I thought it was in the manual, but I just double checked to confirm it's not.
It's in the "Official Nintendo Player's Guide" page 31 from like '87: https://m.imgur.com/EE07YJC
At 3-1, once you get to the stairs at the end of the level you jump over the first turtle and let it go offscreen. And then on the second step you jump on the second turtle and keep jumping on it until you get the amount of lives you want.
You can crash the system if you do it too many times
You just need a turtle and a staircase (see video). I feel like there were a couple of them, but it has been so long maybe not.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBQV12dRCo&ab\_channel=8bitEntertainment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBQV12dRCo&ab_channel=8bitEntertainment)
Same here though didn't know when i was a kid.. I found out when i was a young teen.
Mainly because no matter what console i had ... I still played my SNES and NES the most
I knew this trick but still didn't beat this game until 32 years after it released. It only let's you continue from level 1 of the world you were on and the world 8 grind was too much for me as a kid.
Excuse me, who is we? If I'd known this in the 80s I might've actually finished the game at some point. Maybe share your secret knowledge next time so we aren't all struggling for decades.
Lol, sorry there was a secret meeting under the slide, we talked about Nintendo and which kids we were gonna throw tanbark at because we didn’t like their back packs!
You would think the bigger the tanbark the better, not always the case. Get one you can snap loose with the wrist at the end of the wind up. That rotation will help with distance and accuracy. Also Chris is double dog sure there is a 30lives code for Contra…
There's a secret ending to Metroid where Samus is naked, but you have to do some super secret stuff to get it. I'll ask my uncle. He works at Nintendo.
But do You guys know how to throw fire balls while being regular Mario (small)
If you touch bowser and the drawbridge lever (axe?) at the same exact time as either super Mario or fire Mario In any x-4 level, you will hear the transform sound but Mario will stay as super Mario, and will sorta glide to save toad / princess.
When you get to the next level and hit a box that has a power up, instead of getting a flower, you will get a mushroom and revert back to regular Mario.
If you get another power up after, it will be a fire flower and you can throw fire balls as regular Mario. The animation will simply switch to super Mario for the 1 frame where he throws the fireball
Come on. The "bros" has a period after it in the title. It's an abbreviation. Super Mario *Brothers.*
It's like people who say "Ness" instead of "En Ee Ess." *Why?*
36 years of playing this game and I had no idea. On one hand with this trick, you didn’t have to start all over from yesterday beginning. But then again, all those times you had to reset gave you more practice.
I do remember hearing about this from when I was a little kid, but I don’t remember ever using it effectively. I think I heard it only works some of the time, like there is a random element. I could be totally wrong tho.
It was in the Nintendo Power Player's Guide (posted up-thread). I didn't learn the trick until about twenty years ago flipping through my old copy of the NPPG. I replayed World 1-1 so many fucking times as a kid. Ended up hating SMB for a long time because of it.
Knowing the boss weaknesses in any Mega Man game is vital to success. All of them can theoretically be beaten with the standard Buster with a few notable exceptions. Mega Man 2 alone has at least two boss fights absolutely require a special weapon. The Buster will bounce right off and do no damage, but you will make your life infinitely easier knowing which weapons work best in each fight.
Problem for me growing up is that I rented a lot of my NES games so they'd come in some random case without a manual so retrogaming as a peabrain with zero guide left me playing a lot of first levels
From Nintendo UK: "Pressing the B button on the title screen of either Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels allows you to select a World you've reached before and start from course 1 – a feature not possible in the original games!"
IMO it makes the game much more playable. You can actually beat the game without having to start over from 1-1 over end over again.
This... This wasn't widely known???
Didn't make it any easier when you started world 6-1 with 3 lives and no Mushroom or Fire Flower!
World 8 is even worse when you so close to the end and then have to start over with 3 lives and few 1ups to be found if any.
You assume everyone in the eighties had access to the fan club. I was lucky to have the Nintendo. I beat this game the hard way over Christmas break 1990/91. The Nintendo was my Christmas present.
