Super Mario Galaxy 2 Tricks and Shortcuts Collection

This is a collection of most of the known tricks and shortcuts in SMG2. A lot of these I found on my own, but there are a good few as well that were posted on the SDA forum first. Thanks to: MAST3RLINKX (the Yoshi Infinite Flutter technique), TTom (Fluffy Bluff shortcut), Manocheese (Space Storm tower tricks, first and third tricks in Clockwork Ruins), ComboKing (for posting about the second Rightside Down trick, although it's intentional), neskamikaze (jumping on the wall in Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla), LinksDarkArrows (the second Hightail Falls jump and the first Bowser's Galaxy Generator trick), and logitechSDAZ (the Cosmic Cove trick, although he says someone else found it first). I found everything else on my own, although I was beaten to the punch on a few of them.

That said - there's a large variety of tricks in here, from minor 5-second timesavers to tricks that skip more than half the level.

0:00 - Sky Station Galaxy - Route for the second planet.
0:24 - Spin-Dig Galaxy - Skip drilling.
0:30 - Spin-Dig Galaxy - Skip drilling in a different spot.
0:36 - Fluffy Bluff Galaxy - Major shortcut that skips half the level.
1:05 - Rightside Up Galaxy - Skip a gravity switch.
1:15 - Rightside Up Galaxy - Skip the ending 2D section. [yes, I already know there are 1ups in the corners]
1:37 - Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla - Skip almost everything up until the boss.
1:56 - Puzzle Plank Galaxy - Skip ground pounding a few pegs, then skip wall jumping up a wall.
2:15 - Hightail Falls Galaxy - Useless but sorta cool trick that skips a wallrun.
2:24 - Hightail Falls Galaxy - Jump from the third-to-last wallrun to right before the last one, then jump straight to the star.
2:45 - Cosmic Cove Galaxy - Skip a key.
2:59 - Bowser's Lava Lair - Skip the Magikoopa at the beginning.
3:04 - Bowser's Lava Lair - Skip the Hammer Bro.
3:11 - Haunty Halls Galaxy - Route for the Bulb Berry section, including a key skip.
3:35 - Supermassive Galaxy - Small timesavers near the beginning.
3:56 - Supermassive Galaxy - Planet hop from a Thwomp to the planet with the giant Koopas. Don't think this saves time.
4:08 - Supermassive Galaxy - Skip the last two Launch Stars. Only works for Luigi.
4:15 - Flipville Galaxy - Jump straight from the beginning to the first Launch Star.
4:22 - Flipville Galaxy - Small shortcut over the house on the second planet. Both this and the next trick are obsoleted.
4:28 - Flipville Galaxy - Alternate shortcut.
4:43 - Flipville Galaxy - Skip drilling.
4:51 - Starshine Beach Galaxy - Skip Cloud Mario.
4:58 - Chompworks Galaxy - Skip Spring Mario on the first planet.
5:07 - Bowser's Gravity Gauntlet - Major shortcut that skips half the level.
5:38 - Space Storm Galaxy - Tricks to climb the tower very quickly and skip the fight at the end.
6:12 - Slipsand Galaxy - Skip most of the 2D section.
6:28 - Shiverburn Galaxy - Skip the U-bend at the beginning.
6:45 - Shiverburn Galaxy - Skip the five enemies on the third planet.
6:55 - Upside Dizzy Galaxy - Skip a gravity button.
7:03 - Bowser Jr.'s Boom Bunker - Skip a small platforming part.
7:22 - Clockwork Ruins Galaxy - Shortcuts in the section with the caged Luma on the second planet.
7:56 - Clockwork Ruins Galaxy - Small, obvious tricks on the third planet.
8:10 - Clockwork Ruins Galaxy - Skip most of the planet with the secret star.
8:24 - Throwback Galaxy - Another obvious trick to jump to the top.
8:29 - Battle Belt Galaxy - Skip killing all the enemies on one of the planets.
8:39 - Stone Cyclone Galaxy - Skip a fairly large portion of the path. This is significantly harder to pull off in SMG2 than it is in SMG1, and I've only been able to do it with Luigi.
8:47 - Bowser's Galaxy Generator - Skip the Hammer Bros near the beginning.
9:04 - Bowser's Galaxy Generator - Fastest way to handle the part with the Bullet Bills as far as I can tell.

And the big finale:

9:18 - Bowser's Galaxy Generator - Use Infinite Flutter to skip over the majority of the second half of the level.

Enjoy!

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[1999gogeta]

you should really make a speedrun

[kirby5837]

You should do a speedrun with every galaxy O_O I think you'd break the record

[Jasna178]

Please answer this question, I know this question is strange.Do you think the creators had to be fantastic?

[DJReiko]

Literally the first time I played right side up galaxy I did that. Skipping the 2nd section of the stage. Though I wall jumped off the lower wall.

[Jasna178]

How did you do this, you are so awesome

[HyperSonicN1]

6:28 And the misterious figures ran away in fear

(gonintendo . com / ?p=126769 for who didn't understand)

[roboyoshi1]

4:07 OR THAT!!!

[luigisalva]

How the hell?! 5:10

[KyaputenFarukon]

2:19 poor Yoshi...

[MoonGoesShiny]

That last one... Wow.