any% US/PAL Novice route

Before starting your run, it's recommended that you enable debug mode by pressing X, B, R, B, Y, L on the title screen.

This is a much slower route than optimal for ENG/PAL.
Designed to remove all chapter 3 RNG and allow for easy versions of TRE and PS

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
Level = 1.09

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

**Enter the Toad Bros. Bazaar**
● Order the Contact Lens
● Buy 4 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

**Goomba Trio**
● Mario: Fright Mask
Level = 1.10

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
Grab **Pretty Lucky**
Get the Black Key
Use the Black Key to unlock the Plane Curse chest (choose second option during tutorial)

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
Level = 1.20

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

**Bristles**
● Mario: POW Block
Level = 1.34

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
Level = 1.50

Return to the right to get the Sun Stone

**Fuzzies**
● Mario: Fire Flower
Level = 1.66

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
Level = 1.88

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

Get **Power Bounce** from the block
Mash B to say "No" when asked to read the letter
Check the Red Bones

**Red Bones**
● Mario: Fire Flower
● Koops: Fire Flower
Level = 2.21; FP = 10

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
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
In the upper hallway, jump on the first switch
Either use Koops to hit the second switch, or jump to the open window
Grab **Life Shroom** as you ride the block up to unlock the door
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
Level = 2.52

[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

Go grab **Mega Rush P**
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

Get first struck by Cleft
Get into peril and run away

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

Head down the pipe to Flurrie's house

Save&Quit, copy the save over to another file for use later. Then load the run file back
(this is isn't technically needed, but it avoids a difficult trick known as double jump)
Check the door to talk to Flurrie
Choose the bottom dialogue option
Leave the house to trigger the Shadow Sirens cutscene

Optional: Heal with the heal block if you're scared
Return to the Shadow Sirens

Note: You can die here. Put Koops in front, if Marilyn targets Mario, superguard or use a Life Shroom. (loosing peril is fine)

**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)
Level = 2.88

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
Level = 2.89

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
Level = 2.94

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

Puni glitch the bubble room
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

Lose the Punies by falling down in the Pider Room

Backtrack to the Bubble Room
Jump down and get the **Thunder Rage** from the bush to the right
Unlock the blue cell

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

Puni glitch the Bubble Room

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)
**Optional:** 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
Level = 2.95

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 = 3.00; BP = 6

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
Level = 3.32

[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

First struck by Piranha

There's usually 2 enemies in this fight, they both do 2 damage. Adjust accordingly to get in peril.

**Piranha**
● Peril

Leave Boggly Woods

**Optional:** Grab **Pretty Lucky** in the invisible block by the Spinias (backup for the *optional* badge lol)

Go to The Thousand-Year Door

**Lovely Howz of Badges**
● Sell P-Down, D-Up P
● Sell Quake Hammer
● Sell Attack FX-R
● Buy Power Rush

**Toad Bros. Bazaar**
● Buy Contact Lens

**Charlieton**
● Buy Mega Rush

If Charlieton didn't have Mega Rush, go to the blimp area to reset.

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

Use Koops while entering the Don Pianta dialog to get Jump Storage. Can use Flurrie save as a backup.

**Don't jump**

Super Jump to obtain UHE

Go to Rogueport Harbor and talk to Francesca

Go Back to Don Pianta and get Blimp Ticket
E-mail before the grate

You **need Mega Rush** before leaving, so farm Charlieton for it if you still don't have it.

Go to Glitzville

[section=Glitzville]

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**
● Equip Mega Rush
● Equip Power Rush
● Equip Multibounce

Climb the steps and enter the Grubba cutscene

**Boss: Macho Grubba**
● Mario: Power Bounce x4
● Koops: Swap to Flurrie
● Grubba: Power Bounce x4
Level = 3.66

**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

Leave Glitzville

[section=Pre-Chapter 4]

Intermission

**Glitzville Shop:**
● Buy 1 Power Punch
● Buy 1 Point Swap

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

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

Super Jump to Chapter 4

Go to Twilight Town

[section=Twilight Town]
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**
Get the Tube Curse (e-mail leaving the shop)
Pick up the **Boo's Sheet**
Pick up the **Jammin' Jelly**


Go to Creepy Steeple

Drop down into the well

Get into Peril from the Buzzy Beetle and then kill it
Level = 3.72

Save&Quit to get Jump Storage

Go inside the Steeple
Super Jump to the key
Go through the top door

Hit the red “!” switch once with Koops
Go to the top of the steeple

Note: I do recommend the "risky" strat. It's really not hard, but if you are scared about loosing the life shroom, use the first strat.

