I feel like some of these may have gone unused by accident, especially the bush and tileset stuff in the beginning, considering how unfinished the final versions look.
"This vertical level where Mario has to swim up waterfalls"... ...which somehow looks *exactly* like a level I had a dream about when I was a kid, except in the dream after the waterfall part there was a pipe leading to a horizontal part with giant clam enemies in pits of water.
@@theladiescallmesona It never would dude it won't she probably doesn't like you my crush left the school... Be sad friends if TH-cam had a friending feature you would be one
That 'P' Symbol at 2:11 really makes me think of those wax seals that envelopes used to be sealed with, so given its found among the graphics used for the letter from Princess Toadstool I'd wager maybe at some point some graphical representation of Mario unsealing the envelope to read the letter was displayed rather than the letter just appearing on screen. Just a guess though.
Had to check that you'd not covered this one before! Surprised to see you have such big titles like this still behind the curtain 👀 Sad to see that the overworld sprite animations got scrapped to be honest, I was thinking it could be a hardware limitation too but don't have enough knowledge of the system to make that call... It's crazy how some complicated screens take a small amount of data and some basic looking ones hit the limit ahaha
As the original discoverer of the 6-letter form of debug mode in the 1990s, it was more of a very lucky find than it was anything else, as I did not have access to the game's code at the time. I wrote up its history in the description of a video on my channel if anyone is interested (and it is also documented on my old website.) 14:48 I’ve encountered this level on extremely rare occasions back when I used to mess with rapidly removing the AC adaptor from the wall (and later by merely partially ejecting the cartridge.) Usually Mario spawns above the World 1 map, offscreen in the upper left, and if you’re able to move further to the left, you might gain access to this stage, but as stated, it is extremely rare.
What if the giant letter above the throne room is actually a screen. When the King tells Mario he received a letter from the Princess, they use that to look at it as an E-mail.
I think the purple pipe tile that was replaced with regular bricks was removed because it wouldn't be clear to the player that it's something you can break otherwise. And the unused bush was probably cut because it would have just cut off awkwardly.
That question mark block with beige texture [no outline] could of been a early texture for the note block or what the dice would of looked like before you roll it.
17:27 you mentioned that this secret exit is normally inaccessible and you need a cheat to walk through the wall, but if you just have any power up you can actually clip by duck jumping on the top right corner and access it in the vanilla game pretty easily.
I like the yellow Cheep Cheep and green Parabeetle. A basic principle of enemy design is to change a colour on them and give them an upgraded function. One of the most obvious is the green Koopa Troopa falling off the edge but the red one staying on. Why not have Cheep Cheeps and Parabeetles that have reversed behaviour patterns?
I had just watched the boundary break on this video, so i thought this was a reupload of that for a second. My mind merges this, boundary break, and son of a glitch into one
The beta version of the castle sprite is technically used but only if you glitch the sprites on the warp world 9(by making the camera go there when you go to the last part of the three worlds and move right if you do it long enough youll see the beta version of the castle sprite so yeah its technically used)
Because of the similarity between the icon for peach on the letters, and the usused toad sprite, I think that at some point you would've maybe gotten a letter from a toad, rather than peach.
Finally on of my favorite Mario games! Also, I personally believe that a green cheep cheep with wings under water in super Mario maker is a reference to the gold cheep cheep. Both of them act very similar
The original text for Princess's letters actually references a "gem" being enclosed. So I believe the original concept was a P-gem or Power gem instead. Maybe it would have had more uses than the P-wing, but that's only speculation.
I actually have a pirated CD with a lot of hacks from the NES. One of them, (and my favorite), is Super Mario Bros 3: Lost Levels. Basically, i played these unused Levels. A lot... It was my childhood. Good to know from where it all came from! I gotta finish that, even tho a some sprites are broken.
18:00 And now Weather Forecast! The weather forecast for the Mushroom Kingdom says there will be a pass-by of 30-feet letters. Better bring some scissors!
