Glitched Worlds in Super Mario Bros!

Welcome to the return of secret glitched worlds in Super Mario Bros! People loved these in the past, and this is special video number 100 from legendary video editor Bismuth, so we're bringing them back!
Glitched Worlds Playlist: • SMB1 Glitched Worlds
Game genie codes to try it yourself:
NNXAZZYE - Push Button B to select a world
AANAAXZG - Select worlds past world 8
AISSON - Go through walls
AEPLLG - Jump in air
AANLIAAL - Avoid softlocking at the top of the screen
NYNPKGYE - Disable automatic right movement (this will break actual cutscene levels)
YZNLLYTX - Disables the "TIME UP" message, so your game timer can't expire
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Intro music: • Recharge [Re-Volt]
Outro music: • Sacred Somnom Woods - ...
#Kosmic #SMB1 #Mario

[@Kosmicd12]

Someone just sent me a way to make some even crazier ones. Let me know if you guys want to see that 👀

[@Schlimtor]

Yes, I want to see that

[@BintonGaming]

i want to see it!

[@lucianhartt3123]

Why wouldn't we? XD

[@tangy3003]

hell yeah

[@PussTheCatInBoots]

If you do it, I will speedrun super mario bros 3

[@quadpad_music]

The Kosmic Stream Starter Pack: ''I've never seen such a thing'' *geeks out over random, seemingly normal thing, then gives detailed explanation of how it's an SMB1 code oddity* ''That was(...), by the way'' ''BULLET BILL GLITCH-'' ''Oh hi, Bruce''. *does sick clip knowing darn well he'll softlock* ''I just died to show off (...), OBVIOUSLY''. (In the most casual tone possible) ''Okay, we're getting flagpole glitch''. *actually gets it and goes on with videogame normally* ''8000 KICK-'' ''Killing a Podoboo/Bowser with a star/shell, my favorite thing!'' ''UP AND OVER!'' ''G a m e d e s i g n'' *plays flawlessly on his first try, then dies trying to pull off some cool, frame perfect glitch and laughs adorably* ''We're playing a videogame?1?!'' ''We've got some blue lava...'' ''SHINY TEETH STAGE-'' ''No wait, take me back!'' ''I'm probably the first person to hit this block/grab this coin''. (FEEL FREE TO ADD MORE IN THE REPLIES)

[@Kosmicd12]

Dude I laughed out loud a few times. Very good comment

[@quadpad_music]

@@Kosmicd12 OMG THANK YOU- Just so you know, I can only point out this many Kosmic-isms because I watch you so often and enjoy your videos so much. Thanks for lightening our days!

[@TheGuy45]

We need a bingo card

[@Freddie7191]

"Small fire?" Proceeds to die

[@fireball6562]

dont forget smalll fire mario

[@cookies245]

This man has made a 40 year old game still entertaining to watch to this day. Props to you dude

[@gmunny46]

please don't use numbers anymore it's killing me

[@bayabooz4855]

@@gmunny46 ok I got you, This man has made a forty year old game still entertaining to watch to this day. Props to you dude

[@saltedmutton7269]

2015 is further away than 2028

[@P-nk-m-na]

​@@saltedmutton7269realising 2014 is 3 months away...

[@nicklarson8312]

​@@P-nk-m-na*2024

[@Nob1ej0n]

3:08 Those aren't the pixels of an enemy on the top. That's sprite 0. It just overlaps the bottom two rows of the coin in the status bar. (You can see it if you jump over top of the coin in the status bar during normal play.) Those pixels are what tell the game that it has finished drawing the status bar and can now reposition the scroll position in the nametables to show your position on the level map properly. That's how the status bar remains static while the level scrolls by below it. So something clearly broke the status bar and sprite 0 collision never occurred. When the collision doesn't happen, the game freezes. There are pixels of an enemy on the bottom right though.

[@QuasarEE]

It's interesting that almost any way you can freeze the game (the other common way being a completely black screen) causes it to shift the status bar over like that. I've always been curious what the exact mechanism going on is that causes it.

[@TransRoofKorean]

What enemy, though? couldn't figure that out

[@TransRoofKorean]

@@nolan92491 Does it? for some reason I was thinking it didn't at the time. Huh, that shoulda been obvious.

