#Super mario maker

[suppermariobroth]

Top: Nintendo has been proven to use the fan website The Spriters Resource to access sprites from their own games, instead of taking the sprites from their own archives. A sprite in Super Mario Maker (later even reused in Super Mario Maker 2) contains a pixel underneath Mario's mustache with a color that does not actually appear in Super Mario World. However, that exact color appeared in a sheet submitted to that site that was up in 2013-2015, at the time of the game's development.

Since the only way we know Nintendo used fanmade rips of their content was because they forgot to remove the pixel in this instance, it stands to reason that many more instances exist that are unknowable due to Nintendo successfully scrubbing out any traces of the original sheets.

Bottom: for everyone who is interested in sprites or is already a fan or user of The Spriters Resource, you may find it interesting to tune in to a livestream that is currently occurring whereby a new design for the site is being showcased. All feedback from the viewers is appreciated and will be considered for changes and future updates!

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[sm64mario]

THEY'A TRIMMED THE HERBS!

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[clowngames]

For those unaware, Super Mario Maker for the Wii U disabled uploading levels in March of 2021, and is shutting down its servers entirely in April of this year. I don't know if there's a good estimate on how many levels have been created in SMM's lifetime, but in 2016 Nintendo reported about 7.5 million levels created by players, so the number is High.

In the meantime there is a community dedicated to taking every level that has yet to be cleared for the first time, and clearing it. Some of these levels take 6-10 hours of attempts to beat, and some of them use obscure glitches that no one else has discovered. Nevertheless, as of a few months ago there were less than 20,000 uncleared levels and currently there are less than 1,000.

Nothing remains but the most difficult platform experiences you can imagine. The community is confident they can "beat Super Mario Maker" but the deadline is fast approaching. It will be a tight race, and this is shaping up to be a potentially historic moment.

As of yesterday, all levels uploaded in 2016 have been cleared.

[francoisl-artblog]

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the first Super Mario Maker on Wii U. Time flies ! I guess it was the occasion for this Mar10 day.

I'm not good at building levels actually, but I did play some nice creations, specially on the 2nd game !

A whole SMB remake, a sort of Mario Mania, the Zelda levels or even some wild stuff, people are doing wonders with this game.

The only thing I do miss of the Wii U version are the mystery costume. I do understand why it's not there anymore, but still, it was such a cool thing.

Anyway, Happy Mar10 day again !

Super Mario (c) Nintendo

Pixel Sprites all originated from the first Super Mario Maker game. With the exception of few edits here and there, I didn't made them.

Artwork made by me.

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Gnat Attack

Debut: Mario Paint

I love flies! Diptera is my favorite insect order! But the world as a whole does not love flies. Just look at Flyswatter. An entire genre of item that exists to try and kill flies! It would be nice if everyone could love flies while still being reasonably careful about the biting and disease-spreading one, but at least the prevalence of fly swatting means I get to talk about some Weird Mario Flies!

Fly is the most basic fly. I wouldn't want anything else for this role! A classic gray housefly who will land on your food and rub its hands together. One of the most charismatic fly behaviors! It looks like they're scheming, but they're really cleaning their hands when they do that! It would be nice if they did it before landing on your food, but they're not being rude on purpose... or are they?! (they are not. They are not smart enough to do that)

Fly does not have interesting behaviors and in fact cannot even attack the player, but the most interesting thing about it, to me, is their relationship with Munchers! If a Muncher is shaken enough in Super Mario Maker, flies will come out, and swatting them is the way to start the Gnat Attack minigame. But why here? Why Muncher? I guess it's because of the Venus Fly Trap inspiration, and compared to standard Piranha Plants, Munchers look more like they would catch bugs, rather than tear meat from bone. Perhaps this is rudely shaking out the Muncher's meal! That's not nice! And then the player most likely just wants to swat the fly. What a waste! At least eat it.

Big Fly is the first dangerous one, and can attack the hand that holds the flyswatter! What's it going to do? Spread pathogens? Suck blood? Fly into your eye and make you blink a lot? None of those things! It will fire Projectiles. Its shiny green exoskeleton brings to mind the green bottle fly, which does not have any Projectile Attacks as far as I know.

I don't know why, but Big Fly is the only one from the original game to not return in Super Mario Maker. Maybe its attack pattern didn't work well with the new control method? It DID feature in the pause menu, return in the WarioWare version of Gnat Attack, and even get to be on the title screen there! Maybe all that went to its head, and it started demanding too much. A rabbit carcass all to itself at the snack break area. That's just too much rabbit carcass! You're not too good to eat at the same rabbit carcass as the rest of us!

