100% Route

Notes: Get all 3 star coins in a level unless otherwise specified
 When I say “coin” I mean star coin

1-1: Get big from the checkpoint
1-2: Get fire from the block next to the pipe after the 2nd coin, get mega from the fire pipe
Don’t open the item house between 1-2 and 1-3 or the 1up house at 1-3
1-3: Get leaf from the first block
1-Tower S: Get another leaf from the block right after the checkpoint, only get the 1st coin
1-Cannon: Don’t get the gold flower from the red ring
M-1: Get star from the hidden block and run through the level, don’t get any coins
Don’t open either house at M-2
M-2: Dmg boost through the urchin blocking the pipe to the 3rd coin
M-Ghost: Get all three coins - left door, middle door, only door
M-Ghost S: Do as normal, you got all the coins already
M-B: Get leaf from the first block
M-Cannon: Do as normal
F-1 S: Get all three coins
Open the item house at F-A
F-A: Do as normal
F-Cannon: Do as normal
6-1: Do as normal
Don’t open the item house between 6-1 and 6-Ghost
6-Ghost S: Only get the 1st and 3rd coins, dmg boost through the boo blocking the switch to get you to the 3rd coin
6-A: Get the leaf from the first block, get the star from the block next to the 3rd coin
6-Tower: Do as normal
6-4: Do as normal
6-5: Do as normal
6-Castle: Dmg boost through the fire spewers, use the leaf in reserve at the same time, get the leaf from the block right after the 2nd checkpoint
Credits roll
Open the item house between 1-2 and 1-3 and the 1up house at 1-3
1-Tower: Get the 2nd and 3rd coins, you already have the 1st
1-4: Do as normal
Open 1-A
1-5: Do as normal
1-A: Do as normal; if you take damage get a leaf from the item house after
1-Castle: Do as normal
2-1: Get gold flower from the block in the room where it’s required; don’t forget to go left after the 2nd coin to get the 3rd
Open the item house between 2-1 and 2-2
2-2: Use leaf in reserve
Open the 1up house at 2-3 and open 2-A
2-3: Do as normal
2-A: Get another leaf from the first block
2-Tower: Do as normal
2-Ghost S: Don’t get any coins
2-B: Do as normal
2-Ghost: Get all 3 coins, if you got hit in 2-B get a leaf during the autoscroller
2-4: Do as normal
Open star house at 2-5
2-5: Do as normal
2-Castle: Do as normal
3-1: Get a star from the hidden block, keep getting stars through the whole level
Open 3-A
3-A: Do as normal
3-Tower: Get all 3 coins
3-4 S: Get all 3 coins, don’t grind for lives yet
3-B: Get mini from the first block, do not get another
3-Tower S: You already got all 3 coins; use leaf in reserve right after you enter the mini pipe
3-Cannon: Do as normal
F-1: You already got all 3 coins; get another leaf from the first block
Open item house between F-1 and F-Ghost
F-Ghost S: Only get 1st and 2nd coins
F-B: Do as normal
F-Ghost: Only get 3rd coin, you already got the other 2
F-2: Do as normal
F-3: Get mini right after checkpoint, use leaf in reserve right after 3rd coin
F-Castle: Do as normal
5-1 S: Get all 3 coins
5-Ghost: Get all 3 coins, get another leaf from the first block
5-Ghost S: You already got all 3 coins; dmg boost through the boo blocking the last door
5-A: Get leaf from the first block, get all 3 coins
5-A S: You already got all 3 coins; Do as normal
5-Castle: Do as normal
Open item house between 6-1 and 6-Ghost
6-Ghost: Only get 2nd coin; you already got the other 2; dmg boost through the boo blocking the switch to get you to the 2nd coin, use leaf in reserve at the same time
6-2: Get another leaf from the block after the platform with the trampoline
Open star house between 6-2 and 6-3 and open 6-B
6-B: Do as normal
6-3: Do as normal
Go to World Mushroom
Open both houses at M-2
M-1 S: Get all 3 coins, get gold flower from the block in the room where it’s required
M-A: Use leaf in reserve
M-3: Do as normal
M-Castle: Get another leaf from the first block
3-2: Do as normal
3-3: Do as normal
3-4: Grind for lives here; you already got all 3 coins
3-Ghost S: Get all 3 coins, 3rd coin is in the top right door
3-Ghost: Do as normal, you got all the coins already
3-5: Do as normal
Open star house between 3-5 and 3-Castle
3-Castle: Do as normal
4-1: Do as normal
Open 4-A
4-Ghost S: Don’t get any coins
4-B: Do as normal
4-Ghost: Get all 3 coins
Open item house at 4-2
4-2: Do as normal
4-A: Get mini from the block near the end
4-Tower S: Get 1st and 2nd coins, use leaf in reserve in checkpoint room
4-C: Do as normal
4-Tower: Only get 3rd coin, you already got the other 2
Open the 1up house at 4-3
4-3: Do as normal
Open the item house at 4-4
4-4: Get another leaf from the first block
4-5: Do as normal
4-Castle: Dmg boost through the first fire bar and the spike ball at the 2nd coin, use leaf in reserve and get leaf from the block next to the pipe leading to 3rd coin; dmg boost through the last spike ball and get the leaf from the hidden block at the end
5-1: Do as normal, you already got all the coins
5-2: Do as normal
Open item house at 5-3
5-3: Get mini from the hidden block by the 2nd coin area, use leaf in reserve after you get the 2nd coin
Open both houses at 5-Tower
5-Tower: Get another leaf from the block at the checkpoint
5-4: Do as normal
5-5: Do as normal
5-6: Do as normal
Go to World Star
Open the star house and the Star World levels; you should have spent all your star coins now
S-1: Do as normal
S-2: Do as normal
S-3: Do as normal
S-4: Get mini at the beginning, use leaf in reserve after the 2nd coin
S-5: Do as normal
S-6: Get another leaf from the first block
S-7: Do as normal
S-Castle: Do as normal

