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  • Retro Flashback: Discovery of the Golden Torizo Code in Super Metroid

    By Hacker JAM of Metroid Construction

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    Original Post: http://m2k2.taigaforum.com/post/glitch_topic_716.html#glitch_topic_716

    December 1, 2010

    Do you think that everything that can be found in this great 16 y.o. game was found? Wrong! A very interesting glitch (actually code from beta) was found by me. Credit goes to Sadiztyk Fish for pointing out where the code should be activated.

    1. Stand in front of the door leading to Golden Torizo room (no matter from which side). You should be in 3-4 blocks before the border of screen.
    2. Shoot the door to open it.
    3. Morph into the ball.
    4. Lay a bomb.
    5. Roll ahead a bit.
    6. When diagonally bounced by the bomb, press and hold A+B+X+Y. As for me, I’ve used key combo feature in Zsnes because I can’t hold more than 3 button in a time. You should enter the door (that’s why 3-4 blocks)
    7. Enter Golden Torizo room in ball form and keep holding buttons. Of course, you can enter this room while running, but the game will crash then.

    Effect will suprise you

    You’ll get:
    700 Energy (max and current)
    300 Reserve Energy (max and current)
    100 Missiles (max and current)
    20 Super Missiles (max and current)
    20 Power Bombs (max and current)
    All 5 beams collected and equipped (deselect Spazer or Plasma in menu)
    All items except Screw Attack and unknown item with value 0010 (possibly, beta value of Screw Attack or beta value of Hyper Beam)

    Be warned! It affects already collected items. Even if you have 200 Missile, after doing all this you’ll get 100 in total and can’t re-collect items

    I think, this code is used to test Golden Torizo and [its] special abilities against Missiles and Super Missiles

    Demo Video

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    Original Article: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/why-i-super-metroid-i-s-hacking-community-is-still-going-strong

    Community member JAM explained that [reverse engineering] felt like being a “cyber-archeologist.”

    JAM actually stumbled upon [the Golden Torizo cheat code] while looking through the raw assembly code for the game, then posted it on the forum for others to investigate.

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