any% manip route

This is my route txt I use during runs, which I've been updating as I finetune it.

https://pastebin.com/C376rBJ7

Watching my PB (which has an input display) should be pretty helpful for learning how this route translates to the run, especially if you're already familiar with EarthBound RNG manip and the ways that it can go wrong. Using the lua script to display spawn lines (written for bizhawk 2.2) can help with knowing the positioning of when to do manip inputs as well, and I'd be happy to help with anything you need.

EBHH Any% Guide [OUTDATED]

Halloween Hack Speedrun Guide

Since I have not explored everything about the game yet, more notes and back up strats will be added later.

All of the stuff written about the RNG manipulation is assumed you somewhat know the area enough to be able to pull it off.

STARTER SCREEN

-20 cursor movements for name.

-Timer starts when you press YES.

DREAM SEQUENCE

If you have trouble learning by text, Ukobotic has a video that showcases a successful manipulation.

-Auto equip weapon and armor.

-Keep walking after the text you get right before you wake up.

TWOSON

-Don't cancel friend's text, just keep walking.

-When you're exiting Pirkle's office, go straight down. Then continue right, and tap up to go through the end door.

-Go to sewers.

SEWERS

-Go down first ladder, into water. Go up next ladder, go into next room.

-Open and close the menu twice as soon as you walk in, go down ladder.

-At the very edge of the line before you go diagonal, open menu.

-Go up the ladder. Before you reach the top, open and close the menu twice.

-Walk left, on the very bottom. On the way to the door, there will be two pieces of trash directly across from each other, left to right-there are no other pieces of trash like that. In the middle of that, open the menu and 'Talk to'.

-Get to the door. Position yourself on the edge of the concrete, right across the door and 'Check'. Go through the door.

-Keep entering the door until there are no enemies. Go down the ladder and walk right.

-Be careful, because the Question Mark enemies can clip through the walls and catch you or go down the ladder and catch you.

-When getting to the big black V, on the very edge of it, Check. Walk a step, and Check again.

-To avoid Hippies, swerve around them and around the trash can so they get stuck on the trash can. Enter door.

WINTERS

-When you walk through Winters, do NOT cancel the text yet. Just keep walking.

-As a safety precaution, you can save near the tent. Otherwise, go down to where Tessie usually is, go down the walk way, and continue down. Avoid all encounters.

Zombie: Autofight

-Head to the lab. Talk to Andonuts

-When the decision comes up, remember to choose neither. Basically, press the B button.

MAGICANT

-Immediately go left to the Courage Tower-the building with the businessman in front of it. Go into the first door into Onett.

ONETT/PAULA

-Go up to the meteorite. On the way there, grind out encounters until you're at level 6. Noted that it's quicker to Autofight (Loser) them to the death, unless you're worried about losing all of your PP, which is unlikely.

-Battle start. Have Varik Sleepstun the middle NO. After that, just keep fleeing until you get away.

DREAM SEQUENCE

-Talk to gravestone. 

MAGICANT

-Equip weapon and armor for Paula. Go down and go into the shop.

-Take out all of the money from the ATM.

-Buy Psycho Pspirit and give it to Paula

-Leave the shop and go back to the Courage Tower. Go into the second door-NOT the bathroom doors.

JEFF 

-Keep despawning until you either A. have no encounters or B. have only one encounter. It's rare that you'll be able to get 0 encounters, so if you get just one, take it. 

Dogs: Flame/Autofight

Pumpkin Kid: Autofight

Heart: Sleepstun then run

-Walk into the room. Ignore Andonuts and his wife and continue into the next room.

-This room can be a bit tricky. What you want to do is either A. get no encounters or B., a more consistent method, to get the enemy stuck on to the table/chair.

-Once you're passed it, continue into the lowest door in the room.

-Move right to the bottom doorway. If you get an encounter, try to despawn, but if after a few tries you still have an encounter, get the encounter. It's not a huge time waster.

-Go right to the far end doorway.

-Next door

-When you go in that door, you'll see Andonuts's wife.

(Next two bullets are for safety points)

-Go into the door again from where you came from.

-For safety, use the Instant Revitalizing Device (IRD) to refuel yourself. Then save. Go back through the door.

-Talk to Jeff.

-Have Varik bash and Paula use the Psycho Pspirit.

