Glitchless

What is Glitchless?

Glitchless is the umbrella of categories that intends on beating Metroid Dread without the use of glitches, and aspires to beat the game with only raw movement and intended game mechanics.

Sub Categories

• Glitchless any%
• 100% Glitchless
• All Bosses Glitchless
• Glitchless 0%

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List of Glitches/Banned Techniques

Examples of Glitches includes, but are not necessarily limited to:

• Aim Down Clipping
• Air Walking
• Bomuhey Skew
• Camera Lock
• E.M.M.I Warp
• Grappling magnets through walls
• Invincibility
• Ledge Climb Clipping
• Ledge Warp
• Pseudo Wave
• Reverse Grapple
• Reverse Magnet
• Shine Sink Clip
• Shortboost
• Slope Clipping
• Upside-Down Samus
• Water Bomb Jumping (WBJ)

(Source: Speedrun.com Dread Glitchless Rules [1])

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What makes Glitchless unique?

As a result of the number of techniques banned in Glitchless categories, the number of major "tricks" is only a small fraction of the tricks in No Major Glitches and in Unrestricted categories. This means that control of Samus's movement is even more important than in other categories within Metroid Dread as you will quickly run out of tricks that can save significant time off the run.

Primary examples of major Glitchless tricks and sequence breaks include, but are not necessarily limited to:

• Water Slope Skip
• Cataris Adam Skip
• Early Grapple Beam (Intended)
• Backdoor Flash
• Glitchless Early Ice (GEI)
• Early Space Jump (not in All Bosses)
• Early Screw Attack (not in All Bosses)
• Early Gravity Suit (Intended)