Super Metroid: Walkthrough Last Updated: January 21, 2006 Version 3.0 Created By: JTraverse Copyright c 2004-2006 Julian Traverse. All rights reserved. O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O I N T R O D U C T I O N O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O Welcome to my Super Metroid. This walkthrough is easy to understand, detailed, yet concise, which makes it easy to read and get the game completed. If you have questions about the game, please email me. Do not send anything that is not a question, it will just be ignored. Find contact info in the [Contact Information] section. Well, enjoy the walkthrough and please read the [Copyright] section. O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O Sites Allowed To Use This Guide O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O The following is a list of sites that may carry this guide. Webmaster may not take this guide under any circumstance and post it to their site. Also, never email me asking for permission, as I will not respond. {Neoseeker}..........................................{http://www.neoseeker.com} {GameFAQs}............................................{http://www.gamefaqs.com} O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O 1. Version History 2. Game Information 3. Getting Started 4. The Story 5. Walkthrough 6. Frequently Asked Questions 7. Equipment List 8. Boss List 9. In Summary 10. Contact Information 11. Copyright O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O V E R S I O N H I S T O R Y O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O This is the Version History. Here I will list updates of this FAQ. Check back at different times to see if there is more material added to this FAQ that may become useful in the game. Version 1.00 - Completed Walkthrough Version 1.10 - Added better ASCII art, also changed title Version 1.20 - Changed name and address Version 1.30 - Fixed email mistake in the [Game Information] section - Fixed numerous text and other mistakes Version 2.00 - Changed walkthrough to my new guide format. Version 3.00 - Changed walkthrough to my newest guide format. O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O G A M E I N F O R M A T I O N O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O Made By: Nintendo Release Date (NA): 1994 Genre: Adventure/ Sci-Fi Rating: K-A (Kids - Adults) Ages 6+ Platform: Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O G E T T I N G S T A R T E D O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O In this section, I will show you the basics of the game and help you get started so you'll find it easier through the game. O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O 1. Door System O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O There are different doors and gates throughout the game that need a certain weapon to open them. Here is a list to help you memorize them. Blue Doors: Can be opened with any weapon. Pink Doors: 5 missiles or 1 super missile. Green Doors: 1 super missile. Orange Doors: Opened with super bomb. Grey Doors: Cannot be opened unless blinking. Located in rooms where something has to be done before you leave, like defeating an enemy. Blue Gate: Any weapon will open this. Green Gate: 1 super missile. O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O 2. Controller Setup O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O This is the way I find easiest. Shot - Y Jump - B Dash - A Item Select - Select Item Cancel - X Angle Up - R Angle down - L O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O 3. Moving O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O Some basic moves are: Walk - Right or left directional pad Jump - Press the jump button Spin Jump - Jump while pressing right or left. Aim Up - Either R or L Aim Down - Either R or L (it depends on the setting you have chosen) Some special moves are: Moonwalk - Select it to on and while charging, press the direction opposite to the direction Samus is facing to do a moonwalk. It's annoying though. Charge Spin - Charge Samus' beam and spin jump. This is like the screw attack. Bomb Jump - Lay lots of bombs and you can pop Samus up a fair distance. Super Bomb Lay - Charge Samus' beam and roll into a ball to lay five bombs. Speed Jump - Get the speed booster running and press down. You can then press jump or jump + aim up to fly up either straight, Northeast or Northwest. O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O T H E S T O R Y O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace... Samus: I first battled the Metroids on Planet Zebes. It was there I foiled the plans of the space pirate leader Mother Brain to use the creatures to attack Galactic Civilization... I next fought the Metroids on their home world, SR388. I completely eradicated them except for a larva, which after followed me like a confused child... I personally delivered it to the Galactic Research Station at Ceres so scientists could study its energy producing qualities... The scientists' findings were astounding! They discovered that the powers of the Metroid might be harnessed for the good of civilization! Satisfied that all was well, I left the station to seek a new bounty to hunt, but I had hardly gone beyond the asteroid belt when I picked up a distress signal! Ceres Station was under attack! O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O W A L K T H R O U G H O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O ------------------------ Space Colony ------------------------ Ok, you appear on an elevator. Jump down to the bottom of the room and enter the room on the right. Follow the hallway and exit through the door on the other side. You'll notice there are levels in the room. Just go down to the bottom and exit the door on the right. You are now the laboratory. Just keep on going to the next door on the other side of the room. Follow the hallway to the next room. You will see the Metroid and out comes a boss! -------------- BOSS FIGHT! -------------- Boss Name: Ridley Difficulty: Very Easy All you have to do is let your life get really low from his attacks and he will grab the Metroid and fly away. Pretty simple. BOSS DEFEATED! Now the Space Colony will start to self-destruct. You have one minute to get back to the elevator. Just relax. All you got to do is run back the way you came avoiding the steam that shoots out, as it will slow you down. Also one the rooms will have tiles falling from the ceiling, so watch out here too. Keep on going and up to the elevator. Then you will see Samus' airship fly off in the nick of time. Now you will be on the Planet Zebes. ------------------------ Planet Zebes (Crateria) ------------------------ You will now appear on your ship. Press down to go down and save. You can also come back for full energy and weapons and save point. Now, you're on Planet Zebes and it is raining. Keep on going to your left and go in the door by shooting it. (Remember you open doors by shooting or blowing them up with something. For more information on doors, go to the basics section CONT3). In this room, jump over the ledge and keep running until you see a hole. Go down the hole and jump down off all the platforms. Keep on going down and ignore all the doors until you get to one on the bottom. Shoot down and drop down the door. (Just in case you're wondering, ignore those little crawly things because they won't hurt you) You are now in a very tall room. Again just keep on going down to the bottom and go to door on the right. Yeah this looks like the place Samus fought Mother Brain first, right? Anyway go across the room and go through the door. Get on the elevator and press down. You're going into Brinstar. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ You're in a bluish room now. Go to the left and jump up the two ledges and fall down the little holes and go right. Go up on top of that orb there and you'll get your first piece of equipment. You've got the morphing ball. To use it, just press down twice and roll around. Press up twice and you're in standing position again. For more info about the morphing ball or any other equipment, please visit the equipment section CONT6. A light will shine at you now go as far right as possible and crouch down by pressing down once, and shoot a little loose rock. You can't miss it. Press down again and roll under then platform and stand up. Run as far right, skipping the elevator and go through the door. Jump on the platform, jump up and shoot down through the loose rocks. Go down to the bottom of the room and roll into a ball. Go left and go through the door. Jump and shoot the thing sitting in the Chozo Statues hand and then go over and jump on it. You now have missiles. Don't use any now! Each missile or weapon canister you get added some more to the quantity you're allowed to carry. Go back to the room the loose rocks and go up and go through the door on the right. Shoot the door with your missiles five times. Now you know why I told you not to use them. Go through the door and run across the hallway. Roll into a ball and keep going right. Get the missiles. You can now carry ten missiles. Go back out of this room, past the next room and back to the elevator. Go up to Crateria again. ------------------------ Crateria ------------------------ Next turn left. You'll notice the room is lit up. Now prepare for action. Enemies will be around. Shoot the creatures and collect what they left behind. Go into the next room. Keep on climbing the room, killing what you have to and go up the door. Kill the spider things and go up to the first door up on the right. In this room kill the flies and the other creatures and go into the next room. Run up to the thing and you'll get a map of Crateria. Go out and out the other door. After, go up to a door that has a little passage to get to it. Roll into a ball and go through. Save and exit. Now go to the top of the room and turn right. Go until you see a small passage. Roll in a ball and go down, then go through the door. Go through the hallway with the flies and go through the door. Now you will see a statue again. Shoot the orb and you'll get bombs. To use, roll into a ball and press the fire button to lay bomb. But now the door is locked? Prepare for the Chozo Statue. -------------- BOSS FIGHT! -------------- Boss Name: Chozo Statue Difficulty: Easy Ok. It will stand up and start walking towards you. The music is cool here too by the way. Roll into a ball and go under his legs. Then get up and shoot at him. Also use missiles if you have any. Watch for his arm attack and every now and again, he will shoot projectiles from his mouth. These can be shot and missiles and health will appear. Also, sometimes when you try to roll under him, he may jump back and shoot projectiles. Just roll back and jump over the projectiles and resume shooting him. His face will eventually melt off and he will go crazy. Do the same only faster. Soon he will be dead. BOSS DEFEATED! Get the goodies in the room and exit. Go out through the fly room and go into the next door. Go up and go up to the right. Jump up, roll in a ball, and blow up the rocks. Now go left and down the big hole or shaft again. Go to the last door on the left. Inside the room, roll into a ball and keep going left, blowing up the loose rocks as you go. Go into the next room to get missiles. Exit back to the main shaft and go down through the door in the floor. In this room, go to the bottom and go into the next room. In this room, place bombs in the middle of the broken tube and go down to another room to get more missiles. After, go to the save point in Crateria's main shaft, or go to the ship if you want full health and supplies. Next go to the top of the giant shaft room and go left this time. Blow up the rock using the bombs and roll through. Go in through the door. Go down the slanted room to the bottom. Get the energy tank. The energy tank allows you to carry another hundred energy and refills you energy as well. Go to the door and go in. In this room kill the aliens with missiles. Go to the bottom and if you're curious, go into the room on the right. Follow the corridor, and go in the next door. There is statue there. It won't attack but notice the eyes glowing in the statue. You'll find out what happens here later in this FAQ. Go back through the hallway and back to the room you came from and go on left. Go through the next room and go out the door. Get on the elevator and go down. