through HDMI, just see the recommendations above.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Games Tested:- Twilight Princess- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes- Metroid Prime
Twilight Princess - All Dungeons Speedrun in 3:35:27 Draconif 2025-03-08 | I died to Blizzeta lolOkayish run other than dying to Blizzeta. I can probably get a 3:33 or 3:32 if I played really well the entire time, but being consistent at this run is very challenging.
Twilight Princess - All Dungeons Speedrun in 3:38:03 Draconif 2025-03-01 | Disappointing run. There were some very strong parts, and some very, very bad parts. Notable bad places are the Lakebed Temple split and the Arbiter's segment. Enter Mines was bad too. First try UMD, but the movement was bad so I didn't save much time. I want at least a 3:36.2nd try EMS15s Clawshot15s Eldin Bug35s TD80s Lakebed Temple50s Spinner20s Armogohma30s Palace20s Hyrule10 Cycle Zelda
Twilight Princess - All Dungeons Speedrun in 3:39:03 Draconif 2025-02-28 | BadBad hugo, horrible Clawshot split, bad Snowpeak, lost 90s on entering ToT. A ton of random bonks and micro errors that added up too. Temple of Time and Arbiter's were decent though, maybe lost 10 - 15s max on those splits. Also did 1 bomb Morpheel lol.
Twilight Princess - All Dungeons Speedrun in 3:41:58 Draconif 2025-02-21 | First run in 11 years, it's pretty terrible on its own but it's not a bad start. PB by 50 minutes lol!
Twilight Princess 3 Draconif 2025-02-20 | I grabbed him right at the edge so when I threw him off i grabbed the ledge at the same time.
Twilight Princess - Any% Speedrun in 2:56:23 Draconif 2025-02-16 | Satisfied with this for now, I'm going to start doing All Dungeons. :)Pretty solid start to this run. Bad Twilights, Lakebed was fine other than Morpheel. Lost 20s in Snowpeak, 1 minute in Arbiter's, 30-40s in City, and 20s in Palace. Sloppy Hyrule and 8 cycle Zelda.
Twilight Princess - All Mirror Shards Speedrun in 1:21:16 Draconif 2025-02-08 | First run and extremely bad. I did this for fun in a race against Anorakkis and bdamja. Don't know if I will take this category seriously but it's a fun run.
Twilight Princess - Any% Speedrun in 2:58:20 Draconif 2025-02-08 | Pretty bad. Lots of random 20 second timelosses everywhere. Palace was good at least, but that's about all I can say. Choked 2:57 to horseback.
Twilight Princess - Any% Speedrun in 2:59:53 Draconif 2025-02-01 | Sub 3 already! Still not a good run, but I'm happy to have gotten Sub 3 this quickly. I decided to forego Stallord skip this run, as when practicing before doing runs, I couldn't get it consistently. I still saved time over my PB that did do it though, lol.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━I was going to do Glitchless after sub 3, but this happened much faster than expected. I will think about what to do now.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Morpheel was a disaster, along with Lakebed as whole. Lost a lot of time on Master Sword, bad Lanayru Gate clip, bad Eldin Watch tower bug, Terrible Palace, Failed Poe 1 skip once along with bad Poe 4 luck, and almost choked Sub 3 to horseback.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Recorded using the original US GameCube version on a Wii, captured with an Elgato HD60S using a Retrotink5x Pro with HD Retrovision Component Cables.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Twitch version: twitch.tv/videos/2368959502
Twilight Princess - Any% Speedrun in 3:08:05 Draconif 2025-01-30 | Sorry for the bad video quality I accidentally recorded with the wrong preset lmaoStill horrible but improvement I guess. So many dumb mistakes :(
Twilight Princess - Any% Speedrun in 3:11:55 Draconif 2025-01-28 | First run in 11 years, but extremely bad. I made so many mistakes, but that is expected for a first run. I will get there soon. :)Goal is sub 3 and I should be able to do that as long as I'm not a moron.
tot glitchless il 16:42 Draconif 2025-01-28 | Really old video, I have no idea why it's unlisted.16:56 on fadeout 16:48 on saying yes. IL timing ~16:42.75no LJA for barrier skip and failed bomb boost before armogohma, got hit by her laser
Twilight Princess 2 Draconif 2025-01-25 | I saw this in an AVGN video way back in the day and I re-created it.
