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Games / Super Mario Maker Megathread - Anyone can play it, Everyone can make it.
« on: December 31, 2015, 11:59:54 PM »
S U P E R M A R I O M A K E R
What is Super Mario Maker?
SMM is a title for the WiiU released initially on September 10th, 2015. The game is basically a level editor with minigames for the Mario franchise, or a streamlined way to make and play ROM hacks. Players can finish and rate other people's courses, set world records on other courses, create their own stages using nearly every element found in 4 key Mario games: The original Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World, or New Super Mario Bros WiiU, allowing for many different items, styles, enemies, and environments across the many games. Players can also play minigames such as 10 Mario Challenge, in which players are given 8 lives to clear 10 developer made custom levels, or small minigames such as fly swatting, a self explanatory game that carries over from Mario Paint on the SNES. It can be found at local retailers or on the Nintendo eShop.
Are there amiibos?
Currently there are only two, both of which serve the same function. The Mario Bros 30th Anniversary amiibo, which upon usage gives the player a mega mushroom much like the one found in New Super Mario Bros. This mushroom allows players to smash through blocks and adds a nostalgic TV filter over the screen (the mushroom is in typical NES style).
What if I don't have ideas?
Each copy of the game comes with a booklet which features ideas and scenarios from the developers, and for a short period at the end of the book, some original notes Miyamoto made when designing levels for Super Mario Bros.
With the amount of content this game allows you to build with, it's hard to not have ideas. Make an incredibly challenging level, use the mystery mushroom to disguise yourself as unlocked characters (ranging from Excitebike's Biker to a trampoline), recreate a game or romhack entirely, play music with custom note blocks, add cheesy sound/visual effects, and so much more.
Okay, how do I start?
RUN ON SENTENCE WARNING
Once the main menu opens up (after the yellow screen showing a random act happening to Mario depending on the day and the game shouts its name at you), players are given the option to either make or play levels. If choosing to make a level, it drops the player into the preset that was displayed in the background, and from there the player can reset it and build from scratch or add onto it from there on. At first the game may seem empty, but more assets are unlocked in 15 minute intervals which allow for more editing. These include atmosphere (Underwater stages, ghost houses, castles, etc), game style (Mario 3 appearance and songs vs Mario World appearance and songs), enemies (Boot Goomba, Chomp Chomp, BOWSER), and sound effects (Bowser's theme song, punching sounds, and your own recorded ones).
Forumers who play
This will be a list of people here who play Mario Maker.
Forum Name | NNID
- TeeOS | LittleOS
- joe411 | joe411
If you have a stage you want people to check out, I'll add it here:
Title | Author | Code
- Voyage of The Air, Joe411, Info
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