Yoshi's Island DS Route/Notes

I'd recommend setting your controls to the Hasty ABLR setup for this run. It's the control scheme I found to be the easiest to use, but of course if you're comfortable using a different one then by all means do that.

1-1:
- Use an Egg Jump to skip using the vine
    -Easy Strat: Jump, Flutter, Hold A, and jump on a Shy Guy jumping out of the pipe. You can get on the top of the cliff this way.

1-2:
- If you do a full jump at the beginning, you can get on top of the 3 M Blocks and get past the Dayzees there
- Jump on the 2nd Dayzee below the Block so you can get past the group of 3
- Hug the right wall when you get down the pipe.
- Do a Flutter Jump to the M Blocks to skip the goal ring
- Jump on 1 Bamboo enemy and you can get above the rest by holding A. Jumping on the 2nd one is fastest. 1st makes you flutter

1-3:
- Jump and hold A to get on the 2nd platform of 3 at the beginning
- You only need to jump once in the chase section. Avoid the Flower at the end by just running forward
- By angling it correctly, you can get the jump block down with 1 egg, but you need to wait for the Shy Guy still :x
- Roll the Chomp Block, then jump on it before it stops at the bottom to get on top of the cliff a bit faster
- If you're fast enough, you can use 1 Red Switch to get across the next room.
- Flutter onto the Bamboo to get a higher jump so you can skip going around it.

1-4:
- Avoid touching the bridges. Probably the best tip for this level in general
- To get around the giant spike bars, duck at the right time while keeping on the move so you don't have to wait for them to move or lose Mario
- Hold right after getting the key to get straight to the door safely
- Get 5 eggs before the boss
- BOSS: Safest and probably best strat is to hang in the pits and judge when to hop out to throw your eggs. Don't miss any eggs. You have 5 because that's all you need and with Baby Mario, your eggs will bounce off walls, but don't miss any so you don't lose time.

1-5:
- Getting Yoshi fully fluttered on the gust of wind means more height.
- Use only the last flower at the end of the level. Saves a flutter and time on movement

1-6:
- First room keep Baby Peach then switch to Mario later
- Use a flutter to get more height to skip activating the flower

1-7:
- Don't have to get rid of Baby Mario on the 1st room if you do a flutter w/ enough speed
- Need 4 eggs for the last rooms. Get them before entering it

1-8:
- Level's pretty straightforward. Just be sure to tongue the -3- s when you see them
- BOSS: Start on the left and spam tongue. D-Boost to the right and then do the same. Use an egg if need be

2-1:
- Practice and get good with the DK Super Slide glitch. Best thing for this level
- Can't avoid 2 flowers so hope you don't get a bonus

2-2:
- Do lots of slides and super slides with DK
- Don't need to get a bubble at all for the Mole section

2-3:
- Ghosts are useful for getting a higher jump. Use them to skip having to jump a bit more
- Switch to baby Peach at the end of the level. She's the only way to beat the level
	- Unfortunately it means you'll have to use her for the next level, but it's whatever

2-4:
- Need at least 1 egg in the 1st room to get past the ghost piranha over the lava pit. You can get around the others easily if you're fast enough
- For the last room, leave it with 6 eggs. There are 5 free objects to get eggs from without having to wait, so make the best of them. They're all chairs
- BOSS: Come into the room with 6 eggs. This boss is all about timing. You can stun lock him if you throw your eggs at him with good timing (about 7-7.5 seconds from hit to being vulnerable again)

2-5:
- Jump on the M blocks then on the Dayzee to skip the pink bouncy ball, then jump over the Amayze Dayzee and hold right. You'll land on a rotating platform then on the bounce ball.
- Jump and tongue the Yellow Shy Guy that hops off the platform in the 2nd room. You may need to tongue up him or wait and tongue regularly depending on how long you take. Use him to take out the Blue Shy Guy, then jump over the Red Shy Guy. That part is very tricky, but this is the only fast strat I could find and it's hard.
- When you get to the posts, jump on the rotating platform and stick to the posts for the rest of the way. last jump needs a very small hover.

