Hi guys, I've been messing around with this game on and off for a couple months with the plan of someday doing 71 star runs. I discovered a way to prevent the "Saving Complete" prompt from appearing after each star by filling up your Wii system memory:
1) Copy (or erase) your SMG2 save data
2) Fill up the Wii system memory (to the point where you have zero blocks free, since SMG2 save data only takes 1 block)
3) At this point, when you return to the Wii menu a dialog pops up reporting that the system memory is full, and it will kick you over to the data management. It'll keep doing this until you free up some space, preventing you from starting SMG2. After trying a lot of different things I found that booting the Wii into maintenance mode (holding + and - when powering on) will override this message and allow you start the game.
Upon booting the game, you'll get this message:
I played through the first few stars and everything seems the same minus the omissions of the "Saving Complete" dialog. I'd estimate this would save about a minute during a 71 star run. Obviously this prevents the use of bank toad since you cannot have any existing save files. I'm not familiar enough with the current routes to know if this would be faster than a 71 star bank toad run (I'm guessing not).
Edit:
I've tested this with SMG1 and confirmed that it works the same way - I got the first 2 stars in the game without seeing a save dialog. Also, for some reason I'm no longer required to start the Wii up in maintenance mode, the dialog telling me there isn't any free space just stopped coming up for some reason. Maybe after you bypass it once it never comes up again?
1) Copy (or erase) your SMG2 save data
2) Fill up the Wii system memory (to the point where you have zero blocks free, since SMG2 save data only takes 1 block)
3) At this point, when you return to the Wii menu a dialog pops up reporting that the system memory is full, and it will kick you over to the data management. It'll keep doing this until you free up some space, preventing you from starting SMG2. After trying a lot of different things I found that booting the Wii into maintenance mode (holding + and - when powering on) will override this message and allow you start the game.
Upon booting the game, you'll get this message:
I played through the first few stars and everything seems the same minus the omissions of the "Saving Complete" dialog. I'd estimate this would save about a minute during a 71 star run. Obviously this prevents the use of bank toad since you cannot have any existing save files. I'm not familiar enough with the current routes to know if this would be faster than a 71 star bank toad run (I'm guessing not).
Edit:
I've tested this with SMG1 and confirmed that it works the same way - I got the first 2 stars in the game without seeing a save dialog. Also, for some reason I'm no longer required to start the Wii up in maintenance mode, the dialog telling me there isn't any free space just stopped coming up for some reason. Maybe after you bypass it once it never comes up again?