MaximRecoil Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 (edited) I was practicing the turtle stomping trick in world 3-1 (original NES with an original SMB cartridge), and on my last life I got it to work good; was getting a bunch of 1UPs, and I kept it going until the time ran out. But then it said game over, as if I'd never gotten any of those 1UPs at all. Is there an explanation for that? I've done that trick quite a few times in the past and it has never not registered the extra lives before. Edited November 5, 2022 by MaximRecoil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 2 hours ago, MaximRecoil said: I was practicing the turtle stomping trick in world 3-1 (original NES with an original SMB cartridge), and on my last life I got it to work good; was getting a bunch of 1UPs, and I kept it going until the time ran out. But then it said game over, as if I'd never gotten any of those 1UPs at all. Is there an explanation for that? I've done that trick quite a few times in the past and it has never not registered the extra lives before. Maybe extra lives flips back to 0 if you get too many. Over 255? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaximRecoil Posted November 6, 2022 Author Share Posted November 6, 2022 I didn't have time to get that many extra lives. I got maybe 50 or so. Definitely less than 100. I'd like to try it again under the same circumstances (on last life in world 3-1, keep stomping turtle shell until time runs out) to see if the same thing happens again, but I'm not very good at it. Once I get it set up right I can keep it going pretty good, but I'm not good at getting the turtle shell in the right position to get it started in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaximRecoil Posted November 6, 2022 Author Share Posted November 6, 2022 Well, I managed to do it again after quite a few tries, exactly like last time (on my last life in world 3-1; kept stomping the turtle shell until time ran out), and video taped it, but it registered all the extra lives this time. So I have no idea what happened last time when it decided to simply ignore all those extra lives I got. I wonder if that's ever happened before to anyone else. I wish I would have been video taping when it happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 I googled it and apparently if you get more than 127 lives then the game will think that you have negative amount of lives and you'll game over on the next death. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/525243-super-mario-bros/72638713?page=1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaximRecoil Posted November 6, 2022 Author Share Posted November 6, 2022 That's interesting, thanks for the link. Like I said, it didn't seem like I got that many extra lives, but apparently I did. And I guess that was more extra lives than I've ever gotten before doing the same trick because it's never caused a game-over before. And the second one I did last night to see if it would game-over again was around 90 extra lives (I just counted them on the video I took of it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Yeah you hit what would be considered the equal of the classic kill screen on early arcade games with SMB. The code was setup to where it just breaks the game and doesn't know what to do when it hits that rate as it flips on itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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