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Originally Posted by CrowKiller
Found some tricks floating around.
- At the title screen for SMB 1 and 2 tap the B button to level select. Only downside is you have to have accessed the level already once before without cheating. So if you only made it to world 3 for instance, that's as far as you can level select.
- At the title screen of SMB 1 and 2, hold the A button for 5 seconds and you start the game with infinite lives.
- At the start of Ball after picking one of the modes, hold A and you'll play as Luigi.
There's other stuff too but those where the more interesting to me.
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I have beaten Super Mario bros 6 times, and Super Mario Bros 2 9 times. What I found out:
Upon beating Super Mario Bros for the first time, you'll unlock the options to choose between "normal" and "hard" modes for both single player and two player games. "Hard" mode just replaces Goombas with another enemy type.
If you use warp zones at any time during a full playthrough of Super Mario Bros 2, you will NOT unlock the secret World 9 which only lets you play it after beating worlds 1 - 8 (it does not appear in world select on the title screen, can only be accessed by starting a game as either Mario or Luigi and playing onwards from there, providing you get to world 8 without using warp zones). If you use infinite lives for World 9, they will not work, if you die once in that world, it gives you a special "Game Over" message from the "staff", and takes you back to the title screen.
Beating Super Mario Bros 2 World 8, 8 times, puts 8 flashing stars next to the word "Super" on the title screen. Once you have 8 stars, you'll be able to select "World A" from the world select B button. You can play through up to "World D" and that is the true end of the game.
In Worlds A, B, C, and D, Bowser does NOT use hammers, making him considerably easier to beat than the previous 8 worlds.
You CAN do the Minus World glitch in Super Mario Bros, however you will never be able to complete it, as it loops over and over (the pipe at the end warps you back to the start). Infinite Lives DOES work with Minus World. Unfortunately this world will not appear on the world select on the title screen either.
Perhaps a Japanese version of this handheld would have the different Minus World that also has -2 and -3 worlds.