satvaraThe goal of this speedrun is to obtain 100% item collection quickly without restriction, which essentially means hardcore sequence breaking will be used.
Therefore, the run relies extensively on the most potent sequence breaking glitch known in the game: an arduous, unforgiving, and punishing consecutive pause glitch called Blink. It enables the possibility of skipping of every metroid, boss, lava barrier, and even item in the game, creating an entirely separate and unique metagame. Blink comes with a cost, however, as its effectiveness is equally matched by its difficulty.
My initial goal for this category was just to complete it under 50 minutes without killing any metroids, so I am satisfied with 48 minutes. It's also my first serious 100% speedrun attempt of any game ever! Still, I intend to improve further in the future if my time and interest permits since this particular run wasn't some deviation, as I have two other runs that are roughly one second and two seconds faster than it, respectively, and practically every aspect could be improved.
Thanks to the AM2R Speedrun Community, primarily Naatiska (who discovered the pause glitch in 2016), DruidVorse, EODTex, john_unfil, Juice_San, and CScottyW for their contributions over the years, with additional thanks to Nommiin, unknown, Metroid3D, and, supremely, DoctorM64.
Played on v1.1 PC without tool assistance or game modification.
AM2R 100% Skips in 48:03satvara2020-11-21 | The goal of this speedrun is to obtain 100% item collection quickly without restriction, which essentially means hardcore sequence breaking will be used.
Therefore, the run relies extensively on the most potent sequence breaking glitch known in the game: an arduous, unforgiving, and punishing consecutive pause glitch called Blink. It enables the possibility of skipping of every metroid, boss, lava barrier, and even item in the game, creating an entirely separate and unique metagame. Blink comes with a cost, however, as its effectiveness is equally matched by its difficulty.
My initial goal for this category was just to complete it under 50 minutes without killing any metroids, so I am satisfied with 48 minutes. It's also my first serious 100% speedrun attempt of any game ever! Still, I intend to improve further in the future if my time and interest permits since this particular run wasn't some deviation, as I have two other runs that are roughly one second and two seconds faster than it, respectively, and practically every aspect could be improved.
Thanks to the AM2R Speedrun Community, primarily Naatiska (who discovered the pause glitch in 2016), DruidVorse, EODTex, john_unfil, Juice_San, and CScottyW for their contributions over the years, with additional thanks to Nommiin, unknown, Metroid3D, and, supremely, DoctorM64.
Played on v1.1 PC without tool assistance or game modification.
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Daitoshi Station 1:48.99satvara2021-09-19 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1:59.680 DivisionX 2:03.660 MetalSmasher86 2:07.680
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Hibashira Speedway 1:28.48satvara2021-09-12 | v1.3 Hypersonic
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Cameron Raceway 1:18.64satvara2021-09-12 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1.22.680 TylerR 1:31.610 MetalSmasher86 1:42.930
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.AM2R in 7:44satvara2021-09-12 | The goal of the any% skips speedrun is to complete AM2R without restriction, which means glitches and hardcore sequence breaking will be used.
AM2R is "completed" once Samus enters the gunship at the end of the game, leaves SR388, and the credits roll. The end game state is triggered when Samus reaches the metroid larva after the final boss, which then triggers the gunship's ability to leave the planet. Since reaching the end game state before defeating all metroids is normally impossible, the run consequently relies on the most potent sequence breaking glitch currently known in the game: an arduous, unforgiving, and punishing consecutive pause glitch called Blink. Successfully performing the glitch will enable Samus to bypass room transition triggers, enabling traversal outside the conventional boundaries of the level. Therefore, the goal is to reach the metroid larva as quickly as possible.
This particular run functions as an update to the 8:18 run I completed in 2017 a few months after the game was first released. It is essentially a better refined version that utilizes the increased skillset I acquired during the process of running 100% Skips. I must say that I don't feel I have given this category the time and attention it deserves yet, so another PB or a more focused return may be in order at some point. Still, my initial goal was sub 7:45 so I am satisfied having met that.