-Have Varik bash again and Paula use Freeze α.

-Repeat Varik-bash and Paula-Freeze α until Paula runs out of PP. If Darkheart is still not dead at that point, go to Autofight.

-Talk to Andonuts.

MAGICANT

-Equip Jeff's weapon and armor. Go into the shop.

-Go to the ATM and withdraw all of your money.

-Buy two Psycho Pspirits and give one to Varik and one to Paula.

-Buy three Cocoon Pizzas and give them to Varik. Go out the shop.

-Go back to the Courage Tower. Go through the last door at the very back.

BELCH'S BASE/PHASE DISTORTER

-Keep walking and go up the stairs. Talk to Andonuts.

-Go right throguh Belch's Base. Try to avoid encounters. This is a very tricky area to avoid encounters, so if there's only one enemy when you attempt to despawn, initiate the battle.If you get into an encounter, Timestop α the first enemy and try to flee.

-Go down the ladder and go left. Keep going left past the conveyor belt of people.

-Keep going left. You'll see a door. That door always holds a butterfly, and can be used to despawn.

-Go left and up through the door.

-It's highly recommended to use the IRD and save. If you happen to have high/max HP/PP, then just save. Go through the door.

-Go right. When you see it going in two different directions, go up towards the needle and Phase Distorter. Interact with Phase Distorter.

-There is a very likely chance that someone will die during this battle. Even if someone dies, continue with the guide below.

-Have Varik use Psycho Pspirit, Paula use Lightning α and Jeff use HP-sucker.

-Have Varik use Cocoon Pizza, Paula use Freeze α and Jeff use HP-sucker.

-Varik defend, Paula Freeze α, Jeff HP-sucker.

-Continue until Paula has no PP, where Varik and Paula will defend and Jeff uses the HP-sucker until the Phase Distorter crumbles.

DREAM SEQUENCE

-Talk to Andonuts.

MAGICANT

-Go to shop. Go to the ATM and withdraw all of your money.

-Buy 8 pieces of Magic taffy. Give 4 to Paula and 4 to Poo.

-Buy 1 Cocoon Pizza and give it to Varik.

This next bit is only if you or your companions are dead.

-Go to where the Courage Tower is. Don't go in it-go past it into the orange area. Go down and right to the lady in the nurse's outfit. Talk to her and agree to the price. Ta-da!

-Go back to the area of the shop. Go up left where Apple Kid is standing. Talk to him and continue.

-This area will be very tricky with enemies. If there's more than one enemy, try to despawn.

Otherwise:

Dogs: Flame/Autofight
 
Pumpkin Kids: Autofight

Hearts: Sleepstun and run 

-Keep going up. Then, when there's a fork in the path, go up and get the present.

-Give the Sword of Kings to Poo and have Poo equip it.

-Go back down, and then go into the right path. When there's another fork, go down and get the present. Have Varik equip the Hair Gel. Go back up.

-Continue up and left. You'll eventually come across a present. Open it.

-Give the Cloak of Kings to Poo and have him equip it. Continue left and follow the path. 

-Get the next present and open it. Continue the path. 

-If all of them are not at max HP, eat the Cocoon Pizza. Interact with the needle. 

-Try to avoid encounters-this area is dangerous.

Giegue League: Sleepstun then run.

Brain Buster: Paralyze then run

Dead Ness: Shield with Paula and Autofight

-Go left, and then as soon as you're on the edge of the black L, go up. Go right, and then down. Open the present. Have Varik equip the Planet Buster.

-Go back up, and then go to the right path and then up. Go left.

-There'll be a present. Grab it. Continue left.

-At the very edge, there will be a Guardian Hieroglyph. Interact with it.

-Go right and then down towards the Phase Distorter. Life up and save.

-What you do here depends solely on the health of everyone. You can either attempt to flee, or you can bash some of them to death to level up.  

-Try to despawn the enemies. Go left. Continue the path. 

-Eventually you'll get to the floating ball. Interact with it and go left. Follow the path. 

-Save for safety. 

-Go right. 

-There are ways to skip the three Krakens here. For the first one, you want to despawn until the Kraken is at the bottom. Quickly walk up so you can avoid the encounter. For the second Kraken, you want to get the Kraken stuck on one of the needle rocks so you can walk past them. For the third one, you also want it to get stuck on one of the needle rocks. For a more clear look on how it works, check out Ukobotic's runs.