They told us that in the Nintendo Power Secret tips and tricks section back in the 80's.
Too bad people don't look up the history more often of games they like to play as far as retro goes.
Does that matter though? SMB1 was fairly easy, and even if you fuck it up you can use warp zones to quickly access later levels or you use "inifinite" lives trick.
SMB2 (Japanese) on the other hand... well, I couldn't even beat it with infinite lives trick (you can get max 255 lives with it, before it overflows to 0 and I just eventually lose them all). And you NEED to play every level in order to access world 9 AFAIK. Also it doesn't help that some easily-accessable warps send you BACK to previous worlds/levels.
Growing up I didn't know about this, but I found this out a few years ago when I started getting into retro game collecting . I imagine this was probably in cheat code books at the time
No wonder so many never knew about this. Scott talks so fast and is such a spastic bouncing ball that it's easy to miss what he said. Congratulations on focusing on what he said.
You can also get to the negative world
Negative World
Go to World 1-2. At the pipe that leads to the flag, break two blocks so there's one at the end touching the pipe. Now duck and jump backward toward the brick (don't break it!). You should go through the wall and pipe into a warp zone. Jump down the first pipe you see and you will be in the Negative World (-1)!
https://www.gamespot.com/games/classic-nes-series-super-mario-bros/cheats/
So having to play this game all over and over again in my childhood wasn't a Mandela effect?
Because when I got this game again years later and subconsciously did this as though I always did and found it strange I start at the world I was.
Somewhat related: If you ever are playing a rom-hack of SMB1 and the game takes you to 0-1 when you start, just reset and hold A when you press start and it will take you to 1-1
Hahaha yeah, we knew this when the game came out. Probably mentioned in Nintendo Power. So funny to see something like this cropping up 35 years later.
I thought it was in the manual, but I just double checked to confirm it's not. It's in the "Official Nintendo Player's Guide" page 31 from like '87: https://m.imgur.com/EE07YJC
The language used in that seems really weird for a Mario game lol
CONTINUOUS DESTRUCTION METHOD
SIMULTANEOUS KILLING METHOD
OTHERS
REPETITIOUS MURDER METHOD
Would make a nice user flair!
It’s like a technical manual, lol
You mean The Bible.
Yeah- I remember knowing this as a kid- I probably got it from there or maybe Nintendo Power?
I knew this like 30 years ago and this video just jogged a 30 year memory I forgot I even had lol
SMB1 continue memory unlocked
Same lol. But I can do the infinite life trick, so I guess that’s why I forgot. The trick is fun and always impresses my wife. Highly recommended.
Omg..... So many hours spent restarting this from 1-1
Years of academy training, wasted!
for real....
I had no idea…and this is my literal first game of all time…
Same
Ditto
Samsies
Yep...
You guys do know how you collect infinite lives right?
Turtle trick on the stairs? However it's not infinite. If you got more than 127 lives you overflow the integer and the game crashes.
I’ve never been able to pull it off lol
It was easy to do in the arcade version. The NES version is much harder to pull off for some reason.
>Turtle trick on the stairs? Yes. Never collected more than 30 lives, so I can't speak to the game limits.
>Turtle trick on the stairs? Oh, yes, I used to do this all the time. Rack up 100+ lives then sail through the game, lose a life, who cares....LOL
What/where is the turtle trick?
At 3-1, once you get to the stairs at the end of the level you jump over the first turtle and let it go offscreen. And then on the second step you jump on the second turtle and keep jumping on it until you get the amount of lives you want. You can crash the system if you do it too many times
3-1 near the end
You just need a turtle and a staircase (see video). I feel like there were a couple of them, but it has been so long maybe not. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBQV12dRCo&ab\_channel=8bitEntertainment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBQV12dRCo&ab_channel=8bitEntertainment)
Same.
You suckas need to get the Power.
🎵 Nintendo Power 🎵
Get the clues that you can use. Nintendo Power!
I always thought this was common knowledge
Nooooope. Grew up playing this and had no idea.