Don't tell me I'm the only one who thinks the used sprite of Mario facing the camera with the Frog Suit is just him making a smiley face. Same with his death sprite
I rarely comment on youtube.. but this time i really needed to say how fun and interesting this video was to watch ! A lot i knew.. and a lot i didnt know at all ! Thank you for that!
12:20 If hammer bros stages are in all of the worlds already then that's just good for organization's sake, and isn't hard to make. Still need to get around to playing this game on All Stars on the Switch.
The p graphic is most likely a royal seal they were common in letters from royal or noble houses which would seal the letter closed so possibly we would see the letter arrive closed and then be opened probably cut bc that would be too complex for the system
I'm making a SMB3 hack myself and there are a lot of unused graphics you missed. Off the top of my head there's atleast 10 more unused graphics you didn't talk about as well as a 3 or 4 more unused animated graphics.
I think I know how the P-Symbol and Toad sprite are related, you said that they're in the files for both the King's Chambers as well as Peach's Letter. Well, fun fact, Peach's Letter is actually stored right above the King's Chamber room when the cutscenes are loaded. Shesez (Boundary Break) discovered this on their Super Mario Bros. 3 episode 😄
OOPS I realize now that you actually did show the letter being above the King's Chamber, still, what I said about the P-Symbol and stuff might still apply here 😅
Mario's animations on the overworld isn't unused, in fact it's all used for that warp animation after a life was lost, if they didn't it wouldn't flow with the same movement Mario has on the overworld
The starry background at 16:13 is actually from the underground levels and the reason it appears is because the stage was never finished completely so graphic glitches are common in unfinished stages.
This is only a theory, but do you think there’s less Lost Bits in NES games? If there is, I bet it’s because of the tighter space restraints than more recent games.
Heyy I know this bg music! Its by Qumu! Hes made a lit of other great remixes like smb2. If youve ever waitched DGR, Qumu made the smb2 remix he uses for death montages! Edit/correction: bg music in the *intro and ad*
![Mario Kart Double Dash LOST BITS - Part 1 | Unused and Unseen Secrets [TetraBitGaming]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/de5YNo17VhE/mqdefault.jpg)
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Mario himself became a lost bit on that one castle level. I got lost so many times trying to find the correct door to advance
Is this a reference to sma?
Your now like a Christopher moon
The castle in world 8? (Not the final one)
you mean he lost a bit of him self?
I hate that castle.
I feel like some of these may have gone unused by accident, especially the bush and tileset stuff in the beginning, considering how unfinished the final versions look.
I was almost about to say "The fact that TetraBitGaming didn't make a SMB3 lost bits is a Lost Bit itself.
You mad lad :)
What does IKR mean??????
@@chill5611 i know right
O cool
@@chill5611 it means I know right
16:29 I can't believe there's an unused Mario Maker troll level in Mario 3
wowzers
U HAVE TO BE KIDDING, STOP IT
@@shadic3470 no is there
Wtf is going on?!
Speaking of Christopher Moon...
- SEGMENTS -
0:00 - Intro
1:15 - Unused Textures
6:39 - Unused Mode Features
9:50 - Debug Features/Debug Mode + Stage Select
11:47 - Unused Levels + Test Rooms + Throne Room Secret
18:06 - Outro
LEGEND
Needs to be pinned
"This vertical level where Mario has to swim up waterfalls"...
...which somehow looks *exactly* like a level I had a dream about when I was a kid, except in the dream after the waterfall part there was a pipe leading to a horizontal part with giant clam enemies in pits of water.
freaky dream coincidences happening
@@boringperson2989 is happening to me all the time
Today i dreamed about kissing my crush
I hope that it becomes real xd
@@theladiescallmesona It never would dude it won't she probably doesn't like you my crush left the school... Be sad friends if TH-cam had a friending feature you would be one
@@theladiescallmesona did it happen?
Tetrabit: “You know what they say-“
Me: “ALL TOASTERS TOAST TOAST”
they all toast toast
Im toasting a toaster toasting toast that toasts toasters that toast two toasts that toast toast...
yes
ers that toast toasting toast that toast toasting toasters toasting toasty toasters that toast three toasty toasters toasting toasty toast
That's not part of the song.
