Super Metroid Tutorial - The Golden Torizo Code

[@qactustick]

Eagerly awaiting a tutorial on how to perform the even more powerful Golden Chorizo Code. Provides all of the effects of the GT Code, in addition to a YT channel and extensive knowledge of how to break the game in other exciting ways!

[@sjl057]

I hear to trigger it, you go to your local supermercado, purchase 4 lbs of ground chorizo, let your controller marinate it overnight, and perform the code normally. Worked for me

[@MarioTheGre]

I can tell this is a joke and I love it! XD

[@gabrieldasilvacoelho4698]

@@sjl057 lol

[@GeofreySanders]

*in other DELICIOUS ways

[@Eriienne]

This is just incredible never expected someone to find such an interesting way to surpass the limit of % of the game.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

The person who originally discovered the GT Code (username JAM) apparently was looking through the game's code for something different and basically "stumbled" across this... It is pretty incredible. :)

[@khatharrmalkavian3306]

Both the "fake" energy tanks and the missing grapple and xray icons are caused by the way the UI is drawn. When I was helping with a netplay hack for sm/smr/smz3, the missing icon issue came up. I traced the code that executed when the xray scope is acquired and found that - in addition to the normal process of adding the item - it altered the tilemap used for the UI, changing the tile IDs to point to the icon tiles. I ended up writing a simple routine to refresh the tilemap based on whether or not those items were in inventory and we added a call to that function in the routine that added items from remote players, which fixed the bug. Old Nintendo code is really fun to play with.

[@ArkThePieKing]

I'm so glad you made this! Ever since I read about the GT code on TCRF I've been curious about how it interacted with item % at the end of the game and collected items in general. Super happy to have an answer finally.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, ArkThePieKing! That's really nice to hear. I'm glad my video answered your questions. :) Thanks so much for watching and commenting!

[@tedhand6237]

I'm a relatively big fan of Super Metroid speedrunning and sequence breaking etc but this was news to me. I really appreciate when videos like this give me access to that world.

[@KiyokaMakibi]

That gravity jump in the lava was fascinating! How on earth did someone figure that out?

[@kitsunelunari]

It's really funny that last night I was playing Super Metroid just to get in the zone before Metroid Dread comes out, and I saved right at the entrance of lower norfair. Then, youtube shows me this video today and I go "wow I can just go over there and try it out" it was really cool!

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hahaha, great timing! :) And Metroid Dread looks like it'll be great. Can't wait!

[@SomeGuy712x]

I just decided to give this a try real quick myself on the Nintendo Switch's SNES before Dread gets released in my area. And, I paused the video at about 5:06 at your suggestion so that I could try figuring it out myself. I had decided to go fight Draygon to get Space Jump... but I had skipped Grapple Beam. So, that was certainly... an experience. However, on one of my attempts, I somehow got Draygon to "red stomach" health without its swoops going to ludicrous speed like usual, and I was able to attack while still dodging them, and I finished the beast off on that attempt! (I had just 9 HP left when I won.) And then, since I had Space Jump, I had no trouble approaching the Golden Torizo room from the left, at which point I watched the rest of this video. I guess I'll spend some time later cleaning out the rest of Zebes to reach 135% on my game. I should be able to do it in well under 3 hours for the best ending too.

[@Letham316]

That awkward moment when he's fighting Phantoon without energy tanks, then aggros it with a super missile. 👀💦

[@Isuju]

Nice video! Only thing I think worth mentioning is that on the PAL version of the game it's theoretically possible to get to GT without power bombs, thereby allowing you to finish with 136% (actually FLJ beat me to that now that I've looked at the comments)

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, Ruya, thank you so much for watching and commenting! :) Yeah, I kept going back and forth on whether to mention that in my video.... I probably should have at least touched on it. :/ It's just *extremely* difficult, only humanly "doable" on PAL (as you said), and current max% GT runs don't even go for 136%... That was my thought process, haha, but I'm glad you and FLJ brought that up, since it is technically possible. :) And, of course, huge congrats on the max% GT world record!!

[@BradenBest]

based on the explanation of recurring items and 84/16%, and knowing that there's a way to use the murder beam to reset the game to think you're at the beginning, I decided to look it up to see if 184% is a thing, and sure enough, it is.

[@gamesforyou2351]

If you keep getting more then reset with the murder beam glitch is it possible to hit 999% or more like what's the max cap that truly can be hit.

[@BradenBest]

@@gamesforyou2351 It would more than likely be 255% cause I don't think they'd use more than one byte to store the percentage when it was never expected to go past 100%. Going any higher would make it overflow back to 0. 0% run anyone?

[@AkaiAzul]

To add to this, most (all?) Randomizers disable the code for hopefully obvious reasons.