-Interact with the woman. Go up right to the ATM and withdraw everything. Talk to the shop man. 

-Drop Key to the Sewers and sell the Silent Dagger.

-Buy Psycho Pspirit, Fire Pendant and H20 and give it to Varik. Equip the Fire Pendant.

-Buy a Fire Pendant and a H20 Pendant for everyone else. Equip the Fire Pendant for everyone. 

-Sell the HP-sucker. Buy Horns of Life for how many dead people there currently are and use it on them. Buy one or two extra for safety. 

-Heal everyone up with your remaining Sky Nectar.

-Go left and save. Then go into the cave.

-If Paula and/or Poo are low on PP, use Magic taffy on them. 

-Autofight until the real fight starts.

-As soon as the text shows up to take you to the real fight, start spamming B to end Autofight. You'll still Autofight when you first start, so don't worry about that.

-Have Varik use Timestop, Paula use the Psycho Pspirit, and Jeff and Poo bash.

-Varik and Jeff bash, Paula and Poo Freeze. Repeat until Poo or Paula has no PP.

-Varik and Jeff bash. If Paula has no PP, have Paula use Magic taffy and Poo use Freeze. If Poo has no PP, have him use Magic taffy and Paula Freeze. If both have no PP, have both of them use Magic taffy.  

-Have Varik and Jeff bash and Paula and Poo use Freeze until Andonuts starts talking to you. 

-After he stops talking, equip the H20 Pendant for everyone. After that, have Varik, Jeff and Poo bash while Paula uses Flame. 

-If Paula runs out of PP, just have her use the Magic taffy on herself.

-If one of the kid's HP is low, have Varik use the Cocoon Pizza. Jeff and Poo bash, Paula Flame. 

-After Andonuts talks, have Varik use the Psycho Pspirit and everyone Defend. 

-Everyone Defend again. 

-Then have Varik and Jeff bash, and if Paula and Poo are low on PP, use Magic taffy for both. 

-Varik and Jeff bash, Paula and Poo Freeze. Repeat until dead, unless Paula and Poo need PP, where they would use Magic taffy instead of Freeze. 

-Timer ends when the battle suddenly pauses, signifying that Andonuts is dead.

Potential Unmanipulated Sewers Strategy? -- For races and such

There's a reason Sewers is manipulated. It's ridiculously hard for no reason. Other than extended gameplay time, of course.

Step 1. Grind to level 3
	- This part could be really quick or really terrible. Once you equip your weapon and armor and get the key from Pirkle, walk around outside until you find literally anything to fight. Make sure, though, that you stick to anywhere south of the chaos theater, and outside of burglin park. This area is where the survivable enemies spawn. ;)
	- Anything is acceptable to fight at level 1, death is uncommon here, but don't take any Peer Pressure Puppets (the Handsome Tom looking things) because they always take 2 hits to kill, have ridiculous speed, and offer no reward. But if you get one with another enemy like a Kid-eating Dinosaur then it's worth.
	- If you like, you can take the money you've obtained and buy a few hamburgers from the dept store. There's one likely-mandatory fight you may want to have healing items for, just in case.

Step 2. Grind to level 5
	- The grind to level 3 in Twoson makes it to where you can actually fight the enemies in the first part of sewers and survive, most of the time. Sometimes they'll just kill you anyway.
	- Fight anything you can as you progress through sewers until you reach level 5. The Hippies are the most dangerous enemy though, so beware.

