For those ripping on the length of the video, he is reminiscing. You know, that thing where you tell fond memories? He clearly discovered this ages ago and is sharing his memories with everyone now. For the love of Mario, chill.
Yeah I have known this since Mario first came out but I enjoy hearing people's stories because a lot of them are similar to what I dealt with in video gaming back then lol
I know for a fact that the Mario duck hunt cart has a cheat code that is entered at the end the screen when u see the princess and when u restart all the bad guys can be fly fish, or ANY thing u want depending on the button you push. As a child an older guy would do it for me but thought funny not to tell me how. Years later I contacted him on fb he don't remember how anymore
Very long story and the "code" (actually just a trick) is melted in the video: when you lost your last life in any X world, from the menu screen, when holding A press Start and the game will make you start in the world X-1.
Lol. You said in 10 seconds what this dude couldn't spit out in 5 minutes. "Well way back when I was a kid... Tired of dying.. didn't want to die anymore.... Tired of dying... It was hard... I died alot.... Mashed me some buttons.... Tired of dying.... I held A... Noticed something... Tired of dying a lot....if I was on 6-3.... 8-3 was hard... Tired of dying.... Beginning of world!... Tired of dying!
@@Clancydaenlightened well he does say in the video maybe this is something some viewers already know about. I'm sure there are people who did not know of it
I’m a bit late in finding this video, but the way you make it personal is touching. Kudos, Amigo. I still remember my mom and dad unboxing their NES and playing Super Mario Bros when I was just a tot. It blew my mind how much better it looked than the Atari at my grandparents’ house. At the time I had terrible motor skills, and my parents were taking me to a physical therapist, whom suggested they allow me to play video games as an exercise to strengthen my hand-eye coordination. Now all these years later, after growing a fond attachment to videogames I found out why I grew up with and around them. I don’t remember the trips to the therapist because it was between two and three years old. But it gave me a bond with Qbert, an Italian plumber, and Little Mac that blossomed into an enduring love affair with video games.
Shame on you! How could you forget the most important things in life! Look at you,letting jobs, maybe marriage and kids and stuff get in your way of priorities lol! Never stop playing with power Alexis! :D
And no internet. That was the huge thing. There was no internet to get help from. I still remember playing Bowser, and the just anxiety of it all because I did not know that cheat haha!
I enjoyed hearing about your experience growing up. I recently bought a Nintendo. Something about simpler times I guess. I plan on sharing it with my three year old son.
a buddy showed me that trick when I was a kid. That was the greatest thing ever! Especially after I was sick of dying at 8-1 and having to restart the game again!
Yep hold A plus start. Fun trick for sure. Here's one for you. In SMB2, you can pull veggies for coins in the sub levels behind potion doors twice in certain areas. In 1-2 on top of the hill where you come out of the cave area you get potion on far left of higher hill, run back over by door where all the veggie tops are, drop potion there, pull up the bonus coins. Then come out, go back in door for a minute, come back out, and you can do it again. Also in 3-1 where you drop down the second waterfall and go in secret cave where the warp vase to world 5 is. Pull potion (sixth veggie in from the right), drop it, pull coins. Do NOT take the warp zone. Instead go through door that takes you back up top. Drop down and do it again, not taking warp as that voids the bonus round. If you use Toad you can rack up about 18
There is a more extreme glitch you can do. However, you also need the Tennis cartridge. What you do is this: insert Super Mario Bros., but then try to remove it without powering the console off. Then insert Tennis into the slot, and reset the game. Play a little bit of that game, and then pop it out (again without turning the power off) and re-insert Super Mario Bros. into the console, hold the A button on your controller, and reset. Press A+Start and you will be on World 9-1 (the underwater version of World 6-2).
my uncle taught me the 99 lives trick when I was 6. he was a truck driver fresh outta work for a few months so he just played Nintendo and used his savings while waiting for a strike or something to be over. got so good he didn't even need the lives
If you complete the game you can choose world by pushing A at the title screen. Oh, I've managage to get mario skating on 1 foot, jumped over the flagpole on 3-3 an had him small throwing fireballs, I even got to level -1. Few people however know(or mention) that you can get to 5-1 from 1-2 if you go through the wall then pick the middle pipe.
