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This inspired me and brought me back to this game after not playing it for many years. The new glitches that she pulled off astounded me. Of course, you have to be pretty good to get a time of 1:20 even with her tricks. So now, I have come back to the game and sought out every item and the quickest way to get them. So lets get started! /=============================================================================\ |===============================SECTION 2=====================================| |===========================TABLE OF CONTENTS=================================| \=============================================================================/ /=============================================================================\ |1. Why a Super Metroid Guide? | |2. Table of Contents | |3. Coming Soon | |4. Required Moves | |5. Speed Tips | |6. Walkthrough | | 6a. Ceres Station | | 6b. Acquiring Needed Materials | | 6c. Into Brinstar | | 6d. Descending Into Norfair | | 6e. Crocomire Defeated. Now What? | | 6f. Powering the Wrecked Ship | | 6g. To the Gravity Suit | | 6h. Finding the way to Maridia | | 6i. To Draygon we go | | 6j. Finding the rest of the spoils in Maridia | | 6k. Locating Ridley | | 6l. To the last of the items | | 6m. Tourian | | 6n. ESCAPE!!! | |7. Legal Stuff | |8. Contact Info | |9. Special Thanks | \=============================================================================/ /=============================================================================\ |===============================SECTION 3=====================================| |==============================COMING SOON====================================| \=============================================================================/ 1. FAQ 2. Enemy info 3. Maps (probably a different file with full color maps, zipped together) 4. More speed tricks 5. More glitches/tricks /=============================================================================\ |===============================SECTION 4=====================================| |============================REQUIRED MOVES===================================| \=============================================================================/ Here you will learn all of the tricks and moves required to beat the game fast. Wall jumping: To do this extremely important move, first you need to spin jump at the wall you want to jump off of. As you start to drop back down, you want to push the opposite direction of the wall you are on, right if on the left wall, left if you are on the right. Immediately after that, press the jump button and you should jump back up, higher and higher when you repeat this move. Bomb Jumping- You will only use this a few times. To pull it off, ball up and lay a bomb. When the bomb stars to flash faster lay another bomb. When the first bomb blows up, you should come back down and get blown up by the second bomb too. To get higher, all you need to do is place the third bomb and rest of the bombs just a little bit higher than the last one. You should then get blown farther up with each bomb. Quick charge speed boost: To do this simple trick, all you need to do is take 2 or 3 steps and then press the dash button. This is helpful if you need to store a charge in a short space. Charge Beam Screw Attack: This maneuver will give you one hit of a Screw Attack, but if you don't kill the enemy with it, you will be damaged. What you do is charge a beam, then simply spin jump into an enemy for the same effect of the Screw Attack. Shine Spark: To activate a shine spark, first you need the Speed Booster. Next, while running, run until you start boosting. With this done, press down to store it, you will be flashing white. This is called a "charge". To "spark", you press the jump button and the direction you want to go. However, you cannot go in any downward direction. To spark diagonally, face either left or right, depending on the direction you want, the aim diagonally up button, and then press jump. This is helpful in cutting time in long straight-aways that would take a while to navigate normally, or if you want to jump up a long shaft. Mockball/Speedball: This semi hard trick can be hard to pull off at times. What you need to do is start dashing then jump and hold only the jump button. Press down to stop spinning. Now the next part is the hard part. Right before you land press down again to roll into a ball and quickly move your thumb to the direction you are traveling. If done correctly you will be going a lot faster in ball form, called a mockball. If you have the Speed Booster, the name is called a speedball. This helpful in getting some items early, such as the Super Missiles as soon as you enter Brinstar. /=============================================================================\ |===============================SECTION 5=====================================| |===============================SPEED TIPS====================================| \=============================================================================/ 1. Always, ALWAYS, hold the dash button. 2. Do not save all the time! If you want a fast time you should only save when necessary, such as right before a tough boss, or when entering a new area. I have labeled certain save points to use in the walkthrough. 3. Remember, if possible, wall jump, do not Space Jump. It's much faster. 