Mario and Luigi are men of many tricks when it comes to trouble. Use the following techniques described here while you play, and as building blocks for the more advance techniques described below.
Technique
Description
Jump
When your character is at a standstill, press the A button and up he goes.
Dash
To hightail it out of a trouble spot, press the B button. Run for it!
Dash Jump
Hold the B button to dash, and while you're running, press the A button. Extremely useful.
Stomp
Most of the enemies you encounter can be defeating by pressing A button to jump on their head.
Stomp and Chase
After you stomp a Koopa Troopa, you can give it a kick and chase it while it clears the path, until it hits a block and rebounds. Then jump out of its way.
Duck
Timing is everything when you hold Down on the D-Pad in order to duck out of trouble.
There are a few tricky maneuvers that have limited uses but are, nevertheless, good to know. Study the tricks below and try them out for yourself. You may impress other players with your skill.
Technique
Description
Mushroom Disappearance
Poisonous Mushrooms are a real menace. You can make them disappear in certain situations by finding a Power-Up Mushroom in the area. Just pop up one and the other will be gone.
Tight Squeeze
In a few very special situations, when you create a gap on the left edge of the screen that is exactly the right width, you can make your character jump into the gap and use it to move to higher ground.
Scroll In
If a moving target is off the edge of the screen before you jump, you'll have very little luck in hittin it. Move slowly to the right until the target is in view.
Scroll Out
A Fire-Bar will stop rotating around a block if your character has to move past it to the extent that its center is off the left edge of the screen.
Fireworks
Fireworks sometimes celebrate the end of a level. You can trigger them by grabbing the Flagpole when the last digit of the timer is a 1, 3, or 6.
1-Up Pole Grab
On in the Lost Levels, if your Coin total is two of the same digit and you hit the Flagpole when the last digit of the timer is the same as the others, you'll walk away with a 1-Up.
Power-up double jump: When presented with either a Super Mushroom or Fire Flower, if you ensure that you are not holding A button when you collect it, you can press and hold A button during the powerup animation, which will result in Mario jumping from that point in midair as if he were standing on solid ground.
Wall jump: When Mario hits the edge of a wall at a 16-pixel tile boundary, he will act like he is standing on solid ground for a frame. If you can manage to press A button on that frame, Mario will appear to jump from the side of the wall.
"Hat stomp": Mario does not necessarily need to be coming down on an enemy from above to stomp it. As long as Mario is moving downward, he can stomp enemies.
Accelerated Jump: If you jump into a block, you'll be pushed down at a rate higher than normal gravity; when you hit the ground immediately jump to rebound into the air at a higher velocity. You'll jump higher and farther with this.