

These special levels are the following (the first link of a pair indicates New Super Mario Bros. U and New Super Luigi U have secret exits in some levels that allow users to skip to later worlds, as do New Super Mario Bros.

In Super Mario World, players can skip directly to the Front Door of Bowser's Castle by accessing Star World via Star Roads connected to Donut Secret House, Vanilla Secret 1, Soda Lake, or Forest Fortress, and then clearing the paths to the final warp (itself directly accessed from Valley of Bowser 4). Super Show!, King Koopa would similarly use potions to create portals or doors to make his escape. In some episodes of The Super Mario Bros. 2 contain Subspace Warps, which automatically warp players to later worlds, without the use of an intermediary Warp Zone. Ĭertain jars within Subspace in Super Mario Bros. Warp Zones were inspired by the arcade version of Excitebike in which the player can choose any track to begin playing from. and two of its sequels feature Warp Cannons accessed from secret exits in certain levels, each of which would launch Mario or Luigi to a later world. Instead of Warp Zones, New Super Mario Bros. 3 featured an entire island as its Warp Zone. For the most part, they are sectioned-off areas containing Warp Pipes, although Super Mario Bros. The Warp Zone is a hidden area that acts as a kind of teleportation system, connecting many worlds to one place. The Warp Zone in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros.
