Tag: Super Mario Maker 2
News More Than 20 Million Courses Have Now Been Uploaded In Super Mario Maker 2
Built by the community
Nintendo may have ended major content updates for Super Mario Maker 2 earlier this year, but this game is still receiving plenty of community support. In a tweet via the official Nintendo of America Twitter account, it was revealed players have now uploaded more than 20 million courses to the Course World since the game...
News Super Mario Maker 2 Version 3.0.1 Is Now Available, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Update: English patch notes released
Nintendo released its final major update for Super Mario Maker 2 earlier this year in April. That doesn't necessarily mean it's completely stopped supporting the game, though. It still plans to release minor updates to further polish the experience and the first update since 3.0.0 is now available. According to...
Guide How To Use All Power-Ups In Super Mario Maker 2
All the power-ups, what they do and where to find them
Now updated with the Master Sword, the Super Mario Bros. 2 Mushroom and much more from the final v. 3.0 update! The sheer number of possibilities and combinations available to creators in Super Mario Maker 2 is a little mind-boggling. The deluge of options including terrain, items, enemies and...
Guide Super Mario Maker 2 Course Building Tips - Check Out These Classic Levels For Inspiration
Find your feet by copying the masters
Super Mario Maker 2 is just one of many essential games for your Switch library. It builds on the brilliant foundation of the original with more themes, more elements, more options, more of everything. The blank canvas it provides to create any kind of Mario level imaginable is really quite something, and...
Guide Super Mario Maker 2 Story Mode - How To Unlock Items, Characters, Mii Outfits And More
How to unlock Mii costumes, find characters and collect coin
In addition to the suite of tools and elements contained in the level editor, Super Mario Maker 2 also features a substantial Story Mode in its own right. For those who don't have the creative urge, Story Mode features over 100 levels crafted to showcase the possibilities of the toolbox; a...
Guide Super Mario Maker 2 - All Mii Outfit Unlocks List
The full updated list of all achievements to unlock across all modes
Update #3: Added the Super Worlds Mii Outfits from Version 3.0.0. Update #2: Added the Ninji Speedrun Mii Outfits from Version 2.0. Update #1: Added tables and new discoveries. After taking a backseat following the Wii and Wii U eras, Miis are back in
News Super Mario Maker 2's Final Major Update Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Let's-a-go!
Following the official announcement and reveal yesterday, Nintendo has now released its final major update for Super Mario Maker 2. As previously noted, it adds a World Maker mode - allowing up to 40 courses to be linked together, all seven Koopalings, and some additional power-ups based on both new and old Supe
...and so much more!
Super Mario Maker 2 was one of the Switch highlights in 2019, but Nintendo has announced it will soon wrap up its support for the game – with one "free final update" (aka. the last major one), arriving on April 22nd. It adds a World Maker mode – allowing up to 40 courses to be linked together, the Koopalings as enemies (all...
News Itching For 2020's First Nintendo Direct? One Super Mario Maker 2 Player Got Tired Of Waiting
Direct to you
We all know that patience is a virtue, but we gamers are an impatient bunch, and while Pokémon and Animal Crossing fans have had it good with bespoke Direct broadcasts of their own, Switch owners awaiting 2020's first full-fat Nintendo Direct presentation have been left twiddling their thumbs throughout January and February. There
News Nintendo Will Now Let You Upload 100 Courses In Super Mario Maker 2
To celebrate 10 million playable levels
One of the many exciting games released on the Nintendo Switch last year was Super Mario Maker 2. In less than one month after its launch, two million courses were uploaded by the game's passionate community. By the end of July, more than four million courses had been
Video Let's Play Legend Of Zelda Levels In Super Mario Maker 2
A legendary update
It's been another busy week in the world of Nintendo, with the release of more SNES and NES games on the Switch Online service, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate winning an award, and Bravely Default II b
Reminder You Can Now Play As Link In Super Mario Maker 2, And Here's What It's Like
After all, it's dangerous to go alone
At the start of this week, Nintendo revealed Link from The Legend of Zelda series would be coming to Super Mario Maker 2 in the version 2.0 update. The good news is that this update has now arrived – and, as you can see from the video above, we were lucky enough to go hands-on with it a few days ago. It's good...
News The Legend Of Zelda Is Coming To Super Mario Maker 2
Version 2.0 coming this week
Super Mario Maker 2's version 2.0 update arrives this week, and it's bringing with it The Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda – which gives you the power to transform into Link, the Hero of Time. The update will also add new course parts – including Spike, Pokey, Frozen Coin, P Block and Dash Block – as well as...
