We were super excited when Super Mario Maker was finally released for Wii U last September. Whilst we were impressed enough with the final product to give it an 'Outstanding' 10/10 in our review, we felt there was one particular thing lacking - a place to share courses with friends online.
In the spirit of being 'makers' we cobbled together a quick section for Nintendo Life readers called 'Super Mario Maker - Share Your Levels' which allowed you guys to share your courses with fellow readers and rate one another's creations.
We used this page as a basis for a Super Mario Maker competition here in the UK, which saw three lucky winners showcase their courses at EGX and pick up some nifty prizes. We also managed to convince a few developers to showcase their courses in a series called 'Super Nindie Maker'.
Fast forward to the December update and Nintendo finally introduced the Super Mario Maker Bookmark website that acts as an official web hub to share your courses with friends, and has many of the same features our courses sharer has; because of this we have decided to retire our system and redirect all the URLs to their respective pages on Super Mario Maker Bookmark.
We'd like to thank everyone who submitted a course - you added just over 15,000 courses in total with over 7,500 ratings and 6,000 likes. Wa-hoo!
Thanks for-a playing!
[source supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net]
Comments (23)
aw i'm gunna miss it.
I haven't even picked up the game yet. XD
Did Nintendo tell you to axe it guys?
Your course sharer was the saving grace for this game for me personally. I got frustrated pretty quickly with noone finding my levels and having to play sooo many terrible levels. The course sharer made the game a lot more fun.
Having that said though: It was still tedious to type in all the numbers and search for stuff you wanna play so I haven't touched the game in months....I guess I'll check the new bookmark site and see how much that helps.
Thanks NLife! You made sharing a lot easier in the early days.
Thanks for making the course sharer, it was very useful. It was something that shouldn't have been needed though as the official bookmark website should have been in the game at launch.
@IAmDeclanJay no need to ask anything, there is just no more use for their system now, and the hits dropped like a brick. Why keep an irrelevant system alive?
I uploaded a few levels there and played quite a few levels that were uploaded. Once the bookmark page came out it worked so well I kind of forgot about NL'S Mario Maker page. It was fun to use at first though!
Thanks for putting it together. It filled an important void, and was a pleasure to use. I'll kind of miss it - it did a few things that even the Bookmark site doesn't do. But it'll be more streamlined and simpler having everyone on the same (web)page.
Sweet dreams, oh Course Sharer...
Ouch. I was having fun using both. Alas... farewell, sweet course sharer, we hardly knew ye.
This tool definitely helped me get my courses out there and played so I could earn stars and though it is useless now at the time it was super convenient.
I still like yours better! It's a shame it's not integrated into the game like Nintendo's is.
Oh whoa! Frank is in your screenshot! He must be gaining in popularity!
Aww no! I had a pretty good rank on there for a while. I know there wasn't a whole ton of people pulling up those levels and trying them, but it was a good resource while it lasted.
If anyone wants to check out my levels now that the site's down, I'm at https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/profile/Justin_Holmes
Heh. I'm pretty sure no one bothered writing down my ids # from here anyway.
Going to miss it. I like that you guys hyperlinked to Nintendo's page. Thank you for setting that up while it lasted.
I liked it but the official channel is much better because integration. I might get back into designing some more sometime.
After xenoblade bwahahahahahaaaaa
So does that mean there will no longer be the Super Mario SuperStar Showcase anymore to look forward to?
I was hoping you would leave yours as is but toss in a direct link to the book mark site of each entry... Sigh
Just a note to anyone who wants people to play their levels: Post a link to the bookmark site so people can bookmark it. If you just drop your ridiculous friend code and expect everyone else to type it in, nobody's going to bother anymore. If you aren't willing to get the effort to give the proper link, why should anyone else put in the effort to play your level?
Makes sense, I haven't used NL's MM platform for months and the official bookmark site has more essential features. So there would be really no reason to use the platform of NL. But still, you guys did a great job for the time being, until the official platform was launched!
Please stick to the Mario Maker thread.
~Santa
Didn't know of the website! Just recently got the game, so thanks for this.
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