2-6:
- you can use this video as a guide on how to potentially save around 2 minutes on this autoscroller. Looks like you have to desync the autoscroller by going past the top of the screen then flutter onto a Dayzee you keep in your mouth, not after hoping it lands on the M Blocks you tried to spit it out on, to get enough height to skip the level, all while doing it blind since the camera doesn't move and using only your hearing. GOOD LUCK! :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ondEsgQzyB0

2-7:
- Run off the ledge, jump on the tree, then jump up into the waterfall to get onto the bit of land there. Then just jump in and out of the water. You should be able to get in front of or at the front of the group of monkeys if done right.
- Jump on both mushrooms to get past the Yellow Stilt Guys
- Tongue the Nipper (heh) and jump on the 1st 2 Stilt Guys, then spit out the Nipper before you hit the 3rd to get past them all quickly. Hard strat so be careful
- Get an egg from the Blue Shy Guys in the pipes, then stand on the purple mushroom and aim carefully to hit the giant Stilt Guy more easily.
- Next screen, jump on the stilts and do a full hover, then 2 really tight hovers to make it across the gap without using the stilts. Hard strat again, but it's faster still even if you fail it once or twice.
- You have to take the larger stilts, but after killing the piranha, walk over to before the torch and jump off and hold A to flutter. You can hit the stilt guy and get past him to save more time

2-8:
- When you get to the Piranha/Lakitu room, you need to hit the Green and Red switches twice. Ideally you can use an egg shot vertically to hit the Green switch twice then kill the Piranha in the way. If you can't do that, you can stand on the left edge of the green block and hit the green switch easier without killing the piranha in the way. Get an egg off the Lakitu before leaving the room so you can knock down the ground faster
- You can jump over all the enemies without fluttering in the part before the boss door. It's just tricky.
- BOSS: Go in there with at least 3 eggs. The Nippers and Green Piranha before the door can give you eggs if need be. Roll the Chomp Stone under his mouth at all times. Eat the buds he drops if you already have 3 eggs to speed up the fight. Throw eggs upwards on the chomp when his tongue is exposed. Also if he misses a bite, make sure it's on the 3rd phase. Him missing it on the 1st or 2nd phase wastes around 30 seconds. That's about it.

3-1:
- Can get across the area with the vines quickly with Mario if you do 2 flutters. No need for DK
- Use flutters to get over any obstacle in the next room. The only way to do so really
- The last autoscroller can be sped up if you get to the top of it quickly, so try your best to get there as fast as possible

3-2:
- Don't beef it

3-3:
- Get an egg from one of the Pirate Guys while moving so you can get the platform going in time. Short hop to the mast and hold left and you'll land on the pipe
- Get 1-4 eggs to deal with the piranhas in the next room. Go through rightmost pipe. Then go through the near right pipe. Hop on the ship and tongue the pirate guys, then make a leap of faith to the finish

3-4:
- Go to the right and fall down the right pipe.
	- First room just jump on the platforms quickly. Halfway down the stairs jump and get over the Green Paratroopa that way.
- Go to the pipe you can reach on the right side of the ship near the locked door.
	- Tongue and spit out the shy guys in the 1st room. You can avoid the jumping Taptaps if done right.
	- Next room, tongue the shy guy stack. Need to wait a second here. Then tongue the next and make sure the shy guy rolling when you spit it out stays on screen so it destroys the next one. Finally get one Shy Guy from the Blue stack and hit the last stack. Wait a split second so you don't get hit by the crumbling stack.
- You should have 2 eggs by that time, so make the most out of them and don't miss to get the key and out of the room.
- Short hop to jump completely down the stairs and not get slowed down.
- BOSS: Don't need eggs going into the fight really since the fight gives you a lot already. When his mouth opens, fire an egg. There's RNG in the fight where he'll do a small jump and open his mouth, do a larger jump then open his mouth, or do a triple jump then open his mouth on the 3rd jump. You can only hit him if the egg is going upwards into his mouth, so it can be very very tricky.

