After weeks of testing and playing through, I present a puzzle plando that isn't just about finding the solution... it's about performing the solution when the solution could be... well, really anything. From r-jumps to doorskips, from 'useless' ice clips to esoteric springball tech, this little plando has it all (besides L+R and pause abuse that is)!

If you feel like passing now that you know what this is, feel free. But if you want to try it out and see how your skills measure up, well... good luck, and remember to think outside the box!

A master plando designed to be both hard and highly speedrunnable? crazy
Have fun running and routing this!

Extra Settings/Patches added:
- Spazer/Plasma mix
- Heat reflection visual effects
- Power Bombs reveal tile types (for your gmode wants and needs)
- Round Robin CF
- Nerfed charge
- Respin and momentum conservation
- Refill before saving and instant respawn
- X-Ray crash fix

Fast and Furious was intended as a difficult but fast(ish) near-suitless plando, so here's the much easier and faster variation designed to provide a vanilla-esque difficulty, while also providing quite a bit of speedrunning fun :)

This is hard in almost every conceivable way. Hard to find items to progress. Hard to kill Ridley. Ridiculous Lower Norfair. The late game is the only easy part (as is true for most seeds).

Good Luck!

100 missiles, 100 super missiles, 20 power bombs, 5 e-tanks, and 2 reserve tanks. made for a 100% play through. essentially a glorified suites run up until the end. slightly less technical than my bullshit plando, but still incredibly hard. have fun!

Plando #4. This one is NOT area/boss rando. Softlock prevention is OFF. GLHF!

As is true of any mission, to Zebes or elsewhere, having a clear objective is crucial. Don’t lose sight of it.

Settings: Area/door/boss rando. Minimizer/boss rush. No hidden items. Anti-softlock patches, VARIA tweaks, and area rando layout patches are applied. Tourian is fast. VARIA HUD is on for your convenience.

Rules: No major glitches, no single-wall suitless underwater walljumping (uwus), and no frame-perfect pause abuse. Nothing even borderline “TAS-only” is required.

Savestates are allowed, as needed. As per usual, softlocks are possible, so you’re encouraged to keep rolling saves/savestates.

Feel free to message me with any questions. Good luck! :)

A simple plando that makes the order of completion a bit more interesting...

Alternate title: “Save The Skultera”

Deer Force has a special message for you, if you can complete this.

Because I recently made “Crateria Escape Room” and “Brazen Brinstar BS”, this plando focuses on... the rest of Zebes. :)

The rules are as follows:

- No major glitches, as typically defined.
- No suitless single-wall underwater walljumping.
- No chained frame-perfect pause abuse.
- *You may not use regular Bombs in any room that contains Skultera/Fish.* The byproducts of the explosions are highly toxic to them.

Settings: Area/door/boss rando, minimizer/boss rush, fast Tourian, round robin CF, nerfed Charge, vanilla suits, VARIA HUD, no hidden items. Anti-softlock patches, VARIA tweaks, and area rando layout patches are on. Also... the Skultera are a protected species. ;)

As always, savestates are not just allowed, but encouraged. Rolling savestates are your friend. Feel free to DM me with any questions.

Can YOU find Deer Force’s message? (Don’t just look at the code or cheat – that’s boring.) Good luck! :D

GoMODE

VERYLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNGDCP

I've was thinking about a cute idea for a plando for the past couple weeks when I couldn't sleep. Today, I decided to quick sit down and make it. After the skeleton was planned from my late night thoughts, I just put other items in locations I knew they were accessible.

I thought it would be long, maybe even tedious, but an interesting idea.

I was wrong. It is a beast.

There's one thing that upsets me about it that I kind of want to fix, but it would be non-trivial and I don't want to spend more time on it. It wasn't the main point of the plando anyway.

Disclaimer / Warning / Spoiler / Read at your own risk I guess :

There is an extra energy tank, to make it more palatable. This was the only change I made (and corresponding things to make the change possible) after my playtest, so it's been tested without. If you want this truly terrible experience, then try skipping the first energy tank you see. Good luck.

Unfortunately, collecting this energy tank makes something that happens much later luck dependent. There is a nearby savepoint so you could reset until you get it, but I'd recommend just using savestates for this part if you take the extra energy tank. If you are attempting this for some reason, then feel free to ask me where this luck dependent part is (or, better, if you are there yet).

Extra tricks required: Alcatraz Escape.

A normal plando requiring certain, more advanced tricks.

MaxEnergyTanks: 10
MaxMissiles: 35
MaxSuperMissiles: 40
MaxPowerBombs: 20
MaxReserveTanks: 1
All Major Items Obtainable, minus X-Ray Scope.

Area & Door Colors are affected.

Escape Timer can be tight, if you go the wrong way, but multiple paths are available.

Hello!

I created a seed that gets you powered up quick!

Following the standard vanilla route, you will quickly find morphball, powerbombs, spacejump and the gravity suit... and that's just in blue brinstar! You will have all of the goodies by the time you leave green brinstar and be powered up to fly though the rest of the game!

Classic questions pose themselves once again: Where do you go? Which is the fastest way to beat the game?
Seed is quite open/fast, prone to speedrun. Items are distributed like in Major/Minor split. HF!

My second plando from last year. Difficulty level: meme. Area and boss transitions are shuffled together. Save often!

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This is a puzzle/challenge plando. Door rando. Areas and bosses are vanilla. Suit properties are vanilla. Despite the anti-softlock patches, softlocks are possible. Savestates are encouraged, as needed. No need for out-of-bounds, memory corruption, or borderline "TAS only" tricks to complete this. But... it is not easy. Good luck. :)

Herausforderung für Dragon

BeholdMyPlando!