[@lpfan4491]

Funfact, "Murder Beam" is actually considered to be an official name because the playerusage of the glitch is mentioned a grand total of one time in official sources. It's actually pretty funny. When it comes to the actual subject of the video, I always kinda forget that it exists when I play the game. I probably wouldn't get a lot out of it anyways, because I am bad at videogames and likely couldn't even get to that point with minimal items.

[@WA-Y]

i always called it the var or varia beam :v

[@prizm9515]

Dope content! It's cool when old games can still learn new tricks.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Thank you, Prizm95! Glad you're enjoying my videos. :)

[@judgmenthammer5254]

I learned about this years ago, but I didn't know about I didnt know about Max % GT Code category. Thank you, I now have some runs to look up.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

It's a fun category to watch/run! And Zoast's world record was literally just beaten by Ruyarin, so you can check that run out. ;)

[@FrenchLightningJohn]

the reason you can get to 135% is more of how the vanilla game calculate %, it divide your max health by 100 for % and max ammo by 5 for % while the other items are a yes or no, also it is possible to get 136%, on NTSC its considered to be TAS only because you need multiple frame perfect freeze of the viola in the room to moonfall on them above the yellow door making the power bomb pack skipable, while in PAL if you are fast enough you don't need another freeze as samus fall faster, then you need to use grapple to get out of the floor redo a moonfall reuse graple and contine like that until you are stuck enough so the last moonfall make you past through the yellow door. then once you enter LN you still have to go to the right, but since the floor is power bombs you have to go up where mickey mouse missile is and use ice beam with one of the multi-viola to freeze at the right place, also only one of them work since only one of them move in a such a way that it can enter the shot block hole, so you have to guide it all the way up near the crumble block to freeze it at the right place then clip the crumble block bomb the bomb block above and try to get all the way up. then once that is done you need to recharge your enegery to max capacity as you need to do reverse pillar room with the acid rising up, so far nobody did it as how intense and hard it is, and since it is PAL there is a way to get gravity suit without power bombs also making the ordeal easier but still very hard. and BTW the WR for GT max% just got beaten by ruyarin by 6s about right at the moment i'm writing this :) otherwise good video outside of what i wrote which i think not a lot of peeps know hence why i wrote it, it was well explained and nothing more to add to it

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, FrenchLightningJohn! Hope all is well. :) Once again, thank you so much for commenting - you always share so much knowledge with us, and it's really appreciated. :) I was not aware that that's how the game calculates your final item collection percentage when it comes to energy... that helps to explain why 700 energy is interpreted as 7 E-tanks, even though you effectively only have 6 (plus 1 energy unit) after the GT Code. I did know about the 136% technicality, but I chose not to mention that, simply because if Zoast/Ruyarin/etc don't even go for 136%, then I doubt any mere mortal would. ;) In all seriousness, though, that is EXCEPTIONALLY difficult even on PAL, so I didn't think it'd be terribly relevant for my viewers. Nonetheless, I'm glad you mentioned it! And, of course, HUGE congrats to Ruyarin for taking the world record!! Sad I missed it... But I've updated my video description, and I'll definitely watch the run ASAP. Thanks so much for the detailed comment, FrenchLightningJohn! Always thankful when you share your expertise with us. :)

[@FrenchLightningJohn]

@@GoldenChorizoCode ty and yes everything is well and i hope you to everything is well and you're welcome, tbh i own much of my knowledge to the community (either speedrun or hacking one) and especially Aran;Jaegger/EternisedDragon aka ED, and i kind of understand why you didn't mention it as its for the moment a very technical thing like for a lot of 14% and even more technical 13% doable for human (aka low%), but me being a technical person had to make mention of it. oh it also make me think some hack that change the way the % is calculated but before the code was found (so they was not able to remove it) have a speedrun category named GT low%, its basically similar to max% as taking the mininum to do GT code but you take nothing else, as it won't increase your % because they make it so the % increase only if you take an item making some intersting category, some low% even can go to like 12.83% (made up number as i don't know the low% for any hacks) sadly the leaderboard for hacks is kind of broken due to SRC i would say sorry again for the long post, there is just so much to talk about.

[@pajordan]

@@FrenchLightningJohn that’s very interesting about the 136%. do you know of a video link to share of it being done? i tried searching but couldn’t find one. thanks for the info.

[@FrenchLightningJohn]

@@pajordan there is no run of it, the only thing we have was a temporary video that sniq made to show you can skip PBs for the yellow door for GT max% by using TAS tool, and he concluded that NTSC was TAS only because of the number of frame perfect refreeze needed to do it iirc, hence why technically 136% is doable as yet so far nobody did it due to the sheer difficulty of skipping PBs for it

[@armlessmanwithashotgun6468]

To anyone who's watched the video and is reading this, if you've already done the code or killed the Torizo, you won't be able to do the code again even if you use the space-time beam.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, thanks for watching and commenting! :) You're correct in that the code cannot be executed if Golden Torizo is dead. However, you CAN execute it repeatedly (not sure why you'd want to) if you utilize the Spacetime Beam to "bring back" Golden Torizo. It'll always work so long as he's alive. Cheers! :)

[@EnDDarKDoMaiNGAMES]

It's really nice to see this game (that a plyed months after the laucnh) so "alive".