Step 3. Good luck
	- Once you're level 5, you'll vitality up to 45 HP which helps you survive longer in deadly encounters. 
	- The next area of sewers is terrifying. The enemies here aren't terrible by themselves, but they can encounter you with as many as 4 at once, it's ridiculous. The best way to get through this next area that I can find is as follows:
	- Go back through the door as if you're trying to leave, and mash until the room resets. You'll want to do this repeatedly until there are no enemies.
	- Make your way down the ladder and to the right. In the area by the present, enemies can spawn. If you see a ?, immediately turn back and respawn the area until there are no more because they will walk through walls, encounter you, and drag anything else up there down the ladder into the fight with it.
	- Watch out for single hippies or whatever at the beginning of the narrow hallway. It's uncommon, but it happens.
	- In the next big area, stutter step so you can walk slowly for better reaction time. If you see anything at all, gun it back. You can survive with one enemy or maybe two, just bash bash bash, but you really don't want any encounters at all.
	- The room with the trash can is the final room, the room with the most-likely-mandatory encounter with usually 4 enemies. Immediately press B upon entering the room, and evaluate the situation. A few things can happen, that I've seen:
		a. 4 enemies. In this situation, try and greenswirl the closest enemy that looks like you can back attack it. Don't feel bad if it doesn't work, because it probably won't, but it's not impossible by any means.
		b. 2 enemies (Usually 2 hippies). Uncommon, but not outside the realm of possibility. Try and juke them by trapping them on the trash can and running around it. If it doesn't seem possible, go for the greenswirl.
		c. No enemies.  Super rare, super lucky if it happens. You're home free.
	- If you get into the battle here, you're probably screwed to navigate the area again. Try and take out the enemies in this order: Hippies, Roaches, Evil Ectos. It all depends on whether they attack you, you miss or waste a turn, or they make you not move for a turn. You can also try taking out the Hippie and running, this might work as well.

That's how ridiculously difficult the early game for this hack can be, and why I was so quick to write a manipulation route for it. Hopefully, though, this proves to be a successful strategy for nonmanip and maybe we can host some races or something. Who knows.

RNG Manipulation for Sewers

A video for anyone that wants/needs to see it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdlZXkRF_vw

...and my written guide! http://pastebin.com/qdAa7VRx

Uko's EBHH Any% guide

EARTHBOUND HALLOWEEN HACK SPEEDRUN GUIDE

First it should be addressed that before learning this speedrun it's recommended that you enter with at least some familiarity with EarthBound and its mechanics (particularly involving the speedrunning strategies such as despawning enemies and stutterstepping), and this hack definitely should not be played before you see any other Mother game. However, if you're here, you probably have seen all the Mother games. Or at least one of them. Hopefully it's EarthBound, so what happens in this hack makes sense to you and stuff. Okay anyway let's go.

If you're looking for more specific strategies, or you're very comfortable with the run and you're looking to bring your time down even further, look here! :: http://pastebin.com/RjpS4dGM

SEWERS

There's two routes you can take through the sewers. Either you can set up RNG manipulation (Which I also have a guide for!) or you can yolo it until you win. I personally recommend going with RNG manipulation simply because it's not nearly as hard to do as Onett manipulation since there's no NPC movement to influence it too much at all, but if you're newer to speedrunning or don't understand how RNG manipulation works in EarthBound in general and just want to learn the run there's a few things to take into account for the opening of the game.

First off, you wake up as Varik similarly to when you wake up as Ness in EarthBound, except right off the bat you'll want to equip both the Silent Dagger and the Leather Armor you start with (Weapon and Body). Don't worry about the text boxes not closing, I don't even know if that was done on purpose but it doesn't change anything, just head left until you ACTUALLY wake up.

After this nerd quits rambling at you (you're too cool for him anyways), go to Poochyfud's old office and talk to ex-Mayor of Onett Mr. Pirkle. After a year of Radiation's signature descriptive narrative text you'll get the key to the sewers. You can drop it if you want, or even sell it for a buck, it doesn't serve any real use. It's just required that you go hear Pirkle's spiel before moving on.

There's the whole town of Twoson yet to be explored... but we don't really want any part in that. Check the sign just outside the theater and head into the sewers. You may consider grinding in Twoson on the weak enemies to get to a survivable level (around 6?) BEFORE entering the sewers, but there's still a high risk of early death, which makes RNG manip more worth looking into.

The layout of the sewers perfectly copies the Plague Rat sanctuary's sewers, so you won't get lost. Go east one room, then continue east until you see the door with the phone by it. Make your way up to that door to wrap up the first portion of the sewers. Beware though, the enemies in here are intentionally made to be way too tough to fight, so you definitely wanna avoid every encounter you possibly can. Despawning is possible but you have to be careful.

The second portion of the sewers is much scarier, both visually and enemy-wise. You're highly likely to enter a fight immediately upon entry, and from this point there's no going back, even if you die. What you can do to despawn these enemies before they getcha is immediately hit up, then mash B and select to clear the weird tiny text box arrow in the upper left corner of the screen. You can do this over and over until you get a result you like, i.e. a butterfly. From there, though, it's a roulette. Just head east and don't get swamped. ;) ?'s can go through walls too, so be careful.

