Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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As you probably see i have a file with 120 stars which i obviously got with cheats. So why do i have this file, why do i use it and why do i even talk about that? First of all i'd like to say that i have this file since many months anyways but in this case it's pretty necessary to have this file or at least one that has also the second key door unlocked which can't be accomplished by playing and finishing the game normally.
That's because the star i collected is something really special. You would normally need to beat Bowser 2, for getting to Bowser 2 you need to get Key 1 which isn't hard, then you need to die on the second overworld like i did in the video. You will end up in the normal, non-custom castle. There you can go to the basement where Bowser 2 is but you can't get to the bowser fight in a normal way because on the bowser stage the game will actually freeze at a specific point that you can barely skip. I doubt that it can be skipped non-TAS (in the theory you can but it's really unlikely in practice) but it can be skipped with TASing so getting the star is technically doable without any cheats but i'm no TASer so it's not for me. That's one reason why i used the "having 120 stars" cheat anyway. Well that's the pretty rational reason, i'd probably have used this cheat anyways because i'm lazy and i'd have to do DDD Skip and things like this.

I just wanted to explain how you can get to the star without cheats and how possible it is. At least it is - like i said - somehow possible.