Super Mario Bros.
NES/Famicom

Starman Challenge
(25) (210)
Rescue the Princess without losing a life
3,199 (1,336) of 55,220 โ 5.79% unlock rate
2.42% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
5.79% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
Recent Unlocks
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Recent comments
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Except Softcore. Just use savestates in Softcore and go back every fuckup and it's really easy and I'm sure intended.
But for Hardcore;
I reccomend doing this before having Master Plumber W8 as you'll unlock both of them at the same time.
Here's the way I did it for yall (which I think is the intended route), and some neat NON-SPEEDRUN strategies;
Beat World 1-1 taking the coin route to do it as fast as possible so you don't waste much time between attempts. You should get the Magic Mushroom.
Take the Fire Flower at the start of 1-2 and enter the Warp Pipe to 4-1 by going onto the ceiling using the moving platforms.
Beat 4-1. Beware of Lakitu. Get powerups if needed.
In 4-2, make your way to the first moving platform and go a little bit past until you see the three floating bricks. As Super Mario, jump under the rightmost block, then onto the now-visible invisible block and break the two closest bricks. Then, go back down and jump to the left of the invisible block you activated earlier. Get back on top one last time and hit the only remaining brick to activate the vine, then climb to the warp zone and warp to 8-1. As Small Mario, just activate 3 of the invisible blocks (2 rightmost, one to the left of the leftmost brick block) then just jump past and enter the Warp Zone to 8-1.
The character limit doesn't let me continue writing. Check my next comment.
For 8-2, immediately sprint to the right until you get stopped. Then, jump to the third step, and wait for the Parakoopa to jump past you. You can then jump up one step and then straight to the top. If you time it all right, the Lakitu should fly way over to the right. If there are spinies in the way, jump over them or go backwards and wait. When you are at the top, Lakitu will slowly glide over to you. Stand still and jump at the right time to stomp him and not have to worry. For the Bullet Blasters, they deactivate when you're on top or on the side of them. Abuse this to walk off and jump onto the bricks and onto the blasters over and over. You can jump from the bricks straight to the cannon on the bricks if you sprint well. To perform the big jump, you should just go to the right of the 1 block pole by tapping slowly until Mario only has one foot on the ground. Then, sprint rightwards and jump earlier than you think. The rest should be easy.
For 8-3, assuming you're Small Mario, nstantly sprint past the first Bullet Blaster and Parakoopa. Then jump over the second blaster and sprint over to the pipe. Wait until the plant and the bullets are past then jump over and then go a little past it then back onto it to see the Hammer Brothers well. Here, you should wait until one or both of them go onto the lowest floor, then both of their cycles send them onto the top or middle floor, top being most favourable. When there's a gap in their hammers, run under them and instantly kill them by hitting the brick under them. If one was on the top platform, wait while being slightly to the left or right of them;
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You can continue onward with some easier obstacles, until you reach the second group of Hammer Brothers. Do the same thing as before, being careful not to pan the camera too far. Once they're dead, there's a Fire Flower on the second brick of the top row. After that, it's really easy and you can kill everything from a distance with fireballs. You probably won't have much time left, so do the final jumps fairly quickly if needed. Now you've cleared the hardest stage of Super Mario Bros. Deathless.
In 8-4, you should have a fire flower. Watch a video for the exact path, but it's essentially:
-First pipe after lava pit
-Floating pipe, there is invisible block to the left of it
-First pipe after lava pit
You should be very careful among
the level and kill enemies with fireballs. You have a ton of time.
For the water part, you can spam jump for the first room, and for the second should kill the enemies with fireballs and mostly stick to the ground. You can lure them into swimming very high as well.
You've made it. The final screen between you and winning Super Mario Bros. Deathless and winning this awesome Hardcore achievement legitimately.
Kill the Hammer Brother from afar. Now, remember to sprint for the big jump.
This is it. Now, kill Bowser/Koopa King with fireballs from afar for an extra achievement. If you get hit, abuse the invincibility frames and sprint to the right and kill this lizard once and for all. GG.
Hope my guide could have helped some people out there. I spent way too long on this.
You should now get;
-Toasty!
-Master Plumber W8
-Starman Challenge
Un saludo