[@johndoe-ek1qs]

Never heard of you or much of what I have seen from your videos. You earned a new subscription! 😁 I will probably try to confirm with you or ask how some things work later. (If you don't mind).

[@Josh_Fredman]

Super handy, helpful! I appreciate resources like these that don't assume we're a world-class master of the game.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Thanks so much, Josh! That's essentially the point of my channel - to explain things like this to people who aren't professional speedrunners/experts of the game. :)

[@jss636]

Wow. Your channel has exploded! You have a lot more subscribers!

[@ishanpahwa1179]

Very helpful; I had heard of this before, but never knew what it was. Thanks 😊

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

No problem, Ishan Pahwa! Glad you found it helpful. :)

[@InsaneFirebat]

Nice tutorial. Well narrated.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, InsaneFirebat! Thank you so much. It's always great to get feedback from experts of the game. Hope all is well! :)

[@GlitchShark]

Somehow I have never heard of this before. I've watched so many videos and speedruns of this game and this is first I've seen it.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, GlitchShark! I'm really glad you learned something new from my video. :) It's a fun trick to play around with, and there are lots of great speedruns out there that use the GT code. :)

[@Tracequaza]

thanks, never knew about this! i love the way you explain stuff in your videos

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Huge congrats to Ruya (Ruyarin) for taking the Max% GT Code world record!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZOmiHxrgdeKfpo Also, nice work literally taking the record an hour or two after I posted the video, haha! :P

[@WA-Y]

first

[@justinhackstadt6677]

Whoever found this out is either a coder, a supernerd, or both. Lol

[@executive]

I still don't get how this is useful for debugging the game

[@NOTNOTJON]

What about the tankless lava dive. Any chance we'll see this? Dropped a frick'n brick when I first saw this during a SpeedGaming race.

[@chupitolepame5357]

Amazing content sir, just subbed!

[@AkodoNoEyes]

I didn’t know about this. This is insane

[@johndoe-ek1qs]

Hey! I did the golden torizo code and I'm now trying to use spacetime beam. Idc about the "status" issues beyond having some extra stuff. BUT I collected way too many missiles and super missles and energy tanks because I planned from the beginning to spacetime beam afterwards. The problem now is that my game keeps crashing. Can you help? Or is spacetime impossible after golden torizo? Using snes console.

[@DJIronChef]

Holy shit. amazed you got where you were without the gear, and they just gift it to you lol awesome. 20+ years later

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey DJ IronChef, thank you so much! It's a fun challenge. :)

[@DJBendytheFox]

Very helpful. I know you said you can collect 21 E-Tanks with the Golden Torizo Code, but I never knew how to do it. Very cool video! What will you do next?

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, DJBendy! Thank you. :) You should try it out! Regarding what's next... I have some ideas, but I'm definitely open to suggestions from you all. :)

[@DJBendytheFox]

@@GoldenChorizoCode actually, what if you told us about the properties of the murder beam and why it’s very very unstable? I do know how to use it but some people don’t, so it would pretty cool for a video on that (and you can even show how good it is against Mother Brain and Ridley)

[@TechDragon1]

Excellent video, I really enjoyed learning about this!

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Thanks so much, TechDragon1! :)

[@johnchiles9559]

This could kill time in a speedrun

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

It sure can! Here's one example. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4HRmGZmZbt8f5I There are multiple speedrunning categories that utilize the GT code: Any% GT Code, GT Classic, Max% GT Code, and 100% GT Code. In other categories, the GT code is (understandably) banned. But nothing is banned for casual playthroughs. ;)

[@johndoe-ek1qs]

I'm close to lower norfair but without the gravity suit. Is it possible to do the Golden torizo code without the gravity suit?

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey! Yup, you can use the Golden Torizo Code without Gravity Suit. :)

[@TheDarkLink7]

I've been doing the reset glitch to collect more stuff.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Yeah, the Spacetime Beam is another easy way to get over 100%, and I've used it in multiple of my other videos. :) The GT Code is different in that it isn't actually a glitch - plus, there are multiple speedrunning categories that utilize it, so I think it's helpful to understand how it works. :)

[@TheDarkLink7]

@@GoldenChorizoCode yeah and I find the rest an easy way to execute. I've glitched out the super missiles, power bombs, and my energy tanks are on the way to going off the screen.

[@CH32mix]

Golden Chorizo xD

[@HelenaQuintanilla]

Awesome tutorial!!