Time ends when you see the “You completed every course in the game!” message box. If you don’t have max lives when that message pops up, you must go and get to max lives before you end time. In this case, time ends on hitting Exit Level or completing the level you get to max lives in.

Beginner's 6-Tower

https://youtu.be/ZKxQcGH5pEI
Here's the movement you should follow if you're trying to learn 6-T Any% for the first time.

Gold Route and the M-2 Gold Flower

https://youtu.be/qWGcsdSb3WI
Guides is probably a better place for this than the forums.  This powerup route saves 3-4 seconds over the old one, but is significantly harder.

New 100% Route

This route changes the world order a bit to cut out map movement and changes around some levels to be in a smarter and more convenient order meaning we don't have to go out of the way for power-ups as much. I have also included information about when you will be switching power-ups and grabbing coin blocks as well as some other tips. Enjoy!

World 1A
1-1 (123): Hit checkpoint to get big
1-2 (123): Get Fire Flower for coin 3 from left block to your left after exiting the pipe
1-3 (123): Get leaf from first block
1-Tower Secret (1): Get a reserve leaf if you want by tail swiping the first block
1-Cannon: Get 8 red coins to put a gold flower into your reserve

World MA
M-1 Secret (13): Get star from hidden block before first coin
M-A (123): Equip Gold Flower and use it to destroy blocks and spiked balls
M-1 (2): Equip reserve leaf while grabbing star, use Gold Flower for coin 2
M-2 (123): Damage boost through urchin at the end of first section, equip reserve leaf in room with coin 3
M-Ghost House (123): Left door, middle door, only door
M-Ghost House Secret: Left door, left door, only door (yes this is different than how you do it in Any%, this is the fastest route as Tanooki Mario)
M-B (123): Get reserve leaf from anywhere, coin block may be helpful for coin 3
M-Cannon:  Do as normal

World FA
F-1 Secret (123): Do as normal
Open Item House
F-A (123): Do as normal
F-Cannon:  Do as normal

World 6A
6-1 (123):  Do as normal
6-Ghost House (12):  Do as normal
6-2 (123):  Do as normal
Open Gold House
Open 6-B
6-B (123):  Do as normal
Open Life House
6-3 (123):  Do as normal
6-Tower (123): Damage boost through burners after getting coin 2, grab leaf from block to the right of checkpoint, hit checkpoint first if you’re small

6-4 (123): Use coin block to damage boost though boo and activate vine
6-5 (123): Do as normal
6-Castle: Damage boost (or clip if you’re a god gamer) through burner after coin 1 and equip reserve leaf immediately, grab a safety leaf from the third block in the final room if you want

Watch the Credits
You will be warped back to World 1

World 1B
Open Item House and Life House
1-Tower (23): Get reserve leaf by tail swiping first block if you don’t already have one

1-4 (123): Do as normal
1-5 (123): Do as normal
Open 1-A
1-A (123): Do as normal
1-Castle (123): Damage boost through thwomp for coin 3, equip reserve leaf after first hit on Roy

