Super Mario Bros. 3
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White block trick
3 extra lives
Free Frog suit
Matching Games
Locations of the White Mushroom House
Get a different Thank You from the King
Tanookie Suit tip
How to get a Treasure Ship
Warp to World 8
Coin Heaven
How to get a star at the end of a level
1-up in World 3-2
1-up in World 3-3
Whistle locations
World 8 Fortress tips
Geting on the pipe in World 1-2
Jump high and run through the air
Get 99 lives
Hidden pipes
2 1-ups
Fortress tip
Where to find Hammer suits
Be a gray Hammer Bros. guy
Hidden World
World 3-9 trick
2 hidden lives
Be invincible fighting Bowser when standing
One less row of bricks under Bowser
Kill Bowser with hammers
Swim under the ship
Get lots of lives
Final Bowser Castle tip
Iup
Be invisible
Game Genie codes
White block trick
Sent in by Danielle L.
This tip is kind of pointless (except when used to get the first warp
whistle) but its kind of fun. Any time you see big a white block, jump up
on it and press down until you fall through, you'll be able to run behind
stuff and be invisible, but you can still get hit when you're out in the open.
This is a good trick to use to sneak up on enemies.
3 extra lives
Sent in by LE
On Level 8-1 if you run and fly right at the beginning of the board,
and then fly (obviously a tail is needed) to the pipe and go in there
are 3 extra lives, and you come out half way through the board!!
Free Frog suit
Sent in by Buzard245
in level 3-9, when you go into the water part, go all the way to the left.
Go down the last pipe. Just when you come out of the pipe, push the
right arrow on the control pad. This will make you land on a platform
where there is a giant question block, like the ones Tanooki suits come
out of. Hit it and grab the frog suit. Jump down and go out the pipe.
Matching Games
There are eight different games.
F= Fire Power
S= Star
1= 1up
20= 20 Coins
M= Mushroom
10= 10 Coins
F S 1 F 20 M 1 M 10 M F S
10 M 20 1 M 10 M 10 S 20 20 F
S F S M F S S 1 F M F S
F 10 1 F 1 M M F 20 F 10 S
S M 20 S M 10 20 1 M 10 1 F
S F 20 M F S S M S M F S
F 20 M S 1 F F S 1 F 1 M
1 F 10 M 20 S 10 M F S M 10
M 10 S M F S S 20 20 M F S
M F 20 M 10 S M F 1 F S S
F 1 M 10 1 20 20 S M 10 1 F
S F S M F S 20 M 10 M F S
Locations of the White Mushroom House
1-4 44 Coins
2-2 30 Coins
3-8 44 Coins
4-2 22 Coins
5-5 28 Coins
6-7 78 Coins
7-2 46 Coins
Get a different Thank You from the King
Finish an Airship as Tanooki, Frog, or Hammer Mario, for a different
Thank You from the King.
Tanookie Suit tip
With the Tanookie Suit you are fire proof, can stomp on enemies in the
water, and make it through small gaps on the platforms, when you are a
statue.
How to get a Treasure Ship
To get a Treasure Ship to appear on Worlds 1, 3, 5, or 6, collect a
number of coins that is a multiple of 11, make the tens digit in your
score match the multiple of 11, and stop the clock on an even number.
For example, 77 coins, score 827,070, time is 164 when you get the
card.
Warp to World 8
If you use a whistle at the warp zone, Level 9, you will automatically
go to World 8.
Coin Heaven
World 2-4, From the very start, fly up to the left to a Coin Heaven.
How to get a star at the end of a level
At the end of a level, hit the goal at a 45* angle to automatically
get a star.
1-up in World 3-2
World 3-2, Before geting the goal, fly up to the left for coins and a
hidden 1-up.
1-up in World 3-3
World 3-3, if you pass the pipe that takes you to the goal, you will
find a 1-up.
Whistle locations
The first whistle is in World 1-3. At the white block, press down for
five seconds until you are in the background and go to the end of the
level.
The second whistle is in the World 1 fortress. Get a tail so you can
fly, then before going in the door, fly up all the way to the right
and press up to find it.
The final whistle is in World 2. Get the hammer and use it at the
very top right of the map. You will be able to get a frog suit and
the final whistle.
