Any% Japanese (No BTS | No 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.

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 3 Fright Masks
● Buy 6 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**
● Fire Flower

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 (choose second option)
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: Full Headbonk
● (Fuzzy horde appears)
● Guard Fuzzy horde
● Superguard Gold Fuzzy
● Mario: Jump x2 on Gold Fuzzy (Fire Flower if you didn't superguard, there's a backup in the sewers)
● 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, mash B​)

**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 (choose the second option)
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

Ms. Mowz Cutscene
Get the Castle Key

Run away from the Dull Bones

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
Grab Mega Rush P from Kroop’s yard

**Open the Badge menu**
Unequip Power Bounce
Equip Mega Rush P

(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

Talk to Punio (first dialog option is faster here)
Go to Boggly Woods


[section=Boggly Woods]
Go right for the Shadow Sirens cutscene

**Run into the last Pale Piranha to get Koops to 6 HP**
● Koops: Swap to Goombella
● Mario: Swap to Koops
No guards
● Run away

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 (mash B for dialog choice)
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**
● Koops: Power Shell
● Mario: Fire Flower (down 1, or mash A if you got a Fire Flower after Chapter 1)
● Do not guard any attacks
● 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: Fright Mask

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

Puni glitch over the Bubble Room or blow the Punies across gap (unlock the door while they are in the bubbles if you do this)
10 Jabbi fight
Get the Blue Key
Head left and fall off the edge then go up the pipes and leave Punies here if you plan to Puni glitch across Bubble Room again. If not, take them with you and stun the Pider with Flurrie

*Optional: Pick up the Thunder Rage from the bush in bubble room for the Clefts in Chapter 3*
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 blow the 91 Punies across

Puni Glitch down to the next pipe
Reveal the hidden block below the **Damage Dodge P** with hammer or 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.)

100 Jabbi fight (or perform Jabbi Hive Skip)
Cage Skip
Puni Glitch to the pipe in the next room.
Water Switch Skip (or hit the switch)

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.

Go down the pipe and place the Puni Orb in the next two spots to reveal the Crystal Star
Leave the Punies at the pillar and start the escape

**X-Nauts (escape)**
● Mario: Fright Mask (up 1) (if Koops is out, swap partners then have your partner Fright Mask so that Koops doesn't regain HP from the level up)

Equip Power Bounce
Swap to Koops
Escape to the front of tree

**Magnus Von Grapple**
● Mario: Power Punch on Mario (mash A if you skipped the Thunder Rage, down 1 otherwise)
● Koops: Shell Toss
● Guard (or Superguard) Magnus’ stomp attack
● Mario: Power Bounce x6 (go for 7 bounces if you didn’t Superguard)
● Koops: Shell Toss
● Magnus detaches X-Fists
● Mario: Power Bounce x4 on Magnus (Jump x2 if you got 7 bounces or Superguarded)
● Koops: Shell Toss


[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)
Pick up the Honey Syrup on the way back to the sewers
(If you didn’t get the Damage Dodge P inside the tree, get **Damage Dodge**)
Go to The Thousand-Year Door

**Howz of Badges**
● Sell all of your badges except for Item Hog, Mega Rush P, 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

**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. Jump storage is a one-shot trick.*

**West Side Goods**
● Sell the Ultra Shroom
● Buy Dried Shroom (Get the Mushroom from 10 Shop Points)
● Buy Dizzy Dial

Answer anything for first question, “Yellow” for second (3rd option)
Store a 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 5-7 Fright Masks (depending on Thunder Rage and Boo’s Sheet)

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
Head three rooms to the left and take the teleporter back to the sewers
Take the pipe up to West Rogueport and ride the blimp to Glitzville

[section=Glitzville]
Go to Glitzville

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 4: Avoid sleeping in the bed if possible to keep Koops in Peril. Use the Honey Syrup if you ever need more FP

The condition for the fight is shown on the 4th text box.

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: Ultra Hammer spin
● 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: Power Shell

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

**#15 Spike Storm (2 Spinies and 1 Lakitu)**
● Standard: Mario: Fright Mask (have Koops do it if you have 2 Fright Masks or less)
● No Items: Earth Tremor

**#14 Mind Bogglers (1 Pale Piranha, 1 Dark Puff, 1 Pider)**
● Standard: Mario: Fright Mask (mash A)
     ● If both the Dark Puff and Pider start low, have Koops Power Shell instead
If the Piranha didn't run:
● Koops: Shell Toss
● No Items: Hammer/Jumps + Shell Tosses

**#13 Punk Rocks (3 Hyper Bald Clefts)**
● Standard: Koops: Power Shell

**#12 Bomb Squad**
● Standard: Fire Flower
● No Items: Koops: Power Shell

**#11 Hand-It-Overs (2 Red Bandits [5 Star Points each], 2 Green Bandits [6 Star Points each])**
Koops: If you have 95-98 Star Points, Shell Toss
If you have 90-94 Star Points, Power Shell
Mario: Fright Mask (mash A)
Level 4.00: Upgrade BP to 9 if you level up

