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The Zelda Metroid Randomizer

By Anonymous

For those who don't know, Nintendo's 90's console the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (snes) has an incredible variety of near timeless games that are widely considered to be the "golden age" of videogames. Megaman X, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World and Super Mario RPG, and especially the 2 games we're discussing today, Super Metroid and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

These two games have huge communities that still play the games today, almost 30 years later. Super Metroid has one of the largest speedrunning communities, and alongside Metroid, A Link to the Past is considered one of the greatest games ever. 

Despite how good these games are, some people want a little more variety when they play the games. Both games have had randomizers created for them, where a seed is created for the game that swaps the items in the game around entirely, meaning that progression is very different and in some ways WAY harder.

If you think one randomizer sounds hard, you've seen nothing. The Zelda Metroid randomizer is a randomizer of BOTH games simultaneously, meaning items from ALTTP can appear in Super Metroid, and SM items can show up in A Link to the Past. You swap between the games via certain door transitions altered in both games, allowing you to try and find progression based items for one game in the other. I managed to beat mine a few days ago, and they're extremely fun but I would absolutely not recommend to anyone who hasn't either experienced both of these games or at least seen full playthroughs of both.

Anyways, for those who want to take the challenge, I'll link the site and ROM files needed to generate a randomizer. I'd recommend using zsnes9x for the emulator, I could only get it working by putting it in a folder on desktop and running it as administrator though.

Randomizer site

A Link to the Past Japanese rom (the game text is not in japanese as a head's up)
https://theemuparadise.com/zelda-no-densetsu-kamigami-no-triforce-japan-v1-0-rom/

Emulator and Super Metroid links
Emulator  Super Metroid

For those who haven't run ROMs before, remember to extract the content from the .zip files you get from these. Have fun!

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