World 8 Fortress tips
Sent in by Buzard245
To get through the World 8 fortress: enter it and go to the right. Find
the block with the mushroom in it, if your not already big. Then go back
to the first door above the roto-discs. Go left a little way to find a
block with a feather. Use it, then go right to where the first Thwomp
is. Break the bricks he's next to carefully. When you're done, go to the
right ALL the way until you get to another wall of bricks. Make sure
you don't fall in the room with the door, because you won't be able to
get out. Break the bricks and keep going. Don't get hit! When you get
to the sliding thwomp, jump over him. Hit the two bricks. One has a
P-switch. Hit it and run all the way right. There will be a door against
the wall that wasn't there before. Go in it, and you'll get to Boom-Boom.
Geting on the pipe in World 1-2
Sent in by Rachael
If you aren't using a Game Genie code you can still get on the pipe to
the 1 up and the coins if all the coins are gone. This is in World 1-2.
On your right there is a down hill slope on a point where it sticks out of
the ground, just slide down really fast and jump when you get to the
edge and you should land on the edge of the pipe.
Jump high and run through the air
Sent in by seankel@geocities.com
Super Slide Jump:
For this to work you can't be Raccoon Mario.
First you have go to the top a steep hill. Now hold "B" and you
slide down it. Now jump just before you reach the bottom. Mario
now will jump really high and run through the air.
Get 99 lives
Sent in by Todd Armstrong
In Level 3-5 there should be a Lacitu that shoots out those red things
with spikes on there back. About 10 seconds into the level you meet
3 turtles walking up a hill. DO NOT KILL THEM, THEY HELP YOU. Go get
Lacitu and bring him over to just after the place where you met that
turtle, there is a Parana plant that comes out of the top of your screen.
When you have Lacitu, jump on one of the three turtles backs, grab
the turtle, bring it over to where the Parana plant is and stand on the
ledge directly below the plant. let the turtle go and it should go back
and forth between the two blocks on the ground. As Lacitu takes out
thens red spiky guys, they should land in the space between the two
blocks. As the turtle shell goes back and forth it should kill all of
the red spiky things, as each one gets killed you should get another
life. You can get up to as many as 99 lives!!!
Hidden pipes
Sent in by Jason Link
In World 8, Level 2, begin sinking in the sand pit. You drop down
a ways and you can choose either of two pipes. They each have
coins or extra lives in them. Then go back in the tube. This takes
you very close to the end. Avoid the fire plants and go down the hill.
DON'T SLIDE DOWN!! Jump on the noteblock and hit the card.
2 1-ups
Sent in by Mike Mikes
World 5: Spiral Castle- use a P-wing and get to the first sky part.
Break lots of bricks, many have coins and 1-ups. Then fly over
the big wall. There are 2 1-ups.
Fortress tip
Sent in by Mike Mikes
Any Fortress: Use the hammer suit and you can kill thwomps,
ghosts, and the end guy with 1 hammer.
Where to find Hammer suits
Sent in by Mike Mikes
Mushroom House after 6-5.
Down pipe in 6-10 (melt ice, then use p-switch to change black
things into coins.
Mushroom house after 7-5 (Not always).
Be a gray Hammer Bros. guy
Sent in by Kris Smith
This is a useless trick, but very interesting. Here's what
you do. I forget the exact World where it can be done,
but it needs to be done in a level that has a giant block
that yields a Hammer Bros. suit. You must first get to this
room with the Tanooki Suit on. Now, Hit the block, and turn
to stone. As the Hammer Bros. suit bonces around, if it hits
you when you are turned to stone, you will be a gray Hammer
Bros. guy. The only problem, is you can now not enter the
pipe. You are stuck in this room, but it's still pretty neat.
Hidden World
Sent in by James Stevens
In World 5-7 after you complete the world you enter a pipe
and exit into the area where you run to get the card. Try
flying up to the left and on top of the wall. Walk to the
left then and you will discover a world that is very hard
because there is one of the clouds that throws the spiked
monster all over the place. However if you smash enough
bricks in the ceiling you will find a P that will give you
coins. A high risk move, little rewards, I recommend using
a P-wing.