Thanks to Naatiska (discovering the pause glitch in 2016) and DruidVorse (discovering the zip glitch). Additional thanks to Nommiin and unknown. Special thanks to DoctorM64 for developing AM2R and doing something far more impressive than this weird super difficult speedurn.
Played on v1.1 PC without tool assistance or game modification.
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Willard Mine 1:08.38satvara2021-01-25 | Warping Mine
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Sunahara Desert 1:18.26satvara2021-01-25 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1:22.710 GimMick 1:27.960 MetalSmasher86 1:30.310
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX, Sunahara Desert Warpcutsatvara2021-01-25 | Who or what could have removed the rocks after the reload. And why?
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - The Haze 1:27.54satvara2020-11-21 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1:32.310 MetalSmasher86 1:45.010
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Pyramid Valley 1:19.29satvara2020-04-12 | v1.3 Hypersonic
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Sunahara Plains 1:12.34satvara2020-04-12 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1:14.930 MetalSmasher86 1:18.460
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.The Touryst - FAST Arcade 5741 Hi Scoresatvara2019-12-16 | Played on Nintendo Switch. The tactics used also work on PC v1.0.The Touryst, Out of Bounds Infinite Fall Softlock (Rope Glitch)satvara2019-12-03 | I couldn't resist.
Played on Nintendo Switch.The Touryst, Keep Miners Clothing Glitchsatvara2019-12-03 | Jumping over a prompt zone to keep the miners' clothing. This allows the use of the rope outside of the mine shafts, which has shown to have glitchy consequences so far. Leaving Soggy Island resets clothing back to normal, as well as saving/quitting, so apparently it can't be used on other islands.
Played on Nintendo Switch.Fast RMX - Ice Coast 2:07.84satvara2019-12-02 | v1.3 Hypersonic
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Hangar Games 1:21.84satvara2019-12-02 | v1.3 Hypersonic
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Tepaneca Vale 1:29.04satvara2019-09-14 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1:30.280 MetalSmasher86 1:36.930 DivisionX 1:37.110
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Kamagori City 0:57.44satvara2019-09-07 | v1.3 Hypersonic
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Scorpio Mine 1:18.46satvara2019-06-21 | v1.3 Hypersonic
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX, Scorpio Mine Shortcut (Track Jump)satvara2019-06-17 | Long jumping off the cylinder to skip the loop to the finish line while moving around a respawn zone.
By necessity the shortcut skips some potent orbs towards the end of the track, but I expect it is a little faster regardless.
v1.3 HypersonicFast RMX, Scorpio Mine Warpcutsatvara2019-06-17 | A tiny warpcut past the first cylinder.
v1.3 HypersonicFast RMX - Kuiper Belt 1:25.71satvara2019-05-05 | v1.3 Hypersonic
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Tepaneca Haze 1:19.38satvara2019-04-08 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1:36.680 MetalSmasher86 1:50.530
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX, Tepaneca Haze Shortcut #2 (Track Jump)satvara2019-04-04 | Cutting past the inner section completely.
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Chuoku City 1:32.46satvara2018-11-15 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other v1.3 speedrun.com records: Brionac95 1:39.860
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX, Chuoku City Warpcutsatvara2018-11-12 | There's a warpcut at the southern end of the track that skips a couple platforms.
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Sunahara Valley 1:29.48satvara2018-10-13 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1:31.960 MetalSmasher86 1:33.660 TylerR 1:34.480
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Zvil Raceway 1:30.96satvara2018-09-13 | v1.3 Hypersonic
previous v1.2 speedrun.com records: (note: v1.2 had a respawn position advantage: https://i.imgur.com/puAPkpD.jpg ) satvara 1:32.890 DivisionX 1:39.280 MetalSmasher86 1:39.480
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Chuoku Habitat 1:31.96satvara2018-09-13 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1:33.480 MetalSmasher86 1:39.490
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Metroid: Samus Returns, Glitching with the Diggernaut Chasesatvara2018-09-05 | Digger tries its best to deal with an onslaught of glitching Samus.Metroid: Samus Returns, Area 5 Speed Trick to Exit Elevatorsatvara2018-09-04 | Using Spider OoB to get to the exit elevator faster after using the Chozo Seal. This tactic was already known to benstephens1000, but never recorded.Metroid: Samus Returns, Diggernaut Chase Skipsatvara2018-09-04 | Skipping the Diggernaut Chase with Spider Ball OoB and Bombs.
