Early Dark Beam

• You can get Dark Beam as your first item in Agon, whether you skipped item loss or not.
• Do the Sandigger SW and wallcrawl all the way to Command Center, and then go left from here. The next room needs to be force loaded, so shoot the first door and walk near it to start the loading process. Be absolutely certain to not hold R when transitioning to this next room, since that crashes the game for some unknown reason.
• From here you have two options: you can fight Dark Samus before Dark Beam or not fight her.
• You want to do the first option in Any% and the second option in Low% and 100%.
• If not fighting, transition to Main Reactor then scan dash left off the top of the door and walk to Storage D so it loads around you.
• If fighting Dark Samus, walk into Main Reactor while it's loading so that you are placed where the fight trigger would be. When it finishes loading, you will activate the fight and be warped inbounds. Defeat Dark Samus and take the elevator up to Storage D.