Before reading this, if you have a very good regular 100% PB, this category extension does not really add anything. It tests more or less the same skills as regular 100%.
As of the writing of this route I am not entirely confident that the route used is the most optimal, but this is the routing used up until now:
W1: Beat all levels except 1-4 while also collecting the two warp whistles. W2: Beat the entire world just like in regular 100%. W3: Beat every level except 3-6. Cloud is 3-6 and go straight to 3-7. P-wing 3-5. W4: Beat every level, fortress and hammer bro. Use star in 4-f1 if you want. Warp to W5. W5*: Beat every level (except 5-6 and 5-9), fortress and hammer bro. Warp to W6. W6*: Beat the entire world except 6-2 and 6-7. P-wing 6-9. W7: Beat every level (except 7-4 which you cloud over), fortress and piranha plant level. P-wing 7-5 (use a star if you want to go for the clip -- which you should!). You should have a star for both piranha levels and 7-8. You should not need a star for 7-2 as you're likely to enter with fire flower. Use P-wing from piranha level on 7-6. Use whistle to warp to W8. W8: Play the entire world just like in regular 100%.
*The W6 airship is technically slightly longer than the W5 airship. However, Peach gives you a cloud after beating W5 and a P-wing after beating W6. Using the whistle to skip the W6 airship will mean that you have one less P-wing, and consequently you will have to walljump 6-9 to have a P-wing for 7-5. Walljumping 6-9 means that you will also have to play through 6-10 small, and not be able to firekill boomboom (and the koopaling), or you will have to use your awesome alpha gamer skills to grab two power-ups in 6-10 while keeping P-speed throughout. With optimal play, using the whistle in W6 may be faster, but using it in W5 is far more comfortable.
These are the major differences from regular 100%:
- In 3-4 you have to grab the fireflower, as you don't play 3-6
- If you lose fireflower before 6-f1, you do not have a backup tail, and will have to waste some time to grab leaf in the fortress
- You have no backup powerups after 6-5/6-6 before 6-f2, so the safety 6-5 first strat is not as good as in regular 100%
- You do not have a P-wing for 7-9, so it's slow or clips (I keep tail from 7-6 through 7-8, play 7-9 with tail and go back to 7-7, but this is not optimal)
- There is no free fire flower backup in the W7 airship, so to enter W7 with fireflower (or hammer suit, I suppose) you have to keep it through 7-f2
Changes have been made to the Frog All Stars rules due to the discovery of an Game Genie code by Katti , which we were previously unaware of. The updated rules now reflect these changes, and the times for previous runs have been adjusted accordingly. Be sure to check out the new rules!
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