[@wernerderchamp]

I feel like most crashed are actually caused by this (I watched the old series recently). The status bar was broken almost every time when the game froze. Maybe this is a key to avoiding softlocks. At 3:44 if you go frame by frame (using . ) you can see how something seems to corrupt the entire drawing of the screen. One frame even shows the time on 00Z. Probably some redundancy errors here as it is just for a frame.

[@rexperverziff]

What is sprite 0?

[@slitherysheep858]

What a great guy Bismuth is.

[@infinitelybanta]

*applauds*

[@Benegade]

The best!

[@seanbrockest3888]

Yeah, is he gonna finish that sentence? EDIT: He does later

[@boring_content]

This is probably a bot comment with a simple script to change out the variable (here it’s “Bismuth”) with the channel name

[@slitherysheep858]

i agree

[@TheCasualMark]

It’s always special when we get to hear “My shiny teeth and me.” And the fact you have it ready on standby is even better.

[@TheSektorz]

7:08 when I was a kid I had one of those bootleg "200000 in 1" cartridges where it was just the Mario ROM but broken over and over, and I remember playing this "level"! :D And I remember wondering why it was unbeatable and made no sense. Good innocent times.

[@Bismuth9]

9:13 World Among Us-1

[@NullScar]

The master.

[@HappyLeeHL]

Hi Kosmic, I don't know if you know this, but sometimes you can win and see the next stage after touching a flagpole and falling into a hole... You'll just have to wait long enough, and Mario would fall from the sky, and if he touches a solid block, you'd win. :D

[@musicfromvenus]

awesome

[@QuasarEE]

Back when I was a kid I learned hexadecimal and binary just so I could figure out how to generate all 256 possible warp codes for worlds -128 to 127. So, I have a full list of all those codes, but I still saw new stuff here, probably thanks to your other codes. Very cool! The ones where you have to go through 20 copies of 2-1 are the really annoying ones.

[@Boooo]

Its a shame weird glitch worlds like this wont happen with newer games

[@tokeivo]

Here's a horrible idea: Someone should make a romhack, where you are able to select all the glitched levels, but all changes to the level gets stored back into the memory. Breaking a block? That's turning a 2 into a 0. Stomping a koopa? That's a 6 into a 5. And so on. (Values are guesses here) In the original levels, that would just mean permanent changes to levels. In the glitch levels, it would seriously mess up the game code :D

[@thisnameisbad3609]

ace :P

[@quinn7894]

0:26 83-1 (Top left of question block) 0:40 84-1 (Top right of question block) 0:46 86-1 (Bottom right of question block) 0:52 88-1 (Top right of empty block) 0:55 90-1 (Bottom right of empty block) 0:57 92-1 (Bottom of right pulley) 1:00 96-1 (Top left of top left pipe block) 1:03 99-1 (Top right of top right pipe block) 1:07 124-1 (Top right of axe) 1:11 125-1 (Bottom left of axe) 2:33 127-1 (Chain) 3:17 129-1 (Top right of fence) 4:24 130-1 (Top left of water block) 5:14 131-1 (Bottom left of water block) 6:26 12:34 132-1 (Top right of water block) 7:07 133-1 (Bottom right of water block) 9:13 135-1 (Top right of top horizontal pipe block) 10:40 137-1 (Top right of top pipe junction block) 13:06 140-1 (Bottom left of top pipe junction block) 13:16 141-1 (Bottom right of top pipe junction block) 13:19 142-1 (Top left of bottom horizontal pipe block) 13:25 143-1 (Top right of bottom horizontal pipe block) 14:37 146-1 (Bottom right of bottom horizontal pipe block) 15:13 147-1 (Bottom left of bottom pipe junction block) 15:46 175-1 (Period?) 16:20 189-1 (Right side of the bottom of the tree (not the trunk part)) 17:08 191-1 (Right side of tree trunk)

[@ShadowL8er]

When I saw the thumbnail I thought of the older videos on the glitched worlds, then you mentioned them right at the start. Great video as always Kosmic!

[@staudinga]

Congrats to Bismuth! What a legend! P.S. I love how you spell out the level names. Starting a video with "top left of a question mark block dash one" is an experience.

