Minus+World

The Minus World is a mysterious hidden world in the game Super Mario Bros. for NES.

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There is a myth that if you go into the gap above the pipe then you will go to the end of the level. But this is false, as the video shows. If you enter the pipe at the end it takes you back to the begining of the level, making it impossible to escape.

This level was put into the SMW hack "[|Super Mario Bros. DX]" as an easter egg. It was possible to go to both the US and Japanese version of it, along with two other destinations. (Also the US version is no longer endless, like in the video after the hack video.)

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Norudorugu, a member of YouTube, hacked SMB so the minus world actually goes somewhere. Here is a video of the hack.

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In Japan, the Minus World is different.

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In [|Super Mario Bros. Z Episode 7 "Trapped Within Negative Space"], Mario and Sonic get stuck in the Minus World and must escape. In this video, Prof. Frankly explains the reason for the Minus World's existance.

Here is the conversation in exact qoutes.

(Yoshi, Shadow, Luigi, and Stuffwell walk though the broken wall and up to the pipe)

Stuffwell: We have arrived. As you can tell from the debris, it was quite the struggle. Masters Mario and Sonic ventured forth into that pipe that pipe to escape their assaileriser. I would provide extreme caution if you plan on pursuing them.

Shadow: Trust me, Mecha Sonic is the one that needs to be cautious after I enter that pipe.

(Stuffwell gets an ! over his head)

Stuffwell: I appear to be receiving an incoming transmission from the professor.

(More coming later)