Max% No Powerbombs analysis

Max%-No-Powerbombs analysis (inbounds, without Spazer+Plasma beam combinations): (last update: 04.05.2018)

The maximum for PAL and NTSC (with the help of Taco's left-side Green Gate Glitch at the gate to the right of the glass tube) with tool-assistance is 82%.

(1) Lower Norfair can be entered with tool-assistance using Wave, Ice and Grapple, for a Moondance application at the entrance to Gravitron, the lavapit room, without having any powerbombs. From there one can use an Ice-clip to get up in Mickey-Mouse-room and then one can loop around to get into Golden Torizo's room.

(2) And for the WS-R.-Tank, with tool-assistance one should (in NTSC aswell as PAL) be able to use frozen enemies in the attic of Wrecked Ship to initiate a Moondance setup and carry the built up speed into Bowling room (using Speedbooster to get past the speed blocks).

The items that can be collected with tool-assisted superplay are listed below.

Crateria:

• Bombs

• Gauntlet-E.-Tank

• Crateria-mushroom-path-E.-Tank

• left Gauntlet-Missile

• right Gauntlet-Missile

• Moat-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• upper Ocean-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• middle Ocean-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• lower Ocean-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Parlor-tunnel-Missile

• old-MB-room-Missile

Brinstar:

• Ball

• Charge

• Spazer

• Varia

• Brinstar-R-Tank

• Blue-Brinstar-E.-Tank

• Kraid-E.-Tank

• right Charge-room-E.-Tank (probably TAS-only)

• Etecoon-E.-Tank

• early SuperMissile

• SporeSpawn-SuperMissile

• Etecoon-SuperMissile

• 1.Missiles

• Blue-Brinstar-E.-Tank-Missile

• left Top-Blue-Brinstar-Missile (probably TAS-only)

• right Top-Blue-Brinstar-Missile (probably TAS-only)

• early-SuperMissile-Missile

• left Brinstar-R.-Tank-Missile

• right Brinstar-R.-Tank-Missile

• upper Charge-room-Missile

• lower Charge-room-Missile

• Brinstar-blue-gate-Missile

Norfair:

• Ice

• Wave

• Highjump

• Speedbooster

• Grapple

• Screw Attack (probably TAS-only)

• Norfair-R.-Tank

• HighJump-E.-Tank

• Crocomire-E.-Tank

• Fireflea-E.-Tank (probably TAS-only)

• GT-SuperMissile (probably TAS-only)

• HighJump-Missile

• upper Norfair-path-Missile

• Bubble-Room-Missile

• Norfair-pre-R.-Tank-room-Missile

• Norfair-R.-Tank-Missile

• Speedbooster-Missile

• Wave-Missile

• Crocomire-shaft-Missile

• Grapple-Missile

• Crocomire-return-path-Missile

• left Norfair-Missile

• Mickey-Mouse-Missile (probably TAS-only)

• 1st-LNF-Exit-Missile (probably TAS-only)

• 2nd-LNF-Exit-Missile (probably TAS-only)

Wrecked Ship:

• Gravity (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• WS-R.-Tank [but this item would need to be collected last, since one cannot escape from there anymore, and it is the only item of this type among the collectible ones] (probably TAS-only)

• WS-E.-Tank (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• left WS-SuperMissile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• right WS-SuperMissile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• WS-R.-Tank-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• WS-shaft-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• right WS-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

Maridia:

• Plasma (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Spacejump (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Maridia-R.-Tank (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• left Maridia-Beach-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• right Maridia-Beach-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Maridia-R.-Tank-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Maridia-Powerbomb-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Mainstreet-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Turtle-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Snail-Room-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Draygon-Missile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Maridia-Beach-SuperMissile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Mainstreet-SuperMissile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Snail-Room-SuperMissile (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Turtle-E.-Tank (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

• Botwoon-E.-Tank (probably TAS-only in the NTSC case)

Items that cannot be collected:

• All 10 powerbomb packs [as sidenote, TAS could pick up early PB, upper-Red-Brinstar-PB, Etecoon-PB, Pink-Brinstar-PB, Crocomire-PB, Fireflea-PB or Maridia-PB as very first powerbomb pack under the above restrictions, in NTSC aswell as PAL]

• X-Ray (due to the powerbomb door and powerbomb block wall being in the way)

• Springball (due to a powerbomb block wall in Shaktool's room)

• Waterway-E.-Tank (since the item is past a powerbomb block under Charge beam's location, and no Moondance setup can reach the powerbomb block)

• Ridley-E.-Tank (because of the yellow door shell on the way down to Ridley's lair and the powerbomb block statue in the room before the Ninja-Pirates)

• Crateria-SuperMissile (because of a yellow and a grey door blocking the room off, and X-Ray-Climb not being an option without X-Ray)

• early PB-Missile (since it is behind a powerbomb block wall in Red Brinstar)

• Kraid-Missile (because it is behind a powerbomb block wall)

• GT-Missile (because the Spacejump-statue is blocked off by a powerbomb block wall and no Moondance can be initiated to clip past the tunnel-block in the acid, and no Crystal Flash can be executed and no Superjumps can be done without X-Ray)

For players without tool-assistance, 72% currently is the achieved best in PAL and should be the maximum; and for NTSC, the maximum should be 45% by subtracting all the items from the list that were labelled probably TAS-only in the NTSC case from the collectible items in the PAL case without those that were labelled probably TAS-only.

Demonstration videos for the PAL case with 72 collected items:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyIfiSHc9Dg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi2rVhhGx9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IrTCLSmkTs