You guessed it, no bombs. You get power bombs though, but no infinite bomb jumps, or any cool bomb tricks. Good luck.

Honestly, this is the hardest plando I've ever made, and it is one of the hardest on this site. Too bad the preset difficulty only goes up to master, because this is actual masochism. The rando solver does not even think this is possible, but I assure you that it is. I have fully tested it, and it took more time than I'd like to admit. If you do this, please ping me on discord or something, because I'd like to see it. I am not responsible for any potential damage that this plando may cause. glhf :)

Do you like Brinstar? Do you like BS? Then, boy, do I have a plando for YOU! :D

All items (except for one) are located in Brinstar. The exception is in Crateria - that is your *FINAL* item.

I made a few “edits” to spice things up. ;) However, I did not change room layouts/tile types.

Settings: Area/door/boss rando. Minimizer/boss rush. No hidden items. Anti-softlock patches, VARIA tweaks, relaxed round robin CF, and area rando layout patches are applied. Tourian is disabled. VARIA HUD is on.

Rules: No major glitches. Use of savestates is intended and encouraged.

This has been fully playtested.

While you’re in Brinstar, don’t forget to visit the animals! Good luck. Feel free to message me with any questions. :)

Original Description:

I realized with objectives, it is now possible to actually make this plando I had planned out awhile ago. The only objective is killing SpoSpo (I would, in fact, prefer the planet started exploding at SpoSpo kill, but with the VARIA site you have to go kill Mother Brain).

The seed has area rando on (but almost all transitions are vanilla), doorcap rando on (but almost all doors are vanilla and there are no beam doors).

NMG, no L+R wall jumping, no TAS-only bs (e.g., frame perfect pauses). Fully tested.

New comment:

The VARIA site now allows skipping Tourian, but I don't want to re-make the plando. You can just declare yourself done at killing SpoSpo if you want. There is a little bit more to it afterwards.

This is an easier version of the plando "Can You Kill Spore Spawn", uploaded on here.

Original Description:

For the first time, I tried making an easier version. Note 'easier' is relative: It is still beyond 'master' level. But I think it is much more doable. Feel free to test and tell me it is still too hard, but I tried.

It follows the same ideas, but gives some extra items, gives some items earlier, and outright doesn't require some of the more insane bs. Note this easier version gives an entirely extra item in a hard to get to location that only helps with post-SpoSpo stuff.

Note these versions thus spoil each other. If you are wondering which one to try, just try to get the first three items in the harder version.

What the name says

I 100% completed this Plando to make sure it was possible, the escape might be the highlight of this run, be sure to have a lot of E tanks.

This is meant to played coop along with "Coop Plando Player 2", and is designed for racing. It is full rando with door color rando turned on. Each player will have a different starting location, but otherwise the seeds are identical (other than the morph location).The alternate starting locations will have the usual pre-opened doors. It follows Casual logic.

This is meant to played coop along with "Coop Plando Player 1", and is designed for racing. It is full rando with door color rando turned on. Each player will have a different starting location, but otherwise the seeds are identical (other than the morph location).The alternate starting locations will have the usual pre-opened doors. It follows Casual logic.

This is my first plando. I aimed for a fun and challenging seed that flows well.

The solver thinks this seed is not completable, but it is (hint).

Apologies in advance about Ceres. I picked the wrong seed to build the plando on, and I don''t know how to fix it.

Can YOU escape Zebes? This “escape room” consists solely of Crateria + Blue Brinstar. Every item location has an item, and all must be collected in order to escape.

There are only 2 rules:

(1) No major glitches.
(2) No more than 2 Power Bombs may be laid.

Figuring out the settings/patches applied is part of the fun!

Use of savestates is intended and encouraged. Feel free to message me if you have any questions. Don’t forget... patience is a virtue. Good luck! :)

Very hard plando for those who like puzzles and glitches

Now with actual gameplay!!!
Area and start are randomized, loads of bullshit, but a different flavor, hell runs are required, softlocks are possible, so only save if you are 100% sure you can make it back to the ship. Duplicate items are intentionally placed, so there's more variety in my "meme locations", instead of just nothings, or missiles.
Master preset because this seed is actual bullshit from watching joonie.
Some things required don't show up on the tracker.

Updated at 4/28/2020, to remove some ammo

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Suggested order: Wrecked Ship, Maridia, Brinstar (only Kraid), Southern Norfair. And don't forget the Plasma Beam in west Crateria before going away on your adventure.

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eden plando 2: electric boogaloo

i don't really have much to say except i accidentally made it race protected, so i hope all the items are in the right place. my plan is to make a new one every month, and i swear varia is at shaktool.

Enjoy this rando which allows you to beat it in many ways! Pick a path and go.

I made this to push how fast you can complete it using the normal intended gameplay, not using any speedrun techs at all.

To use this bullshit to it's full potential use this patch and apply it to the ROM :)
https://forum.metroidconstruction.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=735.0;attach=3308

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Initially a Master difficulty seed, which I only slightly shuffled around. Major item locations, area transitions, and door colors, are as the seed gave me. My only plandomization is moving some minors around and adding etanks (for a total of 14+4, instead of the initial 6+3).
Least to say, it's a disaster.

Features area and door color rando.
Requires clipping inside the Maridia tube due to my minor shuffling. Morph, go to the right wall, and press up twice. Caution, this is a one-way trip!

Is suitless Maridia really required?

A tough seed for DeaxterHawk, to pay him back for the devil seed he gave me. But I gave him more etanks for Ridley :) Also, quality of life enhancements like Save Stations recharging you, and fast door/elevator travel! Enjoy! (Played and tested, it is beatable, just a little challenge from Suitless Lower Norfair and Maridia, but you can do it!