4. Customize the buttons to your preference. The easiest way for me is: Shot- Y Jump- B Dash- A Item Select- X Item Cancel- Select Angle Up- R Angle Down- L 5. If it seems like a certain item is taking you a long time to get, you can always restart. Don't be disappointed if you do not get a good time your first time through. 6. Try to master the tricks on a different file before using the walkthrough. This will save a lot of time when they are needed. 7. Try not to have the ice beam equipped a lot. It slows down the time to kill enemies. 8. If you have plenty of Super Missiles, use them to kill enemies instead of your beams. 9. Once the Screw Attack is acquired, it will kill most enemies easily. 10. Know what weapon to have selected. If you are going to a Power Bomb door, have the Power Bombs equipped before you get there and lay it as soon as the door comes into view. 11. 1 Super Missile will open red doors, instead of 5 regular Missiles. 12. If there are many bomb blocks to destroy, use a Power Bomb instead. 13. Remember, shine sparking is quite useful in straight-aways. `=((. ^?]{$#+. 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The Galaxy is at peace. I first battled the Metroids on planet Zebes. It was there that I foiled the plans of the space pirate leader Mother Brain to use the creatures to attack galactic civilization. I next fought the Metroids on their homeworld, SR388. I completely eradicated them except for a larva, which after hatching followed me like a confused child. I personally delivered it to the Galactic Research Station at Ceres so scientists could study its energy producing qualities. The scientists' findings were astounding! They discovered that the powers of the Metroid might be harnessed for the good of civilization! Satisfied that all was well, I left the station to seek a new bounty to hunt. But, I had hardly gone beyond the asteroid belt when I picked up a distress signal! Ceres Station was under attack!!" ******************* *6A: CERES STATION* ******************* The moment the elevator stops, spin jump of and try to dodge the platforms by zigzagging as you fall. The door opens automatically so step inside. Follow the path through a few rooms until you get to the room with the Metroid in a jar. Run and stand against the right wall, and soon enough, Ridley appears. The quickest way to defeat him is to just stand at the wall and let him hit you. When you have less than thirty health left, Ridley will fly towards the camera. Hurry up and escape (should only take thirty seconds). When you get to the room with the many platforms, wall jump up the left side to the platform in the middle then make your way to the elevator. That wasn't so hard. ******************************** *6B: ACQUIRING NEEDED MATERIALS* ******************************** When your ship lands, head left. Hmmm. Seems there are no enemies. Never mind that for now, but keep heading left and then go down the shaft. Shoot the door at the bottom and drop in. jump off to the right side pf the platform you are on and slide down the right wall. There will be only one platform you will hit, near the bottom. Move out of the way before you hit it if you can and head right at the bottom. Move through Mother Brain's old room and into the door at the end. Head down the elevator. At the bottom, head left, over the block of bricks to get the MORPHING BALL. Head right and into the next room. Shoot the blocks and head down into the door at the bottom. In here get your first pack of MISSILES from the statue. Head back to the elevator and go up. The fog has disappeared now. In the next room there are some space pirates. Kill them all quickly and the door will be unlockable. Move into the shaft. Start wall jumping the right wall and dodge the space pirates if you can, kill them if you can't. At the top of the shaft, head right and roll into the tunnel underneath the three Skrees. At the bottom of this shaft head into the door and roll along the floor under all the flies. Go into the next room to collect the BOMBS. Stand in the middle of the room and the "Chozo" statue will come to life. This is actually a Torizo, an evil "twin" if you will. Just pound his face in with missiles and regular shots. When it spits balls at you, shot them for powerups. When he is dead, head back out and roll under the flies. You can either go out the way you came in (to the left) if you can wall jump and roll into the tunnel (must have good reflexes), or you can head to the right and bomb the four blocks to get out. Either way, head left and jump over the shaft you were in earlier and bomb the blocks in the wall. Open the door on the other side and run down the tunnel. Collect your first ENERGY TANK here then go through the door. Shoot a missile into each space pirate in here and make sure you have five missiles before you leave the room. Head out to the left and jump over the yellow lumps and go into the elevator room. Descend. ******************* *6C: INTO BRINSTAR* ******************* Now drop down to the first red door on the right. Open it using five missiles and go in. jump over the pipe in the ground and bomb the bottom of the beam. Go in to collect a MISSILE pack and head out. Here's where your first mockball comes in. shoot open the door but don't go in. stand on the left edge of the platform and start running to the right. Jump just before you get into the door. Perform the mockball just before you hit the platform and you should sail under the lowering pillars. Open the door at the end and go inside for a RESERVE TANK. Roll into the pipe under the Chozo statue and receive some MISSILES in the next room. Where the missiles were, bomb the wall. A block should crumble. Repeat it in the indent you made and before it blows up, move away and crouch. Shoot the bottom of the new wall to find more MISSILES. Head back out and shoot the ceiling in the room with the falling pillars. Wall jump up here to get your first pack of SUPER MISSILES at the end of the path. Fall through the block they were on and head back out into the shaft. Drop down to the bottom and head right, through the red door and into a hall. Follow the hall and bomb the blocks in the way. In the next room, head up and through the door on the top right, but make sure you have at least four Super Missiles before you do. In the next room, take care of the flying things with Missiles each the go through the door. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MID BOSS: SPORE SPAWN %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Spore Spawn goes down really quickly with those Super Missiles I told you to save. What you do is wait in the left or right corner, on the ledges in ball form. When Spore Spawn opens and reveals its core, pump a Super Missile into it. Repeat as necessary. If you need to, shoot the small particles floating down for refills. Climb up after the battle and go through the door. At the end of the hall, jump on the pipe to fall through, when you eventually reach the bottom, get your second pack of SUPER MISSILES from the statue. These really would have been the first if we didn't do the mockball trick at the beginning. Head left and open the green door with a Super Missile. In the next room jump on the ledge, squat down and shoot a Super Missile into the square. Roll through and bomb your way out. Head down and get the MISSILES on your left. To the right is a ledge with some weird blocks on the bottom. Bomb them and drop down for the CHARGE BEAM. Head back up and through the small hole in the blocks through the green door into a room with many pipes. When you drop down and see a pipe on the left and one high on the right, wall jump into it for some MISSILES. Continue down the hall shooting the gate on the blue square and follow the corridor until you get to a tall red shaft (the music changes). Fall to the yellow door on the side and shoot the ground to the right of it. Fall all the way down and head right. In the room with the claw in the water, shoot the block right above the door. Wall jump up here, bomb the blocks, and open the door to get the SPAZER. Drop back down and run right, to the elevator room. Don't go down. Instead shoot a Super Missile at the right wall near the floor. Here's a tricky part. Stand on the opposite side of the blocks and run right. You need to jump off the platform and wall jump on that long overhang. Once inside the head, shoot the floor and bomb the right wall on the bottom. Open the door and wall jump through. Kill the weird things with Missiles and shoot the strange crack in the floor. In the next room, kill the three space pirates with a Missile each and then shoot a missile at the mini Kraid. Shoot the door in the eye with three Missiles or a Super Missile. Now, onto Kraid. %%%%%%%%%%% BOSS: KRAID %%%%%%%%%%% There is a very quick way to kill him but unfortunately, it is extremely hard to do. In order to do it you need to shoot him in the mouth the second it opens with a Super Missile. You want to do this before he roars. If you succeed just pump three more into his mouth. On the other hand, if that didn't work, just shoot him in the head with a beam and when he opens his mouth, hit him with a Super Missile. You can shoot the claws flying around for refills. Anyway once he is finished, step in the next room to get the VARIA SUIT. Return back to the room before the flying things and the door is now open, so step inside. These things latch onto you so take care of them with bombs or Missiles. Shoot the ceiling in this room for an ENERGY TANK. Return and ride the elevator down to Norfair. ***************************** *6D: DESCENDING INTO NORFAIR* ***************************** Shoot the green door on the left and get read for another mockball room. Still on the outside, perform the mockball into the room so you will slide under the descending pillars. After this is done, jump over the pits of lava in the next room and enter the door. Climb the platforms in the next room, but don't enter the door. On the way up you should have seen three orange enemies coming in from the wall on the right. That's where you want to go. Bomb the small section of floor in front of the door on the top and hold right. You want to fall into the longer passage on the right. When you are in, get the ICE BEAM from the statue. Get out past the room with the lava and bomb jump up to the two square blocks on top. Roll in and to the right when these are destroyed and reenter the shaft. Drop down to the red door on the left and open it. Here, jump the energy tank and shoot the red guy before he gets away. If you miss him don't worry, just follow him and go into the room. Get the HI-JUMP BOOTS from the statue and head out. If you missed the red guy, head right and roll under where you dropped down. Shoot up the skinny tunnel to kill him and go to the other side of the rock. Get the MISSILES at the top and bomb the blocks to roll through. Now you can grab the ENERGY TANK and head out. Save in the room directly across from you. Head back out to the left and go in the top door on the right. Bomb the floor in front of you