How to make your Game Boy Advance produce strange Mario-esque sounds!

Being unable to see the Game Boy Advance screen, we decided to see if any other sensory gratification could be gained from the machine.

We asked everyone we knew if there were any tricks and we found this little beauty: Turn on your Game Boy Advance with a cartridge in and listen to the boot sound you know so well.

Now, turn it off and hold down the start and select buttons. Turn it back with start and select still held down and you will hear a quick four note jingle from Mario World. When the initial boot sounds have finished, but before the game starts, press either the A or the B button. You will hear another three note sound effect, again from Mario World. How groovy is that!?

So now, when you can’t see your GBA to play games, you can listen to funny noises from a great game from the past.

Thanks to Da Moss for the tip!