Super Metroid Hints

When you are escaping during the countdown at the very end of the game don't go straight to your ship from Crateria's caves. Instead, go to the room where you first acquired the morph ball bombs. Inside should be the critters that helped you escape certain rooms earlier in the game. Once they leave the room you can exit too from where you entered. Saving them will affect the ending.

This is a glitch that exploits an error in the detection of valid hits in the various green gates scattered across Zebes

Make sure the gate's tab faces to the left and you are on its right. Stand some distance, maybe 5-6 tiles or more, from the gate. Hold the run button and right before you reach the gate tap the jump button while simultaneously aiming up and to the left and firing a super missile. With patience and skill you will open the gate from the ''wrong'' side.

Exploit this glitch to obtain the Screw Attack without facing Golden Torizo or to obtain the Grapple Beam by an alternate path, or even beat the game without shattering the Maridian tube


Higher Jump
In Super Metroid when you get the Gravity Suit you can move underwater freely. However there is a trick that you can use to jump higher underwater. First find a location that is fully submerged in water. Try a room in Maridia or the room before Lower Norfair (the ones with filled with Lava) Next hold the jump button. Immediatly after you press it press pause. Go to the inventory menu and switch off the gravity suit. Hold the jump button and unpause the game. You will jump higher than normal. Use this trick to get the screw attack before the space jump.

Murder Beam
By equiping all five beams at the game time you can kill Motherbrain pretty easyly.

To equip all five beams at the same time go into the equipment screen in the Sub-Menu. You will notice that the Spazar Beam in unequiped because the Plazma Beam cancels out the Spazar. Equip the Spazar Beam (thus unequiping the Plazma Beam) then move the curser over to one of the Boot Upgrades. Hit Left and the A Button at the same time to equip the Plazma Beam. If you did it right then the letters Var should appear next to the Plazma Beam.

To complete the glitch you must first charge your beam before equiping all five beams. After your beam is charged all the way equip all five beam the way I decirbed above the fire it at say Motherbrains head (when it's laying on the ground). If you did it right then an orange orb should stay behind and contanly hit Motherbrain. Equip your beams reqularly.

NOTE: This beam can crash your game if not done correctly.

Samus clones
First, you need the speed boots and X ray visor. This is fairly easy to pull off.

Switch to the weapon that is before the Visor. Start holding the boost button while running until you see those silhouettes of Samus. Now still holding the boost button switch to the X ray visor. You will stop and you will see those silhouttes in full color mimicing your every move.

Once you let go of the button the sillhouttes will disapear.

Crystal Flash
This allows you to refill your Energy Tanks.
1. You must have 49 or less energy units.
2. You must have 10 or more missiles 10 or more Super Missles and 11 or more Power Bombs.
3. Choose the Power Bomb icon, and morph.
4. Press and hold the L,R, and shot buttons and hold DOWN on the control pad.
You will absorb the blast and refill your energy.

Kill Draygon in one hit
As soon as the boss fight with Draygon begins, note the four turrets firing electricity from the walls - two on either side. Before Draygon even shows up, blast away all four turrets with charge shots. See how the turrets spew out electricity after being killed? Equip the Grapple Beam and get ready to use this to your advantage.

Instead of fighting Draygon the normal way allow him to grab you. While he's swinging you about the room use the Grapple Beam to latch on to one of the panels on the wall that was once occupied by a turret. The electricity will go through the Grapple Beam, through your suit and to Draygon himself. Samus will stay locked on until Draygon dies.

Secret Attacks
First Equip the Charge Beam and ONE other beam ability e.g. ice or wide
(NOT two)
Select the power Bombs but do not enter morph ball mode.
Charge your beam up and you should use one of the following secret attacks
Ice- A shield will form around you damaging enemies you touch
Wave-Energy Balls circle you then Fire away from you in various directions
Plasma-Same as wave but with Plasma effect
Spazer- Large beams fire away from you like shrapnel
This will use up one of your Power Bombs
(It may not work if you've just finished charging give it another second)

Around the last save station, close to Mother Brain, you can't go back to the above ground area. So, instead of going in to fight Mother Brain before you have everything, get everything. Otherwie you'll get stuck like me. :(