and open the red door at the end. In the next room, go to the third vertical shaft (jump over two pillars). At the bottom of this shaft, bomb the right wall in the lava for some MISSILES. In the next room, roll along the floor until the lava starts to hurt you and then continue on the platforms to the door. In the room with the green bubbles, jump up to the door above you but don't go in. run and jump of to the right, wall jump up and over the puffy thing and into the door at the top. In the next room with the three Skrees, shoot the celing near the middle one and jump up. Head right and run all the way right until you get to the door. Shoot the ceiling above you to get MISSILES, and jump into the next room for the SPEED BOOSTER. Now hurry up and run back left before the lava rises. Head back outside into the room that you wall jumped over the orange puffy thing and go to the door right below you. Head in the first door on the right. Jump over the platforms and shoot the gate for some MISSILES. Now run right and jump. Wall jump up the wall and into a room with the WAVE BEAM. Drop down into the middle of the spike pit and head out. Continue up the shaft, back in the room with the green bubbles and drop off the place with the puffy thing. Go to the far right and shoot the floor for some MISSILES. Head back up and shoot the floor between the faces. Head through these tunnels and take the door on the left. In the next room, drop down on the left and open the gate, go through the door. Head down the shaft. In the next room take a left and then the green door in the following room to fight Crocomire. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MID BOSS: CROCOMIRE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Head right and when he opens his mouth, shoot something in it. A Missile, Super Missile, or charged shot works. When you hit him with it, he will get knocked back. Eventually he will fall into the acid below him. When he's dissolving, run to the right and jump through the acid for an ENERGY TANK. Head back left, to the spike wall and wait. His skeleton will knock down the wall so you can continue. *********************************** *6E: CROCOMIRE DEFEATED. NOW WHAT?* *********************************** In the next room, get one of the five enemies that rise out of the pipe to go left, freeze them and use them to get to the door on the top left. In here is your first POWER BOMBS. Go back out and head into the door on the floor. Fall all the way don to the shaft and into another floor door. Lay a Power Bomb and head right. Start boosting to the left. Right before you go off the slanted part, jump and hold right, wall jump up this wall for some MISSILES. Head back down, through the small pipe in the wall and boost again, but this time jump and hold left. In this room you will find the grappling beam. Standing at the statue, open the door and door a Quick Charge Speed Booster to the right. You should jump at the end and land on the slanted part you jumped off earlier. Head up and into the red door. Wait for the lava to almost get below the rock and run right, store a charge, and roll through the crack. Get up and shine right to some MISSILES. On the way back do the same thing but store a charge right before you get out the door. Once you get out, don't move and shine strait up. When you hit the top, hold left to fall on the platform. Head into the door above you and go back into Crocmire's room (top-right). Head out the door on the top, climb the shaft and head into the top door. Grapple across the ceiling in this room for some MISSILES, and then hit the gate with a Super Missile. Climb up the next shaft to the elevator and go up. In Brinstar, head all the way left, into the long vertical shaft. Head all the way up, and into the next room. Carefully make your way to the right, avoiding the spikes and plant traps. In the next shaft, shoot the floor and open the green door. Shoot the jumpy yellow things so you can make your way across and get some POWER BOMBS at the statue. Power Bomb the statue for some MISSILES and head out and up the shaft. In the green door at the top, head to the left and lay a Power Bomb, jump into the plant for some POWER BOMBS. Head out and up the elevator. Power Bomb the door and in the next room head up and out to the left, dash through the rock and jump into your ship to refuel and save. ******************************* *6F: POWERING THE WRECKED SHIP* ******************************* Head back to the right and open the green door. In the room with the flying enemies, kill both of them and then use a Power Bomb to open the door on the right but do not go in. Head back left and do a quick charge speed booster and hold the charge. Quickly spin jump into the next room, fire a missile, and then shine to the right, picking up MISSILES on the way, heading through the door that the Missile opened and through the next room all the way to the green door on the right side. If you hit the door in the room with the missiles, step through and walk to where the rocks meet the water. Do a quick charge speed boost and charge right before you hit the door. Now shine to the right and you will hit the green door described above. Enter it. After the corridor, ignore the door in front of you and go down. After the first gray door, bomb the left wall and roll in for some MISSILES. Go back out and shoot the floor. Go in and open the green door. Go to the right and bomb the wall. Open the boss door and go in. %%%%%%%%%%%%%% BOSS: