Super Metroid 12% notes

These notes were based on Sniq's 12% hitbox video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pROD5Ago4EE

And are also a companion to my own hitbox video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3uexv4Eke0

Morph - 1
Missiles - 2
Save, load, doorskip to PBs (method shown in 3%/4% runs) - 3
Terminator e-tank - 4
Early Supers - 5
Brinstar Reserve - 6 (or substitute with Kraid Tank)
Etecoon Supers - 7
Etecoon e-tank - 8
Farm beetoms on the way out
Spore spawn supers - 9
Charge - 10
X-ray - 11
Kraid, Varia - 12
Use Nova for ball boost up Pre-Cathedral. Sniq's walljump method is tough, Reserve double-hit. PB jump combined with a Reserve hit is easier.
Doorstuck in Single Chamber, turn off morph, X-climb to the ceiling
Run right, the 10th full time samus is mid-screen, jump
This should put you next to the second bomb pillar
Walljump over it, jump over the short pillars, you'll be under the crumble blocks
Walljump over the wall left of the crumble blocks, fall down next to the door
If the screen scrolled right at all, probably want to run back and forth to fix the scroll before going through the door
Open it, walk to the door, get back in-bounds
Alternative setup: x-ray climb MOST of the way up, WALK to the right, then only hold dash once you want to clip through the ceiling down to the door. Downside: do it wrong and softlock.
Go fight Ridley
Kihunter shaft, unmorph, wait for the bomb blocks to respawn, and do an x-ray forced stand
Need to farm at least one Alcoon to get through the bomb pillars
Nova can ball-boost you up the top-left of Pre-Cathedral. Low Ice walljumps are faster though.
Landing Site OOB has to have been in memory to clear out crash blocks. If it hasn't been, save, reset, and play the intro.
Mockball past the ice gates, down crumble shaft into Croc Speedway, then go back up. Farm mini-desgeegas for PBs.
Right of Main Street, open the green gate, close it and move into it
Turn off morph, X-climb up
Scroll left until the left door is on screen, line up with the crest of the hill just to the right of the door
Autospinjump left, keep walljumping up
Run left for a long time, jumping over solid blocks you run into
After you run into water, run right until you wrap once, and Samus' head is at the middle of the screen when you jump
Move left until Samus is halfway on the left edge of the screen
Bunny-hop left, you should land on a platform
Bunny-hop right, land on top of the sloped block
Tap left until you drop to the shorter part of the block
Move right into the corner
Walljump off the left side of the block a few tiles above you, then hold right
Should enter into a transition to Cac Alley
Enter post-Botwoon room, farm, turn off morph, then X-climb up Halfie Climb Room
Be careful to x-ray in one direction, with the wall on your left when you pass doors, and the wall on your right otherwise
After the third time past the door, you can safely x-climb in both directions
Run right, jumping the two times you drop down through a non-solid block
The third time you drop, you should be at the door to Colosseum, open it, go through back inbounds, then back into Halfie Climb
Get doorstuck in Colosseum, x-climb out of bounds
Run right, you'll drop down around the time the camera fully scrolls right
Turn off charge
Move right until aiming the x-ray straight down puts it just past the start of the save-door ledge
Crouch and uncrouch, which should move you up a few pixels
Hold shoot and right (with no Dash) for 28 shots
X-ray turn left, and buffer movement left with x-ray until the scope beam goes wider
Run left for a second, then right, fall next to the save room door. Super it open
Farm supers from mocktroids, missile the eye door open. Super the turrets.
After enough damage to Draygon, get carried to the top-right and put in 59 dpad inputs
At the top, get ungrabbed and finish Dray off
X-climb out of Precious Room
X-climb up Colosseum
Save and reset
X-climb up Colosseum
Fall left into the "hole" of non-solid blocks, run left until you transition
Spawn in the ceiling of Halfie Climb, jump on top of the ceiling
Walk left until you fall off (the 0,0 position sound will happen)
Hold right briefly against the wall, then let go before you hit the door
Land, hold right then left, let go
Land, hold left then right
Land, hold left then right
Spawn on the left side of a Post-Botwoon copy. Jump right a few times, land in the quicksand, transition inbounds
From Aqueduct, go in the left sandpit. Need to be careful when jumping on top of the right-side sand
In West Sand Hole, overshoot the transition, then inch right into the hole, once you start sinking further hold left so you transition at the far left
