Can You Beat Super Mario RPG With ONLY MARIO? 

Don't buy a bus.

The fact that you can SOLO Culex and not the cake is honestly pretty damned hilarious. That stupid candle mechanic sucks so much lol.

There is not a point of no return in the Smithy Factory. You can go all the way back to the entrance no matter how deep into the factory you are. It is true that after you beat Countdown, the room won't have a way back initially. But if you leave and return to that room, you CAN go back.

This game takes me back.. When I was a kid, the final boss was remembering to talk to Frgofucious to gain access to the second half of the game

"...And she also can hit enemies with a frying pan." Wait, wait, wait. A blonde princess in a pink dress that uses a frying pan as a weapon...I think Disney has some explaining to do!

Bowser is genuinely one of my favorite Mario characters, and it's all because in almost every single Mario RPG, he's just such a fun character. He's always goofy, kinda dorky, so full of himself, and yet always has his intimidating presence. He's so lovable, and SMRPG started that trend. Speaking of amazing characters in SMRPG, I feel like Mallow doesn't get enough love. He goes through such a character arc and genuinely has the most interesting story of the playable characters imo. I wish people respected him more. He'll always be my favorite Frog Prince.

Having played so many Super Mario RPG randomizers, I knew from the very start of the video that Cake was going to be the run-ender because of its gimmick. Sure enough, lol. It was interesting to see how the rest of the game unfolded at least.

The fight against Jinx 3 would have been interesting to see. I also thought attack items would have had a more prominent role in this challenge especially the Star Egg.

To answer your question, yes any magic attack (Including Jump) will one shot the dry bone enemies

You can get 100 coins on the Midas River, but not the first time you go down. There are frog coins on the waterfall in place of regular coins that time, and they don't count towards your coin total, even if you get every one. To get 100, you need to fight the current on the waterfall a lot, crossing back and forth and even scaling against some rock walls once or twice to get to the other side. On the barrel run, you just need to follow the pattern where the most coins are, and change lanes at the right time. And if you hit a single fish, your run is messed up.

Bowser is a goddamn treasure in the Mario RPG games

It was during the race up Booster Hill that I realized that this run was going to be impossible.

All magic, including jump damage, one shots dry bones. Dry bones are invincible against physical damage but die to ANY magic damage.

the Mario rpg remake is the game that has me considering buying a Switch, so thanks for making me want to play it even more

Loved the Final Fantasy Mystic Quest music in this video!

I didn't know that about Mario's jump attack powering up! Thanks for the content!

Hopes for the remake: All magic works like jump in that it gets better the more you use it. In various ways besides just damage though. Like hp rain gains a Def up boost and evade boost to them. Rework characters some. Bowser gets some buffs. Along with Mallow. Hard mode. The game wouldn't hurt to have some new challenges as well. Mario getting costumes. Captain Falcon, Kirby, Link, Ness, Samus. And so on

The Banjo Kazooie music totally made me giggle during the sunken ship part lol. Awesome run! I'm super looking forward to playing the remake when it comes out, as I never played the original. Thanks for another awesome video!

I was actually had plans to do this a while ago but I guess I don’t have to anymore. Thank you for making this. Great video

He is called SUPER Mario for a reason :3

I love how peach is characterized in this game. It's almost like the movie, like you said she's more rebellious and more willing to take risks. Which are characteristics people usually give to Daisy and then complain that Peach has no personality 💀

Mallo wasn't a Tadpole? I've been lied to my entire life.

Man I can't wait for the remake. Nostalgia usually doesn't ever hit me, but holy hell is it full force with the remake. I'm so excited - this and Dragoon were the two big RPGs of my childhood. I guess Mega Man X Command Mission (super underrated RPG) also can be in that lineup, but that was more during my teens.

