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Route credit goes to Almo, Zephiles, Sjorec, YoshiZilla, and Vynneve

Remove the memory card before pressing start on the title screen. Timing starts when you accept a file name.
[section=Prologue]
Move around the railing into the Lord Crump cutscene

**Lord Crump**
● Mario: Jump x2
● Superguard Crump's attack
● Mario: Jump x2

Exit the harbor, Goombella joins your party
Break Zess T.'s Contact Lens

**Enter the Toad Bros. Bazaar**
● Order the Contact Lens
● Buy 5 Fright Masks
● Buy 4 Fire Flowers

If you plan on saving during the run, hit the Save Block and select the bottom option. If not, it is faster to have Goombella explain saving to you, so jump into her cutscene.

Enter Frankly's house
Outside, choose the top dialogue option first (scroll up and press A) and the bottom option second (press B.)
Go down the pipe to Rogueport Sewers
Start the Goomba Trio battle

**Goomba Trio**
● Mario: Fright Mask

Go down the pipe after the battle
Break one of the Yellow Blocks in front of the pipe in the next room and go down
*You can optionally get the **Pretty Lucky** from the invisible block. This provides extra money for encounters.*
Get the Black Key
Use the Black Key to unlock the Plane Curse chest

Backtrack to the first room of the sewers
Use HRG (Hazard Respawn Glitch) to get to the Petal Meadows pipe early

[section=Petal Meadows]
Jump into the Hooktail cutscene
Go right to the bridge screen
Check the bushes from behind and hit the switch in the background to create the bridge
Enter Petalburg
Talk to Mayor Kroop in the first house on the second screen
E-mail on the way to the gate
Talk to the Koopa next to the gate to exit Petalburg

Get the **POW Block** by hammering the block
Check the pedestal in the first fortress area

**Bald Clefts**
● Mario: POW Block

Get the **POW Block** by checking the bush near the Paragoomba
Check the pedestal in the second fortress area

**Bristles**
● Mario: POW Block

Get the **Fire Flower** from the block
Enter and talk to the Thwomp to start the quiz

Super Fun Quirk Quiz 65 (1, 3, 4, 2, 3)
Go down the pipe
Head left to get the Moon Stone

**Fuzzies**
● Mario: Fire Flower

Return to the right to get the Sun Stone

**Fuzzies**
● Mario: Fire Flower

Backtrack to the center area

**Gold Fuzzy**
● Mario: Jump x2
● Goombella: Headbonk x2
● Guard Fuzzy Horde
● Superguard Gold Fuzzy
● Mario: Jump x2 on Gold Fuzzy
● Goombella: Fire Flower

Get **Multibounce** from the block
Go back to Petal Meadows

Koops joins your party
Get the **Fire Flower** from the block
Place the Sun and Moon Stones
Use Koops to hit the left switch, and Mario to hammer the right switch
Enter Hooktail Castle

[section=Hooktail Castle]
Use the spring to reach the upper level of the first room
Use the Plane Panel to fly across the broken bridge
Get **Power Bounce** from the block
Say "No" when asked to read the letter
Check the Red Bones

**Red Bones**
● Mario: Fire Flower
● Koops: Fire Flower
● Level 2: FP

Hold Koops out in front of the yellow switch, then either lower the purple block or jump on the door lock to reach the Yellow Block
Ride the Yellow Block up and jump over the Star Piece
Drop down to the lower platform and get the Castle Key
Go all the way right and get the Black Key
Escape the spike maze and get the Paper Curse
Get **Attack FX R**

**Open the badge menu as you unspin from the bars**
● Equip Attack FX R
● Equip Power Bounce
● Check the e-mail

Backtrack to Red Bones room and get the Castle Key
Go back to Save Block/Big Green block room and ride the block up to unlock the door
In the upper hallway, jump on the first switch
Either use Koops to hit the second switch, or jump to the open window
Go left to start the cutscene with Ms. Mowz
Get the Castle Key from the chest

