Any% Japanese Route (BTS No Parlor)

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
Level = 1.09

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

Goombella joins your party

**Toad Bros. Bazaar**
● Buy 5 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
Level = 1.19

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]
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)

Grab **Close Call**
Get the **Star Piece** in the first bush
Get the **POW block** in box

**Bald Clefts**
● Mario: POW Block
Level = 1.29

Get the **POW Block** from bush

**Bristles**
● Mario: POW Block
Level = 1.43

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
Level = 1.59

Get the Sun Stone

**Fuzzy Battle**
● Mario: Fire Flower
Level = 1.75

**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
Level = 1.97

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]
Plane panel to get **HP Plus**
Get the **Power Bounce** in the first hall from block
Koops’ Dad's letter (mash B to select the bottom option)

**Red Bones Battle**
● Mario: Fire Flower
● Koops: Fire Flower
● Level = 2.30 // 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 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
Level = 2.61

[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)

Go back to the Thousand-Year Door

Fight Gus to get in peril
Go down east sewers, Save&Quit to copy file over
Open the Entrance to Boggly woods, then head back

Sort Glitch Life Shroom
HRG across to west sewers, grabbing **FP Plus**

Perform Teleporter Room Early

[section=X-Naut Fortress]
Go two rooms to the right

Read the Red Note

Go right to Grodus’ office 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 left to get the Card Key
Take teleporter back to sewers

HRG back over to the east side
Head up east side

Houz of Badges
● Sell everything except Power Bounce, Multibounce and HP Plus
● Buy Power Rush

Obtain Jump Storage with Zess T.

Toad Bros. Bazaar
● Buy 5 Fright Masks
● Store 1 Mushroom and 1 Life Shroom

Buy **Mega Rush**

Get the Ultra Hammer

Enter the Great Tree
JHS
Get the Super Boots
Grab **Charge**

Sort glitch Life Shroom

Break the block and go to chapter 6
Obtain garnet star

Enter the train

Sales Stall
● Buy 3 Boo's Sheet
● Buy 1 Thunder Rage

Recommended: Sort items so Fright Masks are on top

BTS

[section=Glitzville]
Go to Glitzville
Take the Blimp back to Rogueport
Go back to Glitzville

Get the **Star Piece** on the stairs
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.

Obtain [2,6] extra star points (NOT including Piranha)

4 Text Boxes to each condition

**#19 Goomba Bros (5 Goombas)**
● Koops: Power Shell
Level = 2.76

**#18 KP Koopas (2 KP Koopas, 1 KP Paratroopa)**
● Koops: Fright Mask, Mario: Jump (if 1 Koopa doesn’t run)
Level = 2.77

**#17 Pokey Triplets (3 Pokeys)**
● Fright Mask
Level = 2.78

**#16 Dead Bones (3 Dull Bones)**
● Koops: Power Shell
Level = 2.87

**#15 Spike Storm (2 Spinies and 1 Lakitu)**
● Fright Mask
Level = 2.88

**#14 Mind Bogglers (1 Pale Piranha, 1 Dark Puff, 1 Pider)**
● Partner: Fright Mask
● Mario: Full Hammer (If the Piranha doesn't run)
Level = 2.92

**#13 Punk Rocks (3 Hyper Bald Clefts)**
● Mario: Ultra Hammer
Level = 3.07 // BP = 6

**#12 Bomb Squad**
● Fire Flower
Level = 3.27

**#11 Hand-It-Overs (2 Red Bandits => 5 star points each, 2 Green Bandits => 6 star points each)**
● Showstopper
Level = 3.49

Sleep in the bed

**#10 Armored Harriers**
● Run Away

Yoshi hatches and joins your party

Go to the shop before leaving Glitzville

Note: If you get the Ice Storm here, you could use it instead of the first Shooting Star in chapter 8

**Souvenir Shop**
● Store all but 2 Fright Masks
● Withdraw Mushroom and Life Shroom
● Buy 2 Power Punch
● Buy 0-2 Point Swaps (fill inventory)

