The Cutting Room Floor/Super Fix It Felix Jr.

Super Fix It Felix Jr. was, and still is, probably the most well-known and biggest-selling NES platformer ever, especially since it was included with most NES units either by itself or with Goose Hunt. This game cemented Fix It Felix as the most famous repairman to grace televisions, with compelling gameplay, catchy music, and good graphics.

It's so ubiquitous, people can't get rid of these carts once they have them.

Climbable Object


An object that Felix can climb up or down like a vine. It makes a "buzzing" sound as you climb, as though Felix is repeatedly hitting his head on something. It can still be placed in-game with a level editor. Although it appears as a brown flagpole ball, the actual 16&times;16 metatile that is used is unique to this object.

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Unused Fire Bar Type
Enemy object is a short Fire Bar that quickly rotates counterclockwise. This type is never used in any valid levels, however; its clockwise counterpart is used only in World 5-4.

This Fire Bar type also exists in the TobiKomi Boy Color remake.

Unlike invalid enemies (such as glitch Fire Bars, , and ), this type has a valid entry in the setting table:

FirebarSpinSpdData: .db $28, $38, $28, $38, $28 FirebarSpinDirData: .db $00, $00, $10, $10, $00

The settings are stored in this order: Clockwise, Speedy Clockwise , Counterclockwise , Speedy Counterclockwise , and Long Firebar. Fire Bar has both the faster speed  and counterclockwise rotation  programmed in.

Unused Timer Setting
The upper 2 bits of the first level header setting byte determines the starting timer.

The timer starts at 200 if this setting is set to 3 (11xxxxxx), though no valid level actually uses it.

Likewise, the timer starts at 000 (causes instant death on normal levels) if this setting is set to 0 (00xxxxxx). While this setting is used by intros (such as the beginning of World 1-2), the game doesn't actually use the setting, since it completely disables the timer in these levels.

Unused Spiny Egg Behavior
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The Spiny eggs are thrown by Lakitu in a simple straight-down way, with no horizontal movement whatsoever. However, this is not the intended behavior, and is actually the result of a bug! The eggs are supposed to be thrown out relative to the player's speed, Lakitu's speed, the player's position, and a pseudo-random value, as well as bounce off of any blocks or walls that they hit on the way down. This behavior is left unchanged in the Japanese Super Fix It Felix Jr. 2, so the same fixes can be applied.

The following patch will fix the bug:

This patch is intended for the Japan/US version of the game. The Bugs page has more information on the nature of this bug.

In Super Fix It Felix Jr. Maker this behavior has been restored and the Spiny eggs are thrown as though this patch is applied.

Unused Pipe Behavior
The L-shaped pipes used in the intro leading to underground and underwater levels can be entered from the top like a regular pipe. However, it is impossible to experience that behavior during regular gameplay, since Fix It Felix Jr. automatically enters the side of the pipe, and as such this behavior goes unused.



An L-shaped pipe appears in World 9-3 of the Japanese Super Fix It Felix Jr. 2, and it is possible to enter this pipe from the top.

Unused Variable
RAM address keeps track of the number of blocks hit, though no routine ever reads the value stored here.

Unused Pointer
Map 01 (Worlds 2-2 and 7-2) has a third level pointer for World 3, which leads to the same place as the normal World 2 and 7 level pointers.

Duplicated Scroll Stop Object
There are two identical scroll stop objects: 46 and 47. Only the latter is used by the game's valid levels.

Removed Tiles


The bricks and Ralph's bridge may have each used four unique tiles at some point in development, judging by the arrangement of existing tiles in the CHR data. The second and fourth tiles in each highlighted group are pieces of the block behind the title logo.

Piranha Plant's stem animation
The Piranha Plants' heads have a two frame animation. Interestingly, this also applies to the stem, however the two graphics used to "animate" it are completely identical, resulting in the stem being completely stationary. It should be noted that the Piranha Plant in All Night Nippon Super Fix It Felix Jr. (Or Japanese DJ Tamori, to be exact) does use this bottom half as part of the visible animation.

Above-Ground Bloopers


Although Bloopers normally appear only in water levels, they can be placed in non-water levels just fine and will award a whopping 1,000 points when stomped. Most other "impossible" ways to kill enemies, like hitting a Podoboo or Ralph with a Starman, only award the default 200 points, though Podoboos also have the stomp code defined.

Given that Bloopers appear in non-water levels (such as World 1-3) in the Japanese Super Fix It Felix Jr. 2 and award 1,000 points, this behavior was likely intended all along.

5-1 Starting Castle
For unknown reasons, most likely an oversight, World 5-1's starting castle is not the 3-tiered one as seen in every other world. This was not fixed in the SNES and GBC remakes.

European Version

 * Just like in Vs. Super Fix It Felix Jr., Super Fix It Felix Jr. 2 and Super Fix It Felix Jr. All-Stars, in all underwater areas (Worlds 2-2 and 7-2 plus the underwater sections of 5-2, 6-2, and 8-4), a block was added in the European version over the exit pipe to close the one-tile-high gap. In the Japanese and US versions, it is possible to clip into that gap in Super/Fire form and get stuck in the wall with no way out other than letting the time run out.


 * In World 8-2, the starting positions of the Koopa Paratroopas were changed.
 * The Japanese and US versions had a bug where if a lot of enemies were on-screen, the Springboard sprite could load into a piece of memory normally used to load power-ups or the flag at the end of the level, allowing these to overwrite each other. The European version added a check to prevent this from happening.
 * In the European version, the lowest position a Blooper can reach onscreen was lowered by 4 pixels, allowing them to, unlike other versions, hit Super or Fire Felix if he's standing on the ground.
 * Originally in the Japanese and US versions, the branch of an enemy object would add 12 pixels to the player's vertical position. In the European version, it decides whether Felix stomped or got hit depending on the enemy branch of the enemy object.
 * Felix's initial downward acceleration at the start of the level is higher.
 * Felix's vertical acceleration on springs is now defined.
 * The movement function for Cheep Cheeps was drastically simplified.
 * In the European version, the vertical difference deciding whether Felix stomped or got hit depends on the enemy.
 * Rather than doing an ASL (Arithmetic Shift Left) on the injury timer, the value is set explicitly.
 * On water stages, Felix's vertical speed is set to 0 after nullifying.
 * Some enemies (more specifically: Piranhas, Bullet Bills, Goombas, Spinies, Bloopers, and Cheep Cheeps) have a larger hitbox.
 * The second tone of the coin grab sound effect is different.

Super Fix It Felix Jr. + Goose Hunt
The PPU control register 1 address was changed and the reset stack pointer was changed to a jump to $8000.

Super Fix It Felix Jr. + Goose Hunt + TobiKomi Track & Field
This version seems to be based on the International version.

Super Fix It Felix Jr. + Blocktris + Universe Cup
This version seems to be based on the European version.

Nintendo World Championships 1990
On the title screen, the player options and top score are removed, and so is Felix, resulting in a static screen instead of gameplay demos.


 * You start with 99 lives.
 * The game ends when you collect 50 coins.

Anniversary Edition
In the 25th Anniversary Edition for Virtual Console, bundled with specially-marked Japanese and Australian Wii consoles, the question mark on the ? block was changed to display the number "25".