**Dull Bones**
● Mario: Run Away

Get Speed Glitch after the encounter by pressing A on one of the last two frames before returning to the field
Go right through the locked door
Ride the Yellow Block up to the Plane Panel and use it to reach the door on the platform
Lower the Yellow Block in the next room and use Koops to get the Castle Key
Climb the stairs and unlock the door
Maneuver around the outside room and enter Hooktail's tower

**Hooktail**
● Mario: Power Bounce x9
● Koops: Shell Toss
● Guard Hooktail's Fire attack
● Mario: Power Bounce x8
● Koops: Shell Toss
● Answer "Yes" (press A) to end the cutscene early (you will take 5 HP damage from Hooktail's bite)
● Mario: Power Bounce x8
● Koops: Shell Toss

[section=Pre-Chapter 2]
**Peach Segment**
● Enter the left door and leave immediately
● Walk down the hallway and talk to TEC

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

Get **Mega Rush P** beside Kroop's house
Exit Petalburg to the left
Peach e-mail before the bridge
Return to Rogueport Sewers

Speedswap across the last platform
Go down the left pipe in the next room
Use Paper Mode to drop down and go down the pipe
Step on the center of the pedestal in front of the Thousand-Year Door

Head back to Rogueport Sewers
Go down both pipes, take the north Loading Zone through the bars
Talk to Punio, choose the top dialogue option
Talk to Punio again to the right
Go to Boggly Woods

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

Leave Great Tree for Flurrie cutscene
You can jump right on the first frame after exiting the pipe to move closer to the Loading Zone during Punio's dialogue
Maneuver around to the stumps at the back of the next room
Get **P-Down, D-Up P** from the hidden block on the stumps
Use Koops to hit the switch that raises the Plane Panel
Use the Plane Panel to fly across to the next room
Get **Quake Hammer**

Head down the pipe to Flurrie's house
Check the door to talk to Flurrie
Choose the bottom dialogue option
Leave the house to trigger the Shadow Sirens cutscene
Return to the Shadow Sirens

**Shadow Sirens**
● Koops: Power Shell
● Mario: Jump x2 on Marilyn
● Superguard Vivian's attack
● Superguard Marilyn's attack
● Guard Beldam's attack
● Koops: Power Shell
● Mario: 4-bar Earth Tremor (5-bar if you failed one or both of the Superguards)

Get the Necklace
Either return to the right or use the tree to the left to fall out of bounds, respawning at the right
Return to Flurrie's house
Flurrie joins your party
Go back to Great Tree (e-mail on the screen with the Great Tree)
Blow away the secret entrance and enter the Great Tree

[section=The Great Tree]
Walk forward to trigger the X-Naut fight

**X-Nauts**
● Mario: Fright Mask

Take the pipe in the first room
Walk right and take the pipe in the second room
Climb up to where the Puni cells are
Go left to start the Ms. Mowz cutscene, followed by an X-Naut fight

**X-Naut**
● Mario: Power Bounce x4

Get the Red Key
Take the Red Key back and unlock the Puni Elder
Drop down on the way back to the front of the tree and get the **Power Punch** from the bush
Get the Puni Orb from the Puni Elder
Place the Orb in the pedestal in the room above the entrance to reveal a pipe
Encounter the X-Naut

**X-Nauts**
● Mario: Fright Mask

Place the Puni Orb and blow the Punies off the ledge
Unlock the left door and blow the Punies across the gap
In the next room, jump down from the upper platform and maneuver to the pipe with more jumps to keep the Punies from leaving you.
Go right and fight the 10 Jabbi Squad using Flurrie
Jump down and get the Blue Key

Backtrack to the bubble room
Jump down and get the **Thunder Rage** from the bush to the right
Leave the 11 Punies here and return to the cells
Unlock the blue cell to free the 90 trapped Punies

Backtrack to the bubble room again
Jump to the pipe in the room after the cells to keep all 91 Punies with you as you transition
Blow the 91 Punies across the gap

