/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.423940]

I am confused as fuck right now. So I'm emulating the good old fashioned Super Mario Bros. And I swear, some of the 1-ups aren't even there. Like the one in 2-1, right near the beginning. Or the one in 3-1, above the bridge. What the fuck is going on? As far as I can tell it's the exact same original game, so I don't see why it should be different. Anyone else experience this?

[Anonymous No.423948]

The parts of your brain that used to hold vital memories have been eaten away by the crap you eat and breathe. That's all it is.

[Anonymous No.423958]

>>423940

Take some screenshots of your 1-upless places so we can try for ourselves.

[Anonymous No.423965]

>>423958

Alright, let me get to 2-1 and I'll take a screenshot

[Ark No.423971]

Only one on 2-1 on this map is near the end. Hmm.

[Ark No.423980]

Oops, wrong file. Lets try that again. 2-1.

[Anonymous No.424021]

okay just got to 2-1 where is this one up suppose to be

[Anonymous No.424026]

Look. There's supposed to be a block right here with a 1-up. But Mario just keeps on jumping, no block appears.

[Anonymous No.424034]

>>424026
Maybe you're playing a hacked version? Try a different one.

[Anonymous No.424035]

>>424026

I'll try this when I get back from the store.

[Anonymous No.424037]

Actually, I've noticed that too. Sometimes, invisible 1-up blocks won't appear. No idea why.

[Ark No.424038]

>>424026
Did you warp?

[Anonymous No.424058]

>>424038

Nope.

[Anonymous No.424063]

>>424026
lel your game is fucked. I just got it on my cart

[Anonymous No.424064]

The ROMs have become self-aware. They don't want you to win anymore.

[Ark No.424082]

>>424058
My "Super Mario Bros. (JU) [!].nes" has it, when I warp.

[Anonymous No.424074]

>>424035

On the original NES there's definitely a 1up there. Like if you look at any video or map of 2-1 it's there. But for some reason it's not showing up at all, it's bizarre. Same with 3-1.

>>424034

I considered that but it's strange. I got the rom from a site that just has a ton of normal roms. And like I said the game seems normal in all other aspects. Even the 1ups are in the right places in 1-1 and 1-2.

[Ark No.424102]

>>424058
>>424082
...and doesn't have it when I don't warp.

It's normal. Warp.

[Anonymous No.424108]

>>424102

What? So the 1up only appears if you warp? That's hard to believe. I mean I believe you but there's no way the game is programmed like that.

Maybe, if you get both 1ups in 1-1 and 1-2 as I did, it wont appear...but thats also hard to believe

[Ark No.424128]

>>424108
Try it yourself. Same thing happens in SMB2J (for some of the hidden shrooms)

[Anonymous No.424156]

It's happened to me, and I was playing on the Virtual Console. Sometimes the 1-up will be there, other times it won't.

[Anonymous No.424150]

>>424108
>the 1up only appears if you warp?
Isn't this the case with the 1up on the bridge in 3-1? My memory is rusty.

[Anonymous No.424247]

The hidden 1ups only appear if you get all coins in stage 3 of the previous world (if you played that level at all)

People really don't know this? This is fucking Super Mario Bros, possibly the most well known and classic game ever. And you're this ignorant about it. I bet you have trouble with hammer brothers too don't you? Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.424339]

>>424247

Seriously? I don't know how anyone would guess that

[Anonymous No.424367]

>>424339

I don't know how anyone would guess that holding down on those white blocks in Mario 3 for 5 seconds lets you fall into the background.

Yet everyone knows this.

[Anonymous No.425054]

>>424247

Wow, tried this, it actually works. Takes a long time to get all the coins though, requires slow moving and patience.

[Anonymous No.425072]

>>424247
holy shit, I did not know this. and I can easily run through this entire game on one life. i'm gonna see if it's true.

[Anonymous No.425092]

>>424247
fucking this. goddamn buncha SMB noobs up in here

[Anonymous No.425135]

>>424367

I have never, ever heard of the "collect all coins in stage 3" to get the 1up in the next world. I have never seen that anywhere, unlike getting the warp whistle in mario 3. even searching it online, i am finding absolutely nothing. yet it seems to work anyway. i am really confused.

[Anonymous No.425172]

>>424026

whats with the purple sky bro? that's a hacked rom for sure.l

[Anonymous No.425180]

>>425054

huh, stage 3s in SMB are all pretty quick and simply constructed. no pipes or anything, its just platforms in the sky

[Anonymous No.425183]

>>424367

Word-of-mouth, my nigga. At least that's how I learned 18 or 19 years ago when I first played it.

[Anonymous No.425270]

guis help

[Anonymous No.425287]

>>425270

What is a long-jump

[Anonymous No.425301]

>>425270
Long jump.

Possibly a running triple-jump with a dive at the end, if you have the space.

You may be able to hit the end of the slide and have enough time to jump again and collect the star.

[Anonymous No.425310]

>>424026
Did you fall through that block's space before attempting to hit it?

[Anonymous No.425315]

>>425301
>>425287

all ibs lobst

ids hobeless

[Anonymous No.425329]

>>425287
it's that move you use to cross those gaps in Tall Tall Mountain

[Anonymous No.425391]

>>425270

Jump backwards, air kick, land on butt, repeat.

Can climb any slippery slope this way.

[Anonymous No.425429]

>>425391

It has successed at winning the missiion!

thx anon

[Anonymous No.425518]

>>425315
>>425429

Please write normally.

[Anonymous No.427429]

>>424367
that's a rare case of something I figured out myself
and I'm a guy so dense I couldn't even figure out how to swim and died of clock-timeout'
I just noticed how screwy the white boxes looked, how they stood out, and I just tried approaching them from every angle.. and finally tried ducking

[Anonymous No.427881]

the arcade version of smb is slightly different. maybe you're playing that?

[Anonymous No.427902]

Vs. Super Mario Brothers is not Super Mario Brothers

[Anonymous No.428238]

>>425135
I've never heard of that either, even though I've known about the "falling through the block into the background" in SMB3 since I was a kid. And yeah, I've beaten both SMB and SMB2J (in the form of the "Lost Levels" on Allstars).

Then again, I never hung with the hardcore SMB fanbase, so maybe it's just one of those things all the "hardcore fans" know but nobody else knows.

[Anonymous No.428248]

Youre playing the arcade version

[NESfag No.428252]

Fun fact: the PAL version of SMB1 runs actually FASTER than the NTSC versions (and is more fun like that imo)

[Anonymous No.428257]

Why does Mario loose both his mushroom and fire flower powers when touched by an enemy, instead if just reverting back to big mario without fire flower?

What is this bullshit? That's not how I remember the game being.

[Anonymous No.428264]

>>428257
You must be confusing it with Super Mario World.

[Anonymous No.428259]

>>428252
How'd that happen?

[Anonymous No.428274]

>>428257
>>428248

[Anonymous No.428276]

>>428248
Wouldn't he know if he was playing it in MAME or something rather than a NES emulator?

[NESfag No.428287]

>>428259
Back then PAL games ran in 50hz contrary to 60hz for NTSC. Which means that most PAL conversions ran at a speed almost 20% slower. However, a few games had great conversions where the difference in speed was not noticeable.

I assume that when they converted SMB1 they either decided to make it faster or screwed it up somehow.

[Anonymous No.428306]

>>428287
>Which means that most PAL conversions ran at a speed almost 20% slower
I know. That's why I was wondering how it could possibly have gotten faster.

>I assume that when they converted SMB1 they either decided to make it faster or screwed it up somehow.
That must be it.

[Anonymous No.428404]

>>425315
ids druly habidding