How to unlock levels
Super Mario Bros. 35 is very unique in the way it unlocks additional stages for each player. When all 35 fighters join the game, they can choose a stage that they have already encountered. These are compiled together into a pool of levels for players to go through, with a random one selected once you complete the current stage. But that does mean that the levels offered are determined by what current players can choose from. This led to a ton of 1-1 and 1-2 assists for everyone who jumped into the game at launch. It changes slowly thanks to this trick.
If other players choose a stage that you haven't unlocked and the game decides to let you play, you'll unlock it that way. This is the only sure way to unlock a new level to choose from in later games. But there's a trick, which involves areas of distortion that can sometimes be featured on a Super Mario Bros. 35 stage. On the world 1-2 and 4-2. It's rare to play 4-2 but a 1-2 comes up all the time.
To access the crumple zone here, all you need to do is bring the final chain pipe up to the surface. Blocks line the ceiling and you just have to get past them either by jumping on blocks early or using the elevators that come just before here. Climb to the top of the stage and keep moving to the right, pass the warp pipe and you will reach the warp area. For 4-2, watch for the platforms that descend with three horizontal blocks afterwards. The leftmost block is a bean that will take you to the other chain area.
Once you get to these warp zones, it's all down to chance. The levels offered here are still part of the group being extracted, but you can choose from three options. If you spot one that you haven't unlocked before, pick it up and at the end of the game you should have a new choice before you start a match now that you know how to unlock levels in Supe rMario Bros. 35.
