SMW 96 exit notes

SMW 96-exit notes by Ashanmaril 8/24/2015 - WR by GDF (1:23:28): https://youtu.be/U_1ffy-Qmh8
edited 9/2/2015 for new route

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***Yoshi's Island***
YI2
YI3
YI4
Iggy's Castle: grab flower from flying block in smasher room
Split on fadeout

***Donut Plains***
Donut Plains 1: Fly through level for secret exit. Have 1 flower + 1 cape leaving DP1
Donut Secret 1: Go through pipe for red shell to swim for a few seconds, get normal exit
Donut Ghost House: Normal exit, fly after first door up to door/exit
Donut Plains 3: Get flight off spinning platforms, fly through level
Donut Plains 4: Fly at medium height, start drifting down after second hammer bro, get Yoshi, fly-hop through rest of level
Morton: Take shortcut at beginning of Castle 2, return through entry pipe. Spin fly up, grabbing springboard, use springboard at end, switch to flower before boss.
Split on fadeout

***Vanilla Dome***
VD1: wing glitch if you want, probably not recommended
VD2: Yoshi clip glitch, secret exit
Red Switch
VD2: normal exit
Vanilla Ghost House: Spinjump first ghosts, fly medium until high ghost, fly down a bit to his level, enter door under coins. Run under bubbles, fly medium height until 3 blocks. Get P-switch from middle, take it to coin door, exit.
Regular exit in VD2 (use shell to swim faster)
Vanilla Ghost house - fly through, P-switch in second room, take to end of room, enter secret door
VD3: get Yoshi in VD3, some kind of fast strats or something
VF4: go fast
Larry: Take P-switch door, be fast
Split on fadeout

***Star World***
Cheese Bridge: run and jump in the center of last log, hold all the buttons and level plays itself. Grab wings from block, drop Yoshi in bonus area
Cookie Mountain: Fly through
Cheese Bridge: Fly through beginning, once you get past high chainsaw at the end, float down slow, then shoot down and pull back up to get under goalpost for secret exit
Soda Lake: get hit a bunch, die if you can
SW3: normal then secret exit
SW4: normal exit (fly over level) then secret exit (fly under for key)
SW5: normal exit - run onto first platform a few steps, little jump, spin green koopa, keep running, jump for flight. Need height for high blocks
SW1: zip into a  wall and die (or get normal and secret exit) **grab mushroom if you have feather or nothing in box**
SW2: swim fast w/ blue Yoshi, secret exit. Then swim fast for normal exit, feed Yoshi item before goal post
SW5: Run forward (Yoshi runs over gaps), jump at the end of last platform, hold jump until screen stops scrolling, let go, stick out tongue on way down to grab red shell, jump again and fly all the way through until secret exit
Split on button input to go to Special World

***Special World***
1: Grab blue shell with Yoshi, fly up, hit right block for P-switch, fall against right side of level to go through pipe, flyhop to goalpost
2: wings are stupid, jump onto first platform with yoshi, leap of faith to red koopa, eat red koopa and fly through
3: Run, duckjump onto FAR LEFT of platform, jump at the end, flyjump, keep holding right and you'll land on switchblock, get wings from box
4: Run, grab disco shell, pull back flight to dodge pipe, fly until shell kicker guy at the end, drop down for next shell being kicked, fly low for a second to go under hopping koopa, pull back from pipe, fly through level
5: Grab first koopa, fly for a few seconds, spit it out, grab first koopa in line, fly over pokey and piranha plant, land, spit out shell, grab it again, fly up to hit block and get fire flower, switch back to feather, fly through level
6: Lose Yoshi, get flight from above-water platform after hammer bro
7: Get speed, jump before wiggler, fly
8: Get speed, jump, pull back for a second to dodge piranha plant, fly. Need height to get over 2 pipes, then fall a bit. Become SUPER PLAYER
Split on button input to warp after Special World

***Castle 4/Ludwig***
YI1: grab Fire Flower if you don't have one
Yellow switch
DP1: Normal exit
DP2: Secret exit
Green Switch
DP2: Normal exit
Donut Ghost House: secret exit
Donut Secret 1: secret exit
Donut Secret House: Secret then normal exit (coin door)
Donut Secret 2: Jump over yellow guy at beginning, fly through (need height to get over 2 pipes)
Vanilla Dome 1: Secret exit
Vanilla Secret 1: secret exit and normal exit (dumb strats, just memorize them)
Vanilla Secret 2: Fly
Vanilla Secret 3: Fly
Vanilla Fortress: get hit a million times and lose all your powerups
Butter Bridge 1: memes (btw there's a feather here in case you lost it in the castle)
Butter Bridge 2: Spin through first flying guy, fly. (keep a bit below HUD-height the whole thing)
Ludwig: Learn fast strats. Switch to flower in net room for Ludwig Fight, then back to feather after
Split on fadeout