I'm 35. Been playing it since I was 8 and been hooked on Nintendo since. Also have watched several videos on NES and HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS TIP BEFORE! Thanks!
I did not get an nes til the summer of 1988. My grandmother got it for me, my parents could not afford one due to paying bills and surviving etc.. I played Super Mario a lot too back then. The good old days .... Thanks for sharing your story PDElite .
Actually its in the instruction manual if I recall correctly. I remember reading it through page by page and it said to continue the last stage you are in, just press and hold A at the title screen.
I live in East Point Geogia I was born in 84. Got the console when I was about 4. Still got the same one and play it with my kids. But I've never heard of that code and now I'm definitely going to try it. Thanks
I respect this video down to the bone! I still play the nes an snes because those systems are amazing! I grew up playing them. thank you for sharing your story brother! I can truly relate to it.
I was 15 when I experienced Mario and Zelda. Thanks to a kid my brother brought home from school. Who's name was Marcus all I remember of him is he was Africa American And had the first Nintendo I ever laid my eyes upon.. from the first time I put that controller in my hand in 1986. I knew I was hooked. The rest of the world didn't matter anymore. All my quarter dropping days to arcade was over with. Thank you and God bless you Marcus wherever you may be. And thank you Nintendo. There's no telling how much money I would have spent in arcade.
I remember the code since I was young, after losing all their lives, it goes to a Game Over screen and back to the title screen. I hit the A button and Start to start the same world/stage we come from. Instead of the 8-3, it goes back to 8-1. World 8 is the most difficult level of the game and also the final world of the entire game.
omg .. yeah, i recollect the golden age of 8 bit nes.... nintendo power, electronic gaming monthly, game pro.. mike tysons punch out.. the many codes of metroid... what a time to be a kid alive then..
If you squeeze inside the wall beyond 1-2's exit pipe, go down one of the three pipes before the warp zone text appears. If you go down the left or right pipes, both will take you to World -1, but if you take the middle pipe you will advance to World 5.
Just ran to my NES and tried it. Totally works. I grew up with this game. Would've been nice to know this when I was 9 years old...My mind is totally blown. Thank you so much for this...epic find...2 thumbs up!!!!!!!!!
This code was kept in the programming for Super Mario Bros. 2 (I mean the actual game not the Doki Doki Panic rebranding everyone else got at the time), but it didn't make the game any easier.
You know, finding a secret like that all by yourself, must have been the greatest discovery of your childhood....😅 I mean its cool right...? Thanks for sharing dude 👍🏻
Oh man I couldn't imagine not knowing this. We found that one out way back. Probably kids at school read it at the time in Nintendo power mag and shared the info with us but this one was well known right off.
omg i grew up with mario brothers. like you said it was the bomb back then . and today i love love these games. i wish i had mario 1,2.and 3 on my nintendo 3ds . i would be the happiest person on earth . and im 41 lol . but anyways i love it .
Wonderful story, but if anyone wants only the code. Hold down on the Game Over screen and while you press start. You will start on the first level of the world you died on. Thanks PDElite, this was really helpful
Trick to get fireballs as little Mario! In level 4-4 (while having fire power) at the end of the stage, jump on the item past Koupa that would end the stage, at the same time as you land on Koupa. The stage will end, but it will lower you to little Mario. When you start the next stage, you will be little mario, but maintain the firepower! Also strange is that when you get hit again, you become Big Mario without the firepower, and the next hit kills you!
I know what your talking about and it's if you hold down the A button on thr game over screen and press start on the title screen while A is still held down you will warp back to the beginning of the world you died on.
I remember when we got our Nintendo back in the day, Tha PDElite! We had the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo cartridge, too. The Super Mario Bros. video game series is one of my favorites, which is why I had to get the NES Classic and want to get a Switch soon. Thanks for a great video and I just subscribed!
Yes. Hit bowser and the axe at the same time. Make mario flicker and the glitch is set for the next level to get a mushroom to turn small lol then a plant to shoot! Very messed up been doing this one since back in the day too.
