Advanced Super Mario NES Tricks & Secrets Guide

Over 30 of the most advanced and interesting tricks, secrets and glitches in the Super Mario Bros trilogy on NES!
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0:00 - Intro
0:09 - Sky Mushroom Glitch
0:32 - Double Hit Glitch
0:59 - Sprite Swap Glitch
1:23 - Bowser Glitch Trick
1:43 - Bullet Bill Glitch Trick
2:06 - Hammer Bros Secret
2:20 - Invincibility Trick
2:38 - Piranha Plant Glitch
3:03 - Bowser Hammer Glitch
3:23 - Brick Climbing Trick
3:44 - Bowser Easter Egg
4:18 - Invisible 1-Up Secret
4:51 - Super Mario 2 Tricks
4:55 - Super Speed Glitch
5:28 - Mushroom Block Glitch
5:51 - Birdo Key Trick
6:27 - Flying Enemy Glitch
6:46 - Potion Glitch Trick
7:04 - Bob-omb Mushroom Trick
7:35 - Rocket Glitch Trick
8:02 - Super Mario 3 Tricks
8:06 - Wall Jump Trick
8:27 - Extended 1up Theme
8:52 - Goomba’s Shoe Glitch
9:14 - Wall Clip Trick
9:47 - Bowser’s Castle Trick
10:21 - Somersault Trick
11:01 - Ice Block Trick
11:22 - Boom Boom Trick
11:50 - Pipe Glitch
12:14 - Behind the Water Trick
12:39 - Paragoomba Trick
12:58 - Behind the Sky Glitch
13:33 - Super Mario 3 Debug Mode
14:16 - Outro
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[@itsgruz]

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[@retropalooza]

I haven't felt this great since that blond girl dressed up as princess peach and showed me the love of the mushroom kingdom. Long live the Super Hornio Brothers...move your hips from sided to side, ok kids it's time to do the Mario...

[@MJDTYT]

Hey, what emulator do you use?

[@patrickwiggins4853]

@killgruz did you know that the original animation for the flying carpet on mario two was developed by one of Ghibli studios head producers hayao miyazaki?

[@eoinmcglinchey32]

Great video ove again gruz and congrats on 80k and thanks for telling me how to solve 1ups not appearing as when you look up their location people just show them finding them as if they are their

[@retropalooza]

Me love you long time, me so happy, you big Nintendo boy, you can have anything you want.....u want me like you and press your subscribe button, ok baby me love you long long time

[@vinterbjork4128]

My favourit Mario 1 glitch is "Small Firemario", it is done in the same way as "Bowser Glitch Trick" but you need to be Fire Mario. And you guessed it, you are Firemario when small Mario!

[@MUSA_SMSW_OFFICAL]

Can agree!

[@allegorysplatterpunk1829]

🙌 Yes

[@shannonpipes2219]

I thought I was the only one who knew about small fireball Mario WOW MORE PEOPLE THAN ME KNOW ABOUT IT

[@ChromeCobra420]

You don't need to be fire mario, just big Mario is enough.

[@ChromeCobra420]

​@@shannonpipes2219I've known about it for 35 years, I was surprised when I started seeing KZbin how many others did too.

[@cfalletta7220]

Super Mario 3 is honestly one of my favorite games of all time

[@kbramlett6877]

There is another trick for SMB 3. This one allows you to take away Bowser's fire. You must enter his castle with a 'P-Wing" and keep it until you reach Bowser's Lair. Once you enter his lair immediately fly up the left-hand wall. You will eventually get to the top. Once you do, walk all the way to the left. Then turn around and go back to Bowser's lair and he will be fire free.

[@sheiladikshit5110]

nearly 40 years of super mario, and i thought i've seen it all. can't believe there were some new ones, great vid!

