Ability Backups Cheat Sheet

The intent of this page is to have it open during an All Classic Titles run in case something goes wrong during a game that you may not be familiar with.

Kirby's Dream Land

KDL1 has no abilities.

Kirby's Adventure

Tornado Backup

3-3(mix), 3-5(mix), 4-1(far in level), World 5 Museum, 6-2, 7-4

High Jump Backups

World 3 Museum

UFO Backups

1-1, 4-1, 6-6

Kirby's Dream Land 2

Coo Backups

2-1(2nd room), 5-3(Top door)

Cutter Backups

2-2, 3-1(2), 5-1(2), 6-1(2), 7-4

Fire Backups

4-1

Kirby Super Star

Great Cave Offensive

Jet Powerup statue before Whale and Windows boss fight, as well as in the windy room after Old Tower.

Dyna Blade

Mix off Parasol Waddle Dee at the start of DB2, return to DB2 for future backups.

Revenge of Meta Knight

RoMK3 and RoMK4 have mix setups at the start. Only go for it if desperate because the timing and setup is difficult.

Jet enemies at the start of RoMK5.

Try your best to not lose Plasma, there are no backups for Plasma.

Kirby's Dream Land 3

Coo Backups

1-3 (first door), 3-2, 3-3, 3-6 (bottom room, bottom door, left door) 4-1, 4-4, 5-3, 5-5.

Going to 1-3 is always fastest when backtracking.

Kine Backups

1-3, 2-2, 2-3.

Fire Backups

3-1, 4-3, 5-5.

Clean Backups

1-5, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1.

Parasol Backups

2-2, 5-1, 5-4.

King Dedede Backup

If powerless/friendless before Dedede, get parasol from 5-1 or 5-4 and use it with no animal friend.

Health Locations

Every goal game has a Pep Brew and Maxim Tomato.

World 1
1 - 3	1 - 4	1 - 4	1 - 4
2nd room	1st room	2nd room	5th room
1 - 4	1 - 4	1 - 5	1 - 5
5th room	Last (6th) room	1st room	3rd room
1 - 6	1 - 6	1 - 6
2nd room	3rd room	3rd room

World 2
2 - 1	2 - 2	2 - 2	2 - 2
Last (4th) room	1st room	1st room	3rd room
2 - 2	2 - 3	2 - 3	2 - 3
3rd room	1st room	3rd room	Last (7th) room
2 - 3	2 - 4	2 - 4	2 - 5
Last (7th) room	5th room	3rd room (Maxim Tomato through invisible door)	5th room

World 3
3 - 1	3 - 2	3 - 2
4th room	2nd room (2 Pep Brews through hidden door)	Last (11th) room
3 - 4	3 - 5
2nd room	2nd room

World 4
4 - 1	4 - 1	4 - 3	4 - 3
7th room (autoscroller)	9th room	3rd room	3rd room
4 - 4	4 - 4	4 - 6
3rd room	4th room	13th room

World 5
5 - 1	5 - 2	5 - 3
2nd room	4th room (8 HP total)	2nd room (dismount Coo and jump to break the blocks)
5 - 3	5 - 4	5 - 4
Last (5th) room	2nd room (falling enemy above)	6th room
5 - 4	5 - 5	5 - 6
8th room	34th room	4th room (left, left, middle, left)

Kirby 64

Easy fire backups

1-1 / 5-1

Levels that do not require fire beforehand

These are levels that either have fire at the start or do not require the use of fire

1-1 / 2-2 / 2-3 / 2-4 / 3-1 / 3-2 / 3-4 / 4-1 / 4-4 / 5-1 / 5-4 / 6-1

Pix

You can get spark at start of 2-2 but any double ability works

Acro

2-4 torpedo enemies (bomb)

Magman

If you lose cutter, grab needle from the start of 4-3.

If Fire Cutter is preferred, there is a fire enemy and cutter enemy at the start of 3-1.

HR

Spark in 2-2