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Nintendo is shutting down the level upload feature for Super Mario Maker

Casey Baseel
Nov 27, 2020
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Super Mario Maker is about to become just Super Mario Player.

Global, Internet, Japan
(nintendo • Super Mario • Super Mario Maker • video games)

Amazing Super Mario Maker 2 player creates level that’s also a brilliant 3-D maze【Video】

Koh Ruide
Aug 15, 2019

It even comes with a minimap indicating your current location.

Japan
(awesome • clever • cool • nintendo • Super Mario • Super Mario Maker • Super Mario Maker 2 • video • video games)

See how this Japanese player clears this demonically difficult Super Mario Maker level!

Andrew Kane
Sep 16, 2016

Just watching this video gives us serious anxiety, but luckily this player clears this stage with ease — and they were only one of a handful players to accomplish this feat!

Japan
(crazy • game video • Mario • Super Mario Maker)

Hello Kitty joins Mario Maker, may possibly break Japanese-ness level-measuring equipment 【Video】

Casey Baseel
May 26, 2016

Arrival of Kitty-chan and fellow Sanrio character My Melody is the most Japanese thing since schoolgirl outfit Pikachu.

Cute, Games & Tech, Japan
(cute • Hello Kitty • My Melody • nintendo • Sanrio • Super Mario • Super Mario Maker • video • video games)

Babymetal becomes the newest alternate character for Nintendo’s Super Mario Maker 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Apr 28, 2016

Barrier-smashing metal group teams up with revolutionary video game.

Entertainment, Games & Tech, Japan
(Babymetal • music • nintendo • Super Mario Maker • video • video games)

Nintendo launches awesome, free Super Mario Wallpaper Maker website for PCs and smartphones

Casey Baseel
Feb 2, 2016

Want to try your hand at crafting Super Mario Maker screens, but don’t have a Wii U? Right this way!

Internet, Japan
(cool • Mario • nintendo • Smartphones • Super Mario Maker • video games • wallpaper)

Troll levels still abound in Mario Maker, Nintendo releases another sassy pigeon comic to help

Scott Wilson
Oct 27, 2015

In an effort to help alleviate the massive amount of horrible levels that have made it into the Super Mario Maker universe, Nintendo tasked its pigeon friend/Mario Maker extraordinaire Yamamura-san to show us how to correctly create a level. In the first comic, Yamamura-san literally poo-pooed all over novice-creator Mashiko’s level, and then gave her some homework to help her become a better builder.

But the first comic did little to alleviate the amount of terrible levels online, so Nintendo Japan has put out a sequel comic to try and clean up the mess. This time around, Yamamura-san checks on Mashiko’s homework and continues to offer sage level-building advice.

Does he give her level a star? Or is it an insta-skip? Read on to find out!

Japan
(funny • level design • Mario Maker • nintendo • pigeon • Super Mario Maker • tips • troll)

Super Mario Maker level recreates intense Vocaloid hit with carefully positioned music blocks

Cara Clegg
Oct 10, 2015

Nintendo fans have been hard at work these past few weeks churning out all kinds of creative levels in Super Mario Maker for the Wii U. Even if you don’t have a copy of the game yourself, if you’re a fan of Mario you’ve no doubt had fun watching videos showcasing the mad-cap levels people have come up with and the rages of gamers trying to beat the hardest courses.

The level we’re showcasing today, however, focuses on not what an insanely tricky course looks like, but what you can do with music in the game by bringing Vocaloid into the Mario world.

Japan
(Hatsune Miku • music • Super Mario • Super Mario Maker • video games • Vocaloid • Wagakki Band)

Expert gamer builds and beats most insane Super Mario Maker level yet 【Video】

Jamie Koide
Sep 25, 2015

Now that Super Mario Maker has finally hit the market, gamers the world over are starting to build, upload, and play their best creations, but of course, it wasn’t long before veterans of the game started seeing just how crazy they could get. Earlier this week, while most of us in Japan were enjoying the Silver Week holidays, one expert gamer created the most cracked out course we’ve seen yet, which quickly went viral after it was posted to YouTube.

Global
(cool • nintendo • PangaeaPanga • Super Mario Maker • video • video games • Wii U)

Splatoon’s Inklings get a retro makeover in Super Mario Maker【Video】

Cara Clegg
Sep 24, 2015

Super Mario Maker, which was released exclusively for Nintendo’s Wii U console on September 10, has been a hit, giving hours of creative fun to Nintendo fans all over the world. There are tons of secrets and extras to be unlocked, and we wanted to show off a really cool one that takes Nintendo’s newest IP back in time into the retro Mario world. Read on to see Mario transformed into an Inkling from Splatoon!

Global, Japan
(Amiibo • Mario • nintendo • Splatoon • Super Mario Maker • Wii U)

Nintendo will delete your Mario Maker course if it’s boring, can make a buck off it if it’s good

Casey Baseel
Sep 10, 2015

Nintendo’s Super Mario Maker, which allows you to design your own levels for the beloved video game hero, is really a game that could only be properly realized now, on the 30th anniversary of the franchise. Three decades as the platforming gold standard means there are multiple generations of gamers intimately familiar with the series’ building blocks, ensuring an ample supply of would-be creators and players who can really get the most from the system’s ins and outs.

Just as important is the modern digital infrastructure for sharing user-designed stages. Super Mario Maker would have been a flop on hardware that requires physical media, but in our modern Internet age once a completed course has been uploaded to Nintendo’s servers, anyone in the world can play it.

Well, anyone in the world can play it if it’s good. If it’s not, then Nintendo will just go ahead and delete your creation.

Global, Japan
(Mario • nintendo • Super Mario Maker • video games • Wii U)

Super Mario Bros. creator explains how and why he designed World 1-1 of the 8-bit classic 【Video】

Philip Kendall
Sep 9, 2015

Ahead of the launch of Mario-themed level-building game Super Mario Maker, video game industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto sat down with veteran game designer Takashi Tezuka to take questions from journalists and show off its features.

Before leaping into the level creation proper, however, Miyamoto took a few minutes to talk about the creative process that is involved in building a Super Mario level, talking his audience through the steps he and his team took when creating the original Super Mario Bros., and explaining why World 1-1 of the game—for many their first ever brush with Mario on Nintendo’s 8-bit system—was built the way it is.

You’ve no doubt cleared this level countless times by now, but you may not have realised the hidden genius and careful planning that went into the positioning of every block, pipe, and pit of doom.

Global
(level design • nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • Super Mario Bros. • Super Mario Maker • video • video games)

Super Mario Maker gets an official release date, will be playable at Best Buy soon【E3 2015】

Philip Kendall
Jun 17, 2015

Nintendo has announced that Super Mario Maker, its extensive Mario-themed level creator software for Wii U, will go on sale from September 11 this year. A new Amiibo figure and level designer’s guide book are also scheduled for release.