*** Forest of Illusion ***
FoI1: **RECOVERY FLOWER HERE** Grab Yoshi, fly through level for normal exit
FoI2: **RECOVERY FEATHER HERE** Yoshi clip, secret exit
Blue Switch
FoI1: Get Yoshi, use blue shell to get secret exit this time
Forest ghost house: Fly over wall, enter door past Yoshi coin
FoI2: normal exit
FoI3: Jump after bomb, fly through level for normal exit
Forest ghost house: fly over wall, enter first door (between stair-thing and wall of blocks)
FoI4: Fly low-ish until midpoint, enter blue pipe with Lakitu, secret exit
Forest Secret Area: spinjump onto first platform, hold right, jump at end of second platform for flight (hopefully)
Forest Fortress: beat level
FoI4: Fly through level, normal exit
FoI3: Jump after bomb, fly until green pipe after cluster of ? blocks. Secret exit
Roy's castle: fly high, pass over low podoboo, one pull after him, then drop after cluster of podoboos then pull up high to fly between podoboos. Fly through tunnel of spikes then land. Continue through rest of the level
Split on fadeout

***Chocolate Island***
CI1: (some kind of pipe trick?) Just fly through for now
Chocolate ghost house: fly through first room, take door above room with boo laser
CI2:
http://www.mariowiki.com/Chocolate_Island_2
Don't pick up coins so you get area 2 variation B. Get to pipe before 250 on clock for area 3 variation A. Get secret area.
Chocolate Secret: HOLD Y + B AT BEGINNING, **BACKUP FEATHER AT BEGINNING** fly above screen through third area
Go back, re-enter Chocolate Island 2
CI2:
Get a 21 in area 1 - Invisible block, spin w/ cape to get a bunch of coins in block on left of hill. Grab 2 dragon coins + 2 coins on right above pipe, enter pipe. This should be area with cape + gap. Go through area 2, follow coin trail until you get the dragon coin, then fly low to get to pipe. Wait until 249 on clock before entering pipe.
Run past dino-rhinos, enter pipe. Run over switch blocks to get to the goal.
CI3: Fly through level. Need height to get over 2 pipes, then drop down a bit. Normal exit
CI3: Fly through level (still need height for 2 pipes) get a ton of height to fly over goalpost, get second goalpost
Chocolate Fortress: learn fast strats at some point. For now just do the level normally (pretty easy to fly through thwomp area)
CI4: Stupid fast strats
CI5: **RECOVERY YOSHI AND ITEMS HERE** Get Yoshi in ? block at beginning, hit P-switch, go through yellow pipe, reenter in bonus game, go to end of level
Wendy's castle: Spin fly at beginning past spike, fast strats.
Split on fadeout

***Valley of Bowser***
Sunken Ghost Ship: **RECOVERY FEATHER HERE** Do as normal, use Yoshi as a meat shield. At coin walls, center yourself for split in blocks
VoB1: **RECOVERY FEATHER AT FORK AFTER SPINBLOCK TOWER** Yoshi strats, kind dumb. Eat moles
VoB2: NEED YOSHI - Flyhop through first area: Flyjump to second tower, jumpfly again onto third tower, flyjump again to cheese brick tower. Grab Yoshi wings in second area
Valley Ghost House: fly through first area, hit switch, run left, fly for i-frames through boo laser, spinjump up, try to get through hole for secret exit. Probably will have to do it legit though cause I don't know how to do that trick.
Valley Ghost House: run right at fork, enter 3rd door
VoB3: **RECOVERY FEATHER HERE** Flyjump with Yoshi
VoB4: **RECOVERY YOSHI HERE, FEATHER HALFWAY THROUGH** Flyjump through level, get secret exit near end
VoB4: pretty much the same but get regular exit instead. Drop Yoshi before exit
Larry's Castle: fly through first area. In second area, scroll the screen right as you approach yellow breakable blocks
VoB2: Fly through first area, then do second area (try fast strats maybe?) Get secret exit in last area
Valley Fortress: scroll screen left at beginning to run through first set of spikes I think?
Split on fadeout

***BOWSER***
Back Door: cape kill is stupid but maybe learn it at some point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vR7KTGeQ4s