TTYD Palace Skip Route

Note: This route is currently RNG-heavy and is extremely difficult. This route also needs some more work, as it does not make much use of Mega Rush P, and it also needs to be more consistent.

Timing starts when you accept the file name

Note: Leave the memory card out to skip the autosave at the start of the game. There are no autosaves after this so you can put it in any time after the curtain pulls.


Prologue


*Rogueport*
Lord Crump
Mario: Jump x2
Superguard
Mario: Jump x2


Note: It's always faster to fail the action command for the 2nd jump.


Goombella joins your party
Break Contact Lens
Toad Bros. Bazaar
-Order Contact Lens
-Buy 2 Fire Flowers
-Buy 6 Fright Masks
Hit the Save Block (If you don't, Goombella will explain saving to you. If you never save it is faster to have Goombella explain it)


Robbed by Bandit (Don't chase him to get the coins back, you make it up later)
Meet Frankly
3 text boxes, up a, b


*Rogueport Sewers*
Goomba Trio
Fright Mask


Get the Star Piece from behind the block
Get Pretty Lucky from invisible block (directly south of Puni hole)


Get Black Key and Plane Curse
Go to the Thousand-Year Door


*Rogueport*
Equip Power Smash (before you go down the pipe)


*Rogueport Sewers*
Blooper Battle
Goombella: Fire Flower
Mario: Failed Power Smash
Goombella: Headbonk x2
Mario: Full Power Smash

Optional: Speed Swap to skip waiting for the last platform to move to the pipe
Go to Petal Meadows


Chapter 1


*Petal Meadows*
Collect Close Call on the 2nd screen
Go to Petalburg


*Petalburg*
Talk to Mayor Kroop
E-Mail on the way to the gate (Don't check it yet, it is faster to do so later)


Get the Star Piece in first bush in the first area east of Petalburg
Get POW block in box


Bald Clefts
Mario: POW Block


Get POW Block from bush


Bristles
Mario: POW Block


Get Fire Flower from Block
Use the recover block to heal outside Shwonk Fortress


*Shhwonk Fortress*
Thwomp Quiz
Q1: “Stone Keys” (1st Answer)
Q2: “12 Coins” (3rd Answer)
Q3: “Kroop” (4th Answer)
Q4: “Hooktail Castle” (2nd Answer)
Q5: “Go Through a Pipe” (3rd Answer)


Get Moon Stone


Fuzzy Battle
Mario: Fire Flower


Get Sun Stone


Fuzzy Battle
Mario: Fright Mask


Gold Fuzzy Battle
Mario: Full Power Smash
(Fuzzy horde appears)
Goombella: Headbonk x2 on Gold Fuzzy
Guard Fuzzy horde
Superguard Gold Fuzzy
Mario: Jump x2 on Gold Fuzzy
Goombella: Headbonk x2 on Gold Fuzzy (x1 if you land the superguard)


Get Multibounce from block
Go Back to Petal Meadows


*Petal Meadows*
Koops joins your party
Get Fire Flower from block


Go to Hooktail Castle


*Hooktail Castle*
Get Power Bounce in first hall from block


Koops’ Dad letter (don’t read)
Red Bones Battle
Koops: Fire Flower
Mario: Failed Power Smash


Level up! (FP > 10)


Use “Lock Jump” and “Flip Skip” in the Yellow/Purple Block Puzzle
Get the Star Piece while doing Flip Skip
Go all the way to the right and get Black Key from chest
Get Paper Curse
Get Attack FX R

As you unspin from bars (pause menu will cut this animation short)
Unequip Power Smash
Equip Attack FX R
Equip Power Bounce
Check the e-mail


Note: you can equip these badges any time before Hooktail, I just always do it at this point so this is where I wrote it down.

Backtrack to Red Bones room and get Castle Key
Go back to Save Block/Big Green block room and ride the block up to unlock the door


In Upper Hallway, hit first “!” block
Use Koops to hit 2nd “!” block


Note: You can jump to the window without hitting the second block.  It saves 8 seconds. However, if you mess up and fall below, you waste about 30 seconds.


In big green block room, grab life shroom on the way up with Koops.