**#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 5 leftover items (anything other than the Boo’s Sheet), store them until you have only 5 leftovers (2 leftovers if you didn’t level up) (keep the Life Shroom if you still have it)
If you didn’t level up, buy 1 Power Punch
Buy 8 Point Swaps (minus the number of leftover items and Power Punch)
Get an Ice Storm from shop points

[big]**Inventory if you didn't level up**[/big]
1 Power Punch
1 Life Shroom
1 Boo's Sheet (if you have it)
1 Ice Storm
6 Point Swaps (7 if you lost the Life Shroom)

[big]**Inventory if you levelled up**[/big]
1 Life Shroom
1 Boo's Sheet (if you have it)
1 Ice Storm
7 Point Swaps (8 if you lost the Life Shroom)

**You should have exactly 10 items (9 if you don’t have 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.

Flurrie Super Slide off of Frankly's door to get **Double Dip** (don't touch boat panel)
Fall in the water and hold up to enter the Trouble Center
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 238 piantas
Buy 7 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.

**Optional: Enter and leave Westside Goods to prevent a game crash in Chapter 7**

**While going into Paper Mode above the vent:**
● Unequip Mega Rush P
● If you levelled up in Chapter 3, equip 6 Power Rushes
● If you didn’t level up in Chapter 3, equip 3 Power Rushes

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]
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 [if necessary: 3, 4])
Get the Elevator Key and take the elevator back to Sublevel 2

Go into the far left room and get the Card Key
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 make the tiles move faster by walking on the first tile on Yoshi and then hopping off Yoshi (or by hovering to the moving tiles)

Get the **HP Drain** to get Jump Storage (toss an extra Point Swap)
Go right and use the 3 Card Keys

Super Jump to do Conveyor Belt Skip (or get First Struck by the X-Naut PhD)
Get the Card Key (if Mario has less than 5 HP or less than 8 FP, hit the Heart Block)
If you didn’t level up in Minor League, get First Struck by the Z-Yux to get to 5 or 4 HP
Also make sure a partner will have at least 3 HP after Magnus’ first attack (assuming you guard, this means Koops at 7 HP, any other partner at 8 HP)

Go through the background (swap to Koops in the background)
Use Koops to hit the stairs switch, then use the Card Key to enter the final room

**Magnus Von Grapple 2.0**
*If you leveled up in Minor League:*
● Mario: Swap to Flurrie (Defend if at 5 HP)
● Flurrie: Swap to Koops
● Guard Magnus’ drill attack
● Mario: Power Bounce x5
● Koops: Swap to Yoshi
● Magnus detaches X-Punches
● Mario: Power Bounce x3 on Magnus

*If you didn’t level up in Minor League:*
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
● Koops: Point Swap on Mario
● Guard Magnus’ drill attack (probably faster than not guarding)
● Koops: Power Punch on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
● Magnus detaches X-Punches
● Koops: Point Swap on Koops
● Mario: Power Bounce x6

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 Badge menu after going through the bars
● If you didn’t level up in Chapter 3, equip Multibounce first
● Unequip Power Bounce

● If you levelled up in Chapter 3, equip Multibounce now
● Equip all of the remaining Power Rushes

Swap to Flurrie
Use Flurrie to reveal the next pipe, then enter it

Head right and open the Thousand-Year Door

[section=Palace of Shadow]
Run past the Swoopulas on first staircase
Avoid the Bombshell Bills by running between them with Yoshi

Note: If you are not in Danger, get First Struck by a Bombshell Bill (6 damage unguarded)

Skip the Bill Blasters (or run away to use the invincibility frames)
Go through the Spike Room
Get the **Boo's Sheet** in the Fire Bar room
Use Koops to First Strike the Phantom Ember
Swap to Yoshi in the battle and then run away
Run right through the fire bars

**Dark Bones**
● Mario: Multibounce
● Yoshi: HP Drain on Dark Bones
● Level up BP

Get the Palace Key
Get the **Ultra Shroom** from the yellow block (skip it if you did Super Jump CBS)
Run between the Bombshell Bills and the Bill Blasters

Pick up the **Jammin Jelly** from the rightmost block if you inventory is not full

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

Equip Item Hog
Perform Palace Skip

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 on the right 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**
● Mario: Power Bounce Bowser x6
● Yoshi: Defend
● Guard Kammy's attack
● Yoshi: Point Swap on Mario if he died, otherwise Defend
● Mario: Power Bounce x4
Level up BP

**After the fight**
● Equip Double Dip
● If you still have the Life Shroom, use it on Flurrie

**Final Boss: Shadow Queen**
● Mario: Failed Power Bounce
● Yoshi: Full Gulp

[big]**If the Shadow Queen attacked Mario**[/big]
● Mario: Full Jump
● Yoshi: Swap to Koops

[big]**If the Shadow Queen didn't attack Mario**[/big]
● Yoshi: Point Swap on Mario
● Mario: Full Jump

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

Crystal Stars Cutscene

**Shadow Queen**
● Koops: Failed Power Shell (or Failed Gulp if you got stuck with Yoshi)
● Mario: Double Dip: Point Swap on Mario + Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
If she does any HP drain attacks, guard them
● Mario: Power Bounce x5 (x6 if she stole HP)

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