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Anonymous05/13/26, 04:35No.12568494
Have you beaten Super Mario Bros. without save-states?
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Anon05/13/26, 04:37No.12568497
yeah, recently, no warps either
i got as far as bowser on the second loop, but his hammer bro lieutenant fucked me
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Anon05/13/26, 04:56No.12568508
The first time I beat it was on a real NES when I was 8. I remember losing my shit and running around outside to tell everyone but I couldn't find anyone. kek
More recently I finished it on a single life without power ups and completed the full retroachievements set on hardcore. Then they deleted some of the cheevos and added some other ones and now it doesn't reflect that I did that, which makes me wonder why i even bothered.
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Anon05/13/26, 06:10No.12568560
Oh boy this thread again
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/7895279/#q7895279
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/5585549/#q5585549
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/3921959/#q3921959
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Anon05/13/26, 06:29No.12568589
As a kid with warps, as an adult without warps
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Anon05/13/26, 06:48No.12568623
nah but I've beaten deluxe on gbc, you can get used to the screen crunch.
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Anon05/13/26, 08:11No.12568723
yes and I only needed the continue code a few times
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Anon05/13/26, 13:29No.12569210
yes, just like every other non-retarded person who's played it
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Anon05/13/26, 14:04No.12569283
I have beaten SMB2, SMB3, and many other games after but never the original SMB1.
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Anon05/13/26, 14:06No.12569290
It took me six hours to get to world 8 in one sitting (with continues)
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Anon05/13/26, 14:42No.12569345
On an original SMB cart the game preserved your high score if you reset the console but SMB/Duck Hunt wipes the RAM on reset so that doesn't work there.
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Anon05/13/26, 15:14No.12569394
>without save-states?
yes
>without warps and 90+ extra lives?
no
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Anon05/13/26, 15:26No.12569415
This is the 19th time you've obsessively mentioned zoomers in a thread where they're not the subject matter
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Anon05/13/26, 15:33No.12569428
>Have you beaten Super Mario Bros. without save-states?
I did no save states, no warp, no death
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Anon05/13/26, 15:41No.12569445
Mario 1 is the easiest of the NES trilogy. If you can't beat it fair and square you shouldn't be allowed to play games.
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Anon05/13/26, 16:16No.12569482
too repetitive, too simple, i prefer playing something actual worthwhile such as Pokemon or F.F.
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Anon05/13/26, 17:39No.12569569
Even with save states I got bored of this and couldn't finish it just cheap deaths all around not fun to play in modern timesIf you can't react to it fairly then what's the fucking point it's just tedious
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Anon05/13/26, 17:40No.12569572
Yeah I used a game genie.
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Anon05/13/26, 17:52No.12569602
honest answer: i don't even remember. it is such a forgettable game if you played it as a kid
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Anon05/13/26, 17:57No.12569607
As an oldfag I'm amused by younger people's reactions to SMB1 but I can understand why they think it's difficult. In the late 80s/early 90s, kids would gather around the TV and give each other tips about all of the hidden stuff, and that was how you learned to beat it. But to anyone just picking it up today, they're not getting any of that with the experience and it must just seem like some confusing esoteric game.
It's not talked about how important crowdsourcing information was back then.
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Anon05/13/26, 17:58No.12569608
This is it, right? This board will only get worse with time, right?
God, I wish the hack had killed this site permanently
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Anon05/13/26, 17:58No.12569610
I beat it for the first time ever, in 2025. With warps, without save states. I have yet to beat the "2nd Quest", though.It was one of the most satisfying gaming achievements of my entire life. The difficulty curve is expertly crafted in SMB1. The first levels are easy as pie but the last ones are brutally unforgiving.
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Anon05/13/26, 18:42No.12569696
SMB was from the early Famicom era when ROM space was limited and games were just short simple reflex-driven stuff, the move to more complex games didn't come until a bit later.
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Anon05/13/26, 19:16No.12569770
Had lots of free time at my grandmas house, god bless her, yes.
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Anon05/14/26, 09:55No.12571036
I don't play games about pedophiles
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Anon05/14/26, 13:32No.12571481
Warpless without dying once
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Anon05/14/26, 13:40No.12571495
I think the difficulty progression of smb1 is kind of crap for a limited continue approach, way too much of it centers on a single end of game spike with the proceeding levels being fairly trivial. basically how patient are you to keep replaying 95% of smb1's campaign just to get back to the hammer bros in 8-3. like that's fine once or twice, but more than that and it drags.
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Anon05/15/26, 03:38No.12572637
Yeah, multiple times, both loops, and without using continued.
Now Lost Levels... That one I can only get to 6-4 or so before getting a game over.
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Anon05/15/26, 06:06No.12572770
I feel like I cheated the game by going slow and tactician, and it took me like 2 weeks to get good enough to do it continue-less and warpless.Solving platformers as an adult is hilarious
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Anon05/15/26, 06:48No.12572795
Yes, and Lost Levels too.
Granted, on SNES All Star, so not the true real deal. I'm old, but not quite that old.
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Anon05/15/26, 12:39No.12573141
If you........Used savestates, used powerups, got extra lives, used a continue, used warp zones, ran under bowser or hammer bros, used pipes/vines to skip entire parts of the levels, or paused.........You didn't beat the game.
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Anon05/15/26, 13:24No.12573203
Not trying to brag, but SMB1 isn't even meant to be hard, it being too easy was a common criticism at the time, hence SMB2 (Japanese) being the hard mode, basically.SMB1 is way easier than something like Silksong. I'm just going to assume you don't play any 2D platformers at all.
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Anon05/15/26, 19:03No.12573987
Yes, but I had to warp(aka not cheating)
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Anon05/15/26, 20:38No.12574160
You aren't a gamer if you haven't at some point in your life