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Project ZM is a work-in-progress vanilla+ hack for the North American (U) Metroid Zero Mission ROM. It is designed to fix errors add new gameplay routes, tricks and mechanics.

Patch Options

• Enable unknown items – Samus’ suit is now compatible with unknown items, right from the start!
• SM controls – Choose between GBA and SNES controls in the options menu.
• Weapon Toggle controls – Separate patch. Instead of having to hold down R to arm missiles or power bombs, the R button toggles them on and off. A great choice for mobile or keyboard play.

Aesthetic changes

• Redesigned minimal HUD and Font
• Power bombs are yellow

Gameplay changes

• Super Metroid style item grabbing and equipment toggling
• Auto-charge beam – Depending on player feedback, this will either remain or disappear.
• Walljump with spacejump – You can now walljump when you have spacejump or space + screw attack.
• Fusion style R-shot – Fire a charged shot without interrupting a spinjump by arming explosives
• Faster shinespark recovery and walljumping – When samus sparks into something, she recovers faster.
• Suitless spacejump in liquids – You can spacejump in liquids without the gravity suit.
• Enemies do not get stunned in hard mode
• Ridley and Mecha Ridley are more difficult
• Improved physics
• Faster room transitions
• Mid-air ballsparking
• Shinespark steering
• Initiate speed booster in Morph ball
• Charge beam sucks in enemy drops

World design changes

• You start the game in Crateria.
• All enemy drops have been doubled.
• Low% is now as low as 4%. (Morph, bombs, Ice beam, missile tank)
• All unknown items and power grip can be skipped.
• A bunch of rooms were changed to make low% without power grip possible.
• Perfect stealth is humanly achievable.
• There is a new way to skip mua and zipline activation, but it has its own set of challenges… (Hint: It’s in a secret room)
• The black space pirates are now weak to any beam. Plasma beam is not required.
• Hard mode and Time attack mode are always available.

• Database match: Metroid - Zero Mission (USA)
• Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20180816-092117)
• File/ROM SHA-1: 5DE8536AFE1F0078EE6FE1089F890E8C7AA0A6E8
• File/ROM CRC32: 5C61A844