[@amofro6612]

Wait bismuth is your editor? As in the bismuth who did the frameule, mario 64 tas explanation, and the mario 64 a press challenge videos? That's sick!

[@Kosmicd12]

Yessir, he mainly just edits the romhack Wednesdays these days. He did everything in 2020 that I put out though

[@amofro6612]

@@Kosmicd12 that's amazing. It's been great to see both of your channels grow and increase in quality. Well done :)

[@GMPranav]

7:32 is it just me or did the koopas go crazy just when Kosmic did the "woooo"? 😂

[@asdfhklljfztvvw3686]

I like how Mario just naturally jumps over the princess like " ... nope, gotta have a look into glitch worlds first."

[@norathemediocre]

Between this and the Tennis glitch world video from Retro Game Mechanics Explained, KZbin seems to want me to think about glitch worlds in Mario a lot more than normal. Not that I'm complaining - it's a fascinating topic

[@Kosmicd12]

Yeah world 9 even showed up in my other video this week too. All genuinely a coincidence that I was planning to return to them already, that it was relevant in that other video, and that RGME made a video on it!

[@PierceArner]

4:25 - Kosmic's reaction perfectly expresses the emotions I felt at the exact same time.

[@cerelvix_4662]

Why did he play the music, I don't really understand, is it cause the clouds

[@BinglesP]

@@cerelvix_4662 Yes it’s because of the clouds

[@ayoitscat]

I've never seen Kosmic as shocked as he was when that koopa threw a hammer

[@mineland8220]

I really like bismuth's style of editing. Congrats on the 100th video, thats nuts for you man

[@Destinedfor]

Reminiscing my 15 years playing this very nostalgic game (I was 5 back then), X-1 was the only glitched level I continouosly play/practice, though it's weird that my console already had the glitch worlds hack imported directly, and that got me to play all of what's available. Feels good barely remembering the levels from watching this and the other video you made with this years ago.

[@andie_pants]

I honestly haven't played this game since I was a kid in the 80s, but the technical breakdown of all the glitches and whatnot is FASCINATING!

[@SomeGuy712x]

(6:40) I think you actually stomped that Cheep-Cheep, which is still quite cool in its own right, being in such a narrow passage like that. (12:37) Fun fact: If you wait long enough after falling into a pit during the flagpole victory march, the music will stop "hiccupping", and then Mario will eventually reappear at the top of the screen after a few minutes. (16:14) Combo with an infinite time code? Or a code that prevents you from dying to time up, perhaps? Bismuth certainly is a cool guy.

[@seafarersubmerged3161]

Kosmic I was just watching your old Glitched World videos and now you upload this one! I was sad because I though it was over but now there is one more :D

[@jeremy2283]

I laughed so hard when you killed the cheep-cheep with the block! 🤣

[@YF501]

It's a good week for glitched worlds! This video plus the retro game mechanics explained about Tennis and SMB!

[@BinglesP]

Someone should remake these glitched levels in Super Mario Maker

[@DagothXil]

love the secret worlds content! It really elicits a sense of frontier exploration for me

[@JakeRazorClawson]

More glitched worlds are always fun to see, lots of great moments in this vid ⭐

[@Nob1ej0n]

8:13 If you're interested, I recently made my own NES emulator with Game Genie support higher than 8 codes. Although if you're just using an emulator, I think Mesen already allows that, and it's more feature complete than my project. I think you're using actual hardware though? So an emulator probably isn't what you're looking for. Just throwing it out there anyway. It's all up to you!

[@Nanoedi]

Just watched the other glitched worlds videos this came at a great time!

[@ThatOneHuman125k]

holy shit saaaame, just came across this series a week or so ago so this is perfect timing

[@shaundiltz5821]

Congrats Bismuth. Love the glitches. SHINY TEETH!!!!!!

[@quadpad_music]

15:29 ''Like, there's just a floating block!'' In MY Mario? Impossible.

[@regi3756]

More glitch worlds please. Thanks, Bismuth and Kosmic!