5:53 Throughout most of 2020 I've woken up and felt just as sad as this Goomba
Hey Chris still mad about me and ur mom?
we all do Christopher we all do
.... Haha .. HAHA WHY
Need a hug?
I hope that in 2021, you can feel like Happy Goomba
That 'P' Symbol at 2:11 really makes me think of those wax seals that envelopes used to be sealed with, so given its found among the graphics used for the letter from Princess Toadstool I'd wager maybe at some point some graphical representation of Mario unsealing the envelope to read the letter was displayed rather than the letter just appearing on screen. Just a guess though.
among
amongus
(My guess is there was originally an animation of the letter opening for us to read instead of it just appearing.)
ngl there's quite a few of the scrapped textures that i think looked better than the final ones
Ok
@@mistagrinch1331 *O K*
@@lucas_gaming2734 O K E J
Not textures its sprites
@@minecraftgamer99999 Potato, potahto, same thing.
Had to check that you'd not covered this one before! Surprised to see you have such big titles like this still behind the curtain 👀
Sad to see that the overworld sprite animations got scrapped to be honest, I was thinking it could be a hardware limitation too but don't have enough knowledge of the system to make that call...
It's crazy how some complicated screens take a small amount of data and some basic looking ones hit the limit ahaha
Nintendo: we don’t have a lot of space on the console so we better be careful...
Also Nintendo: leaves all this in
6:00 unused colour pallets that go unused... yes indeed I understand
I love how your videos always end with MMBN music. Such an underappreciated game series.
100%
What's that?
@@TetraBitGaming Is it possible to get the date of when SMB3 was completed in the hex editor 🤔🤔
@@SniperOnSundayMega Man Battle Network.
ah yes,the T H I R D Mario game
Technically it's the 4th
@@recker100b3 If you count the arcade Mario Bros and Donkey Kong, 6
@@SniperOnSunday good thinking
Aw, heck yeah! New lost bits!
ALSO THIS IS THE 100TH EPISODE! GOOD JOB TETRA!
6:03 "next up we have some unused color palettes that go unused in certain levels"
every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Africa
As the original discoverer of the 6-letter form of debug mode in the 1990s, it was more of a very lucky find than it was anything else, as I did not have access to the game's code at the time. I wrote up its history in the description of a video on my channel if anyone is interested (and it is also documented on my old website.)
14:48 I’ve encountered this level on extremely rare occasions back when I used to mess with rapidly removing the AC adaptor from the wall (and later by merely partially ejecting the cartridge.) Usually Mario spawns above the World 1 map, offscreen in the upper left, and if you’re able to move further to the left, you might gain access to this stage, but as stated, it is extremely rare.
4:20 You can clearly see that the side facing Mario Sprites are being used despite stating in said sentence it's not
SpeeeeEeEEEeeeeEE3Eeeeeeen
5:54 It looks like he's sleeping to me for some reason.
This video was “So bad.” Congrats. It’s always great seeing you cover the classics.
That is confusing
@@brianbudowick2751 ya it is.
Do pikmin 2, it has a LOT of unused stuff. Im talking 31 unused caves.
8:00 Music: Wario Master of Disguise: Head Honcho Carpaccio 8-Bit Remix
What if the giant letter above the throne room is actually a screen. When the King tells Mario he received a letter from the Princess, they use that to look at it as an E-mail.
I think the purple pipe tile that was replaced with regular bricks was removed because it wouldn't be clear to the player that it's something you can break otherwise. And the unused bush was probably cut because it would have just cut off awkwardly.
finally I always wanted this lost bits!
That question mark block with beige texture [no outline] could of been a early texture for the note block or what the dice would of looked like before you roll it.
17:27 you mentioned that this secret exit is normally inaccessible and you need a cheat to walk through the wall, but if you just have any power up you can actually clip by duck jumping on the top right corner and access it in the vanilla game pretty easily.
Out of all the NES Mario games, I’ve replayed this one and Mario 2 the most. Their just the most fun to me, even got all the whistles.
