104% New Route Tutorial

This tutorial showcases the new route of 104% Item Collection. I hope this helps!

Things to note in this route:

- Early X-Ray
- Rerouted Maridia
- Early Plasma
- X-Ray kill of Draygon and Botwoon
- Updated tech as well as alternate strats for beginners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkhoD_cB1u8&lc=z22pup1p1mnwd12cxacdp434awanwgzvqouvztv3nq5w03c010c

104% Tutorial and FAQ (Safe Strats, 0.7.2 version, Route is a bit old)

Project Base FAQ - 104%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m3_rpmNCLA
 
Q:  What is Super Metroid: Project Base?
 - Project Base is a ROM hack of Super Metroid that keeps the original map mostly intact, while adding new stuff. Well-known sequence breaks and shortcuts have been left alone, with many new ones added. Highly speedrunnable, and with a level of difficulty that is accessible to anyone. Easy to learn, Difficult to master.
   
 - General movement is less inhibited, with many new tricks made possible. Respin in midair, backflips, momentum keeping from a jump, just to name a few.
 - Modified enemies and bosses, including AI and graphical touch-ups
 - Faster elevators, doors, room transitions and item-collection sequences (no fanfare!)
- Bug fixes and polish applied whenever possible
- New rooms added, others expanded and/or merged
 
 
Q: Why is it called 104%? Isn't it 100%?
-The Short Answer: 104% is what the game says at the end when you get all the items. So that's what we call it.

-The long answer: When thebegrimed1 was editing this hack, in recent versions he took out map stations in the game and replaced them with extra missile tanks. Every missile tank is 5 missiler per pack, so Instead of 230 Missiles, there are 250, making 4 extra missile packs total. The percentage counter in the game, in terms of programming, is not actually a percentage counter, but an item counter. In the original Super Metroid, there are exactly 100 items to pick up, so for each item you collect, it's "1%". Since there are 4 extra missile tanks in this romhack, as mentioned before, this bumps the total item collection counter to 104, and thus "104%" is 100% item collection. 
 
 
Q: Are you required to fill in the map for 104%?
-Nope, the only requirements for this category are collecting all the items from the map in their respective locations, and then beating the game.
 
 
Q: Why do you kill sporespawn? Can't you skip that boss?
-No, in this version, the supers from sporespawn are locked behind a door that only opens when you kill sporespawn.


Q: Do you need to Save The Animals™ to achieve 104%?
-No. Again, all you are required to do is collect every item, and then beat the game.


Q: Are you allowed to use the GT Code to complete this category?
-No. You must collect each item from their respective location.


Q: Are glitches allowed in this category?
-Yes. Many are used, such as Zebetite Skip, Reverse Maridia Tube Clip, PBK Clip, and Short Charging.


Q: How are you doing manual damage boosts/backflips?
-That is achieved by holding down the run button and jump button pre-emptively, then holding down on the d-pad, and rolling the d-pad  in the opposite direction which samus is facing. Basically, a backwards hadouken. So for example, if samus is facing right, you hold run and jump, then hold down (you should be crouching) and roll your controller from down to left.


Q: Your game's colors and another runner's game colors are different from each other, why is that?
-Project Base 0.7.2 has 2 color palettes: Regular Palettes, and Vanilla Palettes. Regular Palettes recolor the entire game to differentiate this romhack from its vanilla counterpart, while Vanilla Palettes keeps the colors and tilesets of the original game (mostly) intact. Both versions run at the same speed, and are therefore allowed. 


Q: Is the Justin Bailey mod for this romhack allowed?
-No, as it modifies samus's hitbox, in such a way that many rooms become easier to do optimally, and therefore gives an unfair advantage over the base game.
 
 
Where can I get this romhack?
-begrimed.com/pb
 
 
Where can I find the leaderboards?
-speedrun.com/smpb

Any% Tutorial by Stealinbread (Beginner Strats)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQLUJv4HmA

Before you try your hand at speedrunning or even just playing this game, I highly recommend playing the original game first, Super Metroid. It is a masterpiece, and everyone should experience it. You will appreciate this romhack much more once you have done so.

