Game Resources / DS / New Super Mario Bros

The purpose of this page is to document all of the known tricks of NDS New Super Mario Bros so far.

Because of the nature of this site, we concentrate here on tricks that are extremely difficult to execute in real play, but are useful in the making of tool-assisted speedruns. For most of the tricks, a frame advance feature in an emulator is a definite must-have.

TODO: Make clips of these segments and cut the useless screen out.

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Corner Boosting
Turning right on the flagpole
Speed Mechanics
RNG

DS New Super Mario Bros. (USA) "warps" in 21:08.08 by adelikat, terrotim, mindnomad & Y05H1.

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- Uses death to save time
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Genre: Platform

New Super Mario Bros. was released in 2006 for the Nintendo DS. It features your typical side-scrolling plumber, but in this case he comes with enhanced abilities, like wall jumping and doing flips.

This run beats the previous run by 33.46 due to a new method of going through World 8-Tower 2 as well as various in-stage improvements.

RAM values relevant to tricks/optimization

021B6A5C - 20.12 Fixed Point (4-byte)
0208B70C - X Level Position 20.12 Fixed Point (4-byte)
021B6A61 - Y position on screen 1 byte
021B6A60 - Y position on screen 2 bytes
020CC0EE - Rail position (where mario/luigi are on the progress bar)
02088A68 - RNG 1
02088A6A - RNG 2

Note: the RNG is actually a single 4-byte address but it is easier to monitor it as two separate addresses.

Corner Boosting

Turning right on the flagpole

Speed Mechanics

Running Speed/Triple Jumping speed = 3.0 Pixels per frame
Shell Spinning speed = 2.75 Px/frame

TODO: finish this and turn into a table, and explain, and add RAM addresses

RNG

The starting RNG depends on the date and time you start the movie.
The RNG changes whenever certain sound effects are played, whether by Mario or the background music itself (though this depends on the level). Luck can always be manipulated by either double jumping, throwing something, wall jumping, and very frequently - (though not always) by breaking a block.

The RNG is currently known to affect:

The Red ? Block and Hammer Bros. movements on the world map
The movement of the Scuttlebugs
The volcano rocks in World 8-8
When the final cutscene in World 8-Castle 2 (Bowser Jr. throwing Dry Bowser into the pot) activates.

TODO, explain these: Ground pounding as mini-mario Super corner boosting Maintaining speed as a turtle shell Mini-mario corner boosting

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Game Resources / DS / New Super Mario Bros

Corner Boosting

Turning right on the flagpole

Speed Mechanics

RNG

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