Jump down to the pipe again to keep all 101 Punies through the room transition
Head left using Flurrie to stun the Pider
Switch to Koops and use him to reveal the hidden block under Damage Dodge P (alternatively, you can hammer the hidden block from the platform)
Pick up **Damage Dodge P** if it goes left
Use the block to jump across to the left, skipping the second Pider
Switch back to Flurrie and use her in the 100 Jabbi Squad fight

Either Goombella buffer into the right Loading Zone in the room after the Jabbi fight, or walk against the bottom wall, moving right slowly to bypass the Loading Zone. Move right until you can hear a collision noise when moving against the north wall in Paper Mode. Switch from up to up-left and release R to clip onto the seam. Maneuver around to the left side of the Puni Orb pedestal and drop down to the pipe on the stump.

Jump to the pipe in the next room with all 101 Punies

Either use Koops to hit Blue Switch in water room, or jump across the platforms in the lower room to keep the Punies with you as you enter the pipe to the basement. If you use Koops, return and take the Punies over the lily pads.

Place the Puni Orb in the pedestal leading to the lowest room in the Tree
If you're low on health, there is a **Mushroom** in a bush here
Place the Puni Orb in the center pedestal to trigger the first escape
Head up the right pipe (leave the Punies here)

**X-Nauts**
● Mario: Fright Mask

During the first escape, go right at the narrow path room and get the Super Boots
Get **Charge**
Return to the basement room where you triggered the first escape (via the red door) to trigger the second escape
Head up the right pipe (leave the Punies here)

**X-Nauts**
● Mario: Jump x2 on the first X-Naut
● Koops: Fright Mask
● Level 3: BP

Return to the entrance of the Great Tree

**Magnus von Grapple**
● Koops: Power Punch on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
● Superguard Magnus's attack
● Koops: Shell Toss
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
● Magnus creates X-Fists
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
● Koops: Shell Toss

[section=Pre-Chapter 3]
**Peach Segment**
● Wait for the right door to open
● Dance with the Peach hologram (at least 10/16 dance cues required to progress)

**Bowser Segment**
● Complete 1-1 (161 is the fastest possible time, 160 with meats)

Leave the screen with the Great Tree
E-mail as you move left on the screen after the Great Tree
Grab the **Honey Syrup** as you are leaving Boggly Woods
Leave Boggly Woods

If you didn't get Damage Dodge P:
Pick up **Damage Dodge**, or **Pretty Lucky** if you skipped it earlier

Go to The Thousand-Year Door

**Lovely Howz of Badges**
● Sell Damage Dodge P/Damage Dodge
● Sell P-Down, D-Up P
● Sell Attack FX-R
● Sell Pretty Lucky (If obtained)
● Buy Power Rush

**Toad Bros. Bazaar**
● Buy Contact Lens (receive the Mushroom from Shop Points)

**Charlieton**
● Buy Mega Rush

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

**Westside Goods**
● Buy 1 Dried Shroom
● Buy 1 Dizzy Dial
● Answer anything for first question, “Yellow” for second

Talk to Don Pianta

**Westside Goods**
● Store 1 Dizzy Dial, 1 Dried Shroom, 1 Mushroom

On your way to the harbor, check to see if Charlieton has **Mega Rush** if you didn’t get it 1st try.
Go to Rogueport Harbor and talk to Francesca

**Toad Bros Bazaar**
● Buy 7 Fright Masks

Go Back to Don Pianta and get Blimp Ticket
E-mail before the grate
Go through the vent into the sewers
Use HRG to get onto the Gray Block and open the left pipe
Go to Poshley Heights and read the note on the Sanctum
Go back to the sewers and go left back to West Rogueport

Go to Glitzville

**Inventory should currently be**
● 7 Fright Masks
● 1 Honey Syrup
● 1 Thunder Rage
● 1 Fire Flower

[section=Glitzville pt. 1]
Take the Blimp back to Rogueport, and then take it back to Glitzville
Walk backwards against the Minor League door to open it without talking to Jolene

