supermetroid – Set Side B

Super Metroid Map Logic Project

rodneylives — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:00:00 +0000

If you explore the internet long enough, you find wonders and horrors, but you also find very weird and obsessive things. One such thing is sm-json-data, a project to not only comprehensive catalog all of the tricks in Super Metroid and the situations they apply to and their uses, but to express it in a machine-readable fashion, so randomizers can use it.

I don’t even really know how to read it, but just the level of detail present here kind of makes me think it’s worthy of presentation here. It also sets off my allergies against obsession, it makes me itch like I’ve got hives, so I won’t be spending much time here. But maybe it’s the kind of thing you might find interesting?

Warning: this way lies madness.

sm-json-data (Github)

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U Can Beat Video Games Tackles Super Metroid

rodneylives — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:00:00 +0000

It’s yet another Youtube video post, but the subject is pretty notable, U Can Beat Video Games at last tackling the highlight of the Metroid series, Super Metroid for SNES, in an epic-length episode. Often big games get split up into multiple parts, but this time the whole game is covered at once. These videos can’t be easy to put together, and I appreciate the effort that goes into them!

As usual UCBVG covers the entire game, including all items and known cheats, and alternate endings. If you’ve ever wondered why GDQ players, hosts and audience ever shout “Kill the animals” or “Save the animals,” the ending to this video should fill in the blanks to an acceptable degree.

U Can Beat Video Games: Super Metroid (3 hours 37 minutes)

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Video: GoldenTorizoCode

rodneylives — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000

This is a channel on YouTube of various Super Metroid glitches and weirdness. A lot of it is pretty deep magic, and they tend to throw around evocative terms like Murder Beam, Chainsaw Beam, and even Spacetime Beam. Those links are useful in understanding what in the burning acidic heck the narrator is talking about. Knowing and caring about the gameplay of Super Metroid is, of course, required for comprehension.

But if you do know about Super Metroid, and you do care about learning about some of the more ridiculous glitches in videogamedom, then you’re in for something that is a reasonable approximation of entertainment.

The name of the channel refers to a debug feature left in Super Metroid’s code, that can be pulled off without hyper-obscure tech, although in the process it’s likely to crash your game. When you enter into the room of the of the bosses, the Golden Torizo, if all of the face buttons are held down during the transition, your equipment will be overwritten by a number of items. The code gives you all of the beam weapons in the game, which is good, but also turns them all on at once, producing the afore-mentioned Murder Beam, which will likely crash the game, not good. The opposite of good.

Here’s links to a few of these videos: an unused enemy called a Bang, activating “God Mode,” and how to obtain and use the end-game weapon Hyper Beam against bosses. It is some pretty intense geekery, but that’s sometimes what flows out of the faucets around here.

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