Super Mario Sunshine Speedrunning Wiki



Welcome to the Super Mario Sunshine Speedrunning Wiki
This wiki is to help beginners start speedrunning Super Mario Sunshine (SMS), also to show tips and tricks to help runners improve their times. This wiki will help teach people how to do the tricks and glitches in this game as well as see routes on how to go about the different categories.
 * Any% Route

Super Mario Sunshine and Speedrunning
Super Mario Sunshine (known coloquially as SMS) is a game for the Nintendo Gamecube and Speedrunning is a task of completing certaing goals/objectives as fast as possible. This wiki aims to help you understand what goals this game focuses on, what routes are the fastest, and how to speedrun this game optimaly.

English (EN) vs Japanese (JP)
The JP version saves about 15 seconds in an Any% speedrun because of text. It is not a fact but the JP version, we believe saves 5 seconds on Pinna Park Episode 5 because the ferris wheel moves faster but it is not proven. There is a glitch on Gelato Beach Episode 6 where you can use the yoshi clip glitch that is only on JP to get Gelato Episode 8 instead of Episode 6, which saves 5 seconds if you have good fruit luck and get the clip fast. In Sirena Beach Episode 6 you not only on JP have to clean more goop, but also there can be invisible goop, which can mess you up. So, overall if you can do Sirena Episode 6 fast JP saves about 10-15 seconds, however it is random whether or not you will save time or not, so english for starting this game is the better version to begin with.

Wii vs Gamecube (GC) vs Emulator (Emu)
This is not proven, but Hiddenpower13 thinks that Wii saves about 30 seconds total due to loading times. So in theory the JP Wii would be the fastest version, but versions are not split on the leaderboards. No version saves too much time compared to other versions, so it really does not make a difference what version you play on. Emu is not the best way to play sms, emu loading times are not terrible, they are about as good as console, however the game often crashes, so it is much better if you can to play on console.