World 2
2-1 (123): Use Gold Flower for coin 2, go left after exiting pipe for coin 3
Open Item House
2-2 (123): Equip leaf in room with coin 2
Open Life House
2-3 (123): Time a star grab from the roulette block by the checkpoint
Open 2-A
2-A (123): Do as normal
2-Tower (123): Get reserve leaf by tail swiping right block at the start

2-Ghost House Secret (1): Do as normal
2-B (123): Do as normal
2-Ghost House (23): Do as normal
2-4 (123): Do as normal
Open Gold House
2-5 (123): Use coin block to damage boost through chain chimp for coin 1
2-Castle (123): Do as normal

World 3A
3-1 (123): Grab star from hidden block and another from block after coin 1
Open 3-A
3-A (123): Do as normal
3-Tower (123): Get coin block by check point, try to make it last until Reznor fight in case one spits out a fireball

3-4 (123): Get reserve leaf if needed by ground-pounding block while waiting for poison in the second area
3-Ghost House Secret (123): Get coin 2 after coin 3, if you make it to the blocks without Tanooki Mario or a reserve leaf, take the normal exit first then grab a leaf from the first block when you re-enter the level
3-Ghost House: Do as normal
3-5 (123): Grab coin block and use it to damage boost through blooper for coin 1
Open Gold House
3-Castle (123): Do as normal

World 4
4-1 (123): Do as normal
4-Ghost House Secret (1): Get reserve leaf during the autoscroller if you need it
4-B (123): If coin block has not appeared on world map by now, do 4-Ghost House first, use coin block to damage boost through amp for coin 1
4-Ghost House (23): Do as normal
Open Item House 
4-2 (123): Do as normal
Open 4-A
4-A (123): Get mini mushroom for coin 3
4-Tower (123): Coin 1 may be risky as mini Mario, you can save this coin until 4-Tower Secret if you want, equip leaf during second autoscroller

4-Tower Secret: Grab Fire Flower during second autoscroller and fire into pipe until star appears, then equip leaf and grab star
Open Life House
4-3 (123): Do as normal
Open Item House
4-4 (123): Get reserve leaf while waiting for vine
4-C (123): Damage boost through big fuzzy for coin 3
4-5 (123): Equip leaf in room with coin 1
4-Castle (123): Use coin block to damage boost through fire bar, time a star grab out of roulette block, damage boost through spiked balls before boss door, grab leaf from hidden block to the right of boss door

World 5A
5-1: Do as normal, you may grab coins 1 and 2 if you want
5-2 (123): Get star from hidden block after coin 1
Open Item House
5-3 (123): Get mini from hidden block for coin 2, equip leaf after coin 2
Open Item House and Life House
5-Tower (123): Get reserve leaf from left block in checkpoint room, you may use coin block for safety for coins 2 and 3

5-4 (123): Do as normal
5-5 (123): Do as normal
5-6 (123): Get Fire Flower at start and immediately equip leaf, equip flower when you get to mega mushroom pipe, release reserve leaf before grabbing mega mushroom, get the leaf you just released as mega Mario, go back left for coin 2 after coin 3, equip leaf while waiting for platform in room with coin 2
5-Castle (123): Do as normal

World 6B
Open Item House
6-Ghost House Secret (3): Do as normal
6-A (123): Do as normal
Warp to World Mushroom

World MB
Open Life House and Gold House
M-3 (123): Do as normal
M-Castle (123): Do as normal

World 3B
3-2 (123): Do as normal
3-3 (123): Do as normal
3-4 Secret: Get reserve leaf by ground-pounding block while waiting for poison in the second area, activate vine and go up to secret area to perform 1-up exploit until you have about 1110 lives (you can afford to have a few less since you will get more lives before the end of the run)
3-B (123): Get mini mushroom from first block
3-Tower Secret: Equip leaf after entering mini pipe
3-Cannon: Do as normal

World FB
F-1: Do as normal
F-Ghost House Secret (1): Get reserve leaf from right block at the start if you want, get star to finish level
F-B (123): Time star grab from roulette block after checkpoint
F-Ghost House (23): Get star to be able to fall into water, get reserve leaf during water section by tail swiping block
F-2 (123): Do as normal
F-3 (123): Get mini after checkpoint, equip leaf after coin 3
F-Castle: Get Fire Flower from right block at start, take damage from bomb by coin 1 and bone goomba by coin 2, run under spikes as small Mario for coin 3, equip leaf after first hit on Lemmy

