Any% Japanese Route (No BTS | Super Boots)

Before starting your run, it's recommended that you enable debug mode by pressing X, B, R, B, Y, L on the title screen.

**Route Details**
This is a novice route for any% Japanese version. It obtains Super Boots for extra damage and easier Teleporter Room Early. This route is a few minutes slower than optimal, but it's the easiest to learn.

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.
[section=Prologue]
**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 5 Fright Masks
● Buy 4 Fire Flowers

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
Say "No" to the action command tutorial (choose the top option, then mash B for second option)

**Goomba Trio**
● Fright Mask

Get the **Star Piece** from behind the block
Get the **Pretty Lucky** from invisible block (directly south of Puni hole)
Get the Black Key and Plane Curse
Use HRG to get to the Petal Meadows pipe early


[section=Petal Meadows]
Collect the **Close Call** on the 2nd screen
Go to 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 the **POW block** in box

**Bald Clefts**
● Mario: POW Block

Get the **POW Block** from bush

**Bristles**
● Mario: POW Block

Get the **Fire Flower** from Block
Super Fun Quirk Quiz 65 (1, 3, 4, 2, 3)
Get the Moon Stone

**Fuzzy Battle**
● Mario: Fire Flower

Get the Sun Stone

**Fuzzy Battle**
● Mario: Fire Flower

**Gold Fuzzy Battle**
● Mario: Jump x2
● Goombella: Headbonk x2
● (Fuzzy horde appears)
● Guard Fuzzy horde
● Superguard Gold Fuzzy
● Mario: Jump x2 on Gold Fuzzy (Fire Flower if you didn't superguard, buy one later)
● Goombella: Fire Flower

Get the **Multibounce** from block
Go Back to Petal Meadows
Koops joins your party
Get the **Fire Flower** from block
Go to Hooktail Castle


[section=Hooktail Castle]
Get the **Power Bounce** in first hall from block
Koops’ Dad's letter (don’t read)

**Red Bones Battle**
● Mario: Fire Flower
● Koops: Fire Flower
● Level up FP

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 the Paper Curse
Get the **Attack FX R**

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

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 the **Life Shroom** on the way up with Koops. (This is necessary)
Ms. Mowz Cutscene
Get the Castle Key

**Dry Bones**
● Mario: Run Away

Go through the locked door
Get the 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


[section=Pre-Chapter 2]
**Peach Segment**
● Enter the shower area and leave immediately to open the door (you don’t have to take a shower)
● Visit TEC

**Bowser Segment**
● Walk to the end of the hall

(Peach E-mail 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

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 the **Item Hog** from Dazzle
Go to Boggly Woods


[section=Boggly Woods]
Go right for the Shadow Sirens cutscene
Go to the Great Tree
Talk to Punio by the door
Talk to Punio again

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

Talk to Flurrie
Leave Flurrie’s house for the Shadow Sirens cutscene
Go back to the Shadow Sirens
Get the **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 the Necklace
Go back to Flurrie’s House
Flurrie joins your party
Go back to the Great Tree
(E-mail on screen with great tree)
Blow away the secret entrance and enter the Great Tree


[section=The Great Tree]
**X-Nauts**
● Mario: Fright Mask

Go to the top of the tree (where the cells are)
Enter the Storage Room

**X-Naut**
● Mario: Power Bounce x4

Get the **Ultra Shroom**
Get the Red Key and free the Elder
Get the **Power Punch** on the way back to Tree Entrance
Get the 10 Punies and the Puni Orb
Use the Puni Orb to make the Pipe appear

**X-Nauts**
● Mario: Fright Mask

Blow the Punies across gap (unlock the door while they are in the bubbles)
10 Jabbi fight
Get the Blue Key
Lose Punies in the narrow pathway room (skip this if you're not doing the bubble room skip)

Pick up the **Thunder Rage** from the bush in the Bubble Room (if you have the Punies, just leave them here)
Go back to the cells and release all of the Punies
“Puni Glitch” down to the pipe below. It is luck if your count drops to 75 or 45 right away.
Go back to the Bubble Room and Puni glitch across again (or trap the X-Naut)

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

(If Damage Dodge P goes out the left side, grab it quickly and go into the next loading zone before the Punies get scared. If it goes out the right side of the block, you’ll have to skip it. There’s a backup badge later on to collect.)

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
Cage Skip
Puni Glitch to the pipe in the next room.
Use Koops to hit the Blue Switch in the 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 the pipe and place the Puni Orb in the next 2 spots to reveal the Crystal Star
Leave the Punies at 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 the Punies, you don’t need them)

**X-Nauts**
● Mario: Jump x2
● Koops: Fright Mask
● Level up BP

Escape to the 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.