[@retropalooza]

Finally I've been waiting 40 years

[@kbramlett6877]

In regards to SMB2's "instant death" trick by pausing the game and pressing "Up A&B" on controller 2, was put in the game's code in case you wanted to start a level over or in my case, pissing off your little brother. This trick also came in handy as bugs were discovered while fighting some bosses. The two biggest culprits are Fry Guy and Clawglip/Clawgrip. The thing with Fry Guy, we all know that once you hit him with the Mushroom blocks the initial four times, he splits up into four little ones. Where the bug comes into play is if you were to hit all four little Fry Guys with one blow, there could be a chance that the exit door will not appear. As for Clawgrip, this too can happen, but it is a little harder to have the door not appear. On occasions, when you throw a rock back at him, it just might hit a rock he just threw giving you a double hit. If this is done for hits four and five, there just might be a chance the exit door will not appear. Once these bugs were discovered, NOA updated the ROM in later productions of the game.

[@Mythraen]

"In regards to SMB2's "instant death" trick by pausing the game and pressing "Up A&B" on controller 2, was put in the game's code in case you wanted to start a level over" Cool... and why should I believe you?

[@cappantwan2978]

@@MythraenThere’s no timer in SMB2, so they most likely put it there so you don’t have to reset the console and start over if you’re stuck.

[@Mythraen]

@@cappantwan2978 I didn't ask what was likely. The OP made a statement indicating it was a fact that it was put there so you could start over. Okay, how does he know that? Also, I just glanced through the game manual, and I see no mention of this trick. So, I'd like to know how we're even to conclude players were supposed to know about it, much less that it was there so they could do something specific.

[@BagOfMagicFood]

Or if you completely dug out a deep sand pit and left yourself at the bottom!

[@kbramlett6877]

​@@Mythraen If you want to believe me or not, that is entirely up to you. But, I will put it to you this way. I am 48 years of age. Meaning I was alive when the NES was released. If I was alive when the NES was released, that would obviously mean that I was alive. To compliment my playing the NES, I also had a subscription to Nintendo Power magazine. There was a section of the magazine titled "Counselor's Corner" When the Nintendo Game Play Counselors (do you know who these people were) get asked the same question multiple times they figure it is time to post it in the magazine in the Counselors Corner section. They too had discovered the glitch with Fry Guy and Claw Glip, that is what they instructed you to do. Also, how do I know that there are two versions of the ROM? There are two ways that I know that there are two versions of the ROM Well, actually three. 1) No matter how many times you try, the freeze glitch cannot be performed when fighting Fry Guy and Claw Glip 2) There are two different Game Genie codes for the same effect. (eg. Infinite Lives) 3) Referring to the present day, when you want to download the ROM, most websites give you a choice of Version 1.0 or 1.1. This is how I know what I am talking about. It is called knowledge. I have an excellent memory, and I like to read. You should try reading a book sometime. You just might learn something.

[@yungwappenlese]

One of the best channels on KZbin, thanks for your work + Greetings from Germany

[@MUSA_SMSW_OFFICAL]

These gliches are amazing!

[@Margann1987]

I love the Bob-Ombs coming out of the mushroom 😂

[@AndrewAmbrose]

Your Super Mario Bros. content is always a lot of fun and truly a testament to how great the trilogy is

[@istrasci]

2:10 - Missed opportunity for "Come at me, (hammer) bro!!" with fire Mario.

[@FunnyPizzaNoid]

I love how high energy he is in this video :)

[@Wolverage]

Sir. This is high quality content and very enjoyable. I’ve played these games to the death and didn’t know a few of these. Sending $20 your way.

[@metal_kitsune]

Hey Gruz. About the dying to Bowser and killing him at the same time trick in SMB1, would be cool if you would have mentioned small fire. You probably already know, but if you are big Mario and take a hit while defeating Bowser at the same time, you will be able to become small Mario with fire if you collect a fire plant on a next level if you don't take damage again. It tricks the game into thinking you are big Mario while using the small sprite.

[@PrimordialChaos1]

I didn't know that

[@jaxom07]

I was looking for this comment. It's one of my favorite glitches.

[@ChromeCobra420]

You have to get the mushroom first to shrink yourself, then get the fire flower.