I also show some variations. Note that the Spider Ball grip is lost when moving from the Green Door's left side to right side.
This was done with High Jump acquired, which isn't required anyway.Metroid: Samus Returns, Area 7 Speed Trick to Exit Elevatorsatvara2018-09-04 | Using Spider OoB to get to the exit elevator faster after using the Chozo Seal.Metroid: Samus Returns, Area 1 Early Shortcut Through Heated Roomsatvara2018-07-23 | I've never seen or heard of this minor shortcut accomplished before. It seems like the sort of thing that's already been done, though, and is just unknown to most runners. It's been reliable for me with this method, though any misstep means death.Metroid: Samus Returns, Early Hard Crash at First Transport Cutscenesatvara2018-07-23 | This may be the earliest reliable hard crash in the game so far. It's done by jumping and then morphing just before entering the cutscene trigger zone.
The cutscene is programmed to cancel any action Samus is performing when she triggers it. The issue is that unmorphing is impossible near a ceiling so the programming logic breaks down and the game universe implodes as a result.Fast RMX - Alpine Trust 1:33.69satvara2018-06-07 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: DivisionX 1:35.590 satvara 1:37.680 MetalSmasher86 1:42.110
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Cameron Crest 1:18.71satvara2018-06-07 | v1.3 Hypersonic
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Mueller Pacific 1:18.48satvara2018-04-20 | v1.3 Hypersonic Time Attack
other speedrun.com records DivisionX 1:20.880 satvara 1:20.980 DivisionX 1:22.130 MetalSmasher86 1:27.230 HowDenKing 1:36.280
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Storm Coast 1:39.08satvara2018-04-07 | v1.3 Hypersonic Time Attack
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1:42.480 DivisionX 1:45.290 MetalSmasher86 1:52.340
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - New Zendling 1:23.93satvara2018-03-24 | v1.3 Hypersonic
other speedrun.com records: satvara 1:25.610 DivisionX 1:29.940 MetalSmasher86 1:31.990
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Fast RMX - Kenshu Jungle 1:17.98satvara2018-03-10 | v1.3 Hypersonic
FAST Racing Series Discord: discord.gg/M36nWsT Focused on community discussion, multiplayer matchmaking, and tournaments.Metroid: Samus Returns, Area 6 OoB Shortcuts v2 (Ice Beam)satvara2018-03-08 | I wanted to give a quick look over the Ice Beam clips in Area 6 again since it's been awhile, so here are some more Ice Beam OoB locations that I haven't seen yet.
1) Cutting to the Zeta at the start of the area using a glowfly clip. This is a variant of one I've showed already. 2) After the Omega, cutting down using a hornoad clip. The fall clip isn't really reliable for me so far. 3) After the Omega, cutting down using a glowfly clip. I prefer this glowfly over the one in the pit that I showed in v1. I stayed OoB longer traveling to the seal for the sake of comparison. This same cut can be used after the Zeta, too. 4) Taking a small cut down using a glowfly clip after the last Chozo Seal.Metroid: Samus Returns, Area 4 OoB Shortcut with Chozo Statue Clipsatvara2018-03-07 | Clipping the Chozo Statue for a shortcut.
It also helps with a potential Super Missile skip in the long run. Only the Zeta in this area remains to be skipped to complete it.Metroid: Samus Returns, Area 5 Screw Attack Complex OoB v2satvara2018-03-07 | Demoing some more OoB spots in this area using Ice Beam and Spider Ball.Metroid: Samus Returns, Wave Beam before Varia Suit (Spider Ball)satvara2018-03-07 | Using a Spider Ball clip on the Chozo Item Sphere to get the Wave Beam before Varia Suit.
This temporarily skips Varia Suit until it is later needed to kill the two Alphas in the southern heated areas of Area 2. It's some progress for now at least.