**Notes**
● 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.
● The fastest way to end a non-attack turn is to swap partners.
● The fastest way to fulfill "use at least one Special Move" is to fail an Earth Tremor. If you do this, it may be a good idea to appeal on turns where you can't attack, or to use stylish moves to refill your Star Power in case this condition comes up again.
● Jumping on spiky enemies DOES count towards "take damage at least 5 times." Swapping to Goombella might be a good idea before these fights.
● Superguarding DOES NOT count as an attack in the event of "don't attack for the first three turns."
● If you get "don't attack for the first three turns" on any fight, running away DOES NOT fail the condition.
● If you're overleveled already and you get "don't use items" on a fight where you'd normally use a Fright Mask, you can run from the fight and get a new condition. This wastes about a minute, so it's not recommended unless necessary.
● If you're ever running from a fight for a different reason, make sure that you fulfill the condition BEFORE running away, or else you will drop a rank and need to refight your last opponents.
● It's not too common, but the fight order can vary.

For the 5 fights you use Fright Masks on, you have 2 extra. Ideally, you want to exit Major League with 41 or 42 Star Points. Any more and you'll level on Doopliss 1 (30 second timeloss). Any less and you won't level on Dark Bones (you might need to get into Peril beforehand if you need to kill the Phantom Ember in the Fire Bar room).

**#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: Quake Hammer + Power Shell

**#16 Dead Bones (3 Dull Bones)**
● Standard: Power Shell (or Multibounce if you're saving FP)
● Don't Attack With Partner: Multibounce
● Don't Use FP: Hammer + Shell Toss

**#15 Spike Storm (2 Spinies and 1 Lakitu)**
● Standard: Koops: Fright Mask, Mario: Spin Jump (if the Lakitu doesn’t run)
● No Items: Earth Tremor

**#14 Mind Bogglers (1 Pale Piranha, 1 Dark Puff, 1 Pider)**
● Standard: Fright Mask, Hammer + Shell Toss (If the Piranha doesn't run)
● No Items: Gale Force

**#13 Punk Rocks (3 Hyper Bald Clefts)**
● Standard: Thunder Rage
● No Items: Quake Hammer + Power Shell

**#12 Bomb Squad (4 Bob-ombs)**
● Standard: Fire Flower (Fright Mask if overleveled)
● No Items: Multibounce + Power Shell

**#11 Hand-It-Overs (2 Red Bandits, 2 Green Bandits)**
● Standard: Koops: Fright Mask, Mario: Power Bounce (if 1 Bandit doesn’t run)
● No Items: Gale Force

**#10 Armored Harriers (before the Yoshi egg hatches)**
● Mario: Run Away

Note: If you get “Appeal at least once”, “Appeal 3 times”, “Take damage at least ‘n’ times” or “Use at least 1 special move”, you must fulfill the battle condition before you run away or else you will fight Rank 12 again, which is randomly generated between Minor League fighters.

Yoshi hatches and joins your party

Sleep in the bed before the next fight if you're not at 8+ FP

**#10 Armored Harriers (after Yoshi)**
● Standard: Gulp x2
● Level 4: BP

Enter the Major League
Pick up the **Ice Storm** in the Locker Room
Sleep in the bed if you didn't level on Armored Harriers

**#9 Tiny Spinies**
● Standard: Failed Quake Hammer, Gulp
● Don't Attack With Mario: Gulp + Superguard
● Don't Use Hammer: Earth Tremor
● Don't Attack With Partner: Earth Tremor
● Don't Use FP: Earth Tremor

**#8 Poker Faces**
● Standard: Quake Hammer

Note: You’ll want to fail this condition no matter what so you start de-ranking immediately. Getting “don’t use hammer” is good luck here. If you get something like “don’t switch partner out” then swap with partner and then Quake Hammer. Or if you get “don’t use items” then use your Honey Syrup. You just have to disobey what he says and figure out the fastest way to beat them.

