Andross Boss Fight Guide

Venom 1:

Fly through doors 1, 2, and 6 without hitting the walls
Crash through doors 3, 4, 5, and 7
Your wings will break on the 3rd hit and laser upgrades repair them. If you crash into 2 walls, then pick up a laser upgrade, then crash into 2 more walls, you're fine. If you crash into 3 walls without the laser, you'll lose your wings.
Trigger for the boss fight is the last laser upgrade, before the . Get to this upgrade as quickly as possible by full-boosting towards it

Phase 1:
1st person and look up once the boss fight triggers, until the top of his head stops shaking
Shoot Andross' left eye and destroy his right hand
If Andross pulls back (further away from you) his left hand before you destroy the right hand, shoot him in the left eye again. If you don't, Andross will succ you in and this wastes a lot of time
Shoot his left hand and then his eyes

Phase 2: 
First person and look up until the last explosion sound
THE HITBOX IS HIS CHEEKS, NOT HIS EYES

Venom 2:

If you have no bombs and no wings, retry stage immediately
Fastest tunnel path is Right -> Left. If you have single lasers, go Left -> Right -> Right

Phase 1: Same as Venom 1

Phase 2: 
Do a loop immediately
Throw a bomb at his eyes after you loop
Shoot him anywhere to make him teleport behind you. If Andross runs away, that sucks, but just chase him
Take a sharp right turn once he disappears. Shoot him in the cerebellum. Repeat as required

Escape: Don't go the wrong way

Katina 1 Loop Tutorial

Katina 2 Loop Strat

This video is an example of a variation of the 2-loop Katina strat I came up with, which is about the same speed as the 3-loop Katina strat however is significantly less risky to your wings. This is kind of an intermediate-level Katina skip, this is not as hard as the 1-loop strat but it is beneficial in the long run over the 3-loop strat. Keeping your wings into Sector X is important as you save several seconds there if you don't have to pick up Lasers.



https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2265240761

Katina 4 Hatch Tutorial

WARNING: This trick is the hardest in the game. That being said, it requires a LOT of practice to get down. This tutorial is meant to give you an idea of how the trick is supposed to work. 

If you're currently aiming for a 22, you almost for certain need to do this trick (you can still get a 22 without it but it's really difficult, as in you need to be almost perfect at everything else). 

A note: there are other ways of doing this, but this has been the easiest one for me. 

https://youtu.be/HGY8gFx9ExI

1 loop strat, developed my an unnamed former runner (not LylatR). This is much faster and saves a good chunk of time, but MUCH more difficult: https://www.speedrun.com/sf64/guide/2mojy

Star Fox 64 Any% Guide

Disclaimer: This guide was created using notes taken from LylatR's mock tutorial then conferring with LylatR to make sure what was written was correct.

General Information

Timer starts once you gain control of your ship in Corneria.
End a split when you go to the main map 
Level path should be: Corneria -> Meteo -> Katina ->Sector X -> Sector Z -> Bolse -> Venom 1
Half boost during on-rails.
Quarter boost during all-range mode.

Corneria

Get 1st Arwing L, get the bomb before the checkpoint
Get Bomb during Falco chase 
Get 2nd Arwing L during pre-boss forest section
Line up a bit above the middle tree before cutscene to hit the boss’s leg and then back

Meteo

Get no yellow Slippy health early
Have 7 bombs pre-warp
Kill Peppy during fight, when he’s flying off-screen.
Don’t get hit during circular enemy formation
Go for warp
Don’t boost right away when you warp.
Full boost towards end of warp section.

Katina

Brake when starting the stage, get 10 kills using bomb and shots on pyramid.
Haul ass towards ship.
Clip through ship, launching bombs inside. If you can’t bomb the underside of the ship.
If you trigger the cutscene:
0-1 hatches: Kill yourself. When you spawn, the hatches will be open. Bomb the left or right hatch and shoot the other 3. Bomb the core.
2-3 hatches: Hatches will open right after the cutscene. Kill them and bomb the core.
4 hatches: Bomb the core.

Switch route to Sector X

Get some hits on Falco
Bomb if you have it when Falco says “enemy group behind us”. Cockpit and look to the left upon abundance of enemies
Charge shot on 3 middle enemies when they pop up
Kill Peppy (voluntary, doesn’t really matter much)
Go left at the fork.
With opening and closing doors, cockpit, look up, and smash through 2 doors.
Get warp.
Hold C left during start to boost buffer
Cockpit during spiral and look away from pillars

Sector Z

Kill teammates
Zoom out at the start
Be on the south side of the Great Fox when the missile hits. If you’re inside the Great Fox, it seems to reduce lag.

Bolse

Kill all towers as fast as possible, going clockwise
Get behind two towers and unlocked charge shot satellites to get extra points
Kill more things (need 10 points after cutscene to trigger middle pillar)
Kill the yellow middle tower patches, brake if necessary to do it one swoop. Start with the nodes on the right first.

Venom 1

Get 1st Arwing L, get 2nd Arwing L
Route is left -> left -> left
When pillars fall go all the way right and R-tilt
Go in between pillar explosions
Shoot Golemech’s shoulders first
Cockpit during Golemech death scene, boost when red flash happens.
If full health smash through 4th door
Cockpit during initial Andross animation
Shoot his left eye -> right hand -> left hand -> then shoot his eye again until he freaks out
Cockpit upon freak out, count 5 explosions, then shoot and bomb for the kill. Hitbox is cheeks, not middle of face.

Name	Author
Andross Boss Fight Guide	LylatR 4 years ago
Katina 1 Loop Tutorial	LylatR 3 years ago
Katina 2 Loop Strat	StarFalco64 3 months ago
Katina 4 Hatch Tutorial	Deleted 3 years ago
Star Fox 64 Any% Guide	Cronoswave 6 years ago