I have done a Mario RPG run of each character (Hacking them in form the start while also having my friend code it so you can only have one person in your party. It is slightly glitchy as you still have three party members on screen but they don't have any turns and cannot be attacked.) If you get knocked out the game softlocks.(Since you still have party members that the enemies cannot attack) second iteration had them enter with 1 HP and poisoned, so they faint on their turn. Both were a run ender at bundt So yeah, instead of working it so that one fight gave you proper stats, we just removed the top half of the cake. And then Dodo happened... In the end, we just redid the whole valentina fight. It took him a lot of programming but he got something that actually worked out very nicely. It felt refreshing too. Johnny also challenges you 1 on 1 right from the get go. Super suit also unlocks at the same time as Lazy shell. (He put it in a chest in the same area. since in a solo run with another other than Mario, you can not get the Super Suit. Since you can get it BEFORE lazy shell, he put it with Lazy shell. (We were tempted to put it even earlier, but in the end we just kept it there.) So I did it with everyone, I could not beat it with Bowser or Mallow. Peach was tough but i pulled it off. Geno was about as hard as mario. We also added a bomb shop in moleville. Locked until Johnny is defeated. You can buy bombs, they are pricey, (More than they were in Seaside town) but you can also purchase rock Candy's for 600. A few more edits we made was a new map area which is the entrance to smith's factory (the assembly line area) and s springboard to the world map (Go clean up everything you have not finished yet, like Culex, And Culex second Battle. (We did a rematch. He has 9999 HP. And when you bring him down to triple digits he fully heals (Once) along with getting all 4 crystals back.(Which are buffed) (He gives you Uber Charm, which is Qhartz charm, just boosts your attack more and gives you a passive heal.) We added a boss rush as well. Just outside monstro town. You don't get anything special (Not even experience) from it but it is a cool challenge. If you do beat it you do get 999 coins. It only goes to axem rangers (and only opens after you beat them) I have sadly lost the hack years back when my computer got fried. I have reached out to my friend to see if he still has it but he has told me if he does he does know where it is. (And he is not even sure if it is accessible. Originally it was on a floppy disk. But he thinks he put it on a thumb drive.) It was a passion project for us. My ideas and his programming skills, along with some ideas of his own (Like a boss rush) (Oh, and attack scarf is not Mario locked) Final note (We added an item to the game that boosts the speed of the user by 250. We gave these items to party members 2 and 3, so they go before enemies and faint.) We also later added some other items for characters in Bowser's keep. Items and equipment, which we later removed. Also don't feel too bad, i have only done 100 super jumps twice in my life. Once on console and once on emulator. I usually just gamegeine teh item into my game now as i don't like doing the 100 super jumps. (I make the attempt every time, but i usually fail.) e

Just beat this game with my 7 year old son. It was fun going back to memory lane with this game and it got us excited for the remake coming out in November :D Loved your video btw, that's a hell of a challenge haha.

Thanks for the video, I haven't seen any of mario RPG before so this was really interesting.

First reaction was "Yeah, duh. The game's super easy." Then you reminded me the cake existed and...well...right. Yeah. That. Maybe if this were Legend of Dragoon, where the speed stat determines how many turns you get vs. an enemy's, but nope. One turn for each round of combat per character.

12:02 that would be the deadliest warrior in the world before the invention of gunpowder

Great video! Can't wait for the remake. I'll be like a kid on Christmas when it drops~ Funny anecdote, I wasn't old enough to pick this game up when it launched (I was born in 1990), but my best friend's older brothers had a lot of SNES games. They didn't have Super Mario RPG but I rented it once and loved it. So we tried to find it at a local flea market (I was probably 9 or 10 at this time) and we stopped for lunch before we got there. During that time we were at lunch, someone went to that flea market, sold their Super Mario RPG copy to a vendor there, and I was able to buy it. Perfect timing. If we hadn't stopped for lunch, I wouldn't have found it.

If you keep one of the little sharks alive during the johnny battle, the battle is much easier.

Random: I remember my friends told me to put the lazy shell defense on Peach, because you want to keep her alive to revive and heal others. Well, I put the lazy shell defense and attack on Mario, and he was really strong.