Note 2: Sometimes this fight will be Shell Shockers, although it is rare. This is bad luck and you just have to attack them until they’re dead.

After you get to Rank #8, Get the Super Hammer
Break the block in the Minor League Locker Room
Get the Dubious Paper confiscated

**#8 Poker Faces**
● Fail the condition and run away

**#9 Tiny Spinies**
● Fail the condition and run away

**#10 Armored Harriers**
● Run Away (use your Honey Syrup if you didn't use it to fail a previous condition)

You’ll want to manipulate your HP to be as low as possible and FP at least 3. You can sleep in the bed before the Armored Harriers fight and let them damage you a few times to put yourself in a good position.

[section=The Great Tree pt. 2]
Once you are back in the Minor League, leave Glitzville

In Rogueport, if you still don’t have Mega Rush, check Charlieton again. If he’s not selling them, just head to east Rogueport and go into the sewers.

Head down to the room with the big Yellow Block and 2 Blue Switches and open Chapter 2.

Head down in The Great Tree to the cage room and break the floor panel inside the cage. This will revert the game back to chapter 2. Leave the way you came from and head back to Glitzville.

**If you're not in Peril, fall in the water until Mario is at 1 HP**

Check Charlieton again on your way back. If he’s still not selling Mega Rush, then go to the train/blimp area to reset what he’s selling and come back and check. Keep doing this until he has it.

[section=Glitzville pt. 2]
Advance the first text box once the scene shifts to Glitzville. Wait until Mario starts walking forward towards the Glitz Pit and then continue mashing through text. If you don't do this, then the Guard won't allow you access to Grubba's office.
https://youtu.be/ZgtPlLYOfk0

Enter the arena to trigger the Rawk Hawk vs. the Koopinator cutscene
Head to the back hall and enter Grubba's office

When asked to sign the contract, say no (bottom option)
Do Bookcase Jump and walk into the vent
Go to Grubba’s office from vent, check the desk, and then head to the arena

**Equip Badges**
● Unequip Quake Hammer
● Equip Mega Rush
● Equip Power Rush
● Equip Power Bounce
● Equip Multibounce

Climb the steps and enter the Grubba cutscene

**Boss: Macho Grubba**
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
● Yoshi: Ice Storm (hopefully freezes him to skip him powering up)
● Grubba powers up
● Mario: Jump x2

[section=Pre-Chapter 4]
**Peach Segment**
● Visit TEC
● Ride the Elevator Up
● Go right and change into the X-Naut uniform
● Talk to Grodus
● Change back into Peach

**Bowser Segment**
● Talk to the Puni Elder

Intermission

**Glitzville Shop:**
● Store any left over items
● Buy 1 Power Punch (receive the Ice Storm from Shop Points)
● Buy 1 Point Swap

Leave Glitzville
(Peach Email before the grate)
Get rejected by the Twilight Pipe
Go to The Thousand-Year Door

(e-mail leaving Frankly's house)
Talk to Darkly
Go to Twilight Town

[section=Twilight Town & Creepy Steeple]
Go talk to the Gatekeeper
See the Mayor turned into a pig
Talk to the shop manager’s wife
See the gatekeeper turned into a pig

Get the Shop Key with Koops
Get the Black Key

Pick up the **Life Shroom**
Pick up the **Boo's Sheet**
Get the Tube Curse (e-mail leaving the shop)

Go to Creepy Steeple

Drop down into the well
Get into Peril from the Buzzy Beetle and then run away

Go inside the Steeple
Release the Boos (Guess 50 for 1 coin)
Talk to the Boo and answer “No”

Go through the bottom door
Hit the red “!” switch once
Go up the stairs and grab the Steeple Key
Go through the top door in the main hallway
Hit the red “!” switch twice
Go to the top of the steeple

**Doopliss**
● Mario: Power Bounce x7
● Doopliss Copies Mario
● Yoshi: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Jump x2

End of Chapter?