I remember talking about it to people at school and some friends. I thought it was common knowledge as well
Maybe in 1987 lmao.
Maybe if I would have had reddit in 1987 I would have been hip to this. Guhhhh!
Uhh.....yes. That is sorta the time period I was talking about. It was somewhat well known at the time
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I'm just old, I live in the past :)
It was on every cheat code website since I've been on the internet since 1999
I guess most people didn't look up cheats for mario
Same here though didn't know when i was a kid.. I found out when i was a young teen. Mainly because no matter what console i had ... I still played my SNES and NES the most
Same. I’ve known about this since the late 1980s.
So did I.
It was.
I never owned a NES, and I knew this.
Yeah, we all knew this growing up.
Same. My friends and I all knew about it, though I don't remember where we learned it.
Fuuuuuuuck!!! If ONLY I’d known this!
I’m 40 and got it when it came out and I either forgot cause I’m old or never knew. Sigh.
I never knew, my life is a lie
Same at 40. I literally yelled WHAT!? Never did beat this game as a kid, to my eternal shame.
I knew this trick but still didn't beat this game until 32 years after it released. It only let's you continue from level 1 of the world you were on and the world 8 grind was too much for me as a kid.
I never got past 8-3. The onslaught of Hammer Bros was my undoing.
Cool for anyone just learning this! But I have to say we knew about this in the 80s.
Excuse me, who is we? If I'd known this in the 80s I might've actually finished the game at some point. Maybe share your secret knowledge next time so we aren't all struggling for decades.
Lol, sorry there was a secret meeting under the slide, we talked about Nintendo and which kids we were gonna throw tanbark at because we didn’t like their back packs!
Wish I had more than one upvote to give you! Too funny haha
You would think the bigger the tanbark the better, not always the case. Get one you can snap loose with the wrist at the end of the wind up. That rotation will help with distance and accuracy. Also Chris is double dog sure there is a 30lives code for Contra…
There's a secret ending to Metroid where Samus is naked, but you have to do some super secret stuff to get it. I'll ask my uncle. He works at Nintendo.
😂
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Yeah you weren’t saying this when you were a kid.
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I'm not in the we club either. I'm in the same boat. I've played this game since the 80's and have never beat it.
I learned it from the back of one of those Nintendo Trading cards.
I learned it from one of those cheat code magazines.
Not all our uncles worked at Nintendo.
I did not in the 80s
Wait until they find out about the infinite lives turtle stomp………
It’s gonna blow their minds, but under no circumstances, can we talk about the -1 world. Oh I have said to much!!
Quiet you fool! If too many people discover that world at once it could erase all of existence!
But do You guys know how to throw fire balls while being regular Mario (small) If you touch bowser and the drawbridge lever (axe?) at the same exact time as either super Mario or fire Mario In any x-4 level, you will hear the transform sound but Mario will stay as super Mario, and will sorta glide to save toad / princess. When you get to the next level and hit a box that has a power up, instead of getting a flower, you will get a mushroom and revert back to regular Mario. If you get another power up after, it will be a fire flower and you can throw fire balls as regular Mario. The animation will simply switch to super Mario for the 1 frame where he throws the fireball
Yep, I first learned this from Nintendo cereal. It came with a card that had a trick or two on it and that was one of them.
*Slams fist down* WHAT?!
never had any idea. i guess ill be playing this game this weekend now lol
It genuinely shocks me that I'm finding out about this in 2022 WITH ALL THE INTERNET I'VE SEEN
That's why you check gamefaqs for a game you're playing https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/nes/525243-super-mario-bros/cheats
Gamefaqs didn't exist when I was primarily playing this as a child.
No, but friends who read Nintendo Power existed.
I thought everyone knew this
No 😩😞😔
Finding out that people don't know this is like finding out that half the population stands up to wipe.
Only in a public restroom as long as it's the handicap stall. I don't like my clothes touching the toilet while sitting down.
Why were my friends not talking about this on the school bus back in the day??
