There is one uncleared level remaining in Super Mario Maker, with 18 days to go before the servers shut down

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.issmmbeatenyet.com/

Team 0% is attempting to clear every level in Super Mario Maker before the servers shut down on April 8. (New level uploads have been disabled since 2021, so there is no danger of new levels appearing at the last minute.) As of a few days ago, only a single level remains: Trimming the Herbs, uploaded in 2017 by Ahoyoo. (See also Ahoyoo’s original upload video.)

The level is short but extremely precise, requiring Mario to use Bob-ombs to precisely remove Pirahna Plants and collect coins while navigating a tight space filled with spikes. There have been over 200,000 attempts so far! If you have a Wii U and feel like you might be a Mario master, this is your opportunity to pick up the final First Clear in Super Mario Maker history.

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JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The real story here is that the servers are being shut down. Games like these deserve to have the ability to run their own third party servers. To this day I can still log unto a number of Unreal Tournament (1999) community servers and frag until my eyes bleed.

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- Betch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m sure one day they’re going to be selling those user created levels back to the users who originally created them.
  
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  - TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You’re probably right. I’m starting to think Nintendo is fully rotten to the core.
    
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- J4g2F@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I already switched my Wii u over to the pretendo network. Uploading and playing levels already work in super Mario maker.
  
  It’s still far of from a drop in replacement, but miiverse, wara wara plaza and som in game things are working.
  
  pretendo.network
  
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- Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s weird, because I despise these Nintendo-style game murders, but love the Mario games… How can something so bad, make something so good? One need only look at Nintendo’s complete and utter lack of respect for us the players and the games they kill with impunity to make a very solid case to increase our rights in preserving ALL of our video-game legacy.
  
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  - maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    How can something so bad, make something so good?
    
    Engineers create value, then the suits monetize it.
    
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- Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wait what? Ut servers are still running? That’s insane
  
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  - JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    ut99.org/servers
    
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- kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Don’t worry too much, the scene probably will pick this up and we will have custom servers (I keep playing Jump Ultimate Stars DS online, and its servers closed in 2014).
  
  But yeah, Nintendo makes a really low effort to preserve almost anything.
  
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  - mlg@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah but a lot of DS and Wii games got lucky because most of them were hosted on Gamespy, so getting the hands on the actual software was fairly easy.
    
    A select few Nintendo proprietary games had to be completely reverse engineered, like Gen 4 and 5 Pokemon.
    
    Although I do expect Mario Maker won’t be too difficult.
    
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  - derpgon@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you play the old games, you aren’t buying the new ones. Simple as that for Nintendo.
    
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- RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think Digital Extremes has kept a UT server up since 2003.
  
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- biddy@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Third party servers aren’t always enough. Microsoft managed to ruin 3rd party Minecraft servers.
  
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- Pacmanlives@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I still pop into UT99 games every now and then. One of the greatest games ever made
  
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Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So if I own this game we won’t be able to play it anymore?

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- winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Welcome to modern gaming
  
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  - mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Piracy is ethical
    
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- oKtosiTe@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Technically, you’ll be able to “play” it, but without the online aspect of levels other people created there wouldn’t really be much of a point.
  
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- ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you have a hacked Wii U or use an emulator then there is a community level repo I’m told
  
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  - Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I own game on the Switch it came with it.
    
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- GoosLife@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - EtzBetz@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    if buying isn’t owning piracy isn’t stealing
    
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OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Feels like I saw the ads for this game just yesterday. I want to trust these proprietary services won’t disappear with my work, but I simply can’t. Some people say 10 years is a long time, but not me.

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- pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think it’s that 10 years is a long time, it isn’t when it comes to something we love. A truly loved game is a game you’ll want to go back and play 20+ years later. 10 years is when games just start feeling nostalgic.
  
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wahming@monyet.cc ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
On the last day we’ll just have the level creator log in and clear it on his 1st attempt.

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- stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Turns out they found the person and they want nothing to do with it. Seems the creator went through something of an addiction which allowed him to gain a super power in just one particular uncommon Mario mechanic, resulting in this level. As best I can tell, he had to get away for his own well being.
  
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  - wahming@monyet.cc ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah, he’s going with the Refusal Of The Call
    
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- JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The level creator cannot clear their own level from their account. Also, the level creator would not be able to beat this level very easily.
  
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  - maniajack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And they consider the creator beating the level from another wii u not a legitimate clear.
    
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- xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - wahming@monyet.cc ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I assume you saw the creator video after you posted that :P
    
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misterundercoat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s nice but do they hold the world record on Bowser’s Big Bean Burrito?

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jedibob5@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Did Mario Maker have any kind of safeguards against users publishing troll levels that were just physically impossible to beat? Since there’s only one uncleared level left, I assume so, but I would’ve thought that the easiest way to verify a level could be beaten would be to make the creator beat it themselves before it could be uploaded.

