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5% WORLD RECORD 22:29 0:14 IGT Full Category World Record Holder: Total WORLD RECORD RECORDING Twitch Highlight

Category Details Timing Start Timer: On Start Game Stop Timer: Entering Ship Animation Location Begin At: Ceres Station End At: End of Zebes Escape Collection Percentage: 5% Items: Morphing Ball, Bomb, Super Missile, Power Bomb, X-Ray Scope Bosses Major Bosses: None Mini-Bosses: None Boss Order: None Glitches GT Code: No Spacetime: No X-Ray Climb: Yes Out Of Bounds: Yes

5% is a category previously defined as Low% Glitched, superseding 8%, but it was itself superseded by 3%, then by 2%, then by 0%. At the time it was the lowest item percentage possible while beating the game by any means necessary.

This was the first Low% Glitched category to introduce resetting to Ceres to erase missiles from Samus' inventory, leading to the category being defined by the item percentage rather than the number of item pickups.

Note that the current World Record route for Any% Glitched also collects 5%, thanks to newer discoveries.

Route

This category follows the standard early game (except without Charge Beam or the Terminator Energy Tank) up through Early Power Bombs, then collects X-Ray. Afterward, X-Ray climb in Crab Tunnel and warp to Pseudo Plasma Spark Room. Go down to Aqueduct, and navigate Out of Bounds to a certain point, where you'll activate X-Ray to set the escape flag and reset the Ceres flag. Navigate back in-bounds, save, and reset. Once you play through Ceres, Samus will land on the exploding Zebes, and you can re-enter the ship to finish the game.

The out-of-bounds navigation and X-ray activation in Aqueduct is demonstrated in this video.