[@juiceala]

Hey Kosmic, just wanted to share a little story here, back in the mid 90s as I was in elementary school I had a couple of classmates whom we would exchange and borrow different famiclone cartridges between each other, one time I borrowed this famiclone cartridge which contained several pirated games (I’m sure you know the ones I’m talking about) and it had some of these glitch worlds, not every one but the more interesting ones from your previous video... For over two decades I’ve been wanting to replay those with no luck, until I discovered The Irate Gamer’s video about these glitched worlds, a few years later I discovered your video, thanks to your Game Genie code I created a Rom Hack that lets you skip to any world you want from the start including the glitched worlds, thank you.

[@DavidWonn]

World B-1 was always one of my favorites, back when I'd modify the 3-line Game Genie code from my Camerica book back in the early 90s. Occasional random enemies helped to make it interesting once in a while.

[@ezeperich7645]

I always laugh so much with glitched worlds, keep it up with all the good content you're putting up!!

[@JohannesBee]

Thank you for all the hard work, Bismuth!

[@Pslamist]

Let's go Bismuth! And let's go Mario guy with a checkmark that comments on Melee videos!! Nice video, looks like it was a fun stream.

[@quadpad_music]

17:24 ''What makes me happy, feels me up with SPAAAAACE''

[@BinglesP]

That cut caught me off guard

[@108Pi]

👏👏👏 for Bismuth

[@Akita23]

In this house we love and appreciate bismuth. Thank you both for all the great content you've provided

[@ThatOneHuman125k]

hell yeah, finally with a new episode with this series

[@TheSouperShow]

so glad this series is continuing.

[@EpicGamer_SansheeFreddy]

2:13 *Local fish caught speeding*

[@ILOVEUMARIO]

Hello Guys! Here's Why These Worlds Are Glitched: This Happens Because The Game Uses Garbage Data To Put In These Worlds! And As For Why The Minus World And Any Of These Bugged Underground And Water Levels Loop, It's Because The Section Where You Come Out Of The Pipe And Beat The Level Doesn't Exist In The Level, So It Loops It Instead! I Hope You Found My Knowledge Helpful!

[@itsnitro8761]

Never expected to see you here. And yes, this information is accurate. The reason why these levels look like some corrupted mess is because the game doesn't know what to put in these levels and to fill in the level it either is a copy of a used level or it puts random crap into the level and changes the theme of the level into stuff like underwater, underground, overworld, castle, or sky bonus area. As for why those repeat water levels (like the american and european minus world) loop is because the area where you come out of the pipe to get to the flagpole doesn't exist, so instead of taking you to a black screen, it loops the level over and over again

[@windows95leon]

Congrats and thank you Bismitu

[@zbou23]

Long time 1 hour fan thank you for all the memories

[@ShinyAlex01]

8:18 LOL i laughed so hard at that part. Great video Kosmic, i love the glitched worlds videos :)

[@lafcursiax]

4:26 I love the frantic noises you make trying to get Shiny Teeth started before it's too late! 😁 And of course, many thanks to Bismuth!

[@TheClownIsPogging]

YOOOOOOOOOOO THE RETURN, THANK YOU KOSMIC 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@bryantnonya8704]

It would be so cool to see a mod where all the dungeon tiles are changed to cloud tiles because it looks great with the black background!

[@MYFAVORITES5]

Bismuth edits for you and has time to make world record histories? Amazing!

[@SevenGC89]

This looks insane!

[@Bokoman9468]

This sieries is amazing! Keep up the good work!

[@ColonelMustache]

13:10 mario bonks his head so hard the universe crashes

[@lasercatto]

Hoooooo boy, the series is back

[@Treeee3]

Love this series!

[@atkman]

Running through memory sounds like fun! Maybe there is a unused hidden treasure world that was put in the game. Kind of like the movie National Treasure.

[@sagacious03]

Okay run video! Thanks for uploading!

[@Muho_is_me]

7:16 those cloud lifts are the single most un-memorable blocks Change my mind

[@themushrunt]

so glad to see more glitched worlds

[@atti_odyssey]

Love your videos!! Best SMB1 KZbinr.

[@gietie1694]

the series is back, lets gooo

[@linkmax5374]

Congratulations Bismuth to your 💯

[@Miitsu222]

Congrats Bismuth!

