All Costs and 1st place, Bonus Lap Prizes

English Option Menus & Spec's Button Config

The original controls were being way too taxing on my hands, so I changed them this way (5th scheme)

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Route - 100% JP Routes

100%, No GB Transfer - NEW, FASTER (5 bonus 1 replay):

Remove memory card before winning Castle.
- Beat Coaster Lake or Bomber Circuit
- Finish Beach Side (+100 coins) and Dyna Mountain (+100 coins)
- Buy Hyper Louie, 2 P-Bombs, beat the rest of the normal tracks.
(credits / save screen)
- Finish Beach Mirror (+100 coins) and Dyna Mirror (+100 coins)
- Buy Black Louie, 2 P-Bombs
- Finish Dyna Mirror (+100 coins)
You should have 19456 or more coins (rounded up 19460, 19480 if you want to buy a small heart before Star Road to dodge items). If you have 19410 or 19360, sell 1 or 2 P-Bombs. If you have less than that, you'll have to play an extra bonus lap (Bomber Circuit non-100c while grabbing as much coins as you can usually gets the job done).
- Beat the rest of the mirror tracks
(credits / save screen)
- Buy all Tirras, use King Tirra to beat Highway Star Road (buy 1 or 2 small hearts if you have 5676 / 5696 or more, to dodge items easily and regain stamina).
  
The sum of "time left" at the end of the bonus laps must add up to 256 (assuming 4 P-Bombs)
Good times on those bonuses are: 76, 72, 28, 52, 52. So you can make around 24 seconds of mistakes.
If you're uncomfortable with this, either don't buy the P-Bombs or do Ski Course (normal) Bonus rather than Beach (normal) (Not Recommended).
  
Credits to arichan for posting a comparison video, which led to a much faster 100% no transfer route.
  
  
  
  
Mirror Castle End (or slower 100% NGBT, which has 4 bonus 1 replay):

Remove memory card before winning Castle.
- Buy 2 P-Bombs, finish: Lake - Beach - Circuit - Ski+100 - Dyna+100
- Buy Hyper Louie, finish Star Express and Castle
(credits / save screen)
- Buy 2 P-Bombs, beat the mirror tracks, doing Star Ex (+100 Coins) before Dyna
(credits / save screen, mirror castle END)
- Finish Castle Mirror (+100 Coins) again
- Buy all Animals, use King Tirra to beat Highway Star Road (buy 1 or 2 small hearts if you have 5676 / 5696 or more, to dodge items easily and regain stamina).
  
  
  
  
100%, Unrestricted:

Save your file on slot 4 beforehand
- Beat Coaster Lake (+100 Coins), with 66 or better time left (%)
	Spam X, quitting to Options
	Save 4x (4 - 5 - 1 - 2) - - (%)
	Bank, transfer (4 - 5 - 2) to 1
	Options, Load Save 1 - Don't forget this!!!
	Save 4x (4 - 5 - 2 - 3)
	Bank, transfer (4 - 5 - 2 - 3) to 1
	Options, Load Save 1 - You should have 31200 gb or more.
- Buy Black Louie, 2 P-Bombs
Remove memory card before winning Castle.
- Beat Normal Tracks
- Use Black Louie again, buy 2 P-Bombs, beat mirror tracks
(credits / save screen)
- Buy all Tirras, use King Tirra to beat Highway Star Road (buy 1 or 2 small hearts if you have 5676 / 5696 or more, to dodge items easily and regain stamina).

(%) if you get under 66, save one extra time in this step (slot 3), and transfer it to 1 as well.
You can have 50 slots in your save file (done by holding L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 + Select + Start and pressing Circle to create new game data), but you only need a 5-slot save file, even if you don't get 66 on lake bonus.
  
  
  
Some race orders are arbitrary, others are not (except for using Hyper Louie for the last two normal tracks in No GB Transfer, my testing indicates it saves 10+ seconds). Feel free to use the order you want otherwise, either for better comfort or fast menuing (which doesnt have much time variance).
The routes assume you're doing louies as your main characters. You can do King Tirra on 100% and 100% NGBT, you would have to check if the money works with choosing Super Tirra > Hyper Louie.

