#Super mario maker

[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.

[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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[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.

[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)

[fandomlife-confessions]

[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

[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.

[suppermariobroth]

In Super Mario Maker, there is a bizarre discrepancy in the Mario Challenge endings on Easy Mode (where Toad tells Mario that the princess is in another castle) regarding how Toad reacts to Mario wearing the two Toad-related Mystery Mushroom costumes.

Top: when Mario appears as regular Toad, the Toad addresses him as "Captain", seemingly believing that he is Captain Toad.

Bottom: however, when Mario actually appears as Captain Toad, the Toad no longer recognizes him as Captain Toad.

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[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?

[dr-spectre]

Gamers... i have two paths to go down and i think i can only pick one.

Do i get a Wii U and mod the ever living FUCK out of it so that I can play Splatoon 1 and Mario Maker 1 online, play "backups" of games that i for sure own, and play on some emulators? I have my eye on a listing on eBay.

OR! Do i get a Steam Deck because it's now available in my country?

"Why not get a Steam Deck to emulate Wii U games? It can do that." The issue is that unlike literally every other emulator ever, to play online you NEED to grab files from an actual Wii U console. I dont know why this is the case and I dont know if that would ever change, so in order for me to play the pure chaotic bullshit that is Splatoon 1, I HAVE to get a Wii U otherwise I'm trapped with the single player and repeatedly beating the shit out of DJ Octavio for entertainment. And guess what, you can't even pirate the files anyways because of how they work and the likelihood of someone giving away the files is near impossible!!! Thanks Nintendo for your amazing online infrastructure!! I love you Nintendo!!!! (Die.)

Ugh. Which several hundred dollar machine do i get my hands on...

[gremlingirlsmell]

if Nintendo aren't stupid Super Mario Maker 3 should have all of these:

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Yoshi's Island

Super Mario Bros. 2

Multiple/secret level exits like Super Mario World for all styles

Custom worlds support these for branching paths

Multiple custom worlds per account (like pls nintendo come on)

[subspacetrioappreciationcorner]

Super Mario Maker is the best mario game for one, simple reason

It's the only one with every member of dah boiz playable