Ms. Mowz Cutscene
Get Castle Key


Dry Bones
Mario: Run Away


Go through locked door
Get last Castle Key and go through big locked door


Boss: Hooktail
Mario: Power Bounce x9
Koops: Shell Toss
Guard Hooktail Fire
Mario: Power Bounce x8
Koops: Shell Toss
Hooktail Cutscene (Answer “Yes” for 1000 coins to take 5HP of damage)
Mario: Power Bounce x8
Koops: Shell Toss


Peach Segment
Enter shower area and leave immediately to open door (you don’t have to take a shower)
Visit TEC


Bowser Segment
Walk to the end of the hall


Intermission
(Peach Email before bridge in Petal Meadows)
Get the Star Piece in the tree to the left of the pipe to Rogueport Sewers
Optional: Speed Swap to skip waiting for the last platform to move to the pipe

Get Mega Rush P next to Kroop's house
Go back to the Thousand-Year Door
Go into the sewers to the room with Dazzle
Get the Star Piece behind the pillar next to Dazzle
Buy Item Hog from Dazzle
Go to Boggly Woods


Chapter 2


*Boggly Woods*
Go right for Shadow Sirens cutscene
Go to the Great Tree
Talk to Punio by the door
Talk to Punio again

Leave Great Tree for Flurrie cutscene
Go to Flurrie’s House
Get P-Down, D-Up P in the hidden block on the way to Flurrie’s
Raise Plane Panel


Talk to Flurrie
Leave Flurrie’s house for Shadow Sirens cutscene
Go back to the Shadow Sirens
Get Quake Hammer in the block on the way to the Shadow Sirens


Shadow Sirens
Mario: Jump x2 on Marilyn
Koops: Power Shell
Guard all attacks
Mario: Full Earth Tremor
Koops: Power Shell

Note: If you superguard both Vivian AND Marilyn, you can do 4 bars of Earth Tremor instead of the full 5.


Grab necklace
Go back to Flurrie’s House


Flurrie joins your party
Go back to Great Tree
(Email on screen with great tree)
Blow away secret entrance and enter Great Tree


*The Great Tree*
X-Nauts
Mario: Fright Mask


Go to the top of the tree (where the cells are)
Enter storage room


X-Naut
Mario: Power Bounce x4


Get Red Key and unlock Elder
Get Power Punch on the way back to Tree Entrance


Get 10 Punies and Puni Orb
Use Puni Orb to make Pipe appear


X-Nauts
Mario: Fright Mask

Level up! (BP > 6)


Blow Punies across gap (unlock door while they are in bubbles)


10 Jabbi fight
Get Blue Key


Use Flurrie to stun Pider on the way back. You can also walk on the southernmost part of the screen, but the Punies may fall down, so stunning the Pider is safer.

Pick up Thunder Rage from the bush in the bubble room (leave the Punies here)


Go back to cells and release all Punies.


“Puni Glitch” down to the pipe below. It is luck if your count drops to 75 or 45 right away.


Go back to bubble room and blow the 91 Punies across


Puni Glitch down to the next pipe
Reveal Hidden block below Damage Dodge P with Koops (switch fast)

Note: You can hit the invisible block with your hammer, but you have to be in a very specific spot, and if you waste too much time setting up, the Pider will scare the Punies. Koops is recommended.


100 Jabbi fight


Goombella Buffer


Puni glitch to the pipe in the next room.


Use Koops to hit Blue switch in water room


Note: If you time it right, you can hit the switch at the same time you go down the pipe, which saves time on the pipe traversing cutscene. This is somewhat risky if you time it too early.

Note 2: It is luck-based, but you can use the Puni glitch across the platforms and go down the pipe, skipping the scene to lower the water. I don’t recommend this.


Go down pipe and place Puni orb in the next 2 spots to reveal Crystal Star Leave the punies in the pillar and start the first escape

X-Nauts
Mario: Fright Mask

During the first escape, go and grab the super boots
Get Charge with Koops on the way back
Return back to the escape room (via red door) and re-trigger the escape


Chase Crump back to tree entrance (leave Punies, you don’t need them)


X-Nauts
Mario: Fright Mask


Escape to front of tree


Boss: Magnus Von Grapple
Koops: Power Punch on Mario
Mario: Power Bounce x7
Superguard Magnus Attack
Koops: Shell Toss
Mario: Power Bounce x6
Magnus creates fists
Mario: Power Bounce x6
Koops: Shell Toss (if needed)

Note: you can get capped at 6 here, so if you miss the Superguard, the fists may attack you. Just be sure to do 30 damage as soon as possible.


