Random: It's Done! Every Super Mario Maker Level Has Been Cleared Before Wii U's Online Shutdown

It is only a 10-second level, I'll bet it is doable.

@nukatha 18 Frame Perfect Jumps is doable, but insanely hard.

I'm glad that every level pretty much could be beaten (at least out of the ones left). I enjoyed spending time playing this game online. liked to spend time on it when I had played it

Now if only certain somebodies would remind the community to play Kid Icarus Uprising before the online shuts down... Wink wink

Wow, major kudos to everyone on Team 0!! Also, I automatically read TAS as Tool Assisted Speedrun... I guess I watched a bit too much of Summoning Salt.

So…it hasn’t been beaten and they gave up?

Well, that's an anti-climax !?
This story deserved a better ending!
Still great that they beat the system

Oh my god that means they played my recreation of Metal Gear Solid from my freshman year...
I am so sorry guys

Wait, illegitimate upload? What does that actually mean? Could the person who created it beat it or not? Did they hack it and upload it? I think I missed something...

@MeloMan Basically the level was disqualified from Team 0%’s goal because the original creator beat it with TAS, and thus never legitimately passed the upload check. In other words, if he hadn’t hacked, the course would never have been uploaded to Nintendo’s servers.

Well done. 1UP to everyone

Congratulations to Team 0% and everyone else involved on this amazing achievement.

Awesome! Too bad all these levels are going to disappear forever.

AI for the win!

It's over. We won, Mr Wii U

What a gargantuan task. A bit overkill for me. Just would like to fill up my game with good levels to play offline before Nintendo takes the service offline. I've encountered incredibly creative and inventive from users at times while I was playing the game. But the most fun for me lay in messing with the editor and watching Kaizo players on youtube. Specifically Japanese runner Midna Light whose runs I really enjoyed watching. Thanks gamer community 🙏👍

Well that's an anticlimactic ending to the whole story
Props to the creator though for coming out and admiting that it was beaten by a TAS

Congratulations! 25 000 levels, that is some serious dedication. And well done Ahoyo, it takes courage to admit a mistake, especially if the whole internet can see it.

@Nua
Each time I see a message like this one I just want to repost that 3rd strike Daigo VS Justin Wong video.

Very impressive, considering some of those courses are very tough to beat, such as the ones by PangeaPanga and Ross "RubberNinja" O'Donovan.

But with the online feature being shut down soon, I wonder how this will affect other games, like Xenoblade Chronicles X. I have yet to beat that game, after all.

@nukatha but not necessarily worth the sanity exchanged.

@AstroTheGamosian I've been playing XCX on Deck for now, so the online stuff wasn't an option from the start and, from what I've read up on the matter, pretty much everything remains accessible even offline, if somewhat more grindy around the endgame/postgame parts. You will no longer be able to switch divisions, although that reportedly doesn't lock you out of anything either - you'll just be stuck with the last respective division point earning method (towards the higher BLADE levels) you last set. My Cemu playthrough only getting one shot at all, I ultimately went for Curators whose points you can earn by simply grabbing everything not nailed down out in the field.😄

@Overzeal Yeah it sounds like it. "It doesn't fall in our arbitrary rules, so it doesn't count."

Now to ruin the celebration by uploading a new course to Super Mario Maker 1! Muhahahahahahahahaha! 😈

All those hundreds of hours wasted trying to clear Trimming the Herbs. Let's hope they can do it, just to say they've done it.

Quick someone make another hard one!

Nah, trimming the herbs remains not cleared. If TAS was used for perfect jumps, it means it is indeed possible but extremely hard.

If you think about it for a while, it sounds arbitrary. They probably cleared a bunch of other TAS stuff before it, but didn't bother to do a research and eliminate those levels from the list as well. Just the one they couldn't beat before the deadline.

It's not a 100%, but good job anyway.

@LinktotheFuture Officially, yes, but the Pretendo team backed them all up and plans to add them to their private server in the future so that they'll be preserved. Awesome stuff.

It's a slightly underwhelming way to end the challenge, but clearing every uploaded level (excluding TAS and hacked levels) is still a brilliant achievement. A big well done to everyone involved.

I've said "jiminy jillikers" so many times, the words have lost all meaning!