**Doopliss**

**Super safe and easy**:
● Mario: Power Bounce x7
● Koops: Boo's Sheet
● Doopliss Copies Mario
● Mario: Full Jump

**Slightly risky**
● Koops: Defend
● Mario: Power Bounce x7
● Doopliss Copies Mario
● Superguard Doopliss (or Life Shroom)
● Mario: Full Jump (Failed if you superguarded)

If you used a Life Shroom:
● Mario: Power Bounce x7
● Koops: Shell Toss
Level = 3.96

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 = 4.20; BP = 9

Vivian really joins your party

[section=Excess Express & Riverside Station]
Fahr Outpost for **Double Dip P**
HRG to the pipe in sewers to Poshley and get on the train

Tell the conductor about the “sticky, yummy threat”

**Shop**
● Buy 2 Boo's Sheet (3 if you used one on Doopliss)

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
Level = 4.30

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:**
● Unequip Power Bounce
● 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 (toss Dried Shroom)
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)
Level = 4.67

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
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.**

**While going into paper mode above the vent:**
● Unequip Power Plus
● Equip Power Bounce and Charge

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 the access code (014029) ("excuse" on the French version)
● 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 right and use the Elevator Key to 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.

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

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 70HP (Mario at 10 HP)**
● Mario: Charge
● Yoshi: Swap
● Guard the attack
● Mario: Defend
● Partner: Swap
● Guard the attack
● Mario: Power Bounce x5
● Partner: Swap to Yoshi
● Mario: Power Bounce x5
Level = 5.07; BP = 12


[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 X-Naut Fortress via the teleporter

(e-mail near the Loading Zone)

Open The Thousand-Year Door


[section=Palace of Shadow]

Run past the Swoopulas on the first staircase
Get the **Shooting Star** from the Yellow Block

Spring jump onto the torch to skip the gold cannon

Get **All or Nothing** in the Spike Room (hammer the block from the right side)

HRG to get the **Boo's Sheet** in the Fire Bar room

**Dark Bones 20HP**
● Mario: Supernova
● Yoshi: Shooting Star
Level = 6.00; BP = 15

**After Dark Bones**
● Unequip Multibounce
● Equip P-Up, D-Down
● Equip Power Plus

Get the Palace Key
Run between the Bombshell Bills

Skip the next 2 sets of gold cannons

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

Go right to the room before Gloomtail

Perform Palace Skip via Mowz teleport

Get first stuck by Chain Chomp to take 7 damage, run away

Hit the red “!” switch and use Yoshi to get to the Palace Key

Get the **Life Shroom**
Get the **Shooting Star**

Fall down and use the spring to get back up to the Plane Panel
Head left to fall onto the spikes until you are in peril

Fly across the room and unlock the door
Enter the Throne Room

[section=Grodus, Bowser, and Shadow Queen]

**Boss: Grodus 50HP**
● Yoshi: Shooting Star
● Mario: Power Bounce x6
Level = 6.45

**Boss: Bowser 70HP / Kammy Koopa 50HP**
● Mario: Power Bounce Kammy x5
● Yoshi: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Power Bounce x5
● Yoshi: Jammin' Jelly
● Mario: Power Bounce x4
Level = 6.97


● Unequip Power Plus
● Equip Double Dip P
● Equip All or Nothing

**Remember All or Nothing mechanics**

**Final Boss: Shadow Queen - 61 Damage Required**
● Mario: Power Bounce x7 (Must do 6 bounces that do damage)
● Yoshi: Gulp

**Phase 2 starts**
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Partner: Boo's Sheet on Mario
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Partner: Swap
● Mario: Failed Jump
● Flurrie: Swap to a 15HP Partner (I vote Vivian)

Crystal Stars Cutscene

**Shadow Queen 150HP**
● Mario: Charge
● Vivian: Double Dip: Boo's Sheet + Nothing
● Vivian: Double Dip: Power Punch + Point Swap
● Mario: Power Bounce x5+
● Mario: Power Bounce x5+
● Vivian: Boo's Sheet
● Mario: Power Bounce x3+

Two 5 caps, followed by a 3 bounce = 156 damage. If she steals HP or increases defense, just do extra bounces at the end.

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