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Welcome to Brinstar. It looks like plant world. Anyway lets continue. Go down a bit and go through the first door on the left. Kill the creatures. Jump up to the level and roll into a ball. Go as far as you can go then lay a bomb. Go on through and lay more bombs when you stop. Go on and go through the door. You'll get the map of Brinstar. Kill all the enemies and go on back to the main shaft of Brinstar again. Go to the room opposite of the one you were in, or the first one on the right. Jump up and walk across. Fall through the floor and get the missiles. Roll into a ball and drop and bomb at the partition to the left. Get up and go out again. That room is not totally accessible now but will be later in the game. Now drop down to the next-door down on the left. Go in and save the game. Exit the save room and go down to the bottom of the room. Go to the door on the left. Go through jumping on the ledges and go down southwest to the door. DO NOT kill the firebugs because if you do you won't see anything and there are spikes on the bottom so you know what will happen. Go in the room to get a missile refill. Exit back to the main shaft again and this time go right. You're in a pink place now. Go through the room and blow up the blockage with bombs. Go on through the next door. Now you're in a huge pink room. Go right and drop down. Jump into the bigger area below you. Kill the jumpy things and keep going until you fall through the floor. Kill the flying things and continue right. Drop down again and go to platform with the green pipe. Kill bugs for health and supplies if you need it. Go left and kill the other flying thing. Keep going left and drop down again. Get the missiles. After roll into a ball and where the two blocks are, blow them up with bombs and drop down the hole. Go to the statue and shoot the orb. Now you have charge beam. Hold the fire button to charge your beam. Go back up to the same level as the door you entered. Go by the door and jump up. Go pass the green pipe and keep going right. Jump up to the left and kill the things there and continue left. Then jump up to the left where the little small passage is. Jump up roll in a ball and go left through the small passage. Blow up the blockage and continue. Go through the door to the save point and save. Go back to where you went in the passage and go right. Stop at the green pipe and shoot the bugs till you have all supplies and health and keep going right. Go through the door and kill the big creatures there. Then shoot the upper door and go up. -------------- BOSS FIGHT! -------------- Boss Name: Spore Spawn Difficulty: Easy It is a big green thing on a stem and floats around in an "8" pattern. Go to the left corner because I find it easier and morph to a ball. Get your missiles ready. Every time it opens it's mouth blast it. It will get faster and will darken but still no harder. Repeat. If you run out of supplies kills some of those specks that fall. Eventually it will die and fester up by the ceiling. The plant like room and stuff dies. BOSS DEFEATED! Jump up on the plant and get out up through the top. Go through the door. Go to the green pipe and kill the bugs to get health and stuff, then continue right and jump on the last green pipe. You will fall down to a statue and you will get super missiles. Go left then and go through the door. Keep on going left and avoid the green pipes. Shoot the door with a super missile. Go through the door. In the next room jump up on the ledge, crouch and shoot another super missile. Go on through the passageway and come out in the big pink room again. To be on the safe side, you should go up to the top of the room and save. Then go down to the place where you got the missiles and the charge beam at the bottom of the room and continue right. Go through the door. Proceed down the slanted hallway and your will come across a gate. Shoot the blue and go through to the next door. In the next room, avoid the cactus thing, jump up on the top level run and hold the dash button to get a bit of speed and run pass everything, then continue through the room to the next door. You're in a red room now. Walk right and drop down avoiding the flying creatures. Roll into a ball and somewhere on the floor lay a bomb down to go down. Bomb the entire floor and drop down, go left and then drop to the floor. Go to the door on the left and go in to get energy refill. Go out to the main room and go right. Go through and to the next room. Continue on through to the next room. Go through the couple of straight ways. ------------------------ Maridia ------------------------ Only a part of Maridia will be accessible yet, which the tube. Just go through to Brinstar, to the right. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Go to the elevator and go down. ------------------------ Norfair ------------------------ This will only be a short visit to the world of fire. Go down to the third door down on the left. Jump and get the energy tank then go down through a loose block in the floor. Roll to the left and drop down and then further left then go through the door. In this room, jump up and shoot the top part of the wall to blow it away then jump down to the other side. Get the Hi Jump Boots. Get out of that room. In the next room jump up a few ledges roll in through the passage and get the missiles. Jump up to the ledge, roll into a ball then bomb the wall to get back to where you got the energy tank. Also kill that creature so the door will open. Go back to the main shaft in Norfair. Go across to the door on the right and save, but don't go through the next door because you need something and there are monsters in there. Exit to the main shaft of Norfair and go up to the elevator. Go up. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Now you're in Brinstar. Go through the door and go pass all of the straight passages and in the next red room, the room with two snapping creatures and the cactus thing, and go over by the door, but don't enter. Instead aim upwards and shoot the loose rock. Jump to the ledge and continue upward. Roll into and ball and bomb the blockages. In the last blockage, lay a bomb and continue pressing right because the floor will go too. Continue pressing right to make it across, and then go through the door. Get the orb on the statue to get Spazer. The Spazer is a weapon that shoots out three beams. Go back through the small passage in the next room, and go down the ledges to the bottom and go out the door to the right. (Don't bomb the floor and fall because you'll fall into the snapper creature) Go pass the straight ways until you get to the elevator room. ------------------------ Maridia ------------------------ Like I said, just go right to the elevator room. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Don't go down to Norfair. Instead, crouch and shoot a super missile at the right wall, with the three blocks. Go through and jump up to the ledge with a creature face. Go on through the door to the next room. Shoot the crabs and shoot the floor by the door. Go down and kill the other crab. Go down to the grey door and go right, roll into a ball and bomb the wall to reveal and passageway. Go through and jump up the door. In this room, kill all of the creatures and go far right until you see and notch that the morph ball can get in. Go down the notch and bomb the right part to reveal and passageway. Go through the door and save. Go back the previous room with the creatures and kill them. Somewhere in middle part of the room you will see a large crack in the floor. Bomb it and fall through, then go though the door. Kill the three creatures and continue left, avoiding the spikes and the ceiling spikes. Go right until you see a creature and start shooting it to destroy it. Collect what it leaves behind and go through the door. In this room, shoot the flying things coming out of the pipe to get health and supplies. Go pass the dead body and shoot the eye ball with a super missile then go back for health if you got hit. If you didn't, go through the door. The creature before is similar to next one the next room. Yeah right! -------------- BOSS FIGHT! -------------- Boss Name: Kraid Difficulty: Easy You will see spikes on the floor. Nothing happens for a bit then he comes up. Get the super missiles ready. The way to defeat him is to shoot is mouth when it's open. Watch the rocks he spits out then shoot him with a super missile when his mouth opens. He will darken and rise up to a huge monster. Go up on the ledges avoiding the stuff he throws at you and shoot his face. His eyes will glow and his mouth will open. Shoot it. Repeat. Shortly he will die. BOSS DEFEATED! Collect the stuff he leaves behind and go through the door. Get the orb and you will get the Varia suit. It allows you to go places with extremely high temperatures. Go back through the boss room and go through the room with the little Kraid. Go back up to the creature room and go to the save point if you like. Get out of the creature room by going down the door to the left. In the next room, roll into a ball and go through the blinking grey door. In this room, shoot the creatures with missiles or bomb them if they get on you. They suck your life so get them off quick. After, aim upward somewhere on the ceiling and energy tank will appear. Get it and go back out of this room. In this room, jump up killing the crabs and stuff and go out the door. Jump