3-5:
- Use a Shy Guy to get more height after the 3rd Magnet Block, then use the koopa shell to clear the way
- Get 2 eggs before going to the breakable blocks. Otherwise you have to backtrack to get eggs again

3-6:
- Use the Pirate Guy for more height to get on top of the cliff much faster.
- Use the Paratroopa for more height, this time skipping the switch to Wario and back
- For the last room, jump on the 2nd paratroopa, jump to the moving green platform and run off, then stick to the water and jump in and out of it. There's no good way to get past the shy guys right now that I can see, so break them apart either with spitting out shy guys at them or egging them and run past them to the finish.

3-7:
- Get an egg off the block and hit the cloud and the farthest cloud to the right to lower the water
- You can save 2 cycles on the next room if you're fast enough. Jump over the first platform, jump over the gap, then the rest should be clear from there
- Hold A going down the pipe so you make a better water cycle. You can't make it up past the last wall of blocks unless you do an egg jump unfortunately :(

3-8:
- 2nd room you can make it past the waterfall if you're moving fast enough and jump
- Go through the bottom pipe. Just keep the arrow ball going upwards and don't hit the fire. Get to the top of the room. That's it
- Stick to the water for the dark room. Get on the platforms if it's safe
- Flutters are your friend for the last room for most of the gaps
- BOSS: Go into the fight with 3 eggs. If you don't have 3 eggs, then you can get eggs easily during the fight so it'll be alright. Go over the platform gap to make Priscilla jump, then egg her. Do it 3 times. You can't egg her on her bottom, only when she's jumping unfortunately. Simple fight

4-1:
- Don't fall down on the 1st room. Otherwise you'll have to take an alternate path that's slower or just straight up die
- Don't fall on the wide block on the right near the bottom of the room. Otherwise you'll have to redo it
- Hold right off the 1st platform in the 3rd room. It'll get you where you need to go. Rest is tight platforming.

4-2:
- After doing a lot of testing on this level, avoid every kart in it except the last one which makes you go straight into the goal
- In the 4th room you need 3 eggs to get through the end of the room faster, so be sure to get that

4-3:
- Jump on the 2 blank clouds, then the 1st smiley face one. The idea is to go diagonally to the larger cloud, so the best path is in that direction. Hard to explain in text
- Jump off the 1st cloud and do 2 flutters. Stay on the moving cloud until it reaches the top, then hop on all of them until the end, where you need to do a jump to the end of the screen.
- For the last block switch, hold A after hitting it to get to the blocks you unlocked

4-4:
- There's no easy way of getting past the spike bars fast, so wait it out and don't lose Mario
- Get the 2 Ball first in the top left, then go to top right for 3 Ball, then drop down for the 1 Ball. Be sure to get only 1 egg and not throw away the 2 Ball. You could get the egg before getting the 2 Ball by turning an enemy into one or use the Egg Block
- Use the 2nd bat to float over the other bats and fall down. You'll get over the lava easier and faster
- BOSS: You get 2 eggs by default in the fight, so if you don't miss, you'll be able to get more eggs for free afterwards. You only need 4 max. Boss is straightforward though. Just hit when vulnerable and don't stay on the floor too long

4-5:
- Bowser Jr. stops when you use his fire. To avoid this, fire, then immediately jump to keep on the move
- Level's straightforward. No cool tricks :(

4-6:
- Switch to Mario, then switch to Peach for the giant gap (If you could bounce off the penguin you can skip switching to Peach :< )
- Switch to Bowser Jr. then Mario for the final screen
- Do 1 full jump when you see the ghosts, then 2 flutters to avoid danger.

