there is a romhack leaderboard for super metroid, https://www.speedrun.com/supermetroidhacks if you have made an any% run you can post in the forum post there so the moderator of the romhack leaderboard can add it

i'm following on nick footstep because i also can KEKW

if you need help to learn zebbetite skip you can either ask in the SM speedrunning discord for detailed help or watch some tutorial in the SM wikipedia about it https://wiki.supermetroid.run/Main_Page , its not something that will be easy to learn but once you get it and it click it become a lot easier to do again

the intro cutscene give samus actual missiles to shoot at MB, after that cutscene the game remove all missiles from samus, so that's why you have none when you are in ceres and return to zebes

you don't have to botch a run, you open the emulator you reset at the main screen so we can all see the reset and you can do your run, easy as that

if you put a NTSC rom into a PAL console it will run at 50 FPS, likewise a PAL rom in a NTSC console will run at 60 FPS and in the case of SM PAL on NTSC is faster due to the change of physics they made to try to compensate for the 50 FPS of PAL and also not allowed for any category (except for PAL on NTSC category)

if you click on view rules there are 2 thing about emulator that is written

-ZSNES & SNES9x 1.43 and lower are banned. -The run-ahead feature in RetroArch is banned.

its not grappling croc that deal DMG but its the fact you are close to croc that deal DMG, basically his claw

zebetites because they regenerate need 11 missiles to kill, in a 14% situation you only have 10/10, so you need to clip and not get sniped (the pure min is 9/9 for MB), that's why i talked about low% glitchless which would be 15% speed because of both botwoon and the zebetites (speed for botwoon and an extra ammo pack for the zebetites)

if you want to do glitchless then you want to do 15% which take speedbooster to cross botwoon and also useful for moat and has 10 missiles and 10 super as base and you either choose to go with 15 missiles of 15 super because of the zebetites, i would advise 15 super mainly because of the ridley fight, but you need to be wary about your super use in tourian as you can softlock while 15 missiles you have less chance to softlock but you can still softlock because of your super count, but make the killing of the zebetites easier as you don't have to worry about being sniped

you can enter the tube without breaking it, if you morph and go to the far right unmorph and move you will clip into the tube

in PAL there is one you can do at the top of red tower, its a really hard one and you need to get all 3 zero near and freeze them to make you at the right height to then run and shoot at the right frame to get the super on the other side, only gate that you can do in vanilla (with the one tex said), but its very slow to set-up so it has no real application sadly in any kind of runs

some would say male some would say female, i say female because she has babies with her

you can't use plasma SBA on botwoon due to the fact you need to kill draygon to get plasma and to get to draygon you need to kill botwoon, also plasma SBA deal a ton less DMG than a plasma/ice/wave charge shot, a charge shot take 1s to shoot for 900 DMG while a SBA take 2s to activate to deal 300 DMG per partile and if it hit ridley tails it dissapear, you have the chance to dealing 1200 DMG max, in 2s with normal charge shot you can deal 1800 DMG, so totally not worth

x-factor is more of a speedrun strat, also you don't use x-factor when phantoon open his eye, you hurt him then plan your x-factoc acording to where he will try to ram you there are tutorial on that here https://wiki.supermetroid.run/Main_Page and here https://crocomi.re/

he didn't say plasma SBA but x-factor which is wave SBA, and also he made a mistake by saying its the equivalent of 4 charge shot (everybody make mistake it happens) x-factor particle deal 300 DMG per particle so yes 1200, but wave charge shot is 150 DMG, maybe he was talking the equivalent of ice/wave/spazer charge shot which is 300 DMG also a posibility, just to say plasma deal 150 alone, a charge shot is 450 so not really useful since when you have plasma you have ice and wave normally with it, togheter with plasma it deal 300 DMG, 900 charge

spazer SBA is only usefull as a safety for phantoon for GT max%, plasma SBA as no use, ice SBA is only usefull in a 14% category that use ice beam, the most useful one is wave SBA where it is use on 3 boss and depending of the route and category, old route aka KPDR use it for phantoon, botwoon and draygon, while new route aka PRKD use it for ridley, botwoon and draygon

also all SBA except ice one deal 300 DMG per particle, while ice one deal 90 per particle (the DMG of a ice charge shot) if you want to know more about all of those the SM discord can be an easier place to ask question and the wiki as plenty of info for that, also watching speedrun might help you know where they are the most optimal to use

the baby metroid is the metroid samus didn't kill at the end of metroid II, she was about to destroy the egg when it hatched and the metroid when seeing samus took it for its mother, so she take it to ceres station and when it drain samus for dramatic reason it only recognize samus at the last moment, and help her agains mother brain as it want to save its mom

also you may want to do kraid, phantoon, draygon then ridley in this order in term of boss, as you need some item in some place before being able to get the other, speedbooster for wrecked ship reserve, and space jump for golden torizo missiles, and that place which has crumble block to help you get it, morph and hold jump, with springball it will auto jump on crumble block making it very easy to cross it, also with plasma GT and ridley are more easy to beat, GT also has a cheese spot to kill him quickly and without trouble, you might want to see a speedrun for that making it a ton easier to kill him

9% hard is european exclusive, 9% normal and easy can be done on US and JP version

when entering ceres escape time you have to put it under IGT not RTA here is the rule if you had read them

-Your time is IGT only, corresponding to the remaining time left on the displayed IGT while the screen blacks out while exiting Ceres.