World 3-9 trick
Sent in by James Stevens
In World 3-9 at the end of the surface world before you go
down the pipe that is surrounded with movable blocks,
take out the ones on the left and the third one up on the
right, there should now be a two bricks against the wall,
a gap and one above the gap. Duck down and remove the
two bricks without removing the top one. This should
trap you in between the wall and the pipe with a brick
above your head. While sanding up try to jump and go
down the pipe. Eventually you should be taken down the
pipe without having gotten on top of it. This allows you
to run from one end of the board to the other trapped in
between the water world and the surface world. One
draw back is that when you run out of time you do not die.
You have to turn the game off to continue playing.
2 hidden lives
Sent in by Rey Sanchez
In World 7-4 at the Sea before you go into the pipe fly up to
the Right Hand Corner and keep on flying right to find 2 hidden lives!
Be invincible fighting Bowser when standing
Sent in by Sean Kelly
Defeat Final Boss Easily: Use a P-Wing and enter the final castle
in World 8. In the final boss' chamber, fly up and to the left until
you reach the other side of the wall, then return to the chamber.
The boss won't be able to breathe fire and if he stomps you once,
you'll be invincible while on the ground.
One less row of bricks under Bowser
Sent in by Guido Wommer
It helps to have a P-Wing for this one, or if you use Game Genie,
use the code GZUXNGEI for Multi-Jump.
In the last castle (the absolute last one, home of that Bowser guy)
while you're crossing the donut lifts that lead to the final chamber,
there's a statue on the bricks right before the door. You know,
right above the last donut lift. Here's what you do: First, duck.
Then, take off. While ducking, fly just above the statue's head
and land on it. Then, stand up. You will go to the right. This
leads to a room in which there is a leaf, then more platforms
that lead to the final chamber. Using this trick, it will take less
time to beat the game because there is one less row of bricks for
Bowser to break. WARNING: Don't do this trick a second time!!!!
There will be another statue in the same position after you have done
the trick, but don't land on top of it and expect to go into another room!
You go to the right, just like in the first try, but you get stuck right
above the door to the final chamber, and have to wait for the timer
to run out before you can continue.
Kill Bowser with hammers
Sent in by Conqurer
If you can get to Bowser's room with the hammer
suit on, you can defeat him by hitting him with about six
hammers. You'll know if you've hit him by hearing a sound
similar sound to the one you hear when you defeat turtles
with fireballs. After you've done that, try defeating Bowser
with fireballs! Yes, it is possible. I'm not sure how many
it takes, but if you can do it, consider yourself a pro.
Swim under the ship
Sent in by Martin Doyon
When you get to World 8 at the level with the battleships,
it's easier to swim under the ship to beat it.
Get lots of lives
Sent in by Jeremy Hartsook
In World 1-2 when you go over the pipe that is shaped like a T, there
will be Goomba's coming out. Get a feather and come back then after a
couple have come out start jumping on there heads. After you get 8000
points you will start getting 1-ups until you touch the ground.
Final Bowser Castle tip
Sent in by Todd Muirhead
Final Bowser Castle--Use a feather with a P and past the fire ball go
on the roof and fly right and a door then go through it.
Iup
Sent in by Todd Muirhead
World 3-8--If you go to the end and go on the lower section jump on the
block with a P and quickly go on the top and get the three last
coins and the top is a 1-up block and get it . It may take more
than one try.
Be invisible
Sent in by Chris Gunderson
This code is useless, but neat. In 3-9, go to the pipe
by the blocks. Break the blocks. then, dodging the bullet bills,
find the white block in front of it. Press down for 5 seconds.
You will go behind the scenery. Now, walk over there,
only jump-ing when you have to. If you jump too many times,
it won't work. Now, go down the pipe. When you come out,
you will be invisible! This may take more than 1 try.
Game Genie codes
VXKXGLIE Invincible
KUKXGLIE Flying Mario
YNKPTZGE 99 Lives after continue.
OEPZXZ Enemies, and stuff from blockes become 1ups.
Sent in by Tony Hedstrom
YEUXKGAA Start the game as a plant/cloud. With this code, you can
go past as many levels as you want on the map screen.
ONKXGLIE Start and stay as Invincible Mario. But, you can't go
down some tubes.
AEUXKGAE Start the game as ??? Then, if you get hit, you turn into
Tanooki. While you are Tanooki, the whistle is blowing all of the time,
so you can start flying immediately! AXUXKGAA similar to above
UUKXGLIE Start and stay as Little Mario (invincible)
AANZKLLE No turbo running
EANZKLLA 2 Marios when you press "B"
EKEUXLAA Infinite time in world 1-1.
