Hidden Crouch

The **Hidden Crouch** is an unusual glitch in *Super Mario Maker* that makes it possible for Small Mario to crouch in the Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3 game styles even though it shouldn't be possible. Mario will not appear any different than normal, but still have all of the effects of being crouched.

Starting in *Super Mario Maker 2*, Small Mario can natively crouch in every game style.

## Variations

### Crouch Jump as Super Mario

This method is done by taking damage in midair while crouching as Super Mario.

### Forced Crouch Storage Glitch

Because Small Mario is unable to crouch, this glitch must first be activated as Super Mario before taking damage to revert to Small Mario. Small Mario will not be in the crouch state unless he jumps on an enemy or object.

## Mechanics Affected

### Crouch-Only Mechanics

While in this state, Small Mario can perform techniques that normally only work if Mario is crouching, such as Wall Jumping or Thwomp Star Jumps.

### Smaller Hitbox

Mario's hitbox will be the same size it is when crouching in other game styles.

### Ungrabbable items

In the Super Mario Bros. 3 game style, Small Mario in the crouch state is not able to grab items. However, it is still possible to hold an item while in this state if the item is grabbed before entering the state.

## Maintaining the Effect

Small Mario in SMB and SMB3 is not able to keep being crouched if he touches a surface while holding down like it is possible in SMW and NSMBU. However, because Mario takes 2 frames to uncrouch if the player doesn't hold forward or does but hold down when he touches a surface, it is possible to jump before Small Mario loses his crouch state.

## See Also

• Bowser Jr. Spin Glitch
• Conveyor/Mole Projectile Glitch
• Fast Muncher Launch Glitch
• Flying Enemy Glitch
• Frozen Enemy Glitch (Beach Koopa)
• High Speed Muncher/Thwomp Glitch
• Magikoopa Stack Floating Muncher Glitch
• Muncher Hitbox Glitch
• Phantom Bowser Jr. Glitch
• Small Koopa Troopa Glitch
• Wiggler Super Jump Glitch
 Items
• Background Items Glitch
• Bill Blaster Fast Item Launch Glitch
• Bill Blaster Physics Glitch
• Clown Car Momentum Storage Glitch
• Clown Car Separation Glitch
• Crouching With Items Glitch
• Disappearing Items Glitch
• Entangled Spring Glitch
• Flying Cannon Glitch
• Frozen Yoshi Glitch
• Goomba's Shoe Duplication Glitch
• Infinite Coins Glitch
• Item Momentum Storage Glitch
• Item Wall Clip
• Items Into Uploaded Levels Glitch
• Jumping Spring Glitch
• No Bounce Spring Jump Glitch
• Non-Interactive Spring Glitch
• Null Sprite Glitch
• Offscreen Coin Glitch
• Pink Coin Duplication
• Pink Coin Respawning Glitch
• Power-up Physics Glitch
• Spring Launching Glitch
• Spring Momentum Glitch
• Super Spring Jump Glitch
• Teleporting Power-up Glitch
• Winged Items Glitch
 Other
• Editor Freezing Glitch
• Ending Sequence Delayed Note Block Jump
• Fake Checkpoint Glitch
• Fire Floater
• Flutter Jump Refresh Glitch
• Forced Crouch Storage Glitch
• **Hidden Crouch**
• Intangible Wall Glitch
• Invincibility Glitch
• Life After Death
• Object Bypassing
• Pipe Conveyor Glitch
• Pipe Teleport Glitch
• Shrunken Mario Glitch
• Slow Motion Glitch
• Small Jump Glitch
• Spawn-Blocked Stack
• Stack Displacement Glitch
• Stack Flipping Glitch
• Teleportation Glitch
• Track Momentum Glitch
• Walking Through Walls
 Visual
• Bumper Sprite Glitch
• Coin Lava Sprite Glitch
• Frozen Shellmet Animation
• Goomba Shoe Sprite Glitch
• Invisible POW Block Glitch
• Missing Shellmet Animation
 Crashes
• Muncher Door Softlock
• Offscreen Pipe Softlock
• Title Screen Game Crash
• Underwater Pipe Softlock
• Yoshi/Fire Flower Game Crash