/vr/ - Retro Games

>A Treasure Ship, also called the White Ship or Coin Ship, is a wandering Hammer Brother that has been turned into a coin-filled airship that appears in Super Mario Bros. 3. If Mario or Luigi ventures onto a Treasure Ship, he finds tons of coins that he can collect, plus a Hidden Block with a 1-Up Mushroom (which is blue in the NES version).

>Treasure Ships are summoned through a trick that must be performed by following a specific method:
>The player must be in either World 1: Grass Land, World 3: Water Land, World 5: Sky Land, or World 6: Ice Land.
>A wandering Hammer Brother must be on the world map.
>Mario or Luigi must finish a stage with a coin total ending in a multiple of 11 (zero does not count).
>The tens digit of the player's score must match the multiple of 11 (i.e., if the coin total is 11, the tens digit must be 1; if the coin total is 22, the tens digit must be 2; and so on).
>As each second left on the timer will award the player 50 points, the timer must be stopped on an even number so that the number of points received is a multiple of 100. Alternatively, an odd number will work if the score is 50 points off from the correct multiple.
>For instance, if the above criteria are met, and the player ends a stage with 44 coins and a score of 0246240, they will successfully trigger a Treasure Ship. It should be noted that this trick will work only once in any given world.

Simple.

I always wondered that the exclamation marks meant something. Never really got an answer.