RTA Guide/70 Star

The goal of 70 star is to beat the game without any segment skips.

Rules

Notes

This guide is made for players with at least some sort of knowledge about the game’s mechanics. If you have just started running this game, I recommend watching both of Simply’s movement tutorials and Sean Raider's movement guide.

HMC Late - Easy (CCM 18)

  1. Lakitu Skip
  2. Bob-omb Battlefield
  3. 1st Slide
  4. Whomp's Fortress (every star)
  5. Castle Stars
  6. Bowser in the Dark World (Reds)
  7. Bob-omb Battlefield
  8. Cool Cool Mountain
  9. Big Boo's Haunt
  10. MIPS
  11. Shifting Sand Land
  12. Lethal Lava Land
  13. Dire Dire Docks
  14. Bowser in the Fire Sea (Reds)
  15. Wet Dry World
  16. Tiny Huge Island
  17. Upstairs Toad (near TTM)
  18. Tall Tall Mountain
  19. Snowman's Land
  20. MIPS
    • Go to HMC after MIPS, and get the Toad star before entering HMC
  21. HMC Toad
  22. Hazy Maze Cave
  23. Rainbow Ride
  24. Tippy Toad (near TTC)
  25. Tick Tock Clock (every star)
  26. Bowser in the Sky (No Reds)

HMC Late - Advanced (CCM 17)

In CCM, rather than doing 100 coin with the penguin race, do Slip Slidin' Away + 100 Coins. Then replace the penguin race star with Pyramid Puzzle . This way you'll have 30 stars when finishing LLL, which allows you to enter DDD past the 30 star door.

HMC Early

The easiest HMC early route does HMC after LLL instead of after SL. The differences between this route and the HMC Late - Easy route above are as follows.

  • After LLL go directly to HMC. Get all of the HMC stars, then HMC toad, and then proceed to DDD as normal.
  • In SL, you'll have to get Shell Shreddin' for Red Coins to replace MIPS2. Once finished with SL, go to tippy as normal instead of exiting course.

The route above is the most common, but a few modifications can be made to make the route faster, easier or more consistent.

Beginner

One way to make the Main Route easier is to substitute the TTC 100 Coin star with either RTA Guide/Navigating the Toxic Maze or Wiggler's Red Coins. Instead of Stomp on the Thwomp + 100 Coins you will need to do Stomp on the Thwomp. As a rule of thumb, if you cannot do TTC 100 in less than 1:10 this route will be faster for you than the Main Route.

Intermediate

A few alternatives exist to the Main Route listed above where instead of Big Penguin Race + 100 Coins and Slip Slidin' Away you can do any of the following combinations

Advanced

Rather than doing Shoot to the Island in the Sky after Dark World Reds, you can save time by getting this star without the wingcap in the first split by doing Island Hop. This saves approximately 5-6 seconds in castle movement as you only have to enter Bob-omb Battlefield once.

Additionally, like the Intermediate routes, you can substitute Big Penguin Race + 100 Coins with the following stars to save more time:

These routes require doing Pillarless twice in the run.

Route Chart

Refer to the link below for an explanation of the routing differences for 70 star.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wYJboNfCiIB0B4VTR9qDkDqV-ppqw8Q2yofm5zgPZcQ/edit#gid=0