I think I'll wait until after the final Bowser fight to do the extras because, like Spoony_Bard said, I won't have to switch back and forth between maps as much if I just choose a straight path from map to map. The order will be 6-E to 1-E, first to last.
I think this is a bad idea because it would ruin the pacing of the movie. It would also probably be slower, too.
If you finish the final stage(Bowser's castle) with 100 points, can you play the final "secret" level without reseting the game? If I remember it correctly, you can't. Correct me if I am wrong.
There is no reset code for this game.
So I guess there is no way to make a movie of playing all the levels with 100 points since you can't play the final extra level, right?
For this reason, Twin Galaxies rules say that you have to use a savefile that already has all the levels unlocked, and you do Bowser's level last.
This run will include 6-E Masterpiece Set. You can hit start immediately before Bowser's defeat (ie.one frame before you can no longer bring up the pause screen), close the pause screen and hit start+select at exactly the same time as soon as the screen starts to reappear. You'll exit the last castle and appear on the world map, with the Extra 6 and Bonus 6 unlocked (based on the assumption that you have 100 score on the levels).
I've decided to do the extras last, but how many people would prefer the order of 1-E to 6-E (first to last) or vice versa? I ask because playing the extras backwards is the fastest way to do it. When exiting Bowser's Castle using that pause/start+select trick the cursor will be at 6-8 right next to 6-E, and I won't have to return to World 6 map (contrary to doing them in the more practical order of 1-E to 6-E). However, it looks better to do them in the order they were intended, although I would lose a couple of seconds. I hope it won't be required that I repeat Bowser's Castle to officially beat the game, because of that autoscrolling crap right before the fight. I suppose I could attempt to hex it in there but with the odds of a desync happening I don't see the possibility.
I just remembered one thing about this game. I remember that ten years ago when I got this game I encountered a glitch or bug, whatever. It is the same trick that is used in the published run in level 2-1. The difference is that while playing bored I did it in level 1-1. I'm not sure if it is already discussed here or in the SDA, but anyway I'm going to explain it a little. I think this would shorten level 1-1 or perhaps someone finds out what causes the glitch and therefore it could be used in other levels too. My own cart was bought in 1995 and it is PAL version. I know there are versions 1.0 and 1.1 around, and I think mine is 1.0. Not to mention: I have pulled off this trick more than once. If I recall right, I did it another time because it was so much fun. I took a shot to reduce the amount of writing: http://koti.mbnet.fi/jsp_/yoshi.png The thing is that if I remember correctly, I stomp-jumped (press down in air) many times on the stones under the arrow sign. I'm only sure that the glitch happened when I landed on the area made by those two blocks. The enemies were propably killed, because I was doing this weird thing. What happened next was that Yoshi was taken to the sky (same, long room as in the movie), I always died there, because the room has really wide pit. I tried to hover to the far right, but I couldn't back then. I'm pretty sure it is the same room as in the currently published movie, and if Yoshi could hover to the far right, Yoshi would end near the end of level 1-1. I tried to reproduce this glitch with Zsnes, but I failed (didn't try long though). I tried it also tool-assisted, but I don't have a clue how you people do it :) I hope someone would try this, and I also hope this would prove to be useful.
Okay, so this "wide room" propably appears when the game is going to crash i.e. a bug occurs. Perhaps something similar to Zelda's Chris Houlihan Room. Anyway, this bug could propably be used in other levels than 1-1 and 2-1. That would shorten the game a lot, but would result a really boring movie. I wonder if it would be possible to skip boss levels this way.