Make your way back to Twilight Town
Run away from Doopliss

Find the Superbomb
Vivian joins your party
Run away from Doopliss again
Go back to the Creepy Steeple

Drop down into the well
If you leveled up on Doopliss, encounter the Buzzy Beetle and get into Peril
Head down to the room with the parrot
Get the **Power Plus** from the second chest from the right
Get the Letter P
Get the Steeple Key

Go back to Doopliss and spell his name
Chase him back to Creepy Steeple
Hit the top red “!” switch once

**Doopliss**
● Mario: Power Bounce x7
● Level 5: BP

Vivian really joins your party

[section=Pre-Chapter 6]
**Peach Segment**
● TEC Quiz (2, 1, 3, 2, 3)

**Bowser Segment**
● Beat 2-1 (154 is the best possible time)

Intermission
Leave Twilight Town
(Peach e-mail exiting the Twilight Town door)

Head to the Gray Block room and use HRG to drop down in the center of the room
Go into the Blue Pipe on the left

[section=Excess Express & Riverside Station]
Get on the train from Poshley

Tell the conductor about the “sticky, yummy threat”

**Sales Stall (Express Excess Shop)**
● Buy 4 Boo's Sheets
● Buy 1 Thunder Rage

Talk to Pennington in the Kitchen
Examine the floor in front of Room 3
Talk to Heff. T
Get the Galley Pot from the drawer
Talk to Pennington in Room 6

Talk to Sylvia in Room 8 to find out about Bub’s present
Talk to bub twice
Talk to the conductor
Get the autograph from the engineer
Give Bub the autograph

Talk to the conductor to learn about the missing blanket
Use Vivian to talk to Ghost T. in Room 4
Get the diary from the baggage car
Give the diary to Ghost T.
Give the blanket to the conductor (receive the Mushroom)
Go to sleep in Room 5

(Email in dining car)
Talk to Pennington in Room 6
Get the Vital Paper in Room 1
Give Pennington the Vital Paper
Use Vivian to catch Zip Toad in Room 5
Return the briefcase

Talk to the Riverside worker to get the Key
Unlock the door and head inside

Use Tube Mode to hit the blue “!” switch
Go up the stairs and get the Station Key in the next room
Unlock the door and go outside
Blow away the posters with Flurrie

Use Tube Mode to get down the maze
Get **P-Up, D-Down** in the Tube Maze

Multibounce on all of the Goombas
(You can do a Speed Glitch by pressing A on the first or second frame of gameplay right after leaving one of these fights)
Hit the switches as instructed

Get the Ultra Boots
Spring Jump out of the room and fall down through the vent

**While going into Paper Mode over the vent:**
● Equip Power Plus

**When you land on the ground:**
● Switch to Yoshi

Get the Elevator Key
Get the **Thunder Rage** in the area outside from the Invisible Block
Ride elevator down and hammer Smorgs away
Pull switch and hit blue “!” switch
Get back on the Excess Express
(e-mail in front of train)

Go to sleep
(Email leaving cabin 5)
Go talk to Engineer

Get rid of Smorgs in the Baggage Car

**Smorg**
● Yoshi: Thunder Rage
● Mario: Spin Jump (make sure you hit both Action Commands for the Spin Jump)
● Yoshi: Thunder Rage
● Mario: Spin Jump (hit both Action Commands)
● Guard Smorg's Attack to be put in Peril
● Mario: Target Smorg's body and Spin Jump (hit both Action Commands)

Sleep in the bed after the Smorg fight, and then leave the train

[section=Pre-Chapter 7 & X-Naut Fortress]
Go through the Blue Pipe back to the sewers and go right

Take the pipe back to Rogueport and head to the Trouble Center
Take on ???'s trouble
Go back to Rogueport Sewers and enter Petal Meadows
Climb to the top of Hooktail Castle and reveal the **Attack FX B** with Flurrie (get the **Life Shroom** on the way up)
Go back to Rogueport and get Ms. Mowz

**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. This will cost roughly 11 seconds to do.**

Go to the underground town and use Ultra Boots Text Storage w/ Goombella and Mowz to Yoshi Teleport into the Teleporter Room. Take the teleporter to the X-Naut Fortress.

