120 Stars (2012)

120 Stars is the current (2012) iteration of the 100% TAS category, with an improvement of 18:08.33 over the 2007 iteration

120 Stars (2012)
Record Information
TAS World Record	1:20:41.52
TAS Authors	MKDasher, Nahoc, sonicpacker, Bauru, Eru, Goronem, Jesus, Kyman, Mokkori, Moltov, Nothing693, pasta, SilentSlayers, Snark & ToT.
TAS World Record Date	December 13, 2012

Star Times and Improvements from 120 Stars (2007)

Star(s)	Time(s)	2007 Time(s)	Difference
Cool, Cool Mountain			18"43
Wallkicks Will Work (with text)	5"57 (6"10)	10"90	4"80
Slip Slidin' Away	25"03	26"35	1"32
100 Coins & Big Penguin Race (with 3 stars text)	1'00"12 & 1'16"75	1'20"53	3"78
Frosty Slide for 8 Red Coins	36"03	40"93	4"90
Li'l Penguin Lost	16"20	19"03	2"83
Snowman's Lost his Head	35"37	36"17	0"80
Whomp's Fortress			27"12
Blast Away the Wall (with text)	7"17 (8"60)	9"43	0"83
Fall onto the Caged Island	9"20	10"87	1"67
100 Coins & Red Coins on the Floating Isle	47"33 & 53"73	68"07	14"34
Chip Off Whomp's Block	27"63	30"93	3"30
To the Top of the Fortress	10"57	14"95	4"38
Shoot Into the Wild Blue	7"87	10"47	2"60
Bob-omb Battlefield			1'47"95
Find the 8 Red Coins (with text)	29"40 (30"53)	51"60	21"07
Mario Wings to the Sky	21"83	31"87	10"04
Big Bob-omb on the Summit	35"73	45"90	10"17
100 Coins & Footrace with Koopa the Quick	1'19"40 & 1'35"47	2'27"70	52"23
Shoot to the Island in the Sky	14"40	24"90	10"50
Behind Chain Chomp's Gate	9"13	13"07	3"94
Dire, Dire Docks			39"53
100 Coins & Pole-Jumping for Red Coins	1'31"58 & 1'38"95	2'04"63	25"68
Chests in the Current	26"70	31"53	4"83
Collect the Caps...	47"22	47"45	0"23
Through the Jet Stream	34"88	39"93	5"05
Board Bowser's Sub	31"98	34"57	2"59
The Manta Ray's Reward	14"03	15"18	1"15
Hazy Maze Cave			1'17"47
Metal-Head Mario Can Move!	17"52	30"13	12"61
A-Maze-ing Emergency Exit	10"70	11"03	0"33
Watch for Rolling Rocks	14"10	15"30	1"20
100 Coins & Elevate for 8 Red Coins	1'36"40 & 1'41"37	46"23 (-100 Coins)	(+)55"14
Swimming Beast in the Cavern	14"87	1'50"97 (+100 Coins)	1'36"10
Navigating the Toxic Maze	13"33	35"70	22"37
Shifting Sand Land			1'19"89
100 Coins & Pyramid Puzzle	1'17"12 & 1'23"18	1'52"70	29"52
Shining Atop the Pyramid	6"13	7"07	0"94
Stand Tall on the Four Pillars	47"37	53"13	5"76
In the Talons of the Big Bird	13"33	16"40	3"07
Inside the Ancient Pyramid	12"18	27"22	15"04
Free Flying for 8 Red Coins	34"97	1'00"53	25"56
Lethal Lava Land			26"36
Elevator Tour in the Volcano (with text)	17"35 (17"88)	20"67	2"79
Boil the Big Bully	14"37	19"37	5"00
Red-Hot Log Rolling	7"43	13"17	5"74
8-Coin Puzzle with 15 Pieces	13"27	14"70	1"43
Bully the Bullies	18"27	24"40	6"13
100 Coins & Hot-Foot-It into the Volcano	56"97 & 1'03"20	1'08"43	5"23
Jolly Roger Bay			1'50"82
Treasure of the Ocean Cave	18"43	1'45"65 (+100 Coins)	1'27"22
Blast to the Stone Pillar	11"73	18"71	6"98
Plunder in the Sunken Ship	31"32	53"78	22"46
100 Coins & Red Coins on the Ship Afloat	1'15"73 & 1'20"57	53"00 (-100 Coins)	(+)27"57
