Super Mario Bros. Crossover/Challenges
This is a page for challenges in Super Mario Bros. Crossover people come up with and force others to do. You can come here to find some fun things to do in the game. If you beat any of these, you get a sense of accomplishment.
Feel free to make a thread in the Exploding Rabbit Forums about a challenge. You can also post your results in each challenge's thread.
Contents
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Challenges for Any Character
Greedy Challenge
- Play Mode
- All Characters | Survival | Single Character | Single Character Random
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Goal
- Finish the game while collecting all of the coins you come across
- This means all free-standing coins, coin blocks, multi-coin blocks, and hidden coin blocks (check maps to see where all of the hidden coin blocks are)
- You do not have to go into coin heaven, but if you do you must grab all of the coins
- If you don't collect all coins in coin heaven, you die when you fall from the sky
- Finish the game while collecting all of the coins you come across
Leapfrog challenge
- Play Mode
- Survival
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Characters
- Ryu | Simon
- Goal
- Finish the game without walking left or right, and always hold down the Down key.
- You can still let down the down key to wall climb
- You may only activate Simon and Ryu at the beginning.
- You can still let down the down key to wall climb
- Finish the game without walking left or right, and always hold down the Down key.
Hammer Bros. Rampage Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- All Characters | Survival | Single Character | Single Character Random
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Mandatory Cheats
- All Hammer Bros.
- Evil Hammer Bros.
- Goal
- Finish the game without warping
Life Collect Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- Survival
- Difficulty
- Normal
- Mandatory Cheats
- Bouncy Pits (you may turn this off in order to exit coin heaven, but you must turn it on again immediately)
- Infinite Time
- Invincible
- Water Mode
- Optional Cheats
- Classic Samus
- Classic Simon
- Mega Man High Jump
- Goal
- Collect as many lives as you can
- Begin by "activating" three characters
- On the character select screen after finishing 8-3, add up all the lives you have and all of the active characters, and this is your total
- Post your total in the thread
- You do not need proof, this uses the honor system
- Post your total in the thread
- Take your time, this is not a speedrun
- Collect as many lives as you can
Nuzlocke Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- All Characters
- Difficulty
- Extreme
- Goal
- Finish the game without warping or cheating
- Whenever a character dies, you may no longer use that character for the remainder of the game, and when the last character dies, the game is over.
- Finish the game without warping or cheating
Save data
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OCD Challenge
- Play Mode
- All Characters
- Optional: Single Character Random (for added difficulty)
- If you get stuck with Mario on 1-2 or 4-2, you may use the Level Select cheat to restart the level until you get a different character, since Mario cannot destroy all of the bricks
- Difficulty
- Normal
- Mandatory Cheats
- Infinite Time
- Goal
- Finish the game without warping and while meeting the following criteria
- Kill every enemy you see (this includes Lakitu and all his Spinies)
- Bowser must be killed by weapons, not the axe
- Exceptions
- The flying Cheep Cheeps in 2-3, 7-3, and 8-4
- Bullet Bills (sometimes you're surrounded by cannons and simply cannot kill them all, but you should try to kill as many as you can)
- The Piranha Plant in 4-4 (unless you're using Bill Rizer, fully-powered Link, Simon, or SOPHIA)
- If Lakitu comes on screen and then leaves because you reach an area where he doesn't go, you may ignore him, but you should try to kill him if you can
- Destroy all bricks
- Collect all coins, including:
- Free-standing
- Coin blocks
- Multi-coin blocks
- Hidden coin blocks
- Collect all power-ups
- Collect all 1-Ups (hidden and otherwise)
- Collect all Missiles and Homing Missiles dropped by enemies (unless they are unreachable)
- Get 5,000 points at the flagpole at the end of each level
- Kill every enemy you see (this includes Lakitu and all his Spinies)
- Once you fail to meet any of the above criteria, the game is over (so pay attention!)
- You may choose whichever path through a level you desire (i.e., you can use bonus rooms), but you must kill/destroy/get everything along that path
- You do not have to go into coin heaven, but if you do you must grab all of the coins
- Finish the game without warping and while meeting the following criteria
- Tips
- This isn't a speedrun, so take your time and make sure you kill/destroy/get everything!
- Buzzy Beetles are not exempt from the killing spree, so be sure to choose the right character for the right level
- Remember that with Mario you must be large to destroy bricks, so if you are playing Single Character Random and you get Mario for those few castles with bricks while fighting Bowser (2-4, 3-4, and 5-4), you have to make sure you get to him while large!