Peach Segment
Visit TEC for dancing (just walk around the door until it opens)


Bowser Segment
Beat 1-1 (161 is best possible time, 160 if you get the meats)


Intermission
(Peach Email outside Great Tree)
Leave Boggly Woods
Go to The Thousand-Year Door

Howz of Badges
  Sell the following 5 badges:
        -P-Down, D-Up P
        -Attack FX R
        -Close Call
        -Power Smash
        -Pretty Lucky

        -Buy Power Rush

Do Ultra Hammer Early

Toad Bros Bazaar
        -Buy Contact Lens

Charlieton
        -Buy Mega Rush
        -Buy Boo Sheet

Note: If Charlieton isn’t selling Mega Rush or the Boo sheet, go to the Glitzville Blimp/Excess Express area to reset what he’s selling.

West Side Goods
        -Buy Dried Shroom (receive Mushroom)
        -Buy Dizzy Dial

Answer anything for first question, “Yellow” for second (3rd option)
Talk to Don Pianta

West Side Goods
        -Buy Life Shroom
        -Store 1 Life Shroom, 1 Dizzy Dial, 1 Mushroom, 1 Dried Shroom

On your way to the harbor, check to see if Charlieton has Mega Rush or the Boo Sheet if you didn’t get it 1st try.


Go to Rougeport Harbor and talk to Francesca


Toad Bros Bazaar
        -Buy 6 Fright Masks (1 is an extra)


Go Back to Don Pianta and get Blimp Ticket
(Email on the way to the sewers)
Enter the vent into the sewers
Do Teleporter Room Early

Go 2 rooms to the right
Read the red note
Go right to Grodus’ office and get a card key
Go into the far left room and get the card key
Go in the first teleporter on the left and go to Sublevel 1


Go right and enter access code (014029)
Thwomp Quiz
Q1: Elevator Key (3rd answer)
Q2: Koopie Koo (4th answer)
Q3: 6 Feet (2nd answer)
Q4: Hooktail’s Belly (3rd answer)
Q5: Prince Mush (1st answer)

Get Elevator Key
Go to Sublevel 2
Take the teleporter back to Rogueport Sewers (First door to the right of the elevator)


Go to Glitzville

Inventory should currently be:
-6 Fright Masks
-(Boo Sheet if you got it)
-1 Thunder Rage
-1 Life Shroom
-1 Fire Flower

Chapter 3

Take the Blimp back to Rogueport (This is necessary)
Go back to Glitzville

*Glitzville*
Move backwards against the Minor League door to be able to open it

Note: If you get “Use at least 1 special move” you should almost always fail an earth tremor, as it is the fastest thing to do. If you don’t have enough SP for an earth tremor, it is faster to sweet treat rather than appeal for enough to do an earth tremor. This is also a good backup strat to regain HP/FP if you need it.

Note 2: Jumping while waiting for the guards delays him from entering the room. Try to avoid doing any actions during this time aside from equipping badges/changing partners.

Note 3: For all of the Minor League, you can only get a maximum of 12 extra Star Points. It also saves a lot of time time later on to level up right after defeating the Hand-It-Overs.


4 Text Boxes to each condition

Sleep in the bed and swap to Koops after setting up the match with the Goomba Bros
#19 Goomba Bros (5 Goombas)
Standard: Koops: Power Shell
Don't Attack With Partners: Multibounce
Dont Use FP: Earth Tremor

#18 KP Koopas (2 KP Koopas, 1 KP Paratroopa)
Standard: Koops: Fright Mask, Mario: Jump (if 1 koopa doesn’t run)
No Items: Jumps + Shell Tosses

#17 Pokey Triplets (3 Pokeys)
Standard: Fright Mask
No Items: Ultra Hammer spin

#16 Dead Bones (3 Dull Bones)
Standard: Power Shell
Don't Attack With Partners: Multibounce
Dont Use FP: Hammer + Shell Toss

#15 Spike Storm (2 Spinies and 1 Lakitu)
Standard: Koops: Fright Mask, Mario: Spin Jump (if lakitu doesn’t run)
No Items: Earth Tremor