PHANTOON %%%%%%%%%%%%%% De-equip your ice beam and charge a shot. You can only hurt him when his eye is open so shoot the blue flames for powerups. When he opens his eye shoot a charged shot into it and he'll start to fly around. Hit him three more times and he will go back into the figure-eight patter again. Repeat until he is destroyed. The ship is now powered. ************************* *6G: TO THE GRAVITY SUIT* ************************* Head back out and up through the door. Head through the blinking door on the left to get some SUPER MISSILES and go back out. Bomb the wall directly across from you and head in. Power Bomb the right wall and roll in the third tunnel from the top for some SUPER MISSILES. Go out and continue up the shaft. Skip the door on the right for now and enter the door across from where you entered the ship. This save room is now powered, so use it. Head back down and into the door you just passed. Open the door on the other end, and carefully jump the spikes. In the next shaft, skip the door and shoot the ceiling. Enter the red door and jump across the platforms for an ENERGY TANK. Head back to the first shaft and head up past the save point. In the corridor at the top, kill all the enemies and open the doors a both ends before going through the door on the right, move the robots out of the way for some MISSILES. Head back to the left to go out side. Drop on the ground and boost left. Charge and shine straight up immediately to the right of the third platform from the left, hold left and shoot to get some MISSILES. Drop down and head left. Shoot a Super Missile at the middle of the patch of land in between the grass patches. Bomb the wall to get some MISSILES. Head back out the way you came in or you'll fall and have to go through the ship again. Head right and bomb the floor where there is a passage leading right (right after some grass). Head right until you get into a room with spikes and grappling blocks. Run through the spikes, jumping every few seconds and roll into a ball in the Chozo's hand. He will carry you through the spikes and drop you. Bomb the floor and head right. Grab the MISSILES and then Power Bomb the statue. Boost right and charge, shine up the small shaft and drop into the room. There is a large hole in the floor, so jump over it to get a RESERVE TANK. Drop through the floor and go back to the statue. Head through the door to get the GRAVITY SUIT. Out the other door, fall into the water and run into the left wall, bomb it and roll through for some MISSILES. Head back to your ship to save. ********************************* *6H: FINDING YOUR WAY TO MARIDIA* ********************************* Jump of to the right of your ship and dash left, store a charge and go to the mound to the left of your ship. Face right and hold the angle-up button and press jump to shoot to a ledge high above your ship. Open the door and head back to the left, charge right before you get into the door and shine into it to get some POWER BOMBS. Exit this room and boost left. Charge just before you fall off, walk off and land on the platform directly below you. Now shine left and open the door in front of you. Return to your ship to refuel and shine up again. Charge and shine left again to go through the door and into an ENERGY TANK after another door. Power Bomb the statue and roll under. Continue to Power Bomb the squares of blocks you see and the spikes at the end to find another door. In the next room, Power Bomb and jump in the crack between the third and fourth bricks from the door. You should be crumbling two sets of bricks now. Shoot to the right and get some MISSILES and then shoot left to get the other set of MISSILES you see. Follow the path and then go in the blue door on the bottom. Head into Brinstar. Power Bomb the bottom of the shaft and fall through. At the bottom head through the room and into a room with many square tiles. In here is any energy tank, but don't let this room fool you, there is a pit right in front of it. So run through and jump over the pit to get the ENERGY TANK. If you fall through, try and wall jump back up before you fall through the crumbling blocks. Head into the green door on the other side for some SUPER MISSILES. Head out and fall through the floor. Roll under the spikes and head to the right. In this shaft these Etecoons will teach you to wall jump but you already know how so just jump all the way to the top and land on the platform on the left. Now you must roll into the hole on the right. Grab the POWER BOMBS and head back to the platform on the right. Head back out and up through the floor you Power Bombed and take the door on the right. Run right and be careful not to fall through the floor. If you do, then shine spark up. Head right in the next room and either wall jump or grapple to the MISSLES below you. Power Bomb where the missiles were and jump left to go through a fake wall. Shoot a Super Missile at the weird shaped block in the floor, to score some POWER BOMBS. Head back to where the Charge Beam was and Power Bomb the pipe. Roll in and open the red door. Run through the water for an ENERGY TANK and head back out. Climb up the shaft and enter the yellow door on the right side. Kill all the enemies and open the door then wall jump and open the gate. Hop through and enter the room for an ENERGY TANK. Head out and down into the room with the pipes. Run and jump up to the right to find a yellow door. Enter it and Power Bomb both walls of blocks getting the POWER BOMBS