Save Data
All Characters: (need updated data to include Infinite Time cheat --sbq92 11:30, 9 March 2011 (PST))
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Single Character Random: (need updated data to include Infinite Time cheat --sbq92 11:30, 9 March 2011 (PST))
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Pacifist Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- All Characters | Survival | Single Character | Single Character Random
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Goal
- Finish the game without killing any enemies
- Bowser is the exception, but he must be killed by using the axe to break the bridge
- Finish the game without killing any enemies
- Tip
- Link's Boomerang can help stun enemies that might otherwise need to be killed
Pet Bullet Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- All Characters | Survival | Single Character | Single Character Random
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Goal
- Keep the same Bullet Bill on the screen from the first blaster until the end of the level
- Tip
- Choose the right character, since some characters actually move slower than the Bullet Bills (such as Samus Aran)
Stingy Challenge
- Play Mode
- All Characters | Survival | Single Character | Single Character Random
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Goal
- Finish the game without collecting a single coin
- If you collect a coin, the game is over
- I have not tried this yet and therefore do not know if there are coins that must be obtained. Remove this comment and explain where the unavoidable coins are if you know of any. --sbq92 18:42, 27 February 2011 (PST)
- Finish the game without collecting a single coin
Starman Distance-run
- Play Mode
- All Characters | Survival | Single Character | Single Character Random
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Goal
- In a level with a Starman, get the Star and run as far as you can. If you want to make your record public, follow the following instructions. Once your Star is used up, press Print Screen and put that in an IMP. Save it. If you don't have a Print Screen button, follow the following instructions: First, pause the game. Next, open a new tab/window in your browser. Depending on your world, go to the correct Worlds & Level page:
- Copy the map of the level you were in into an image manipulation program (i.e. Paint, GIMP, Photoshop, etc...). Mark the place where you were. Measure the length of pixels between where you got the star and where it was used up. Put the number of tiles on the forums (one tile is 32 pixels in the game and 16 pixels on the map). If you didn't have a Print Screen button, crop the edited map down to 256 pixels long and 240 pixels tall so that it's zoomed in to the part where you were when it got used up. Double its size (but make sure it's indexed first, click here to see how to do that in GIMP without saving it as a .gif file since .gif files can only be either indexed or greyscale). Put that on the forums too.
Challenges for Specific Characters
Mario
Super Mario Bros. Extreme Challenge
- Play Mode
- Single Character (Mario)
- Difficulty
- Extreme
- Mandatory Cheats
- Classic Screen Scroll
- Goal
- Finish the game without warping.
Save Data
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Super Mario Bros. Sea Side Challenge
- Play Mode
- Single Character (Mario)
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Mandatory Cheats
- Classic Screen Scroll
- Water Mode
- Goal
- Finish the game without warping.
Link
Downward Thrust Motherfucker Challenge
- Play Mode
- Single Character (Link)
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Goal
- Finish the game without warping.
- You may only attack enemies by using Downward Thrust (you cannot stomp enemies, use Forward Thrust/Upward Thrust, collect stars or throw your boomerang).
- You are allowed to use Forward Thrust and Upward Thrust for bricks and item boxes, however once an enemy is hit by anything other than Downward Thrust, the game is over.
- You cannot throw your boomerang at all.
- You are allowed to use Forward Thrust and Upward Thrust for bricks and item boxes, however once an enemy is hit by anything other than Downward Thrust, the game is over.
- You may only attack enemies by using Downward Thrust (you cannot stomp enemies, use Forward Thrust/Upward Thrust, collect stars or throw your boomerang).
- Finish the game without warping.
Bill Rizer
Spread Bomb Challenge
- Play Mode
- Single Character (Bill Rizer)
- Difficulty
- Extreme
- Mandatory Cheats
- All Hammer Bros.
- Evil Hammer Bros.
- Goal
- Get the Spread Gun in World 1-1 and keep it for the rest of the game
- You may only attack enemies by aiming downwards and shooting
- A single death is game over
- Get the Spread Gun in World 1-1 and keep it for the rest of the game
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Mega Man
No Charge Challenge
- Play Mode
- Single Character (Mega Man)
- Difficulty
- Normal
- Optional Cheats
- Mega Man High Jump
- Goal
- Finish the game without getting any power-ups and without dying
Ryu Hayabusa
Windmill Shuriken Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- Single Character (Ryu Hayabusa)
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Goal
- Keep Ryu's Windmill Shuriken in the air for as long as possible by jumping over it, crouching, climbing walls, hiding in the corner sucking your thumb, etc.