**If you're doing Elevator Skip:**
● Go left for the first Card Key
● Go 4 rooms to the right and read the Red Note
● Go right to Grodus’ office and get the Card Key
● Perform Elevator Skip

**If you're not doing Elevator Skip:**
● Go 2 rooms to the right and read the Red Note
● Go right to Grodus’ office and get the Card Key
● Go all the way left and get the Card Key
● Go in the first elevator on the left and go to Sublevel 1
● Go right and enter access code (014029)
● Super Fun Quirk Quiz 66 (3, 4, 2, 3, 1)
● Get the Elevator Key
● Go to Sublevel 2
● Go to the right elevator 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.

Get the **HP Drain** from the block if you have 78 or more Star Points

Go right and use the 3 Card Keys
Do Conveyor Belt Skip using the X-Naut PhD
Navigate the room and hit the switch to reveal the stairs
Hover with Yoshi to get the Card Key
Use the Card Key to enter the final room

(If you have less than 10 HP, then you will need to adjust for the fight. Magnus's standard attack does 6 damage Unguarded, and you can use P-Up, D-Down to reduce your defense by 1. The following battle instructions assume that you have 10 HP.)

Note: You can hover from the Card Key platform  to get on top of the Save Block, at which point you should hover to the Heal Block, and then perform a Spring Jump to get to the moving platform. This will skip going through the background again. If you stand directly to the right of the Heal Block, you can time a Spring Jump to get up to the moving platform, but the moving platforms are off screen.

**Magnus Von Grapple 2.0 (Mario at 10 HP)**
● Mario: Defend
● Yoshi: Swap to Flurrie/Vivian
● Guard the attack
● Mario: Defend
● Partner: Swap to Koops/Ms. Mowz
● Don't Guard the attack
● Mario: Power Bounce x5
● Partner: Swap to Yoshi
● Mario: Power Bounce x5
● If you level up here, 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 2 rooms to the left
Leave the X-Naut Fortress via the teleporter
(e-mail near Loading Zone)

**If you leveled up after the Magnus 2.0 fight:**
● Equip P-Up, D-Down while going through the bars while going to The Thousand-Year Door
● Equip Mega Rush P if you skipped the HP Drain

Open The Thousand-Year Door

[section=Palace of Shadow]
Run past the Swoopulas on first staircase

Get First Struck by a Bombshell Bill

**Bombshell Bill**
● Don't Guard the First Strike (The attack will do 7 damage Unguarded with P-Up, D-Down equipped)
● Mario: Run Away

Avoid the Bombshell Bills by running between them with Yoshi or using Vivian for safety
If necessary, skip the cannons by Spring Jumping to the candle

Get the **All or Nothing** in the Spike Room if you got the HP Drain
Get the **Boo's Sheet** in the Fire Bar room

Get into Peril by taking damage from the Fire Bars

**Dark Bones - 20 HP; Dry Bones - 8 HP each**
● Mario: Multibounce
● Yoshi: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Jump x1 on the Dark Bones (Jump x2 if you don't have P-Up, D-Down equipped)
● Level 6/7: HP (or BP if you're very close to leveling up again)

**If you Leveled up BP:**
● Equip P-Up, D-Down
● Equip Mega Rush P if you skipped the HP Drain

*If you're very close to a level up, you can kill a set or two of Bombshell Bills (not Blasters) in the next room. You get 1 Star Point per battle. If not, you can kill the first Phantom Ember in the room where you do Palace Skip (encounter him on the seam to save time from movement. You will want to have 15 HP and 15 BP after this level up.)*

Get the Palace Key

Do the following two fights **only** if you leveled on Dark Bones, as you need to get into Peril again:
**Bombshell Bill**
● Don't Guard the First Strike (The attack will do 7 damage Unguarded with P-Up, D-Down equipped)
● Mario: Run Away
**Bombshell Bill**
● Don't Guard the First Strike (The attack will do 7 damage Unguarded with P-Up, D-Down equipped)
● Mario: Run Away