Fly Parent is my favorite one! For many reasons! This is not Fly Mother. This is a non-binary parent birthing insects out the wazoo! Representation Win! I'm glad it's yellow, because that reminds me of hoverflies, my very favorite flies! The sweet little slurpers who just want to drink nectar, and mimic bees and wasps for protection! As babies, though, they are voracious predators, and Fly Parent differs in this regard.

Instead of larvae, Fly Parent gives birth directly to Fly Children! These have the most basic fly design possible, but their circumstances are interesting enough to compensate! I assume you know that flies, as with many insects, hatch from an egg as a larva, then later become a pupa, and finally emerge as a winged adult. Fly Children, however, appear to be these very winged adults, and also look nothing like Fly Parent! There are a few possible explanations.

One: Fly Parent is artificial. Its abdomen is bizarrely shaped, and honestly rather artificial-looking. It is not a true fly, but a transport for a fleet of real, tiny flies.

Two: Fly Parent is PARTLY artificial. It has an artificial womb to raise young in, allowing them to undergo complete metamorphosis inside, feeding the larvae with mechanical bug milk. As for the children being so small... they're premature? I don't know!

Three: Fly Parent is an adoptive parent to the Fly Children, and has a great relationship with its countless adult children of a different species.

I think any of these is a pretty great option! I'd be happy with any of them being confirmed if Nintendo ever does a Reddit AMA to answer Mario lore questions!

Fly Bomb is what it looks and sounds like. A fly, that is a bomb! A Bob-omb, specifically, since this is Mario. I always get a kick of how this style and color of eye often denotes a bomb in this franchise. There are ants and termites that are able to explode and sacrifice themselves for their colonies, so maybe if there were eusocial flies, Fly Bomb could become real! Hopefully it would be spherical with a string fuse, too! Bob-omb is a flawless design, and it has even fewer flaws when it is also a fly. I think, lore-wise, this could have been the creature to inspire the creation of Bob-ombs in the first place!

Finally is King Watinga! The big bad robotic fly who is like, leader of the flies or something? I don't know. I don't think this entire insect order has a single leader, between you and me. But someone made a robotic fly and it's mean. King Watinga is capable of spawning Fly Children, which I think backs up the Artificial Fly Parent theory! I don't care much for his design, but it is so silly for there to be a Boss of the flies, a Mastermind behind a mildly annoying buzzing. It's an organized thing! Also, I don't know why he is named King Watinga. Watinga is a last name most common in Papua New Guinea, and I have no idea why a robobug is named it! Does anyone know? Will anyone tell me? Please? Thank you

[one-time-i-dreamt]

They wouldn’t let me and my dad on our flight unless we could beat this really hard level on Super Mario maker.

[polling-sonic-fans]

Sonic Fans: If a Sonic Maker game were to happen in a similar vein to Super Mario Maker, what would you want it to be like?

Options:

A) Both 2D & 3D

B) Only 2D

3) Only 3D

4) None - A Sonic Maker should never happen

Thanks anon! Polls for the Sonic fandom on just about anything. Share polls you like to get more data. Asks and submissions always open.

[klunsgod]

PSJ Comic!! in my document, i chronologically put this comic during his childhood while describing: "Mario becomes a Sonic fan and starts collecting Sonic stuff".

(recent thought while writing this) i guess the Olympic Games is his self-insert fanfiction, ha ha ha ha ha

why yes i do miss the lack of Mystery Mushrooms in Maker 2

[mmproductions]

Mario Kart World wish list

[suppermariobroth]

In the first Super Mario Maker, the physics of Super Mushrooms and Cape Feathers change if they emerge out of a vertical pipe, fall down onto a trampoline, and finally are eaten and spat out by Yoshi. The Cape Feather will behave like a Super Mushroom and slide along the ground, while the Super Mushroom will simply stay in place.

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[sm64mario]

[clowngames]

There is currently speculation that Trimming The Herbs, the final uncleared Mario Maker level, was uploaded by cheating (like through TAS or a hack or something) instead of being cleared legitimately by the creator. They don't have any evidence including any means through which the player could have cheated, so currently the strongest argument in this case is just that, given how difficult the level is, cheating is simply the most reasonable explanation for it having been clear-checked.

[thehumanwiki]

playing super mario maker 2 and there’s someone whose name i recognize from a few months ago, and they seem to have changed their mii from a boy mii to a girl mii. trans mii. this is femiinism.

[comix64]

how many games do you have in common with me lets find out (i tried to tag every game but tumblr keeps abridging the tags so please excuse any missing games)

[puppianqueen]

everybody super mario making

[skysometricstreams]

In which I do another of my old level showcases, with a twist: I read all 1,746 comments that I got on those levels, too. It was a real endurance test – did my patience (and my vocal cords) survive the challenge?