NES Metroid 100% no glitch no reset

Wanted to try and get 100%, with no glitches, in under an hour for the best ending. Made a ton of mistakes since I'm no professional, but this time isn't too bad. Recorded directly from an actual NES.

[@retiredhater]

Great video! I enjoyed how it's not like some crazy optimized speedrun, just someone who knows the game well and is very skilled. Side note, I love how this looks on original hardware. Need to add an NES to my collection soon!

[@SheonEver]

I like it. It's basically a 100% glitchless, warpless efficiency run... Run quickly by a true gamer.

[@Maxx_XIII]

This is how I like speed runs or longplay walk through. Tool-assisted runs and glitch-abusing demonstrates no skills, they just showcase how you can cheat, and it's equally insulting when TAS/glitch runs are submitted to speed run sites as attempts at setting a world record. No world record should involve glitching and save-states or slow-down freeze frames. This here is how it's done right.

[@Practicalinvestments]

@@Maxx_XIII 4 minutes away from beating his time and theres lots of optimization still to do :)

[@svetlananikolaeva8039]

@@Maxx_XIII Frame-perfect and pixel-perfect glitches: are we a joke to you?

[@altrightknight7661]

i love how she runs like she's got somewhere to be lol, that scurry is hilarious!

[@LihimSidhe]

As someone that's old enough to have played Metroid when it was first released, below I timestamped most of the times where a player would have no clue how to proceed unless they a) pixel hunted virtually the entire game bombing/shooting nearly every wall, floor, or ceiling section in hopes of finding the way forward. b) had someone/something help them (ex: nintendo power, nintendo hotline, 'that friend' that just knows everything about a game, etc.). Agree? Disagree? Why and what timestamp? Enjoy! 09:25: bomb the wall 10:59: bomb bubble floor 11:30: bomb the floor but has signifier 12:23: shoot the ceiling 13:10: bomb the floor 13:49: bomb the wall 14:15: bomb the floor at dead end 14:30: shoot the pillar 16:16: bomb the floor 16:43: bomb the floor 17:30: shoot the ceiling 17:59: bomb the floor 19:05: bomb the wall 21:23: shoot the ceiling 22:43: shoot wall at dead end 24:09: shoot ceiling 25:23: bomb the floor 26:12: movement puzzle! 39:40: shoot the ceiling 43:09: energy tank in ceiling 45:29: bomb the floor 45:58: bomb the floor

[@Splatkid8]

I would have not been able to beat this game

[@olsonbryce777]

Some of them are fair enough. Most are BS though

[@wm4409]

46:28 Energy tank in Kraid's room

[@hugoeliseu9750]

The padern on the floor changes on the 2nd time stanp, but ye its not a metroid game without bombing every square

[@LevelUPAnimations]

This was most helpful :)

[@apokillipopo22]

Wow hi

[@smallemilia8600]

Tf were you doing here 3 years ago?

[@postplays]

Very nice! I doubt I could go through Norfair without the varia suit.

[@Rockstago]

IMPRESSIVE run! Very precise jumping & great path through Kraid's hideout.

[@metroidgameplays4656]

Thank you very much for the video. With your video, it helped me to complete the game for the first time, thank you very much :D

[@dragonore2009]

Glitchless runs are the true speedruns.

[@williammillet8264]

Klack Koaster why

[@williammillet8264]

Klack Koaster it’s not supposed to teach you game, watch a tutorial

[@JohnnyCasey]

@@williammillet8264 Don't you find that the idea of legitimately beating the game as fast as possible without abusing any glitch astounding?

[@williammillet8264]

Johnny Casey I think both types or runs, glitches and glitchless are intresting, glitched runs take more skill generally then those without because the glitches are difficult to pull off

[@soursugar4867]

William Millet I personally think that they both take significant amounts of skill, and it really comes down to how you like to play

[@MS-tl6hc]

I was there when this game was new. Seen the ending many times, but i don't think i ever finished it myself. I think i still have the cartridge somewhere. Watching this run i realize i was in waaaaay over my head. Any kid that could 100% complete this game in the 1980s was on another level.

[@kingmiller1982]

I let this video play, and I fall asleep to it.

[@TheWolfgangGrimmer]

I require proof that you actually had 255 missiles total the end. Just kidding, great job. Nice touch picking up the extra E-tanks and Ice Beam too.

[@jacobmattis7176]

For a regular dude who doesn't do this for a living, that's a great run-through. Normal folks today have trouble navigating simple platform games. Or God forbid, remembering your way to each item in Norfair. People who post frame-perfect record-breaking videos on KZbin are a tiny minority. Hand a NES controller to an average guy or girl, and most people die trying to jump over stuff.

