I always feel like such a rookie having only beat the game once :p maybe ill try some glitches when i inevitably revisit super one day. I find these glitch toutorials very interesting
Haha, I hope you do revisit it. The game truly gets better and better the more you play through it and learn all the intricacies, even without using any glitches. Not saying glitches aren't fun, though. ;) Thanks so much for watching and commenting - I'm glad you're enjoying my videos. :)
I've noticed the audio balancing has gotten a bit better these past few videos. I used to have to crank it all the way up to hear the narration clearly. Thank you so much for changing it, it makes these a lot more accessible!
Hey, camwoodstock! I'm really happy to hear that, because I did make changes to the audio in response to helpful feedback from viewers like you. :) Glad to hear that it's made a difference. Thank you!! :)
Super cool video! The fact that some PLMs can erase game files reminds me of the Castle Crush fatal glitch from DKC 2 where the save file can get corrupted. I wonder if it’s a similar thing happening here?
Thank you so much, David! :) That's a great question... I don't know enough about the mechanism of save file deletion/corruption to answer it, but if anyone else knows, please chime in! :) The good news is, that only happened to me once, and it was when I was blindly activating X-ray just to see what could happen lol.
Considering how these systems work, random memory writes can write to save data, because it's mapped to the address space the same way RAM is, rather than being a separate thing like on modern systems.
Watching this video, I'm intrigued by the effect where rather than PLMs that trigger during g-mode being *cancelled*, they are *queued*. Since games of this era don't have dynamic memory allocation, this seems to suggest that the PLMs you trigger during this time are being queued into a fixed size buffer somewhere. This makes me wonder whether that buffer can be forced to overflow (if they didn't think to code in a limit-reached check), which could lead to memory corruption and potentially ACE. Is it known what the maximum number of PLMs the programmers anticipated having to be queued at once was? Is it known what happens if you go into g-mode and queue one more PLM than that?
there is a limit of 50 PLMs queue iirc, you can achieve this in certain specific place without g-mode, in vanilla its the place called frog speedway (the speedbooster block between bubble mountain and the save station) if you have wave + spazer or plasma and shoot diagonally it will achieve the same thing as you are shooting what we call there trash block (and it only work with respawning blocks, non respawning blocks don't take up a slot), its only doable from right to left, so its only use is in dashless if you don't have a bluesuit or in rando, so the best way to use this is still with g-mode as the queue don't reset while in g-mode
Hey, FrenchLightningJohn and Andi Mcc! :) Those were good observations and questions, Andi, and I'm thankful FrenchLightningJohn helped answer them. I had no clue what the PLM queue limit was... 😂 But I love that Frog Speedway glitch, and I never would've thought to mention it - great example! Here's a link to a video of the glitch, by Sniq: puu.sh/CvsCT/7757bb4f62.mp4. I accidentally softlocked myself in those Speed Booster blocks once while trying that lol. As FrenchLightningJohn's example highlights, filling the PLM queue can make certain blocks non-solid. If my understanding is correct, this is what makes the reverse Lower Norfair entry possible - when the queue is filled, the bomb blocks and crumble blocks that are in the way become non-solid, allowing you to pass right through. As per TASvideos: "[G-Mode] enables control over Samus, but leaves some properties of X-Ray active - for example, the game is unable to execute any PLMs, such as crumble blocks or screen scroll controllers (which is the reason the camera doesn't follow Samus during this mode), meaning activating too many PLMs will cause the queue to fill up and make most of them nonsolid. Thus, through G-Mode, Lower Norfair is easily accessible through what is normally its exit by jumping through the nonsolid pillars and crumble blocks."
@@GoldenChorizoCode Ive definitely softlocked myself in that room before too. Hooray for randomizers! Though thanks to randomizers I've softlocked myself in other interesting ways too.
I think calling it "Ghost Mode" would be a lot more accurate than "God Mode". In Unreal, if you entered "ghost" into the console, you'd enter "Ghost Mode", which was similar to "noclip" in other games except you couldn't pick things up and you couldn't interact with some things.
Oh, I actually love the name "Ghost Mode"! You could share that idea with the person who discovered and named "G-mode" (EternisedDragon) haha, because I have no authority to change the name. ;)
reason its called god mode and not ghost mode is you can't clip wherever you want only certain block that default to air block, and also the fact that in this mode you can do a lot of powerful thing, hence why god mode instead
Oh damn! Not getting the final part right can result in a game file deletion?! Yikes… But using that final method correctly, you could get any major item early?
How does a person figure out this type of glitch without already being told about it by someone else? I remember it didn’t take long to figure out if you pressed “select” while shooting at a boss in Master Blaster the boss would still take damage while the game was paused then you pushed the same button again and the boss would be dead. That’s a glitch that required one button but these Metroid glitches sure do take a lot of steps to get right that nobody would ever think to do.