Avoid the Bombshell Bills by running between them with Yoshi or using Vivian for safety
If necessary, skip the cannons by Spring Jumping to the candle

Endless Room
Down - Down - Up - Up - Down - Up - Down

Continue right, and do Palace Skip in the fourth hallway (kill the first Phantom Ember here if necessary; level up HP)
If you're not in Peril, get First Struck by the Chain Chomp twice to take 14 damage

Grab the **Life Shroom** to the right

Fly across the room and unlock the door
Enter the throne room
**[big]If you skipped the HP Drain, swap to Goombella before starting the Grodus fight[/big]**

[section=Grodus, Bowser, & Shadow Queen]
**Grodus**
● Goombella: Ice Storm
● Mario: Power Bounce Grodus x6

**Bowser & Kammy Koopa**
[big]**If you skipped the HP Drain:**[/big]
● Mario: Power Bounce Kammy x5
● Goombella: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce Bowser x6
● Goombella: Point Swap on Goombella
● Mario: Jump x2
● Goombella: Headbonk x2

[big]**If you got the HP Drain:**[/big]
● Mario: Power Bounce Kammy x5
● Yoshi: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce Bowser x6
● Yoshi: HP Drain
● Mario: Jump x2

If you level up here, level up BP

**After the Bowser & Kammy fight:**
● Equip All or Nothing if you leveled up on Bowser & Kammy
● Unequip P-Up, D-Down
● Equip Charge
● Swap to Yoshi

**[big]Get the **Jammin' Jelly** in the chest at the bottom of the stairs
If you didn't level up on Bowser & Kammy, swap to Goombella before entering the Shadow Queen fight. Otherwise, leave Yoshi out.[/big]**

**Shadow Queen Phase 1 (Mario at 1 HP) - 61 Damage Required**
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
● Goombella: Headbonk x2
● Phase 2 starts
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Goombella: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Goombella: Swap to Flurrie/Vivian/Ms. Mowz (swap to the one that has the most HP)
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Partner: Swap to Flurrie/Vivian/Ms. Mowz or Defend

**Shadow Queen Phase 1 (Mario at 15 HP *with* All or Nothing equipped) - 61 Damage Required**
● Mario: Power Bounce x3 (Must do 2 bounces that do damage)
● Yoshi: Gulp
● Mario: Spin Jump (hit both Action Commands)
● Yoshi: Point Swap on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce x6 (Must do 5 bounces that do damage)
● Yoshi: Swap to Flurrie/Vivian/Ms. Mowz (swap to the one that has the most HP)
● Phase 2 starts
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Partner: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Partner: Swap to Flurrie/Vivian/Ms. Mowz (swap to the one that has the most HP)
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Partner: Swap to Flurrie/Vivian/Ms. Mowz or Defend

Crystal Stars Cutscene

**Shadow Queen Phase 2**
● Mario: Charge
● Partner: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Charge
● Partner: Defend (Switch if they're low on HP)
● Mario: Charge (Power Lift here is slower, but safer. Get at least +2 attack. Defense doesn't matter.)
● Partner: Power Punch on Mario
● Take 14 damage from Shadow Queen's charged attack
● Mario: Power Bounce (Do at least 5 bounces that do damage, but try to do as many bounces as you can)
● Partner: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce (Do at least 5 bounces that do damage, but try to do as many bounces as you can)
● Partner: Jammin' Jelly
● If the Shadow Queen stole HP or increased Defense, Power Bounce again. Otherwise Jump x2 will finish her off. While Mario is in Peril, he will do the following damage: With All or Nothing **not** equipped, a Spin Jump will do 23 damage and Jump x2 will do 20 damage. With All or Nothing equipped, a Spin Jump will do 25 damage and Jump x2 will do 22 damage. If you got capped at 5 bounces both times and she didn't steal HP, then she will have 20 HP left.

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