I never learned that particular trick. Interesting! I learned the infinite life trick by jumping on a turtle while it was on the stairs so you could die as much as you like and still keep going. Once I got that I didn't need any other hack. But there are so many and I think they were there by design
At the time this code wasn't a big secret if you had access to info like Nintendo power or similar... but to independently discover it like you did is a pretty cool story! I had a similar experience with Mario paint when I was screwing around with a controller plugged into the port for the mouse and found out a certain button combination could play your saved artwork from the title screen. Couldn't figure out what I pressed to do it and no magazine knew about it. (Wasnt until the internet that i learned the combabation was A+B+Select).
I don't know how I just now found this, but it's an amazing video. The way you told about your history with the game and console was just incredible, and I love the editing too. (Although there's not that much.)
This is epic I'm sharing this with my cousin Jasmine she probably don't think I'm weird but I bet she never knew this about the game here it is like 25 years later!!!
You just casually did something I tried to do for ages as a kid and never did. I tried many times to get that 1-up and still have enough tunnel on screen to go down afterwards.
Woow if that’s true,you should post a video about it here,put that infor on wiki aand or come up with the rom of it because that’s something really interesting,now i guess nintendo added that hidden contineu feature later on in later revisions of smb1 right or was it the other way around?
Don't feel bad, I didn't have friends either. When my older brother moved out, he brought the SNES with him in 1996 when I was 16 and I didn't get to play SNES again until the early 2000s. By that time my brother owned an original Xbox and played PS1. I finally bought a console newer than SNES for the first time in 2019 and It's an Xbox 360. I even bought the original Xbox 360 Kinect for $15 on eBay. It was around $150-200 in 2009. If you don't have much, buy used.🤣
This was Super Mario Brothers 101 when I was a kid it still didn't make the game significantly easier because World 8 itself was a briar patch of frustration but hey it was the first cheat code anybody knew
I was playing this game in the arcade when I was in grade school in the 80's, and I remember getting an NES my freshman year, and how amazed we were at the graphics and the games (I had still been playing the Atai 2600 too, LOL). I wish to hell I'd have known about this trick back then!
My cousin used to use and if you beat the game you can try the code and it starts you with new enemies. Tell it gets harder. To the point you can't stomp the enemies.
its cool how he stumbled on the code. but now if u really think about it A and START. A= JUMP and start = well start lol. so it is the jump start code. and that is what i have called it but idk if it really has a name but there u go jump start
For those ripping on the length of the video, he is reminiscing. You know, that thing where you tell fond memories? He clearly discovered this ages ago and is sharing his memories with everyone now. For the love of Mario, chill.
I haven't seen any comments besides nostalgia comments in this entire comment section. No one actually cares lol.
@he hack me well then whats the problem if he got you into your account?
@he hack me no you're scam
Nostalgia is a powerful thing that unites humans with each other and love. Idk something that just popped into my head there
@@nmk1ng 👍
Whether you already knew this trick or not its still cool hearing other peoples nostalgia stories from the good old days of getting the NES.
Damn I love mario
Yeah I have known this since Mario first came out but I enjoy hearing people's stories because a lot of them are similar to what I dealt with in video gaming back then lol
I'm with you on this one!
I know for a fact that the Mario duck hunt cart has a cheat code that is entered at the end the screen when u see the princess and when u restart all the bad guys can be fly fish, or ANY thing u want depending on the button you push. As a child an older guy would do it for me but thought funny not to tell me how. Years later I contacted him on fb he don't remember how anymore
Ok no one is gonna mention this guys account picture... LOL
Very long story and the "code" (actually just a trick) is melted in the video: when you lost your last life in any X world, from the menu screen, when holding A press Start and the game will make you start in the world X-1.
Lol. You said in 10 seconds what this dude couldn't spit out in 5 minutes. "Well way back when I was a kid... Tired of dying.. didn't want to die anymore.... Tired of dying... It was hard... I died alot.... Mashed me some buttons.... Tired of dying.... I held A... Noticed something... Tired of dying a lot....if I was on 6-3.... 8-3 was hard... Tired of dying.... Beginning of world!... Tired of dying!
This has been known for a long time, this isn't new
@@Clancydaenlightened yeah since like 1985 in the US. Lol.
A long story, a lot of BS no one cares. Thanks for briefing me up.
