I started this article like two years ago and never finished it. Cleaning house, here it is.
Glitches!
As mentioned before, these versions are direct
NES ports of the games. Basically, a ROM dump. That means that all the
glitches and bugs that were present in those games should work on your
3DS. This is really exciting for me, as I love trying out glitches. Here
are a few of my favorites for you to try:
The Minus World (Super Mario Bros.):
one of the most famous glitches in gaming, getting to the Minus World
is still fun to do today. The Minus World is an endless version of the
underwater level 2-2. Players are actually not in World -1, but World
36. As the game doesn't have a graphic for the number 36, it just
displays a space, and then dash, 1 (-1!). You can use the trick of
restarting in the last world you are once you get a Game Over in this
world as well. So just hold down A when you get to the Game Over screen,
and you'll restart in the Minus World again.
