Ultimate Super Mario NES Trilogy Guide: Hidden Secrets, Glitches, Tips!

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For the internet kids out there…these secrets were only obtained through word of mouth back in the days.

this is like the modern equivalent of those unofficial NES strategy guides

45 years later and am still learning new and hidden stuff from the games that defines my childhood 😊

Here's something i recently learned in Super Mario Bros. 1985. If you grab a power up while falling and let go of the jump button BEFORE you collect it, you can jump again by holding the jump button until the power up animation finishes.

I'm 45 years old, and I've been playing this game since I was 8. Evey one of these tricks is well known from my generation.

The Nintendo Power Strategy Guide is the Mario 3 Bible. The first time we discovered the 3rd whistle and Fire Bros. was epic as kids.

I wonder how many people actually figured out how to make the coin ship appear. That is a lot of seemingly random conditions. I assume most people back then learned that secret from "Nintendo Power", but anyone who figured that out on their own deserves a prize.

Great video, as always! The SMB2 "kill code" is there because there are places you can get stuck in a level, and there's no time limit to run down.

In SMB3, Level 4 of World 3 has a Lakitu spitting out Spinys that follows you throughout the level. There is an area with a pipe coming down from the sky that has a fire ball piranha plant in it. There is a floating platform of two blocks just beneath it floating in the air just above the ground and two permanent blocks on the ground on either side. There are two flying Goombas that you will want to take out. Once you do, grab a turtle shell and toss it between the blocks beneath the floating blocks making it bounce back and forth then jump on the platform and duck so as to avoid the piranha plant. If the screen is centered correctly and the timing is right, the Lakitu will spit out Spinys against the pipe in the air causing them to bounce into the area below. The turtle shell will hit the Spinys as they fall while you are safely chilling on the platform in the center. You just sit there until time runs out and you will rack up the 1ups! Sometimes you have to dodge a rogue Spiny that happens to land on the platform next to you, but otherwise you can just sit there doing nothing while getting a ton of extra lives.

OMG I wish I knew that trick on SMB 1! Holding down the A button and hitting Start! That would have saved me so much aggravation. I didn't know about that when I was a kid and I gave up trying to beat that game. Because it was so frustrating you couldn't save and you had to go all the way back to the beginning if you lost the game. And it was just a pain in the butt to start all over

8:05 “not much, is known as to why this one exists” …except that it was literally answered in the game’s own manual. It tells you to use it if you get stuck since there is no time limit and without the cheat you can easily soft lock the game just by digging yourself to the bottom of numerous vase bonus areas.

In Super Mario Bros. 2 you can actually preform a double jump! If you run at an enemy and jump right before colliding with them the game still registers you as being on the ground. You can press the jump button again while in the air to preform a double jump.

Awesome video, but, there's a trick in Super Mario Bros 1 that you missed: in world 4-2, where you spawn the vine, but instead of climbing it, walk right SLOWLY until it disappears and until just a little less than half the block is on screen; jump up onto the block the vine was on and press left; if performed correctly, you will warp onto the pipe on the right-hand side of the screen; jump over the tall pipe and then duck into the next pipe; you will now be in the above ground Warp Zone and there will be a one block gap that you can fall into and die where the vine would normally be. The only drawback to this is if you didn't go the EXACT number of pixels, you will get locked onto the block until time runs out and you lose a life.

Believe it or not, I actually knew about everything shown off here

amazing. finished these games countless times and memorized some secrets over the years yet still learning new ones in 2023. ten thumbs up ❤

I've got four tricks to add for SMB2 that I didn't see in the video: You can get infinite coins in a stage with weeds next to a ledge, such as 5-1. If you go into sub-space, grab the coins, and then fall in the pit before subspace expires, it will add to your coins but it won't count as having entered subspace, so you can do it infinitely, or at least until you run out of lives, up to 255 coins before the counter wraps around. When you reach the second chain in 7-2, mash A while falling off the chain at the top to jump off it onto the ceiling, then you can run across the ceiling and skip half the level until you reach the room with the birdo who has the key. Normally if you beat every level with the same character with no warps, you'll end the game with 20 points on that character. However, if you beat the first two levels, and then get a Game Over on the third, it will still count those levels when you continue, so you can get up to 24 total if you use two continues. Finally, there's the trick for getting subspace music on the normal overworld. If you grab a star, enter subspace, and then leave subspace just before the star is about to expire, the subspace music will persist outside of subspace, and you can even pause the game and hear the regular Mario theme with just the background notes.

Wow I thought jumping over the flagpole was a myth! It’s actually really cool to see for the first time because I’ve been hearing about this since I was about 8-9 years old and now I am 40. This is so cool lol, I feel like a little kid right now 😂

The quality of your production has increased markedly over the last year or two. Well done! Great content as always.

You missed the craziest trick in Super Mario 3. At any world, before going to any stage, just see power ups and press select. You can get any power up you want, including the whistle!