Through the Jet Stream	8"70	20"17	11"47
Can the Eel Come Out to Play?	24"57	34"83	10"26
Big Boo's Haunt			1'02"66
Go on a Ghost Hunt (with text)	39"26 (39"80)	55"77	15"97
Big Boo's Balcony	22"33	28"67	6"34
Eye to Eye in the Secret Room	25"83	28"33	2"50
Secret of the Haunted Books	10"60	11"73	1"13
100 Coins & Ride Big Boo's Merry-Go-Round	1'15"87 & 1'20"50	1'32"73	12"23
Seek the 8 Red Coins	29"77	54"26	24"49
Tiny-Huge Island			45"00
100 Coins & Wiggler's Red Coins	1'04"25 & 1'08"85	1'35"55	26"70
The Tip Top of the Huge Island	16"20	21"43	5"23
Five Itty Bitty Secrets	17"00	19"10	2"10
Pluck the Piranha Flower	23"33	23"70	0"37
Rematch with Koopa the Quick	42"23	48"50	6"27
Make Wiggler Squirm	40"98	45"31	4"33
Snowman's Land			44"87
In the Deep Freeze	5"33	5"93	0"60
Whirl from the Freezing Pond	12"57	14"70	2"13
Chill with the Bully	11"83	12"70	0"87
Snowman's Big Head	7"97	10"50	2"53
Into the Igloo	13"45	1'31"08 (+100 Coins)	1'17"63
100 Coins & Shell Shreddin' for Red Coins	1'04"55 & 1'12"65	33"76 (-100 Coins)	(+)38"89
Tall, Tall Mountain			1'05"37
Breathtaking View from Bridge	10"43	18"57	8"14
Mysterious Mountainside	6"90	10"17	3"27
100 Coins & Scary 'Shrooms, Red Coins	1'22"25 & 1'29"75	1'50"68	20"93
Scale the Mountain	11"50	19"53	8"03
Mystery of the Monkey Cage	31"80	51"03	19"23
Blast to the Lonely Mushroom	5"43	11"20	5"77
Wet-Dry World			58"59
Secrets in the Shallows & Sky	27"77	1'17"61 (+100 Coins)	49"84
Top O' the Town	12"20	16"57	4"37
100 Coins & Go to Town for Red Coins	1'15"93 & 1'20"70	1'00"63 (-100 Coins)	(+)20"07
Shocking Arrow Lifts!	11"63	14"18	2"55
Express Elevator--Hurry Up!	7"10	19"43	12"33
Quick Race Through Downtown!	31"83	41"40	9"57
Tick Tock Clock			20"53
Stop Time for Red Coins	12"23	16"80	4"57
100 Coins & Stomp on the Thwomp	42"80 & 49"50	1'04"13	14"63
Get a Hand	5"20	9"10	3"90
The Pit and the Pendulums	7"87	12"40	4"53
Timed Jumps on Moving Bars	11"53	18"37	6"84
Roll into the Cage	6"57	9"43	2"86
Rainbow Ride			2'03"08
Cruiser Crossing The Rainbow	15"13	22"57	7"44
The Big House in the Sky	39"43	1'57"37	1'07"94
100 Coins & Somewhere over the Rainbow	1'05"78 & 1'09"95	1'36"20	26"25
Tricky Triangles!	9"00	14"23	5"23
Swingin' in the Breeze	11"17	12"83	1"66
Coins Amassed in a Maze	19"47	24"03	4"56
Castle Secret Stars			56"33
Princess' Secret Slide under 21 Seconds	20"43	20"73	0"30
Bowser in the Dark World Red Coins (with text)	33"17	45"03	11"86
Princess' Secret Slide	24"47	24"80	0"33
Tower of the Wing Cap (with text)	20"43	22"57	2"14
Bowser in the Fire Sea Red Coins	45"77	53"33	7"56
Cavern of the Metal Cap	43"78	51"05	7"27
Vanish Cap under the Moat	26"13	29"73	3"60
Secret Aquarium	40"12	42"52	2"40
Wing Mario over the Rainbow	51"93	58"60	6"67
Bowser in the Sky Red Coins	49"77	1'03"97	14"20

Explanation/Commentary

Castle Grounds

Mario jumps onto a slope and conserves the sliding speed with kicks (to climb the sleep slope) and then a slide kick, then finally performing a double jump from a kick with high speed to jump over and skip Lakitu.