The final room (the room with the trash can) is the kicker. You're extremely likely to get a quad-enemy encounter that crushes your face. Every enemy has ridiculously high speed and you're level 1 so running is also tough. It's not impossible! It's just that without RNG manipulation it could take around 20 minutes to get through alive.


WINTERS

Welcome to the land of doom.

Head east until you hit the area where the shop used to be, and from there the layout of Winters follows EarthBound's Winters. Every enemy until after the recently-landbridged Tessie area is despawnable, and there's a gravestone that'll save your progress as well as a tent that'll heal you.

Cross the land bridge. The always-spawning zombie will either block your path or be far enough down/left to be able to run past. You can and should walk back up to respawn it in case of the former. Beyond that there will either be one more zombie, two more enemies, or none. All are evadeable. Winters should be fightless, but in an emergency it's not as difficult to run. Keep heading south until there's no more south, then head west. Once you get to stonehenge you can make your way from there down to Dr. Andonuts' lab.

Talk to Andonuts (the phone is useless), then check the revitalizer. Mash B and select to win.


MAGICANT, PART 1: ONETT

You'll appear in Magicant. HIS  Magicant.

Head down/left. You don't need healing or shopping yet.
Follow the path to the left, and enter the first building you see (the one with the glasses guy). Enter the first door from there. You'll appear in bittersweet Onett.

Head Northeast up to the mountain where the meteorite landed. 

Don't worry about the enemies. They're there to PSYCHE you OUT.
Every time you see a Mayor Pirkle go touch it. You'll get into a fight with a Remember Me?. Just autofight until you win. You need to grind to level 6 (level 7 or 8 might be better for new runners!) on these guys. These are the best enemy in the game to early grind on for a few reasons: The decent amount of experience, the near impossibility of death to these fights, the money for a key item later on, and the 100% Sky Nectar drop (Sky Nectars always max out your HP!). 

By the time you reach the top of the mountain, you'll be right at level 6, your inventory will be full of Sky Nectars, and now you have psychic spells! Spoooooky!! (Of course, if you already did your grinding in Twoson, you can avoid all the Pirkles. Despawn them if they block you.)

Talk to the meteor (ONCE), then walk away from it. Your response does not matter.

NO, NO, NO is easily beatable, if you're level 8. If you're level 6, you'll have to just run and hope for the best.

If you're level 6 you can increase the odds of an early run by putting the crotch, arm, and abs to sleep with Sleepstun a in that order. Other than that, it's luck-based. You won't need the experience from the victory.

If you're level 8, you have the option of defeating this boss because you're equipped with Sleepstun Omega! Once everyone is asleep, attack the abs until they die. The other two will die along with it, and you'll get 400 exp out of it. 

Unfortunately, this strategy is tons slower, but you'll be much better off for the rest of the run.

This isn't a scripted cutscene, walk!!! Talk to the grave, not Andonuts.


MAGICANT, PART 2: MARITAL PROBLEMS

Oh hey, it's Paula?

Equip her with her Frying Pan and Fire Pendant (Weapon and Body), then head down to the bottom building by the floweys. 

This is the shop, and it has a telephone as well.

Withdraw enough money to have $30 and buy a Psycho Pspirit for Paula. This is used so that the next boss doesn't completely destroy you.

Head back to the glasses guy building, and enter the second door to the left, skipping the bathroom doors. You'll appear in the cave before Trillionage Sprout. Despawn the enemies in this room until you get something that's not two floating hearts. A trick or trick kid (ghostkin) is the easiest to defeat, but the zombie dog is fine as well. Autofight ghostkin, bash and fire zombie dog. If you have enough PP for two sleepstuns, you can do that do the two Anxiety Attacks and run, but be careful.

Instead of fighting Trillionage you'll appear in Ness's house, or something. Walk past Andonuts and the Toppola Theater manager lady to the door to the right (another useless phone).

Sometimes enemies will appear in this room. You're hoping for anything but Anxiety Attacks. That present is a Ribbon for Paula, if you'd like to give her some more defense (Other).

