hey friends, as the title says, I'm looking to get into running SMB1 All-Stars Any%, and I'm wondering if there's any resources and guides available, specific to this version. I'd have asked in the discord, but the link seems to be dead. any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks. ♥

Nevermind about the discord link being dead... Just my brain. 😅

All Stars Any% works very similarly to the NES version except for at a high level, with the main difference being that hitboxes are enlarged to roughly what they should be. This means that you can't play quite as aggressive in certain areas as you would on the NES version, such as jumping straight over the pipes in 4-1. I'd recommend learning fire strats unless you're already very adept at precise pipe jumps and have a fair bit of time to sink, as a clean run with fire will be quicker than waiting on every pipe jump as small.

The only important glitch unique to the All Stars version is the backwards pole glitch, where Mario will sometimes wrap to the other side of the pole after grabbing it. This saves ~25 frames, so it will always save at least one framerule on its own. This happens naturally in some levels such as 8-2, but has to be triggered in other levels by hitting power up blocks, which WR does in 4-1 and 8-3. I believe with fire you only have to worry about manually triggering it in 4-1, which you can do by hitting the powerup block at the start of the level. This glitch is JPN ONLY, so *you should play on the "Super Mario Collection" Japanese version of the game as it has an automatic timesave. Getting the glitch once only saves ~0.35 seconds though, so it's not a huge deal if you mess it up on a run unless you're going for WR (and even then I messed it up in my pb in 8-3)

There aren't any dedicated All Stars resources (yet), but you would benefit from watching kosmic's NES any% tutorial ( ) as most of it applies, and having a watch of a couple 5:0x all stars runs with fire to see their strategies. Also DM me/other top level people on discord if you have questions

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Thank you so much for the write up, Miniland. I'll see you all again soon. ♥

I don't even speedrun but I signed up to say that it's really rad that the high-end players are so willing to help the folks trying to get into it. Y'all are awesome <3