Bobsled Run Quick Draw for All Boards Speedruns

This guide covers both the Mario Party 1 & 2 versions of this trick. In Mario Party 2 it saves close to 45 seconds on Bobsled Run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLuMgneR-V0

Comprehensive guide to Crane Game

Crane Game, or 3-1 in Mini-Game Coaster runs, is a pretty easy mini-game. Grab the 3 CPUs and you win. But you may or may not have to grab a clock, to make sure you have enough time to win. This guide aims to teach you when you would need to grab a clock and when you don't.

To begin with, let's try to imagine the Crane Game area. We have the pipe, in the bottom-left corner and 6 spots with either a CPU or a clock.
Looks something like this.

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|      |       |      |
|_|_ |_|
|      |       |      |
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Don't need to show the starting pipe, it's not necessary for our calculations. So a CPU/clock can fall down on any of these spaces. We'll give them a number based on their distance from the starting point, the bottom-left corner.

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|  2  |  3   |  4  |
|_|_ |_|
|  1  |  2   |  3  |
|_|_ |_|

So now, we can calculate the total distance of the CPUs from the starting point. After a couple attempts, I found out that 7 is the highest number you can have while not grabbing a clock. This means that all of these patterns are clockless:

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|  X  |       |      |
|_|_ |_|
|  X  |  X   |      |
|_|_ |_|

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|  X  |  X   |      |
|_|_ |_|
|  X  |       |      |
|_|_ |_|

 _  _  _
|  X  |       |      |
|_|_ |_|
|  X  |       |  X  |
|_|_ |_|

 _  _  _
|  X  |       |  X  |
|_|_ |_|
|  X  |       |      |
|_|_ |_|

 _  _  _
|      |  X   |      |
|_|_ |_|
|  X  |  X   |      |
|_|_ |_|

 _  _  _
|      |       |      |
|_|_ |_|
|  X  |  X   |  X  |
|_|_ |_|

 _  _  _
|      |       |  X  |
|_|_ |_|
|  X  |  X   |      |
|_|_ |_|

 _  _  _
|  X  |  X   |      |
|_|_ |_|
|      |  X   |      |
|_|_ |_|

 _  _  _
|      |  X   |      |
|_|_ |_|
|  X  |       |  X  |
|_|_ |_|

All other patterns require you to get a clock, in which case I would usually recommend grabbing the closest. If you think you won't have enough with a +15 (if it's the closest), you can get a +20 or a +30.

Now, on top of all this, the objects don't fall directly in the middle of the squares. They can fall anywhere within it. This is a minor detail, but I've seen how much they can get closer/farther from you just by landing near one of the edges and as such I think it MIGHT be possible to get a clockless 8 with good CPU position RNG. I haven't been able to confirm it yet, but I'll edit this if I ever get it to work. This may also mean that with bad CPU position RNG, it's possible to have a non-clockless 7. But that's all unconfirmed for now.

Day at the Races Guide

Full Mini-Game Coaster (Hard) Tutorial

Since a viewer who was new to speedrunning wanted this, i decided to make it and hope it helps other people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC9s76d55Fg

Guide To All Boards by JD3

• Minigame Explanations off and message speed fast
• No saves until Mystery Land, If it's a good run after board 3, I'll consider turning them on after 5-10 turns in.
• Minimize slow events, buying stars, stealing coins, duels, battle minigames
• Thorwing minigames (prioirtize coins in minigames to get the minigame bonus star)
• Always have a item, to skip item mini-game
Board Strats:
Pirate - Buy a mushroom, go down after the bridge unless it will land on the battle, down at the thwomp
Western - Either go around the entire perimeter or go through the middle and buy a skeleton key (to avoid the battle that's 3 spaces left of the gate)
Space - Buy a mushroom, not really sure the best route. Maybe around the perimeter since triggering the timer is slow. 
Mystery - Buy a skeleton key (to avoid the battle in the upper right island), no real route decisions to make. Sometimes I do the slow curse.
Horror - Just circle around the starting area unless I need to go get a star or an item to win
Bowser - Buy a mushroom, not sure about the route. Try to pay attention to the parade route and get out of the way the turn before.

Cosmoing

Saria_100

Daldameht

hahaPhD

Mario Party 2

Switch

Rixaxun

EUR / PAL

Easy

Normal

Hard

Nintendo 64

Virtual Console

With Bonus Stars

No Bonus Stars

Difficulty

N64, VC, Switch or EMU?

Bonus Stars?

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Namn	Författare
Bobsled Run Quick Draw for All Boards Speedruns	hahaPhD 8 months ago
Comprehensive guide to Crane Game	Cosmoing 8 years ago
Day at the Races Guide	Saria_100 3 years ago
Full Mini-Game Coaster (Hard) Tutorial	Daldameht 2 years ago
Guide To All Boards by JD3	Daldameht 1 year ago