across from the top ledge to the place where the three blocks are. Crouch and shoot at the bottom one with a super missile. Go to the elevator and go down to Norfair. ------------------------ Norfair ------------------------ Now go down to the first door on the right and go in. In this room, shoot down at the floor and fall to the bottom floor. Run to the far right and jump up to the ledge then go through the door. In this room, jump across the ledges, killing the creatures, and go to the far right. Drop down and go through the door. In this room lava will fill up but won't go pass the ledges so don't worry. Jump across all the ledges and go through the door. Now you're in a bubble room. PLEASE NOTE! Areas like this and others can be very complicated so pay attention to what I say. Jump up to the next door to the left and go to the save point. Next go back to the bubble room and jump down to where there are two blocks in the bubble floor. Jump up and shoot them. Go down and shoot the middle block of this level. Roll down and bomb the blockage to the right. Kill the creature and continue down the path and blow out the block to the left. Kill the creature and follow the rest of the way. Blow the last blockage to the left and go into the small area. Go through the door in the floor. In this room, go to the first door on the right and go in. Here is little eyeball creature shoot them to get health and supplies. Go back to the shaft and go through the bottom door. In this room go pass the lava creatures and go out the next door. In this room, go across to the next door. Now the lava will fill the room slowly. Go to the far right and roll under the mouth creature and shoot up. Jump up, avoiding the mouth creatures and their attacks and do to the top door. In this room, go across the flying platforms to the other side. Go through the door. In this room jump up from ledge to ledge, killing the creatures, and skip the first door. Go up till you get to the pink door on the right and go through. Jump across the moving platforms and go through the gate to the missiles. Get them and escape this room. You'll have to come back here later so don't worry about the other door. Once out of this room, continue up the ledge room and go through the door. Now you're in the bubble room again. Go up and kill the red cactus and go to the right. Go in the door. In this room, kill the three creatures. Aim up to the ceiling somewhere to the far right of the room and reveal a hole. Go up and shoot up again. Go through the door. In this room, hold the dash button and run till you get to the next door. Before you enter, shoot up and get the missiles. Now go through the door. Get the orb on the Chozo statue to get the speed booster. The speed booster allows you to go super fast on long distances. Hold dash button to use. Quickly get out of this room. In the next room, hold the dash button to bet to the top fast before the lava gets you. Go back down the next room and return to the main bubble room. Fall down by the two blocks again and go right. Somewhere in the far right of the floor, drop down. Bomb your way down and get the missiles. Return to main area of the bubble room and go and save. Next drop down to the two blocks again and got to where the two doors are and go to the left one. Go in. Jump across the opening and go in the next door. Use speed booster here to go to the other end. Go in the door and save again. Now go through the left door and up to the highest up door on the left. Here run with the speed booster and go to the other end. Go through the door. In this room, jump across each flying platform to the other end and go through the door. In this room go over a bit and jump up the big ledges and avoid the mouth creatures. Go through the floor by the door and roll into a ball, then drop and go right into a passageway on the way down. Go through the door to get the Ice Beam. Go out to the next room and drop down to the floor and climb the ledges again but this time go through the door at the top. Inside, freeze the blobs and jump across then freeze the flying thing. Go the door and fall down. Roll into a ball and bomb the wall, go right, drop down by the door and go out to the main shaft in Norfair. Next take the elevator up to Brinstar. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Go to the door on the left and continue to Maridia. ------------------------ Maridia ------------------------ Go left to Brinstar. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Keep going left until you come to the tall red room. In this room, you have to freeze the flying creatures and jump on them to get to the top. Freeze one, jump on it, and freeze another, right on up till you get to the next platform. Go and bit right and shoot up to get rid of the loose rocks go pass the orange door. Keep going until you get to the blue door. Don't go in. Instead keep climbing up and freeze the creatures. Make it up and shoot the middle part of the floor to get up and go through the door. Go through this room and avoid falling into the mouth things in the floor. Go through the door. In this room, see the two blocks down through the floor? Shoot down and go down through the shaft. Just kill the snails and go through the door on the bottom. In this room, freeze the yellow blobs to get across. At the end of the room get the power bomb. To use this bomb, select it using the select button, roll into a ball and press the fire button to lay a bomb that explodes the entire screen. This also opens orange doors. Next, roll into a ball and let a power bomb off. Go left and get the missiles. Next, go out of this room and climb the shaft up to the orange door. Keep on going till you see a door on the right. Go in and save. Next, go back to the red shaft and go up till you see a green door on the left. Go in. Kill the huge creatures and continue left. Go to the end and lay a power bomb. You'll notice the floor completely blow up. Now see the mouth creature in the floor next to you? Go down through it to get more power bombs. Next go back to the red shaft and go up to the elevator. Go up. ------------------------ Crateria ------------------------ Go up on the platform and lay a power bomb. In the next room, climb the platforms and shoot the top to get rid of the loose rocks. Jump up and exit left through the door. Exit left again and go back to the ship. Save now. Next continue left and keep on going down the west path to Brinstar. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Now, go to the first door down on the right. Remember this place. Now that you have speed booster and can run fast, jump on the platform and RUN!! Then go through the door. Here you can acquire a reserve tank. For more info on this, please visit equipment section CONT6. After, go down and roll under the statue to get missiles. After, lay a power bomb to get another set of missiles. Exit this room and then on the ledge in the next room. The gates will lock so shoot up by the first gate to reveal a passageway. Go up and jump on the super missiles, then you'll fall through. Exit this room to Brinstar's main shaft. Go down to next door on the left to save if you like. Next use a power bomb on the bottom of the shaft. Go on down the shaft and go through the door. Kill the creatures and continue through the next door. Continue this hallway and jump across to the energy tank. If you just walk you'll fall through and go down into a weird and hard place. The four of five blocks left of the energy tank are the ones you can fall through. Once you get the energy tank go in the room to get super missiles. Exit all of this back to the main part of the shaft in Brinstar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IF YOU FELL DOWN THE HOLE BEFORE GETTING THE ENERGY TANK! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you got the tank and the missiles just skip this section. If you fell go down to the door and save. Now continue across the hallway of hell. When you get to the other side, go through the door. In this room, you'll see three little cute creatures. See what they are doing? They are spinning and jumping up the shaft. You do the same by jumping at the wall (must be spinning) and pressing jump and direction pad opposite to the wall at the same time. Just keep on trying until you get up to the little platform just up from you. Roll into and ball and go through to the other shaft again. Repeat to try and get the energy tank and missiles. Once done, return to the main shaft in Brinstar. PLEASE NOTE! You'll notice that you can bounce the walls up a lot further. It is very hard and I consider it a side mission. So we will do this later in the FAQ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now, once you're in the main shaft in Brinstar, go to the right door on the bottom to get into the pink area. Kill all the enemies then run back and run across the room. You'll go down through the floor. Run left to the door and go through. (Ignore the bird until we get out. Fill up on energy. Then exit. You'll see a bird there. You should save him. Start running with him and when you get to the part where the long shaft up his, press down. You'll start blinking wait for the bird and press up jump before the bird goes up. If done correctly, you'll make a hole in the floor at the top and the bird will get up too. PLEASE NOTE! When running stop in the place where the bird stops. If not the bird will not get up. If you fail try again. If you don't care just go up and go out the door on the right. In this room go on down to exit in the lower right part of the room. Now you're in a green room. Instead of going down the path, jump up and you'll see a ledge. Get up and go through the door. Kill the creatures and go as far right as possible. Bomb the wall and go through. Bomb the other part of the wall and get the power bombs. Use one at the far right to reveal that old room where you got the morph ball. Continue right and go through the door. Go through this room and into the next room. Kill the creatures and go over to the far right. Shoot the ceiling somewhere around here and get another energy tank. Go back to the green room that descends. Go through and go to the red shaft. Ignore the orange door for now. Keep on going till Maridia. ------------------------ Maridia ------------------------ Continue right to Brinstar. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Go down the elevator that leads to Norfair. ------------------------ Norfair ------------------------ Now that you're in Norfair, go to the second door down on the left and go in. Get the map access and return to the main shaft. Go up to the first door on the left and go through. Run across the room and until you go down in a little place with power bomb signs. Power bomb it and drop down. Go through the room and exit through the door. Fall down to the bottom of this room and go through the door. In this room, use speed booster to get through. You'll find yourself in a place with a way going up, a door on the right and a door going down. Go up and kill the cacti and go through the door on the right. Save and exit. Go down and go through the door in the floor. Go right a bit and meet a friendly little thing. -------------- BOSS FIGHT! -------------- Boss Name: Crocomire Difficulty: Easy Crocomire has unlimited HP. You cannot kill him. The only way to get rid of him is to fire super missiles at his mouth each time it opens and make him move backwards. Soon he will fall in the lava. DO NOT hit him anywhere else or let him alone, as he will come toward you, making the battle longer and more difficult. Avoid when he spits stuff at you and avoid his arm. When his arm starts moving, his mouth will open. Repeat and make him fall into the lava. When he melts you'll see bubbles in the lava moving to the left. Follow it until the spike wall. The room will shake and Crocomire's skeleton will come at you. Don't worry; it'll just fall apart. BOSS DEFEATED! Keep going left and go out the door. In this room, fall down and go through the door on the right. Save. Exit and return to the previous room. Instead of waiting till later, try to jump up in the top left corner and go through the door. Get the power bombs. Exit to the previous room and go through the door in the floor in the left part of the room. In this room, go right and fall. Go through the door to the right. Go to the other side of this room and get the missiles, then exit to the previous shaft. Now go through the door in the floor. In this room, clear out every thing with the power bomb and go to the far right. Run and jump at the end to fly up to a door. Go in. In this room, go to the statue to get the grappling beam. This tool helps you swing across areas that have rocks with a plus sign on them. Just select it, aim, and hold to swing (also works on some creatures). Go back out the door. There are creatures at the top of this room. Aim your grappling beam and hold on to them. Swing your way across this room to the top right corner to get missiles. If you fail, just try again. Roll into a ball and bomb your self up into the notch in the wall. Fall down and run up to the door where you got the grappling beam again. In this room, jump up on the blocks on the left side and get to the top. Once you get to the top, use your grappling beam to swing across to the door. Go in. In this room, swing across the water and get to the other side. Go through the door. In this room, just continue to the top avoiding the mouth creatures. Grapple on to the hooks on the ceiling and swing to the door. Go through. In this room, swing across the two lakes of water and open the gate, then go through the door. In this room, go up through the door in the ceiling. Now go back to Crocomire's room and go far right. Swing across the room to get an energy tank. Go back and go up through the door in the ceiling. In this room go to the top and go through the door on the left. Go up to the top platform and swing across. Get missiles but don't go through the gate. Go back to the previous room and go down to the last door down on the right. Keep going pass the lava holes and go through the door to the right. Get you health (if your curious, the door that goes up will take you back to a place you were before, but to get to the next place, the door to the right is the short route). Once you get your health, go to the next room. Swing across and go through the door. In the next room, open the gate and roll through the hole. Your back in this room again. Go up and go to the door to the right. In this room, just get to the top before the lava gets you. Go through the door. Go up this room and go through the second door up on the right. Jump across the platforms to where you got the missiles before and continue using the grappling beam. Go through the door and get wave beam. Go back and go up to the green bubble room. In the bubble room, go to where the red cactus is a swing across to the left side using the grappling beam. Go through the door and get the missiles. Exit now. Drop down to the save point and save. Now go back to the elevator and go up to Brinstar. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Now that you're in Brinstar, go to the tall red room with the flying things. ------------------------ Maridia ------------------------ Just keep on going to left Brinstar. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Go up until you see the orange door. Power bomb the place and go through the door. (Do not kill the firebugs, as they make the light for you) Go across the room and hook on the ceiling with the grappling beam. Continue left until door. Go in. Jump on the little bit of the platform and roll into a ball. Bomb it and an elevator will bring up. Go over and down to get the x-ray scope. It allows you to see though things when used. It's great for finding small passages. Use it to find a loose rock above the statue. Roll into a ball on the statue bomb yourself up and lay one by it. When it blows up, bomb yourself up to it and follow the trail back to the door. Just keep going back till the red shaft. Go to the blue door up ahead, go through the rooms, shoot the gate with your beam in the second room and go to the huge pink room. Remember the room with the orange door? Go in there and swing up on top of the block with grappling hook. Shoot the blue part of the gate and go through. Go in through the door in the other part of the room to get another energy tank. Go back to the previous room, go to the far left and lay a bomb to make a hole in the floor. Lay another to start an elevator. Get out of this room and go up a bit to the big space with the grappling hooks on the ceiling. Swing left and get the missiles. Next, go back to the red shaft and continue up, then go to the door at the very top. Continue through this room to the door and go through. In the next red shaft, go up to the elevator to Crateria. ------------------------ Crateria ------------------------ Go up the door. Continue up the shaft and turn left. Go out to the ship and save. Once saved, run across the area to the right door and blow the rocks out of the way. Run left from here and when the speed booster kicks in, press down at the mound of ground to the left of your ship and quickly stand, then angle up northwest and press jump. You will fly up and reveal a passage. Use a power bomb to get clear of the rest of the rocks and go through the door. Go straight through this room, bombing all blockades and avoiding the lava (it's a pain in the ass!). When you get to the end go through the door and get the energy tank. Next, power bomb the room and reveal a small passage under the statue. Roll into a ball and go on through the next bit of the room, blowing up any blockades. In the next room, power bomb the place and reveal another part of the room. Walk a bit and you will start to fall down. As you fall down, turn right and angle your beam downward. Keep on shooting to reveal the path to missiles. Get to the missiles quick before you fall all the way down. Next continue down and go to the next room. You have been here before. You probably noticed the other missiles going down the shaft like thing above. Go back to the ship area and repeat, but this time, when you get to the room where you fall down, jump over left a bit so you will fall down the left most part of where you fall down. Angle down to the southwest and blast the blockade, then get the missiles. After getting both sets of missiles and the energy tank, go back to the ship area. This time get the speed booster going and press down at the mound left of the ship and this time, head up northeast. If you did it right, you will get stuck in the rocks and then come down on a ledge and you will see an orange door. Go in and get the power bombs. Next return to the ship area, go right and go through the door. In this room, go on to the door on the right. Go through. Swing across and get the missiles. NOTICE! Notice the hooks for the grappling beam on the last part are cracked? That means you can only hook on for a short period of time. Hurry across and go through the door. In this place, swing from platform to platform by grappling beam. Go through the door at the right side. ------------------------ Wrecked Ship ------------------------ Go pass the straight room and go through the door. There is a save point across from you but it don't work because the power is gone. How do you get it back on? Follow the way down to the bottom floor. Bomb the part of the floor by the left door and go down. Roll right and bomb more floor. Next go down and through the door. In this room, go right and bomb the wall. Roll under and shoot the eye creature blocking the door. Go through the door and wait a bit. -------------- BOSS FIGHT -------------- Boss Name: Phantoon Difficulty: Hard So all the bosses are easy, right? Well, that attitude is going to stop here. Phantoon is a ghost octopus and one of the hardest bosses in the game. He will go around the room shooting out blue flames. All a sudden he will appear again and a circle of fire will shoot out. Flames will only appear for a bit and then he will appear with his eye open and flames falling to the ground. When his eyeball opens, hit him. After hitting him, he will appear in the top centre of the screen and will spin out flames for while. You can rarely dodge this. Use super missiles and in five or six rounds like the above he will die. BOSS DEFEATED! Once you defeat the boss, the power will be restored to the ship, making live ends of wires dangerous. Watch out for these and the enemies that surround you. In the previous room, go far left and go through the door to get map access. Next return to the previous room and go up through the door in the ceiling. Go to the nearest door up on the left. Get the super missiles and return to the main shaft. Next, go directly across, roll into a ball and blow up the blockages in the wall. Go through the door. In this room, go to the end and lay a power bomb. You'll see three or four notches appear in the wall. Try to get yourself up in ball mode and go in through the second notch up. Go through and get the super missiles. After, return to the main shaft and go to the next platform on the left part. Bomb the wall to reveal a hidden passageway. Go to the end of the room and get missiles. After, return to the main shaft in the Wrecked Ship. Next, go up to where you came in and go across to the save point and save. Next, go up and blow the annoying blocks out of the way in the ceiling, then continue up through the door. In this room, kill all the enemies and go to through the door on the right. Go through the room and get the missiles. Next return to the previous room. Kill all the enemies again and go through the left door. ------------------------ Crateria ------------------------ In this area drop down and go through the door below, just to get that part of the map. See the reserve tank? Next, go