Hello, I'm a new user here. Just commenting a problem i have with smb1 hacks.
Most of them, when i start a new game, begin in world 0-1, which is a fortress.
DO u know the reason of that? I use FCEUltra.

Unfortunately, some SMB hacks made with the titleless ROM won't work on FCEUltra, even if you patch them to the good ROM.



(I think that includes Quest for the Missing Hat. )

Dave, I have a simple explanation for why that works-

Holding "A" and pushing the Start Button will (in SMB1) activate a hidden cheat code that sends the character to the last World they were at when they lost their last life. Naturally, the variable for such a thing would be a simple 1-1 when the game is first booted up.

The 0-1 glitched hacks are typically old... The first dump of SMB to be widespread over the internet was in fact a pirate version of the game (Notice how none of them have title screens?).

Why is this a problem, you may ask? The pirate version of the game doesn't initialize the RAM properly, and when the game looks for what world to jump to, it finds a 0 instead of a 1, hence starting in 0-1.