[section=Pre-Chapter 3]
**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)

(Peach E-mail outside Great Tree)
(If you didn’t get the Damage Dodge P inside the tree, pick up **Damage Dodge** the first room of Rogueport Sewers, coming back from Boggly Woods)
Go to The Thousand-Year Door

**Howz of Badges**
● Sell all of your badges except for Charge, Item Hog, Power Bounce, and Multibounce (2nd option)
● Buy Power Rush (if it's not on sale, 1st option and then 2nd option)

**Toad Bros Bazaar**
● Buy the Contact Lens (Get the Mushroom from 10 Shop Points)

**Charlieton**
● Buy the Boo's Sheet

(Alternatively, you can skip Charlieton and instead get the Boo's Sheet from the Twilight Town Storage Room later. This will cost around one minute to do.)

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

*Safety saving isn't a bad idea here if you're not confident with the Flurrie Superslide method of Ultra Hammer Early. The Super Jump storage is a one-shot trick.*

**West Side Goods**
● Sell the Ultra Shroom
● Buy Dried Shroom
● Buy Dizzy Dial

Answer anything for first question, “Yellow” for second (3rd option)
Store a Super Jump with Koops while talking to Don Pianta

**West Side Goods**
● Store 1 Dizzy Dial, 1 Mushroom, 1 Dried Shroom (3rd option)

**Toad Bros Bazaar**
● Buy 7 Fright Masks (two is an extra)

Super Jump up to the Ultra Hammer chest (if you didn't get a super jump, UHE can be done with a Flurrie Superslide)

Go to the harbor and talk to Francesca
Give Lumpy 300 coins
Check Charlieton on the way back to the west side if you still need the Boo's Sheet

Go Back to Don Pianta and get the Blimp Ticket
(E-mail on the way to the sewers)
Enter the vent into the sewers
Perform Teleporter Room Early

Go two rooms to the right
Read the Red Note

Go right to Grodus’ office and get the Card Key
Go into the far left room and get the Card Key
Go in the first elevator on the left and go to Sublevel 1

Go right and enter the access code (014029)
Super Fun Quirk Quiz 66 (3, 4, 2, 3, 1)
Get the Elevator Key

Take the first elevator on the right back to Sublevel 2
Go one room to the right and take the teleporter back to Rogueport Sewers


[section=Glitzville]
Go to Glitzville

**Inventory should currently be**
● 7 Fright Masks
● (Boo's Sheet if you got it)
● 1 Thunder Rage
● 1 Life Shroom
● 1 Fire Flower

Take the Blimp back to Rogueport (this is necessary)
Go back to 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.

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 14 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
● Don't 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 + Power Shell

**#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)**
(You want to leave this fight with no more than 7 Star Points)
● 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

**#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
If you have more than one extra item, then you should store them until you only have one extra item. (Fright Masks, Thunder Rage, Fire Flower)

[big]**If you leveled up in the Minor League**[/big]
● Buy Power Punch
● Buy 3 Point Swaps (Buy an extra one if you didn't have any extra items from before)
● Get Ice Storm from 20 shop points

[big]**If you did not level up in the Minor League**[/big]
● Buy 3 Point Swaps
● Buy 2 Power Punches
● Get Ice Storm from 20 shop points

(You should be leaving this shop with exactly 8 items, or 7 if you didn't get the Boo's Sheet yet.)

Leave Glitzville


[section=Pianta Parlor]
If you didn't get the Boo's Sheet from Charlieton, check for it now.
Go to the Trouble Center (pay Gus)
Take on Frankie’s trouble (4th from bottom)
Go to Rogueport Harbor
Get 999 coins from Lumpy
Talk to Frankie about the trouble

If you didn't get the Boo's Sheet from Charlieton, go to the blimp area to reset his inventory and then check for it again.
Pay Gus and use Yoshi to get to the Wedding Ring
Give Frankie the wedding ring to get the Gold Card
Go to Pianta Parlor and buy exactly 204 piantas
Buy 6 Power Rushes from the Pianta Parlor (2nd option, Power Rush is 3rd from the bottom)

If you still don't have the Boo's Sheet, then you must keep reloading his inventory and checking until you have it.

**Note: There is a chance that the game can crash in X-Naut Fortress upon entering the door leading to Magnus 2.0. You can avoid this by entering Westside Goods in Rogueport.**

**While going into Paper Mode above the vent:**
● Equip 3 Power Rushes (Or 6 if you leveled up in Chapter 3)

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
(If you didn't get the Boo's Sheet from Charlieton, then go to Twilight Town and get the **Boo's Sheet** from the Storage Room)
Go back to the sewers and through the teleporter


[section=X-Naut Fortress pt. 2]
Use the Elevator Key and go to Sublevel 3
Go left to the third electric tile room and get the 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.)