@@Clancydaenlightened well he does say in the video maybe this is something some viewers already know about. I'm sure there are people who did not know of it
Do you know how much stress I could have saved myself if I knew that 30yrs ago?! 😑
Lol ikr!!!! Like I sooook needed to know this 30 yrs ago 😂🤣😂
I probably cut my life span by a year or two playing this game 😂
Already
This is something known at the time... Don't know how you didn't know that.
Omgg yessss.
I’m a bit late in finding this video, but the way you make it personal is touching. Kudos, Amigo.
I still remember my mom and dad unboxing their NES and playing Super Mario Bros when I was just a tot. It blew my mind how much better it looked than the Atari at my grandparents’ house.
At the time I had terrible motor skills, and my parents were taking me to a physical therapist, whom suggested they allow me to play video games as an exercise to strengthen my hand-eye coordination. Now all these years later, after growing a fond attachment to videogames I found out why I grew up with and around them. I don’t remember the trips to the therapist because it was between two and three years old. But it gave me a bond with Qbert, an Italian plumber, and Little Mac that blossomed into an enduring love affair with video games.
Nice to know that I helped you out when you were a kid.:D
I'm even more late!
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Free codes
You say throw your hands up i did and my phone fell. what the hell dude
I want to say this was revealed at one point in Nintendo Power magazine, but we're talking 30+ years now.
Glad to see people keeping the old school stuff alive.
I had forgot about this so thanks!
Shame on you! How could you forget the most important things in life! Look at you,letting jobs, maybe marriage and kids and stuff get in your way of priorities lol! Never stop playing with power Alexis! :D
@@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism I will punish myself accordingly, lol. =)
I didn't know about the code as a kid. I just racked up lives by hopping on the turtle shell.
Infinite life trick. 👍
e11aguru Same for me. That was the only way I beat this game back in the day.
2-1
Yup.. i remember that as 2 turtles come down.. but if u did it too much it would go to negative.. good ol days
nope 3-1
And no internet. That was the huge thing. There was no internet to get help from. I still remember playing Bowser, and the just anxiety of it all because I did not know that cheat haha!
I enjoyed hearing about your experience growing up. I recently bought a Nintendo. Something about simpler times I guess. I plan on sharing it with my three year old son.
lol dude Nintendo is a company not a console plus if u plan to buy the nes it's so old
a buddy showed me that trick when I was a kid. That was the greatest thing ever! Especially after I was sick of dying at 8-1 and having to restart the game again!
I thought I was the only one who called Lives, "men" lmao
I call em lives as well
My mom calls them men also 😑
ARE YOU HIGH
1 UP's
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Yep hold A plus start. Fun trick for sure. Here's one for you. In SMB2, you can pull veggies for coins in the sub levels behind potion doors twice in certain areas. In 1-2 on top of the hill where you come out of the cave area you get potion on far left of higher hill, run back over by door where all the veggie tops are, drop potion there, pull up the bonus coins. Then come out, go back in door for a minute, come back out, and you can do it again. Also in 3-1 where you drop down the second waterfall and go in secret cave where the warp vase to world 5 is. Pull potion (sixth veggie in from the right), drop it, pull coins. Do NOT take the warp zone. Instead go through door that takes you back up top. Drop down and do it again, not taking warp as that voids the bonus round. If you use Toad you can rack up about 18
There is a more extreme glitch you can do. However, you also need the Tennis cartridge. What you do is this: insert Super Mario Bros., but then try to remove it without powering the console off. Then insert Tennis into the slot, and reset the game. Play a little bit of that game, and then pop it out (again without turning the power off) and re-insert Super Mario Bros. into the console, hold the A button on your controller, and reset. Press A+Start and you will be on World 9-1 (the underwater version of World 6-2).
my uncle taught me the 99 lives trick when I was 6.
he was a truck driver fresh outta work for a few months so he just played Nintendo and used his savings while waiting for a strike or something to be over.
got so good he didn't even need the lives
"got so good he didn't even need the lives" that reminds me of my time with Contra and the famous 30 Lives code. Shout out to your uncle
If you complete the game you can choose world by pushing A at the title screen.