What is Super Metroid: Project Base?
- Project Base is a ROM hack of Super Metroid that keeps the original map mostly intact, while adding new stuff. It doesn't force the player to take a new path, or to use any advanced techniques. Well-known sequence breaks and shortcuts have been left alone, with many new ones added. Highly speedrunnable, and with a level of difficulty that is accessible to anyone.

- General movement is less inhibited, with many new tricks made possible. Respin in midair, backflips, momentum keeping from a jump, just to name a few.
- Modified enemies and bosses, including AI and graphical touch-ups
- Faster elevators, doors, room transitions and item-collection sequences (no fanfare!)
- Bug fixes and polish applied whenever possible
- New rooms added, others expanded and/or merged

Are glitches allowed in this category? 
-Yes. Many are used, such as Zebetite Skip, PBK Clip, and Short Charging. 

How are you doing manual damage boosts/backflips? 
-That is achieved by holding down the run button and jump button pre-emptively, then holding down on the d-pad, and rolling the d-pad in the opposite direction which samus is facing. Basically, a backwards hadouken. So for example, if samus is facing right, you hold run and jump, then hold down (you should be crouching) and roll your controller from down to left. 

Your game's colors and another runner's game colors are different from each other, why is that? 
-Project Base 0.7.2 has 2 color palettes: Regular Palettes, and Vanilla Palettes. Regular Palettes recolor the entire game to differentiate this romhack from its vanilla counterpart, while Vanilla Palettes keeps the colors and tilesets of the original game (mostly) intact. 

Where can I get this romhack? 
-begrimed.com/pb 
 
How does the any% route differ from the original game?
- The first thing to note is that with the physics changes, the way you approach many rooms optimally is going to be different than the way vanilla's rooms are done. There are lots of little things you can do to save time not mentioned here.
- Bomb Torizo can be skipped by backflipping out of the room, right after you get bombs, within a 3 frame window. This saves around 15-20 seconds.
- Generally you get super early power bombs by using PBK Clip (Powerbombs Before Kraid), and then behind kraid is a power bomb door that lets you access speed booster and wave beam without having to go the long way around.
-Up towards phantoon there are a couple of shinesparks not possible with vanilla
- Phantoon has less RNG but still enough to kill a WR pace run
- After Phantoon there are more time-saving shinesparks, also not possible with vanilla
- You can enter maridia through a back way to the right of the hellway room, instead of having to go through the hellway again, all the way down, & break the tube
- You can also skip botwoon quite easily
- On the way to draygon the map is a bit different, there's no "full halfie" anymore. There are a couple of different ways to get to draygon, one which is standard for most runners, and "backdoor draygon", which saves 20 seconds but requires precise placement, shooting a super missile, and sparking diagonally right after.
- Shinesparks do considerably less damage to draygon in this game. Extra supers are used in this route to end the fight quickly.
- There's a shortcut from maridia all the way to norfair, and it takes considerably less time than in vanilla.
-Norfair is pretty much the same, except you enter it via the back way, and exit it through the front after ridley.
-On the way to tourian from norfair there is a series of difficult shinesparks which all save a ton of time if done correctly.
-Tourian is about the same, except you do the baby metroid skip much differently.
-The escape is the same as well.
 
Why not do phantoon first then?
-The Project Base community has timed it out, and found that it is objectively slower by about 3 minutes, because having speed booster as early as possible in this game saves more time than getting gravity first and being without it for that much longer.
-In wrecked ship especially, there is a shinespark referred to as the "apollo spark", where you can just fly to the top, because there are some breakable speed blocks on the way up. This is obviously faster than going up without speed booster. There are many, many more instances of this throughout the game, as well as some back-ways into maridia and norfair that are faster than their vanilla counterparts.
-The sum of all these tricks, shortcuts, and backdoors make for an overall faster time than the current fastest route in the original game.