I would’ve expected either loads of unbeaten levels or no unbeaten levels at all, but having only one unbeaten level is interesting…

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- Minotaur@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes. You have to beat your own level to upload.
  
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  - jedibob5@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, so I guess the “uncompleted level count” just refers to “uncompleted by anyone except the creator.”
    
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  - flamingarms@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Is it here in the post? I’ve looked all over and can’t find mention of that. There’s the video of the author clearing it, but that doesn’t imply that all levels are beatable.
    
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- elvith@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  In theory there are unbeatable levels. With some updates Nintendo fixed glitches, hit boxes, etc. Usually, when you play a level that was uploaded on an older version of the game, you get the old behavior. But there was one update, which did not adhere to this, and which did cause some levels (designed with now fixed glitches) to be unbeatable now.
  
  But this project isn’t about beating all levels, it’s about beating all uncleared levels. Since those glitch levels probably were beaten before the patch OR you might be able to play them on an older version of the game (if the server allows it), these shouldn’t be a huge problem.
  
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- lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You have to beat it yourself before it will let you upload it.
  
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- MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I believe you had to complete it before publishing
  
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- ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The creator has to beat it to upload and
  
  people can download a level and see everything
  
  That way it’s not a random pipe to win
  
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- RedStrider@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  do i have the youtube creator for you… www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D5i3K5-QxM
  
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ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Many years back, I manually dumped thousands of Mario Maker 1 levels and uploaded them to the Internet. It’s sad that the servers will be shutting down, and I knew this would happen, which is why I did it even though it took a long time manually downloading them one-by-one and then copying them off of my softmodded Wii U. Still though, it was worth it, knowing the game will live on to some extent even after the servers are shut down.

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- yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Internet archive?
  
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  - ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s a good idea tbh. I should probably do that.
    
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J4g2F@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I already mentioned pretendo in a comment. But for anyone how wants to play super Mario maker on there Wii u after the shutdown. You can switch networks (you of course need to (soft)mod your Wii u).

In super Mario maker uploading, playing uploaded levels, death point, world record and staring them works. There is still a lot missing. But you can still play.

Some games and features are behind a payed beta(which I hate). But all super Mario maker stuff is free.

Seeing wara wara plaza alive on my Wii u is amazing with random Mii’s and post from miiverse.

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smeg@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I made a post about this earlier today, if anyone knows the game well enough to know how to mass-download levels before the servers shut down, or even just how many levels are included on the disc, then please give me a shout!

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- ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  archive.org/…/super_mario_maker_courses_202105
  
  github.com/HerobrineTV/SMM1-Level-Downloader
  
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  - smeg@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nice!
    
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clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve never played this version. What are the red balls that bounce around, and has mario always been able to spin jump on piranha plants?

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- ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The red balls are lit Bob-ombs. While lit, they can be carried, thrown, bounced on (with spin jumps), and kicked (when touched any other way), and obviously after a short time they explode. Thrown, dropped, kicked, or bounced Bob-ombs kill enemies and collect coins.
  
  Yes, in Super Mario World the spin jump allowed you to bounce on dangerous enemies including Pirahna Plants, and actually the Super Mario Maker version is nerfed in some ways: in the oringal SMW you could also spin jump on certain things like fireballs and saws that you can’t in SMM.
  
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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Wow, it’s only like 15 seconds as well but it looks absolutely sadistic.

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lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Doesn’t that video show someone finishing it? Or is it uncleared by everyone except the creator or something?

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- kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You need to beat the level to upload it, and I suspect it’s a clear check upload - however, separately, the game tracks first clear and world record after a level is uploaded.
  
  My understanding is that the goal is to clear every beatable level that doesn’t have a first clear (and some that have been cleared by known hackers, but I think those are all cleared legitimately already)
  
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- Kimano@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That video is a TAS, no human has cleared the level.
  
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  - Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Forgive my ignorance, as even a quick search failed me, but what is a TAS?
    
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  - hansl@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That video is rumored to be a tas. The only proof of TAS we have is salty egos. It would have also been as hard to TAS on the WiiU at the time than to just practice the level.
    
    Also the creator has another bomb based level where he shows off his skills. It’s technically easier but uses the same tricks as this one.
    
    There’s no serious reasons to believe he didn’t clear it correctly.
    
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Xraygoggles@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The website says 99.9% but also that the level was cleared by cardigacimeira?

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- chameleon@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Someone hacked in a clear (in-game). First time it happened to this level, but not the first time it happened overall.
  
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  - Xraygoggles@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks for the additional detail, this is a really interesting project.
    
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stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve been glued to twitch and YouTube waiting to catch it when it goes.

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Neon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And it’s beaten! congrats!

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