back up to the door you came out of. Look for the top moving platform creature and get on it. When it reaches to the far left, shoot to reveal missiles. Next, go on over the ground and shoot down in the left area somewhere with the super missile to reveal a path. Follow the path down to the missiles. Next, go up again or if you don't have super missiles, go into one of the near tunnels and drop down and go back through the ship. Go to the ground area again and lay a bomb a bit more right and a passage will reveal, so follow it. Go through the door and continue through the next room and then go through the next door. You appear under the bridge thing or what ever. Go through the door. ------------------------ Wrecked Ship ------------------------ Swing across the room and land in the statues hand. Roll into a ball and the statue will walk down through the floor. When he drops you, immediately bomb the floor. Go on through and bomb the coil like things. Then stand up and destroy the rest of them. Get up on the ledge and bomb the wall. Go through and knock the robots down the holes by shooting them rapidly. When you get to the statue, lay a power bomb and blow the statue and the wall away. Go as far right as possible than speed boost left. Knock the part of the left wall away then go back right. Next speed boost left and press down. Now quickly run far right and press up to go on up the room. Fall down to the next level and jump to the reserve tank. Next go a bit right and fall down. Go back to where the statue dropped you off and go through the left door. In this room you can get the gravity suit. Now you can go through water easily. Next, go through the other door and fall down. ------------------------ Crateria ------------------------ Go to the door to the right. ------------------------ Wrecked Ship ------------------------ Next go back and go to the save point. Once saved, drop down and go through the next door down on the right. Ignore the trumpet creature and go through the next door. In this room, jump over all the platforms and go into the next room. In this room, continue up and skip the blue door. Keep on going up shooting all blockades in the ceiling away and go through the door on the left. In this room, jump and swing across to the other side and get the energy tank. Return to the previous room and go through the blue door on the right. ------------------------ Crateria ------------------------ In this area, just go through this room to the other side and jump to the door. Go in. Drop down the ledges a go through the next door in the floor. In this room, drop down and go into the water. Go left until you see a large opening going up. Jump up and go left. Jump across the opening going down and keep going left. Jump up and in the next area, drop down into a little narrow passage going down, go a bit left and drop down again. You will drop down by the door. Go through. Next, lay a power bomb on the orange door and go down. In this room, get on the elevator down to Maridia. ------------------------ Maridia ------------------------ Maridia. The watery depths of the Planet Zebes, filled with quick sand and fish like creatures. Welcome to one of the biggest parts of Zebes. Once you get on the platform, ignore the flying things and drop down. Go to the door on the right and save. Once saved, go through the bottom door on the left. Continue through this room and go through the next door. In this room, jump down the sand and continue down. In the next room, go to the door on the left. In this room, run far left and start jumping up the platforms. Keep jumping up the small shaft and go left. Next go down through the green door. This is a chute. When you get down, you'll be in a pink room. Go down and lay a power bomb to clear out the blockages in the floor. Go through the door on the left and continue through the room to the other side. Go through the door. Go pass the hall and then in the next room, roll under the pink blocks and fall through. Next, go through the door on the right and get the map access. Yeah, it's a big area. Go back through the previous room and go left. In this room, go over to the far left and drop down one of the holes. Yes your back here again. Go left. In the tube, lay a power bomb to destroy it. Drop down, go through the door and save. Go back out of the save room and skip the tube. Go up through the door. In this room, just keep to the left and jump up to the top of the room. Go through the right door. Next swing across a bit to a platform and go up the door. Climb up the shaft room and go left. Lay a bomb to jump up and go farther left. Open the gate to reveal a shortcut to Brinstar. This makes it easier for getting out of Maridia. Return to the huge room with the grapple hooks. Keep going right and go through the door. In this room, go to the right shaft and continue up. Go through the door. In this room, go right and go through the wall to get missiles. After go left, continue up and left again. Go through the door. In this room, continue left and at the end, jump up and go left. In the next part of the room, jump up and continue left again. Drop down and go down through the floor in the centre to reveal a room with missiles and super missiles. Exit all the rooms back to the tall pink room and on the floor, and in the middle section, lay a bomb to reveal a passageway down. Go down and right and go through the door. In this room, drop down and lay a power bomb. Go down and go left to save. Once saved, exit and go right of the save room. The set of grapple hooks you see going up along a wall, climb them with the grappling beam to the top and swing left. Go up through the door. In this room, jump up and right and walk a little bit. When you fall through, go right. Now go right and shoot all the walls you can and then the same left. Go to the left end and speed boost right. Go through the door. -------------- BOSS FIGHT! -------------- Boss Name: Serpent (Botwoon) Difficulty: Easy Just wait for it to come and blast it in the head with super missiles. It gets faster so just avoid it and you should be safe. Also watch the green attacks it shoot when it comes out of the holes. BOSS DEFEATED! Collect the goodies and go right. Go through the door. In this room, kill all the enemies and speed boost across the room to the other side. Go back and jump up to the purple bricks and roll into a ball. Go left and then pop yourself up with a bomb. Continue left, drop, and then continue more left. When you reach the block, pop yourself up again. Go more left and drop down. Pop yourself back up again and go left again. Get the energy tank and go left to escape. Go back and speed boost right. Go through the door. In this room, kill the creatures and climb up the right side using the grappling beam. Go through the door at the top right. In this room, swing over to the top right and go through the door. Save and get the energy. Return to the big room and drop down. Go through the door at the bottom right and go in. Swing to the far right and shoot the wall to reveal missiles. Next, go back to the spikes in the floor by the door you come through and fall through (they don't hurt you). Fall through the left part and fall down to the bottom of the room. Kill the eyeball creature on the door and enter. -------------- BOSS FIGHT! -------------- Boss Name: Draygon Draygon is a crayfish boss that can be beat two ways. One way is simple and the other is hard. Two of them are listed below: Defeat Approach 1: Difficulty: Very Hard If you're a challenging person, try this way. Drop down and see the minions floating around. After they leave, Draygon will sway from a side. Equip the super missiles and every time Draygon comes out, blast him in the stomach. Repeat this several times and avoid his spit. If the spit touches you, you are stuck and he will take you and start swinging you around and crunching you with his tail. If this happens, you are dead. Also destroy the guns on the walls so they don't interfere. Defeat Approach 2: Difficulty: Easy If you suck at beating bosses, then this is the way to go. See the guns on the walls? Shoot them before Draygon comes out. When they are shot, they will break and live electricity will be there. Wait for him to spit on you and let him take you up. Equip the grappling beam and when you get a chance, grapple on to one of the electric orbs, and the electricity will pass through you to Draygon. Hold until he is dead. BOSS DEFEATED! Go to the door on the left and get the Space Jump. We will know finish the rest that needs to be done in Maridia. Go back to the boss room and run and jump. You'll notice Samus spins really fast. While she is in the air, press the jump button rapidly and ascend in the air. Go back up to the door and enter the room. Go back through this room to the big room. Next go back to the shaft room, left of this room. First go to the floor and roll under the right wall. Continue through the passage, moving those green monsters and go the door. Get the missile refill and go back to the shaft room. Remember the grey door here? Go in. Follow the room left using your space jump and go to the door on the left end. Go through and in the next room, fall down and go through another door to the left. Go pass the quick sand and out through the other door. You're back in this huge room again. Go left and jump up. Go a bit right and start using space jump to climb to a door that could not be accessed before with space jump. Go through the door. Climb up the shaft with space jump and go through the door at the top. In this corridor, kill the blobs and go through the door on the right. In this room, go to the southeast corner and get Plasma Beam. Check Equipment section for more information (CONT6). Exit back through the rooms to the huge room again. First kill all the enemies in the Plasma Beam room so you can get out. Once you get in the huge room, go to the left to the chute. Go down. Now go right. Go through the room with the crayfishes and go through the door. In this room, hook on to the grappling hook with the grappling beam and it will disappear. Use space jump to climb up and go to the top. Once you get to the top, go right and drop down to the level walk around and fall through each level till the door. Go through the door and set off a power bomb. The machine will hack away at the dirt and create a passage. Go through the door at the other end. In this room, roll into a ball and take the left path to get to the statue. You'll get spring ball. Spring ball allows Samus to jump up while morphed into a ball. Exit back to the shaft-like room and continue falling down. Go down to the next room and go left through the door. Return to the chute room and keep going left. Go through the room with the crayfishes and keep going left until the broken tube. In the broken tube room, roll under the pink blocks and go down to another room. From here go left through the door. In this room, go to the far