I've been staring into Marios cold, dead eyes for half an hour and it changed me. I will never be the same.

Whoa I had no idea Jump increases in power the more you use it. I've always just dropped it pretty much as soon as I get Fireball. I'll have to use it more in the remake

SMRPG is my favorite game of all time and I love seeing challenges this to make it harder. Awesome video! Keep up the good work! Also Dry Bones can actually be killed with any magic attack including jump.

00:58 I love Chrono Cross. that's the song from the Zelbess.

Dry Bones die to any special attack. I remember just jumping on them and them dying.

Wait whaaaaaaaat?! You can bounce back the eggs back at birdo?! I swear i keep learning new stuff about this game even today.

8:54 That's funny, because she HAS the crown on her head!😂👑

You can beat the cake battle with only Mario if you master the super jump. Unless I'm mistaken.

found you recently and I've really been enjoying your style and the stuff you cover! you put a lot of effort into your work and it shows in the quality

when i was young, i beat the game by just filling my entire inventory with pick me ups. seemed pretty busted. can't do that on a mario only run, lol.

Never thought i'd type this but for you Tantacles i'll make an exception. #ForeverAloneMario Edit: Fun fact about the Hotel, pay for the highest cost room and stay like 10 times so you overstay 9 days that you can't pay for. You then become the bellhop and you can make Flower Tab/Box Tips every so often from the guests, This is how i maxed to 99 FP back in the day. Not many know about that feature most just break their own record at the whack a goomba to max FP.

Nice video. :) I adored this game as a kid and it’s nice to see I’m not the only one, based on the overjoyed reaction to the recent announcement of the remake.

Great video! I really enjoyed it. I looked back through your other vids, and they're not exactly my usual fare, but you've got my sub anyways for your shout out to Moon Channel.

Who'd have thought that seeing a snazzy shirt would lead to finding one of my favorite creators in a long time. Tentacles, you're amazing and your content simply rocks. 🤙

This was cool to watch & definitely hyped for the remake as it’s my favorite SNES game & Mario game.

Actually you can for MOST bosses Not ALL bosses though all you need is BOTH LAZY shells equipped AND a Instant kill NULL accessory equipped then nothing can ever kill you but the Lazy shell WEAPON would barely top like 10 to 20 damage WITH the ARMOR equipped to Mario at the same time. But NO you can't the Nimbus land boss once you do enough damage to the Valantina Birdo would KIDNAP the party member in the MIDDLE slot temporarily and IRC that party member can NOT really EVER be Mario HIMSELF for THAT SOLO boss fight half way though the battle. Also Belome 2 can temporary EAT a party member so that they can't be used and that CAN still HAPPEN to Mario HIMSELF.

Glad seeing challenges for super Mario rpg also love the video

I remember playing this game in my childhood and literally only upgrading HP and still managing to beat the game. I didn't understand why you wouldn't want to max out health 😂

Hearing that Lagoon music in the background is chef’s kiss

I thought the futurama pig bubble was a jellyfish, but I love the idea of a pig getting its head stuck in a bubble because it bought a boat

