I just bought a new cartridge of super metroid, it is the US version. maybe im doing the horizontal bomb jumps incorrectly but i lay my first bomb, wait. lay my second. im blown up in the air lay my third. everything is solid. i go the direction i want. but maybe half a second after my third and last bomb goes off. and all explosions are done. no more bombs are out. i hit what seems to be an invisible wall. all my momentum goes to 0. occasionally it doesnt happen. one in every 20 id say. is my cartridge messed up or am i doing something wrong?

I just bought a new cartridge of super metroid, it is the US version. maybe im doing the horizontal bomb jumps incorrectly but i lay my first bomb, wait. lay my second. im blown up in the air lay my third. everything is solid. i go the direction i want. but maybe half a second after my third and last bomb goes off. and all explosions are done. no more bombs are out. i hit what seems to be an invisible wall. all my momentum goes to 0. occasionally it doesnt happen. one in every 20 id say. is my cartridge messed up or am i doing something wrong?

I need some help with this tricky stunt. I can do it, and in fact have a 15 minute 1 star run, but i feel for me to lower that time i will 1 need to work on optimizing movement, and 2 consistency of the SBLJ. Any advice would be cool, or just general conversation about the trick. anything you may have noticed that either helps, or that doesnt help so i can rule it out. i wouldnt consider this a tutorial as ive seen every tutorial on youtube, more so just little details to make it a bit more consistent. one main question is once im stuck on the wall when do i want to stop backwards long jumping? ive heard oh when the camera shakes, when the camera drops, etc, however the camera is constantly shaking and lowering lol.

Any interest in a new run? think the title is pretty self explanatory but yeah a soma all bosses excluding the 0 hp glitch. I would like to run this personally as i get maybe 1 in 100 runs making it past balore with the 0 hp glitch. reset city, literally is not a fun category for me. anywho if it has enough support it would be a cool little route. something new? liven this group back up. could be cool, maybe not. lets do it!

I am new to speedrunning and have just gotten a capture card. I recorded a somewhat decent run and would like to upload it as my first run, but did not use a timer or anything. Am i good to go off the total video time as im not too worried about a couple of seconds lost and i will be working on more legit runs soon? How do i go about timing my runs in the future? thanks for the input and i look forward to figuring out how exactly i should time my runs since that is the whole point and premise of speedrunning to begin with lol. thanks again as always stay fancy

the airport level, street skater goal to crook grind around the baggage claim. i run gamecube, NA regioned tony hawk pro skater 3. I have seen many runs using the switch crooked grind special move to complete the challenge and occasionally it will work for me. However more often than not it will not work. I have noticed if i get my sick score done it has a higher likely-hood of completing the challenge. but sometimes im just short and only get the pro score complete, resulting in 99% of the time the challenge not completing. i have tried going around just once, going around multiple times. with my friends ticket for the other challenge, with out the ticket. All sorts of variations of this goal and have not found a sure way of completing it 100% of the time. has anybody else had this issue? could it just be a scratched disk or something as stupid as that? It is quite annoying as the run becomes extremely unoptimized because that particular spot i can get the sick score and the crook grind done all at one time. any feedback would be appreciated.

As I'm reading up on capture cards it has dawned on me, because of my gameplay style I will most likely need 2. One for my retro games using rca and one for new consoles using HDMI. Are there universal capture cards that can capture both quality or will I need two separate capture cards?

Hello super metroid runners, I'm interested in grabbing a snes as well as a copy of super metroid to start running. I currently run any% zero mission (the GBA remake of super) though I'm extremely new to the game, community, and really speedrunning as a whole. My question is, is the snes version "better" or is it just a preference thing. I want a snes anyways for a couple of games but I'm noticing a trend with the virtual console. Most are available on there. Personally I feel as though I'd enjoy the snes more for nostalgia reasons as well as aesthetics if I'm being honest. I also believe most snes games run higher frame rates so in turn faster gameplay though probably not too noticeable really. Anyways just curious as to see opinions on the matter, as well as some suggestions on where I could find a copy of super metroid as they're pretty few and far between now a days. Thanks for the read and any input you may have, all the best -

Fancy Josh

So I finally got the SBLJ (no DDD Skips yet unfortunately) I've done 2 in the past hour lol. It took about 6 hours to learn them, though I sorta went right for it I've never even done a legit run yet. My question to those familiar with the sblj is how do I get more consistent with it, if at all. Is it one of those things you can't really nail down or will I be able to do it as often as say the LBLJ? One last thing, I use the pillar method (to the left) and I don't really get what I'm suppose to be looking for I've heard a shake I've heard when the camera drops lower, both of which are constantly happening lol so could anyone clear that up for me? Thanks to all in advance

 Fancy J

I'm new here and this is probably somewhere I'm just not looking, but are these separate categories? As in any% allowing the dead soma glitch and then an any% not allowing it? I did like this trick until I started running it. I did reset after reset after reset. It's a cool category but it's not for me. Maybe when I get better i will run it but it is a bit discouraging to go for an any% when I know I'll get crushed by someone using the dead soma zip. I appreciate any information regarding this topic, and would also like to be pointed in the right direction to where I can discuss the trick in detail. Again noob when it comes to TASing but I know a bit on the topic of this trick, however I need a little more info on it. Best regards - Fancy