Samus Aran
Ball Roller Challenge
- Play Mode
- Single Character (Samus Aran)
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal
- Mandatory Cheats
- Bouncy Pits
- Goal
- Beat the game
- You must be in Samus' ball the whole time, and can only attack by dropping bombs.
- Beat the game
Simon Belmont
Classic Jump Challenge
- Play Mode
- Single Character (Simon Belmont)
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Mandatory Cheats
- Classic Simon
- Goal
- Finish the game
Extreme Classic Jump Challenge
- Play Mode
- Single Character (Simon Belmont)
- Difficulty
- Extreme
- Mandatory Cheats
- Classic Simon
- Goal
- Finish the game without warping
SOPHIA III
Bouncy Bouncy Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- Single Character (SOPHIA III)
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard
- Mandatory Cheats
- Infinite Hover
- Goal
- Finish the game without warping
- You must stomp on every single enemy except the ones that can't be stomped on without getting hurt in each level without ever touching the ground
- Exceptions: Water levels, getting axes, the section in 4-4 where you must go through a 1-tile hole, the pipes in 8-4, and the Goomba under the multi-coin block in Worldd 1-2
- You must stomp on every single enemy except the ones that can't be stomped on without getting hurt in each level without ever touching the ground
- If you touch the ground, the game's over
- Finish the game without warping
Tips and advice
- There's no need for power-ups, really.
- Stars don't make it easier, they just make it harder to stomp all enemies without touching the ground.
High Gravity Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- Single Character (SOPHIA III)
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Goal
- Finish the game without jumping vertically
- You may still climb on walls and ceilings, jump horizontally off of walls, and hover
- Finish the game without jumping vertically
Missile Zone Challenge
- Play Mode
- Single Character (SOPHIA III)
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Goal
- Finish the game
- You may only stomp on enemies if you do not have any Homing Missiles
- You may only shoot enemies with Homing Missiles
- You must use Homing Missiles if you have them
- Finish the game
SMB monsters in Blaster Master
- Difficulty
- Normal
- Goal
- Beat the game
- Rules
- Do it all in one go
- Warp Zones permitted
- Kill Bowser without the axe
- This is a no-damage run
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Bass
Using the new stuff
Play Mode
Single Character (Bass)
Difficulty
Very Easy|Easy|Normal|Hard|Very Hard
Goal
- Finish the game
- You have to kill EVERY enemy you see
- To kill a enemy, you have to shoot Up, Right/Left Up, or Right/Left Down
- Finish the game
Cheats
Mandatory: Infinite ammo Allowed: Bouncy Pits, Invincibility
Army of One
Play Mode
Single Character (Bass)
Difficulty
Hard|Very Hard
Goal
- Finish the game
- Kill every enemy (except buzzy beetles and spike tops)
- You must get ALL weapons before the end of 2-1
- Avoid getting hit by enemies and dying, or the game is over
- DO NOT warp or use cheats!
- Finish the game
Speedrun Challenges
The Impossirun Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- Single Character (you may not choose Link, Samus, or SOPHIA III)
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Mandatory Cheats
- Classic Screen Scroll
- Optional Cheats
- Classic Samus
- Classic Simon
- Goal
- Finish the game as quickly as possible without collecting power-ups and without going into any secret areas
- Time yourself, starting when you select your character and ending when you get the final axe
- Post your time on the forums
- Videos are not necessary, but they are allowed
- Post your time on the forums
- Time yourself, starting when you select your character and ending when you get the final axe
- Finish the game as quickly as possible without collecting power-ups and without going into any secret areas
The Speedrun Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- All Characters | Survival | Single Character | Single Character Random
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Optional Cheats
- Classic Samus
- Classic Screen Scroll
- Classic Simon
- Infinite Time
- Mega Man High Jump
- Goal
- Finish the game as quickly as possible without warping
- Time yourself, including level cards and cutscenes
- Feel free to post your time, along with the Play Mode, the Difficulty, and the Cheats you used in the forums
- Time yourself, including level cards and cutscenes
- Finish the game as quickly as possible without warping
The Ultimate Speedrun Challenge Thread
- Play Mode
- All Characters | Single Character | Single Character Random
- Difficulty
- Super Easy | Easy | Normal | Hard | Extreme
- Mandatory Cheats
- Invincible
- Optional Cheats
- Classic Samus
- Classic Screen Scroll
- Classic Simon
- Infinite Time
- Mega Man High Jump
- Goal
- Finish the game as quickly as possible without warping
- Time yourself, including level cards and cutscenes
- Post your time, along with the Play Mode, the Difficulty, and the Cheats you used on the Ultimate Speedrun Challenge thread (link in title of challenge)
- Time yourself, including level cards and cutscenes
- Finish the game as quickly as possible without warping
Save Data
- Copy and paste the code into Notepad
- Normal everything:
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- Single Character Random, Normal Difficulty:
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(Somebody please find out how to get the Infinite Lives out --Mario-Fan 11:03, 31 January 2011 (PST))
Run away!
