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ColecoFan1981
05-29-2015, 07:14 PM
Is there a legal way to score 1 million points in the original Super Mario Bros. without having to glitch or lose more than two lives per attempt?

~Ben
SparTonberry
05-29-2015, 08:50 PM
The game loops so I'm pretty sure you can just keep playing.
(at least I'm fairly sure the NES and SNES versions do. Not sure about all versions. I think the GBC version might kick you back out after the ending.)
celerystalker
05-29-2015, 09:11 PM
Yep. I've done it. It just takes a long time and a lot of busted bricks.
Tanooki
05-29-2015, 11:18 PM
Sure the game itself loops, but the score I thought got stuck at 999,900.
Blitzwing256
05-29-2015, 11:21 PM
The game does not loop, after you beat 8-4 it ends, goes back to the title screen and you start all over at 1-1 in the second quest, the score does not freeze at 999,990 as well,
ColecoFan1981
05-30-2015, 02:35 PM
The game does not loop, after you beat 8-4 it ends, goes back to the title screen and you start all over at 1-1 in the second quest, the score does not freeze at 999,990 as well,
The score actually turns over at 10 million points.

~Ben
Tanooki
05-30-2015, 07:14 PM
damnit I left off a number. I remember seeing this stuff in NP magazine back in the day with mailed in scores.
SparTonberry
05-30-2015, 09:44 PM
The game does not loop, after you beat 8-4 it ends, goes back to the title screen and you start all over at 1-1 in the second quest, the score does not freeze at 999,990 as well,

Could've sworn the All-Stars version at least allowed 7 figures. That should be doable within two loops if you don't game over.
Blitzwing256
05-31-2015, 02:27 AM
Like i said the game ENDS at 8-4 thus you have to start a new game with a score of 0. I cannot speak for the millions of remakes, but in the original you do not keep your score when you start the second or third playthrough.
ColecoFan1981
09-03-2016, 10:30 AM
BUMP

I wonder how many times you're allowed to keep stomping on a Koopa Troopa or Buzzy Beetle (if you time it right) in runs like these?

~Ben
jperryss
09-03-2016, 12:33 PM
I wonder how many times you're allowed to keep stomping on a Koopa Troopa or Buzzy Beetle (if you time it right) in runs like these?



I'd think you could max out your score fairly easily using the 1-up trick in world 3-1 until you ran out of time. It'd take a while though, and you'd have to jump off and start over as soon as you started getting 1-ups.

EDIT: But no, not if you're limiting yourself to two deaths.
ColecoFan1981
09-04-2016, 04:45 AM
I'd think you could max out your score fairly easily using the 1-up trick in world 3-1 until you ran out of time. It'd take a while though, and you'd have to jump off and start over as soon as you started getting 1-ups.

EDIT: But no, not if you're limiting yourself to two deaths.
The stair trick is also doable in Worlds 6-2 and 7-1, as well as in World 4-2 if you manage to get to the Buzzy Beetle in time...

~Ben
Niku-Sama
09-06-2016, 07:37 AM
Is there an illegal way to get over a million?
RP2A03
09-07-2016, 07:11 PM
Is there an illegal way to get over a million?

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Want to buy some points?
celerystalker
09-07-2016, 11:34 PM
psssst! HEY! Over here!

Want to buy some points?


Be wary of this seller. I tried to buy points from him, and he demanded that all payment be made in expired Kool-Aid points and a fan fiction story about Rainbow Dash and Leonhard Euler having a daughter named Constance.