EGUZXNAE Infinite time in world 1-2.
EGOZOTAA Infinite time in world 1-3.
OGKXOZPA Infinite time in world 1-5.
EKULAUAE Infinite time in world 1-6.
"Sent in" by Jesse Smith
SXZZOO If you don't have turbo, you can't jump very high. You try to
swim, but don't get very high. If you do have turbo, you can swim AND fly.
You must be small for the effect to work.
OUGLZA Get rich fast, plus one screen length is normal, then the next
one is black, the next one is normal and so on.
PEGLZA Another get rich FAST code!!! Get one coin and your coin amount
shoots up. As you get more coins it goes up faster and you can be up to
99 lives before passing the first level.
UUKXGLIE Always Small Mario, invincible, you can jump on any enemy,
even Fire Plants.
SXGZPO There is a small blue square above every coin switch.
SXTZPO Mario can sometimes Ice Skate, forward and back, when
he has the tail. He can't swing his tail.
NYGLPA You start with five lives, just like normal, but you can't
see how many live you have.
XZZOEK You better be a pro!!!
IANOXG Green
PGTIPS Most enemies can't attack.
SXGZPO There's a small blue square above every coin switch.
SXTZPO Mario can "Ice Skate" when he has the tail. Although
he can't swing his tail. When you try to jump to the left, you go
backwards, even when you try to walk to the left.
NYGLPA You can't see how many lives you have, although you
start with the normal amount, five lives.
SXAGUO You can't get the mushroom.
SXAGOO Mushrooms don't come out of the brick, enemies don't shot
fireballs at you, but you can't pass the level.
PEIIZA Very strong gravity for turtles and enemies that normally jump,
or fall off the screen. You have normal gravity.
SXLAOO It looks like you are in the Amazon.
SXLZOO If you get a mushroom you moonwalk to the very top and can't
get down or pass the level.
SXPGOO When you step on a turtle, it tries extra hard to get out of it's shell.
PETZZA It's night time, but the game freezes when you try to pass the level.
SZZZOO You are VERY slow at walking to the left.
Sent in by Paul Webster
GOZSXX Invincible from all attacks except falling off screen.
POZXXL Strange colors, can't move
AAAXXL Point number block half the screen
ZOZZOL You get pushed around. Hold B to stop
**ZZOI Replace ** with anything to get strange enemy colors
ZLLIEA Enemies aren't where they seem
ANALSE Too weird for words
GANLSE Dark colors
ZOZGAN Enemies standstill
OZLUYT Power switch blocks don't work
EKIZNU Black border around map and it freezes
IPZUYL Lines of graphics cover screen
NYLLUN For Pros. Level Distorted
NYPLUN Can't get past level 1-1
NYALUN Mario faces you
PIPIPI Weird Flying enemies. Can't pass a level
PEPLUN Get the same coin repeatedly
NYTZUL Can't move during or after flight
ZUZLUN A mystery block appears in the clouds near the 1-up in
Level 1-1. It can give a life or any power ups. It can kill you too
Sent in by K7
KZUEXNSO Lose special power when you exit a level
XXKXGLIE Mario is an Invincible purple glob that swims in air
YZKZYVEK Mario Can't Jump
OEUZUGAA Mario is Lost in the Desert
SEUZUGAA Uncontrollable sound test
XEUZUGAA Mario is lost at sea
UEUZUGAA Sunset Land
IXKZELSX Sudden Uncontrollable Boosts
Sent in by Seppo Tuovinen
PUILTI Push the B-button to take an ice-block out into the air, don't kill
jumping bricks.
Sent in by Sean
AAIIZX Cool numbers when you get mushroom
AAAOKK Cool graphics
EEEOKK Enter level it passes it for you.
PPPOKK Bar game
OOOOKK Ice & grass game
KKKOKK Special effect at start
SSSOKK Cool colors
TTTOKK Black game
VVVOKK More cool colors
UUUUUU Cloud blocks at 1st level
TTTTTT Different music (sort of)
PPOKKK Missing bushes
OOOKKK Hit Koopa, and the screen flashes
SIPPNG Seeing doubles
XXOKKK Stomp on Koopa and you die
UUOKKK Stomp on Koopa kick it then it disappears
Sent in by Rachael Ranney
ZOSXUU If you go at almost any speed it will send you flying back or
forward. Also with the small gray change code I found that if you get a
mushroom later on you can change into a frog tail or just big it does it
automatically and also you can't go up or down pipes.