Route - Any% (Japanese) Routes Breakdown (FASTEST Version)

Use Pretty Bomber (girl dressed in pink), preferably.

Best Route - Beach Side Bonus:
- Buy either 0 or 1 P-Bomb for Ski Course's shortcut
- Play at least one track of: Bomber Circuit / Coaster Lake
- Finish Beach Side with a 100 coin lap with at least:
75 time left, if you bought 1 P-Bomb
70 time left, if you bought none
(if you buy 1 and go under 75, but 70/over, go back a menu and sell the p-bomb)
- Beat the rest of the tracks
Getting 75 (or even 70!) on beach bonus isn't as hard as it seems. Just dash in straight lines, and turn without it. No bomb boosts needed. Before the last 10 coins
  
  
Beginner Route #1 - No 100 Coins. (Recommended) (Slowbrofist's 22:09)
- Buy 2 P-Bombs
- Beat all the tracks, play the bonus laps for Bomber Circuit and Beach Side, don't worry about coins, but try to grab a few while doing a fast lap. (You need +1600 from bonuses ; 1550/1500 if you buy 1/0 P-Bombs)
(usually do Circuit -> Beach -> Rest)
Foing Ski + 100 Coins is faster even if you make some mistakes getting coins, but it might be pointless since Ski 100 isn't really used anywhere other than the Mirror Ending category.
Again, Beach 75 isn't as hard as it looks.
  
  
Beginner Route #3 - Ski Course 100 Coins (2nd Best):
- Buy 2 P-Bombs
- Play B.Circuit, C.Lake, B.Side in whatever order you want (Beach Side can't be first because of the money)
- Finish Ski Course with a 100 coin lap (time left doesn't matter) (✻)
- Beat the rest of the tracks
Even if you miss coins and slow down a bit to get them, this route is better than the non-100coin route by a good margin.
  
  
  
  
  
Routing Explanation:
- Pretty Bomber is chosen because of how opponents behave at the beginning of each race. If you don't choose her, she will always be on Beach Side with a rocket bomb. A lot of times she hits Black Bomber, who speeds in front of her using roller skates, but other times she hits you anywhere before entering the cave. If you choose Black Bomber, you'll get hit almost always (since White will be one of the opponents instead of Black, who uses a shield, not roller skates). Choose Pretty Bomber and don't turn too soon to the left, because White will be there using a shield.
- Without playing a bonus round for extra money, you cannot access: Star Express, Dyna Mountain, Bomber Castle.
- The starting money along with all track profits add up to 800. You'll need an extra 1500 to get access to Bomber Castle, which costs 2300 (not accounting P-Bomb purchases).
- You get a bonus for finishing a bonus lap with all 100 coins, as well as 10 coins for every second of time left you have.
- The fastest lap is Bomber Circuit, which doesn't give us enough money.
- The second fastest is Beach Side, which can give us just enough!
Beach 100 (75) = +1550
Beach 100 (70) = +1500
Ski 100 = +2100 disregarding time left (more than enough already with 2 P-Bombs)
No 100 Coins: BC+BS = Requires an average of 80 time left +coins if you buy 2 P-Bombs, 75 if none. (old route)  
  
About Ski Course's shortcut: You essentially boost yourself to an upper part of the level throwing a P-Bomb or a Remote Control and jumping into it after it explodes. You'll see it being used on the faster runs. You can ignore it when speedrunning this game at first. but if you want to learn it, it's not a precise trick at all, and it's included in Slowbrofist's guide.
  
About Beach Side's shortcut: If you go through the cavern and boost yourself towards the small red boat, you'll spawn at the bridge of the regular shortcut (which we used to reach by bomb-boosting to it the normal way). Check "Guides" for videos showing the shortcut and the backup strategy in case you miss it.

