During the start-up animation, press a direction to shinespark in that direction Samus can shinespark horizontally, up, or diagonally up in either direction. To shinespark, press A from the ground without pressing a direction. While running with a speed boost, crouch at any time to Shine Charge. Shinesparking is a basic technique that speeds up many parts of the game. Power gripping and then jumping from a power grip is faster than walljumping, as there are a few frames where Samus is doing the walljumping animation without moving.You cannot walljump anymore after obtaining space jump.Samus can repeatedly walljump on a single wall as well. Walljumping is useful to reach a higher height more quickly. After touching the wall, press left then A to walljump off of it. If walljumping off of a right wall, spin jump towards the wall and press right against the wall. Walljumping is a technique to gain height. This is useful for objects that need to be shoot ASAP after going through a door. Let go of B during the latter half of the door transition, and Samus will automatically shoot an uncharged beam shot. To shoot as early as possible after a door transition, run through the door with at least a partial charge beam.This is faster than walljumping if done properly.

However, power gripping then jumping from a ledge grab is very fast for climbing rooms, but difficult to do.

Avoid power gripping if you can just jump up instead.

Try to lose minimal height whenever space jumping if there are ladders, or enemies that you can freeze, then it is better to ladder jump or hijump off of frozen enemies, respectively.

When space jumping, optimal space jumps wait until Samus dips down a little bit, then space jump again.

Avoid ballsparking if possible (and shinespark instead), since ballsparking has a longer startup animation.If given the option between the two, always space boost (or jump with speed boost) instead of shinespark, as shinesparking has a considerable startup and bonking lag that makes it usually slower.If you have fast fingers, you can avoid this by unmorphing and morphing again a few blocks before landing, so you don't bounce. Whenever the morph ball fall from a high height and lands, it spends a little time stopping and bouncing.Screw attack destroys individual bomb blocks as well, but not chains of bomb blocks.In 100%, if you have power bombs and there are bomb blocks to destroy, plant power bombs as early as possible that can reach the bomb blocks, as this is faster than using normal bombs up close.Every time Samus land, she has a landing animation and must then accelerate to start running again. Morph ball moves horizontally slower in the air than spin jumping. If in the air and you need to move horizontally, avoid being in morph ball.Jumping is horizontally twice as slower than running. Run as much as possible, and jump as little as possible.You can NOT copy over time attack files, so time attack mode is not recommended for segmented runs.

Select it and you have converted your file into a Time Attack File. You will open a menu with the option 'New Time Attack'. With a New Game+ file, on the file select screen, select the New Game+ File, then before hitting start, press up, left, right, and down. Time Attack Mode is a convenient way to improve your records in the game itself. That same save file will have the green symbol. To obtain one, simply beat the game with a saved file. Getting a New Game+ File is very convenient for seeing the player's current in-game time while pausing, or using its checklist of expansions in the map screen. A New Game+ File is identified on the file select screen by a green screw attack symbol on the right side.

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