Last updated November 4, 2021
Beat the game:
- while collecting as few major items as possible (see item table below)
- without collecting expansions or parts of expansions of any kind (Energy, Missile, Power Bomb)
In Rookie and Normal difficulties, you must collect no more than 20 major items.
You must collect these items:
- Phantom Cloak
- Charge Beam
- Spider Magnet
- Wide Beam
- Morph Ball
- Varia Suit
- Diffusion Beam
- Bomb
- Speed Booster
- Grapple Beam
- Super Missile
- Plasma Beam
- Gravity Suit
- Screw Attack
- Cross Bomb
- Storm Missile
- Wave Beam
- Power Bomb
- Metroid Suit
- Hyper Beam
You cannot collect these items:
- Flash Shift
- Ice Missile
- Pulse Radar
- Spin Boost
- Space Jump
In Hard and Dread difficulties, you must collect no more than 21 major items. In these difficulties, you are required to collect Ice Missile as the damage boost used to avoid it is not possible when playing these difficulties.
You must collect these items:
- Phantom Cloak
- Charge Beam
- Spider Magnet
- Wide Beam
- Morph Ball
- Varia Suit
- Diffusion Beam
- Bomb
- Speed Booster
- Grapple Beam
- Super Missile
- Plasma Beam
- Ice Missile
- Gravity Suit
- Screw Attack
- Cross Bomb
- Storm Missile
- Wave Beam
- Power Bomb
- Metroid Suit
- Hyper Beam
You cannot collect these items:
- Flash Shift
- Pulse Radar
- Spin Boost
- Space Jump