This category mainly involves getting 100 Golden Bananas and all keys.
Rules:
- No entering lobbies without gaining legitimate access (8 keys requirement)
- No B.Locker skips (100 golden bananas requirement)
- Must defeat K Rool
- No Banana Duping
- No cheats (via 20 Fairy Mystery Menu)
Resource Document (link)
- All of the current useful routes
- Useful Resources for New Runners
Helm Escape Route (Found in Resource Document)
- Fastest No Levels Early route by a small amount
- Uses Main Menu Mode the entire time
- Currently N64 Only because of Orange Clip out of Helm
- Orange clip to escape out of Hideout Helm (no orange clip = run dead)
- Assumes you are comfortable with all the tricks required in the hardest 40 Blueprints route
- Recommended to top-tier N64 runners
40 Blueprints Routes (Found in Resource Document)
- Relatively Safe, only slightly slower compared to the Helm Escape route
- Collects all 40 BPs to play Snide's bonus games, the only way to force the game back to Story Mode from Main Menu Mode
- No orange escape out of Hideout Helm
- Has 2 levels for both N64 and VC. The easier of the 2 cutting out some hard tricks in Caves that the harder route doesn't
- Recommended for most runners who want to advance from the beginner route
Beginner Route (Found in Resource Document)
- Cuts out all non-Beginner friendly tricks from the 40 Blueprints route
- Slower than 40 Blueprints or Helm Escape, but far safer
- Cuts out the most common softlocks
Funky Weapons Glitch Route (link)
- Legacy route that's roughly 4 minutes slower than the Helm Escape route
- Skips buying all of Lanky's moves as well as Simian Spring and Gorilla Gone
- By far the hardest No Levels Early route due to not buying said moves
- Not recommended for any runners
PAL Route (link)
- Based on the 40 Blueprints US Route, cutting out inaccessible Golden Bananas due to patches
- Not recommended for runners on a US Console (See regular 40 Blueprints Route)
- Recommended for runners on a PAL Console