3:35 That unused castle sprite was later re-used in the GBA port in World E.
That suposed to be a ghost house
Well this is a fantastic way to wake up, I can be a little late for work gwah hahah
I like the yellow Cheep Cheep and green Parabeetle. A basic principle of enemy design is to change a colour on them and give them an upgraded function. One of the most obvious is the green Koopa Troopa falling off the edge but the red one staying on. Why not have Cheep Cheeps and Parabeetles that have reversed behaviour patterns?
That Koopa in the Bonus game is used in the Japanese release.
wait... how is this NOW getting uploaded?
I wouldve thought this wouldve been one of the first lost bits!
I had just watched the boundary break on this video, so i thought this was a reupload of that for a second. My mind merges this, boundary break, and son of a glitch into one
Thank you for uploading this Lost Bits video on my Birthday TetraBitGaming. ^w^
The beta version of the castle sprite is technically used but only if you glitch the sprites on the warp world 9(by making the camera go there when you go to the last part of the three worlds and move right if you do it long enough youll see the beta version of the castle sprite so yeah its technically used)
2:05 that opened treasure box is used during Toad's Pick a Chest mini-level
oh yea, they just maximized the sprite
Because of the similarity between the icon for peach on the letters, and the usused toad sprite, I think that at some point you would've maybe gotten a letter from a toad, rather than peach.
Do Galaxy 2! It has a considerable amount of unused content from the trailers and ingame
Fair enough.
I think the ? thing might have been used with the stars flowers and mushrooms you can find in the background of overworld levels
5:30 A propeller. Yes. Don't think it's anything else. It's a propeller thing. Get my mind, I mean your mind, out of the gutter!
So many unused textures actually look better than the ones actually used
What's weird about the cut/hidden content of Super Mario Bros 3, is that so much of it was revamped for All-Stars, and then AGAIN for Advance 4!
I was been waiting for this!!!
Finally on of my favorite Mario games!
Also, I personally believe that a green cheep cheep with wings under water in super Mario maker is a reference to the gold cheep cheep. Both of them act very similar
The original text for Princess's letters actually references a "gem" being enclosed. So I believe the original concept was a P-gem or Power gem instead. Maybe it would have had more uses than the P-wing, but that's only speculation.
I actually have a pirated CD with a lot of hacks from the NES. One of them, (and my favorite), is Super Mario Bros 3: Lost Levels. Basically, i played these unused Levels. A lot... It was my childhood. Good to know from where it all came from! I gotta finish that, even tho a some sprites are broken.
"next we have unused color pallets that are unused" yep I figured
This is the only video game my grandmother loved.
18:00 And now Weather Forecast! The weather forecast for the Mushroom Kingdom says there will be a pass-by of 30-feet letters. Better bring some scissors!
No mention of the parabeetle stage with green hills from the back of the box? I was so disappointed as a kid that wasn't a real level.
FINAL YOU DID IT YES THANK GOD PLEASE DO MARIO 64 LOST BITES PLEASE
Don't tell me I'm the only one who thinks the used sprite of Mario facing the camera with the Frog Suit is just him making a smiley face. Same with his death sprite
I rarely comment on youtube.. but this time i really needed to say how fun and interesting this video was to watch ! A lot i knew.. and a lot i didnt know at all ! Thank you for that!
Thanks for watching and the kind words
finally! this is gonna be GREAT!
14:10
This reminds me of Bleck Castle from Super Paper Mario, you can see why if you look at the pipes
16:57 I'm pretty sure those were the Underground background,
Who's Ready For Super Mario Land Lost Bits?
I love Super mario bros 3 thanks for making this!
Wanna have a bad time
@@jackrivera4398 uno reverse card
@@Chimichanga015 Hi Sans
Today is my birthday
@@guillermogazanol1729 happy birthday
@@Chimichanga015 thanks Sans
17:30 That reminds me of those canons in New Super Mario Bros 2 with the floor and all?
