Exploring Minus Worlds in Super Mario Games!

The Minus World glitch in Super Mario Bros isn't limited to the NES version. In this video I'm testing the glitch on every Super Mario Bros release! You won't believe what's inside...

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0:00 - intro
0:17 - Original Minus World Trick
1:16 - Super Mario Bros Famicom
2:31 - All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.
3:05 - Vs. Super Mario Bros Arcade
4:03 - Super Mario Bros All Stars
4:24 - Super Mario Bros Deluxe
4:48 - Super Mario Bros GBA
5:20 - Super Luigi Bros Wii U
6:12 - Super Mario Bros C64
7:29 - Super Mario Bros TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine
8:23 - Super Mario Bros Sega

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[fluxie_old]

7:05 fun fact! Piranha plants are in every pipe (if they can spawn, which isn't always possible cuz of the 5 enemy limit in the game), but they are designed to not spawn if the world is 1-1. It may be a clone of 1-1 but since the world # in memory isn't 1-1, piranha plants spawn in all the pipes in the stage.

[istrasci]

gruz, your calm and heartfelt "Goodbye" at the end of each video is one of the most wholesome things on the internet.

[Icelink]

The timer does actually load in that last minus world, but that particular configuration is used for the game's cutscenes.
(there's no timer when Mario goes into the underground pipe, because the time is 0.)

There's 4 different settings for the timer, in the level header:
%00 = 0 seconds
%01 = 400 seconds
%10 = 300 seconds
%11 = 200 seconds

[dylanobrien]

I've never heard a better impression of the Angry Video Game Nerd than 6:40 . You sound just like him!

[eternal]

even mari0 has a minus world, but i imagine its just an easter egg there given the way the game's coded wouldnt allow for minus worlds to exist their typical way

[mwnd_]

Thank you for pointing out that it's not world "minus one" but actually a misread undisplayable character

[Darkoli]

There's also the minus world in Super Paper Mario for Nintendo Wii. At least it's a reference to that and part of the story.

[JouvaMoufette]

I actually got to play the Genesis port last month and also got to the minus world there! Was happy to see -1 was above ground cause I knew I could get to -2, but sad when it was a cloud level with no timer 😢

[erics]

I remember the days before nintendo power was around and you had to rely on word of mouth at the elementary school lunch table for NES game secrets. According to said sources, the only way to enter the minus world was to jump over the flag pole and go down the top pipe at the end of 1--1.

[Kawa-oneechan]

Though SMB on GBA is an emulation, SMB-DX on the other hand is a port, since the GBC and NES have quite different processors and SMB was written in 6502 assembly. All-Stars on the gripping hand could reuse vast swathes of 6502 code because the SNES' 65C816 is to the 6502 as a 386 is to a 286.

[morganwolf]

Unsure if you’ve seen it, but someone (I think Kosmic) made a video on restoring the Minus levels to the Allstars release (because they didn’t do a great job patching the code)

[popixel]

The only minus worlds that I think you might have missed are utilizing the tennis pull out method. Granted, those cannot be accessed by using the Mario brothers game alone so I can see why you would skip passed it, but there are quite a few levels that you can access using this method.

[winterburden]

I've been waiting for this video for decades.

[bigbensworld]

9:12 you’re toast
Me: eating toast
*checks how long ago video was made*
Time: 4 weeks ago
Checks toast
Me: four toast.
Weird coincidence

[spyhuntr]

Been loving your videos for some time now - they have such a high production feeling to them! Like they came from a big studio! Bravo man - keep it UP!

[Seegtease]

I love that Japenese re-release one! Thanks for sharing this, love these kinds of videos. Feels so mysterious, like the secrets in Shadowgate or Uninvited. Even though it's just basically memory errors, the results are fascinating.

[jamtheripper]

1:00 Finally! At least soneone told the real world number, not just "minus 1" crap.

[Treevors]

9:25 yeah I'm definitely leaving a like I never heard of a minus world then I never heard of a Sega Genesis Port so my mind is blown.

[josh]

That was fun. Can't wait to try these out

[LeReubzRic]

Joke: The person who rounded up loads of animals on a boat? I hardly Noah!