News Escape 'The Impossible Layer' In Playtonic's New Yooka-Laylee-Inspired Mario Maker 2 Course
Celebrating Impossible Lair's launch
Having released Yooka-Laylee and The Impossible Lair to great reviews just yesterday, we'd like to think the good folks over at Playtonic Games are sitting with their feet up, relaxing after shipping one of them there vidya games. Of course, as with all devs who have just shipped a game, they're probably still...
Guide Super Mario Maker 2 Version 1.1.0 Update - Everything You Need To Know
Play online with friends, finally!
A new update for Super Mario Maker 2 has landed with a whole bunch of tweaks and additions to improve your gameplay experience. Prime among them is the ability to play online with (and against) your friends, and here we've collected all the new stuff with information on how to access it. Nintendo promised the...
Guide How To Play Online Multiplayer (Or Local) In Super Mario Maker 2
Finally play online with friends!
An update for Super Mario Maker 2 means that you can now play online with friends - we're here to show you how to get it set up as painlessly as possible. There have also been tweaks to streamline how local multiplayer is accessed, and you'll find all the details below. Super Mario Maker 2 is a wonderful and...
News You Can Now Play Online With Your Friends In Super Mario Maker 2
Version 1.1.0 is here
A new update for Super Mario Maker 2 has arrived and it adds a number of new multiplayer features that didn't make it to the game in time for its launch. The most exciting news is that you can now play with your friends online in either multiplayer versus and multiplayer co-op. Apart from this, the Nintendo Switch Online...
Random Nintendo Releases Another ASMR Video, This Time For Super Mario Maker 2
Here we go again
Earlier this year, Nintendo jumped on the ASMR bandwagon when it uploaded a special "Sights & Sounds" video advertising The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that highlighted the great outdoors and the portable features of the Switch. Months on, it has now shared another video for this same series, and this time it's for Sup
Guide Super Mario Maker 2 - How To Beat ‘Secret Of The Dry Bones Shell’
How to complete job 84 in Story Mode
While the courses found in Story Mode in Super Mario Maker 2 feature some ingenious and immensely satisfying level design, arguably very few of them are real head-scratchers. Anyone who’s been playing 2D Mario for any length of time should have little trouble with the vast majority of the levels, provided...
Guide How To Add Water To Levels In Super Mario Maker 2
Or lava, if you prefer
Super Mario Maker 2 is out and has added a plethora of features to the solid foundation of the first game. One of those tasty additions enables you to change the water level in a course, and even have it rise and fall over time. Obviously the design implications are immense, with plenty of timing-based gauntlets now possible...
Guide How To Change From Day To Night In Super Mario Maker 2
Plus how nighttime affects your courses
As you've probably seen for yourself, Super Mario Maker 2 has a host of new themes besides the returning ones from the Wii U original. In addition to Ground, Underground, Underwater, Ghost House, Airship and Castle, the sequel also offers Desert, Snow, Sky and Forest themes. There's also a new Nighttime...
Guide Where To Find Your Course ID In Super Mario Maker 2
Where's that little 9-digit alphanumeric hiding?
So, you've stayed up far too long constructing a masterpiece in the freshly released Super Mario Maker 2 and you're desperate to share your course. You've uploaded your level and you saw the Course ID flash up onscreen - lovely! But now you need to find it again to text your friends or tweet your...
Guide Where Is The Poison Mushroom In Super Mario Maker 2?
The Rotten Mushroom is hiding in the Ground
So, you've heard that the Poison Mushroom that debuted in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels is back in Super Mario Maker 2 and you're desperate to dupe your friends into consuming the deadly little fungi. However, you've searched the item dials and can't find the blighter anywhere. Yep, it's hiding but...
Japanese Charts Super Mario Maker 2 Extends Its Stay In The Top Spot
Building up
The Famitsu Japanese chart figures are now in for 12th August - 18th August. Nintendo's Super Mario Maker 2 has experienced yet another week in the top spot. Fire Emblem: Three Houses has dropped to fourth place while Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has climbed up a spot. Bandai Namco's arcade fishing game is in second an
News This Super Mario Maker 2 Level Flips An Old Classic On Its Head
On the up and up
How many times have you played through the opening level of Super Mario Bros. on the NES? Considering how many systems it has been released on over the years, we're willing to be that it's more than just a handful. World 1-1 lays down the foundations for what has become one of the most famous video game franchises of all time, and...
