Animated SMB Glitch Guide

[VirusType2]

http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/NES/SuperMarioBros.html#WalljumpSmb1Smb2j

"Stomping" enemies from below (SMB1, SMB2j)
You don't need to land on the top of an enemy to kill it. As long as you're moving downward as you hit the enemy, you'll kill it. If you time it just right, sometimes you can even hit the bottom of the enemy. This is useful for killing enemies that seem to be too high to jump on.

I remember when I was a kid, trying to get the extra 1ups by repeatedly jumping on the same turtle shell as it bounced back and forth. I always died.

They need to make a guide to doing stuff like that.

 

[Unfocused]

I never figured that's how it "worked". Maybe it works on Super Mario World as well? I played the shit out of it on the SNES.

Kind of "holy shit, my childhood beliefs just changed".

 

[VirusType2]

Walking inside enemies (SMB1, SMB2j)
When you stomp an enemy, the enemy becomes a friend for a short while, so if you stomp it from below,
you don't need to worry about being immediately killed by it when you bounce upwards.

In fact, you can sometimes get inside an enemy right after stomping it,
and the enemy doesn't harm you as long as you are inside it.

 

[Kisze]

Moustache Stomp:

 

[Vegeta897]

Does anyone else find the existence of this thread hilarious?

Like we're all still playing SMB and this is hot news.

Woah! Gotta try that out!

 

[Warped]

I used to sit there for dozens of minutes near pipes when they'd come out and I'd get countless 1-ups. it was awesome

 

[Krynn72]

Does anyone else find the existence of this thread hilarious?

Yes. I was going to say something, but I felt like my douchebag allowance for the month was being used up too quickly as it was.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

This is a cool guide. I've always wondered what glitches speedrunners and custom "hard" level makers were exploiting. As a programmer, the in-depth analysis as to why some of the glitches work is also very interesting.

Should have had a 25-year-anniversary patch...

 

[VirusType2]

Does anyone else find the existence of this thread hilarious?

Like we're all still playing SMB and this is hot news.

Woah! Gotta try that out!

Yes. I was going to say something, but I felt like my douchebag allowance for the month was being used up too quickly as it was.

Lol, it made the news. It's the 25th anniversary of this game.

I still think the game is relevant.

For over two decades, Super Mario Bros. was the best-selling video game of all time, before being outsold by Nintendo's own Wii Sports in 2009. Excluding Game Boy Advance and Virtual Console sales, the game has sold 40.24 million copies worldwide. It was largely responsible for the initial success of the Nintendo Entertainment System, as well as ending the two-year slump of console game sales in the United States after the video game crash of 1983.

Remember Pac-Man was playable on the Google banner recently and then got a bunch of new games? That was the 30th.