4-7:
- Get 1 egg behind you to take care of the pipe enemy quickly, then use the pink things on every opportunity you can for more height/speed
- Use the yellow ball to bounce over the fat shy guys. then run normally to the end of the room
- Next room is one of the hardest rooms in the game
	- Jump on the edge of the cliff then up to avoid the penguins. You might be able to jump between them too, but it might be random. Then jump and hover to the next block to get on top.
	- Jump on the blocks until you get to the low ceiling, where it's faster to hover over the gap
	- Finally hop on top of the pink platform and ride it to the yellow, where you can hop off that hover to the end
	- All the penguins and pink balls makes this room really stupid. If you slow down or make a tiny mistake, those things can easily push you off to your death
- Don't hit any rocks

4-8:
- Jump on the Stilt Guys' heads to get past them
- You can completely skip using the stilts with some flutters, then a really tight momentum based double flutter for the last skip
	- Pushing the pot with the key in it to the left is faster, but you run a high risk of losing the key because it goes flying to the left, so pushing it to the right is probably the best
- Wait for the Snifits to breathe fire, then act accordingly and don't get hit (other than the 1st hit. That's unavoidable)
- Switch to Bowser Jr. and spam eggs and fire to get through the brambles quickly. They're 1 hit kill so be careful :x
- Stick with Bowser Jr. going into the fight.
- BOSS: Use Bowser Jr.'s fire to continuously push Giant Stilt Guy into the lava then ground pound his head. That's all you have to do. You switch over automatically to Mario on the next level since you lose Bowser Jr. here, so this works out well

5-1:
- First room is an autoscroller. Don't lose Mario
- Rest is really straight forward platforming, so don't mess it up

5-2:
- Full jump over the goonies, then platform normally until you get to the nippers, where you bounce off one of them and full jump over the rest
- Drop down 3 platforms, then short hop to the next platform. Make it to the end, but be sure to get an egg off one of the goonies before you do so to kill the piranha plant. Use the Bounce Circle to get on the 2nd highest goonie, then you can jump and flutter to the highest one and jump over to the cliff
- Best thing to do is just judge when the goonies will be low enough for you to jump on and go for it. Not much of a strategy for this room unfortunately
- Jump in between the goonie and the spear guys to make it past them. Tight timing but it can be done. Get 1 egg before the end of the room to take out the Piranha there.

5-3:
- Spit out the 1st Spear guy into the 2nd, then jump over the next 2 (you can't tongue them if their shields are facing you). Jump on the green platform next, but be careful about hitting the spear in the middle. Full jump to the yellow platform. Wait for the Spear Guy to turn around so you can tongue him, then ride the platform up, get the key, and go through the door
- Jump on the stairs. Don't walk up them
- Ride the platform, then jump over the gap and do 4 flutters to get to the pink platform. For the rotating platform, you can flutter jump off the ghost going left, then jump off the ghost higher up going right to skip it. Otherwise just take it up until you can jump to the cliff
- Tongue the 1st Spear guy and jump over the rest. You need to hit the blue checker block to make a platform, but after it you can jump to the cliff. After just jump over the spear guys. Last one is a bit tricky to get over, but you can do it just barely.
- Jump on the right cliff then the left. To get over the Spear Guy, run slightly below the top of the slope and full jump. For the Spear Guy at the top, tongue him or spit the Spear Guy below him at him. Then just jump over the Spear Guys to the end