#14 Mind Bogglers (1 Pale Piranha, 1 Dark Puff, 1 Pider)
Standard: Fright Mask, full Hammer (If Piranha doesn't run)
No Items: Hammer/Jumps + Shell Tosses

(Sleep in the bed if you don't get "Don't use items" and have less than 4 FP)

#13 Punk Rocks (3 Hyper Bald Clefts)
Standard: Thunder Rage
No Items: Ultra Hammer spin

#12 Bomb Squad
Standard: Fire Flower
No Items: Multibounce + Power Shell

#11 Hand-It-Overs (2 Red Bandits, 2 Green Bandits)
Standard: Koops: Fright Mask, Mario: Power Bounce (if 1 Bandit doesn’t run)
No Items: Gale Force, Power Bounce if one is left
(If they run into you, the Red Bandits can steal 5 coins each, and the Green Bandits can steal 10 coins each)

You may level up here. If you do, level up BP

Armored Harriers
#10 Armored Harriers
Mario: Run Away


Yoshi hatches and joins your party
Sleep in the bed to restore your HP and FP


Go to the shop before leaving Glitzville

Glitzville Shop:
        -Store any extra items that you didn't use in the Minor League (Fright Masks, Thunder Rage, Fire Flower)
        -Withdraw the Life Shroom
        -Buy 3 Point Swaps
        -Buy 3 Power Punches
        -Get Ice Storm from 20 shop points

Leave Glitzville

If you don't have Mega Rush and/or the Boo Sheet, check for it now. If Charlieton is not selling them, then you must go to the train/blimp area to reset what he’s selling and come back and check. Keep doing this until he has them.

Go into the vent and into the pipe to the Fahr Outpost area
Get Double Dip P from the hidden block on the screen with the pipe
Go back to the sewers and through the teleporter
Go to the right elevator and go to Sublevel 3
Go left to the third electric tile room and get card key

Note: You can use Yoshi to make the tiles move quickly. Just hop on yoshi, run on the tiles, and hop off. It helps to know the pattern of the room so you stay on the lit panels.


Go right and use the 3 card keys

Get first struck by the X-Naut PhD to do Conveyor Belt Skip

(You will want to try to Guard/Superguard the attack. For the Magnus 2.0 fight, you will want to have either 10 HP, 7 HP, or 6 HP. If you need to heal, you can either use the Heal Block by the Yux, or do Sort Glitch to heal with the Life Shroom.)

While in the background:
        -Equip Mega Rush
        -Equip Power Rush

Navigate the room and hit the stairs switch
Hover with Yoshi to get the card key
Use Card key to enter the final room


Boss: Magnus Von Grapple 2.0
(Magnus's attacks do 6 damage unguarded)
If you have 10 HP:
Mario: Defend
Yoshi: Defend
Guard the attack
Mario: (If you will level up from this fight, swap to Goombella. Otherwise you should Appeal so that Yoshi stays out and is put into peril)
Goombella/Yoshi: Power Punch on Mario
Guard the attack
Mario: Power Bounce x5
Goombella/Yoshi: Swap to Yoshi/Defend
Mario: Power Bounce x5

You may level up here. If you do, level up BP


Bowser Segment
Go into Poshley Sanctum


Intermission
Go to Sublevel 4 and talk to TEC
Head to sublevel 2 and go 2 rooms to the left
Leave the X-Naut Fortress via teleport
(Email near loading zone)
Open The Thousand-Year Door


Chapter 8


Run past swoopulas on first staircase
Avoid Bombshell Bills by running between them with Yoshi

(If Mario and Yoshi are at 10 HP, then you need to fight the first set of Bombshell Bill Blasters)

Bombshell Bill Blasters (If you have to fight them)
Mario: Swap to Flurrie/Goombella
Flurrie/Goombella: Swap to Yoshi
Bombshell Bill Blasters create to Bombshell Bills
Mario: Defend
Yoshi: Defend
Guard one of the Bombchell Bills, and don't guard the other one to be put into peril
Swap Yoshi to front
Yoshi: Defend
Mario: Defend
Guard one of the Bombchell Bills, and don't guard the other one to be put into peril
Yoshi: Run Away


