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Post by NintendoNerds on Mar 20, 2008 8:21:00 GMT -5
Did you know that it is possible to get too many free men? By getting too many free men and then dying once, it's ends the game.
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Post by Classic Gamer Nerd on Mar 20, 2008 10:04:33 GMT -5
yeah I think the number is 100.
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Post by NintendoNerds on Mar 20, 2008 10:16:08 GMT -5
Close. It's actually on the 129th life that the glitch occurs. The game designers didn't think a player would ever get more than 100 lives or so. On the 129th life, the game interprets that as a negative number (due to limited bit string information...kind of like a data overflow or overrun), ending the game upon death.
I personally have never confirmed this but once you get 255 lives the game resets back to positive numbers. I don't see how its possible to get that many lives given the limited time to complete the level but it's interesting information.
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Post by Classic Gamer Nerd on Mar 20, 2008 10:23:28 GMT -5
It would be easy to figure out. There are infinte time codes with the genie
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Post by NintendoNerds on Mar 20, 2008 10:26:52 GMT -5
I was actually talking about not using any cheats however it would be pretty cool to test the theory to confirm this. Wow, also wouldn't it be hard to keep track of getting over 255 lives...lol?
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Post by Classic Gamer Nerd on Mar 20, 2008 10:31:50 GMT -5
well it would be a very minscule % that you can live to get a lot of men, then continue on to world 7-1 which is the next place it's possible then you have to avoid dying at all costs. It might be easier to find a rom of Super Mario 2 in japan (lost levels) you can do the trick in world 1-1, continue on to world 3-1, then warp back to 1-1
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Post by NintendoNerds on Mar 20, 2008 10:34:45 GMT -5
I knew about the world 7-1 with the beetle at the end on the stairs but I never thought about trying it with last levels and don't even know if the dynamics of this would change.
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Post by Classic Gamer Nerd on Mar 20, 2008 10:43:37 GMT -5
I don't think they would
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Post by NintendoNerds on Mar 20, 2008 10:44:40 GMT -5
I'm thinking no as well but I don't know for sure. I guess it would be worth a try anyway.
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Post by Classic Gamer Nerd on Mar 20, 2008 10:46:50 GMT -5
It would be devasting if you accidently died on world 7-1 via a hammer ouch.
Note: This topic may be hot just with the two of us lol
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Post by NintendoNerds on Mar 20, 2008 10:53:42 GMT -5
Yes, it is looking like it might go up in flames...lol I guess it's just an interesting topic because of the curiosity factor of the whole thing.
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Post by Classic Gamer Nerd on Mar 20, 2008 21:04:04 GMT -5
yea. It just be so hard in smb1, and yes I'd agree with the 255 lives. You can hold only 255 rupees in Zelda, only hold 2562 coins/exp in Dragon Warrior
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Post by Dweller on Mar 22, 2008 4:06:11 GMT -5
yea. It just be so hard in smb1, and yes I'd agree with the 255 lives. You can hold only 255 rupees in Zelda, only hold 256 2 coins/exp in Dragon Warrior It's the whole hexcoding issue 255 can be represented by a byte of data is why it's a logic cutoff point is why it's very common in the older games. |
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Post by Grimm Penguin on Apr 4, 2008 9:57:29 GMT -5
thats wierd
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Post by Classic Gamer Nerd on Jun 12, 2008 22:51:19 GMT -5
Theres a part at the end of 6-2 that works at getting men as well
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