I've been watching all the runs I can of Secret of the Stars because I really have had an interest in speedrunning this game. I have made my own sketch of notes and a guide from all my research but I was wondering if there also was an official notes or so anywhere that I maybe could look over.

I used to have cvagts old route but I lost the pastebin link, could ping pa-sama and see if she can send you hers, I'd give you mine but they're still incomplete

I could send them, not sure if it is current though. So I will have to stare at them sooner than later...

I guess I'll place this here but I'm currently re-routing the game and I do plan on putting up a detailed speedrun guide in addition to a pastebin route (difference between the 2 is the detailed one is for explanations while the pastebin one is what I directly use when I do runs, which doesn't breakdown into too much detail), as well as any other info I can think of that will help with this game's srcom page.

For this game in general, there's not much that can be done to change the route outside of buying different equipment and skipping unneeded items. This game also has really odd mechanics, like each level up isn't constant, as the game gives a small range of values that could be increased. This actually plays a huge role leading up to badbad, as I used to not unequip the shoes on Ray in that fight, but recent attempts at doing his fight has yielded surprisingly more damage output against me. Same applies on the offensive side.

Nonetheless, I'm halfway through the re-route, but the 2nd half of the game is where I'm going to be having the most time investment. Hoping to be done with the re-route by next week, then a week after that for a detailed route write up. Sorry @Indalazaylia for the lack of updates here, I'm very notorious for getting on something and all of a sudden losing interest.

So I didn't have time to test out this route fully yet but here's what I've done the past few days (can't believe I was able to finish it this soon, only took me 3 years of constantly telling myself i'll come back to this game)

https://pastebin.com/rY2em94t

Some side notes:

1. No death abusing in this route, Homncruse is done in one go. For some reason, only having Dan and Leona mirrored + Leona and Ray equip glitched weapons only has drastically reduced his odds of casting land 3. Not confirmed but it's what I've tested.

2. Curecane and Firesword are used as items now. Curecane helps gives healing capabilities prior to Dan getting Regain 2, which only means Bio Booth and Bio Gara. Firesword, however, is needed for homncruse himself due to splitting up the equipment buff.

3. MP Underflow is pretty much useless once you defeat Dram.

4. Different strats compared to when I last routed this game. Bio Godem and Bio Booth are much safer strats due to using 2 moon drops on Bio Godem and 2 mirrors on Bio Booth. Overall the route is more safe. In addition, I've determined the battle function "Auto" has some useage now. Most fights pre-Undead use the Auto command. Whether it's faster or not can be seen as a more consistant way of doing fights fast w/o having to risk menuing errors (it takes a solid minute for Auto to KO Dram, nice break mid run tbh)

Probably more but the end result is this route requires you to commit to taking down Homncruse in one go. The safer alternative is to do the same in this route, except go all out vs. first form, intentionally lose, then walk back down. The only thing the alternative strat does faster than what I've testes is Ray can use his auto crit metal sword which deals 160 HP per round compared to Fire 3 doing 90, but then entering 2nd phase where unbuffed does 60 per crit compared to 120 or so buffed, and trust me the more turns you take in second phase, the higher the odds homncruse will just annililate you with unlucky back to back move selections / damage ranges

Added a good bit of resources to the Guides section, most of it is information that isn't really explained anywhere. Should be helpful for whenever we get to Glitchless runs.

I added VGMaps, game mechanics, a glitch section w/ videos, and game data, which is very hard to come by as there is no official nintendo strategy guide (which a lot of snes rpg's had back in the day), nor is any of the information 100% reliable with the exception of tartarus since it seemed like whoever made it took data from the game's internal parts, but even then it doesn't list everything.

Whoa! Nice info dump. Thank you. :)

Updated the game data page with a link to a google document courtesy of Landmind36 from gamefaqs. This seems to be information mined from the game so at the moment, it is our most accurate source of information.

I've also updated the glitches guide to include unity magic glitched combinations.

Updated the main category from Any% (English) to just Any%.

Also fixed the rules to clarify this update. If people end up running the JP version or glitchless more categories will be added.

Finally, I'll be posting a new route i been working on hopefully within a week. The main changes is utilizing glitched unity magic combinations + other small differences.