[@Follow-the-Sun-1]

Gotta freeze those Rinkas at the mother brain end boss. that will dramatically help the gameplay be more smooth, plus it'll help you focus attacks on brain. It was nice seeing someone getting all the power ups, though! :)

[@woni77]

Great game, great soundtrack, great run. Loved it!

[@HTTRforLIFE]

GOOD SHIT! And extra points for no glitching!!

[@undeadnightorc]

26:12 This blew my mind. Been playing Metroid for years but had no idea you could even do that kind of mid air jump. I always bypassed this location thinking it was just put there by the devs to troll players.

[@zaphod77]

That is a glitch. The jump IS makable without it, but it's HARD.

[@kingdeszaras6585]

@@zaphod77 The fun part? That jump is easier if Samus doesn't have the Hi-Jump Boots, which are required for that one out of the way Missile tank immediately to the left of the start of Ridley's lair.

[@notchunglingsu7014]

Thanks for the entertainment! A solid run, nice work!

[@ericmsandoval]

The only time I ever beat this game was using a map about 10 years ago. Today I decided to see how far I could get with NO help at all before I lost my sanity lol. I was already at Ridley’s Lair with no wave beam, screw attack, or all the power ups. This was because I completely missed the green area in Norfair. Thanks to this video, I now know that lol

[@vicentegm6998]

Same here. Beat both bosses with no wave, screw attack nor ice beam! It was a pain in the ass. Love-hate game :)

[@retiredhater]

Even the instruction manual for this game advises that you should probably make a map yourself! That's foreign in today's gaming but back in the day lots of dungeon crawlers supplied graph paper for the sole purpose of the player mapping out the dungeon. It's part of the immersion lol.

[@richpope7218]

Best MetroidVania of the 80s (yes there was more than one back then). My biggest gripe with the game is that it sucks that the Wave Beam is so buried! If only the Wave Beam location was switched with the Brinstar Ice Beam location. Just an idea.

[@JohnRyder-]

I never completed this game as a kid, but i remember I got to the end and fought the mother brain and died no matter how hard I tried, but I didnt have enough E-tanks. As a grown up, I'll have my revenge. I'm gonna try and complete it now on my freshly arrived Nes Mini :D

[@JohnRyder-]

I've actually completed it several times now. I didn't want to abuse the save states. So I only used them at the spawn points. The benefit is that you don't have to spend time to grind to get your health and missiles back.

[@SheonEver]

@@JohnRyder- ...that's a great idea.

[@soursugar4867]

John R Nice job mate! Metroid took me 12 hours to beat on my first play through and i died at least 50 times

[@thatguylucas6818]

I remember as a child I would complete super Metroid in one session at the age of 3 lol

[@thatguylucas6818]

@@peep1725 same with Pokémon maybe I have some form of gaming autism

[@TheHive616]

Glitch Free> every other run

[@subj109]

43:40....that music 👍🏼

[@Atriimox]

13:20 I do not understand. I can't bomb down further but I went through the door on the right and I have the same location

[@picassodilly]

Just watched a pro speed run with glitches- and they only beat you by a few minutes. So I’d say you’re doing pretty good.

[@co81385]

Great run!

[@Hwi1son]

Thank you. This is awesome.

[@kevinarun9842]

Great run man. If u don't mind me asking how did you do the jump at 26:10?

[@sh7eug]

Press up on the d-pad without pressing left or right, (to unmorph) then press jump without pressing left or right. Only after you have jumped can you press a direction.

[@kevinarun9842]

@@sh7eug Just tried it and it worked. Thx

[@crazyjaybe]

Awesome video!! Great on X2 speed

[@flowerlandofjohn]

Here’s some Metroid with drums for y’all: enjoy! 🤩 kzbin.info/aero/PLgbNYrZECAo3HGaqXxSoUDhnV1RnHJWKe

[@VictoriaDeMinico]

How did you pull off that win with Ridley? I've tried to do the same and I get hit/die in that spot.

[@thanatosdraga]

really enjoying the video ^^ the code u entered is purely a visual thing, asin it doesn't increase ur damage or other gameplay stuff? Edit: No worries , noticed in ur other video what the answer is ^^

[@sh7eug]

Yup, just visual.

[@raven7955]

Was following along nicely till I fell into 17:48 and got stuck. A sad day.

[@gargervon8697]

That has happened to me as well.

