Note: The following trick only works on The Lost Levels. Hold A and press Start at the game over screen. The game will start with ten lives.
Note: This trick only works on a new game. Select the "Toy Box" option at the main menu, then select "Fortune Teller". Keep looking at the cards until five lives are earned. Return to the main menu and choose to play the "Original" levels. Start a new game to begin with ten lives instead of five.
Begin game play in level 1-1. Locate the hidden extra life mushroom above the bush after the first pipe that you can enter. Save the game at this point. Load that file to find that you have one more life. Repeat until the desired amount of lives have been collected. Note: Depending on how many lives are desired, this procedure may require a large amount of time.
Always restart with ten lives:
Save and exit the game after only having one life left. Select the "Toy Box" option at the main menu, then select "Fortune Teller". Keep looking at the cards until five lives are earned. Return to the saved game. After losing a life, the game will start over with ten lives.
Unlimited lives:
Immediately hold A when a life is lost, and keep the button held until the map appears.
Control view:
Press Select during game play to switch the screen from being centered to an edge. Hold Up or Down to shift it up and down.
Unlimited continues:
Hold A at the game over screen.
Play as Luigi:
Press Select at the map screen.
You vs. Boo bonus levels:
Score at least 100,000 points during game play. Then, select Boo as a character at the title screen.
Restart a Boo in You vs. Boo levels:
To restart a Boo for a level in You Vs. Boo, go to the main screen, highlight the level, and press Start.
Select Mario's form:
Press Select at the "You vs. Boo" mode level selection screen to cycle Mario into his super, fire, and normal forms. Note: This also may be done in versus mode with the link cable.
Lost Levels bonus levels:
Score at least 300,000 points during game play. Then, select Luigi as a character at the title screen.
Level select:
Successfully complete the first quest.
View fireworks:
Successfully complete a level with a time that ends in a 1, 3, or 6. Jump on top on top of the flag with any ending time to get three fireworks.
Reveal Yoshi egg locations in challenge mode:
Locate one Yoshi egg, then go to the toybox and select Yoshi's head.
Hint: Get 127 lives:
Go to level 3-1 and locate the two Koopa Troopas at the end stairway. Jump on the second Troopa to trap it against the stairway. Repeatedly jump on it until 127 lives are collected.
Hint: Easy points:
Use the "Extra lives" trick to start with at least 10 lives. Play until reaching level 3-2. At the beginning, hit the turtle shell and follow it until it hits all the enemies. You should get at least 20,000 points and an extra life. Repeat this until reaching 300,000 points to race Boo or play the Lost Levels.
Go to world 5-1 and a Koopa will be the first thing you see. Kill it and kick it forward. Follow it until you hear an extra life sound. Do not jump. Doing this will not take away lives.
Japanese version of Super Mario Brothers 2:
Accumulate 300,000 points in the Classic game without losing all lives, and without saving and restarting the game. A new "Super Mario Bros. For Super Players" game will be unlocked.
