You pick and change characters during the run, but yeah, you would be using Luigi pretty much always after you got him since he's blatently the best character in the game. Yoshi and Mario fill in during their time before Luigi of course, and Wario gets to sit around being useless and unrescued.
If you do this Speed Run, you should use Wario, instead of Yoshi+Mario+Luigi. There are enough runs with just Yoshi+Mario+Luigi in them! :3 ;3
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Wario is the slowest for the characters, has the worst long jump, and he only collects a minimal amount of stars. Therefore it would only waste time to get him
If only Radix would allow going out of bounds glitches for this game.
The method here is to first get eight stars for mario, then as yoshi perform the Uberglitch And after that perform the swim under the basement glitch, finish bowser in the fire sea early, and then from then on you'll have to get 41 more stars.... for we have not yet discovered a way to get past the 50 star door. Check the sm64ds boards of gamefaqs for more info.
i went over my list again, and there was one star that i couldnt get unless i had wario, so im one star short for the speedrun, ill try and find another fast star to compensate for it.
you should consider how hard and time consuming this game is. doing an 80 star run is doable. although, don't try to do a 150 star run, i have only 113 stars, and thats taken me about 20 hours, so keep practicing and you may qualify as a good time.
This is the final version of my list, i tested this earlier today and got roughly 3 hours, it wasnt the greatest run either. (SM64DS is slower than SM64 just so you know)
Bomb-omb Battlefield star 7 Whomp's Fortress star 1 Whomp's Fortress star 2 Whomp's Fortress star 6 Whomp's Fortress star 5 Jolly Rodger Bay star 1 Jolly Rodger Bay star 2 Jolly Rodger Bay star 3 Jolly Rodger Bay star 4 get mario from painting rec room painting secret star switch to mario mario painting switch star peach painting star 1 peach painting star 2 wing room star + ? block powerup Whomp's Fortress star 3 Whomp's Fortress star 7 Cool, Cool Mountain star 1 Cool, Cool Mountain star 2 Cool, Cool Mountain star 3 Bomb-omb Battlefield star 5 Bomb-omb Battlefield star 6 First Bowser (switch star) get luigi in big boo's haunt switch to luigi boo area red coin star boo area secret star Big Boo's Haunt star 1 Big Boo's Haunt star 2 Big Boo's Haunt star 3 Big Boo's Haunt star 5 Big Boo's Haunt star 6 Big Boo's Haunt luigi secret star Jolly Rodger Bay star 6 Cool, Cool Mountain star 6 Lethal Lava Land star 1 Lethal Lava Land star 2 Lethal Lava Land star 3 Lethal Lava Land star 4 Lethal Lava Land star 5 Lethal Lava Land star 6 Lethal Lava Land star 7 Shifting Sand Land star 1 Shifting Sand Land star 2 Shifting Sand Land star 3 Shifting Sand Land star 4 hazy maze entrance secret star Hazy Maze Cave star 1 Hazy Mazy Cave star 3 Hazy Maze Cave star 4 Hazy Maze Cave star 5 Hazy Maze Cave star 6 Hazy Maze Cave star 7 Hazy Maze Cave secret star (double doors) (warp abuse back to castle entrance) Jolly Rodger Bay secret star Switch to Mario Dire, Dire Docks star 1 Dire, Dire Docks star 2 Dire, Dire Docks star 6 Dire, Dire Docks star 7 Second Bowser (switch star) switch to luigi (warp abuse) Wet-Dry World star 1 (no water) Wet-Dry World star 2 (flood) Wet-Dry World star 4 (no water) Wet-Dry World star 6 (no water) white room secret star (behind mirror with luigi) Snowman's Land star 2 Snowman's Land star 4 Snowman's Land star 6 Snowman's Land star 1 toad in front of Tall, Tall Mountain secret star Tall, Tall Mountain star 1 Tall, Tall Mountain star 3 Tall, Tall Mountain star 4 Tall, Tall Mountain star 5 Tiny-Huge Island star 1 (small picture) Tiny-Huge Island star 2 (small picture) switch to mario (warp abuse) go and unlock third floor door switch to luigi (warp abuse) toad in front of Tick Tock Clock secret star Tick Tock Clock star 1 (stopped time) Tick Tock Clock star 2 (stopped time) Tick Tock Clock star 3 (stopped time) Tick Tock Clock star 5 (stopped time) Tick Tock Clock star 6 (stopped time) Rainbow Ride star 4 Rainbow Ride star 5 switch to mario (warp abuse) -----Final Bowser-----