Very impressive run 😁

2:07 Did you forget to equip Mario with the Shirt and Jump Shoes? According to Amazing_Ampharos, Croco's bomb inflicts 15 HP damage onto Mallow equipped with the Pants and Antidote Pin, and Mallow is physically frailer than Mario… On that note, it would be better to simply spam Fire Orb until Croco cries, "Uncle!"-4-5 times should be enough. 4:12 Since Bowyer can cast Sleep, wear the Wake Up Pin. Also, Bowyer locks buttons based on what your party does. Under the rules of the Single Character Challenge (SCC), according to Amazing_Ampharos, "If you use either two physical attacks or one physical attack and one magic attack, Bowyer will lock Y. Otherwise, he will lock X. Note that 'magic attack' does not include HP Rain. Mallow mostly doesn't need to think about this, but Mario and Geno, if ignorant of this, will likely perish as they discover that the X button is perpetually locked. Be sure to use these tactics to unlock X when you need to use a Mushroom." 5:11 You clearly forgot to equip Mario with the Punch Glove. Did you also forget the Mega Shirt and Work Pants? 7:04 One thing you neglected to mention is that Punchinello is normally immune to Jump (unless Mario is equipped with the Jump Shoes) and can cast Sand Storm exactly once. Buying an Able Juice (from Rose Town) before this battle will allow Mario to wear the Jump Shoes and keep using his highest damaging attack. 8:07 The Goodie Bag is found at the top floor of Booster's Tower. Once obtained, your "dummy characters" may no longer defend. It may also be worth fighting Booster for fun, then resetting to win the valuable Amulet. 8:18 Every solo character should equip the Wake Up Pin for the Knife Guy and Grate Guy battle since the latter can put you to sleep. Bundt can also do this, so the Wake Up Pin will be needed there as well. 9:00 Bundt (33:17) and Valentina (15:39) are the two mandatory exceptions to the SCC. In Amazing_Ampharos' version, you may equip two "designated hitters" with armor but no accessories. Mario, Geno, or Bowser may have Mallow heal them during the second phase but not the first or third. I was able to fight Bundt with two characters since Bundt can only relight one candle. As long as one character hits Bundt, it loses a candle; if two, then two candles. Thus, two characters are all that is needed to defeat the second phase of Bundt. Once Raspberry is left, then return to the SCC rules. 9:18 Mario, Geno, or Bowser playing a SCC should bring Yoshi Cookies on a return trip to farm Max Mushrooms from Sacket. 9:54 See Ya is only a waste of an item slot. The Scrooge Ring is more useful for Ultra Jump enthusiasts. 10:25 Greaper is immune to Jump, but otherwise, everything in the Sunken Ship has weak Magic Defense, so Mario's Jump is still your main means of fighting. 10:32 Dry Bones is immune to physicals but is one-hit-knocked-out (OHKOed) by any Special Attack, so Jump works against it. 11:10 The Safety Ring is critical to the SCC; the latter half is much more difficult without it. 12:49 You neglected to mention the Jinx sidequest. According to Amazing_Ampharos, Mario should be able to defeat Jagger and the first two Jinx battles. If determined, Mario could also defeat Final Jinx since Jump remains very effective. Be sure to defeat Final Jinx before Barrel Volcano, since the Jinx Belt (+12 Speed, +27 Physical Attack, +27 Physical Defense, Instant Death protection) is very valuable against the lesser monsters and the Axem Rangers. 13:57 The Safety Ring reduces the effectiveness of many enemies in Nimbus Land to nil. 15:39 For the second exception to the SCC, Amazing_Ampharos allows a fully equipped Bowser (or Geno if playing Bowser's SCC). 16:44 I personally banned the Lazy Shell (weapon) during my run; it is that OP! Keep the Lazy Shell (weapon) on your first Mario SCC, then restrict yourself on the second run. 17:50 Mario's turn is normally before the Kaiser/Czar Dragon's, which would force him to take the full damage from the Helios. If you equip the Amulet, Mario's turn will be after the Czar Dragon's, so use Ultra Jump to destroy the Helios. The Safety Ring is the safer option, while the Amulet is a more aggressive one, which could enable you to save precious Max Mushrooms. If you are really aggressive, consider the Jinx Belt, which could allow you to blitz Zombone. 18:31 The Axem Rangers are beatable at Level 17 as long as you come prepared with the right equipment (Jinx Belt for Mario), items (a Yoshi-Ade and a few Max Mushrooms), and strategy. Axem Pink only uses Petal Blast if another Ranger is retired, so defeating her first removes it and her healing out of the picture. Axem Green is easy to smash, and a single Jump retires Axem Yellow. The Jinx Belt's huge physical defense buff enables you to better withstand Axem Black's bombs, but avoid his Spritz Bomb counter against specials by sticking to physicals. 21:26 With the Lazy Shell (weapon), Mario will not need to use the FP restoration from KeroKeroCola that much, so farming Max Mushrooms from Sacket (Star Hill), Fink Flower (Land's End and Bean Valley), or Ameboid (Factory) is a more efficient use of your time and resources. 22:12 Every time you enter Bowser's Castle after Barrel Volcano, the contents of the six doors are predetermined. Under the rules, you may use the Save Point to peek inside each one until you know which ones you wish to clear. The Battle Courses are rather resource draining and can leave you weakened for the Kamek/Magikoopa battle later on. Amazing_Ampharos recommends that if Mario SCC wishes to clear one Battle Course, then clear the one that begins with the Terra Cotta battle. 23:45 Any part of Exor (eyes, Neosquid) that is not defeated (and allowed to restore both HP and FP) will eventually run out of FP and cease to be a threat. Unless you have a quick means to eliminate Right Eye (Exor's right, your left), leave Right Eye alone to limit its use of Dark Star. Fortunately for Mario, he can OHKO Right Eye with a single Jump, leaving Exor vulnerable to Jump or the Lazy Shell (weapon). 27:26 Smithy's Tank Head has Magnum, which forces a choice between the Jinx Belt and the Safety Ring for any SCC. Physical characters like Mario would prefer the Jinx Belt's physical upgrades. Just be wary that Smithy's Treasure Head becomes a factor. Mute and Poison are not a big deal. Able Juice or Muku Cookies can treat Fear. If cast with Scarecrow, then just Jump until you are KOed or survive. Mario can exploit Smithy's Treasure Head's weakness to Fire with Super Flame (be sure to restore HP and FP before a potential Scarecrow). 29:11 Safety Ring, Yoshi-Ades, and Max Mushrooms are needed by Mario SCC for Culex. Because Culex and the Crystals' Magic Defenses are weaker than their Physical Defenses, Special Attacks that target multiple enemies are the most efficient means of defeating them.