Castle Lobby

Mario kicks and then long jumps towards the stairs on the left and performs a pause buffered side BLJ on them to reach Cool, Cool Mountain almost immediately, bypassing and clipping through the 3 star door.

Cool Cool Mountain

Wall Kicks Will Work

Mario jumps very precisely into a seam in the level geometry near the start of the course to immediately fall down to the star, and kicks off the wall near the star with downwards velocity, collecting it.

Slip Slidin' Away

Mario immediately triple jumps into the cabin. He then long jumps to the right of the slide and immediately falls down to the lowest outside part. At the bottom, Mario dives uphill just before reaching it to avoid fall damage, and his backwards speed is directed towards the door, opening it. Outside the cabin, Mario finally long jumps towards the star and collects it.

100 Coins & Big Penguin Race

Mario first slide kicks towards a five-coin line directly below him and collects it, while performing dives, jump dives, kicks and recovers to keep speed inclined uphill while collecting the remaining coins up towards the cabin again. He then kills the spindrift and collects the five coins placed above the cabin while entering it, giving him a total of 23 coins. Inside the cabin, Mario races the penguin, keeping speed while also collecting coins and manipulating the penguins rubber-band AI to stay just behind him at all times. After he collects the final coin on the slide (as there are 77 in total inside the cabin), the 100 coin star spawns just before the exit. Mario wall kicks the wall in front of him to redirect his speed towards the star and collects it just as the penguin finishes the race, which also saves time with the 3 star text box. Mario then waits for a short while for the penguin to talk to him and finally collects the star.

Frosty Slide For 8 Red Coins

Mario first goes to the tree near the beginning and performs a side flip to collect the first red coin on top. He then falls a long distance and collects a much lower red coin while sliding towards the red coin at the top of the lift. After this, Mario slides down a slope to double jump high enough to reach the red coin on the tree near the cabin exit, then performs a glitchy wall kick near the cabin to conserve this speed further. Mario then collects the next two red coins at the bottom and enters the warp back to the top, and slides down to collect the red coin below the warp, immediately wall kicking off of its nearby wall and sliding down to collect the final red coin, spawning the star. Finally, Mario lands from sliding and performs a kick to conserve speed from it to reach the star and collect it.

Lil Penguin Lost

Mario triple jumps up to the penguin, grabs him and immediately slides all the way to the bottom of the course and performs a jump at the end of the slide to reach the penguin's mother. (as a kick cannot be performed while holding him) Mario then collects the star spawned from this event.

Snowman's Lost his Head

Mario long jumps towards and then jumps up to the snowman head, triggering the star event. Mario then slides towards a tree and jumps from it, going around the course while reaching the snowman's base in just enough time; and collects the star.

Castle Lobby (2)

Mario performs a side BLJ on the ramp to his right, to bypass various walls and doors to enter the Princess' Secret Slide

Princess' Secret Slide under 21 Seconds

Mario long jumps towards the slide and then bounces off of the wall on his right, making him slide backwards. This is then corrected by another wall bounce, which is used to jump to the end of the slide where Mario dives facing uphill, and completes the slide with a time of 12.3 seconds, spawning the under 21 seconds star. Mario leaves the slide and then dive recovers into the star.

Castle Lobby (3)

Mario performs a side BLJ on the stairs to his left to enter BitDW without activating the star door.

Bowser in the Dark World (with red coins)

Mario long jumps towards the block switch and activates it, doing dives and dive recovers back to the red coin by the block. Mario then goes back to collect the second red coin on the other switch activated block and triple jumps up to a wall near the first rotating platforms and kicks off of it. On this, Mario does a BLJ while the platform is rising, rapidly moving around and collecting most of the other red coins in the course; except for a higher one which he side flips and wall kicks up to. From here, Mario dives and recovers towards the star, dive grinding up the ramp without activating the steps; before entering the pipe to fight Bowser for the first time.

