R-Mode

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R-Mode is used to clip in Botwoon Hallway in esoteric categories such as 14% xChargeless, 14% xSpeed, and 14% xAmmo.

Entering R-Mode

To enter R-Mode, you need the following:

• At least 1 Reserve Tank with at least 1 energy in it, set to Auto
• X-Ray Scope
• An enemy to deal damage to you after you start a door transition
• low enough energy such that taking damage from the enemy will trigger your reserves

First, be sure to have X-Ray Scope selected. Samus must take damage from the enemy after a door transition begins. Hold run after the transition starts so that the X-ray Scope activates as soon as possible upon entering the new room. You want the following things to happen in this specific order:

1) X-ray Scope activates on first possible frame and reserves automatically deploy

2) reserves finish deploying

3) release the run button

4) Samus's knockback from the enemy ends

If knockback ends before reserves finish deploying, don't worry -- you'll still be in R-Mode as long as you keep run held until the reserves finish deploying. However, Samus will be stuck still in a standing position until another enemy collides with her. For this reason, it is advantageous (from a speed perspective) for you to perform this trick with only a little bit of energy in reserve, as this causes reserves to finish deploying sooner. You need to have about <TODO: LEARN THIS NUMBER> energy or less in reserves in order for knockback to outlast reserves filling.

Note that if you let go of run with precise timing, you will enter G-Mode instead. TODO: discuss consequences of accidentally triggering G-Mode instead of R-Mode while entering Botwoon Hallway specifically.

Properties of R-Mode

• The screen will be dimmed.
• If reserves are triggered while already in R-Mode (entering the mode empties your reserves so this requires putting energy into them again first), Samus will be forced into a standing pose. This can be used to perform the Botwoon Hallway clip.