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, Helena Quintanilla, thank you so much! Hope you have a great weekend. :)

[@ZekePolarisBSH]

I will check this one out in a bit, I gave it a like so I can watch it. Also because I know it will be good so why not give it a like right now? Lol But damn, record breaker?

[@tiamatmichellehart6821]

So why do they call that Crateria/Brinstar transition fungal hall "the Terminator room"? Because you'll be back?

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Haha, that's part of it! But the reason it *originally* got that name is because a common speedrunning strat for that room involves crossing it while continuously moving and shooting. :) As seen here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2LRpqenbrt0qLc

[@DylanYouSonOfABidgeNelson]

My man!

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, Dylan! :)

[@GodfreyAI]

how people can find these information and trick in the game. I've never understood. is developper know that?

[@Raekh_]

1:28 The warnings come after the spell

[@jacoblowe3839]

Cool channel subbed!

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, Jacob, thanks so much for the kind words and the sub! :)

[@greenmurci5026]

Is there a map or video that lists the names of every room. Ie the moat room, alpha power bomb room etc.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hey, Green Murci, great question! I'm really glad you brought this up. :) The resource I use for all of the room names is the Super Metroid Speedrun Wiki: wiki.supermetroid.run/Main_Page. It has a separate page for basically every room in the game. The best part is that if you know the name of just 1 room (say, the "Landing Site", which is the room with Samus' ship), you can find the name of any other room. This is because, in the top right corner of each room's page, there is a list of all adjacent rooms with links to their pages, so you can basically travel through the entire game map and learn the name of any room you want. :)

[@beastworm]

btw, ruyarin just got the GT max record :P

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hahaha, I figured that was gonna happen... and FrenchLightningJohn just mentioned that. :) I've updated the video description. :) Congrats, Ruyarin!!

[@strangeravgnofpastandprese1044]

AWESOME

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Thank you so much! :)

[@strangeravgnofpastandprese1044]

@@GoldenChorizoCode no problem keep up the amazing videos about Metroid GoldenChorizo

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

@@strangeravgnofpastandprese1044 I will. :)

[@charlieharrison]

Ruya got WR yesterday, 1:07:43

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

It's hilarious that Ruya took the WR literally later in the same day that this video was uploaded. 😂 I updated my video description last night. :)

[@artey6671]

Well, now I know why you prefer the golden Torizo over the bomb Torizo. One thing I noticed is that you usually skip saying "the" before items like "if you already have screw attack". Is it just me or does this sound a little strange?

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Haha, yea, Golden Torizo is the man. Regarding my omission of "the", I can safely say that most people in the Super Metroid community at large would find it odd if I said "the" before things like "Screw Attack" or "Gravity Suit." For example, check out the Super Metroid Speedrun Wiki page for the "Max% GT Code" category: wiki.supermetroid.run/Max%25_GT_Code. The pages on that site are written by true experts of the game, and they essentially never say "the" before major item names. :) Thanks for watching and commenting!!

[@nanoskee8270]

How long does it take to do all of that?

[@Borti_Ovi]

0:20 That’s what your name was based on!? I thought for certain your username was named after a 5-star Spanish dish with eggs and potatoes mixed in! ADDENDUM: 7:55 Ah, that’s right! You had to use Space Jump to get to Lower Norfair in the first place. I wonder, was this just an oversight from Deer Force or were they fully aware of the potential sequence breaks during the game’s development and made a built-in game lock? Why should the Chozo need a certain pick-up to activate to begin with?

[@musaran2]

IMO it is a leftover from a design phase where Samus would not be so constrained by the terrain/doors. (also suggested by the "hidden 3rd eye") Explicit item checks would have dictated the sequence.

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hahaha, Borti_Ovi! 😂 I would guess that Bruno Mailly is correct in stating that was a leftover from development. Given how the final game was laid out, it seems a bit "redundant" for the statue to not function unless you have Space Jump. But, who knows for sure...

[@musaran2]

Another possibility is there was an item to activate statues, the idea got scrapped, and the item slot reused for space jump. Since tester would have it anyways, the leftover check never got caught, or was not deemed a problem.

[@azurehydra]

OVER 100 ?!?!?!?!? NANI DESUKA FUQQE!?!?

[@sidthesquid4206]

Cool

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Thanks, Sid the Squid! :)

[@calvincook3815]

I see a new GCC vid - i..... cmon... u know what i did! edit: 7:55 WOAH! I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!

[@GoldenChorizoCode]

Hahaha, hey again, Calvin! Thank you. :) And yeah, isn't that interesting? Something you'd probably never learn about from casual gameplay, haha.

[@amso7169]

I remember the first time I tried beating Ridley before Draygon, that was the biggest roadblock aside from the lava dive room. Eventually I learned GGG and now I can easily beat Ridley before Draygon, though