Full title: "Plando for Joonie, but also not really for Joonie".

Original Description:

As requested by somebody not joonie (I forget who), I made a quick plando "for joonie". Fully playtested. Full disclosure: I did move some stuff after playtest, to give more options/safeties, but maybe it messed something up.

For anyone who tries this, good luck. Feel free to message me if you get stuck...but the answer is probably "do some bs".
One spoiler (adding extra space so you can choose to not see it):

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I removed hijumpless crab climb after I heard joonie complain about it, since this is "for joonie". But I think this actually made the plando harder, since it now requires a different piece of bs. So...whoops.

glitches required, no oob. 1 room is changed ever so slightly to allow for my routing, it's the 2nd room in the game so you won't miss it.

Harder version of my most recent plando, moved grapple later in progression. GL
glitches required, no oob. 1 room is changed ever so slightly to allow for my routing, it's the 2nd room in the game so you won't miss it.

Energy is always post boss, so wrecked ship is like 90% Energy Tanks. There is some missiles but all majors are super early, You will end up with 330 powerbombs, and you will probably need most (unless you go for Ridley quickly)

Have you ever wanted 300+ missiles? Well, you're in luck because I have just the plando for you! If you play your cards right, it isn't as hard as it may first seem, but if you're new to the SM community and don't know many tricks, this isn't going to be a fun experience.

Hey, everyone! Here’s a happy little plando. There are 3 rules:

1. No Out-of-Bounds
2. No Artificial Items (i.e. save station memory corruption)
3. No Pause Abuse (no pausing to survive with 0 energy)

I only rearranged/removed items. Everything else is as close to vanilla as I could make it. If you feel like you’re softlocked, you probably are.

Underwater walljumps are not required, because they are gross.

Feel free to message me on Discord if you have any questions.

Savestates are encouraged. This plando puts my other challenges to shame.

Have fun! :D

My first plando from last march. Areas and boss transitions are shuffled together. Save often!!

No super hard tricks required, just basic SM skill. Momentum and re-spin enabled.

very hard, esp Ridley, good luck

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minimizer-style plando with altered doorcaps. progressive suits. nerfed charge. Be careful with save stations. There is potential to softlock, so be sure you have back-up saves as you go exploring. (saves should be backed up automatically, but sometimes that feature can get weird if you load SAMUS B or SAMUS C)

also, this plando does not involve any x-ray shenanigans. in fact, i don't remember if i even put xray in the game.

good luck! (:

A plando that may make you ask: How does this item help me progress? Where or how do I use it to get to the next item? What am I supposed to do with this stupid thing?

It also might not.

You are welcome to contact me if you get stuck.

Brief notes:
- No major glitches are required.
- You are never once required to walljump while underwater (even with Gravity Suit, let alone without).
- Every individual trick was tested without savestates. But...good luck completing this without them.
- There is no "frame perfect pause abuse" to survive with repeated pausing while at 0 Energy.
- I had more control over patches than the VARIA site allows, so try not to make any assumptions about the various softlock prevention / area layout patches.

An important note: I was trying to streamline working with the patches. It apparently did not work too well. This doesn't affect the end user, EXCEPT the animals door crashes the game. No idea why, since I didn't touch any animals patches, but whatever too lazy to fix it.

Finally, my computer did crash so I had to re-make this plando. Thus, I fully playtested an "old" version and I don't really feel like doing it again. Therefore, there is a (very small) chance that I messed up while re-making it. This would most likely happen due to messing up a door cap, since I let the rando handle all doors that are "unimportant". Feel free to contact me if you think there is a mistake.

I made this plando in a bout of insomnia. I just finished playtesting, but I am not sure I can recommend it to anyone. Good luck.

Note the version I playtested had some extreme softlocks in late game. I did some very small changes to get rid of these. However, you can still very easily softlock in early game.

General rules:
- NMG (so, in particular, no OOB);
- Single wall underwater wall jumps are banned (coloquially, L+R wall jumping, but don''t do it even if you are just that good please);
- I think that''s it?

Some other more spoiler-y statements:
- It is door cap+area+boss rando.
- I generated this on the site, but it didn''t have the antisoftlock patches or VARIA tweaks. I didn''t want those, so I didn''t care. Please tell me if they are present, and I was somehow mistaken: I built the seed around them not being there.
- For the escape timer, don''t panic. I finished the escape while using less than half the time. So it has a lot of buffer room. I didn''t want it to be a time crunch.
- I made this plando by having an idea for the END of it, generating a base seed, and then making minimal changes to make it a reality. I then removed some items that seemed extra. Then some things that were required looked impossible, but life finds a way.

For a normal logic randomizer this is impressively difficult. I randomized this game, it wasn't a planned seed.

Randomized Parameters:
Normal Difficulty
100% Major and Minor
100% Energy Tanks
Random Boss Locations
Random Escape Location

This seed gaslights you. Is it even randomized?

I made a plando that is fun. Escape Timer is 6''15".
Other than Item locations, Areas, Bosses, and The escape sequence are moved. It''s a little confusing.

A plando seed I made, It''''s fun (in my opinion.) Escape Timer is 5''''00"

Plando''''d Items: Areas, Bosses, Escape, More Doors.

Reuploaded because i lost the key.

The seed has it all. Whoever plays it has only himself to blame! You are warned.

Vanilla Area
Nerfed Charge
Vanilla Bosses
No DoorRando
Variatweeks On

This silly plando requires little explanation. Just do the thing.

Door rando. Vanilla areas and bosses. No anti-softlock patches or VARIA tweaks. Major glitches and pausing to survive with 0 Energy are discouraged. Use savestates to your heart’s content. Designed for NTSC.