Leave Glitzville

**Star Piece** behind the pipe

Paper mode down to sewers
Equip Mega Rush and Power Rush

[section=Magnus von Grapple 2.0]

Go right and use the Elevator Key to go to Sublevel 3 (the second elevator)
Go left to the third electric tile room and get the Card Key

Get the **HP Drain** while getting jump storage, toss a point swap (or Fright Mask)

Go right and use the 3 Card Keys

Super Jump CBS

Navigate the room and hit the stairs switch (Swap to Koops in the background)
Get the Card Key

Use Card Key to enter the final room

Equip Mega Rush, and Power Rush
Swap to Yoshi

(Magnus's attacks do 6 damage unguarded)

Assumed 10 HP
**Magnus Von Grapple 2.0**
● Mario: Defend
● Koops: Swap to Goombella
Guard
● Mario: Defend
● Goombella: Swap to Yoshi
Don’t Guard
● Yoshi: Power Punch on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce x5
● Mario: Power Bounce x5
Level = 3.89


**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)

Take the teleporter back to Rogueport Sewers

Get Jump Storage off the email to the left, then Super Jump to the east load zone.

Get the **Star Piece** behind Dazzle
Buy **Item Hog** from Dazzle

Open The Thousand-Year Door

[section=Palace of Shadow]

Run past the Swoopulas on first staircase
Get the **Shooting Star** from the yellow block
Avoid the Bombshell Bills by running between them with Yoshi

Sort glitch Life Shroom if scared

Hammer the block from the right side for **All or Nothing**

Go through the Spike Room
Get the **Boo's Sheet** in the Fire Bar room, toss a Point Swap (or Fright Mask)
First Strike the Phantom Ember with Koops and use the invincibility frames to get past the last Fire Bars

**Dark Bones**
● Mario: Supernova
● Yoshi: HP Drain on Dark Bones
Level = 4.89 // BP = 9

Get the Palace Key
Run between the Bombshell Bills

Gold Cannon Skip

Run between the second Bombshell Bills

Get the **Jammin’ Jelly**
Endless Room
Down - Down - Up - Up - Down - Up - Down
Go right to the room before Gloomtail

Equip Item Hog
Perform Palace Skip

**Ember**
Level = 5.02 // FP = 15

Jump on the Ember after getting Palace Skip, Mario should be at 8HP
Hit the red “!” switch and use Yoshi to get to the Palace Key
Hover with Yoshi to get the **Life Shroom** and **Shooting Star**, toss Mushroom and Jammin’ Jelly

Fall down, use the spring to get back up to the Plane Panel

Fly across the room and unlock the door
Enter the throne room

Be at 8HP

[section=Grodus, Bowser, and Shadow Queen]
**Before Grodus:**
Unequip Item Hog
Equip All or Nothing

**Make sure to do all actions commands, remember you have All or Nothing on**

**Boss: Grodus**
● Yoshi: Shooting Star
● Mario: Hammer
Thunder puts Mario in peril
● Yoshi: Shooting Star
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
Level = 5.43

**Boss: Bowser / Kammy Koopa**
● Mario: Power Bounce x6 on Kammy
● Yoshi: Boo’s Sheet on Mario
Fire takes a Life Shroom
● Mario: Power Bounce x6 on Bowser
● Yoshi: Thunder Rage
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
Level = 5.95

**After the fight**
Unequip All or Nothing
Equip Charge and HP Plus

**Final Boss: Shadow Queen**
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
● Yoshi: Swap to Goombella

**Phase 2 starts**
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Partner: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Partner: Swap to Partner with 10HP or Defend
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Partner: Swap to Partner with 10HP or Defend

Crystal Stars Cutscene

**Shadow Queen**
● Mario: Charge
● Partner: Boo's Sheet on Mario
Partner cannot die
● Mario: Charge
● Partner: Swap
● Mario: Charge
● Partner: Power Punch on Mario
Charged attack puts Mario in peril, Life Shroom is used on Partner
● Mario: Power Bounce x6+
● Partner: Boo’s Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce x6+
● Mario: Power Bounce x4+
Does 152 damage

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