left and drop down to another corridor and go through the left door. Drop down to the save point and save. Next, exit the save room and go up to the door in the ceiling. In this room, go to the right door and go through. In this room, turn around and open the door to the left but stay in the room. Open the gate and kill all enemies. Go to the far right and power boost left. Before you get to the door press down to start blinking. Go out the door and in the next room, quickly go to the place where a plant sort of sticks out around the middle of the floor. Stop there and press jump. If done correctly, you'll soar up and hit missiles. After go down to the nearest door on the right. Go in and explore it to get the entire room explored on your map. After, go through the door in the ceiling to the left of the room. In this room, somewhere along the left there is a passage. Get up and jump down in ball form and try to get it the hole. If you use the scope at the right part of the ground up a little bit, you can see it. Anyway go in and get the super missiles. Go back to the big room and go up to the door in the top right corner. In the next room, shoot the middle part of the floor to go down and go out the door to the right. In this room, you can save if you like or not. Anyway, start by the save room and speed boost over to the far right. You see a slot going up into the ceiling. Press down to zoom up through everything. When you're at the top, get the missiles and then, go more right and jump over to the super missiles. Walk back a bit and fall through the floor. After go back to where you speed boosted up and shoot down though the floor. Go down and speed boost across. Take the sand down to room. Use space jump to get up. Follow the path, avoiding the rocks and try to use the spring ball to get up. Get the missiles and the reserve tank and head down to the left of the room. Go into the sand and sink. Return to the huge room above the corridors and tube to Brinstar. Go up to the second door to your right. Go in and go up by the door. Go down into the first shaft like part of the room (where one of the space pirates are) and look for a secret passage to the right. Roll into a ball and go through. Once through the passage, go through the door. In this room, ignore the turtles and space jump up and get the energy tank. After, shoot along the right wall to discover more missiles. Now go back to the room with the room with the missiles and super missiles and the two lots of quick sand below it. Go to the far right and shoot the floor. Instead of going to the far left quick sand, go to the right one. Go down and jump up the ledges on the left to get more missiles. After, go to the right of the screen and follow the paths to get power bombs. After, drop down in the sand at the right of the room to go down. From here go back to the tube linking Brinstar and Maridia and go to the save point. Maridia is now complete. Go to the save room under the broken tube linking Brinstar and save. Once saved, head to the tall red shaft in Brinstar ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Once you get to the red shaft, go up to the second door up to the left. Go through. In this room, just keep going and go through the other door. In this room, go left of the gate and go up to on of the pipes on the right. Space jump up to it and lay a power bomb. Go through it and get more missiles. After go up to the ledge above and go to where you got the power bombs in the bluish room. Continue right until the room where you got the missiles and the large rocks are. Use power bombs on the rocks and then run left. Turn around and run left with the speed booster, press down and go up the tunnel to the top. Go through the door. In this room, jump up and get on the invisible platform and walk over to the left part of the room. Go through the door and get the missiles. After, lay a power bomb and get the other missiles. After, go to the huge pink room and go to where you got the charge beam. Set off a power bomb to reveal a passage under the statue. Roll under, go down and go through the door. In this room kill the snail creatures and then go back to the right side of the room. Power boost to the right and go through everything. Jump up and get another energy tank. After you get the tank, go to where the missiles used to be in this room. Use a power bomb to blow away the side and then go down. Use the spring ball to bet up and go left through the wall. Continue through the next room, killing the creatures, and go to the far left of the room. You'll notice in the floor that there is a weird spot. Shoot it with a super missiles and go down to get more power bombs. Go left and bomb the elevator thing up, then drop down, go right and exit back to the huge pink room. After you get the bombs, go to Brinstar's main shaft. Once you get into the main shaft, go down to where the three little bears or whatever was jumping up the tunnel. Use space to get up there and morph into a ball. Quickly go right and get the power bombs. Go out the door to the left and return to the main corridor. Now go to the elevator to get to Norfair. ------------------------ Maridia ------------------------ Keep going right to Brinstar ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Go right to the room with the large creatures and the way to the save point before fighting Kraid. Lay a power bomb at the right side of the room to reveal a passage to missiles. After, go back to the elevator and go down to Norfair. ------------------------ Norfair ------------------------ First of all, go to the first door on the left. Go to the end and power bomb the hole to get down. Kill the enemies and go in through the door to the left. Stop immediately. If you fell, space jump back up to the door. Aim left and shoot. You'll see missiles. What you need to do is shoot and immediately space jump over and get them because the rock will come back fast. Go over and get the missiles and return to the main shaft in Norfair. Next, go to the first door down on the right. Go through this room and go into the next one. Go to the third lava area and shoot down at the right side and get the missiles. After, keep going right until the big bubble room. Go up to the place where you go the missiles (at the top left) and let off a power bomb. You'll see that a piece of the wall to the left has gone. Use the spring ball to get up there and go through the door. In this room, continue left and get the final reserve tank. Also, aim down at the block above the lava next to you and shoot it to reveal missiles. After go back to the bubble room and go to the save point. After saving, drop down to the blue door lay a power bomb and drop down the hole. Go down to the two doors and go through the door in the floor. In this little shaft room, go through the door at the bottom right. Next continue through this room to the next room. In this room, go down and go through the door on the left. In this room you'll notice there is lava. I didn't till you this before because I wanted to surprise you. The gravity suit also allows you to go into lava without getting hurt. Anyway, jump into the lava and use the space jump to get over to the platform in the top left of this room. Go through the mouth and go through the door. In this room, skip the elevator and go through the other door to save and then return to this room again. Now go down the elevator. Now you're in the lower part of Norfair. Just to let you know, the lava down here is different and WILL burn you. Anyway, go left and jump from block to block, avoiding the creatures and the fire, to the other side. Go through the door. In this room, use space jump to get over to the other side. When you get to the other side, lay a power bomb to blow away the bricks. You'll see a Chozo Statue here. Roll into a ball and jump up in his hand. This will get rid of the lava. Go down and go through the passage going down through the floor. Lay a power bomb at the bottom to reveal the rest of the passage. Go right to the end of the room, avoiding the enemies and go through the door. In this room, you'll see missiles. Try to space jump across to get them. The floor will collapse if you step on it. To save time in coming back for them, you should get them now. Anyway, go through the floor and go right. You'll see a statue fall down and... -------------- BOSS FIGHT! -------------- Boss Name: Chozo Statue 2 Difficulty: Medium Ok this guy is harder then the first one, but easier than Phantoon. You'll notice he is golden. As you hit him, he will fade back to a dark grey like the first one. Anyway, charge up your plasma beam and keep on hitting him. When he starts walking toward you, just jump over him and hit him. Repeat till destroyed. Also, he has many attacks like the projectiles, beams, balls with bugs in them that attack, etc. Also, do not shoot missiles, as he will catch them and throw them back at you. If you keep hitting him, he should die pretty quick. BOSS DEFEATED! After, go through the door to the right and get screw attack. Next, go back to the room you fought the Chozo guy and screw attack up to where he fell down (just jump like you would for space jump). You'll notice space jump can crash through some stuff like some bricks and enemies. Once you get up there, lay a power bomb to clear out the rest and to reveal super missiles. Get them and return to the room you got the screw attack. Screw attack up and go through the next door up on the right. Get the energy and exit. Continue all the way up and go through the top door on the right. You see a bunch of flying creatures going back and forth fast. Freeze them and continue right. Go through the gate and go through the door. In this room, keep on going right and go through the next door. In this room, you'll notice that the place is shaking. If you want to live, screw attack through the walls going right to the next door before the lava gets you. In the next room, screw attack up to the top and then shoot the ceiling to reveal a way up. Go through the door on the left. In this room, shoot the middle blocks and land down on the next level. Go far left and lay a bomb on the block farthest left. Roll into a ball and go left into another part to get missiles. Go back up and go through the door. Go down and go through the door on the right. In this room, you'll notice that the place is shaking too. Go far right until you see platforms going up northwest. Climb the platforms and get up to the top right of the room. Go through the door. In this room, go on in the middle and lay a power bomb. Ignore the door for now. Two passages will open in the floor. Go down through one and continue down till the door on the right. Go in and save, and then exit. Now, keep on going down the shaft till the floor and lay a power bomb to reveal a passage. Roll through the passage and then in the next part, lay another to get rid of blockages and to open the door. Go through the door. In