Echoes 21 Draconif 2024-09-02 | This particular clip happened before my 48, but I forgot to upload it.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Any% Speedrun in 0:48 Draconif 2024-08-30 | Second person to ever get a sub 50 Ingame Time!!!!!!!!!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━IGT: ~48:45RTA: 1:04:38━━━━━━━━━━━━━━After three consecutive runs getting to the end, just to die to Dark Samus not allowing me to do DS4 skip, I've finally completed the game under 50 minutes. I'm so happy!This run is still very improvable and isn't too great, no major mistakes really aside from failing the Boost Jump for Amber Gate skip once. Mostly really small mistakes that added up a lot over the run. The beginning especially was rough, I lost around 20 seconds just up to Screw Attack.I'm happy with this for now, it's so cool that this game now has 2 leaderboard times under 50 minutes IGT. I'm very proud of this accomplishment. It's crazy how far this game has come.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━I captured this on a Nintendo Wii using a Retrotink5x Pro with HD Retrovision Component Cables, plugged into an Elgato HD60S Capture card.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Twitch Highlight Version: youtu.be/FQ92QiIXmFg
Echoes 18 Draconif 2024-08-24 | Using the bomb slot is supposed to allow the room to reload during the cutscene so you save IGT, but for some reason it didn't happen here.
Echoes 17 Draconif 2024-08-22 | "you were 2 microshits away from it"For context, this is the easiest Seeker Missile door to open without Seekers, and somehow, the Screw Attack did not hit the top lock. I tried for 20 minutes to recreate it but never could get it to happen again.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Any% Speedrun in 0:50 Draconif 2024-08-21 | A real new PB after 2 years. Unfortunately, this run is extremely bad.I lost a minute on Seekerless locks, and fell down in Dynamo works which cost me around 40 seconds.This run uses the "new" Barrier Skip route, which saves around a minute and half over the route my 51 did. I also did Vault Skip and 2 tank Quad Skip, which saves an additional 40 seconds.Not happy, I will go for 49, maybe 48.Twitter: https://x.com/Draconif_Twitch: twitch.tv/DraconifRecorded using an Elgato HD60S Capture card, using the Retrotink 5x Pro with HD Retrovision Component Cables.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - 100% Natural Route Speedrun in 2:44 Draconif 2024-07-21 | RTA: 3:27:27I didn't practice at all for this run, I'm also still very, very rusty, as I have not done a run of this game in 2 years. A TON of mistakes in this run. I'd guess somewhere around 10 minutes can probably be saved lol. There are a couple of moments where I also almost forgot to get something (Phazon Grounds comes to mind), or did things in a suboptimal order because I wasn't thinking (I forgot Main Research Missile after Screw Attack, so I had to get it on my cleanup trip). A lot of the mistakes are really funny though, so hopefully you get a good laugh out of it.I essentially only did this to get a long recording to test my Retrotink 5x Pro, and to test how long it would take for my new Computer to render a long run like this in 2k. Hopefully the video quality is very good for you. Enjoy!Scans do not count as part of the 100% definition. Only items that increase the percent counter are required (The Mission Final screen does not show anything related to scans).-----------------Captured using OEM Wii Component Cables connected to a Retrotink 5x Pro, which then goes into my Elgato HD60S Capture Card.-----------------Echoes Natural Route Rules: speedrun.com/mp2ce?h=natural-route-100&rules=category&x=mkemxe82-wleg4mrn.qyz42461
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Low% (15%) Hypermode Final Bosses Draconif 2024-07-13 | I did this almost 10 years agp, but I found my old save file and my old video is really bad quality. Back then, I didn't have a good computer or really cared about video quality as much.So as a way to test my new Computer and the Retrotink 5x Pro I got, I figured I'd torture myself and record this in high quality as a test. :)You can find the first time I ever did this here:youtu.be/fS8soGxTovI15% is currently the lowest possible % you can achieve in this game (with glitches and skips).Collected:- 1 Energy Tank- 1 Ship Missile Expansion- 1 Energy Cell- Missile Launcher- Grapple Lasso- PED Suit- Boost Ball- Plasma Beam- Screw Attack- Seeker Missiles- Hyper Missiles- X-Ray Visor- Grapple Voltage- Nova Beam- Hyper GrappleI played in 4:3 because I like the way it looks.This was captured on an Elgato HD60S and a real Wii using OEM Component Cables with a Retrotink 5x Pro, loaded through USB Loader GX to remove the Deflicker filter.
