Earthbound/Threed Tent Route

Completed Runs

Route

Onett

1. Obtain and equip the Cracked Bat. Even if luck manipulation is used to avoid fights, the Cracked Bat should be equipped to avoid extra dialogue from Pokey. Equipping the bat saves about 140-150 frames over the extra dialogue.
2. Obtain the Mr. Baseball Cap from the treehouse, sell it for $99 at the Drugstore, and buy the Baseball Cap instead. This sacrifices 1 point of defense, but it lets you afford a Cheap Bracelet right away. Equipping the Mr. Baseball Cap beforehand can save a bit of time because the clerk will automatically ask if you want to sell it after equipping the Baseball Cap.
3. Fight the Pogo Punk in front of the Arcade, the Pogo Punk inside the Aracade, and the Yes Man Jr. Both Pogo Punks drop Hamburgers, and fighting the extra Pogo Punk will let Ness level up before Frankystein.
4. Defeat Frank.
5. Get the Key to the Shack. When opening the shack, you can avoid the "door is locked" notification if you stop a bit in front of the door or to the right of it. Using the key will still work outside of the notification range.
6. Grind to level 8 in order to learn PSI Rockin alpha. Defeat the Titanic Ant.
7. Defeat Captain Strong.

Twoson

1. Skip Twoson.

Threed

1. (Optional) Save at the hotel for safety.
2. Check the lower-right side of the circus tent, and use the check area glitch to activate the debug menu.
3. The debug menu items appear in gibberish, possibly because the menu is intended to be in Japanese. Select the item "IBNT" (Goto event) and enter event 69 to go to Picky knocking on Ness's door.