Super Mario Bros. Question

[ehall]

OK, anyone ever hear of little fire Mario? (That's what I call him) When I was a kid, I came across this little trick where you are big, but not fire mario, and you reach the end levels (1-4, 2-4, etc.) you touch Bowser and the axe at the same time. Mario begins to flash and stops walking, just slides over to the toadstool. When the next level starts, you are big, but your first powerup is a mushroom, which makes you small. Then you get a fire flower. Little Fire Mario. Any of this seem familiar to any one? Whenever I mention it to even hardcore gamers, I get a blank stare. And I know I'm not crazy, cuz even though it's hard to do, I've done it twice. Please tell me someone else knows about this. Thanks.

[TisLord]

I have heard about it but never been able to pull it off

[Nescollector]

I've heard about it 12 years ago, but have never seen it done.

[Anonymous]

That trick was printed in the first issue of Nintendo Fun Club News. I've never been able to do it. I've also never been able to do the trick where Mario catches on the wall if you hit it just right, and you can time it to jump off the wall.

[ubersaurus]

Yeah, the little fire mario trick was a neat one...my cousin showed it to me way back in the day, and it works like this...

First, you must be big mario or fire mario. Second, you must go to a castle level (1-4, 2-4, etc.). From there work your way up to King Koopa, make your way past him to the axe, and then just stand there and wait for him to catch up. Now, is the tricky part. You have to touch him AND the axe at the same time. If you do it right, Mario will blink and you'll hear the shrinking sound, but he'll still be big.
From there just get a mushroom and a fire flower. Although you are big, you'll die in one hit, just as if you were small. And when you are small, if you get hit, you turn big again. It's pretty cool, and although hard to do, is one of the coolest glitches I've ever seen.


Whoops, forgot to notice that you already pointed out how to do it

[Felixthegamer]

::Stares blankly at ehall:: No, I have never heard of that one.

[scooterb23]

Yeah, I used to be able to pull it off at will...now it's an accident.

Very helpful when you need to squeeze into a tight spot, but still needed some firepower

[hydr0x]

yeah i do know it, but i never could do it, but i could do some other things:

the easy wall climbing

AND

jump over the flag at the end of the map!!!!! you could run endlessly along the castle woohoo, anyone else ever did this? i didi this per incident, and i was never able to do it again, i was about 6 years old then )

[Videogamerdaryll]

Wow!..I've never heard of this trick..I gotta tell some body I know about this,,He's gonna look at me with that blank stare..and say I'm full of it..

[simonbelmont7]

yup, definately got the blank stare for ya... but ill im gonna be trying it later!!! Only thing i remember was the whole negative world trick going through the wall, which took me months of practice to get to work!

[ehall]

Thanks, it's nice to find out that other people have actually seen this. It's bugged me for a long time.

@Simonbelmont7 - I love the minus world trick, I always do it, even when I'm just going to the regular warp zone. It's just fun to slide through that wall.

[chadtower]

Anyone ever pulled off the turtle shell trick that gets you millions of extra lives? You can get the extra life meter to go into hexadecimal, then just weird symbols after that... it's pretty cool.

[hydr0x]

yeah, i did that one too the day i heared about it

[dreamcaster]

Yep, done the flag pole trick. Went sailing over the top!!!!

Done it both the original and All-Stars versions.

All the other tricks mentioned I have heard of, but never done myself. Never really attempted them either!!

[Captain Wrong]

Yeah, I used to be able to pull it off at will...now it's an accident.

The only time I've ever done it, it was an accident. I was good at finding glitches like that just because I was so clumsy at games.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Never heard about this trick...it´s very cool...

[Jorpho]

Yep, seen it done. You can get a Nesticle movie (as well as a movie of Mario jumping over the flagpole) at The Mushroom Kingdom. Check the Bugs/Glitches section.
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[RetroYoungen]

Wow, that sounds like a freaky little trick. Sounds cool though, really the only tricks I'd heard of were the Minus World trick and that turtle shell/extra lives trick. Trippy, a little fire-throwing Mario?

[Jorpho]

It gets particularly trippy because whenever you throw a fireball, the Big Mario sprite is actually displayed for a instant. (The sprite is only displayed, though; for instance, you can stand under a coin, throw a fireball, and not collect the coin.)
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[WiseSalesman]

Yeah, I've done all of these, except the jumping over the flag one...I'm going to have to try that later.