This Mario Powerup Was Never Supposed to Exist

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[java]

I always love when things get technical like this, thank you for the in depth description of this odd little quirk in the code!

[metamorphicblood]

2:38 Reminds me of a time when I was playing Kid Niki and lost a life at the same time that I finished a level. So for the next level I was just suspended in the air and spinning until the timer ran out. That was an annoyingly funny glitch.

[CoolJoshk]

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[Dreadjaws]

I remember doing this trick when I was a kid. I think I read it on a magazine. I had already been introduced to the concept of glitches due to the World -1 and on my own discovered how to make Mario "skate" on the floor by shooting a fireball at the precise moment while jumping out of a pipe. This became a fascination to me, so I started trying weird things in every videogame I could just to see if I could make something weird happen. More often than not there would be no results, but when there were it was always a treat.

[RichBourque]

We used to call this “reversing the effects” way back in 1986. It was a really cool trick to pull off and show to unsuspecting friends.

[cheesebone]

This was probably one of the first actual glitches that I discovered and actually enjoyed playing with when I was a kid. I remember getting to the minus worlds after reading about them in a magazine but I found this one myself. Neat to see someone covering it!!

[DavidWonn]

This was one of my favorite findings back in the 80s, figuring it out after a friend of mine would do the same setup on Bowser but as small Mario. One day I'd just try it as Super Mario and presto, small fiery glitch. It's hard to say for certain who found it first, though, as it may have been independently figured out by many in the early days.

[xoxo]

I kind of like the idea of say, a fire that dies more damage but won't stop you from dying

[cmaej]

I've only seen a small fire Mario sprite when I got softlocked on a glitched spring as big fire Mario. When I timed out, the death animation was small Mario, but kept the fire Mario color palette. I was about 5 years old and that really intrigued me.

[Xbob]

I remember my uncle doing this way back in the day and I thought it was the coolest thing. Glad to see it wasn't forgotten by time, or a figment of my imagination since almost no one talks about it!

[purpleepicicon]

I learned about this when playing it in the arcade. Back then it was word of mouth, so I consider myself fortunate to have been one of those who learned about it back when the NES was barely coming out.

[holtscustomcreations]

My brothers and I used to play that game when it came out. We played it for hours. We try to beat it in a single setting or even leave it on all night. I remember getting the mini fire flower as we called it multiple times. But never figured out how.

[jpvgd]

I love how before the 30 sec mark I already know you're going to be talking about small fire lol

[MichelleSleeper]

Shout out to romhack Wednesday crew and keeping track of small fire and "canonical" double deaths in romhacks!

[InfluenzerMusic]

I randomly found this as a kid in the early 90’s. Don’t know what compelled me to try touching the axe and Bowser at the same time, but I did. I loved trying to discover things. Did the death while hitting the axe too.

Never knew small fire Mario was invincible while throwing a fireball. Makes me wonder if you can one-hit Bowser.

[three-quartersbadger]

Someone showed me with in an arcade decades ago and I nearly lost my mind. I once played through SMB entirely in this form, using save states of course.

[VcArena]

Little man fire power is what we used to call this. It wasn't really worth the trouble but still pretty cool to pull off like dying to the princess

[paperluigi]

I remember getting that once 3 years ago upon clearing a world. I immediately pressed Home (was playing on Wii), and took a photo.

[Nobejn]

Another great analysis video! Not only the specifics of the two relevant variables, but also Bowser's depth on the bridge. I knew this power up state existed, but never knew about any of these specifics. Thank you!

[alpha_labs]

its actually possible to get it in super mario world using power states using glitches. Sadly it doesnt shoot fireballs tho