CALFoolio 1:46 run notes

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CALFoolio 1:46 notes

Segment 1:
Stands still to shoot the targets, which is wild lol

NO dash jumping at all (!!! which is alarming because Dash Jumping was discovered Feb 27, 2003)

Doesn’t skip the first elevator cutscene (actually slower but people used to do this)

L jumping which is good

Rolls through biohazard

Kills turret in CFLTDG

Elects not to save before Parasite Queen, which would generally be the norm for these runs

Scans PQ (!!!!!)

Inbounds frigate, of course

Actually pretty good movement for 2003 honestly. Almost 6:50 elevator scan

Walking without holding L (!?)

Lots of L jumping which is good but no strafing

5 minute Ridley cutscene which is really good for early 2003

Fast grapple!

Rolls through electricity which is surprising

No elevator dash of course, no strafing in squiggly room

4:13 escape time

Segment 2:

5 minute Tallon time (actually good for 2003)

No SJF

Strafes into elevator but nowhere else (why)

Has to go to Hive Mecha for missiles which is rough

Slow all around compared to current day strats

Holy crap fights hive mecha lol

Energy tank from HM

Sneaks behind the pillar for speed hah

Actually fights the beetle!

Long way around main plaza because he has to, also falls once

Getting charge beam, gets the fast missile

Actually decent scans

Doesn’t roll through watery hall access (or much in general it seems)

Shoots the blast caps in Gathering Hall

Edgy jump to save a morph+unmorph

Can’t Space Jump onto ID/doesnt know you can ghetto onto it

Actually fast ID luck though lol

Burn dome missiles

Furnace puzzle because you have to at this point and for the foreseeable future

Doesn’t save before Flaahgra/not sure what happened in Arboretum

No ‘genius’ strat for flaahgra, was figured out in 2004 if I recall correctly

Takes damage to the last tentacle accidentally

Misses jump to door and jump across water lol

No early wild!

Goes for an energy tank/space jump before Magmoor instead of going directly into Magmoor for Nature

Segment 3:

Oh boy early Space Jump. This trick is hard. He does it in 12 tries and gets a missile after. Not terrible

Segment 4:

Another missile in transport tunnel

Morph ball through the safe area, then walks into lava

Kills all the turrets in Monitor Station which is really slow

Interesting strat to skip the platform and save time

Doesn’t save in-game time using the cutscene trick here

Boost ball first, as is the standard in any%

Just jumps to the bottom of Phendrana canyon lol, but an interesting strat to get onto the bridge that i’ve never seen before

Falls down once in Chozo Ice Temple

Slightly slow morph puzzle (correct strat though)

Actually good baby sheegoths, sorta slow adult though

No dashes so we jump into lava, on the way to Ice Beam (this was the FAST route at the time)

L jumps in extremely tight spots, slow

Still kills blast caps

Gathering Hall missile

Clipping trick on the spider ball track (discovered after the TBJ method)

Walks to the edge of Crossway halfpipe to boost instead of just rolling

E A R L Y I C E

Uses wave path instead of TBJ to hole (slow)

Boosts in Reflecting pool

Segment 5:

Fast missile in overgrown cavern

Slow Frigate Crash Site because no dashing

Doesn’t use morph ball to fall faster in Root Cave

Let’s go to Magmoor!

Skipping spider in Twin Fires Tunnel! Double bomb jump method but still. Diverges from current any% route again

Early plasma beam, one of the first real sequence breaks in the game

Early plasma ghetto first try (!)

Close to death here

Segment 6:

Spider was still obtained in any%, and will be for quite some time (till about 2014)

Uses bombs on thardus which is fast, doesn’t go for snipes (which is slow)

Takes tons of damage for whatever reason even though the bombs have a huge radius (also for whatever reason)

Goes forward through labs for Elder (literally only because they hadn’t figured out Edward, as far as I know)

Scans the elevator in Hydra (????)

Can’t skip any of the puzzle in Observatory which is reaaaaaaally slow

Does them appreciably well though

NEEDS supers for Wild (and also later on Metroid Prime the boss)

Pirate battle skip was NOT discovered at this point, so we watch this fight (although it’s mercifully fast with plasma)

Elder the normal way

Bad movement during this all

There was a lot of discussion how the Metroid would not escape the tube; this is because you need to make the Metroid escape the tube.