Head through the bottom door to wind up closer to the right in the next room. Again, potentially a fight coming up. Should be okay to autofight unless it's an Anxiety Attack duo.

The next room is dumb, so just leave it. Oh, you're in Andonuts' room now? Okay. Go heal at the revitalizer and save. DROP THE TEDDY BEAR IF YOU STILL HAVE IT. Leave that room again and go talk to Jeff. You'll enter the battle with Dearkhart.

Dearkhart is not tough if you come prepared. Turn 1, Bash with Varik and have Paula use the Psycho Pspirit. All Freeze's will be deflected right back at him. From here, use Bash and Freeze until Dearkhart is down. (Don't use Paula's brain food lunch yet, just switch to autofight when she runs out of PP.)

Talk to Andonuts and steal Jeff!!!


MAGICANT, PART 3: BELCH'S BASE

Equip Jeff with his Pop Gun and H20 Pendant (Weapon and Body).
Head down to the shop and withdraw enough money to buy two Psycho Pspirits for Paula, and maybe stock up on a few Cocoon Pizzas as well. If you still have significant extra money, deposit it.

Head to the courage building, and enter the final door at the end of the hall. Head left through the Summers museum up to Belch's Base. Make your way through there as normal (Right, down the ladder, left forever).

There is an abundance of Magic Butterfly spawns around, so use that to your advantage. Every enemy in here but the Vladula is susceptible to Timestop (paralysis). If you enter a fight with a single Vladula, great! They always fall asleep on the first turn so it's a free run.

Once you make it to the save/heal room, save/heal. Head up to Phaze Destrortur. Warning: You will probably die to this boss.

Turn 1, Phaze Destrortur will always use Lightning. Have Varik use Sleepstun and hope for that 75% chance he'll fall asleep. Have Paula use her Pspirit, and Jeff use the HP-sucker.

Turn 2, Phaze Destrortur will do a full-team OHKO move, and at this point the only way to avoid this is to have Varik put him to sleep AND/OR have Paula solidify him. Varik use Sleepstun again, Paula use Freeze and hope for that 25% solidify chance, and Jeff use HP-sucker. 

Turn 3, Phaze Destrortur will do a single-person OHKO move. 
Hopefully it's on Paula, because Jeff needs to live for this fight and Varik needs to live after the fight is over. Have Varik use one last Sleepstun, Paula Freeze, and Jeff use HP-sucker.

Turn 4, Phaze Destrortur will use PSI magnet Omega. Varik defends from now on, Paula Pspirit, Jeff HP-sucker.

The moves cycle from there. Next turn he'll do a lightning, but after this HP-sucker use he should die. Don't ever bash because he has a power shield, just spam the HP-sucker until you win.

If you do die, soft-reset by selecting No, then Yes in the game over screen, and re-opening your save file. Your inventory will be restored. This fight takes some luck so don't feel bad if you die a billion times.

Once you win, talk to Andonuts again. You will retrieve Poo!


MAGICANT, PART 4: MAGICANT

Poo has no equipment, so go straight to the shop. 

IF VARIK IS DEAD, he needs to be alive. Withdraw all your funds and fork over the $100 at the hospital lady to the west to revive him.

After this, buy 3 or 4 magic taffy's each for Paula and Poo (HOLD ON TO THESE FOR THE END OF THE GAME). Varik should still have a few Sky Nectars left, and will definitely need a couple Cocoon Pizzas. If you have significant extra money left, deposit it.

Leave the store, head north to Apple Kid, and mash through what he says. Continue mashing A and L until the game lets you move because there's some weird glitch here.

Everything here should be autofightable aside from Anxiety Attacks, which you can Sleepstun Omega and run from. Head up at the first fork for the Sword of Kings (Any guesses for who that's for?), then head down at the next fork for Varik's hair gel. The rest of the path is straightforward (That big obvious present is the Cloak of Kings). Your choice in whether you think it's worth it to despawn enemies or tank quick fights. Towards the end, though, there are Uberhaunts, so be wary of Varik's PP.


SEA OF EVE

The Sea of Eve is what you need Varik alive for.
Giegue Leagues are susceptible to Sleepstun, Brain Busters are susceptible to Timestop, and Trandimensional Terminates are weakest to physical attacks, so autofight. (Beware, though, TT's have Whiteshock which can rarely but possibly kill you or make you feel strange.) Take advantage of the again abundant butterfly spawns to refill Varik's PP at every turn, and avoid double fights if you can.