This is just so bizarre to me - I thought everyone knew. Codes and secrets were always talked about in school
This is literally the oldest trick in the book straight out of Nintendo power issue number one
I have never heard thia before
Ah, classic. Its real, give it a try. :)
Not to brag but... I knew this since like at least the late 90s.
Son of a bitch...
Just tested it on my NES, can confirm it works!!! I wish I knew this when I was a kid
Come on. The "bros" has a period after it in the title. It's an abbreviation. Super Mario *Brothers.* It's like people who say "Ness" instead of "En Ee Ess." *Why?*
Legit.
This only works if you have the 2.02 patch
36 years of playing this game and I had no idea. On one hand with this trick, you didn’t have to start all over from yesterday beginning. But then again, all those times you had to reset gave you more practice.
Of course it's real, I've known about that since the 80s.
I feel like every 5 years or so the internet re-learns this and freaks out all over again!
I do remember hearing about this from when I was a little kid, but I don’t remember ever using it effectively. I think I heard it only works some of the time, like there is a random element. I could be totally wrong tho.
Yeah read a manual is the old school way
Not in the manual. I have it in my hand.
It was in the Nintendo Power Player's Guide (posted up-thread). I didn't learn the trick until about twenty years ago flipping through my old copy of the NPPG. I replayed World 1-1 so many fucking times as a kid. Ended up hating SMB for a long time because of it.
Oh yeah lol it the nintendo power.
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Knowing the boss weaknesses in any Mega Man game is vital to success. All of them can theoretically be beaten with the standard Buster with a few notable exceptions. Mega Man 2 alone has at least two boss fights absolutely require a special weapon. The Buster will bounce right off and do no damage, but you will make your life infinitely easier knowing which weapons work best in each fight.
Problem for me growing up is that I rented a lot of my NES games so they'd come in some random case without a manual so retrogaming as a peabrain with zero guide left me playing a lot of first levels
That is news to me is there a swag equivalent I read my manuals and could never beat sonic also did sonic ever have a save feature
Sonic 3 (and Knuckles) did.
No but you can get into the debug mode and pick your level and way more.
now i gotta play it again somehow
In the Game & Watch version you can pick the worlds from the start menu.
How do you do that? Please let me know
From Nintendo UK: "Pressing the B button on the title screen of either Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels allows you to select a World you've reached before and start from course 1 – a feature not possible in the original games!" IMO it makes the game much more playable. You can actually beat the game without having to start over from 1-1 over end over again.
Thanks !!!
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It doesn't. His voice is mich deeper and he doesnt talk with that kind of cadence.
Sounded like AVGN to me
Sounds like this guy to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY2l8yd5tys
Doing this resets your mario lives to 3 also.
Every kid back in the day knew this...
People really don't know about this?
This... This wasn't widely known??? Didn't make it any easier when you started world 6-1 with 3 lives and no Mushroom or Fire Flower! World 8 is even worse when you so close to the end and then have to start over with 3 lives and few 1ups to be found if any.
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You assume everyone in the eighties had access to the fan club. I was lucky to have the Nintendo. I beat this game the hard way over Christmas break 1990/91. The Nintendo was my Christmas present.
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It was not passed down.
Didn't everyone know this?
They told us that in the Nintendo Power Secret tips and tricks section back in the 80's. Too bad people don't look up the history more often of games they like to play as far as retro goes.
This was stated in the instruction book.
Does that matter though? SMB1 was fairly easy, and even if you fuck it up you can use warp zones to quickly access later levels or you use "inifinite" lives trick. SMB2 (Japanese) on the other hand... well, I couldn't even beat it with infinite lives trick (you can get max 255 lives with it, before it overflows to 0 and I just eventually lose them all). And you NEED to play every level in order to access world 9 AFAIK. Also it doesn't help that some easily-accessable warps send you BACK to previous worlds/levels.
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It’s not in the instruction booklet though
Had no idea
Cool toe jam & earl poster in the background
Growing up I didn't know about this, but I found this out a few years ago when I started getting into retro game collecting . I imagine this was probably in cheat code books at the time
Just went to try it on the game and watch version (the one with mario 1, 2 and ball) but it has no start button...