Now... go do the thing!

for casual ~ expert player
How will you escape?

I was bored last night so I made a plando. Unlike most of my other plandos, this one is *not* an area rando or a boss rando. It's designed to feel like a really trolly seed you might roll, and stuff like g-mode and x-ray climbs are not required. Lots of missing items, but no hidden items. ENJOY!!

The premise, I guess, is morph is as late as I could make it.

No area rando, no boss rando, no VARIA tweaks, and no softlock prevention patches. Thus, it is necessarily pretty dependent on x-ray glitches. Also somewhat repetitive at times.

It's fully play-tested, but it took me weeks. This includes testing and stuff, but still. One part, in particular, is very obnoxious...

If you get stuck or there is a mistake or something, you could message me. Easiest is probably on Discord. I am new to Discord and not active: it says bobbob 4799, but who knows.

I deleted some more spoiler-y comments that were here, since I decided I didn't like them.

Has area and item randomized. Good luck finding morph ball!

Someone hit the panic button and Zebes is under lockdown!

*Every possible ammo-locked door is set to Grey. That is the gimmick.
*Many doors lock behind you--there is no going back! Better be sure you got everything you needed...
*The softlock potential is high, so please be careful. Rolling save states are suggested. On the other hand, I am not going out of my way to troll you, this seed is for fun.
*OMG hellruns galore!
*If you are crazy enough to CF in the boiling acid suitless... you drop the PB at ~320. And you will have to be crazy to beat this one :)
(updated Dec 24, 8AM CST)

good luck

Don''t even attempt if you are easily lost.

This is just very trolly seed. I enjoyed it! There are some very long hunts for items at the beginning.

Maximizer (minimizer with 100 locations, so it's full Area rando with boss doors also mixed in)
Slowest progression + late morph.

Slowest and Master, but dboosts and frame perfect tricks disabled. Substantial hellruns.

Don't pass up a PB pack. You'll want it for doing a crystal flash later.
Generated with near master settings, using Scavenger with Minimizer, and the maximum scavenger locations.
Includes a hawt Ridley fight, and Lower Norfair hellruns.

This one is quick and pretty easy. I made it as an experiment and not much thought went into it.

The name is the game, ALL bosses past the "tutorial" (finding Morph + PBs) are pretty much doable in any order, but sub bosses help a lot to reach main bosses.
Each boss unlocks "weaknesses", shortcuts, or simple movement advantages for our beloved MegaWoman Samus.
Items are placed out of fixed Split Logic. Save refill is activated. Door rando's beam doors are included. Enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: Speedbooster spark through bomb blocks before Brinstar is required.

Not a hard Plando in any sense. 36 items, 9 E tanks, Full of surprises and teases.
Enjoy! Boss Rando, Area Rando, Item Rando. No Fast Door Transitions, progressive suits

My first "fully playable" randomizer seed.
Metroid prime X
originally called metroid prime 4, yes i gave it that name initially, as expected, it''s pretty messy, and yes, you have to survive in norfair without the varia suit, that is, doing speedrun....... but, have an error. during the Mother brain fight, after you defeated her, The game crashes. But, it''s pretty fun to play, I promise.

Hi. I am submitting this anonymously. This minimizer is very hard. If you like suitless and restricted weapon runs, you''ll find this enjoyable.


Good luck, Samus.

All of Norfair (Norfair, Crocomire & Lower Norfair) is Missiles.

I made this plando purely around one trick that I wanted to be in it. There are still many other tricks...

As said, this is my first area plando, and thus possibly not well thought-out. Some notes:
- No VARIA tweaks or softlock prevention patches.
- Underwater wall jumps are not required.
- Bosses are randomized with entrances. Sorry if you enter a boss room too early...
- It is quite easy to softlock (especially before power bombs) at save stations. I would recommend when saving at the ship, to copy that save so you don't have to go back to the beginning if you softlock.

Finally, this plando is VERY hard.

Update: I had some time and fixed the thing that made this near impossible. So, spoiler warning, I will sort of say what this is below.

Spoiler:

I added one shot block to one room, in SMILE. (Note this isn't editing a block to be a shot block: a shot block was added.) It is obvious. I only checked the area around this, and didn't replay the whole seed, so sorry if this broke something and please tell me if it did.

This isn't my preferred fix, but my preferred fix was harder to do. So I will live with this.

This is at least the first plando I made where I seriously thought about some of the doorcaps, and used them to my advantage. Note this plando is very challenging, beyond "master" difficulty. If you get stuck and want a hint, feel free to message me on Discord. Good luck.

Everything below this could be considered "spolier-y", so read at own risk.

Semi-important comments:
- Underwater walljumping can sequence break some stuff. So don't do that please? (hi-jump-less)
- Some of the layout patches or softlock prevention patches were removed, if they interfered with my plans. So watch out for that. I left the other ones in.

Unimportant comment:
- I was having some difficulties with empty item spots becoming missiles. I was too lazy to fix it correctly, so I just placed copies of already acquired items at any location that I thought could be accessed before first intended missiles, and left first intended missiles as "empty". This worked in my test run. If you think you sequence broke a missile, please tell me and I'll fix it.

This was intended to be gimmicky, not hard. But then when I tested it, it was pretty hard.

IMPORTANT: Do not save in Lower Norfair unless you are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN you will not hardlock. It's suggested to copy a previous save file before entering LN so you have something to fall back on just in case.

I made a 10-minute minimizer plando. Enjoy.


There is a story behind it. If you want to know more or something, feel free to ask. Due to technical difficulties, I am now bobbob#0478 on Discord.

As is this plando.