Bowser Fight

Mario jumps over Bowser and grabs his tail, swinging him once into a mine, defeating him and collecting his key.

Castle Lobby (4)

Outside of BitDW, Mario side BLJs on the stairs behind him and goes to PSS.

Princess' Secret Slide

This is performed the same as the under 21 seconds star at first, with the exception of the dive recover at end being angled around the star spawned from this. Mario then jumps and begins a ground pound to break the box, spawn the star, and immediately fall down with the star as soon as the cutscene ends. (as his ground pound hitbox is inside the star)

Castle Lobby (5)

Mario looks up at the ceiling and enters TotWC, performing a stationary slide kick before the fadeout ends.

Tower of the Wing Cap

Mario flies down to collect the two lowest red coins, then upwards to collect the rest in sequence. After the star is spawned, Mario flies just above the wing cap switch, activating it and then flying into the star, skipping the text box.

Castle Lobby (6)

This time, Mario side BLJs on the stairs to the right, to enter Whomp's Fortress.

Whomp's Fortress

Blast Away the Wall

Mario first long jumps towards a wall underneath the water on the elevated platform to the right of his spawn point and GWKs using the adjacent corner to get up. He then uses a nearby almost vertical steep slope to his left on the ramp to cut a corner and jump towards, then dive up to the falling block platforms, and dive recovering towards the star. Mario instantly collects this star cannonless, as Mario can grab onto a ledge near the star for one frame, placing his hitbox inside of it and immediately downwarping him, (as the wall pushes him out) also cutting the star music short.

Fall into the Caged Island

Mario performs the same GWK as the previous star up to the ramp, then performing dive/dive recovers up it and wall kicking off of the wall near the top of the course, landing him on a floating isle. On here, Mario does a side flip and wall kicks off of the star cage, landing him inside it (while dive bonking towards an inside wall to save a short amount of time) and collecting the star.

100 Coins & Red Coins on the Floating Isle

Mario collects the first five coins and the first red coin by the push blocks, then collecting the five coins on the ramp and eight coins in the water, and dive jumping up to the second red coin below the spinning platform from a long jump. Mario then collects the five red coins near the cannon and activates the blue block switch, throwing the cork box while collecting its coins with the last two blue coins spawned from the switch, wall kicking and jumping above the Shoot Into the Wild Blue star and collecting the eight coins at the top of its nearby pole. Using a nearby almost vertical slope, Mario triple jumps up to the spinning platform and long jumps towards his third red coin and collects the others surrounding it, first-frame wall kicking twice aiming towards the five coins on the wooden board nearby, also spawning a 1-up. After this, Mario uses the slope behind the fence to get a small amount of extra speed and triple jump off of the thwomp, collecting the fourth red coin and eight coins on the floating platform above, then collecting the fifth red coin near the arrow-shaped platform along with the coins on it and long jumping towards the sixth red coin. On the way down, Mario kills a piranha plant with a dive and collecting the seventh red coin, waiting for the death animation to finish to collect both its blue coin and eighth red coin on the same frame, skipping the red coin cutscene and spawning both the 100 coin and red coin stars. Once the 100 coin star is spawned, Mario collects it with a ground pound, and then uses the nearby slope to slide down and jump towards the red coin star to collect it.

Chip Off Whomp's Block

The route starts identical to Blast Away the wall, although once Mario reaches the steep slope by the falling blocks he begins to do kicks up it, and once he reaches the top, he performs a side flip into a wall below King Whomp and a GWK using the nearby wall, diving up to him. Mario then ground pounds on him three times by clipping through him during its animation while he falls, and performs a dive just before the star spawns, allowing him to fall down and collect it immediately.

To the Top of the Fortress

Until the fortress itself is reached, the route is almost the same as the previous star, except Mario does not dive after the GWK, instead triple jumping afterwards with the help of one of the fortress' platforms and doing another GWK to reach the very top, grabbing onto its ledge. Finally, Mario punches and long jumps into the star to collect it.