Metroid Prime Remastered - Any% Speedrun in 1:32:42 Draconif 2023-07-11 | This is the current fastest time for Remastered Any%. This is my first finished run and is very, very bad. There's about 5+ minutes of mistakes in this run.Very improvable, but it is deceptively hard to finish a run of this category. From falling out of bounds killing you, to the Triclops out of bounds being somewhat inconsistent, to health management to Plasma beam, it's a very, very punishing run.I may try to improve this in the future, but as of right now, I'm busy, so I won't have much time to do so.There's a few tricks I didn't do in this run because I decided I wanted to use a route that I could feasibly complete. Early Wild isn't used in this run because it's a 1 try only trick and doesn't change my route much. I did not do a wallcrawl in Main Plaza to access Vault from behind because I didn't feel comfortable enough doing it to save time. I did the Energy Core puzzle because I didn't want to add a wallcrawl similar to the Ice Beam one in the middle of the run.Q: Why are you playing on Casual?A: It's faster. There is no other reason. For a lot of experienced players of this game (and other versions), difficulty generally doesn't make the game harder for us. It just makes it take longer.Q: Why are the scans instant?A: If you save after completing the game, you can start a new game on that file with everything you've scanned previously.Q: Why are you using Pointer controls?A: It's what I'm most comfortable with. I've tried dual stick and don't like the gyro as much, and I don't like the beam switching. Pointer feels similar to the Wii version, but not quite as responsive. I use a Pro Controller as well.
Metroid Prime Remastered - 100% Speedrun in 1:58:07 Draconif 2023-02-28 | Sub 2 RTA!IGT: 1:51Sorry about the lower quality recording. During Phendrana cleanup (when going towards the Artifact of Sun,) I was getting Encoding problems on OBS, so unfortunately that part of the run is laggy. This is an export of my Twitch highlight.--------------FAQ:Q: Why are the scans instant?A: After beating the game, if you choose to save over your file, you can start a new game with everything you've already scanned.Q: Why are you playing on Casual mode? You're bad!A: It's faster. I have played this game since the original and have beaten it hundreds if not thousands of times, so making the difficulty higher does nothing for me except make the run longer.Q: Why are you using Pointer controls?A: Simply because I used to speedrun the Wii version of this game, and it feels natural to me. The precision with aiming just isn't matched by any other control scheme in my opinion. The disadvantage to it is that you can't turn as fast as the Dual Stick or Hybrid control schemes, but I don't really care about that.--------------This run is still overall sloppy, but I nailed all of the hard tricks in this run. Overall happy for now. Watch live at twitch.tv/draconif
Metroid Prime Remastered - 100% Speedrun in 2:09:49 Draconif 2023-02-25 | IGT: 2:00 :(Casual mode is the standard mode for speedruns because it's faster. Many people, including myself, who have done several, several speedruns of the original GameCube version, the difficulty doesn't really make runs harder for us. It just makes them longer.I play with Pointer controls on a Pro Controller, because I used to speedrun the Wii version of this game and it feels natural to me. Also, being able to aim without adjusting my point of view is a huge benefit in my opinion. Second finished run with a completely different route that I haven't timed. it feels like a nice route, because you have Plasma and Power Bombs for Thardus.This run is still very bad, and has several, several minutes of improvement to make.I lost about 3 or 4 minutes on Triclops, died on IBBF once, forgot Elder and had to go back for it, and I just played super sloppy and made several small mistakes everywhere. Extremely beatable.
Metroid Prime Remastered - 100% Speedrun in 2:18:44 Draconif 2023-02-19 | My first run and it is extremely bad, but that is expected. Idk how much I'll care about this version of the game. Ideally I would have gotten the Power Bomb in Fiery Shores early, but I haven't practiced that trick enough to want to do it in runs.Anyway with this route I can save like maybe 10 - 15 mins on this run lolI play with the Pointer control scheme using a Pro Controller
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Any% Speedrun in 0:51 Draconif 2021-12-14 | Less bad of a 51 but whatever... Could have been 50 but I messed up DS3.
Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes - Any% Hard Mode Speedrun in 1:02 Draconif 2021-12-13 | Dark Echoes is the Japanese version. Some tricks are patched that make the run slower.Gyro Skip doesn't work, which means the fastest Sanctuary Key collection route doesn't work. This run is extremely bad, I essentially only did this to unlock the gallery lol
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Any% Speedrun in 0:53 Draconif 2021-12-10 | This run is extremely bad, I can definitely get 51 if I'm not a moron.