Route - English Version Route

The English ver. route does 3 100-coin bonus laps:
Coaster Lake (+100), Star Express (+100), Dyna Mountain (+100)
  
- Buy from 0 to 2 P-Bombs for Ski Course's shortcut
- Play, in any order, Bomber Circuit (no bonus) and Coaster Lake (+100 coin lap)
Time left should be 70 / 65 / 60 for 2 / 1 / 0 P-Bombs (respectively). If you go under, go back a menu and sell p-bombs acoordingly.
- Finish Star Express with a 100 coin lap (DO NOT play Beach/Ski before this)
- Depending on the tracks you choose to do after Star Ex and before Dyna your time left must be:
40 for Beach+Ski
30 for Ski
any for Beach
- Beat the rest of the tracks, finishing Dyna Mountain (+100 coin lap)
- The sum of Dyna+Star Ex time left must be at least 30 (which is very trivial)
  
  
  
  
  
  
It's not worth it to play the English version if you're initially running the game on emu or just for fun. I encourage you to read the Japanese route breakdown first. Regardless, here's how US ver. goes:

- Without playing a bonus round for extra money, you can ONLY access: Bomber Circuit, Coaster Lake (yes, you're 100 coins short of accessing Beach Side).
- The starting money along with all track profits add up to... -2200! (yes, negative) You'll need an extra 6800 to get access to Bomber Castle, which costs 4600 (not accounting P-Bomb purchases).

- Given that you HAVE to play a bonus lap of one of the first two tracks, Coaster Lake is the best choice, since it gives you 1300 with a 70 finish (74 is possible afaik)
- So, if you play both tracks with Lake's 100 coin lap, you can access Star Express, IF your time left is:
70, buying 2 P-Bombs
65, buying 1 P-Bomb
60, buying none
(you start with 100, circuit profit is +100, coaster lake's is +100, math it up)
(if you come up short of one of those times, go back a menu and sell P-bomb(s) acoordingly)
- Star Express and Ski Course's bonus laps both give you 2100 for getting 100 coins and its extra bonus. Star Express is the considerably faster, so only consider playing Ski's bonus instead if you're not even good enough for doing Lake's 100 coin lap with 60 time left (which can be trivially done with not much practice, and it should be the first track of your route, so I encourage you to not play Ski bonus for this ever).
- DO NOT play Beach Side or Ski Course after Circuit & Lake, and before Star Express. You'll LOSE MONEY (-100 and -400 respectively) and there's no benefit to it besides making you not be able to buy P-Bombs or be short on money, having to back up on Ski 100. If you're going for the Beach shortcut, are inconsistent with it, and want to do it early, your best options are: 1) don't reset on them ; 2) don't go for them in runs yet ; 3) practice more

- So far, the "extra" money amounts to 3400, of 6800 needed (not accounting Star Ex 100 time left)
- The next fastest bonus lap that gives us a lot of money is Dyna Mountain (my current best is 72, while Beach is 76, Lake 74)
- You'll have 3100 coins after Star Express (not accounting Star Ex 100 time left), which is enough for the Dyna Mountain ticket! (3000)
- In case you finish this bonus with less than 30 time left, do not play Ski Course after Star Express. You'll lose 400 coins and won't be able to access Dyna. Whatever backup for it would be absolutely terrible. Playing Beach Side after it is 100% fine in whatever P-Bomb economy you're using.
- Dyna Mountain's 100 coins and bonus gives us 3100
- The "extra" money amounts to 6500. We need a trivial amount of 30 time left on Dyna and Star Ex 100 coin bonuses altogether to reach the rest.

Speedrunning BFR 101

Waca Island Beachside Shortcut (Boat Skip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKBOReT6wbE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7B_IIbqpso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8VEMwDsr0k

Name	Author
All Costs and 1st place, Bonus Lap Prizes	Spec3x 7 years ago
English Option Menus & Spec's Button Config	Spec3x 5 years ago
Route - 100% JP Routes	Spec3x 5 years ago
Route - Any% (Japanese) Routes Breakdown (FASTEST Version)	Spec3x 5 years ago
Route - English Version Route	Spec3x 5 years ago
Speedrunning BFR 101	PvtCb 8 years ago
Waca Island Beachside Shortcut (Boat Skip)	Spec3x 6 years ago