It's amazing that still to this day, quirks and hidden information in the video games of yesteryear are still being surfaced from players around the world.
The latest addition to this is NES classic Super Mario Bros. 3. For those accustomed with this title, you'll know that when our heroic plumber becomes Hammer Mario, he can't slide down slopes due to retreating into his shell when the player ducks. However, a sliding sprite for Hammer Mario has recently been brought to light and can be seen in a bonus room of level 6-10. In order to see it, Mario must already be sliding down the slope while acquiring the Hammer Suit power-up.
What's interesting here is that although the chance of encountering this animation in everyday gameplay is rare due to how situational the scenario must be, Nintendo still included the animation sprite within the game's code.
Let us know below your favourite memory of coming across something new upon revisiting a video game.
[source suppermariobroth.com]
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Um, this certainly isn't new.
This has definitely been known about for a long time when people examined the graphical information in the game, and used debugging to make this kind of scenario possible.
Debug mode means you can change Mario's power up on the fly, and in this case you can also be sliding then change to the Hammer Suit.
I think this specific room where you can be sliding whilst you grab the Hammer Suit was known as well.
This is very old and seems like you got baited from various sites like IGN for making this Easter egg big (I know there is the news source link, but still).
I just did a quick YT search and the same moment was up way back in 2007
https://youtu.be/IffFvt1gplI?t=50s
Yeah, I don't think this is a new thing. This has been in the game's files, it's certainly been uncovered now.
Certainly isn't new but fascinating nonetheless.
I would guess it is to prevent bugs and glitches and stuff
This is as old as the same animation of Mario looking up at the leaf in the SMB3 opening. An animation not use during the actual game but was interesting when seen in action.
First time it's been brought to my attention, so it's new to me. Cool!
Yeah, not as early as Greenalink's 2007 YouTube evidence, but here's a graphic screenshot from 2010.
http://www.mariowiki.com/File:SMB3_Hammer_sliding.png
I don't know why so many gaming news sites are suddenly making this out to be a big deal when it's seriously not.
This just goes to show the really bad habit of spreading news without fact-checking, it's a grave sin.
Um....ok?
Huh, I thought everybody knew about this already...
Not really new, I found it myself as a kid.
Admittedly I didn't know about this before, but as everyone is pointing out, it's been known for quite sometime.
why would you post something old and claim it as new. isn't that the definition of clickbait?
the lack of fact checking here astounds me.
@EarthboundBenjy
It's a lot easier to just regurgitate an article circulating on multiple other sites, to bump up your article count on a slow day.
I don't mind sites sharing interesting things, but a lack of fact checking can be embarrassing.
.........are people trying to get fame?
Sprite ripping have been around for decades now, no doubt this sprite has already been found.
But the certain situation to find the sprite in-game is pretty interesting.
I saw this tidbit on The Cutting Room Floor years ago. Dunno why this is being claimed as new. The Punch-Out one is newer than this.
...nice
Come on guys, five seconds on tcrf would of shown you this wasn't new. That and I knew about this back on the SNES version.
okaay?
What's the deal with people suddenly remembering/"discovering" things lately, and treating them as if they happened for the first time, when they're really just being reported on for the first time?
Old news. I mean, I'm sure this was discovered back the year this game was released.
Like, as a child' wouldn't it be stylish to get the powerup while sliding down the slope?
Just pointing out instead of saying old news that this article kinda makes Nintendolife not look very professional. Since it wasn't that big of a write up it might be best to take it down for how bad it makes the site look to how many clicks it will get.
I've been doing this since 1990. Bad clickbait! Bad!
Apparently, we're going through a phase where people find "hidden" things nearly three decades after a game comes out and makes a huge deal about it being a new find, despite a good chunk of people already knowing about it.
And yes, I did know that sliding down and grabbing the Hammer Suit would continue the animation.
Oh, Supper Mario Broth was funnier when I thought it was the inter-sectional coincidence of both Supper being a typo and Broth being a result of squished border dimensions.
I didn't know about this, but I've also spent very little time with the Hammer Bros. suit in this particular game and assumed you'd be able to slide with it anyways.
Neat!
I guess it's not new. First time I seen it though, so cool.
"You merely adopted the clickbait; I was born in it, molded by it"
Like everyone has said, this is ancient news by now. This should have been fact checked. NL isn'the alone though, but for the biggest Nintendo site in the world, you guys should really proof this. Hell, if you are anot editor on this site, I feel you should have known this little tidbit IMO
I remember making a miiverse post myself of this animation over a year ago...lol.
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAAAYUKlhiyMcjQ
Hey, maybe you could use this one as another recently discovered article
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAADMUKmI0D9-Zw
It's super cool and not well known, but that can be our little secret.
C'mon, guys, seems like every other Nintendo Life article is being slammed with the "clickbait" label. Sure, this is old news, but this site does the best they can to keep us up to date on everything Nintendo-related. If you're unsatisfied, I suggest finding another gaming site.
I read about this on the Cutting Room Floor wiki like two years ago...
Quite lame. Who hasn't seen this sprite at some point during the game?
It's really sad how arrogant this comment section is considering some people may never have seen it and now it's an opportunity for them to learn about it. Very pathetic and nasty attitudes people.
Maybe it's not arrogance and people just want the article to be corrected to not be patently false...nah, can't be that.
I didn't know about this.
@AG_Awesome
The article title is a lie and makes the site look amateur when it is not. It's not pathetic and nasty, it's pointing out a big error and hoping the site will correct it.
@dronesplitter Nope. It's rude and pathetic.
@SetupDisk A big error? Man, I would love to have a life like you where this is the kind of stuff I have to worry about. Must be really nice.
@AG_Awesome
You complain that people are pointing out the mistake by insulting them. When you are told why you disregard the very easy to understand explanation. Is this a big deal in my life? Of course not. However I love this site and for a gaming news site focused on Nintendo systems this is a obviously a big error no matter what kind of spin ypu want to put on it.
If you have nothing but insults for others when consider others arrogant when they point out a mistake maybe you should take some kind of course in communication to help you see the obvious hypocrisy in your post. .
@SetupDisk A "big" error?! Hardly. It's laughable how serious you take something like this. Do you even know what a big error is?! LMFAO!!!!! The fact that people are actually questioning the integrity of Nintendo life for the poor wording on the headline of an article is PATHETIC. Just so you know, some people didnt know about the trick and are more interested in seeing what was discovered than the specific nuances of a headline. Who cares if it was "just found" or "old news"? It's arguing a trivial point that ruins the substance of the piece.
I truly wish I had such a simple life to find these types of things unbearable like you do. Im quite jealous of you actually. And perhaps some of those people blasting the site and anyone who didnt somehow know about this trick already (the most pathetic attack of all in the comment section) should be the ones taking a course in common decency. Crazy, I know.
Hope this helps
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