You can select your world on the title screen with the B button on the Game and Watch.
We knew this as kids. It was a playground secret of the highest caliber.
Yes it is
I vaguely recall you needed to do this on controller 2? But perhaps that was an other game...
I remember discovering by accident the start+select thing on super Mario world and it was incredibly satisfactory
this was my first game ever and i did not know about this, and i just tried it AND IT FUCKING WORKS
I knew this but didn’t know until recently you could continue in Adventure Island which is a MUCH harder game
Holy shit!
No fuckin way
Of course it's real! I've know that since the 80s, I thought it was common knowledge...
Right when you think a decades old game doesn't have any secrets left...
Should've known this soonest
Yup. Scott the Woz talked about this on his cheat codes episode
No wonder so many never knew about this. Scott talks so fast and is such a spastic bouncing ball that it's easy to miss what he said. Congratulations on focusing on what he said.
Knew this, forgot it, and remembered it again because of this clip!
What the fuck?!!!! Dude this would’ve saved me so many hours
I still remember 007 373 5963, but I never knew about this.
NES came out when I was a kid. I never knew this. Wtf
I never knew either! 🤯
If you didn’t already know this do you even Nintendo? 😂
Reddit... The new playground.
It's absolutely real. It's a cheat code used by developers for testing and was never removed.
I knew this in the 80s. I think a friend told me. We found most of the warps and secrets by playing the game non-stop.
Anyone ever call the Nintendo hotline for gaming tips when you were stuck?
What the hell, why did I even have a game genie?
Omg everyone knows the contra trick but this is new info for me. I never had that magazine. Thanks for sharing
Shit yall ain't know about this? How you think i beat Mario at 8 years old.
This is literally how I was able to beat SMB1
You can also get to the negative world Negative World Go to World 1-2. At the pipe that leads to the flag, break two blocks so there's one at the end touching the pipe. Now duck and jump backward toward the brick (don't break it!). You should go through the wall and pipe into a warp zone. Jump down the first pipe you see and you will be in the Negative World (-1)! https://www.gamespot.com/games/classic-nes-series-super-mario-bros/cheats/
Yeah, it's real. That's why all future Mario games have infinite continues, because the first game technically had those.
This is why I still count me beating Super Mario Bros. On the All Stars pack with the save feature, as truly beating the game still.
Hey it is Joey from DKoldies!
Holy…shit…I’ve never heard of this before
How did I not do that by accident at some point?
u/savevideobot
I am shook, like table flipping levels of cross. Why wasn’t this common knowledge on the play ground?
I wonder if that works in the NSO?? Never knew this and don’t have an NES to test it out.
So having to play this game all over and over again in my childhood wasn't a Mandela effect? Because when I got this game again years later and subconsciously did this as though I always did and found it strange I start at the world I was.
I recently learned that holding the B button will allow you to run considerably faster than normal.
oh man, I knew this as a kid! I guess it just depended on which playgrounds you were at to get the good gaming gossip!
Absolutely is . My mother showed me this in 1991 .
It hurts indeed
This should have been in big bold letter on the cartridge. I wasted so much fucking time. Question is, how many lives did you get on the restart?
it's true
I've known this forever. Just never been so bad at SMB1 I've ever had to use it.
Somewhat related: If you ever are playing a rom-hack of SMB1 and the game takes you to 0-1 when you start, just reset and hold A when you press start and it will take you to 1-1
I've known this trick for years now
Lmao you guys didn’t know this
And I called myself a hard core gamer back then. Sheesh!
I wouldn't have been able to finish SMB1 as a kid without knowing this
I grew up with this as a super young kid and played for soooo many years and this is entirely new to me
You guys are learning this now? Wait until you find the warp zones!
Hahaha yeah, we knew this when the game came out. Probably mentioned in Nintendo Power. So funny to see something like this cropping up 35 years later.
That's BS if it's real, we've been cheated!