And you do all the Dire Dire Docks stars before Bowser in the Fire Sea so you'll still have his sub there to help you, right?
Sure, as long as the sub doesn't get in your way for any of them. But I bet everybody will be pleased to see the sub and the poles at the same time.
0)Generally: At the beginning you always long jump in a slightly wrong direction so that you don't go 100% straight ahead.
1)Big Bomb Omb. It seems that your test run was faster, since you didn't get stuck in some places before going up the mountain. You start the BLJ later so that you don't gain the max speed from the elevator.
2)100 coin route. You use 2x diving instead of long jumping. Are you sure this is the fastest way? Especially when you go up the mountain.
3)100 coin route. You use the cannon to blast to the pole after getting the 100 coins - star. Try to triple jump off the red ! block on the floating island. It may be faster this way.
4)Red coins. Nice idea to fly down to the 5th red coin. Why don't you fly all the way down to the 6th coin?
5)Bowser. The camera in the beginning was IMO better in your test run. Press the C down for a farther better view. The way you got the key in the test run was also better (you touched the key in the very last moment after diving)
the bowser fight is different now on my unreleased WIP, and it's very close to both mario and bowser. it looks stylish instead of informational. i will do a different camera angle for the 3 bowsers. (i got the key on the last possible frame too, on this unreleased WIP)
shouldn't you be getting the key on the first possible frame? I don't think there's a last possible frame anyway, since you could just take however long you want before you pick up the key. :p
001 SEC Secret Aquarium............... 01:15 02:03 0:48
002 3-1 Plunder in the Sunken Ship.... 02:19 03:17 0:58
003 3-7 Collect 100 Coins............. 03:31 05:04 1:33
004 3-3 Treasure of the Ocean Cave.... 03:31 05:23 1:52
005 3-2 Can the Eel Come out to Play?. 05:36 06:13 0:37
006 3-6 Through the Jet Stream........ 06:26 06:48 0:22
007 3-5 Blast to the Stone Pillar..... 07:01 07:21 0:20
008 3-4 Red Coins on the Ship Afloat.. 07:35 08:37 1:02
009 SEC The Princess's Secret Slide... 09:07 09:29 0:22
010 2-1 Chip off Whomp's Block........ 09:55 10:27 0:32
011 2-3 Shoot into the Wild Blue...... 10:40 10:51 0:11
012 2-2 To the Top of the Fortress.... 11:05 11:20 0:15
013 2-5 Fall onto the Caged Island.... 11:34 11:52 0:18
014 2-6 Blast Away the Wall........... 12:04 12:15 0:11
015 2-7 Collect 100 Coins............. 12:28 13:32 1:04
016 2-4 Red Coins on the Floating Isle 12:28 13:38 1:10
017 SEC The Princess's Secret Slide... 13:57 14:23 0:26
018 SEC Tower of the Wing Cap......... 14:33 14:57 0:24
019 4-2 Li'l Penguin Lost............. 15:23 15:43 0:20
020 4-6 Wall Kicks Will Work.......... 15:57 16:08 0:11
021 4-1 Slip Slidin' Away............. 16:22 16:48 0:26
022 4-4 Frosty Slide for 8 Red Coins.. 17:01 17:42 0:41
023 4-7 Collect 100 Coins............. 17:56 19:01 1:05
024 4-3 Big Penguin Race.............. 17:56 19:17 1:21
025 4-5 Snowman's Lost His Head....... 19:30 20:08 0:38
026 1-6 Behind Chain Chomp's Gate..... 20:30 20:45 0:15
027 1-1 Big Bob-omb on the Summit..... 20:59 21:47 0:48
028 1-7 Collect 100 Coins............. 22:00 24:10 2:10
029 1-2 Footrace with Koopa the Quick. 22:00 24:29 2:29
030 1-3 Shoot to the Island in the Sky 24:43 25:04 0:21
031 1-5 Mario Wings to the Sky........ 25:19 25:52 0:33
032 1-4 Find the 8 Red Coins.......... 26:05 26:58 0:53
033 SEC Bowser in the Dark World...... 27:25 28:13 0:48
KEY KEY Bowser in the Dark World...... 27:25 28:45 1:20
I thought of this route for the basement levels: 1 - beat 1st bowser (33 stars) 2 - get vanish cap star, then re-enter, choose exit (34 stars), back to the lobby 3 - bigboo's haunt (41 stars) 4 - dire dire docks + 2nd bowser (49 stars) 5 - SSL + LLL + HMC + metal cap star + 2 MIPS + toad star (74 stars) 6 - re-enter any of those, choose exit and back to the lobby 7 - enter the 2nd key door I am right now working on 35th + 36th stars (100 coin route on big boo's haunt). I'm following all of the stars names on this level.
Very well. 34. MIPS 1 35-41. Shifting Sand Land (No caps needed) 42-48. Lethal Lava Land (No caps needed) 49-57. Toad Star + Metal Cap + Hazy Maze Cave (Star 3 requires Metal Cap) 58. MIPS 2 59. Vanish Cap (Re-enter + quit Vanish Cap course; reappear in lobby) 60-66. Big Boo's Haunt (Star 6 requires Vanish Cap) 67-74. Dire, Dire Docks + Bowser in Fire Sea
This way, you don't have to go through the basement twice.
Either way, I think the most efficient route is:
Dire Dire Docks
Bowser in Fire Sea
Get Mips1
Shifting Sand Land
Lethal Lava Land
Get Mips2
Toad Star + Metal Cap + Hazy Maze Cave
Vanish Cap
Re-enter + reset
Big Boo's Haunt
Re-enter + reset / Run back to main hall
Only thing that's bad about this is the fact that re-entering Big Boo's Haunt probably takes a little longer than the other levels.Isn't there a star in Dire Dire Docks that requires the vanish cap?