5-4:
- Jump over the koopas, then when on the platform, jump and flutter to the paratroopa then to the next one. Drop down onto the piece at the end of the spike pit and then into the pipe.
- To skip the first platform, go through the hole in the middle, then to the right, hop down, and with good timing flutter to get past the spikes. You can skip the goal ring by falling really close to the wall. To skip the 2nd platform, fall to the left and flutter past the wall with the spikes, jump down the stairs, then get the eggs and fall left. Ground Pound the gray dirt to go through, then fall down and flutter over the spikes to skip the 3rd platform. Finally ground pound the gray dirt again, but let go before you go all the way through and throw an egg. Otherwise you won't be able to stop your ground pound unless a pink ball is in your way by chance. You should have at least 3 eggs by the time you exit that area. You need them for the end of the next room.
- Jump to the 3rd gray block then jump and flutter to the 2nd to last one. You might be able to make it up there with good timing on the jump, but otherwise just wait on the 2nd block. If you don't have 3 eggs at that time, there are some egg blocks before you enter the falling blocks. Finally, use the eggs to kill the 3 Blow Hards that are in your way and go down the pipe.
- You can skip the goal ring by falling to the right instead of the left. The gray platform will move if you're on it but stop if you're not on it. Opposite is true for the orange platform later.
	- Skip the Gray Platform by getting an egg (if you don't have extra already), standing on the 1st brown platform, tapping the throw button, and running off and immediately fluttering to the gap made. MAKE SURE THE GRAY PLATFORM IS PAST THE BROWN ONE. It messes up the flutter otherwise and you'll die every time
	- Skip the Orange Platform by falling between the brambles to the brown platform, then jump and flutter between the spikes, then when you get to the gray dirt, throw an egg and ground pound to the pipe
- For the Rocket, go slightly to the right, avoid the other rockets, then back left a tiny bit to get to the end. Skip the goal ring at the end by fluttering over it
- BOSS: For the giant goonie, get to the top of the screen and ground pound him. You can ground pound through his feathers too so don't worry about that. Pretty straightforward boss

5-5:
- Don't die, don't beef it, and don't lose Mario. 9 minute autoscrollers are SO MUCH FUN OMG

5-6:
- When you fall down the gray block, flutter into the smaller gap, then wait for the fire bar to line up so you don't get hit. You can do a full flutter across the next lava gap.
	- Get all 6 eggs from the block for the skip in the next room
- Here's a video of this skip https://youtu.be/46WYxF0PG18?t=46s It saves over 2 minutes, but it's hard. The idea is to egg jump at the right time, tricking the game into thinking you unlocked the gray block below so you can open the door. You have 6 chances to get it.
THIS IS BACKUP IF YOU MISS THE SKIP
- Switch to Baby DK. Climb the vine and ground pound the dirt to get the 1 Ball, then climb back up. Jump on the bat to get up on the ledge and skip unlocking the stairs. There's a small window to tongue the 4 Ball through the lava waterfall, but be careful, as it will kill you if you hit it. If you die though, just retry the earlier skip. Float across to get the 2 Ball. Run to the left wall and get the 3 Ball, then go back down to the entrance. Switch back to Mario on your way out.

5-7:
- Use one of the falling shy guys to get more height and get to the rotating platform sooner. Jump off the top of the rotating platform and flutter twice to the pink platform. Try to jump past all the enemies after jumping off the yellow platform. Should only take 4 platforms to make it to the end of the room
- Ride the balloons, but towards the top try to flutter bounce onto an enemy to make it up to the top sooner. Ride the platforms to the end, but make sure to have 1 egg to take out the 1st Shy Guy stack
- Last room you can hover over a lot of things, but the fire bars can easily hit you, so be careful about them.

5-8:
- Short hop off the 2nd ledge to ensure you won't get hit by a bomb.
- Take Mario's path. It's the fastest because you don't have to switch to anyone else and it's a short chase sequence too.
	- Jump on the hint block. You can make it on the 2nd step if you do
- Get 6 eggs before heading into the boss door
- BOWSER JR.: Hit him when he's vulnerable. He can be stun locked if you time your hits correctly. You can't hurt him in the middle of his attack animations, like when he jumps up and ground pounds, so hit him only when he's on the ground
- BOWSER: Hit him 3 times from the front and ground pound him. Try to time your ground pounds on to where he lands to save some frames. Like Bowser Jr., he can't be hit in the middle of his attacks, so be careful.
- GIANT BOWSER: Work on throwing your eggs correctly and don't miss. It's really easy to miss your eggs, but don't. Just don't do it. Don't think about it man. You'll waste time. It ain't worth it man.
- Timing ends on the final input of the results screen after Giant Bowser, so you have to get through a bit of dialogue first to get to it.