Something I like to do is, right before Belome 2, there’s a star in the temple followed by a second star you can buy. I get them both, then die on purpose to Belome. You keep your exp and can get both stars again and do it as many times as you want. I mean, you probably don’t want to do that for this particular challenge, but it’s good to remember. :p

I think you did it :) the cake is a very reasonable exception to the rules

Lol all the Chrono Trigger music in the background :)

My favorite way to grind in Barrel Volcano is to get the Star Egg in Grate Guy's Casino (which is a grind in and of itself) and reroll the purple Spiny encounters until you get a formation of three of them plus two rock things (might be the other way around?) and then use the Star Egg to wipe them out because they all have less than 100 HP. Quick and gives good exp. Also it's way faster to get Kerokero Colas by doing the music stuff at Tadpole Pond. The juice bar there will start stocking them for 200 coins after you teach Toadofsky all three melodies (from Frogfucius's scroll, the Moleville miners and the dancing star from Monstro Town).

`20:20 The reason defending didn't work on the Breaker Beam is because you already had a buff to defence. If you hadn't buffed defence, then defending would've had an impact on the damage taken.

Now do it with Geno

Solo Mallow run (after he joins your party) when? I feel like that might be impossible. But this was a very fun and interesting video!

love the music choices! Mystic Quest never gets enough love for its soundtrack!

I don't validate this as a Mario-only run. If the other characters are present, they're absorbing attacks meant for Mario. If you want a true Mario-only run, you have to somehow use exploits, if there are any, to bypass getting the other characters.

Congrats on completing this challenge!

4:44 Sounds a lot like the gym battles in Pokemon Indigo League. First couple badges are obtained pretty early on, but then several side plots take place and leave the seventh and eighth badges to be pushed aside until the next Pokemon anime, Adventures in the Orange Islands.😉

You can solo with anyone. Kind of. Enemy fp is a lot less than you think. Now, no time hits and no equipment makes the entire game a bit bored. No recovery. No treasure boxes in area till the next star. Use basic equipment. Level up stats that, shouldent help character that well.