this room, set a power bomb off on the statue to raise a little elevator up in the left part of the room and to reveal a passage. Go through and continue through till the far left of the room. You'll see three statues but only two have heads. Power bomb the middle one and go down. Follow the rest of the room down and go through the door. -------------- MINI BOSS! -------------- Boss Names: Ridley Guards Difficulty: Easy Just jump over them and wait till they turn yellow and kick at you and then shoot a charged plasma beam at them. It'll take two hits per pirate. If you go back to the room, they will return. MINI BOSS DEFEATED! Next, go through the left door to the next room. Here you can stock up on health by shooting the bugs that come out of the pipe. Continue to the next room. In this room, continue over to the door with the eyeball creature and kill it. Prepare for the next room, as we are about to meet an old friend. -------------- BOSS FIGHT! -------------- Boss Name: Ridley Difficulty: Hard Trust me, not like the first one. In this battle, you're in a tall room or shaft and Ridley will appear and start attacking you with its tail. It will also shoot fireballs at you. Your best bet is to avoid all of its attacks and shoot super missiles at it like crazy. Also, he will pick you up and hurt you. After a short while it will die. BOSS DEFEATED! After, collect the items left behind by Ridley and go through the door on the left. In this room, you'll see that the Metroid casing that Ridley swiped at the first of the game is broken and the Metroid as escaped. Shoot the lower right part of the room to get another energy tank. Exit back to the room with the three statues. Go through the middle statue and let off another power bomb. You'll notice on the left there is a small passage. Go through the get the power bombs. Exit back to the last save point room and save. Exit the save room and go up where the two doors are. Go through the right one. In this room, shoot the head thing across from you with a super missile to reveal a passage. Walk through and drop down to another room. In here, go a bit left, fall and use space jump across the room to get the final energy tank. Now go back up to the place you shot the head creature and continue up to the top. Ignore the blue door and go left through a hidden passage, then go through the left door. In this room go left and then go up. Once you get to the top, go right to get missiles. After, use a power bomb and spring ball yourself up into the top passage. When you drop, go up again and continue going right, using spring ball to get over the hidden partitions. Once you get to the other side, bomb the blockage and go down the door. Use a power bomb to reveal a passage up in the top right part of a partition. Spring ball up and get the power bombs. After, go left and fall through the left partition and then go out the door. Return to the area where you got the previous missiles and go through the door at the left. In this room, use space jump and wait till the lava goes down then do under the gate things. Continue left and roll through a passage. Roll far left and then go up on the first ledge. Lay a power bomb to reveal a passageway under. Go left and get the final missiles. Go back and continue up and shoot the blockage in the above floor to get up. Go through the door. In this room, screw attack to the end of the room and then roll in through the passage. You're now in a shaft like room with ledges that you were in before. Go through the door too the right. You're in the bubble room now. Go to the save point room at the right part of the bubble room. Save and then return to elevator that goes up to Brinstar and go up. ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Go through the door on the left and go to Maridia. ------------------------ Maridia ------------------------ Go through to the other side of the broken tube and go into Brinstar ------------------------ Brinstar ------------------------ Once you're in Brinstar, go to the tall red shaft. Space Jump your way to the very top and go through the door on the right. In this room, continue right and go through the door. In this shaft, go up and go to Crateria. ------------------------ Crateria ------------------------ Go up and go through the door. Continue up the shaft and go right. Go to the huge, outdoor area with the grappling hooks and go down to the far left. Shoot the wall to reveal a passage. Go through to get missiles, then go back to the ship area (It was no use making a special trip for a measly 5 missiles, so it was better to wait till we got to the area). Save at your ship. Once saved, go through the door at the left. Continue through here and go down the hole and go through the door in the floor. At the bottom, go up a bit to the first platform against the wall at the right part of the room. Bomb the wall to reveal a hidden passage. Go through the door. In this room, freeze the creatures at the same level as the floor and quickly go back left, then speed boost to the right. At the end, press down and up to fly up the tunnel. Again, there was no need to make a special trip for these, so sense we were passing through the area, you mind as well get the super missiles. Go out the left passage and go and swing across the next room. Go through the door, bomb the blockage and return to the top of Crateria's main shaft. Go back and save if you like. Go back to Crateria's main shaft and go through the door to the left. Continue down the slanted room and in through the door. In this room, go down and go through the door on the right. Continue through the corridor and go through the door. Remember this place? Here's the gist of it. The statue had four gems glowing. If you notice, it is the eyeballs of all four major bosses, Kraid, Phantoon, Ridley and Draygon. When each boss is beat, the gem will pop out of the boss part of the statue and go down the screen into the water. After all bosses are defeated, a passage will be granted to another area of Planet Zebes. Once the statue sinks, go down and go down the elevator to the other and final area. ------------------------ Tourain ------------------------ Welcome to Tourain, a world that is composed of mostly electronics. Also, watch the orbs things that always float around and hurt you in Tourain. Go down and go through the door on the right and save. Once you have saved, go through the door on the right. In this room, kill the creatures by freezing them and shooting them with a super missile before they get on you. Go through the door on the left. In this room drop and destroy the enemies. Kill them all and go through the door at the bottom right. In this room, destroy all the enemies and continue into the next room. In this room, destroy all the enemies and go through the door in the floor. In this room, kill the blue creatures with super missiles and continue left. In the next room, watch the Chozo fall to bits on the ground and then go through the door at the left. In this room continue left and see the blue creature. -------------- BOSS FIGHT! -------------- Boss Name: Metroid Difficulty: Very Easy Watch the Metroid suck energy and then let it suck your energy. You have just 1 left. Watch him go off you and then watch him fly away to the left. (Now you know why the Chozo was rotted!) BOSS DEFEATED! Next, go left and blow up the stuff around the door and go through the door. In the next room, blow up the stuff and go in through the door on the left. Get the missiles and the health and then exit back to the previous room. Blow the stuff away again and go through the door across from you. In this room, continue right and shoot the eyeball creature around the door. Go through. In this room, go to the next door down on the left and save. After you have saved, exit back to the previous room and go through the door at the bottom left. In this room, continue left, shooting the red blockages and go to the other end. -------------- FINAL BOSS! -------------- Boss Name: Mother Brain (form 1) Difficulty: Very Easy Just break the tube it is in a keep on shooting it. After a while the tube will be completely gone and Mother Brain will fall to the ground. Boss Name: Mother Brain (form 2) Difficulty: Hard The brain will lift and reveal its body. Mother Brain is a creature that looks like no creature I have ever seen. It has many attacks that damage badly like the blue beam, space pirate beam, projectile bombs and the flame attack. Keep shooting the brain part until Mother Brain shoots out a beam that will take most of you life. If you don't have a lot of life, you going to die. If you still live, he will attack until you barely got any energy left. The brain will start to do another crazy attack but the Metroid will come in and chew on its head, draining its energy and giving it to you. After, Mother Brain kills the Metroid and then will start to attack you again. You have a cool power now so just shoot it until it is destroyed. YOU HAVE DEFEATED THE FINAL BOSS! Next, detonation is set and you only have three minutes to get back to your ship and get off the planet. Run through the space through the left and shoot the gates. Go through the door in the floor. In this room, go down and go out through the bottom right door. In this room, go across, then up, then left, then up and right. Go through the door. Go up and right then go down, left, down, right, up and left then go right to the door. In this room, go straight. You're in Crateria now and you know the way. Up. Into the next room, go up and then right. Go down to where you got the bombs to free the creatures. Go back up and go right. Get on the ship and press down. Watch as Planet Zebes blows up and Samus escapes. Also, watch a purple streak go across the screen. They are the creatures you saved. Congratulations, you have successfully beaten Super Metroid with 100%! O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O E Q U I P M E N T L I S T O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O ------------------- Miscellaneous ------------------- Morphing Ball Purpose: Allows Samus to roll into a ball to get in small passages. Bombs Purpose: Allows Samus to lay a bomb when morphed into a ball Spring Ball Purpose: Allows Samus to jump while in ball mode. Screw Attack Purpose: Allows Samus to break through certain places and kill enemies while using Spin Jump. ------------------- Boots ------------------- Hi-Jump Boots Purpose: Allows Samus to jump higher. Speed Booster Purpose: Allows Samus to run at high speeds. Space Jump Purpose: Allows Samus to jump up at any distance while Spin Jumping. Keep pressing the jump button. ------------------- Suits ------------------- Varia Suit Purpose: Protects Samus from extremely high temperature. Gravity Suit Purpose: Allows Samus to move freely underwater and through lava in some places. ------------------- Beams ------------------- Charge Beam Purpose: Allows Samus to charge her beam, making it stronger. Ice