[Former WR] Super Mario Odyssey: 100% Speedrun in 8:33:57

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  @heytherecool · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Please read this before asking any questions you might have about the run. <br> <br>Q. What does 100% consist of? <br>A. 100% completion of this game includes obtaining all 880 unique moons, all costumes and hats (excluding the &quot;special&quot; outfits in the shop, as they are DLC from updates and the game does not count it for completion), all purple coins, all souvenirs, all stickers, all captures, and all music tracks. <br> <br>Q. Why didn&apos;t you get to 999 moons? Wouldn&apos;t that be a part of 100%? <br>A. The game still gives a star on your file if you get everything excluding buying extra shop moons to get to 999 moons in the Odyssey, and that star on your file determines 100% completion in the <a href="http://speedrun.com/smo">speedrun.com/smo</a> rules for 100%. <br> <br>Q. Why didn&apos;t you get all checkpoints? Wouldn&apos;t that be a part of 100%? <br>A. The game still gives a star on your file if you get everything else needed for 100%, as the game doesn&apos;t keep a number count of how many checkpoints collected visible. <br> <br>Q. What is the difference between 100% and All Moons? <br>A. 100%, as stated above, includes all moons, as well as all purple coins, costumes, souvenirs, etc. All Moons is strictly just all moons, you need to get some purple coins and costumes and stuff but only for certain moons that require them, such as for Toadette achievement moons. <br> <br>Q. Why is the game not in English? <br>A. The language used in this run is Simplified Chinese, which is the third to last option in the language options in the game’s settings. This is because both Simplified and Traditional Chinese are believed to be the fastest languages for this game, from current testing. How? Anywhere where there is dialogue on screen where you scroll by it, since Simplified/Traditional Chinese has the least amount of characters, it scrolls by the fastest in that language. There are also usually less text boxes in that dialogue compared to other languages like English, saving even more time. I don&apos;t think anyone has timed the languages properly for 100%, but it&apos;s likely that Simplified Chinese, which is what I used in this run, is the fastest language to use since it&apos;s been timed to be faster for most other categories. <br> <br>Q. Why did the timer end when you got to the file select? <br>A. Timing stops when the star appears on the file you were playing on, and to see that you need to go to the file select screen. As for why timing ends there instead of anywhere else, there isn&apos;t really a better time to stop timing for this category other than there, and that&apos;s what the SMO speedrunning community agreed on.<br><br>Q. Why does the title say <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=30837">8:33:57</a> when the timer ended at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=30838">8:33:58</a> on screen?<br>A. I retimed the run to be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=30837">8:33:57</a>.6 by checking the exact start and end frames, which is slightly more accurate than the timer because I have to manually start and end the timer during the run. The timer was also very slightly faster than normal during this run, so even if I split perfectly it still would&apos;ve said <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=30838">8:33:58</a> on there. <br> <br>Q. What controller are you using? <br>A. I’m using detached Joy-Cons for this run. Not only is it faster to use Joy-Cons for this run as there are a lot of cases in the run where it’s fast to do a downthrow (which are not possible to do with a Pro Controller without a ground pound), I also just find playing on detached Joy-Cons more comfortable than using my Pro Controller because using motion controls on the Pro Controller isn’t as comfortable for me. <br> <br>Q. Why did you choose Wooded/Seaside first when first unlocking the kingdoms? <br>A. The order that you choose kingdoms is important since the painting chain (the order of kingdoms when you go through paintings that are in most kingdoms) order depends on if you choose Lake/Wooded and Snow/Seaside first. Choosing Wooded and Seaside first presents the most optimal painting chain order for the route for multiple specific reasons, and to be honest I don&apos;t know all of them. The route was made by people that are a lot smarter than me, and they have a lot of reasoning behind some of the odd-seeming choices in the route. <br> <br>Q. Why did you go into the Cascade dino room over and over again? <br>A. This is coin grinding. To buy all costumes required for 100% completion, you need quite a lot of coins. As you don&apos;t get that many coins naturally in the game without it just being slower, you need to do coin grinding for those extra needed coins. <br> <br>Q. Why didn&apos;t you use the Bowser&apos;s coin beanstalk area? Isn&apos;t that the fastest way to grind coins? <br>A. The Bowser&apos;s coin beanstalk area is actually slower to use comparing to the Cascade dino room, with one trick up its sleeve. There is a trick in this dino room called coin duplication. With certain blocks, if you hit them in a certain way, you can use the dino&apos;s multiple hitboxes to break the blocks multiple times according to the game, and that gives extra coins. That&apos;s why I take a bit to hit some blocks in that dino room, to set up the coin duplication to get maximum coins from the blocks. In one block, it gives a set of 8 coins for you to collect, and with coin duplication, you can get up to 48 coins instead of 8, which saves a lot of time when it adds up after completing the room so many times. You can also do this coin duplication on other blocks in the game, more notably I attempted to get extra coins from the blocks before doing dino skip in Cascade 1. There is an in-depth tutorial for how to do this, provided here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3jtE2zeDr0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3jtE2zeDr0 </a><br> <br>Q. Why did you have to do two separate coin grinding sessions at separate times? <br>A. This is because you need to buy items from the shop at separate times. <br> <br>Q. Why do you sometimes cap throw a ton? <br>A. This is for any section where the game has an &quot;autoscroller&quot; or any place where you have to wait for something to happen in the game (such as a moon spawning or during a boss fight). This is for the Toadette achievement moon where you have to get 5,000 cap throws. This helps you get enough cap throws without wasting time to farming cap throws separately. <br> <br>Q. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=11819">3:16:59</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=11921">3:18:41</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=27959">7:45:59</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=28058">7:47:38</a> What was that? <br>A. This is jump farming/grinding. This is for that Toadette achievement moon regarding 10,000 jumps. Once again, you don&apos;t get to 10,000 jumps naturally doing this run so you need to do extra, and jumping here is the currently the fastest known way to get extra jumps in. <br> <br>Q. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=28152">7:49:12</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=28440">7:54:00</a> Why/how is Mario invisible? <br>A. After beating Darker Side, you unlock the invisible cap, which makes Mario invisible. Since it&apos;s slower to go into the Odyssey to change the outfit back to normal, you just play with Mario being invisible until you buy the costume in Bowser&apos;s Kingdom that&apos;s required to get a couple of moons. It makes the couple minutes that you&apos;re invisible a bit harder, but it&apos;s certainly worth the big timesave. <br> <br>Q. How come you aren’t playing in 2P mode? Isn’t that faster? <br>A. A completely 2P 100% run isn’t possible. This is because collecting some moons like for Koopa Freerunning races isn’t possible as you can’t enter those races in 2P mode. Even if it was faster to enter 1P mode when you need to do Koopa Freerunning then switch back to 2P mode right after, it wouldn’t be allowed on the leaderboards since 2P mode is not allowed for any main board categories, with the exception of Any% on specifically the 2P subcategory. <br> <br>Q. What version of the game are you playing on? <br>A. I’m playing on version 1.3 digital, which is the fastest version to play on for all mainboard categories. No, 1.0 isn’t faster to play on. For 100%, in fact, it’s tens of minutes slower to play on, mostly due to difference in load times and coin duplication/Luigi coin hint arts, neither of which can be used on 1.0.<br> <br>Q. Where are the leaderboards for this? <br>A. <a href="http://speedrun.com/smo#100">speedrun.com/smo#100 </a><br> <br>Q. How do you memorize this whole run’s route? <br>A. There’s a route for this run on Google Slides that has everything you need to do in order, and you can have it open during the run. However, after doing several completed runs of this you kind of just have it memorized on your own at that point. Here&apos;s the link for the route closest to what I do in this run: <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zCqMPh4ZfR0GKu5YJaf33OL56AEsDhJ80x186iYb4zo/edit">https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zCqMPh4ZfR0GKu5YJaf33OL56AEsDhJ80x186iYb4zo/edit</a> <br> <br>If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. I&apos;ll try to answer with a reply to your comment and then I will add most to this pinned FAQ.

