Minimum Mario Any%
Minimum Mario Any% is a Minimum Mario challenge run where the goal is to beat the game while minimising the amount of Mario moons in the run.
Mario moons
Minimum Mario Any% has never been completed to its theoretical minimum of Mario moons. This is mainly due to Moe-Eye Escape, a trick to get many otherwise inaccessible capture moons with a Moe-Eye, being incredibly hard to perform and as the trick takes around 5-8 hours if performed perfectly, there is little interest in humanly performing the run as a whole.
For Metro Kingdom, any Mario moons can be collected, but getting the story moons unlocks more capture moons for Minimum Mario Max Moons as the Letter captures appear in the postgame.
It is theorised that in Bowser's Kingdom, the multimoon can be collected in a Goomba with Goomba Nut Jumping, a theorised trick in which the player can infinitely bounce a Goomba Stack off of a nut midair to get the Goomba stack to the arena, though as this trick would nut jumping to get the nut under the Goomba stack, this would require versions 1.0-1.1.
✔️ = required Mario moon.
| Kingdom | Mario Moon | 1.0-1.1 | 1.2-1.3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Kingdom | Atop the Highest Tower | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Metro Kingdom | New Donk City's Pest Problem (x3) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Metro Kingdom | Drummer on Board! | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Metro Kingdom | Guitarist on Board! | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Metro Kingdom | Bassist on Board! | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Metro Kingdom | Trumpeter on Board! | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Metro Kingdom | A Traditional Festival! (x3) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Ruined Kingdom | Battle with the Lord of Lightning! (x3) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Bowser's Kingdom | Showdown at Bowser's Castle (x3) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Total | 17 | 17 |