World 5B
5-1 Secret (123): Do as normal
5-Ghost House (123): Do as normal
5-Ghost House Secret: Do as normal
5-A (123): Get any power-ups you need
5-A Secret: Get reserve leaf if you don’t already have one

If you don’t get a message that says “You’ve collected every Star Coin in the game!” then go back and find which one(s) you missed. You should have 99.
Warp to World Star

World S
Open Star House and S-1
S-1 (123): Do as normal
S-2 (123): Do as normal
S-3 (123): Do as normal
S-4 (123): Get mini, equip leaf after coin 2
S-5 (123): Do as normal
S-6 (123): Get reserve leaf during autoscroller
S-7 (123): Do as normal
S-Castle (123): Do as normal

If you don’t get a message that says “You’ve collected every Moon Coin in the game!” then go back and find which one(s) you missed. You should have 24.

As long as you've reached 1110 lives at some point during the run, time ends upon the message “You’ve cleared all of the courses in the game!”

If not, go to the World 4 Life House collect as many 1-ups as you need. You can enter the Life House as many times as you need. Leave through the door as soon as you have 1110. In this case, time ends upon fade out.

New All Castles Route

1-1 (1, 2)
1-2 (1, 3)
1-3 (1, 3)
1-T secret (none)
1-Cannon
M-1 (3)
M-A (1, 2, 3)
M-3 (1, 2, 3)
M-C (1, 2, 3)
3-1 (1, 2, 3)
3-A (1, 3)
Get mini from the toad house
3-T secret (none)
3-Cannon
F-1 (1, 2, 3)
F-G (1, 2)
F-B (1, 3)
F-C (1, 2, 3)
5-1 (1, 2, 3)
5-G (1)
5-A (1, 2, 3)
5-C (2, 3)
6-1 (1, 2)
6-G (3)
6-A (1, 2, 3)
6-T (1)
6-4 (1, 3)
6-5 (2, 3)
6-C (1, 2, 3)
Watch the credits
1-T (1, 3)
1-4 (1)
1-5 (1, 3)
1-C (1, 2, 3)
2-1 (1, 3)
2-2 (1, 3)
2-3 (2, 3)
2-T (1, 3)
2-G (1, 2)
2-B (3)
2-C (1, 2)
3-T (2, 3)
3-4 (1, 2, 3)
3-G (1, 2)
3-C (1, 2, 3)
4-1 (1, 2, 3)
4-G (1)
4-B (1, 2, 3)
4-C (1, 2, 3)
S-1
S-2
S-3
S-4
S-5
S-6
S-7
S-C

Powerup route:
1-1: get the ceckpoint
1-2: get a fire flower and use it to get a mega mushroom
1-3: get a leaf at the start
3-1: jump on top of the first block in the level to find a hidden star. Grab this star and keep hitting other blocks for new stars.
get mini from the toad house in world 3
3-T Secret: after going through the pipe that requires mini, use a leaf from reserve.
F-1: pick up a leaf from the blocks after the checkpoint
F-C: Get hit twice to become small mario and run under the spikes to the last star coin. Use reserve leaf during the boss.
5-G: damage boost if you want to save a second
5-A: Get a leaf for reserve
6-G: damage boost if you want
Get a reserve leaf in either 6-T or 6-4
6-C: double damage boost in the first room, use reserve leaf after

Good backup coins:
4-C 3rd coin
6-5 1st coin
6-4 2nd coin
6-G 1st coin
F-B 2nd coin

New any% guide (WIP)

This is a project that Uvideo, Tomppaa, and I are working on. It's very early in the works.

video 1: basic knowledge and movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nRCIuZOfo

We will start making guides for each individual level soon.

New Super Mario Bros. 2 Any% tutorial

I made 21 separate videos. 20 for each of the levels and one for movement and timing.

1. Movement and Timing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEKC8nq6D6I

2. 1-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQb4HWgzznI

3. 1-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK67myBvkY8

4. 1-3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP9fk-dZvKo

5. 1-Tower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm6bFvq0vAQ

6. 1-Cannon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHxoG3rh8xk

7. M-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSmX6C5os9E

8. M-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wg9A2BSOw8

9. M-Ghosthouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNTuXbHTy-Y

10. M-B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_x270KwYgw

11. M-Cannon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za7Wq3gqnXM

12. F-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nVx8qpFD1I

13. F-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dHmSWgytoI

14. F-Cannon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71GetxZfxks

15. 6-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BEp9Y3ZFuk

16. 6-Ghosthouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x_-n2PRHr4

17. 6-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5tPkHfNpCU

18. 6-Tower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c6c4PYTe_A

19. 6-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFI-T_MMfzI

20. 6-5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICjTVaVZS3o

21. 6-Castle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDgruYJQB1Y

You can skip a lot of stuff on the last video because I kinda messed up a lot.
Anyway, I hope this guide helps at least someone either get started or get better at the game.