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  @berrytart_ · 4 years ago

  brain went &quot;hmm i&apos;m in the mood to watch a mario odyssey 100% speedrun&quot; so i guess i&apos;m here now

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  @Jared-s9d · 1 year ago

  Fun fact in the wooded kingdom Mario will look at the correct pipe so you can get it as fast as possible

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  @inkkclem52 · 4 years ago

  still trying to get all the moons, he got it in less than 10 hours. Respect, bro!

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  @leeartlee915 · 3 years ago

  I cannot imagine the work this would take just to route it. Christ almighty, my hats off to this community. I am not a Kool-Aid drinking fan of this game but it sure is fun to watch speed run.

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  @efrainchavez1374 · 1 year ago

  Bowser: Haha gotcha your princess, ima marry her<br><br>Vegeta: See you in 1 hour, 39 minutes and 53 seconds. Get ready to get beaten by me

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  @thehunter1543 · 2 years ago

  the fact that this run is no. 1 since 2 years is nuts🔥🔥. gg man

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  @davidsonsimeus3298 · 3 years ago

  The banzai bill capture music lowkey be slapping in mooncave.

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  @Mister_Clean · 3 years ago

  Talented at making strange noises. Even more talented at speedrunning.

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  @a-j-o-l-o-t-3 · 10 months ago

  That volleyball game game the most anxiety of the run 😭😭

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  @SnowyCinema · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmIEW0jLRc&amp;t=14398">3:59:58</a> Funniest moment in all of speedrunning history

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  @jrcolonial98 · 4 years ago

  Holy shit that 3x koopa freerunning looks like it hurt

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