The only benefit to two player mode is in level two. In the ninja-rope bird-massacre level you can rack up a bunch of extra lives by juggling birds. It's quite easy as one player to get some extra lives on this level, but with two players you can cheat a little. Note that at the beginning of a frame in level two the birds are assigned who they will attack. [Side note: I think the birds are assigned to attack players in alternating fashion relative to the order they enter the screen.] The game will not move to another frame until all the birds in the current frame are dead. Choose the player who is better at juggling to be yellow toad. Next position green toad at the top of the screen his or her priority is to dodge birds, without hitting them. Have yellow toad at the bottom of the screen juggling one bird at a time. It's much easier to juggle this way because the screen is stationary (not moving down). When yellow toad needs another bird to juggle he can take them one at a time from the green toad. The screen will begin to move downward the instant the last bird is hit. If there is a Venus-Fly-Trap enemy on the screen use it to keep the frame stationary! There are a few times where you can use this to your advantage and give green toad (the noob juggler) a chance to get an easy life and good amount of points. Now, you may be asking yourself why do you give yellow toad, the more seasoned toads player all of the lives? Well, as you progress through the game, if you get to ice world (level 4) you can have yellow toad transfer lives to green toad. This video shows the transfer station I speak of. Right away the two players get a checkpoint, head down the series of ramps, and jump on the moving platforms. From the second platform green toad gets the extra life and yellow toad commits suicide, which leads to a wash plus points. Basically you can bulk up green toad and pad his life pool so more progress can be made. The better transfer station is in level 9, right away we see the two players would get a checkpoint, and immediately can transfer lives to each other. Due to the glitch in level 11 my friend and I transfer out all but 2 or 3 of yellow toads lives here. We do this for three reasons. 1. This is the last checkpoint till the end of the level so you're basically guaranteed to finish without losing a life. 2. In level 10 both players can easily avoid death unless you lose the race, in which case only green toad loses a life. 3. Most importantly, at the beginning of level 11 player two is killed and cannot continue so any lives player two has remaining are wasted. I love this game.