Warpless Advanced Guide

This guide shows off the harder strats in the run. Most of these strats only save 1 to 2 seconds (if that) and most of them range from somewhat tricky to extremely hard. There are a few exceptions of strats that I included because they are simply not widely known and I thought they deserved to be in this video. https://youtu.be/lzYcX-ZtOZQ

Here's a list of strats based on their difficulty (in my opinion)

Easy:
1-4 tail swipes
1-C roy fight 
1-C key grab
3-1 points manipulation
3-A urchin tail swipe
2-GH tail swipe
6-C momentum conservation on conveyors

Medium:
1-1 optimal star coin grab
1-C 2nd star coin
2-A tail swipes
2-C triple jump
2-C key grab
3-GH boo dodge setup
4-C optimal star grab
5-GH swooper kill
5-GH boo dodge
5-C boss quick kill
6-C fast room 2

Hard:
2-2 goomba bounce
3-T bonkless pipe (but there's no penalty for trying it)
3-C sawblade jumps
3-C room 2 p speed
5-1 p speed strat
5-GH walljump and dash flying in first room
5-GH rope jump
5-C piranha plant yolo
6-GH boo dodge

Very hard:
1-T no p speed
1-C rope jumps
2-T fastest cycle
3-4 optimal 2nd room
6-C burner cycle

Warpless Route

The old route, about 4 seconds slower than the new route. It requires 10 star coins.

1-1 - Get the 1st star coin
1-2
1-3 - Get the 1st star coin
1-Tower - Get the 1st and 3rd star coins
1-4 - Get the 1st star coin
1-A
1-Castle - Get the 1st star coin
2-1 - Get the 3rd star coin
2-2 - Get the 1st star coin
2-3
2-Tower
2-Ghost House (Secret Exit)
2-B
2-Castle - Get the 1st and 2nd star coins
3-1
3-A
3-Tower
3-4
3-Ghost House (Secret Exit)
3-Castle
4-1
4-Ghost House (Secret Exit)
4-B
4-Castle
5-1 (Secret Exit)
5-Ghost House (Secret Exit)
5-A (Secret Exit)
5-Castle
6-1
6-Ghost House (Secret Exit)
6-A
6-Tower
6-4
6-5
6-Castle

Here are some star coin substitutes that won't waste much time:
1-1 - The 2nd star coin
1-2 - The 1st star coin
1-3 - The 3rd star coin
1-A - The 2nd star coin
2-B - The 3rd star coin
2-Ghost House - the 1st and 2nd star coins
3-1 - The 1st and 3rd star coins

asheevee_

Tomppaa

Uvideo

JuiceACD

New Super Mario Bros. 2

New Nintendo 3DS

Sulflower

7se_GOLD

SpeedyKity0711

USA / NTSC

JPN / NTSC

1-Ca

2-GH

2-Ca

3-GH

3-Ca

4-GH

4-Ca

5-Ca

5-GH

6-GH

6-Ca

M-GH

M-Ca

F-GH

F-Ca

S-Ca

Individual World RTA

Level

Super Mario

New Super Mario Bros.

Announcement About Rule Changes

NSMB Series Discord

Question About Emulator Citra 

if any% has no restrictions, could we use cheats for powerups and things like that?

Nome	Autor
100% Route	asheevee_ 8 years ago
Beginner's 6-Tower	Uvideo 6 years ago
Gold Route and the M-2 Gold Flower	Uvideo 6 years ago
New 100% Route	Uvideo 5 years ago
New All Castles Route	JuiceACD 6 years ago
New any% guide (WIP)	JuiceACD 6 years ago
New Super Mario Bros. 2 Any% tutorial	Tomppaa 7 years ago
New Warpless Star Coin Route	Uvideo 5 years ago
No Secret Exits Star Coin Route	Uvideo 5 years ago
Warpless Advanced Guide	JuiceACD 3 years ago
Warpless Route	asheevee_ 6 years ago