[@808_]

12:42 hey kosmic! So fun fact, if you wait long enough it actually does count down and you go on to the next level. I tested it in 8-2 with the flagpole screen wrap glitch and it took a little while but eventually a flag pops up and the music plays all the way and the next level starts

[@yyoshman]

happy uhhhhh editing anniversary bismuth

[@ddlv63]

yoo bismuth good job 100!!

[@JumboJosh-lv3mo]

If you ever want to play glitched worlds, you gonna want an anti crash code for the corrupt stages, as the new stages, only 6 load, and there’s like 20 total that blank out.

[@A-squared]

Mario says WOO at 4:52. Nice touch editor.

[@ewetwentythree]

1:40 I've began to make basic ROM hacks. And it's interesting seeing things like this make sense within the context of building levels

[@ewetwentythree]

My entire perception of this game has been warped after only making a world of ROM hack levels this game will never be the same to me

[@CaptainMangles]

great video as usual!

[@derpjorge]

The crazy thing about the game genie,at least for the nes one, you can actually use 2 game genies connected together to use more codes

[@pan.matvey_and_250_domino]

9:55 KOOPA!!!😂😂😂

[@chrisjagon]

Good job, Bismuth!!

[@Skylerthebean]

Ah yes the glitched worlds! Hello Kosmic it's been months! I stepped away from the Super Mario Bros and retro game world and instead am busy with school and am a competitive smash ultimate player. Hope you and everyone in the channel is doing okay.

[@captcalvin2293]

Bismuth truely is amazing

[@rayminishi689]

I remember those bootleg 1000 in 1 game sets solid in the US at one point. One had a repeat section of Super Mario Bros that forced cheats and send you to minus world and other levels in different color palletes and music

[@mbstar_35]

Bismuth was another person that got me into the speed running sene.

[@karnisgodspeedruns9854]

Just as I'm watching to look back he posts a new one

[@sussysy1]

sometimes it doesn't crash, but sometimes it sure does

[@MichelleSleeper]

I've wondered about generating an image from tiledata, the way I've seen maps made of normal SMB levels, but inputting glitched worlds instead of regular ones.

[@nightmaregaming6595]

That "Fish" at 16:32 is probably Gaster trying to break into the Mario games.

[@avasam06]

I completely forgot Bismuth edits your vids. It's quality editing.

[@ChicDead26]

I love this series, and i love shiny teeth

[@lennahcmarblesmonstersandm6070]

(Note that this is before I finished the video): I have been waiting more than two years for this, and I hope it doesn't disappoint

[@bobosmith101]

Oh, MORE glitch worlds? Yes please! Surprised you didn't try out -2's and stuff. I missed Shiny Teeth!

[@billabobyt]

I'm also really interested in how the game interprets garbage data and somehow makes a playable level out of it. Retro Game Mechanics Explained has a video explaining the NES Tennis thing and he's actually coming out with a video on this exact subject soon

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

The next time you try this I have a couple of useful cheat codes that can help with this exact experiment. There's VZTLTN, which stops the timer so that you can explore the levels as long as you'd like without fear of a Time Up, and KILLLU, which lets you jump to skip any levels while Mario is big, which is helpful for getting past levels that are normally unbeatable. The only limits are those levels that just freeze the game on a black screen.

[@ventriloquistmagician4735]

we're reaching levels of meme magic never though possible

[@idioticcake342]

17:26 if you pay attention to the music in the background: "Feels me up with SPACE"

[@PundogThrillionaire]

THANK YOU BIS-MUTH 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@seafarersubmerged3161]

Are you going to be uploading the VOD to your other channel?

[@SuperYoonHo]

I want to see more crazy ones!!! Maybe a game genie that I made up should help. Such as this one: MEGAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@BinglesP]

Does it let you play as Mega Man

[@SuperYoonHo]

@@BinglesP No, lol😂😂

[@Contravixity]

2:49 koopa throwing a hammer confused kosmic so hard it crashed the game

[@ujkloin]

10:11 i know why that happended! its the reason for bruce's exsitience all of those patterns on koopas, bowser and stuff are normally green in other levels so to make them blue while not using too much ram they everything shares the same color in 8-4 the problem is bowser should be green so what it does is that as soon as the axe loads they all turn green i know this made no sense but whatever

[@DougSalad]

17:26 "fills me up with spaaaaaaaace"