Oh, I've managage to get mario skating on 1 foot, jumped over the flagpole on 3-3 an had him small throwing fireballs, I even got to level -1.
Few people however know(or mention) that you can get to 5-1 from 1-2 if you go through the wall then pick the middle pipe.
I'm 35. Been playing it since I was 8 and been hooked on Nintendo since. Also have watched several videos on NES and HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS TIP BEFORE! Thanks!
I found this out in a fit of rage at age 7 forgot qll about it untill i watched this
I did not get an nes til the summer of 1988. My grandmother got it for me, my parents could not afford one due to paying bills and surviving etc.. I played Super Mario a lot too back then. The good old days .... Thanks for sharing your story PDElite .
Actually its in the instruction manual if I recall correctly. I remember reading it through page by page and it said to continue the last stage you are in, just press and hold A at the title screen.
I’ve been a gamer starting with Atari back in the day and nes when it came out and I didn’t know you could do this. This is awesome.
How did your friends at school not tell you this? Man we had this mastered in the like within weeks or something I dunno.
At one time, this was the only game I had. When you play it for a long time like that, you find some things
I live in East Point Geogia I was born in 84. Got the console when I was about 4. Still got the same one and play it with my kids. But I've never heard of that code and now I'm definitely going to try it. Thanks
My cousin always knew this but never told me how it was done so I never actually remembered to do it or even try at all.
I respect this video down to the bone! I still play the nes an snes because those systems are amazing! I grew up playing them. thank you for sharing your story brother! I can truly relate to it.
I was 15 when I experienced Mario and Zelda. Thanks to a kid my brother brought home from school. Who's name was Marcus all I remember of him is he was Africa American And had the first Nintendo I ever laid my eyes upon.. from the first time I put that controller in my hand in 1986. I knew I was hooked. The rest of the world didn't matter anymore. All my quarter dropping days to arcade was over with. Thank you and God bless you Marcus wherever you may be. And thank you Nintendo. There's no telling how much money I would have spent in arcade.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I for one, spent hundreds or hours on this game and didn't know that trick.
I remember the code since I was young, after losing all their lives, it goes to a Game Over screen and back to the title screen. I hit the A button and Start to start the same world/stage we come from. Instead of the 8-3, it goes back to 8-1. World 8 is the most difficult level of the game and also the final world of the entire game.
omg .. yeah, i recollect the golden age of 8 bit nes.... nintendo power, electronic gaming monthly, game pro.. mike tysons punch out.. the many codes of metroid... what a time to be a kid alive then..
I love the nostalgia on this ❤ reminds me of my childhood so much. I spent many an hour with Mario!
If you squeeze inside the wall beyond 1-2's exit pipe, go down one of the three pipes before the warp zone text appears. If you go down the left or right pipes, both will take you to World -1, but if you take the middle pipe you will advance to World 5.
Just ran to my NES and tried it. Totally works. I grew up with this game. Would've been nice to know this when I was 9 years old...My mind is totally blown. Thank you so much for this...epic find...2 thumbs up!!!!!!!!!
Great story. Brings back good memories.
This code was kept in the programming for Super Mario Bros. 2 (I mean the actual game not the Doki Doki Panic rebranding everyone else got at the time), but it didn't make the game any easier.
Doki doki was the original, Mario 2 is the rebrand. “Lost worlds” was the real MARIO 2 but Nintendo thought Americans couldn’t handle hard levels
Oh man! I haven't been Oki Doki since Doki Doki!
Doki doki panic was awesome definitely my favorite Nintendo game aside from legend of Zelda
The *OTHER* Doki Doki!
@@iqinsanity That is true
You know, finding a secret like that all by yourself, must have been the greatest discovery of your childhood....😅 I mean its cool right...? Thanks for sharing dude 👍🏻
Yup. Found it too, back in the proverbial day. That was a real time saver. Thanks for sharing. Brought back memories. :-)
Oh man I couldn't imagine not knowing this. We found that one out way back. Probably kids at school read it at the time in Nintendo power mag and shared the info with us but this one was well known right off.
You didn't know the A + Start code? I was told that way back in the days of NES, when I first got the game infact.
Liked and subbed, you sound like a real one my man
I like the story telling more than finding out theres a cheat, youve got a good voice for it too.