This plando requires obscure knowledge. It is quite easy to softlock. I would suggest maintaining multiple saves.

It is playtested: I moved around a couple minors after the playtest, but this shouldn't break anything.

Spoiler-y notes:

There is, once, multiple instances of the same major item. It is intentional, be careful.

This uses area rando. It is mostly vanilla entrances. The changes are to make it easier (and to make the logic chain better, in my opinion). However, I didn't want some of the modifications in area, so I converted some of them back.

Underwater wall jumps are not required: They can give a (minor) sequence break.

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No suits until mid game, hell run required, every check has an item.

Hard seed but not impossible. Named after a friend played it and described it as barely tolerable.

(Beta, I may update this for balancing.) This is a full area+boss door rando. It uses the "minimizer" settings but it plays more like a full game in that it uses the full world and requires you to traverse much of it to win. It uses beam doors + door color changes too. The basic idea of this seed is to create a seed with multiple possible paths through it. I planned and tested a few intended paths, but there may be more that I was not aware of. The seed is beatable using only "regular" techniques but designed so that players can benefit from more advanced techniques. I have tried to make items accessible in different ways and made ways to skip most items, while still making a challenging seed that makes you work to find items to progress.

Settings:
* Anti soft lock layout modifications
* Area escape randomization
* Area layout additional access to east Wrecked Ship
* Area layout additional modifications
* Area layout modifications
* Beam doors
* Crocomire in its own area
* Minimizer
* Progressive suits
* Red doors open with one Missile and do not react to Super
* VARIA tweaks

Enjoy!!! And please give me feedback in the discord, I would like to refine this to balance the paths so that no one path is overwhelmingly faster than the others.

This is an area boss rando that does require Xray climb. which is the hardest part, and more of a testament to Rando Tech. As the title suggests once you start there really is no wrong way to go just a couple challenging points. There will be portions with suitless stuff i.e Hellruns and some wet stuff

my plando

The title says it all. ;) Area/door/boss rando. Completable within the standard NMG ruleset. GLHF.

Multi-troid edition Plando! This plando was designed in mind to be used in correspondence on http://multitroid.com/ , but if you have no friends (like me) don't worry about it! This plando is packed full with all sorts of fun, it's the classic Eden plando experience!


spoilers:
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Boss rando, suitless maridia if you want it, semi suitless norfair. I like the flexibility of this one!

I named this plando Only_One_Percent because that's about how many SM runners will be able to complete it. The site will say it can't be completed but I have tested and beaten it. Good luck to anyone who tries :)

Beam upgrades are overrated!

Now with more Spazer! Contains hidden items!

i have no idea why i made this. enjoy.

Based on Weekly Race 120a, with a small edit suggested by Dagkhi.

There are two (or three?) routes for completing this plando. Which poison will you pick?

This seed is not actually a plando, though it was really hard. I raced it with jooniejoone and it was good fun, and in some places it really felt like a plando. This seed is a full, area, boss, and door shell rando, and it has a random starting location. Full details can be found here. https://randommetroidsolver.pythonanywhere.com/customizer/963b8bcb-3a8a-4039-b76a-d2079b3f744a

Not even a plando, just a garbage area rando I rolled. Logical access to [REDACTED] is dumb as all heck!

hope you can xray climb :>

After Samus took a long vacation, the space pirates underwent a very deep remodeling of Zebes, putting in all the stupidest stuff they could... now you have to get to the bottom of this monstrosity and defeat mother brain, after completing two of the following objectives;
- Kill Ridley
- Kill Draygon
- Clear East Maridia
- Clear West Maridia
- Clear Upper Norfair
- Clear Lower Norfair

No OoB, L+R, pause abuse, or artificial items are required.

Anything and everything can be changed about the game in this plando including but limited to:
Door colors, Room layouts, Enemy Health, vulnerabilities, and damage.

This ROM was specifically made to torture JoonieJoone.
If you can complete this, you are a true master of the game.

Made back in October 2021, area/door/boss rando

Made back in March 2022, area/door/boss rando

door rando, with objectives and fast tourian

I plando''ed the first part of this run so that it would play out in a specific way, other then that it''s random, have fun.

Save often, the escape is a bit complicated.

This seed is built to where the game forces you through a path fighting Ridley first and Kraid last, like a RBO, but with randomized areas and items

Just a regular spicy door shell rando

Some may hate this but idc, it''s pretty flashy imo.

A revision of Super Metroid, items like Spring Ball and X Ray scope are easier to get while also balancing E tanks, Missiles Supers and Power Bombs

Super Metroid. "What is sacred?" No suits, vanilla map.

Hello.This is 1 of the best rando that i have gotten.Its fun,but,you gotta choose the ways in the rando.Because you could just...not be lucky and die.Enjoy The Randomizer Rom!

the hardest, has area rando

Spazer gets its revenge

Simple area and boss rando

hard but not that hard

Don't play this seed, it is as slow as it gets

Basically I made a seed where it's way easier to sequence break into random spots. Experiment a bit with where you can go, because I moved some majors around to be in more convenient spots. Also, expect a couple more super missile tanks than usual.

"Hard mode" of Super Metroid, intended to be quite difficult. All items present, but progression is locked down significantly. Intended to be done with "vanilla" gameplay; no glitches (even things like Mockball) required, though obviously you're welcome to use them. The solver doesn't think this plando can be finished even on the master setting (with all techniques known), but you can finish it just by normal gameplay (you do need to be good at wall jumping). I hope it's fun :)

couldent beat from lack of skill, ironic

Mission accomplished once you find both suits. This uses SMRAT logic.

It's SMRAT logic... but all the same good luck! The solver says it is valid with SMRAT2021 settings.

