KH2 Beginner Any% (good route) chest & menu notes

ROXAS
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-MENU (after Twilight Thorn)
 -Abilities
  -Equip Guard

-MENU (before Shadow Roxas)
  -Items
  -Equip Medal
 -Config
  -Set Summon Animations to None

TWILIGHT TOWN I
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-MENU (Donald and Goofy to party)
 -Items
  -Take Donald's Ether

-Ether chest to your right inside the Tower, next to Donald.

LAND OF DRAGONS I
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-MENU (Ping to party)
 -Items
  -Take Pings ether.
 -Abilities
  -Remove Guard equip Aerial Recovery, Combo boost

-Get Ether in the chest behind you
-Pick up AP boost on the way out
-Pick up AP boost at the far end of the ridge.

-MENU (Mulan to Party)
 -Customize
  -Mulan to Party Attack
 -Items
  -Use 3 AP Boosts
 -Abilities
  -Equip Guard, Slide Dash and Scan.

OLYMPUS COLLISEUM
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MENU (Auron to party)
 -Customize
  -Ethers to O (or whatever you prefer)
 -Items
  -Equip ether to empty slot (if you didn’t use the potion in Twilight Thorn equip it other potion)
  -Set Ethers to Auto Refill (push triangle)
  -*OPTIONAL* - Take off Auron’s Auto-Limit

-Take right path, pick up first 2 chests
-Power Boost in Big Chest on your immediate left.
-Collect ether chest directly in front of you in The Lost Road
-Collect AP boost on platform in the Atrium.
-Collect AP boost on the left before Pete

MENU (Before Pete)
 -Items
  -Use Power Boost
  -Use 3 AP Boosts
 -Abilities
  -Remove Guard, equip Aerial Spiral

-MENU (before Hydra)
 -Abilities
  -Equip Trinity Limit

HOLLOW BASTION II
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-MENU (before Borough 2)
 -Items
  -Equip Hero's Crest

BEAST CASTLE I
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-Go to Moogle Shop on your left
 -Sardonyx Ring

-Go into Dungeon, pick up small chest for AP boost
-Pick up chest on the Right in West Wing for AP boost

-MENU (Beast to party)
 -Party
  -Switch Donald for Goofy
 -Items
  -AP Boost x2
 -Abilities
  -Equip Guard.
  -Remove Beast Howling Moon.

DISNEY CASTLE
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-Ether chest directly in front of you in courtyard

-MENU (after escorts)
 -Items
  -Equip Sardonyx Ring to open slot on Sora

PORT ROYAL I
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-MENU (before Harbor 1)
 -Abilities
  -Remove Donald Thunder
  -Equip Donald Fantasia

-MENU (auto)
 -Party
  -Switch Jack for goofy

-Pick up ether chest in the shadows duirng 1 minute fight
-Break first boxes for an AP boost before Barbossa
-Break last right boxes for AP boost before barbossa

AGRABAH
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-MENU (Aladdin to party)
 -Party
  -Switch Aladdin for Goofy
 -Customize
  -Reflect over Thunder
 -Abilities
  -Remove Goofy Bash
  -Equip Goofy Tornado
  -Equip Goofy Teamwork
  -Equip Sora Item Boost
 -Items
  -Take Aladdin's Ethers

-Destroy stand after turning the corner for AP Boost chest
-Collect second chest on the left for AP boost in cave of wonders
-Pick up the AP Boost chest on the right after falling segment

HALLOWEEN TOWN I
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-MENU (Jack to party)
 -Switch Donald For Goofy
 -Customize
  -Jack to Sora Attack
 -Items
  -Take Jack's Items
  -AP Boost x5
 -Abilities
  -Equip Explosion, Aerial Finish, Reaction Boost.

-Pick up ether on left side of candy cane lane after prison keeper

SPACE PARANOIDS I
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-Menu:
 -Items:
  -Follow the Wind on Sora
  -Oathkeeper on Valor

-MENU (Tron to party)
 -Switch Tron For Goofy
 -Customize
  -Magnet over Blizzard
 -Items
  -Take Tron's ether.

-Pick up drive recovery on the first chest on the left before minigame.

-MENU (before hostile program)
 -Items
  -Hero’s Crest on Sora

HOLLOW BASTION III
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-MENU (before 1k)
 -Abilities
  -Teamwork(Goofy)
  -Jackpot (Goofy)

-Pick up Elixir & AP boost behind you before 1k.

BEAST CASTLE II
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-MENU (Beast to party)
 -Party
  -Switch Beast for Donald

-MENU (Beast to party)
 -Party
  -Switch Beast For Goofy
 -Items
  -Equip Rumbling Rose to base Sora
  -Equip Hero's Crest to Master
 -Abilities
  -Equip Horizontal Slash, Remove Aerial Finish.
 -Customize
  -Blizzara over Magnera
  -Thunder over Fire

PORT ROYAL II
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-Grab the ether on the right side (after the cannon) before entering the harbor

-MENU (Jack to party)
 -Party
  -Switch Jack for Goofy

-Pick up ether chest on the right on the way to the last gambler

-MENU (Before Grim Reaper)
 -Items
  -Monochrome to Sora

HALLOWEEN TOWN II
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-MENU (After landing)
-Equip
 -Rumbling Rose
-Customize
  -Magnera over Blizzara
 -Abilities
  - Equip Sora Draw
  - Equip Duck Flare

AGRABAH II
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MENU (Before Jafar)
-Items
 -Decisive Pumpkin
-Abilities
 -Slapshot

XALDIN
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-MENU
 -Items
  -Rumbling Rose on Sora
  -Decisive Pumpkin on Valor

LAND OF DRAGONS II
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-MENU (After landing)
 -Abilities
  -Remove Reaction Boost, Equip Combination Boost.
  -Remove Donald’s Comet, Equip Jackpot.

TWILIGHT TOWN III
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-MENU (Before the Mansion)
 -ITEM (STOCK): Drive Recovery & AP Boost x1

THE WORLD THAT NEVER WAS
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-MENU (enter TWTNW)
 -Items
  -Equip an Elixir on last empty slot
 -Abilities
  -Remove Draw, Equip Magic Lock on & Aerial Finish
 -Note: You can opt to have Slapshot on/off for the final battles, overall it doesn't really matter, but it changes the style of the fights by a bit. Experiment with both and see what you like.

-Go to Moogle Shop
 -Sell all Potions
 -Buy all Ethers with whatever munny you have left (you need about 17 ethers. 16 ethers and you have to save 1 on Saix.)
 -Go to Sythesize (3rd option), go through all the textboxes, then leave. This gets you an Elixir

 -MENU (before Luxord)
 -Items
  -Equip Monochrome.

-MENU (Riku to party)
 -Items
  -Take Rikus ethers.
 -Abilities
  -Remove Dark Aura (Riku)
  -Remove Dark Shield (Riku)
  -Remove Eternal Session (Riku)

-MENU (Before Final Fights)
 -Abilities
  -Equip Slapshot (if you didn't have it on before)