[@matthewrease2376]

"triple K" Smooth way to get around any KZbin filters haha

[@RetroSamBamShorts]

Great video Gruz! I knew most of the stuff from Mario 3 but learned a lot of new things about Mario 1 and 2! Really cool stuff 😁

[@mchenrynick]

I forget where I read it. When you spit-kill Bowser in SMB1, you see what enemy he actually was. That's why when Bowser dies at the end of worlds 1-7, he's STILL ALIVE into the next world. Only in World 8 is it TRULY Bowser.

[@PrimordialChaos1]

Yep

[@volt8ge]

I knew 3 of these… the other ones I was very surprised to learn about them! Great video!

[@para-X666]

Wi love your work man . Thank you . for GOLD time

[@johnnypolo1983]

Regarding the hidden 1-ups. In addition to warping and collecting all the coins in the -3 level that proceeds it, if you continue after a game over, the 1up will also be there.

[@GarlicMonoxide]

It's been a looong time since I've learned something new about the 3 new Mario games. Good stuff.

[@icecold337]

I love videos like these because as a kid i used to do these things and not know how i did them…they just happened but i didn’t know the circumstances. no one could explain how or why….now there is. Thanks!!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@allenhaywood9608]

only trilogy to change so much yet get so much better each one

[@DavidWonn]

FYI, a large bulk of these tricks were originally posted on my site back in the 90s. I even did a video on the history of the discovery of debug mode as well.

[@lukahmad5683]

I love your humour lol Nice, man! There is a lot of things here I never know. I wanna try it next time xD

[@JakeRazorClawson]

Learned about most of these features previously from watching Kosmic and Mitch. They don't regularly play smb2(u), so some of those glitches i have first seen in this vid. I remember the waterfall logs being launched by throwing pow blocks in my casual game play of ages ago, but really wish i had known enemies could be also launched upwards in another way. Overall favorite detail is the smb3 debug mode with game genie. Really good compilation, hope to see Gruz man return with personal in your face videos again some day.

[@MotherKojiro]

I think the piranha plant glitch is my favorite, even if the main reason is that it involves that pink pipe; I love that thing.

[@johneygd]

🤣 Oh brother if i had discovered this back in the day as a 10 year old boy,i probably would,ve cried out of frustration.

[@blackmesacake5361]

Fantastic video!!!

[@RetroAdam]

The road to 100k subscribers! Keep going!

[@allegorysplatterpunk1829]

Great vid mang!

[@josh2838]

That was Awesome!! Can't wait to try some of these

[@KaguyaH]

Knew a lot of these, but damn your videos are comfy. Thanks for putting it together!

[@ryanmclark82]

I watched this entire video with a BIG smile on my face! Nostalgia!!!

[@ZMAN_420]

Great video, that was alot of great tricks! 👍🏻🇺🇲

[@breadknight7731]

I love ur videos, Just subbed today :)

[@roberthunter479]

So that thing with Bowser in SM1 and killing him with fireballs? I didn't know people thought that was a glitch. I knew about the fake Bowsers since the '80s.

[@AverageJoeGuitarPlayer]

Cool stuff man 👍🏻

[@hekewika]

Thanks for sharing these tips and tricks even so many years later ❤

[@shannonmanley9217]

Awesome video, I'm waiting for the next one. take care my Friend.

[@Vulpas]

Dude, what a great video.

[@PaskatVitsit]

Great tricks 👍

[@michaelcarlon1831]

This video gives me vibes from the black OG Nintendo Strategy Guide

[@UltimaEXE]

You forgot the johnny apple seed trick where u hit the ax and bowser at the same time with the fire flower. Youll turn small but on the next stage get a fire flower and youll be small mario with the fire flower power and whats neat is when u shoot a fireball he turn big and the shrink back

[@itsgruz]

That one was in my last tricks vid 👍

[@eskimo1000]

Great video 👍

[@jerethkhan]

SMB Bowser Hammers: I'm 97.6% sure it's not that the fact the hammers are thrown backwards but that only the first few hammers have a hit box due to limitations in how much space is available for hammer hitbox locations and the ones that are thrown backwards are always the last ones thrown.

