--LINKS--
the tutorial i wrote this pastebin for - http://www.twitch.tv/zoasty/c/3574041
Golden's any% tutorial - http://www.twitch.tv/go1den/c/845916
Kassiuz any% through power bombs tutorial - http://www.twitch.tv/kassiuz/c/1454566
Garrison's phantoon tutorial (starts at "moving your lady") - http://deanyd.net/sm/index.php?title=Phantoon
DbX phantoon tutorial - http://www.twitch.tv/dbx/c/3141111
Mackemagi phantoon flame lame backup tutorial - http://www.twitch.tv/mackemagi/c/2158081
Mackemagi draygon tutorial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jipQ3Id1bPI

--TIMELINE--

GAME MECHANICS
02:10 wall jumping
04:15 mockballs, bounceballs, etc.
10:00 ledgegrabbing and hitboxes
14:10 armpumping, stop on a dime, elevator grabs
16:00 quickdropping and kagoing
20:35 damage boosting
22:08 psuedo screw
22:55 short charging and shinesparking
38:40 downbacks
40:10 walljump checks and grabs, spinjump after a door
42:20 random mechanics, mostly not useful for any%... crystal flashing, glitched beams
51:35 setting up a save file for speedrunning, shoutouts to other tutorials

ROOM BY ROOM EXPLANATIONS
54:00 ceres station
1:02:15 touchdown (zebes)
1:11:07 pits and climb
1:16:13 bomb torizo fight
1:20:15 alcatraz, terminator
1:27:10 early super mockball
1:38:45 into red brinstar
1:46:07 kraid quick kill
2:00:15 into norfair
2:07:58 bubble mountain
2:15:20 ammo management coming out of norfair
2:34:20 red climb (you might want to get ice anyway to use on phantoon if you can't x-factor at all)
2:46:45 ocean fly
3:01:35 phantoon
3:39:30 the attic
4:00:40 impulse mockball
4:12:40 into maridia
4:18:25 botwoon, full halfie
4:25:45 draygon
4:50:15 ice beam area
5:16:15 into lower norfair
5:26:20 ridley
5:43:50 lower norfair escape through gold4
6:07:50 metroids rooms
6:17:45 big metroid skip
6:35:25 zebetite glitch/skip
6:42:15 mother brain 2
6:47:45 mother brain 3
6:49:30 escape!