on the way to find the area with the morphing ball. Head right and enter the red door in the next room. Shoot the ceiling near the blocks to find an ENERGY TANK. Power Bomb the wall and get the MISSILES on the other side. Head back left, run right and charge. Shine up where the black spot is in the wall you just bombed, and go into the door at the top. Head left, jumping on the invisible walkway near the ceiling. Get the MISSILES in this room the shoot the left corner of the platform they were on to get another MISSILE pack. Head back right and Power Bomb the area between the two heads, and Power Bomb again near the bottom. Head all the way back to the room with the green pipes. Back in the room, head all the way down until you reach the area just before the elevator to Norfair. Power Bomb the pipe and save at the bottom. ********************** *6I: TO DRAYGON WE GO* ********************** Climb back up and into the door at the top. Head into the red door on the right and open the gate. Kill all the creatures in here and then start running right. Store a charge right before you exit the room and then go through the door. Go to the left and stand on the taller plant on the left. Shine straight up to get some MISSILES. Drop down and head right just above the door you came out of. Wall jump over the right column and drop down. Run right, through the wall and into a room with a turtle. Forget about him and wall jump up and grapple onto the block and swing around to get an ENERGY TANK. Jump off to the right and lay a Power Bomb near the funny spot in the middle of the long part of the wall. Wall jump back up to get some MISSILES. Head out of this room and back to the left. Freeze the fish below the door and jump through. Wall jump up the left wall and roll into a hidden tunnel about halfway up the wall (watch the orange creature if you need help). Follow the tunnel for some SUPER MISSILES. Drop back down onto the door and run to the right. Charge and jump on the left slope of the smallest mound, stand near the edge, face right and shine diagonally up to a door. Head in and up in the pink room. Run to the right to get some MISSILES behind a fake part of the wall. Head back and take the door on the left side. Follow the tunnel, going through another fake wall and go in the door on the top. Head left and drop down, shoot the enemy and fall into another hidden room with MISSILES and SUPER MISSILES. Get them and head back to the pink room. Lay a Power Bomb and enter the green door at the bottom. Lay another Power Bomb and dash right. Charge and shine up the skinny shaft near the end to get some MISSILES. Head to the right and jump over the segment of pipe that's two blocks long and has a pie on either end for some SUPER MISSILES. Fall down now and head to the door on the top left, above where you came in. Shoot the pipes on the next room with the weak metroids and run along the bottom to get to the next room. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MID BOSS: BOTWOON %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Arm your Super Missiles and Nail him in the head whenever he pops up. This shouldn't take to long. When he's gone, head out the door on the right. Proceed to the quick sand and jump up and roll unto the overhang to get an ENERGY TANK. DO NOT FALL DOWN THROUGH THE LAVA!! WE'LL DO THAT LATER. Keep bombing yourself up and hold right when you are in the overhang. In the next room, head into the top door. This next room can be a little difficult. You can either grapple or wall jump. I prefer wall jumping because it's easier and faster. Anyways, head all the way to the right and through the door on the bottom (you can save and refill your energy in the top door if you need to). Head over the "spike" pit and shoot the wall on the right for some MISSILES. Head left and fall into the first spike pit and pump a Super Missile into the doors eye. %%%%%%%%%%%%% BOSS: DRAYGON %%%%%%%%%%%%% As soon as you enter the room, shoot a Super Missile into each of the four cannons, then arm your grappling beam. Stand in the middle of the room and wait for Draygon to pick you up and continue trying to hook your beam into one of the cannon remains. Once you do, hold it there for four seconds and Draygon is toast. Piece of cake. Head into the next room for the SPACE JUMP. Head back up, out, and save in the room above. *********************************************** *6J: FINDING THE REST OF THE SPOILS IN MARIDIA* *********************************************** Head all the way back to the room with the energy tank, forgetting about the flashing door on the way. One spot in the overhang makes you fall, so fall down into the quicksand. In the room that you are brought to, head left into a familiar room. Drop down to the floor and shoot it near the right wall. Get sucked into the first quicksand pit. In the next room grab the MISSILES on the left. Head to the right, going up the shaft next to the falling sand and make your way around to the pit blocks holding left as you fall in ball form to get some POWER BOMBS. After receiving them stand in the sand just to the right of the pit blocks to be sucked into a corridor, and then head right. Grapple the block in the ceiling and space jump through when it disappears. Make your way up top, and then fall down to a door on the right. Switch to Power Bombs and roll into a ball before going through. Lay a Power Bomb as soon as you enter the room and DO NOT kill the creature, he will destroy the yellow block