Shoot Into the Wild Blue

Instead of doing a GWK up to the platform directly above mario, he performs a pause-buffered BLJ into the ramp next to the first piranha plant. Mario hits the wall behind him for one long jump, but is then upwarped by the water behind him, and he continues to use backwards speed until he is under the star and punches to stop. He finally side flips into the nearby wall and kicks off of it into the star.

Castle Lobby (7)

Mario goes to the small set of stairs near the painting rooms door and does a side BLJ on them to quickly go to Bob-omb Battlefield.

Bob-Omb Battlefield

Find the 8 Red Coins

Mario jumps up the slope to the right of him and dives down it, facing the wing cap block and conserving speed towards it with kicks and slide kicks, wall kicking off of the wall in front of it and collecting the wing cap inside. Mario then wall kicks up to the first red coin with a backwards side flip and BLJs on the elevator below. From this, Mario directs himself backwards to collect the second and third red coins, redirecting his speed with a tree, and triple jumping towards Out of Bounds to redirect speed with the wing cap. While Hyperspeed flying, Mario collects the red coins by the summit and on the island in the sky, while clipping through the switch gate at the bottom of the course with enough speed and collecting its red coin. In front of the gate, Mario quickly triple jumps on the slope and bounces off of the wall ahead, redirecting speed again towards the final red coin, where he dives and recovers into the ground to collect it and spawn the star.

Mario Wings to the Sky

Mario collects the wing cap with the same route as the last star, although reaching the elevator without collecting its red coin. Again, mario BLJs from this elevator, but aims towards the tree behind it, grabbing it for one frame to immediately redirect speed and quickly triple jump up the steep slope of the nearby cannon, bouncing of of OoB to fly through the five secrets in fast succession. The star then spawns, and mario flies down to collect it.

Big Bob-omb on the Summit

With speed conserved from the same slope, Mario instead bypasses the wing cap block and goes to the elevator, doing another BLJ. He uses this speed to climb the summit and quickly backflip to the top to kill speed and talk to King Bob-Omb. Mario begins the fight and throws him three times, positioning himself below the star at the end and collecting it

100 Coins & Footrace with Koopa the Quick

Mario goes to and talks to Koopa the Quick to start the race. Afterwards, he throws a cork box at the bigger ones nearby and collects their coins, collecting the wing cap and the five red coins under the first bridge. Mario then triple jumps over the elevator and collects the red coin above, diving into and grabbing a nearby Bob-omb. Mario throws the Bob-Omb and grabs it again in a bloated state, using its backwards speed to rapidly turn around Chain Chomp's pole to spawn its coins while also collecting the red coin above. After discarding of the bob-omb for its coin, Mario then BLJs off of the elevator once more, again grabbing the tree for one frame to redirect speed, but this time facing the red coin on the rock to the left, using that and the summit path to triple jump and fly into the finish with a time of 23.8 seconds. After this, he flies around the coins near the level secrets, collecting 33 in total (and only 4 of the 5 secrets) and two lines of five coins on the summit path, getting stuck on an OoB wall for about one second. After redirecting himself from this and flying again, Mario collects the red coin on the island and four more coins around the secrets, before flying to the ground and dive recovering into the eight coins around the warp entrance in front of the summit. He spawns its 1-up and does a BLJ off of a nearby rock to build speed again, stopping at a pole after collecting another red coin and running around it to spawn its coins while also collecting another two sets of pole coins and a red coin nearby. Mario finally kicks a Bob-omb to collect the final coin and 100 coin star, turning him around to perform a final BLJ onto the rock behind him (this time pause-buffered due to the short length available) to climb the summit to reach Koopa the Quick, talk to him, and collect his star.

Shoot to the Island in the Sky

This star starts the same as Big Bob-Omb on the Summit, but instead once the rock is reached from the tree mario performs a high dive jump with this speed to reach the island. Once onto the island with a dive recover, Mario jumps up to the star block and breaks it with a ground pound, collecting it as soon as the cutscene ends.

