Without a doubt, Super Mario Bros is the most famous Nintendo game that has ever existed. And it is that this represented a real challenge for many who tried to reach the end in order to rescue Princess Peach from the clutches of Bowser.
However, in this game there was no possibility to save the game or set a password to resume the level in which you left, or so we thought.
Usually, by losing the 3 lives that were granted to you you had to start from scratchthat is, from world 1-1, even if you would have made it to world 8-4.
This rule is something that many of us have had to deal with from the very first time we started our adventure in Super Mario Bros, thus giving rise to a love-hate relationship with this game. Advancing through the 32 levels of the Mushroom Kingdom was no easy task, so it was extremely frustrating to be defeated on the last level and have to return to world 1-1.
However, it was recently discovered that there is a way to avoid returning to the starting point of the game.
This means that the entire time you were playing Super Mario Bros, you had the ability to pick up where you lost without having to start from scratch in order to get there again.
This trick is something that has been circulating for years on the internet, although it has been the RetroGamingOnline who has made it viral by making it known recently on his TikTok account.
It is worth mentioning that this trick can be applied to any of the original versions of Super Mario Bros that run on consoles. NES, Nintendo Switch Online or Virtual Console on Wii U. Having said this, let’s go with the steps:
– The moment you have lost all the lives, wait until the game shows you the title screen.
– Once there, hold the A button and then press the Start button.
This will cause the game to resume at the first level of the last world where you lost all lives, meaning if you used up all lives in world 3-4 using this cheat you will resume the game from world 3-1.
And while you won’t always start from exactly the world you were defeated in, at least you won’t have to start the game from scratch.