Immediately make for a north and east movement, but make sure to grab every present you see, except for one that's coming up which you don't care about. Once there's no more East, head North, once there's no more North, head west. Skip the present that's up to the top, it's a Neutralizer which has little use.

Touch the guardian heiroglyph at the dead end to magically warp to the Cave of the Past. Everyone will be robots except for Varik. Heal and save at the Phase Distorter.

The enemies are the same as they were in gross intestiney zone, except there's more of them. And it's Cave of the Past. 

Be careful. Be sure to save at the end of the third room as well, there are some potentially tough fights coming up.

You're in the Sea of... Eden. Eve? Whatever.
If you're familiar with the EarthBound speedrun then you know all three of these Kraken (Amalgamate) fights are skippable, and that you definitely should skip all of them if you can. 

If you do get into a fight with one though, have paula use Shield Omega and bash/freeze until it falls. 

Make your way to Ness' Nightmare. I mean, Andonuts' wife. I mean, the Topolla Theater lady. Whatever!!! Talk to her, and you're home free.


DR. ANDONUTS

Make your way North and East to the arms dealer. Withdraw all your money, you'll need every cent. Sell the HP-sucker as well, and there's nothing wrong with selling Varik's old knife and armor.

Firstly you'll want to equip all four of your kids with each a Fire pendant and an H20 Pendant. Make sure they're all wearing the FIRE PENDANT, and have the H20 Pendant ready to go as a backup.

Make sure Paula has Psycho Pspirit, and make sure you didn't overly use Paula and Poo's taffy (there's no way to get any more).

Purchase any horns of life you need to revive anyone that's dead, and from there try to buy one horn for each kid. From there, if you have enough money, stock up Varik with a bunch of Pizzas.

Make sure everyone is at full HP and PP before leaving this area.

You're ready to go! Head to the upper left to save and head through the tunnel into the final room of the game. You're Ninten, Ana, Lloyd, and Teddy now, but Ninten has a creepy face. Slowly walk your way up to Giygas, I mean Andonuts' weird gross body.

Autofight the Id. He will ramble at you if you choose to not attack, so just attack until he gives up.

The second Andonuts phase is broken up into five more phases. 

Make sure you quit out of autofight by mashing B and select!!!

Turn 1, have Varik use Timestop a, have Paula use a Pspirit, and have Jeff and Poo bash. After this turn, Megalovania will begin.

Varik Bash, Paula Freeze, Jeff Shoot, Poo Freeze. Do this until Andonuts talks to you about burning you to a crisp. You already have your fire pendants equipped so keep doing bash/freeze/shoot/freeze until he talks to you about the freezing cold temperature of space. Use taffy's throughout this to keep Paula and Poo's PP up.

Once Phase 3 (the ice phase) starts, SWITCH EVERYONE OVER TO THE H20 PENDANT!!! After that Use Bash/Fire/Shoot/Bash until Andonuts talks to you about the ultimate Psychic move.

During Phase 4, use your 2nd Pspirit, and heal everyone. On turn 3 you should queue up Bash/Freeze/Shoot/Freeze. He will use PSI Bitchkill Omega, the attack will reflect back to himself, and Phase 5 will begin.

Phase 5 is the scariest and the most luck-based phase. Basically you're hoping that Andonuts doesn't "Jed you all in the crotch enormously hard," because that not only near-kills all four of you but it poisons all four of you as well. 

During this phase your Horns of Life come into play, as well as your Cocoon Pizzas. If you can, use Bash/Freeze/Shoot/Freeze to get as many solidifies as you can. Cleanse B clears poison. Starting from here, Andonuts has 800 HP.

If you die to Andonuts your only option is to hard reset and reload your file, because you'll get an inescapable text loop death screen. (Have I seen that somewhere else before?) Death to Andonuts is the only time hard resetting is allowed, because otherwise you can't advance in the game.

Timing ends when whoever last attacked has their little box cut off for a decent few seconds. You know from there you won. C:

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If you wanna quickkill Andonuts just completely disregard the above and have Poo use Mirror on him. It has a 50% chance to work in any phase and from there you hope for a diamondize. If you get it, "You Won" will appear and that's when timing ends.

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