Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)

Cool Coin glitch

If you collect a Coin at the same time you hit a frozen Coin or frozen Muncher with a fireball, your Coin total will go up by two instead of one. This happens because the game can't change the frozen block and remove the collected Coin in the same frame, so the frozen block thaws first and Mario ends up picking up the same Coin again in the next frame. (Special thanks to Vorpy for the technical analysis.)

Found by: Limbonic

Sent in by: enfani

Contributing: Vorpy

Emulator video files

In other versions...

Fixed in SMAS? No.

Fixed in SMA4? No.

Screenshots


  • Before the glitch

  • Frozen block thaws

  • Coin is removed

  • Mario gets two Coins!