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)

[big]**If you have 10 HP and you only have 3 Power Rushes equipped**[/big]
● Mario: Full Hammer
● Yoshi: Swap to Koops
● (Guarding Magnus's attack is probably faster)
● Koops: Power Punch on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
● Magnus summons drills
● Koops: Swap to Yoshi
● Mario: Power Bounce x6

[big]**If you have 10 HP and you have 6 Power Rushes equipped**[/big]
● Mario: Swap to Flurrie
● Flurrie: Swap to Koops
● (Guarding Magnus's attack is probably faster)
● Mario: Power Bounce x4
● Koops: Swap to Yoshi
● Magnus summons drills
● Mario: Power Bounce x3

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


[section=Pre-Chapter 8]
**Bowser Segment**
● Go into Poshley Sanctum

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


[section=Palace of Shadow]
Run past the Swoopulas on first staircase
If you need more items, there is a **Stop Watch* at the top of the stairs

Get the **Shooting Star** from the yellow block
Avoid the Bombshell Bills by running between them with Yoshi

(If Mario is at 10 HP, then you need to get First Struck by a Bombshell Bill. You need to get Mario down to at least 5 HP.)

Go through the Spike Room
Get the **Boo's 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 at 5 HP or less

**Before the Dark Bones fight**
● Equip Multibounce
● Unequip Power Bounce
● Equip all of your Power Rushes (Should be 7 total)
● Swap to Yoshi

**Dark Bones**
● Mario: Multibounce
● Yoshi: Shooting Star
● Level up BP

Get the Palace Key
Get the **Ultra Shroom** from the yellow block
Run between the Bombshell Bills

**Bombshell Bill Blasters**
● Mario: Run Away

Run between the second Bombshell Bills

**Bombshell Bill Blasters**
● Mario: Run Away

If you need more items, there is a **Jammin' Jelly** in the right most block

Endless Room
Down - Down - Up - Up - Down - Up - Down
Go right to the room before Gloomtail

Equip Item Hog
Perform Palace Skip (You can use the Ultra Shroom for this. **Do not** use the Life Shroom.)

Hit the red “!” switch and use Yoshi to get to the Palace Key
Get First Struck by the Chain Chomp after getting the Palace Key if you have more than 5 HP (The Chain Chomp does 6 damage Unguarded)

(If you don't have a Life Shroom, you will need to use Yoshi to hover to the platform with the **Life Shroom** on it.)

Fall down and use the spring to get back up to the Plane Panel
Fly across the room and unlock the door
Enter the throne room


[section=Grodus, Bowser, and Shadow Queen]
**Before Grodus:**
● Unequip Item Hog
● Equip Power Bounce

**Boss: Grodus**
● Yoshi: Ice Storm
● Mario: Power Bounce x4

**Boss: Bowser / Kammy Koopa**
● Yoshi: Power Punch on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce Bowser x5
● Guard Kammy's attack if she targets Mario

[big]**If Mario has 5 HP or less**[/big]
● Mario: Power Bounce x3

[big]**If Mario is attacked, dies, and is now at 10 HP**[/big]
● Yoshi: Point Swap on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce x4

Level up BP

**After the fight**
● Equip Double Dip P
● Equip Charge

(If you have a Life Shroom left, you should use it on Mario or one of your partners excluding Koops. This will save time as it is likely that Koops will die in the fights, and it is faster to have him dead than to have him revived. You will also want to have a partner with more than 7 HP, so you could use it on one of them.)

**Final Boss: Shadow Queen**
● Mario: Swap to Flurrie
● Flurrie: Swap to any partner with more than 7 HP (Excluding Koops)

[big]**If the Shadow Queen attacked Mario**[/big]
● Mario: Power Bounce x3
● Partner: Swap to Koops

[big]**If the Shadow Queen didn't attack Mario**[/big]
● Mario: Charge
● Partner: Double Dip: Point Swap on Mario + Nothing (Press B to cancel the 2nd item and select the 1st answer for the textbox)
● Shadow Queen powers up
● Mario: Power Bounce x3
● Partner: Swap to Koops

**Phase 2 starts**
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Koops: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Failed Jump
● (If Koops is still alive) Koops: Defend
● Mario: Failed Jump
● (If Koops is still alive) Koops: Defend

Crystal Stars Cutscene

**Shadow Queen**
● Mario: Charge
● Koops: Double Dip: Point Swap on Mario + Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce x6 (x7 for safety in case she steals HP)
● (If Koops is still alive) Koops: Swap to Yoshi
● Mario: Power Bounce x5 (x6 for safety in case she steals HP)
● If the Shadow Queen steals HP from your partners, then you will need to do an extra jump.

Aftermath
Timing ends on the circular fade to black before credits start (first fully black frame)