Hey, TheKleanupKrew! That's a great question. :) If you look closely at ~8:36 in my video, you'll see that prior to killing Spore Spawn, the part of the room you're referring to is actually "sealed off" at the top. Those blocks in the middle of the "ceiling" only disappear after Samus kills Spore Spawn. So, you're basically stuck in the top part of the room, unless you can find a way to kill Spore Spawn from up above.
It is amazing how this game keeps getting glitched further into insanity.
@ Do people actually have the source code for this game yet? Like, has the frog speedway glitch been fully explained yet?
This Channel reminds me a lot of nomad colossus, just one man giving the world everything a particular game has to offer.
Keep up the good work
Thank you, Red Phoenix! :) I'll do my best.
"You may remember the mini-boss spore spawn"
damn you didn't have to do spore spawn like that
I always feel like such a rookie having only beat the game once :p maybe ill try some glitches when i inevitably revisit super one day. I find these glitch toutorials very interesting
Haha, I hope you do revisit it. The game truly gets better and better the more you play through it and learn all the intricacies, even without using any glitches. Not saying glitches aren't fun, though. ;) Thanks so much for watching and commenting - I'm glad you're enjoying my videos. :)
I'm really hyped to see new destructive glitches of this game like you have no idea
This video was a lifesaver for a challenge run I recently attempted! Thanks for the comprehensive explanation.
I've noticed the audio balancing has gotten a bit better these past few videos. I used to have to crank it all the way up to hear the narration clearly. Thank you so much for changing it, it makes these a lot more accessible!
Hey, camwoodstock! I'm really happy to hear that, because I did make changes to the audio in response to helpful feedback from viewers like you. :) Glad to hear that it's made a difference. Thank you!! :)
Just when I thought I couldn't break this game any more...
SPORE SPAWN FROM ABOVE!
Haha, right? 😂 You can also do that by X-ray climbing if you so choose. :)
My friend just finished super metroid and I’m excited to show him all of these cool glitches
Nice! GG to your friend. Hope he enjoys these glitches. :)
Your content is top notch. 💪
I really appreciate that, Will. :) Cheers!
I´m listening to you and it´s like a college lesson on advanced Metroid feats and glitches
I call 11:59 the Wicked Glitch of the West; it got you *and your little dog, too!* ;)
Haha, nice. ;)
Super cool video! The fact that some PLMs can erase game files reminds me of the Castle Crush fatal glitch from DKC 2 where the save file can get corrupted. I wonder if it’s a similar thing happening here?
Thank you so much, David! :) That's a great question... I don't know enough about the mechanism of save file deletion/corruption to answer it, but if anyone else knows, please chime in! :) The good news is, that only happened to me once, and it was when I was blindly activating X-ray just to see what could happen lol.
Considering how these systems work, random memory writes can write to save data, because it's mapped to the address space the same way RAM is, rather than being a separate thing like on modern systems.
I see a new GCC video - i click
Haha, thank you for watching, Calvin! :)
Nice tutorial. Might try this out the next time that I play.
Thanks, Ishan Pahwa! :) It's a really fun glitch to play around with.
@@GoldenChorizoCode my pleasure :)
Watching this video, I'm intrigued by the effect where rather than PLMs that trigger during g-mode being *cancelled*, they are *queued*. Since games of this era don't have dynamic memory allocation, this seems to suggest that the PLMs you trigger during this time are being queued into a fixed size buffer somewhere. This makes me wonder whether that buffer can be forced to overflow (if they didn't think to code in a limit-reached check), which could lead to memory corruption and potentially ACE. Is it known what the maximum number of PLMs the programmers anticipated having to be queued at once was? Is it known what happens if you go into g-mode and queue one more PLM than that?
there is a limit of 50 PLMs queue iirc, you can achieve this in certain specific place without g-mode, in vanilla its the place called frog speedway (the speedbooster block between bubble mountain and the save station) if you have wave + spazer or plasma and shoot diagonally it will achieve the same thing as you are shooting what we call there trash block (and it only work with respawning blocks, non respawning blocks don't take up a slot), its only doable from right to left, so its only use is in dashless if you don't have a bluesuit or in rando, so the best way to use this is still with g-mode as the queue don't reset while in g-mode
Hey, FrenchLightningJohn and Andi Mcc! :) Those were good observations and questions, Andi, and I'm thankful FrenchLightningJohn helped answer them. I had no clue what the PLM queue limit was... 😂 But I love that Frog Speedway glitch, and I never would've thought to mention it - great example! Here's a link to a video of the glitch, by Sniq: puu.sh/CvsCT/7757bb4f62.mp4. I accidentally softlocked myself in those Speed Booster blocks once while trying that lol.