@BandeeOfTheStars Thank you! I must have been absent from the playground the day they discussed TAS!

@sanderev “Never having been beaten by a human and only getting uploaded because someone had a specifically designed robot complete their level“ does not sound arbitrary in the slightest.

It’s like trying to beat a someone at tennis but that someone is not a someone but a machine that can launch serves at 1000mph.

That is not a legitimate tennis game against another human, and this level was not legitimately completed by another human in order to be uploaded.

It’s perhaps an underwhelming way to end the challenge, but the criteria themselves are rock solid.

👏 congratulations everyone 💪🥳

@Maxz No that wouldn't be possible. Beating this level is theoretically possible. A TAS doesn't have inputs a normal human doesn't. Only frame perfect timing. And honestly that can be done by a human as well.

That's hilarious! I wouldn't have come forward admitting it's fake, I would've just watched them struggle lol

I applaud the community! But I never could get into these “build you levels” type of games. I prefer the crafted and curated experiences professional game developers can concoct (at least the nintendo ones)

Still think they should try to clear it. It’s only 17 seconds of frame perfect jumps and throws. Sounds pretty easy ngl

@sanderev Okay, so, a robot that can serve at, err… 169mph? 157mph? 134mph? Whatever your definition is of a tennis robot that can feasibly be beaten (…but has never actually been demonstrably beaten by anyone ever).

According to your argument, whatever can be beaten by TAS can be beaten by a human because all TAS does is string a series of inputs together and a human could do the same. This is like saying a monkey could write the full works of Shakespeare given a typewriter and enough time: technically correct, but realistically outlandish. You’d end up with a whole lot of dead monkeys before you even got the first paragraph of Romeo and Juliet.

The whole point of the course clear condition in Mario Maker is to ensure that a human actually has completed the level before being uploaded. This is the assumption that the 0% team are also working on. Introducing a pixel-perfect programmable machine makes a mockery of this condition, and of the entire challenge. It could string a billion frame perfect inputs together that no human could hope to replicate in their entire life (though such a level would be flagged a up lot sooner than this seemingly feasible one was).

The condition that a human has actually managed to complete a level is clear, fair, and as far from arbitrary as you can get. It’s in the very spirit of the game.

Your assertion that TAS and humans can be considered equivalent as they are both just inputting devices (ergo no illegitimate level can possibly be uploaded) is absurd: you are literally arguing that the difference between a robot programmed to manipulate a game on a frame-by-frame basis and a human playing the game in real time is arbitrary. It is absolutely not!

@mlt Perfect example of doable, but insanely hard!

There has been footage of Daigo doing it again, ironically enough also against Justin Wong again, and even he failed the first few attempts. And that sequence was added into a rerelease version of the game at some point as a challenge, I've watched a few YouTubers struggle to pull it off until finally clearing it.

It's possible, it just requires perfection.

@Uncle_Franklin Same dude. I still use that phrase thanks to the hours of that series I watched.

I think it's important to mention why the level was TASed. As far as I can tell, this is what happened:
some guy was making a TAS tool for Wii U, but gave up. Ahoyo's friend got the unfinished TAS, and after some tinkering got it to work. Ahoyo's hands became sprained from trying to clear Bombs 5, so he got the TAS from his friend and TASed two levels, both with good intent. First was Bombs 5, as he knew it was humanly possible but couldn't physically attempt it anymore, so he uploaded it and hoped someone would one day beat it for him. Trimming the Herbs was the second, and that one he made specifically to be TAS only. He entered it into his own contest, but not to win, only to get the clear video notoriety. He even asked the judges to disqualify it under the pretense of a 12-second time limit (the contest only allowed levels 10 seconds or less). He wanted people to examine the video, realize it was TASed, and then he'd reveal the new TAS tool to the world. Unfortunately, nobody got around to examining the video for 7 years, and when it became the last uncleared level, Ahoyo realized that it would be for the best to just come clean before things got any worse.

@RupeeClock Ah. I still don’t really understand TAS and wasn’t really aware it could be done on real hardware in the first place, so thanks for the clarification.

It's kind of fitting the name of the last level cleared is "The Last Dance".