in your way. In the next room, fall down the hole and head left for the SPRING BALL. Use it to get back out. In the shaft, fall down, lay a Power Bomb and head out. Follow the path until you get to another pink shaft. Lay a Power Bomb and head up. After the pipe head up the shaft and go around to the blinking door. Head through until you get to the room with the red space pirates. Head to the bottom right to get the PLASMA BEAM and then take care of all the space pirates. Back in the room you entered this area from, head all the way down and take a right. Head through the next room and your back at the flashing door I told you to skip earlier. Head down and fall through the quicksand again. Pass the next room and head to where you shot the floor, this time sink in the second pit (after the pipe in the background. In the room you fall into, head up in the first shaft on the left, shooting the block in the way. When you hit the pit blocks, use the Spring Ball to bounce up into the area above. In here are some MISSILES and a RESERVE TANK. Fall back down and sink where the pit blocks are. Head left and down in the room with the broken pipe and left some more. Fall out of Maridia through the longer hole in the ground. ********************* *6K: LOCATING RIDLEY* ********************* Head back to the tall shaft and enter the yellow door on the left. Enter in and Space Jump all the way to the red door at the end. Get the X-RAY SCOPE and head back to the right toward the elevator to Norfair. Don't go down but run into Kraid's area with the flying creatures. Stay on top and Power Bomb the wall. Head in the tunnel using the Spring Ball and get the MISSILES. Now head to Norfair. Head to the left door and into the area with the Ice Beam. Power Bomb the blocks you see and head left. In this room there are MISSILES hidden in the top left corner, shoot them from the door and Space Jump to them. In the door on the bottom, run all the way until you hit the door that lead to Crocomire. Head left all the way to the gate; use the energy refill if you need to. Power Bomb the door under the gate and space jump through the lava into the stone mouth. Head down the elevator and go left. Space Jump over the acid and Power Bomb the wall, roll into a ball in the statue's hand and wait for the acid to go away. Head in the crack in the floor and head right. When you can see the MISSILES, Spring Ball over to get them. Drop down and charge a shot. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MID BOSS: GOLDEN TORIZO %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Only use charged shot in this fight, he catches all missiles. Treat this guy like the one in the beginning and he'll go down the same way. Only charged shots work, though. When this is done, space jump up to the right and use a Power Bomb to clear the rocks. Get the SUPER MISSILES then go into the door at the bottom. Get the SCREW ATTACK from the statue and head up. Pass the door and enter the top one. Space Jump down the hallway and the Zoomers will be shred to pieces. Go through the gate and into the next room. Head right and Space Jump through the pillars in the next room. Climb up the shaft and at the top, lay a Power Bomb and head into the door on the left. Shoot the floor and drop down. Stand on the block on the very left and bomb. Hold left to get some MISSILES. head back out, making sure not to fall through the floor and head through the first door on the right. Quickly space jump to the upper right of this room and head into the door. Power Bomb the floor and head down the shaft. Use the save room along the way. Keep heading down, Power Bombing the blocks on the way and head through the yellow door. Power Bomb the room and Space Jump left land on the pillar that rises and roll through. At the three statues, Power Bomb them and head into the hole that opened on the left for some POWER BOMBS. Head down where the statues were and go in the door at the bottom. In the next room, is two space pirates. The only way to hurt them is to wait until they turn yellow and then blast them. In the next two rooms, Space Jump through. It might be a good idea to fill up some energy, at least the bottom row of E-Tanks because after the boss door its. %%%%%%%%%%%% BOSS: RIDLEY %%%%%%%%%%%% By far the hardest boss fight in the game. As soon as you see they eye glow, lay a Power Bomb. Then just pound away with your Missiles and Super Missiles. Try to dodge the tail as it does the most damage and keep firing. He might pick you up, so just wiggle free. On a very rare occurrence, he will pick you and self-destruct. If you hit him with every Super Missile, if you entered with all 45 that is, he'll go down fast. ****************************** *6L: TO THE LAST OF THE ITEMS* ****************************** Anyway head through the door and, WHAT!!! The Metroid is no longer in the tube! This could mean big trouble, anyway, shoot below the door for an ENERGY TANK and head back. Go all the way back, past the save point and up the shaft. Take the door on the right and launch a Super Missile at the head. Run through and take the last ENERGY TANK at the end. Head back up and run through a fake wall on the left. Run through the room and take a right at the top and get the MISSILES. Lay a Power Bomb and go through the top hole. Hold right and jump to bounce to the end of the room. Go in the door and shoot the head on the right to get the POWER BOMBS. Head out through the left and run through the wall again, this time taking