Your a better player then me. I keep on dying in world 8-1's castle walls, haha!! Damn Hammer Bros!
i cant even get past 5-2...
@@DkYr take the pipe in world 4-2
@@Ostopmot I could be wrong, but I think he's already aware of this
omg i grew up with mario brothers. like you said it was the bomb back then . and today i love love these games. i wish i had mario 1,2.and 3 on my nintendo 3ds . i would be the happiest person on earth . and im 41 lol . but anyways i love it .
I just learned something new! Thanks! I'm showing this to my 5 year old and he asked where is Luigi and the other characters? 😆
It was a thing that worked in quite a lot of NES games. It slips my mind what games it worked on, Rad Racer is the only one I can remember.
What?!?! Thanks! Been playing this game since the 80s and didn't know that.!?
I love this game, well done finding this out!
Wonderful story, but if anyone wants only the code. Hold down on the Game Over screen and while you press start. You will start on the first level of the world you died on. Thanks PDElite, this was really helpful
Trick to get fireballs as little Mario! In level 4-4 (while having fire power) at the end of the stage, jump on the item past Koupa that would end the stage, at the same time as you land on Koupa. The stage will end, but it will lower you to little Mario. When you start the next stage, you will be little mario, but maintain the firepower! Also strange is that when you get hit again, you become Big Mario without the firepower, and the next hit kills you!
This was in Nintendo Power in 1984
Real Nintendo power always comes out before it's expected
@JARED BARATTA missed the joke, therefore becoming the joke. Moron.
No it wasn't . I own every power ever.. stop lying
@ΞTHAN I own ever nintendo power there no such thing liar
Big Chungus!
I was in K Mart, probably around 1989 or 1990 when a kid there showed me this. Saved me so much hassle!
I thought everyone knew this, but it's cool how you found it on your own.
Man, I’m 37 and Mario Bros was my very first game and I never knew this code until now.
It's crazy that you found that out on your own.
I remembered stumbling across this cheat when this game was new, haven't played in decades, thanks for reminding me, my nephew loves this game.
I liked your story! And I conquered Contra without the Konami code!
Nice job figuring that out on your own🤙
Mario and Zelda cereal, delicious, and I remember Mario and Zelda packs of cards with chewing gum and a scratch off game card
Holy shit, I never knew about this! Thanks for sharing the info. Gonna have to bust out my NES now.
Very nice so nostalgic you done brought a tear to Maeye... So I subscribed can’t wait for the next one
👉@0:11👈
How bout, tag & hide and go seek?🤷♂️
Thank you for sharing, mario was the man growing up😁
Voice in video:😎
Mario franchise: 😎
Coincidence? I THINK NOT
I know what your talking about and it's if you hold down the A button on thr game over screen and press start on the title screen while A is still held down you will warp back to the beginning of the world you died on.
Thaat's the game!! 60 FPS and no fast song!! LOVELY! ❤️❤️❤️ The pitch of the bgm, the speed - perfect!! 😍 Not too fast, not too slow! ❤️
I remember when we got our Nintendo back in the day, Tha PDElite! We had the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo cartridge, too. The Super Mario Bros. video game series is one of my favorites, which is why I had to get the NES Classic and want to get a Switch soon. Thanks for a great video and I just subscribed!
2:20 you are one of the few that I've seen do the Gumby in Super Mario Bros.
I can do it in 1-2 when you are coming up from the pipe, I used to call it ice skating 😂
Did you ever see the glitch where you're miniature Mario and can throw fireballs? I've done before but have never seen anyone else do it.
Yes. Hit bowser and the axe at the same time. Make mario flicker and the glitch is set for the next level to get a mushroom to turn small lol then a plant to shoot! Very messed up been doing this one since back in the day too.
Not bad,not bad. Now......you know how to JUMP OVER the flagpole?@@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism
@@zanthonyhill8818 Yeah,finally got around to this the other day. Very tricky.