Gets thermal visor because it’s fast (!! Good routing even back then)

Ignores ‘backward through the labs’ which is merciful

Absurdly careful in Frost Cave

DEVILBIT’s Grapple skip in Phendrana’s Edge (Got to get a power bomb first though)

Slow Frozen Pike because jumping was bad in 2003

Segment 7:

amusingly careful Phazon Processing Center

No Elite Skip because it wasn’t discovered until quite a bit later

Supers on elite though which is… something else

Bad strategy for loading Central Dynamo Access

Super on Invisible drone LOL

Slow maze

Really slow CD because climbs weren’t known I suppose?

Turns off the gas with boost? Strange

Got confused in Elite Control

Doesn’t use the fast strat that Kip specially mentioned a couple months before this was submitted in Ore Processing Center, not sure why (gets grapple beam because Fungal Hall A was considered hard at the time)

Decent Waste Disposal movement

Doesn’t boost through elevator room after phazon

No platform skip in Great Tree Hall

Goes to get World before X Ray, has some trouble navigating Hall of the Elders

No fast missile in Life Grove Tunnel

Ghost fight skip (FIRST TRY!) Probably one of the hardest things actually done in this world record up until this point except for early Space Jump

Big Pirate strafing hadn’t been discovered at this point I suppose

Fights all the enemies in Elite Research

Puzzle is already solved in Ore Processing Center which is actually fast, I suppose

Gets missile in Elite Control Access

Under the floor in Quarantine Access

Uses ice on metroids instead of plasma. Don’t believe Metroid Quarantine A was solved quite yet

Missile in Fungal Hall Acess

Ignores metroids in Fungal Hall B which is fast but messes it up lol

Consolation missile expansion

Uses spider in Metroid Quarantine B slowly even though it was solved for everything at this point

Almost dies

Segment 9:

Literally no Omega Pirate strats were developed at this point, so this fight is a bit of agony. Doesn’t even seem like they understand how his spawning works but gets a 1 cycle because Supers

Heads back for newborn, which was the route until 2017 (!) apparently amasawa had gotten it without Phazon suit and with 14 energy tanks by January of 2003 which surprised me

You can tell ghetto jumps weren’t very well understood at this point

Tries to lure all the metroids in for a hug but doesn’t have any powerbombs, uses plasma on them now

Banks phazon jump strat

Phazon Processing Center is slow because he elects to kill literally everything

Shoots one of the pirates off the platform intentionally to make the fight quicker, though

Segment 10:

Cross Thardus to get to Sun (Faster to get it now since we have to track through Magmoor anyway) but I’m not sure it’s faster than going through Magmoor and getting sun at the end

Powerbomb expansion

Gets strength at the end (uses boost ball spinner too)

Gets ice spreader which you don’t see since route changes in about 2011 I believe

Finally getting nature (not sure why not the first time around but hey)

No early wild, so we have to do this climb instead, doesn’t kill wasps and waste time but does wait for eyons for whatever reason

Good ghost strats actually ( :D )

Wild boosting is fun but slow usually

doesn’t understand morphing into walls on the piston will cause it to drop down again

Lifegiver extremely late compared to today’s route, gravity has been skipped

Still doesn’t hold L while walking which is sad

Segment 11:

Supers on Ridley because why not

Boosting Ridley hadn’t been discovered yet? So we get an extremely long fight

Doesn’t know how to snipe ridley’s mouth to skip some timeloss

Segment 12:

Extremely slow Impact crater and missile refill station

Supers on prime in any%! Neat

Ice Spreader on prime in any%! Even more neat

Doesn’t seem to know about tractor beam cancel

Also does not know about the Exo snipes that were discovered in 2013/2014ish

Actually collected thermal for the essence fight which I thought was interesting

Doesn’t know to not move at the start of the fight, doesn’t know about the pool hopping (Which could have saved him one whole pool)

End game. Timer is 1:46. First run of Metroid Prime with proof.