....er, probably not a good game choice. voted no. sry.

Agree with Saethori above. Yes vote.

Considering how much score was left to attain at the end of the movie though, I can't imagine it would be an easy task deciding when to go out of your way to get all the extra points.

If you're going to get that, you might as well try for maximum possible score on every level, even if it means repeating a few when the coins or eggs aren't beneficial. At least that way there wouldn't be a great difference in strategy from the Japanese version, where the point quotas were lower.

Good idea of run. Since this is my first GBC game I was really hoping to see someone TASing it, because there are some modes that can bring some entertainement. First of all, you could start a run with You VS Boo unlocked with every Black Boo(or unlocking them), and make all the courses winning with the Challenge mode, as an example. Doing the original or the Lost Level Mode is sure less entertaining because there are some things that miss in those, comparated to the NES/SNES version (like the wind in TLL). Otherwise there are Awards in this opus, and this has its importance. Winning all the Score/Coins/Egg Medals gives you 3 Awards, and you Miss a fourth one that belongs to the challenge mode, the Toad-Award (it seems) that is unlocked after a certain score. For your run, there are some points to change to optimise it better, they are not crucial, but those are really visible : -Fireworks (sometimes they aren't necessary) -Flagpole High (sometimes you jump too high to attain the 5.000 points) -New "Score" Routes (Maybe, like making higher points with ennemies to be able to skip the flagpole animation winning only 100 points, but I didn't really see any improvement in the levels) As for the Toad Award, there is a quick way to attain it. I lost the videos where I saw it, but in the Challenge Mode, when you hit a koopa Shell on the stairs, the game memorizes the number of times you hit it, and if you stop, and restart hitting, you will win points until the Shell disappears, beginning from the number of points where you left. The trick is to go up 5.000 points, and to let the Shell go away, in a place without pits, especially in 6-2, 7-1 (if I remember correctly), and some other rare places. Then, you just have to jump in order to stop and shoot it, and you gain 5.000 points instead of 500 for shotting in the shell everytime you do this. -I think the end of the 6-2 would be a good place to do it, and maybe you could find a way to do it quicker on emulator, directly on the stairs maybe, or with 8.000 points everytime (i'm not sure if it's possible, it has been a long time since I didn't do this, because my game had some problems and I lost for the third time a part of my data, that I haven't fully reclaimed yet). You can win more than 500.000 points on one try, and you only need less than 200.000 points to obtain the Toad Award, and I think it's the quickest way to complete the score bar, you will just have to jauge how many times you have to do this trick, and see if you couldn't win extra points in some levels without losing time that could reduce the number of times you'll do this trick. I'll give you a firm "Yes" for this run, but I encourage you to improve it, and maybe add sew segments like the You VS Boo course.

TheKDX7, this is an enjoyable run, but the bar is set pretty high on this site for Mario games. Some people have said there are optimization problems, but Mariowiki.com says many glitches in the original Mario were removed from this game, and the gameplay itself looks pretty good to me. While collecting the red coins and yoshi eggs is really entertaining, some of the more mundane point collecting, like stopping to grab mushrooms and fireworks, just make the run look slower. I agree with Metarkrai. It's a good run, but it appears there could be more optimization in regards to how much time is spent collecting points to get the max score on each level. After thinking about it, I'll vote Meh. It's entertaining, but I think the run should only be published if, at the time, it is as optimized as we believe possible. Another attempt that better optimizes the time spent point collecting would definitely earn a yes vote from me.

OK I shall begin the improvements in some time but while waiting for I go tried to make wario land 3 "any%"

OK I shall begin the improvements in some time but while waiting for I go tried to make wario land 3 "any%"

Good luck! I've read that there's a wall-jump glitch like in Wario land 2, so this will be interesting to watch.

Bad optimization combined with no Toad Award forces me to vote no. However, I really like this idea and wouldn't mind seeing this run published if only to encourage more people to beat this run.

For anyone who doesn't know, these are the 5 awards in this game: - Mario Award, for completing 8-4 in the Original 1985 mode - Bowser Award, for completing 8*4 in the Original 1985 mode - Luigi Award, for completing 8-4 in the Super Mario Bros. for Super Players mode (SMB2j remake with the wind removed and possibly other changes), also shows the credits - Peach Award, for obtaining all 96 medals in Challenge mode - Toad Award, for filling up the score bar in Challenge mode You Vs. Boo mode doesn't give an award, but Boo matches your best time after you win once on a particular level, and changes color based on that time (white-->green-->pink-->black). So unlocking black Boo in all 8 levels could be considered completing it. There are various other photo album pictures, such as one for defeating each type of enemy (all 8 fake Bowsers count separately and have to be killed with fireballs), but it's impossible to obtain two of them without linking (play a 2-player race and trade high scores with someone). I'm not sure whether all 5 awards would really be worth watching over Peach+Toad (or Peach+Toad+ 8 black Boos), considering the rest would just be SMB1 warpless, SMB1 hard with warps, and SMB2j with warps, on a smaller screen size. Regarding the idea of maximum possible score, I'd like to see that myself, but there is an issue with that-- repeatedly kicking a Koopa/Buzzy shell against a wall (kicking, stomping, kicking again, and so on) is worth more points than what's lost from the timer bonus, and unlike the Koopa-stairs trick, I don't think it will destroy the shell. So quite a lot of the levels would end with minimal time (probably 6 time units left for the fireworks), resulting in a rather boring video, unless some arbitrary restriction is placed on number of times each shell can be kicked or something like that. YouTube user PersonOnEarth has uploaded some videos of TAS high scores for the first 7 castles and 6-3 (which don't contain any shells), though, along with TASes of the You Vs. Boo levels.

om, nom, nom... blech!

om, nom, nom... blech!

Haha.

A challenge mode? It's possible to get over 60,000 in 1-1. 500-800-1000-2000-4000-5000-8000-10000. The trick in 3-1 is where you can get over 1,000,000. Get all the red coins and all the Yoshi eggs, get all the target scores, and get the highest scores. Some levels need to be completed twice.

A challenge mode? It's possible to get over 60,000 in 1-1. 500-800-1000-2000-4000-5000-8000-10000. The trick in 3-1 is where you can get over 1,000,000. Get all the red coins and all the Yoshi eggs, get all the target scores, and get the highest scores. Some levels need to be completed twice.

I think that it is possible to have "Toad Award" (1'600'000 pts) without making a single level twice.