As FrenchLightningJohn's example highlights, filling the PLM queue can make certain blocks non-solid. If my understanding is correct, this is what makes the reverse Lower Norfair entry possible - when the queue is filled, the bomb blocks and crumble blocks that are in the way become non-solid, allowing you to pass right through.
As per TASvideos: "[G-Mode] enables control over Samus, but leaves some properties of X-Ray active - for example, the game is unable to execute any PLMs, such as crumble blocks or screen scroll controllers (which is the reason the camera doesn't follow Samus during this mode), meaning activating too many PLMs will cause the queue to fill up and make most of them nonsolid. Thus, through G-Mode, Lower Norfair is easily accessible through what is normally its exit by jumping through the nonsolid pillars and crumble blocks."
@@GoldenChorizoCode Ive definitely softlocked myself in that room before too. Hooray for randomizers! Though thanks to randomizers I've softlocked myself in other interesting ways too.
Que buenos vídeos, muy interesantes
Gracias, Mr Popo! :)
ah yes, thank you save station, thanks for giving me hyper beam
I see, so that last application (cycling through all available PLMs) is why the rule of "no artificial items" was added to challenge #2 ;)
I think calling it "Ghost Mode" would be a lot more accurate than "God Mode".
In Unreal, if you entered "ghost" into the console, you'd enter "Ghost Mode", which was similar to "noclip" in other games except you couldn't pick things up and you couldn't interact with some things.
Oh, I actually love the name "Ghost Mode"! You could share that idea with the person who discovered and named "G-mode" (EternisedDragon) haha, because I have no authority to change the name. ;)
reason its called god mode and not ghost mode is you can't clip wherever you want only certain block that default to air block, and also the fact that in this mode you can do a lot of powerful thing, hence why god mode instead
@@GoldenChorizoCode *more accurate than "God mode", my bad.
Nice to meet you!
No matter how many times I try to get the Gravity suit, I can't.
Is there a method?
11:59 lol, "tot" means "dead" in German. The game has clearly accepted its fate.
Haha! How appropriate. 😂
it also looks like a little guy flipping you off
Any suggestion to get 4 energy in reserve tank with first default ungame suit?
is there a good resource for reading more information on major glitches for this game?
wiki.supermetroid.run/Main_Page will be your best resource to start off. :)
Oh damn! Not getting the final part right can result in a game file deletion?! Yikes…
But using that final method correctly, you could get any major item early?
Love the vids
Hey Yazzy8 Plays, I'm really glad you like them. :) Thanks for watching and commenting!
How does a person figure out this type of glitch without already being told about it by someone else? I remember it didn’t take long to figure out if you pressed “select” while shooting at a boss in Master Blaster the boss would still take damage while the game was paused then you pushed the same button again and the boss would be dead. That’s a glitch that required one button but these Metroid glitches sure do take a lot of steps to get right that nobody would ever think to do.
What happens if you were to jump down into the main part of the room when you enter the spore spawn boss battle from the top?
Hey, TheKleanupKrew! That's a great question. :) If you look closely at ~8:36 in my video, you'll see that prior to killing Spore Spawn, the part of the room you're referring to is actually "sealed off" at the top. Those blocks in the middle of the "ceiling" only disappear after Samus kills Spore Spawn. So, you're basically stuck in the top part of the room, unless you can find a way to kill Spore Spawn from up above.
@@GoldenChorizoCode ohhhhh man I forgot about the blocks that disappear! That makes total sense. I appreciate the response :)
Welp I gotta bust out my snes I wanna try this, so awesome
Do it, SuikodenPlayer! :) It's a really fun glitch to play around with.
Will all these glitches work on emulators?
Hey, skrface13! Yup, all of this should work just fine on emulators. :)
mmmm sweet delicious metroid glitches
It's peak season for Metroid glitches - late summer/early fall.
@@GoldenChorizoCode im eager to see how the Dread harverst will treat us
The save file killing plm fills the screen with "ot" on repeat, "tot" is the german word for dead, funny how things work out sometimes.
Amazing
Thanks, Brian! :)
Cool
Thank you, P & P! :)
@@GoldenChorizoCode your welcome
Bruh I got stuck in norfair
How so?
I tried going through the green gate on the left and messed up big time, i realized I was soft locked! Because you needed the speed booster
@@user-qp7td6ov5v Are you talking about the green gate at 9:25 in the video?
@@GoldenChorizoCode no i meant the door
@@GoldenChorizoCode i forgot it was a door