Behind Chain Chomp's Gate

Mario reaches the elevator and performs a BLJ on it in the same route as the previous star, but directing himself towards the star in Chain Chomp's gate, jumping to collect it once reached by clipping through.

Castle Lobby (8)

Mario side BLJs on the stairs in front of the painting he exits to go to the basement and use the key on its door.

Castle Basement

Mario performs another side BLJ on the stairs in front of the door to the lobby to bypass the 30 star door into Dire, Dire Docks

Dire Dire Docks

100 Coins & Pole-Jumping for Red Coins

Mario swims down and collects three lines of five coins in the whirlpool area, then the three coins at the bottom and finally almost all of the coins in the three rings of eight in the exit except for one. After this, Mario goes to the dock itself and collects the ring of eight red coins at the bottom in front of the entrance, then swimming up to the ground area to the right and collecting a line of five coins. Mario then goes left and does a side flip into a wall kick on a grate pillar to reach a higher platform and collect the first four red coins, jumping on the platforms ahead. Facing the submarine, Mario long jumps towards it, lands and does a C^ input to gain hyperspeed on one of its slopes. After exiting the slope, Mario conserves this speed with first frame wall kicks to collect the remaining four red coins in the air and spawn the star, landing just next to the blue coin block. After ground pounding the block and collecting its coins, Mario also spawns the 100 coin star and collects it, then finally triple jumping on the submarine to collect the red coin star on its platform.

Chests in the Current

Mario swims to an almost vertical ceiling triangle to downwarp to the first chest and open it, then swimming to and opening the other three in order. Finally, as the star spawns, Mario swims towards its location and collects it shortly after the cutscene.

Collect the Caps...

Mario swims to the submarine and gains C^ hyperspeed on it once more, this time in a different spot to clip behind a wall above the grate containing the star. As there is a floor below, Mario is able to reach out of bounds to swim behind the gate and collect the star with no caps at all.

Through the Jet Stream

Mario swims to the jet stream and faces downwards into it passing through the five rings and positioning himself at where the star spawns, collecting it after the cutscene.

Board Bowser's Sub

Mario swims up to the front of the submarine and jumps onto a slope, then dive jumping off of it to reach the top and go to the star and collect it.

The Manta Ray's Reward

As collecting the previous star caused the entrance to move back, Mario had to perform long jumps to reach it. Once in the course, Mario swims downwards into the Manta Ray's rings, passing through all five and collecting the star in the spot it spawns after its cutscene.

Bowser in the Fire Sea (with red coins)

Mario performs dive jumps on the starting platform edges and side flips towards the first red coin. After collecting it, Mario long jumps to underneath the pole and uses the hangable ceiling upwarp glitch to pass the pole. Mario then BLJs on the elevator and grabs the pole again, conserving this speed. Dropping from the pole, Mario conserves this speed with a punch into collecting the second red coin and wall kicks off of a wall below him to redirect himself, and wall kicks again on the bottom of the elevator wall, collecting the third and fourth red coins before wall kicking numerous times, waiting for it to come down and using a final amount to leave the shaft, reaching the top of the rising platform with a double jump. Once on top, Mario double jumps again and wall kicks off of a higher platform to reach the fifth red coin and killing his speed to land on a platform with a bully, collecting the sixth red coin. Facing the rising platform again, Mario long jumps towards it and does a BLJ while it rises; once it is fully risen, Mario collects the seventh red coin and stops near the course end (while clipping through the structure before it) to burn himself in lava. After getting onto the structure, Mario jumps towards the final red coin and spawns the star. As the cut scene ends, Mario wall kicks and quick turns on a higher platform, then long jumps to the star and collects it. Finally, Mario long jumps twice and dives into the bowser fight entrance.

Bowser Fight

When the stage is tilted, Mario slides down to Bowser and grabs his tail, throwing him into the mine and defeating Bowser, collecting his key.

Castle Basement (2), MIPS #1 and Toad #1

Upon exiting the course, Mario side BLJs on the entrance side and grabs MIPS while passing him, collecting his star. Mario then uses MIPS to clip into the Hazy Maze Cave door and talk to toad, kicking off of a nearby wall while collecting his star and landing mario inside the course entrance. After the text box ends, Mario enters the course instantly.