a left at the top. Head through, roll under the chunk of rock and on the first platform bomb the third block for some MISSILES. head up and out, follow the path into an earlier shaft and head up into the green bubble room. Space Jump to the green door on the right and go in. Lay a Power Bomb and get the MISSILES. Jump on the pillar that rises and go through the hole in the wall. Space Jump through the next room to get the last RESERVE TANK. Shoot the block closest to you to find some hidden MISSILES. Head back out into the bubble room (We could have gotten these before but it is much quicker to get them with the Space Jump and the Spring Ball). Power Bomb the floor near the door and head left and left again. Run through this room and into a save room. Use it. Head back out into Brinstar. Go all the way back to the room where you got the Morphing Ball (green pipe room, Power Bomb the blocks) and head up into Crateria. Head to Mother Brain's old room and Power Bomb near the door. Head down for some MISSILES. head into the long shaft on the left and stand on the only platform on the right that touches the wall. Power Bomb it and freeze the yellow jumpy things in the next room then shine straight up the pipe to your last pack of SUPER MISSILES. go out of the shaft and into the door on the left. Power Bomb the bricks to get your last pack of MISSILES and then head back to your ship. If your items say: Missiles-230, Super Missiles-50, and Power Bombs-50 then you have everything. Now we an go to Tourian. Head back left, bomb the wall, and run through the corridor. In the room with the space pirates take the red door at the bottom and proceed to the room with the statues. Wait for them to turn gray and ride the elevator when you can. ************ *6M:TOURIAN* ************ Head left through the door. When you see the Metroids, freeze them and then hit them with five Missiles or a Super Missile. If they latch onto you take them off with three Power Bombs. In the next rooms are some more Metroids, eventually you will hit a sandy room. Kill the blue hoppers with some Super Missiles and then go through the door. In the next room touch the figure so it crumbles the go through the door. When you cant go any farther left wait for a hopper to get his brains sucked out by. you guessed it. "Your" Metroid that is now huge. Now let it suck your brains out until you have 1 unit of health left and it realizes you are its "mother" (remember the beginning? This is the Metroid that hatched when you were near). Head out through the door and then go in to the room on the left for energy and Missile refill machines. Head right through the boos door and save in the room below. In the next room, shoot the red parts of the pillars with missiles. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% FINAL BOSS: MOTHER BRAIN %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Stage One: When you get to Mother Brain in the tank, just shoot it continuously with regular Missiles. Stay out of the acid and shoot the red doughnuts if you need refills. Eventually everything will explode and the brain will fall. Stage Two: Jump and shoot Super Missiles at the Brain. Try to dodge the attacks as best you can and when she starts firing a stream of red energy at you, you know she's close to dying. Eventually she charges and shoots a rainbow beam at you, which is unavoidable. Let her do this until you are almost dead and then the big Metroid will suck her brains out too. He refills your health as Mother Brain slowly is regenerated. Stage Three: The Metroid is killed and you know have your very own Hyper Beam. Just jump and hit her in the head with it and she'll start the self-destruct mechanism when she dies. *************** *6N: ESCAPE!!!* *************** Jump out the hole and shoot the rising pillars. Blast the door open and fall through. Enter the door at the bottom and jump on the platform with the space pirate on it. Follow this path to a door and once through, climb up. As you are 
running across the top, shoot diagonally down and you should open a door. Fall 
down the skinny path and climb the platforms to the top. Start running and go 
through the door. Blast through the wall and store a charge. Stand right at the 
edge of the shaft, right under the platform that connects to the left wall and 
shine up. You should make it to the top. Now head back to your ship. Get in and 
you're off.

                 THE OPERATION WAS COMPLETED SUCESSFULLY
                            CLEAR TIME 1:30 

                    YOUR RATE FOR COLLECTING ITEMS IS
                                  100%

                           SEE YOU NEXT MISSION!


 
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All names, places, enemies, and the intro at the beginning copyright 1994 
Nintendo. This guide copyright 2008 Kris Bachiochi. You may use this guide for
personal use only and may not sell the guide for profit. If you would like to
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Please feel free to contact me with questions, comments, or suggestions at the 
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Gumpei Yokoi- for making an excellent series of games.

Red Scarlet- for her AWESOME videos of completing the game with 100% in 55 
minutes.

www.samus.co.uk- for actually having Red Scarlet's movies to download.

www.metroid2002.com- for help with some glitches and boss strategies.

You- for reading this guide.

And me of course- for spending the time to write this guide for you.