No major glitches or memory corruption allowed. This was playtested.
One room in Lower Norfair was changed to allow for my routing, you'll know when you see it.
Heavy savestate use is recommended, you can softlock easily. One last thing, if you stream this please let me know, I'd love to watch.
Good luck!
area/boss/door

The concept is sort of: One of everything is in the hack.

Note: Rainbow beam is nerfed. Door color randomization patch is applied, however none of the other varia tweaks or anti-softlock patches are present.

Note 2: The solver says this cannot be beaten, but I believe in you.

I made this for mm2nescartridge because he's always saying bad things about springball. This is a minimizer-style plando (area and boss transitions are mixed, and you can escape boss fights at any time) but all 100 locations are in the game and all item locations have an item.

NOTE: this does not mean all items are in the game

Save often, and keep in mind your previous 2 saves will be stored in case you softlock.

Happy bouncing!!

hello once again,This is my simple rom-hack witch i made with the super metroid integrated level editor. (Basically With Smile) And Enjoy This Rom-Hack. WARNING:this is not a randomizer,This is a rom-hack. also if you want like the game 4-3 stars and i will make more rom hacks.

A fairly easy redistribution, most areas allocated with one ammo type scattered about and items mostly spread out to make pickup common. Most suit upgrades are collected right before they would be useful, albeit with a few exceptions that shouldn''''t make much difference. Phantoon is fought with Varia, Ice, Charge, and maybe two energy tanks, so this is somewhat difficult, but everything else should be fairly simple. 100% can be achieved in 2 hours easy.

The name is based on comedian Ryan George''''s Pitch Meeting catchphrase "Super Easy, Barely an Inconvenience."

The title says it all!

I decided to make this for Joonie after watching him play through jailsonmendes' "Super Mega Easy Metroid" hack.

**DO NOT** attempt to save the animals, because the game will crash - I don't know why.

Enjoy! :)

A plando that creates a unfairly togh challenge on the player.

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This plando doesn't require an incredibly high level of skill, but I assessed this as master level because it does require some techniques that aren't recognized by the varia site. Consider the difficulty at a speedrunner rating. See if you can find all the missiles!

Glitches required, this is my 4th plando on the plandository, nothing special in terms of numbers but I'm continuing with my naming theme of them. Trying to make plandos with new ideas and not reusing anything from previous ones I've made, and this one checks all the boxes. This is somewhat reset heavy I'd say for most players especially at the start. gets kinda easy late in the plando but that's just how it is, gotta give you items eventually. if you need help with it, I am in the varia discord, if you want, you can dm me on discord: Forever#6079, discord is changing their username stuff soon though for seemingly no reason, no reason for it imo but whatever. I will update this description if needed with discord contact. can also ask me on my twitch stream: ForeverMHW if you can catch me live.

For this plando, I decided to mix things up. In order to complete it, you will need to utilize the following cheat code: 7ED82C 00.

What does this “cheat code” do, you ask? Don’t worry about it. ;) You’ll figure it out when the time comes...

Area/door/boss rando. Boss and area transitions are mixed, and you can exit boss fights at any time (minimizer/boss rush). There are no hidden items. Anti-softlock patches, VARIA tweaks, and area rando layout patches are applied.

Major glitches, single-wall suitless underwater walljumps, and pausing to survive with 0 energy are not required and thus discouraged.

Use of savestates is intended and encouraged, as needed. GL! :)

One day beeps was like "hey joonie make me a bs plando." This is the result. Feel free to make savestates. It sucks. beeps beat it with savestates (in just one spot). I have not personally beaten it. I have not personally played it. I want nothing to do with this garbage. Good luck! :D

Who wants regular missiles when you can have supers? It is SUPER Metroid after all. A

The First Plandomizer made I made! It uses some strange checks and some Area Randomization to completely cut players off from Maridia and Wrecked Ship. However, it uses Scavenger to compensate and allow you to complete the game. I hope you enjoy it!

In this plando, Samus gains all high powered items early, 330 super missiles, and by the end Mother Brain will be absolutely obliterated!

My first plando I uploaded on here. Semi challenging all shuffler seed with objectives included. No Tricks required to complete have fun!

not logically meant for any glitches, but does require (spoilers) suitless maridia. a nice one to try if you want a little challenge that isnt too hard :D

also sorry lmao

VARIA Weekly Casual Co-op 2022-09-10

It''s a New game but with The same level design, pretty strange right? Yes, The game is pretty
Cool (in sertain points).

Have fun!

Recommendations: Use the customizer to change the samus''s ship and herself. (everyone knows that...)

It''s Just a fixed edition of varia X, why The original varia X...... have a big problem, don''t have minor items (like missiles, super missiles & power bombs), so, have fun, and really now!!

Reuploading this with more details, can't delete the old one though, already forgot the key, recommended boss order is Ridley, Kraid, Draygon and lastly Phantoon, you should definately do the Billy Mays room as soon as you can since speed booster and plasma waits there and don't forget the mockball room to the right when you enter green Brinstar.

So, to make it short.
This is an actual seed, given by the Varia website. Not a plando.
It is fantastic. Fan-tas-tic. *chef kiss*

Features area rando, door color rando, yet no super fun.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, features a CUSTOM patch, which will make everything vibrating, like it's the escape. All the time. (unless you shoot supers or hit kagos)

I had too much fun to not share it. 10/10
Keep a tracker with you.

The very first Weekly Race seed!
From the 9th of April 2020 until the 16th. New seed next Friday, make sure to be finished by then!

It has noob logic, it means no trick is in logic. Start easy!