I never learned that particular trick. Interesting! I learned the infinite life trick by jumping on a turtle while it was on the stairs so you could die as much as you like and still keep going. Once I got that I didn't need any other hack. But there are so many and I think they were there by design
At the time this code wasn't a big secret if you had access to info like Nintendo power or similar... but to independently discover it like you did is a pretty cool story! I had a similar experience with Mario paint when I was screwing around with a controller plugged into the port for the mouse and found out a certain button combination could play your saved artwork from the title screen. Couldn't figure out what I pressed to do it and no magazine knew about it. (Wasnt until the internet that i learned the combabation was A+B+Select).
I knew that trick 25 years ago, but forgot it. Thanks for reminding me.
This "trick" is contained in the instruction manual for Super Mario Bros. Not exactly groundbreaking.
I don't know how I just now found this, but it's an amazing video. The way you told about your history with the game and console was just incredible, and I love the editing too. (Although there's not that much.)
This is epic I'm sharing this with my cousin Jasmine she probably don't think I'm weird but I bet she never knew this about the game here it is like 25 years later!!!
I swear I figured that this would be a up up down down left right left right a b + start code, but I remember doing this back then. thanks! :)
TL;DR
The trick is that you press B 7 times in the title screen and press A afterwards which will get you into world 8's first level.
This was in the original manual. Same as player 2 in Duck Hunt, and save without dying in the NES Zelda games.
You just casually did something I tried to do for ages as a kid and never did. I tried many times to get that 1-up and still have enough tunnel on screen to go down afterwards.
I appreciate the walk down memory lane, but yes, this is a well known code.
It also worked after a reset or switching to two players. As long as you didnt glitch it or hit power
The way you explained getting nes as a kid was same way for me man we didn’t have shit so it was a big deal
I used to call one-ups “free guys”
It doesnt work on all carts. Its a program logic code string set on the chips. If theres a 01 its allowed if its 00 it restarts at world 1
Woow if that’s true,you should post a video about it here,put that infor on wiki aand or come up with the rom of it because that’s something really interesting,now i guess nintendo added that hidden contineu feature later on in later revisions of smb1 right or was it the other way around?
Growing up I didn’t have much... friends neither 😂🤣😂
Don't feel bad, I didn't have friends either. When my older brother moved out, he brought the SNES with him in 1996 when I was 16 and I didn't get to play SNES again until the early 2000s. By that time my brother owned an original Xbox and played PS1. I finally bought a console newer than SNES for the first time in 2019 and It's an Xbox 360. I even bought the original Xbox 360 Kinect for $15 on eBay. It was around $150-200 in 2009. If you don't have much, buy used.🤣
do the mario!, swing your arms from side to side , and back again, just like that
Awesome commentary and good memories
Can't you jump over the flagpole?
Plot Twist: If u do this with your Nintendo upside-down u unlock Sonic as a playable character.
I also wish I knew this trick long ago. Lol I kind of laughed at your apology 30 years in the waiting though 🤣.
3-1 you can get 100 or so lives as well at the end hopping on the turtle shell. Good memories.
There's actually about 2000 more codes you can enter if you're playing on the right device
This was Super Mario Brothers 101 when I was a kid it still didn't make the game significantly easier because World 8 itself was a briar patch of frustration but hey it was the first cheat code anybody knew
If you hold down both A and B, you will be directed back to the exact world and level that you died on.
Also we would get so many extra lives if you keep jumping on the turtle on the stairs to the point the number of lives is a symbol
my brother and I used to press A as fast as we could at the game over to do the continue. that's how we knew it
Hold A....Press Start. I knew this back in the 80s. Also, the extra man jump trick in the 3 World when u can jump 1000 times on a duck shell.
When this was remade for Super Mario All-Stars for the SNES, you were able to save your progress.
Nice find on your own.
I was playing this game in the arcade when I was in grade school in the 80's, and I remember getting an NES my freshman year, and how amazed we were at the graphics and the games (I had still been playing the Atai 2600 too, LOL). I wish to hell I'd have known about this trick back then!
Wish I would have known this when I was a kid. We didn't have internet back then. Haha
My cousin used to use and if you beat the game you can try the code and it starts you with new enemies. Tell it gets harder. To the point you can't stomp the enemies.
its cool how he stumbled on the code. but now if u really think about it A and START. A= JUMP and start = well start lol. so it is the jump start code. and that is what i have called it but idk if it really has a name but there u go jump start
Good thinking