[@LennonsRetroTech]

Is anyone else gonna talk about how at the end of the video he says “you’ll defiantly wanna check out this video where I went over all the must know tricks of the original super Mario trilogy” which is the EXACT video you just watched.

[@jimdwyer8607]

I actually learned a few things I didn't know! Thats not a common occurrence. Cheers, Gruz!

[@teknix1]

Awesome video! I absolutely love these, home you're gonna do another Game Genie one soon. Have you done "Mario Bros" (not "Super") by any chance?

[@pearofclubs6280]

I absolutely did know that hammer bros charge you after a while. Kid me was horrified when I found it out

[@cammy85]

Some charge by default in the Japanese sequel without you waiting. Scary!!

[@joeydemitro8976]

AWESOME 😎👍💯 TOO MY FRIEND 🎸 AND I LOVE THE SUPER MARIO BROTHERS GAMES

[@bravo1oh1]

These are good. Most I didn't know

[@nookleer]

Hey maybe you'll see this message. In SMB2 there is a 4th stage warp that never showed up in Nintendo Power.. and as such.. has NEVER appeared in any video like this. It is on the stage after the second warp everyone knows and involves skipping the door to the end of the stage and using a potion to flip to a secret tunnel.

[@DavidW0325]

There’s a unlimited 1-up trick in 3-9 if you take that shell at the beginning to the spot with bullet bills on the ground. They will shoot forever

[@tbx59]

This was great

[@daveyjones7391]

Really cool video dude!

[@GggNobody-zg3wg]

I learned wall clipping in the 80’s and thought the kid that showed me was a genius. There were other glitches that are not shown on Super Mario 1 in this video. Still a great video.

[@DrNo64]

Nice!

[@rogjerr]

this is proof this series needs a remake

[@philipmurphy2]

Great job on the discovery of Mario secrets

[@SteeveEfnet]

very cool

[@deadmilkman121]

My sister and I always loved "stinky cheese head Mario" it's a glitch that would happen if the cartridge was dirty seemingly and would make his head look like a big old block of cheese haha

[@magnusnilsson9792]

In SMB 1 you can jump over the flagpole on stage 3-3 to experience a never ending castle wall. Also if glitching through the wall on 1-2 the warp pipes will be stage _-1& 5-1and _-1, the _-1 stage is a recursive waterstage very similar to stage 2-2 & 7-2.

[@magnusnilsson9792]

Oh, there is also a glitch to make Mario skate on 1 foot, don't know how it's done exactly but I've seen it multiple times.

[@clinton6087]

One of the places you can clip thru the wall in Bowser's Castle you end up getting stuck. I remember doing this as a kid. I had a pwing and was upset cause I had to wait out the timer to die.

[@cammy85]

If you take that first glitch shown in here, you'll wind up in the second room that leads to Bowser if you took the lower path. You WILL get stuck if you try it there as the screen doesn't scrool to the right as it did in the other path.

[@clinton6087]

@@cammy85 thanks

[@Mr_Top_Hat_Jones]

1:24 Alternatively, if you’re big Mario, you can use this trick to get “small fire.”

[@zadoksstudio8353]

Great content!

[@farhanayusoff3344]

i love the Goomba shoe trick

[@KarmaJolt]

This is awesome.

[@WhereNothingOnceWas]

KamJot

[@WeedPatch71]

Very interesting!

[@Gecko1993HogheadIncOfficial]

2:35-2:39 Mario trying to hang out with The Lonely Gooma be like:

[@Merovy]

I like your explanation

[@NeoDraven757]

I am honestly amazed. I only knew four out of what must have been fifty or more secrets. And I thought I knew these games inside and out. First time ever that someone has shown me this much and that the video was actually true to its title. Fantastic work.

[@AmethystSpeaks]

It blows my mind how often people I see people don't know the Bowser thing was intention. I read in official media a long time ago it's an enemy wearing a costume. They also reference this within Paper Mario, when the Koopa Bros are in the Bowser Costume.