Neutral on dpad as the room loads, holding Jump.
Float down a little, then hold left once a particle hits you, like a dboost rhythm
Jump to the second pillar
Use an Evir particle while you're at the peak of a jump to boost from the second pillar to the first floating block
The jump should be a Crouch-jump 6 beats from the last particle hit
Land on the floating block, use run speed to jump to the second floating block
Jump on the right side of the column of water before the next pillar, unspin
Spinjump left as you land
Spinjump from the pillar to the sand before the longer platform
Falling in the sand from here is fine -- roll/jump to the platform, then do a crouch-jump to get out
Save below the tube, reset
X-climb using the green gate
After getting past the ceiling, walk right til you stop
Crouchjump-downgrab on top of the block
Line up facing left so your front foot is touching the gate, and the back foot is visible
Crouchjump-morph-unmorph to expand into a transition block to Pseudo Plasma Spark Room
On the eighth notes of the music, it can be crouch-jump on 1, quick morph, and unmorph on 3.
The hitbox expansion needs to be as Samus is still technically morphed, then unmorphs after the transition. Maybe oscillator collision as to whether it works?
Turn off morph
X-ray climb a door's height above the door. Jump out, then morph, roll right.
Hop over 3 small blocks in front of you
Hop on a 4th small block, morph, and roll right
PB jump over the next block
Face left, autospinjump right into the gap, the roll right
Hop through the next gap
5 more small blocks to jump over
After the fifth, you're even with the wall sprite
Hold right to transition
Turn off morph
X-ray climb out of the ground in Plasma Spark Room
Go up and around to the Forgotten Highway sand room door
Do not get grabbed by the yapping maw
Get to the Save Room, save and reset to fix the graphics
Farm PBs from Kagos
In East Ocean, fall straight down to avoid the pancake, jump over the first fish pit
Ball boost using the second fish. Crouch jump when the fish is centered over the large dark coral piece in the background
Jump over the third fish. Can jump from there to the scaffolding, or go around.
PB jump over the pit with the third pancake
-Stand near the left edge, lay the PB fully above the water
After Phantoon, airball over the Moat missile, or go under for safety. Need to have two PBs leaving phantoon to do this.
Sniq's video goes down to Green Brinstar Elevator Room, then back up. Alternative is to go down to The Climb, and go back up. Either way, then head to G4
Climb setup has more solid blocks in the way, but is likely faster overall. Green Brin setup is pretty clean.
Farm kagos to enter Tourian at full
Save? Loading a save here will have tons of uninitialized blocks, so we may want to rely on a Ship save with a Green Brin trip each time we load.
Get doorstuck in the first Tourian door, X-climb up
Disable Charge
Run right til you fall, go until you're at the ground below the door
Run left and shoot, spinjump on the 4th shot, walljump up, keep running right
Repeat this again
Repeat this again, but don't just run right once you're on top
Line up horizontally with the tile in front of the door, jump a bit to the right, hit the transition from the right
One setup for this: bunny hop right, then bunny hop left
Kill Room 2 metroids with Power Bombs. This route relies on a PB drop from them. :/ The 8% route that x-climbed Room 4 is probably not possible because we can't IBJ to the transition
Get doorstuck, X-climb up Room 3
Run right til you fall, jump and go right until you're just above the door sprite
Walljump around it
Repeat this again
Third door will have exposed transition blocks, need to jump clear over them
One setup if you used the Climb normalization: drop to the floor below the door. Bunny hop right, bunny hop left, bunny hop right twice.
Setup for the Green Brin normalization: bunny hop left, then jump and tap right until you land on the platform. Then bunny hop right.
Fourth door has no overhang. Jump on top of the edge, then walk into the transition
Morph and PBs selected helps, kill the Room 4 Metroids
If using a Reserve Tank, it must be FULL by the time you exit the Blue Hopper Room
Optionally can Super the eye door
X-climb in MB's room -- one additional instance after Samus' feet are no longer visible below the ceiling
Stutter-walk left until you're past the zebetite, then run left to fall
This zeb skip is very difficult, because you can't take more than 4 hits from Rinkas, your iframes run out while x-ray is active, taking a rinka hit while standing will knock you out of the wall, and the beam's cooldown is affected by xray
Kill MB, win game