Beam Purpose: Allows Samus to shoot a beam of ice. Also freezes enemies. Wave Beam Purpose: Allows Samus to shoot a wave like beam, making her beam stronger. Spazer Purpose: Splits Samus' beam into three beams, making it stronger. Plasma Purpose: Splits Samus' beam in two beams, making it stronger. Cannot be used with Spazer. Also it is the more powerful than Spazer. ------------------- Selective Items ------------------- Missiles Purpose: A weapon and used for opening pink doors. Location(s): Check in the walkthrough for all 46. Super Missiles Purpose: A weapon that is stronger than missiles and used for opening green doors. Location(s): Check in the walkthrough for all 10. Power Bombs Purpose: A weapon stronger then bombs and used for opening orange doors. Locations(s): Check in the walkthrough for all 10. Grappling Beam Purpose: Allows Samus to grapple on to certain things, allowing her to swing. Also kill some enemies and opens blue doors X-Ray Scope Purpose: Allows Samus to see hidden passages. ------------------- Other Items ------------------- Energy Tanks Purpose: Allows Samus to hold another 100 energy. Location(s): Check in the walkthrough for all 14. Reserve Tanks Purpose: Allows Samus to refill one energy tank or 100 more energy. Location(s): Check in the walkthrough for all 4. O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O B O S S L I S T O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O Here is the boss list and methods to defeat them. They are the same methods as the ones in the walkthrough but they are here for easy access. These bosses are listed in order of their appearance. Here are the difficulty levels: 1. Very Easy - Takes very little or nothing to beat. 2. Easy - Pretty simple and doesn't require much effort 3. Medium - A challenging battle that may be frustrating 4. Hard - Boss is tough. Maybe takes a few times to beat. Frustrating. Boss has hard attacks 5. Very Hard - Boss is very frustrating and could take multiple tries to beat. Boss as very hard attacks that may be impossible to dodge. Also, boss may big bigger than average making dodging harder. Boss Name: Ridley Difficulty: Very Easy ----------------------------- All you have to do is let your life get really low from his attacks and he will grab the Metroid and fly away. Pretty simple. Boss Name: Chozo Statue Difficulty: Easy ----------------------------- Ok. It will stand up and start walking towards you. The music is cool here too by the way. Roll into a ball and go under his legs. Then get up and shoot at him. Also use missiles if you have any. Watch for his arm attack and every now and again, he will shoot projectiles from his mouth. These can be shot and missiles and health will appear. Also, sometimes when you try to roll under him, he may jump back and shoot projectiles. Just roll back and jump over the projectiles and resume shooting him. His face will eventually melt off and he will go crazy. Do the same only faster. Soon he will be dead. Boss Name: Spore Spawn Difficulty: Easy ----------------------------- It is a big green thing on a stem and floats around in an "8" pattern. Go to the left corner because if find it easier and morph to a ball. Get your missiles ready. Every time it opens it's mouth blast it. It will get faster and will darken but still no harder. Repeat. If you run out of supplies kills some of those specks that fall. Eventually it will die and fester up by the ceiling. The plant like room and stuff dies. Boss Name: Kraid Difficulty: Easy ----------------------------- You will see spikes on the floor. Nothing happens for a bit then he comes up. Get the super missiles ready. The way to defeat him is to shoot is mouth when it's open. Watch the rock he spits hot then shoot him with a super missile when his mouth opens. He will darken and rise up to a huge monster. Go up on the ledges avoiding the stuff he throws at you and shoot his face. His eyes will glow and his mouth will open. Shoot it. Repeat. Shortly he will die. Boss Name: Crocomire Difficulty: Easy ----------------------------- Crocomire has unlimited HP. You cannot kill him. The only way to get rid of him is to fire super missiles at his mouth each time it opens and make him move backwards. Soon he will fall in the lava. DO NOT hit him anywhere else or let him alone, as he will come toward you, making the battle longer and more difficult. Avoid when he spits stuff at you and avoid his arm. When his arm starts moving, his mouth will open. Repeat and make him fall into the lava. When he melts you'll see bubbles in the lava moving to the left. Follow it until the spike wall. The room will shake and Crocomire's skeleton will come at you. Don't worry; it'll just fall apart. Boss Name: Phantoon Difficulty: Hard ----------------------------- So all the bosses are easy, right? Well, that attitude is going to stop here. Phantoon is a ghost octopus and one of the hardest bosses in the game. He will go around the room shooting out blue flames. All a sudden he will appear again and a circle of fire will shoot out. Flames will only appear for a bit and then he will appear with his eye open and flames falling to the ground. When his eyeball opens, hit him. After hitting him, he will appear in the top centre of the screen and will spin out flames for while. You can rarely dodge this. Use super missiles and in five or six rounds like the above he will die. Boss Name: Serpent (Botwoon) Difficulty: Easy ----------------------------- Just wait for it to come and blast it in the head with super missiles. It gets faster so just avoid it and you should be safe. Also watch the green attacks it shoot when it comes out of the holes. Boss Name: Draygon ----------------------------- Draygon is a crayfish boss that can be beat two ways. One way is simple and the other is hard. Two of them are listed below: Defeat Approach 1: Difficulty: Very Hard If you're a challenging person, try this way. Drop down and see the minions floating around. After they leave, Draygon will sway from a side. Equip the super missiles and every time Draygon comes out, blast him in the stomach. Repeat this several times and avoid his spit. If the spit touches you, you are stuck and he will take you and start swinging you around and crunching you with his tail. If this happens, you are dead. Also destroy the guns on the walls so they don't interfere. Defeat Approach 2: Difficulty: Easy If you suck at beating bosses, then this is the way to go. See the guns on the walls? Shoot them before Draygon comes out. When they are shot, they will break and live electricity will be there. Wait for him to spit on you and let him take you up. Equip the grappling beam and when you get a chance, grapple on to one of the electric orbs, and the electricity will pass through you to Draygon. Hold until he is dead. Boss Name: Chozo Statue 2 Difficulty: Medium ----------------------------- Ok this guy is harder then the first one, but easier than Phantoon. You'll notice he is golden. As you hit him, he will fade back to a dark grey like the first one. Anyway, charge up your plasma beam and keep on hitting him. When he starts walking toward you, just jump over him and hit him. Repeat till destroyed. Also, he has many attacks like the projectiles, beams, balls with bugs in them that attack, etc... Also, do not shoot missiles, as he will catch them and throw them back at you. If you keep hitting him, he should die pretty quick. Boss Names: Ridley Guards Difficulty: Easy ----------------------------- Just jump over them and wait till they turn yellow and kick at you and then shoot a charged plasma beam at them. It'll take two hits per pirate. If you go back to the room, they will return. Boss Name: Ridley Difficulty: Hard ----------------------------- Trust me, not like the first one. In this battle, you're in a tall room or shaft and Ridley will appear and start attacking you with its tail. It will also shoot fireballs at you. Your best bet is to avoid all of its attacks and shoot super missiles at it like crazy. Also, he will pick you up and hurt you. After a short while it will die. Boss Name: Metroid Difficulty: Very Easy ----------------------------- N/A. It's impossible to lose. Boss Name: Mother Brain (form 1) Difficulty: Very Easy ----------------------------- Just break the tube it is in a keep on shooting it. After a while the tube will be completely gone and Mother Brain will fall to the ground. Boss Name: Mother Brain (form 2) Difficulty: Hard The brain will lift and reveal its body. Mother Brain is a creature that looks like no creature I have ever seen. It has many attacks that damage badly. Keep shooting the brain part until Mother Brain shoots out a beam that will take most of you life. If you don't have over 80 or so percent, you're going to die. If you're still alive, the Metroid will come in and chew on its head, draining its energy and giving it to you. After, Mother Brain kills the Metroid and then will start to attack you again. You have a cool power now so just shoot it until it is destroyed. O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O I N S U M M A R Y O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O In summary, I would like to say that Super Metroid was one of my best games I have played for SNES, or probably the best. The graphics and excellent and the music is great. It features an intense and cool story of events and is easy to control, but there are some problems I can't get use to. Below is my rating for this game: Graphics -------------------------------- 10/10 Sound -------------------------------- 10/10 Storyline -------------------------------- 10/10 Controls -------------------------------- 9/10 Overall -------------------------------- 9.5/10 I rate this game very good. Good job Nintendo. If you are checking here for the ratings and thinking of getting the game somewhere, get it. It's awesome. Hope you enjoyed this FAQ and watch for updates and new stuff. Julian O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O C O N T A C T I N F O R M A T I O N O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O If you have any questions about the game, email me at: juliantraverse(at)hotmail(dot)com Only send questions, nothing else. Do not ask to post my guide upon your site (See Copyright section). O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O C O P Y R I G H T O=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=O This is the copyright section. The information in this FAQ was completely written by me Julian Traverse and no one shall use this FAQ in any way other than for personal use in beating the game. No one shall copy, edit or do anything with this FAQ. No one shall claim it to be his or her own. Nobody shall take this FAQ and publish it to their site, regardless. The only sites that are allowed to use this are: - GameFAQs.com/Gamespot.com - Neoseeker.com Inform me immediately if you seen this guide on another site. Copyright 2004 Julian Traverse (JTraverse) [End Of Guide]