8Bit Toad's Turnpike !😍
This isn't a joke but I REALLY wanted to see this when I first watched you do mario bros 1 and 2! Thank You So Much!
12:20 If hammer bros stages are in all of the worlds already then that's just good for organization's sake, and isn't hard to make. Still need to get around to playing this game on All Stars on the Switch.
I like how Nintendo tried to make smb3 bad but failed
literally every video I watch is sponsored
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The p graphic is most likely a royal seal they were common in letters from royal or noble houses which would seal the letter closed so possibly we would see the letter arrive closed and then be opened probably cut bc that would be too complex for the system
I'm making a SMB3 hack myself and there are a lot of unused graphics you missed. Off the top of my head there's atleast 10 more unused graphics you didn't talk about as well as a 3 or 4 more unused animated graphics.
like?
ha ha, he said butt. this is where you laugh
I think I know how the P-Symbol and Toad sprite are related, you said that they're in the files for both the King's Chambers as well as Peach's Letter. Well, fun fact, Peach's Letter is actually stored right above the King's Chamber room when the cutscenes are loaded. Shesez (Boundary Break) discovered this on their Super Mario Bros. 3 episode 😄
OOPS I realize now that you actually did show the letter being above the King's Chamber, still, what I said about the P-Symbol and stuff might still apply here 😅
heya tetra I've been enjoying this lost bits series i was wonder maybe you could see if there are nay lost bits on tf2?
Mario's animations on the overworld isn't unused, in fact it's all used for that warp animation after a life was lost, if they didn't it wouldn't flow with the same movement Mario has on the overworld
These unsed levels aren't related to the bonus levels available in the GBA version however, are they?
I don't believe so
@@TetraBitGaming would be awesome but okay.
Isn’t there another TH-cam video with cut smb3 content?
tetra : scrapped coin mini game
music : *plays jinjo village from banjo-tooie.*
1:23 maybe a unused turning animation
Shantae for GBC ought to have some cool unused stuff. Sorry didn't know how to say that without sounding annoying.
Back in my day there where only 40 lost bits episodes
What if: you wanted Mario 64 Lost Bits
But tetra said: *M A R I O B R O S T H R E E*
Mario 64 would take literally forever, considering that there IS NO FINAL BUILD. Every damn copy is personalized.
@@cidneysavoie9878 no
This is a good video and just the game is also good my family watched this and they never played a game. Keep Up The Good Work
What’s weird is that the day this was uploaded is Super Mario World’s 30th anniversary!
really interesting! love seeing all these unused stages! :D
Those scrapped mini games would make more sense if the game limited your movement like a board game.
Just gonna say this I think you should definitely do a Rec Room lost bits
The starry background at 16:13 is actually from the underground levels and the reason it appears is because the stage was never finished completely so graphic glitches are common in unfinished stages.
Ayyy this song is a bop! 14:29
The 100th lost bits.
Fun fact: smb3 takes place in a theater
Happy 100th lost bits video
Would you ever do a list bits on remakes of the mainline mario games(
4:08 I know it’s meant for a desert but this kinda looks more like a mini waterfall or just something with water.
This is only a theory, but do you think there’s less Lost Bits in NES games? If there is, I bet it’s because of the tighter space restraints than more recent games.
10:55 Tell me there's a romhack for switching power ups at will, Mega Man style.
can't wait for super mario world lost bits
The game looks different in the Super Mario All Star one
Uh yeah, its supposed to be like that, it is a remake.
It's a remake wtf were u expecting?
@@alesta2212 i think they are making that joke as satire
The GBA version is a remake too
@@guillermogazanol1729 a shitty remake
Yeah in the mushroom kingdom all castles need letters above their throne room
The sad goomba is a sleeping goomba.
0:10
Captiobs: Tetravidgaming
You were so close...
I watched this video with my mom bc this is her favorite video game and she LOVED it. :)
Heyy I know this bg music! Its by Qumu! Hes made a lit of other great remixes like smb2. If youve ever waitched DGR, Qumu made the smb2 remix he uses for death montages!
Edit/correction: bg music in the *intro and ad*