To celebrate 100 Asyncs, I tried to make something special. Something that should be quite a challenge, but to be honest with you - I am afraid it gets really easy once you got the first few items.
There is a special gimmick with 100a and 100b - you''ll be hellrunning, in *every* room you''re in!
The health drain in seed A is about half as of vanilla, or quarter of vanilla in seed B. Seed B therefore should be much easier.

Moonfall and other gimmicks won''t be required, it otherwise all follows Master logic. No items are missing. To make it possible, you''re starting with 3 etanks.
My tip - don''t refill immediatly at the ship, it''ll leave you with less health than you start with. Run! And copy your saves over to avoid softlocking by saving with too low health.
I recommend making save states in case the patches go wrong, too. I''ve tested it for a while, but, you know...

Remember Norfair has heated rooms - you''ll lose health twice as fast there. If you find Gravity, it''s progressive - you''ll lose health twice as slow.

To celebrate 100 Asyncs, I tried to make something special. Something that should be quite a challenge, but to be honest with you - I am afraid it gets really easy once you got the first few items.
There is a special gimmick with 100a and 100b - you''ll be hellrunning, in *every* room you''re in!
The health drain in seed A is about half as of vanilla, or quarter of vanilla in seed B. Seed B therefore should be much easier.

Moonfall and other gimmicks won''t be required, it otherwise all follows Master logic. No items are missing. To make it possible, you''re starting with 3 etanks.
My tip - don''t refill immediatly at the ship, it''ll leave you with less health than you start with. Run! And copy your saves over to avoid softlocking by saving with too low health.
I recommend making save states in case the patches go wrong, too. I''ve tested it for a while, but, you know...

Remember Norfair has heated rooms - you''ll lose health twice as fast there. If you find Gravity, it''s progressive - you''ll lose health twice as slow.

Presenting you the Hundred-and-Ninth Varia Weekly Race.

Sunday is Mothers'' Day in a pretty wide amount of countries, so I thought it''d be funny if I did something about it.
There are no bosses in this seed - except Mother Brain, to which you need to wish a happy Mothers'' Day.
That does mean Tourian is open from the start, whenever you find it, as this also is a minimizer.

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 10a (12th June 2020 until 19th June 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Speedrunner*
Start Location - Landing Site
Majors Split - Full
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - No Cap*
Progression Speed - Slowest*
Progression Difficulty - Harder*
Morph Placement - Early
Suit Restrictions - On*
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - Off
Proportion of Missiles - 5
Proportion of Supers - 2
Proportion of Power Bombs - 1
Percentage of Minors - 50
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - Vanilla

Area Randomization - Off
Boss Randomization - Off
Escape Randomization - Off

Super Fun Combat - On
Super Fun Movement - On
Suitless - On

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks
Animals Surprise*
Randomized Background Music*

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 10b (12th June 2020 until 19th June 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)
Use an actual timer, or the ship cutscene. We ain't got a timer at the end of the credits.

Settings used :
This seed has been generated using a tool exterior to VARIA.
This is the World Randomizer from https://www.worldrandomizer.com/.
Use Start + Select to warp back to the ship! It doesn't work during the escape, though...

Starting Items - Missile, Morph, Bombs
Two Statues Rooms - Yes
Two of each Major Boss - Yes
No TP during Escape - Yes
Logic - Easy
Placed Items - 'Two Majors' preset

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 11 (19th June 2020 until 26th June 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Casual*
Start Location - Landing Site
Majors Split - Full
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - Hard*
Progression Speed - VARIAble
Progression Difficulty - Easier
Morph Placement - Early
Suit Restrictions - On*
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - Off
Proportion of Missiles - 3
Proportion of Supers - 2
Proportion of Power Bombs - 1
Percentage of Minors - 100
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - Vanilla

Area Randomization - Off
Boss Randomization - Off
Escape Randomization - Off

Super Fun Times - Off

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks
Animals Surprise*

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 12 (26th June 2020 until 3rd July 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Casual*
Start Location - Random*
Majors Split - Full
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - Hardcore
Progression Speed - Random*
Progression Difficulty - Random*
Morph Placement - Random*
Suit Restrictions - Random*
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - Off
Proportion of Missiles - 3
Proportion of Supers - 2
Proportion of Power Bombs - 1
Percentage of Minors - Random*
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - Random*

Area Randomization - Random*
Boss Randomization - Random*
Escape Randomization - Off

Super Fun Times - Off

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks
NoFanfare*
FastTransitions*
Animals Surprise*

''Pick your Poison'', a plando crafted with Kyzentun''s delicate skills, showcased for our 120th Async Race.

Two ways through this seed, which will you choose?
(Would you find a third way, you are welcomed to tell Kyzentun about it)

''''''''Master Memer'''''''', a beta seed featuring the new Custom Objectives, showcased for our 120th Async Race.

Kill the red Skultera (or just tickle it with grapple, that''''s the goal after all),
Kill the red Geemer (think of the ''''hota shot'''' technique instead of wasting a power bomb for extra swag points),
Kill Shaktool,
Visit Etecoons and Dachora,
And activate the Bowling and Lower Norfair Chozos, while killing the Crateria and Lower Norfair Torizos.
Killing King Cacatac is a bonus for true completion, but isn''''''''t actually required due to the 5 objectives limit.
Keep in mind Zebes will blow up with your last meme!

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 13 (3 July 2020 until 10 July 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Casual*
Start Location - Watering Hole*
Majors Split - Full (Forced by Randomizer)
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - Hardcore
Progression Speed - Speedrun*
Progression Difficulty - Normal
Morph Placement - Normal* (Forced by Randomizer)
Suit Restrictions - Off (Forced by Randomizer)
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - Off
Proportion of Missiles - 3
Proportion of Supers - 2
Proportion of Power Bombs - 1
Percentage of Minors - 100
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - Ultra Sparse*

Area Randomization - On*
Boss Randomization - Off
Escape Randomization - On* (Enemies NOT removed)*

Super Fun Times - Off

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks

"Through Hell and Back" by Kyzentun.