@Maxz thanks, this is well put and now I don't have to poorly try to angrily explain it myself. I would however like to point out that this level also violates the TOS.

a absolute loss, if they pulled the plug.
why would they do this?
make it available somehow in dlc nintendo!!!

i have played levels from the community that where even better then those of nintendo.

@mlt 3rd Strike parries actually had an input window of 7 to 10 frames, depending on the state of your character. So a tenth or sixth of a second is what Daigo had to hit. A frame-perfect Mario Maker jump means you’re hitting a 1/60th of a second window. It’s ten times shorter and not feasible for a human to get 18 straight times.

That’s not to take anything away from Daigo, who did those parries in the clutch in a tournament.

Seems anticlimatic to end on an illegitmate level, but props to the team anyway, glad every level got beat before the servers went down, no matter how awful they were.

Nintendo servers say the level has been cleared. Who knows what the truth is. I know one thing, they have alot to gain by lying.

@nintendozach It was a hacked clear using a TAS

Congrats to Team 0%! They worked really hard to get to this point, and I thoroughly enjoyed monitoring their progress. It's truly an underdog story for the videogame history books!

@ThatOnePenguin If hacked Wii Us infected Mario Maker, only a not smart person would believe statistics for any Mario Maker level. Gamers in the future will not care about this teams alleged accomplishments. Whats more, millions of levels were not cleared by them. So all Mario Maker players contributed if the statistics are believed.

Great win for Team 0%!

@nintendozach It was 100% a hacked clear, and the mod team confirms this over at https://twitter.com/Team0Percent/status/1771003021956116520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The easiest way to tell if a clear is hacked is when the clear time reads 99:99.99, especially if the level has no checkpoints. This happens when Nintendo bans a hacker and resets their world records so that real players can have a shot at them.

@nintendozach Other than trimming the herbs, all clears are not hacked.

@ThatOnePenguin For a gaming community claiming to be a part of gaming history, there are many questions. I think they are jealous they did not clear Trimming the Herbs and a player cleared it who is not in their community. They then smear the actual clear as a cheat. Who is the person they are accusing of hacking? Don't they deserve a defense? Also, for them to be a part of actual history, a neutral and objective third party needs to verify all their claims. Not themselves and their gaming community. That is the standard.

@ThatOnePenguin I'll add, when a level like Trimming the Herbs has so much attention, it is logical that someone actually cleared it.There were gamers across the world playing it for weeks.

@nintendozach In response to the claim that there is no third-party verification, They are verified by the various credible news sources that have covered them. Including, but not limited to, GamesRadar, IGN, Nintendo Life, GameRant, and the gamer. What more verification do you need? In your second post, you assumed that since a level is popular or has attention, someone must have cleared it. Trimming the Herbs has never been proven to be beatable, even by its original creator. The clear check was faked. There are many people still actively attempting to beat this level every day. Are you suggesting that they are working towards nothing? You have made a logical fallacy that "someone actually cleared it." This is not logic. This is an assumption.

@ThatOnePenguin Those news aggregator sites were also reporting that Trimming the Herbs clear video was legit. According to your claim that it is not, those third parties are not credible. Maybe the clear team should submit their Wii Us to a third party to make sure they did not cheat themselves? Nintendo says Trimming the Herbs was cleared. Don't be jealous.

@ThatOnePenguin You also did not identify the first gamer whom cleared Trimming the Herbs according to Nintendos servers. The clear community is literally accusing them of cheating. That person deserves a defense against the accusation of their achievement.

@nintendozach It is not my job to track down and defend a random wiiU hacker. If they want to defend themselves, they are more than welcome to. Your idea that they deserve a defense is not grounded in any logic, only feelings. The article stated that the clear was legitimate AFTER the Mario Maker experts stated it was not. Team Zero percent could not care less who defeated Trimming the Herbs if it was truly cleared. They would be happy for them. Their whole goal was for the community, not just themselves, to 100% clear Super Mario Maker. Why would they lie? Your assumption that they would be jealous if someone cleared the level and not happy doesn't make any sense. It was cleared using a hack. Also, assuming that I'm jealous is another ridiculous fallacy. I don't even own a WiiU. Who are you suggesting should send in their WiiUs? Anyone who ever got a first clear in MM1?