Get All or Nothing from the red block in the Spike Room (If you stand to the right of the block and hammer it, the badge will land on you if it goes to the right)
Go through Spike Room
Get the Boo Sheet in the Fire Bar room
First Strike the Phantom Ember with Koops and use the invincibility frames to get past the last fire bars


Make sure you enter the Dark Bones fight with Mario and Yoshi at 1 HP
Before the Dark Bones fight:
        -Unequip Power Bounce
        -Equip Mega Rush P
        -Equip Quake Hammer
        -Equip All or Nothing
        -Swap to Yoshi

(It is faster to only pause once since there is no menu delay on JP)

Dark Bones
Mario: Quake Hammer
Yoshi: Ground Pound on the Dark Bones


Level Up! (BP > 12)


Get Palace Key


Get the Ultra Shroom from the yellow block
Run between Bombshell Bills


Bombshell Bill Blasters
Mario: Run Away


Run between second Bombshell Bills


Bombshell Bill Blasters
Mario: Run Away


Endless Room
Down - Down - Up - Up - Down - Up - Down


Go right to the room before Gloomtail


Equip Item Hog
Perform Palace Skip (You will need to use Sort Glitch on a Life Shroom to do this. You need to do Sort Glitch because you need to keep the Life Shroom in your inventory.)


Hit red “!” switch and use Yoshi to get to the Palace Key


Use the Ultra Shroom outside of any battles to heal Mario to 10 HP
Get First Struck by the Chain Chomp after getting the Palace Key
(Make sure you don't guard the attack. You need to be at 4 HP.)

Chain Chomp (The same one from the First Strike)
Yoshi: Point Swap on Mario
Mario: Run Away


Get the Shooting Star and the Life Shroom from the platforms using Yoshi


Go into the room to the left of the Plane Panel and then go into the room before that one
Get the Point Swap from the hidden yellow block
Take 3 damage from the spikes on the way back
Fall down and use the spring to get back up to the plane panel
Fly across the room and unlock the door


Before Grodus:
        -Unequip Item Hog
        -Unquip Mega Rush P
        -Unquip Quake Hammer
        -Equip Power Bounce
        -Switch to Flurrie

(It is faster to only pause once since there is no menu delay on JP)

Boss: Grodus
Flurrie: Ice Storm
Mario: Power Bounce Grodus x5
Grodus attacks and kills Mario (Guard the attack anyway)
Flurrie: Point Swap on Mario
Mario: Supernova


Boss: Bowser / Kammy Koopa
Flurrie: Power Punch on Mario
Mario: Power Bounce Kammy x5
Bowser kills Mario (Guard the attack anyway)
Mario: Full Hammer
Flurrie: Point Swap on Mario
Guard Bowser's Bite attack to be put into peril
Mario: Power Bounce x6
Flurrie: Swap to Yoshi
Superguard Bowser's attack if he targets Mario
Mario: Power Bounce x6


Level Up! (BP > 15)


After the fight:
        -Equip Double Dip P
        -Equip Charge


Final Boss: Shadow Queen
Mario: Power Bounce x6
Yoshi: Ground Pound
Mario: Power Bounce x6
Yoshi: Ground Pound

If the Shadow Queen attacked Mario:
Mario: Full Hammer
Yoshi: Swap to Flurrie

If the Shadow Queen didn't attack Mario:
Mario: Supernova
Yoshi: Swap to Flurrie

Phase 2 starts
Mario: Failed Jump
Flurrie: Boo Sheet on Mario
Mario: Failed Jump
(If Flurrie is still alive) Flurrie: Defend
Mario: Failed Jump
(If Flurrie is still alive) Flurrie: Defend


Crystal Stars Cutscene


Flurrie: Defend
Mario: Supernova
Shadow Queen attacks (She cannot damage Mario, or the run will be dead)
Flurrie: Double Dip: Shooting Star + Boo Sheet on Mario
Mario: Charge
Flurrie: Double Dip: Power Punch + Point Swap
Mario: Power Bounce x6
Shadow Queen attacks, Flurrie dies
Mario: Power Bounce x6
Bingo refills SP
Shadow Queen attacks (Mario cannot die twice, or the run is dead)
Mario: Supernova


Aftermath
Credits Roll


Timing Ends as soon as you see “The End” on screen after the credits.