[@vicentegm6998]

@@gargervon8697 Same :(

[@AaronJLong]

I think I managed to get unstuck from there before. This was years ago so memory may be foggy, but if you unmorph from the morph ball in mid air you can then press jump for a midair jump. I morphed, and started laying bombs, and when I got some air I unmorphed and jumped. Took a while trying, but I had varia so I had plenty of time for attempts since the lava hurts you so slowly. Eventually I got lucky and got enough air in the morph ball that I was able to unmorph and jump out.

[@gargervon8697]

Where is her helmet? Is this s new game+ thing or something? On my NES cartridge, she is in full suit from the beginning, but I have only beaten it once and didn't want to keep playing afterward.

[@sh7eug]

That code in the beginning allows you to start a new game without the suit. There are other "suitless" codes, the most famous being the JUSTIN BAILEY code. But other suitless codes start you various places with various power-ups.

[@gargervon8697]

@@sh7eug Thanks. :)

[@mycatisromeo]

Also, if you beat the game in under 3 hours, wait through the credits, and push start. You now have a new game with the bathing suit.

[@zacknicley8150]

Don’t Samus’ legs get cold?

[@OmnipotentO]

This is the one 🙌

[@reedr7142]

Is that Ridley attack random? I almost always get a wave of slowly moving attacks from him all lumped together, and not at that high parabolic arc here. It takes me 1-2 minutes to defeat him, because I have to keep jumping them, and then he immediately sends another wave out.

[@fmar.8311]

I find that the fastest way to nail ridley is to simple roll into a ball and just keep spamming him with bombs, you'll take his for sure, but you'll finish him off before he depletes your tanks if you've got a good 3-4 tanks going into the battle.

[@Practicalinvestments]

There’s a few spots where he cant hit you if you have the wave beam, if you have the ice beam though it’s pretty much a free fight you just gotta stand right next to him and freeze all the projectiles so he cant keep firing then also if you have zero missiles there’s a trick you can do to kill him really fast by pressing select and b for some reason you shoot much much faster, but you have to have 0 missiles

[@ozrithclay6921]

My lord the elitism in this comment section is an absolute black eye on 100% no glitch lovers.

[@LukeLynch12T19]

They do vanilla speedruns because they think glitches = cheating. I do vanilla runs because I don't trust myself to not crash the game or break my controller trying to do the glitches. We are not the same.

[@GigaLigma]

8:55 "Nope, lava's better than this shit"

[@GooBanana]

Would you be willing to do one where you don't start with the original suit/cannon?

[@clairemadeinheaven]

i didnt know you can play as zero suit in the original

[@ozrithclay6921]

26:12 "Glitchless"...

[@Alianger]

Where can I see a no ice beam, no high jump run?

[@Practicalinvestments]

Metroid Any% speedrun, they only fight kraid for the missiles then go straight to mother brain

[@svetlananikolaeva8039]

26:10 Isn't that a glitch?

[@reedr7142]

It’s an aspect of the morph ball. Any time Samus wants to unmorph, she can (whether on the ground or in mid-air). Therefore, not a glitch, IMO.

[@aaronmerkel5216]

watch at 2x speed

[@jerzeynights9224]

I do. It's the only way to watch 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

[@alidochang513]

13:15

[@russelveganeucleonps4plays820]

AS FRIENDS CREDITING.

[@GooBanana]

You said no glitch, but you definitely ran through a wall at 45:43.

[@GooBanana]

​@Daniel Beard the fake walls were not what i was referring to.

[@EpsilonChurchRVB]

Other than the fake walls, at no point did he ever go through actual wall collisions. You probably just imagined it

[@guillermojosegamezrios4794]

You Talk About Fake Walls? These Fake Walls Can be Trasspassed And It Isn;t Are Considered Cheating or Glitching

[@guillermojosegamezrios4794]

But Cheat Passwords Are Considered Cheating or Glitching.

[@guillermojosegamezrios4794]

The Password at the Start is The Cheating or Glitching

[@guillermojosegamezrios4794]

Catched! I See You Go Trough a Wall at 45:43 Time of The Video

[@shaddowofthelost1750]

I bet he could have gotten a better time if he didn't start with zss

[@christopherknowles]

Speed runs with glitches are a cancer on the vidya community. Do it all or don’t do it at all.

[@LatestGameReviews]

:)

[@zaphod77]

You still glitched. You morph jumped to get that missile pack. a perfectly timed low jump is the intended method.

[@kingdeszaras6585]

Ehh it's more of a physics quirk like Super Metroid's Mockball, NES Metroid glitches out plenty on its own anyway, lol

[@guilletrovato9226]

not 100%

[@licensedprofessional4742]

Very disappointing 😠 you cut off the end credits, next time please play the game in full and explain why you choose your path?

[@M0HAK0]

Game didnt age well at all