15 Glitches in Super Mario Advance

Описание: Edit (22nd September 2025)
I kinda kept forgetting to add a description to this video for 2 years, oops!

Ok so the backstory from what I remember is that when this game came out on the Nintendo Switch, I decided to play it again as this is one of my favourite Super Mario games.
After beating the game, I was messing around with the potion doors to see if I could break anything and it didn't take long to see that I in fact could. Because of the share feature on the Nintendo Switch, I was easily able to post my findings onto Twitter and I continued experimenting to see what else was possible. That's when I realised that there may be more glitches in this game than anyone initially thought, so I dug a little into the history of the NES and SNES glitches, testing them to see what worked and what didn't and I was surprised at how many worked!

As the list of compatible glitches grew, I realised that I should make a video when all my testing was done. Along the way I tried thinking of anything that hadn't been tried before and anything that might be exclusive to this GBA release but all I could come up with was Key smuggling trick in 3-3 (which is seen in this video but not explained) and the extra heart in the Yoshi Challenge.

A little while after I uploaded this video, I came across a video by Retro Game Mechanics Explained that explained how the wrong warp works and that it can be exploited to go to different screens/parts of the game, for example warping to the beginning of level 1-2 while still in 1-1 (   • Clearing World 1 of Mario 2 Without Defeat...  ). At the time I made this video I didn't realise the warps could be manipulated so I assumed they were static, but now it may be possible to extend the 'extra heart in the Yoshi Challenge' by warping around to different levels. I don't really know what to expect as I don't know how many warps can be chained together, but I'd imagine you'd be able to get just 2 extra hearts if anything. Or maybe something unexpected will happen where you can get way more than 3, and the extras start to mess with RAM? That's the thing with experimenting, sometimes the most mundane tests can lead to massive exploits. Like that crash I discovered that's exclusive to the PAL version of Ocarina of Time. I still don't know what that's about, and I've not seen anyone else talk about it. Is the game trying to run arbitrary code? It took forever for the community to come up with the Ganon Floor glitch based on another game crashing glitch.

Anyway, I think that's everything I wanted to talk about? And if not, I'll make another edit soon.

(Video description 17th August 2023):
Description coming soon!

(I'm going to bed immediately after uploading this video)
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Timestamps for this video:
0:00 Introduction
0:36 #01 - Key through a ceiling
1:22 #02 - Magic Potion Door Softlock
2:02 #03 - Locked Magic Potion Door
2:31 #04 - Multiple Magic Potion Doors
3:19 Small notice
3:24 #05 - Fast Carpet
3:48 #06 - Spark Chaser stick in place
4:00 #07 - Rolling Yoshi Egg
4:45 #08 - Pipe music glitch
5:38 #09 - Die and Complete
6:29 #10 - Zero Hearts
6:55 #11 - Bonus Chance Overflow
8:27 #12 - Victory music after death
9:04 #13 - Big enemy through a ceiling
9:34 #14 - Out of bounds warp
11:22 #15 - Extra Heart in the Yoshi Challenge
13:31 Credits