
I played the game and made it to World 7, and turned off the game. Unfortunately, however, the saving feature malfunctions sometimes. So, if you beat the first 2 levels of World 1, you can turn off the system, come back later, and pick up where you left off at World 1, level 3! Most of the time, this works the way it should. Saving: That’s right, you can save your game in The Lost Levels! After every level, the game auto-saves your progress. This may have something to do with the game’s glitchy save feature. Following the Lost Levels in World 1, you can play through the rest of the worlds of SMB3, with one difference – many of the other world’s levels are not there! For example, the Fortress level in World 2 cannot be played, because the Fortress has already been destroyed when you arrive in World 2! Many of the worlds have A LOT of levels that have been, for some reason, taken out, and they are marked with an ‘L’ or ‘M’ as if they had already been beaten. The castle/air ship battle is still the same for World 1.

The levels have mostly remained unchanged however, some of the levels previously had no ‘end,’ so endings were added to allow players to complete each level.Ĭhanges from the original SMB3: All of the stages from World 1 have been removed, and in their place are the 12 Lost Levels. Today, however, modders have created a version of SMB3 that inserts the 12 missing levels into the first world of the game (replacing the original levels). Some of these levels were incomplete, too easy, or glitchy, hence the likely reasons why they weren’t included in the game.

3 was released for the NES in 1990, approximately 12 ‘levels’ were left out of the game proper, yet these levels were accessible using a Game Genie device since they still existed within the game’s source code. The original World 1 stages have been replaced with the Lost Levels.