Play Mode
Single character(anyone)
Difficulty
Very Easy | Easy | Normal| Hard |Very Hard
Mandatory Cheats
- Invincible
- Bouncy Pits
Goal
- Finish the game
- Do not stop moving or the game is over
- Finish each level before the timer strikes 100
- No warping and cheating besides the aforementioned cheats
- DON'T ATTACK ENEMIES BESIDES BOWSER! (In his case, you are only allowed to use the axe)
- Finish the game
Tips and Advice
- Pay attention to the clock. If the time ends with a 1, a 3, or a 6 when you finish the level, you get fireworks, which takes up time. Also, easier difficulties give you more time on the clock, which means it takes longer for your time to drain and rack up your points at the end of a level. (Optional: Use the Infinite Time cheat to avoid any time-related slow-downs.)
- Choose your difficulty wisely. The Super Easy difficulty makes most enemies die in a single hit, and blocks are destroyed in one hit as well. If using the Infinite Time cheat, Super Easy is the way to go. Otherwise, you will want a higher difficulty for less time on the clock.
- Consider not getting power-ups. It takes time to power-up your character, and since you're just running through enemies anyway, your character doesn't need to be more powerful. Some characters can make use of power-ups, however, and therefore it is worth taking a couple of seconds to power-up in order to save many seconds later on. For example, Mega Man can make excellent use of his charge shot in some places to remove many bricks in his way. Likewise, it might be helpful to grab the spread gun with Bill Rizer in order to clear bricks away quickly when necessary. Consider your difficulty, though. If it's an easier difficulty and it would be faster in the long run for your character to kill Bowser rather than grab the axe and wait for the bridge to disappear and for Bowser to fall in, then take the time to grab power-ups. Make sure you can get them in such a way that doing so doesn't interfere with your route, though.
- Take advantage of your character's special abilities. While not all of the characters have anything useful, some of them do. Ryu's wall-climbing can be used to get to the top of 1-2 and 4-2 right from the beginning of the stage, and therefore you can avoid trying to maneuver through enemies and platforms. SOPHIA's hover can be invaluable in some places, as can her quick jump off of walls. Make use of these abilities!
- Practice the levels. Make use of the level select cheat in order to practice levels repeatedly. Practicing can help you find the best routes and strategies for getting through the level as quickly as possible. It can also help you get better at avoiding places in the level where you normally die. While dying is technically allowed in the run, I personally would start over if I died (unless it was in 8-4 or something else late in the game).
- Utilize secret areas. There are some secret areas that take you much further in the level, and therefore are worth taking. An example of this is the secret in 1-1. It skips the entire middle section of the level, saving a lot of time. Be sure to practice each level to determine which secrets are useful, though. Some of them send you back, and some only send you one or two pipes over. Same for the coin heavens. Make sure the amount of time it takes to activate the vine, climb the vine, and reach the end of coin heaven is worth it.
- Try to avoid killing enemies/grabbing coins unnecessarily. Practicing the levels can help show you which enemies to kill and which to avoid. While you technically don't have to kill any enemies at all, it can be fun to kill some enemies along the way to help the entertainment value of your run (if you're recording). Some enemies are placed in such a way that killing them might slow you down, however, so be sure to know which you can kill and which you should avoid. This goes for coins as well. Sometimes jumping for coins will cause you to run into a wall or a pipe before you land, and this slows you down. Only go for coins you know you can get without slowing yourself down.
- Have fun with it! If you record your runs, make sure they look good and are entertaining. Don't simply run straight through levels in a boring manner. Even if you're not recording, for personal enjoyment, have some fun trying and doing fancy things. You might even find some time-saving tricks this way!
--sbq92 19:59, 15 February 2011 (PST)