[@magnusnilsson9792]

Of course that is the very reason Mario is going to all the wrong castles. He tracked down a fake bowser.

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

😂😂😂 this is so cool. Why didn't you show the two glitches in Mario 1? The first one you can make mario glide by jumping out of a pipe in world 1-2 by pressing AB at the same time and moving left and right. The second glitch happens at the top of any vine simply climb to the top and keep pressing up and mario does a funky electric dance.

[@Fatih_M177]

SMB2 tricks are still my personal favorite, even simple ones, like skipping areas with the super jump, is always entertaining and SMB1 small fire mario is also funny. the SMB3 wall jump trick is neat reference to the smb1 wall jump trick (Cause he basically said the exact same thing word for word) Btw kinda unrelated i never knew that you can re-pick koopa shells in smb2.

[@RyanMercer]

Epic 👍

[@supergeoff]

The debug mode on Super Mario Bros.3 is my favorite

[@DuckAvenger]

I never got how people learned these back in the day my brother he was older but some how knew about small fire Mario and the turtle jump ultimates lives

[@Kamioom]

3:53 well I did realize this when was a kid. It's not really an easter egg and never think of a bug anyway, because the real browser was the only one on the last castle.

[@masopup]

I like your voice, cool content bro

[@bryangarcia5599]

13:40 Hey, hey, hey - what's all this 'Triple K' stuff?

[@cammy85]

Yeah, I've always had trouble spelling it out too when explaining it to people regardless of skin colour. There is a less offensive six letter variant, but it has some negative differences that make this one better.

[@Geno2733]

Gruz just found another infinite 1up trick on 4-1....

[@eddieandrews2922]

Nice job all these Mario secrets too awesome I got my 6 year old to play Mario 3 with me👍👍

[@UberTombLord]

woohoo new video!

[@sixshooter500]

Good content, you sound like Oxhorn from the Fallout games tho

[@Tigerhawk1981]

Super Mario Bro., Doki Doki Panic Mario Reskin, & Super Mario Bros. 3

[@Doodoovessel]

In SMB1 if you jump on a koopa mid air or when falling and hit it it will fly/float across the screen.

[@chanceForNotBeingRapper]

most of the smb2 tricks are hella fresh to me because I never finished this game, and it is the only five entries including Sunshine, Galaxy 1 2, Sm64 I didn't pretty much progressed also I personally called ninja flip the contra jump, it is an easy reference of the same 1988 game. Spoiler Alert : There is some slight humor at 10:59 when he got eaten

[@TheRealBatabii]

2:01 I thought those "mushrooms" were some kind of tree. Normally they're colored like trees

[@shainahullihen1159]

I did the Birdo trick in my gba game and it worked, lol 😂.

[@allenhaywood9608]

more mememory RAM tricks to scam kilobytes than the first space shuttle

[@nn-zp4ig]

KILLGRUUUUUUUUUUUUZ

[@darkheartt302]

Will we ever get a Gruz video about Save Wizard? It’s like a game genie for the ps4/ps5. Would appreciate to hear his input on it.

[@DOC_951]

Thank you, now I can beat this 30 year old game 😉

[@maxcardun]

The Debug Mode sounds interesting, though I imagine none of these tricks works on Super Mario All Stars.

[@Matyas_Ceo_Of_Matyas]

damn now i wish someone made a in depth explanation about this one glitch lol

[@Eichro]

I was going to make fun of the boomer energy on this video, but man i was surprised by how much of these i had no idea about. I only knew the wall jumps and clips (thanks summoning salt) and the funny 1up jingle in 3, as well as the fake bowser in 1, which i thought was common knowledge at this point.

[@SeanSolomon11287]

So the Paragoomba glitch happens because the tiny goombas it drops have a hidden invisible block which would break after three jumps from Mario so what I’m guess is the same value for the invisible para goomba blocks get confused with the regular blocks and when you jump the game thinks your hitting the invisible block that’s part of the tiny paragoombas and that why it faints mid air.

[@cold_warrior]

Сool stuff

[@01ken581]

Sup’ Gruz