Learn to Speedrun Super Metroid | Short Charge

all right you guys want that uh tutorial tutorial on short charging all right so let me uh start this off by saying what i'm gonna be teaching you is how to do this except in a much shorter distance so you can see speed runners sometimes speed runners like they'll get it in a crazy short distance like from here to here uh like i said normally it's like one two three posts it's about three posts that you can get in currently this is a really good practice spot by the way this area uh going to taurean uh okay so let me let me start by telling you how short charging works in the first place there are checks that the game does when you run normally there are four checks total there are four of them and then with if all four of those are met you're still holding run then you will get your short charge or your your your blue suit which you can use to shine spark those checks are let me turn let me do this well as i was saying those checks are during one certain frame so you have to understand how this works first let me turn on something it's called magic pants and magic pants allows you to see what frame it is okay so i'm going to slow it down frame by frame so you can get an understanding of what we're actually doing like speed runners when we try to short charge so if we're going to do frame by frame i'm gonna hold forward and you're gonna see samus light up so on the frame coming up this frame right here that is the frame that the game checks to make sure that you're holding run in order for a blue suit to activate so because the game does that what we do with spinner speedrunners is we exploit this frame by only tapping run on these certain frames so um so if i were to do this and only tap it on those frames you'll be able to see give or take a couple frames it's not gonna be perfect because it's kind of weird how it can work hold on the frame by frame can be kind of weird just one frame one tap two tap three tap and then here's the fourth one coming up and we already got it so we're only moving that fast and we're blue isn't that weird so that's how it works so as i was saying it only checks those frames and we get a short charge super fast as opposed to normally right around here as you can get it um you know you can get it around here you can even get it sooner if you're a little more precise somewhere around here so um so what we do is you don't have to worry about the taps yet or the um you don't have to worry about the stutter you'll see speedrunners do this all that's doing is putting our back foot the the frame that works that the game checks um it's basically just like advancing that frame to come quicker so it's like putting her back foot the magic frame here instead of like right here so it it's just to like optimize um it's kind of an advanced strap but you can learn it one good way to practice stutter if you want to just do this over and over until it looks like samus is running you don't want to look like this you want it to be like good smooth consistent um hey thanks for the 51. but for this tutorial all we're going to do is i'm going to give you four steps on how to get good at short charging step number one is just one tap okay so if we can get short charge right here-ish then just do a one-tap the first half is going to be about right here about right here just press forward don't stutter and then tap and look wow we can get it right here instead of right here-ish so one tap you're already you're already a master almost with a one-tap short charge because you're you're saving that much distance by not holding run so that's just a one tap move forward like a block press run and hold it this is just the run button b is my run button if you look at the top left so once you get that down let me let me um let me show you let me get the info hood up again real quick and then save so yeah the first tap is about right here okay so the second tap so what you're going to do then if since you're holding it there you're going to let go so you're only going to tap it tap tap you're just going to tap it for the second if we're gonna do two taps now so if you're gonna do two taps you're gonna press it right there let go and then press it about right there wow look how much shorter that is instead of here it's right here and then you can just keep practicing that to tap one two bam so just keep doing a two tap one two so just keep practicing that kind of get an understanding um of how the two tap works so so far this is no tap around right here this is a one tap and about here ish is a two tap so now a three tab okay so the first two taps one two so about one right here one right here the third tap listen let me slow the game down it's gonna be about right at the end of this platform here so tap tap tap it can be a little bit better than that tap tap tap so about right here that's pretty good so that's a three tap as opposed to the two tap which is right here so three tap two tap one tap so tap tap tap the thing is you have to realize too so it gets it gets faster so let me let me finish this tutorial and then i'll show you what my brain does when i'm short charging um okay so you got the three tap down tap tap tap that's what i tell myself in my head tap tap tap okay that was that was off tap tap tap bam right there okay so you've practiced all this you're super good at it but your short charging just isn't good enough well there's one more thing you can do like how i said there's four taps you can do a four tap but since samus's legs are moving faster after already the third tap it needs to be much faster so the cadence or the the the the beat is gonna be like tap tap tap tap so like tap tap tap tap so tap tap tap tap hold on let me i'm used to stuttering so tap tap tap tap so you can get it right here instead of right here-ish with a for tab so it's kind of you have to get in your brain tap tap tap tap okay so let's say the four tap isn't even enough okay so you need a shorter distance you need like this right here like i said before you can stutter so instead of having the let me let me show you with a slow down version um instead of pressing um run right on that frame well let me let me frame advance it for you so instead of pressing run on this right there see where samus is in correlation with the background and her foot's kind of above that crack instead of pressing run right there you can press run um right right there as a little bit before actually this is this is a little bit late but you can press it right there instead of right here see see how big of a difference that already is that's huge so pressing it right here instead of right here so the difference is your timing is going to be off your timing's going to be different so you're gonna stutter so what i like to do is i have a certain way that i like to stutter just like that um forward forward let go forward um so it's going to be for me it's right after i let go of my of that if you're watching the top left of the screen you can see my inputs right after i let go right after my second right tap which is right right there i mean it's already on it perfect so i i paused it where i would normally tap so it's right after i go forward let go forward b it's almost instantly it's like a flam i've used this before in the past it's like a quick succession like tap like a tap to tap kind of like that instead of uh both at the same time um so that would be my first b input so then you can do this once you get good at the stutter you can press you just do a one tap and one tap we'll get you right here instead of right here that's already that's already way better so with the stutter one tab it's right here instead of just normal one tap which is right here so that's that's pretty damn good you're already getting way better so then the same logic applies you then apply what you've already learned without the stutters with your stutters so tap tap oh you did a two tap it's right there perfect tap tap tap or it's got it's the same rhythm too you're just incorporating the tap and the first half is going to be different but it's still like tap tap tap tap it's just you're starting the first half at a different time so so that's a four tap you know so yeah basically that's pretty much pretty much it you can get it right here um i'd say the goal is if you start doing this is just get further and further and that's why i like to use this room because there's markers or like this the middle of this post this post these posts these lights the goal for you is just try to get it better and closer closer to this post which is the um if you're counting them it's the third black bar on the back past the first light so try to try to do that um like even that could be a pass that's a three tap stutter um but yeah try to get closer and closer to this mark which is really hard but and then if you're good you can do it before then you know that's pretty much hitting the border you can get it like right there yeah i mean that's that's kind of cutting it close to where the limit is you could probably i think you can do it like right here with some really really precise taps but yeah all right so a little fun thing too if you're really good real quick go to the ship and you're like oh man i'm so good at short charging now go to the ship land as far off it as you can and then try to short charge on the ship just like that this is a really difficult short charge but if you can do that you can do any short charge that is necessary in the game like this is way this is way beyond anything that you need is the ship short charge if you can do this you can do anything but this is like pretty advanced i'd say like not even even like some really good runners probably can't even do that but anyways that is how you short charge you can do anything kids just take this rock heat it up is there a faster short charge if you alternate right tabs and run tabs um the fastest short charge here let me let me show you real quick so this is what you can do if you're a god aka if your tas so this is how short you can actually get it so that small of a distance so you can do some really crazy with like frame by frame do doors mess up the timing no it's always the same timing it'll just mess up your internal timing you know like you have to prepare for the difference

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Id: VGJHzCjxjV8

Length: 14min 56sec (896 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 17 2020