Cathy? I remember Birdetta being the name she likes. But then, i think this is a different Birdo entirely than the one in Mario 2. Loving the FF6 music!

"Which makes this a good time to talk about action commands and how well they were done in this game." Yeah man we know about timed hits

Doing this challenge but with mallow or bowser ought to be interesting. Or i guess any of the other members too

All my time playing this game, I never knew you could bounce back Birdo's eggs back 🤯

I have been playing mario rpg when i knew about the safety ring i was going to get, but i already got and then i remembered "oh i don't read stats i just get the one that give me more defense or something so i must have sold the ring"

I was surprised it waa feesable (i had a feeling the cake would be an issue). Nice challenge though!

Fun video, thank you. Really enjoyed the cuts for jokes and overall fast pace video style.

i like your challenges, not only because are entertaining but the music selection from other rpgs is sublime, you know where to put every theme to match what is going on stream =)

3:10 Don't knock it 'til you try it.🤨🦗🥧

For a second I thought you were gonna see if there was a way to play Mario RPG somehow without obtaining any characters for Mario's party.

He broke the rules when he gave Bowser braces

Very impressive presentation!

I had a similar handicap run and yeah that Cake took me out.

So your side characters use defend in order to have only Mario attack? Makes sense.

For an good time and always struggled at the first boss since It was my first rpg and always tried to avoid the enemys, and to beat the bow mofo from the geno part was an miracle

Only logical thing now is to do only mallow in the remaster

I was NOT expecting the Anetra cameo 😭

i was going to do mario-only last year when i replayed this game, but i gave up when i found out that the game revives all dead party members after every battle...chrono trigger does the same thing, and it's SUCH a pain to start every battle by killing them again. it makes sense to do it your way, with just wasting their turns....

There is no point of no return. You can leave no matter where you are

Too bad that the cake single-handedly sabotaged any hopes of single run

I just wanna see one of these videos one day that's like "Can You Beat Super Mario RPG?" and it's just a completely normal playthrough of the game

4:07 How embarrassing it must be to lose a fight to a doll.😅🧸

Love your videos, can't wait for the remake of this game, it was my first rpg as a kid that I rented from Video Kingdom in the mid-90s, had no idea what I was doing lol.

Love the editing, love the commentary, love the humor, my new favorite channel!

Always going to love the Chrono Cross and LoD music inclusion. Thanks for the video and the descriddly-do!!

You should have only used the Jump attack in every fight that you could. The jump damage boost carries over from one battle to the next. That's how speed runners use it to their advantage in low level speed runs.

Great video I it was very entertaining question have you play Skies of arcadia legends? It would cool to see a challange run with only Vise (the main character) though theres a moment were you dont play as him but you can do the same thing you did with bowser on this run

0:37 You just want to watch the world burn don't you?

Actually, dry bones dies instantly to any special that deals damage

Actually you can beat the cake with just mario you would just need to do a ton of grinding to get ultra jump or ultra flame I can't remember which you get first but both moves can hit multiple targets on the same turn. So if you wanted to do all that grinding it is technically possible to beat super mario rpg with just mario.

As always i say if you need to use other party members (I.E. solo fights in LoD for example) then it is not a viloatiom of the rules because otherwise the game is unwiniable due to issues that cant be over come So if using Bowser is nessary for Dodo brian and boob lady then the extra help on the cake is nessary

While Mario is cool, could you beat it will Mallow?!?!?!

technically not "only mario" though since the other characters draw the fire from the other enemies away from mario, to do this properly youd havta make a new hack (which there are some really good ones btw like mario rpg: armageddon) still though your accomplishments on this run are impressive

Are you telling me I've waiting 2 weeks for an upload and this is what we get!?!?! 🎉🎉🎉

Max amount of coins you can get in Midas River in one go is 96