

Stars are shown with normal stars first, then Prankster Comet stars, then hidden stars. Once a hidden star has been acquired, that star will have its own place in the star selection screen. Stars you haven't acquired will be clear, and hidden stars will be noted with a question mark inside of a different star. A screen will appear showing you the different stars you can attempt. Navigate Starship Mario over a galaxy and press the "Fly to This Galaxy" button. Each Galaxy contains 2–3 Power Stars and you can start their missions from the world map. You will need to collect Power Stars to open up new galaxies and proceed through multiple worlds to the final confrontation with Bowser so you can rescue Princess Peach. Here, each node on the gold line represents and entire world, and by moving Starship Mario over one, you can see all the galaxies within that world, and pointing at individual galaxies will tell you their names. Once you have opened up multiple worlds, you can click the zoom out button at the top right corner of the screen to zoom out to a larger map showing all the worlds. When you have enough stars and you are on a space preceding an area with a grayed out line, it will open up by turning the line from gray to the normal gold color.Īt the end of each world is a boss galaxy which you will need to beat before opening up the next one. You can hover over a space with the cursor to see how many stars you need to proceed. Progress is taken from left to right on the maps and Power Stars must be collected along the way open up more galaxies. On the world map, you will see a gold line showing where you can travel, and at different nodes along the line are either empty spaces, galaxies, Hungry Lumas, star bit crystals or pipes. Unfortunately, my knowledge of Wii-hacking is limited.You can get around in the world maps by using Starship Mario to fly to different worlds and galaxies. It would be awesome if we could eventually have the ability to record your own (race-able) Ghost Luigi replays and save them to a SD Card/USB drive. (In contrast, the game does not reset the timer upon each miss.) The lives system is entirely obsolete for time trials, because in order to attain the best times, one must clear every stage on one life with as few mistakes as possible. Upon any miss/death, automatically invoke the "Restart Mission" function and restart the player at the very beginning of the level with the timer restarting from 00:00.00. This function would be the equivalent of manually selecting "Return to Map" followed by "Fly to the Galaxy" and selecting the star mission again, except hopefully without the long loading times. The timer should also restart from 00:00.00. The game runs at 60 frames per second.Ģ) Add a "Restart Mission" button accessible from the pause screen (next to "Back" and "Return to Map.") The Restart Mission button should restart the player at the very beginning of the mission, disregarding any checkpoint flag(s) that may have been activated. The clear time is stored as the number of frames elapsed during the star mission, including all dialog boxes as well as all cutscenes except the two "loading" scenes. This timer should agree exactly with the "Clear Time" presented to the player upon obtaining each star. Given that there is now a sizable time-trialing community on Cyberscore, Wii Records, and Japanese forums, I would like to suggest a SMG2 modification/hack that does the following:ġ) Add a running timer that is visible on-screen at all times, similar to the ones displayed during the Fluzzard races or the Il Piantissimo races in Mario Sunshine.
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In addition, restarting a time trial means going back to the world map, re-selecting the galaxy/star and having the game reload the level from scratch. With the exception of the Fluzzard races and “speed run” comets, there is no convenient way to gauge one's progress in mid-level. Trying to complete time trials in Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a frustrating experience, because players do not find out their times until they have been brought back to Starship Mario.