Samus is on a mission to defeat Mother Brain, even if it means going through hell.

This seed was offered by Kyzentun for the 130th Varia Weekly Async. It is supposed to be extremely difficult.

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 14 (10 July 2020 until 17 July 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Veteran*
Start Location - Landing Site
Majors Split - Chozo*
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - Easy*
Progression Speed - Speedrun*
Progression Difficulty - Normal
Morph Placement - Normal* (Forced by Rando)
Suit Restrictions - On
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - Off
Proportion of Missiles - 3
Proportion of Supers - 2
Proportion of Power Bombs - 1
Percentage of Minors - 100
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - Vanilla

Area Randomization - Off
Boss Randomization - Off
Escape Randomization - Off

Super Fun Times - Off

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks
FastTransitions
NoFanfare
Animals Surprise*

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 15 (17 July 2020 until 24 July 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Regular
Everything else is Random. It's a mystery for everyone.

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks
FastTransitions
NoFanfare
Animals Surprise*

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 16 (24 July 2020 until 31 July 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - SMRAT2020*
This preset includes no tricks, except Infinite Bomb Jump.

Start Location - Landing Site
Majors Split - Full
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - Easy*
Progression Speed - VARIAble
Progression Difficulty - Normal
Morph Placement - Early
Suit Restrictions - Off*
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - Off
Proportion of Missiles - 3
Proportion of Supers - 3*
Proportion of Power Bombs - 1
Percentage of Minors - 100
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - Vanilla

Area Randomization - Off
Boss Randomization - Off
Escape Randomization - Off

Super Fun Times - Off

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks are disabled!*
Animals Surprise*

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 17 (31 July 2020 until 7 August 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Regular

Start Location - Landing Site
Majors Split - Full
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - Hardcore
Progression Speed - Medium
Progression Difficulty - Normal
Morph Placement - Early
Suit Restrictions - On
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - Off
Proportion of Missiles - 3
Proportion of Supers - 2
Proportion of Power Bombs - 1
Percentage of Minors - 100
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - Vanilla

Area Randomization - Off
Boss Randomization - Off
Escape Randomization - Off

Super Fun Times - Off

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks
NoFanfare
FastTransitions

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 18 (7 August 2020 until 14 August 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Veteran*

Start Location - Landing Site
Majors Split - Full
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - Hardcore
Progression Speed - Slow
Progression Difficulty - Harder
Morph Placement - Early
Suit Restrictions - On
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - On
Proportion of Missiles - 1.5
Proportion of Supers - 1
Proportion of Power Bombs - 1
Percentage of Minors - 100
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - Vanilla

Area Randomization - Off
Boss Randomization - Off
Escape Randomization - Off

Super Fun Times - Off

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks
NoFanfare
FastTransitions

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 19 (14 August 2020 until 21 August 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Regular

Start Location - Landing Site
Majors Split - Chozo*
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - Hardcore
Progression Speed - VARIAble
Progression Difficulty - Normal
Morph Placement - Early
Suit Restrictions - On
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - On
Proportion of Missiles - 3
Proportion of Supers - 2
Proportion of Power Bombs - 1
Percentage of Minors - 100
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - Vanilla

Area Randomization - On
Boss Randomization - On
Escape Randomization - On

Super Fun Times - Off

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 2 (17 april 2020 to 23 april 2020)
It's a bit more of a challenge, you'll start in Lower Norfair. And Area Rando is on. Also you got Pseudo-Charge and Progressive Suits.
Come play it in the Discord server! (link is at the top of the page)

On a notice, I'll mention that this ROM failed to generate for quite a while. Let's see if this is doable, eh?


Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Regular
Start Location - Firefleas Top*
Majors Split - Full
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - Hardcore
Progression Speed - VARIAble*
Progression Difficulty - Easier*
Morph Placement - Early
Suit Restrictions - Off
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - Off
Proportion of Missiles - Random*
Proportion of Supers - Random*
Proportion of Power Bombs - Random*
Percentage of Minors - Random*
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - Vanilla

Area Randomization - Yes* (Layout patches included)
Boss Randomization - Off
Escape Randomization - Yes* (Enemies Removed)

Super Fun Times - Off

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks
Nerfed Charge Beam from Start*
Suits: Progressive*
No Fanfare*
Fast Doors and Elevators*

The Varia Randomizer Weekly Race 20a (21 August 2020 until 28 August 2020)
Come share your results in the Discord Server! (discord.varia.run)

This features a unique patch! Samus' health will drain continuously, like a slow, permanent hellrun. Make your way through safely!

Settings used :
A star* means this has been changed manually while generating.

Skills - Casual

Start Location - Landing Site
Majors Split - Chozo*
Maximum Pickup Difficulty - Hardcore
Progression Speed - Speedrun*
Progression Difficulty - Normal
Morph Placement - Early
Suit Restrictions - On
Hide Some Items - Off
Strict Minor Distribution - On
Proportion of Missiles - 3
Proportion of Supers - 2
Proportion of Power Bombs - 1
Percentage of Minors - 96*
Quantity of Energy/Reserve Tanks - 22* (4 Etanks more than vanilla)

Area Randomization - Off
Boss Randomization - Off
Escape Randomization - Off

Super Fun Times - Off

Patches :
Anti-Softlock Layout Patches
VARIA Tweaks