Any% Tutorial by StuntCoyote (Advanced Strats)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwvHr4neo5E

BOSS Tutorial - Draygon

BOSS Tutorial - Phantoon

EASY early Powerbombs (0.7.2 only, No PBK Clip or red tower climb required)

PBK Clip Tutorial (Powerbombs Before Kraid) with controller display

Shinesparking Tutorial

Stand up Glitch Tutorial ('HYPElectra Spark')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4SEOBOBC4

The Archives - SMPB History

Project Base Q&A with runners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmqa2iEkp3s


Dessyreqt's theory TAS of 0.7. This is definitely worth a watch. It uses an old, outdated route, but still holds up pretty well. PBK clip was not yet discovered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzo3LPJkYUk


This is the first known RTA run, by StuntCoyote on May 2, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjQqvxA4TM


a 6 way race, which includes Dessyreqt. It's interesting to see how strats and tech has evolved since then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSzuEgqCiFk


One of the first skips ever discovered was Bomb Torizo Skip by StuntCoyote, or just BT Skip for short. Using the backflip technique, you have a 3 frame window to escape the room immediately after grabbing the bomb upgrade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk4cbmcLlTc


Botwoon skip was (easily) found by Stuntcoyote. Various other ceilings with sand pits in maridia were found to be useful, which skipped door animations and saved a bunch of time as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKe-bkWVECA


Jun 3, 2014: the Green Chozo Room easter egg was found. This was speculated to be an unfinished new area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb5_b5LD8ZA


Glass tube clip was found by StuntCoyote, which was later discovered to be easier. You can literally just stand still and spark up, and it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoSmpVU7zwg


This trick, found by Adjsart in August of 2014, revolutionized Project Base Speedrunning. No longer would we have to get powerbombs in red tower before kraid. This trick saved a bunch of time (roughly 40-50 seconds) and is sort of the entry barrier for all new runners of this game. We call this Powerbombs-Before-Kraid Clip, or PBK clip for short.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTWj-vCPTSc

Kraid Quick kill initially was thought to be "patched out" by this romhack, but StuntCoyote once again found a way to do it a bit differently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4qWjQMXrWw


By around the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015, more people started picking up this game. Notable runners during this time include Gigahari, LinkaMeister, Hubert0987, and stealinbread. In addition to Any%, a multitude of different categories were routed out and the community started a leaderboard, and began doing weekly races and further optimization with route planning & changes.


"TAS" Kraid was found much later to be possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTivVFP2xs


A compilation of various speed tricks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRG9AWy7IZE


Moonspark, discovered by Moe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goYYnwtu8B0


Draygon backdoor found by LinkaMeister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcH2EGV_APk


Waveless zeb skip discovered by xsczo, which made low% ice possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YntWdyIVWrA


One-cycle spore spawn strat for 104% (in 0.7.2) found by xsczo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jkGA17dTI

Zebetite Skip Video Guide & Simplified Text Instructions

https://youtu.be/On5WGM1YX_A

Brief description:
1. Freeze the rinka
  
2. stand next to the zebetite, and hold [Left] and [Run]
  
3. get damaged (by the zeb, or another rinka, or a small projectile)
  
4. after getting damaged, do a VERY SLIGHT, VERY LOW Spinjump, and land. You have to do this DURING your i-frames from getting damaged (which is when you are flickering/transparent)
  
5. IMMEDIATELY after landing, hold [Left] and [Run], and LIGHTLY TAP [Jump] until you get through. This will allow you to be "standing" on the zebetite, almost inside of it, and repeatedly tapping will let you clip through.

This takes a little bit of finesse, a lot of practice, and a lot of getting used to. Don't give up, you can do it!

Name	Author
104% New Route Tutorial	Stunt_MK 6 years ago
104% Tutorial and FAQ (Safe Strats, 0.7.2 version, Route is a bit old)	Deleted 6 years ago
Any% Tutorial by Stealinbread (Beginner Strats)	Deleted 6 years ago
Any% Tutorial by StuntCoyote (Advanced Strats)	Deleted 8 years ago
BOSS Tutorial - Draygon	Deleted 6 years ago
BOSS Tutorial - Phantoon	Deleted 6 years ago
EASY early Powerbombs (0.7.2 only, No PBK Clip or red tower climb required)	Deleted 6 years ago
PBK Clip Tutorial (Powerbombs Before Kraid) with controller display	Deleted 7 years ago
Shinesparking Tutorial	Deleted 6 years ago
Stand up Glitch Tutorial ('HYPElectra Spark')	Electra13x7777 6 years ago
The Archives - SMPB History	Deleted 6 years ago
Zebetite Skip Video Guide & Simplified Text Instructions	Deleted 6 years ago