Sent in by Colin Healy
IKIIII Shells are weird when you shoot them
ZTZZYS When P-meter flashes, it doesn't stop. Also, blocks
disappear when you hit them
GOZZOS All black except for Mario. Mario floats instead of jumps
GGILLI Go through things
VTSIKGUL + XZOPEA Can't go past certain part
ISOIKE Can't kill things can't get power-up's
XXOXUU Blue film covers you when you jump
KSLLLL Bad guys appear and disappear
GEPZXZ 1000 points for killing someone instead of just one hundred
AASAAS On map screen, Mario is in a weird place. Press B for battle mode
KEGKEL Holes in ground
PLLSTA Green background blocks in first level have notes in them
Jump on them for a invincible star
IOSUZI Hammer bros. are weird on map
GOZXXL Weird colors on map screen. Can't move Mario in level
PZLZXS Hit a block, and it will appear somewhere else in the level.
Also, when you die, you can play levels you beat already over and over again.
ZLLSTA Green blocks in background have ice blocks in them
APPSTA Map graphics are weird
LYULUY Map screen graphics are different. Music is a little different
LLLUUU Plant fireballs are misplaced
OOEISO Die unexpectedly
KSUUUU Map graphics are way different
KSIIII Bad guys are weird when you jump on them
OOLLLL Enter level. On map screen Mario's a spinning top
EOPUPO Illusions in level, Can't get a score
KSSXUU Can't go back in the level
AOLXXU Mario slides. Turtles are different
EOEISA Mario falls down in places where no holes are visible
AOSZXI When you enter a level it looks cool
LVYXUU Cool colors
IIIOKK Weird graphics
NNNOKK W.G. #2
ZZZOKK W.G. 3
IPPOKK Graphics are weird. Plus, you enter a battle mode
XYLOPN Each level is mixed up in the middle
AOZULT Enter a weird level
AOSUZT Great code! You can't break any question marks with
your head. However, that's not it. Hold a turtle shell and throw
it at the very top of the question mark that's right after the
first warp tube in the game. A Koopa Kid should pop out, and he
will die. A Magic Wand will fall. Grab it and after a message
from the King, you'll go to World 2. This may take a couple of tries.
AOSUZP Score's weird
Sent in by Elimanator
ATKZYEVK Can't jump
KKKKKK You can't use turtles to break blocks
IANXOU Hold the B button to slow yourself down
OPEKGG Messes up the game but is fun to watch
YYXPLOVS 1 life, but when it says 99 lives you still have one
SXIZPO Very short sounds at the start of each world
SXAZPO Confused
UKKXGLIE Invisible swimming mass but can't go very high
NNNLPA You can't see which world your in
POZZZZ Makes secondary tones when hitting question marks
PGTIPZ Can't harm turtles, turtles hurt you
PGTIPX Sky has messed up clouds and has bushes
Sent in by Jason Schippnick
PGTIPO Go past a certain distance and all of the enemies disappear
PSKXGLIE Gray change
IIIIII Makes enemies hover above the ground in side a messed
up square.
Sent in by Eden
XNKXGLIA Makes Mario small, gray, and walks through his foes
Sent in by Andrew Fischer
Note that some of the codes are useless and just for fun.
Most of the codes make the game more challenging.
EEKPTZGE No continue
XEUXKGAA Start game as messed up Mario
TVUXNUEE JET Speed
EANZKLLA Hold B to slide or bounce
TEUZELSZ Wind tunnel
PEUXKGAA Start as Super Mario
YZKZYVEK Can't Jump
KANZKLLA Power slides (Hold B)
YEUXKGAA Black swimming mass (you change to mario when you get hit)
IXKZELSX Sudden turbo boosts
ZVUXNUEE Tab B for turbo
GEUZELSZ Icy ground
KEUZELSZ Breeze
ETKZYVEK Very low jump
YLXPLOVS Lives double when you die
SYXPLOVS Number of lives is zero-- even after you die with zero!
Sent in by Suzy H
KOSUZI This code allows you to pull blocks out of the scenery and
creates holes that you can fall down if you are not careful.