Soapbox To Me, Mario Maker 2 Is Nintendo's Best, And Most Disappointing, Sequel Ever
Super Mario Paradox
Soapbox features enable our individual writers to voice their own opinions on hot topics, opinions that may not necessarily be the voice of the site. Here Gavin discusses how Super Mario Maker 2 is giving him mixed emotions... The Nintendo first party flavour of the month may well be Fire Emblem: Three Houses, but due to my...
News There Are Now More Than 5 Million Courses In Super Mario Maker 2
And it's all thanks to the community
Nintendo of America's Twitter account has revealed the Super Mario Maker 2 community on Nintendo Switch has now uploaded more than five million custom courses in less than a few months. To celebrate, it's shared some codes for a couple of levels that are apparently worth checking out. The first is Thwomp's...
Feature Rogue Legacy Lead Designer Makes A Super Mario Maker 2 Course
Answer the challenge of Cellar Door Games' Teddy Lee
Welcome back to our ongoing Super Nindie Maker 2 series where game developers create Super Mario Maker 2 levels for the pleasure of you lovely people. In the previous feature we received a bumper crop of crafty courses from Playtonic Games and before that we had a tight autoscroll A
Feature Yooka-Laylee Devs Make Super Mario Maker 2 Courses
Play four levels from Playtonic Games!
Next up in our Super Nindie Maker 2 series, we're lucky enough to have a bumper offering from Playtonic Games. Following on from the opening gambit courtesy of Shovel Knight designer Mike Herbster, the developers behind Yooka-Laylee and its upcoming 2.5D sequel Yooka-Laylee and The Impossible Lair have cooked
News Nintendo Will Now Let You Upload 64 Courses In Super Mario Maker 2
And it will raise the level cap "one more time"
This just in: a Super Mario Maker 2 in-game notification has revealed the course upload limit has been increased from 32 to 64 courses per user. It won't end there, though. According to the same notification, Nintendo says it will raise the limit "one more time" in the future. This update follows...
Video Playing Super Mario Maker 2 With Just A Wii Nunchuck
30 Stock, Nunchuck Only, Pause Off
We all know the difficulty of Super Mario Maker 2's user-created levels can range anywhere from being a walk in the park to just brutally unfair. But everyone likes a bit of challenge, right? So to up the ante on the easy levels, and to increase the heat on the hard ones, our man Alex thinks he's found a way to...
Feature Shovel Knight Level Designer Makes A Super Mario Maker 2 Course
Play a course by Shovel Knight designer Michael Herbster!
Welcome, one and all, to the first in our 'Super Nindie Maker 2' series showcasing developer-created Super Mario Maker 2 courses! Since the game released a little while ago some of Switch's finest developers have been beavering away on courses of all varieties for your delectation and we'll...
Japanese Charts Super Mario Maker 2 Stays In Top Spot, As Switch Sales Slightly Drop
God Eater 3 debuts in second place
Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for 8th - 14th July. Nintendo's Super Mario Maker 2 has managed to hold onto the top spot, making this its third consecutive week in first! The game managed to shift another 54,720 copies, with sales now surpassing the 300,000 mark. Bandai Namco's God Eater 3 was the...
Video The Tiny Graphical Glitch We Can't Unsee In Super Mario Maker 2
A very minor issue
While there are a number of glitches that have already been discovered in Super Mario Maker 2, our lovely senior video producer Alex Olney has seemingly stumbled across another one. This is a very subtle graphical glitch that won't impact your gameplay experience. If you're using the New Super Mario Bros. U ground theme, look...
News Nintendo Inexplicably Deletes Popular Mario Maker Streamer's Level
A little bit of history repeating
GrandPOObear - popular Mario Maker level creator ever since the original game and general Mario speedrunner extraordinaire - has once again felt the pointy end of Nintendo's moderation stick and had one of his levels for Super Mario Maker 2 deleted for unknown reasons. The streamer (real name David Hunt) has had...
Random Super Mario Maker 2 Player Recreates The "Worst Ever" Level 1-1
Can you make it to the end?
This was as far as we got... A Super Mario Maker 2 player who goes by the name 'YTSunny' on YouTube, has created the "worst ever" version of the first level in the original Super Mario Bros. game on the NES. This recreation of Level 1-1 comes with a tiny twist. While it mimics the exact layout of the original, it's...
UK Charts Super Mario Maker 2 Holds Off Crash Team Racing To Stay In First Place
Dragon Quest Builders 2 debuts in fifth
UK chart data is now available for the week ending 13th July. Super Mario Maker 2 has managed to stay in the top spot after three weeks and a 38% drop in sales week-on-week. Right behind it for the third week in a row is the multi-platform Activision release, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. The retro racer...
Random This Super Mario Maker 2 Glitch Blasts Cat Luigi Into Space
Meow!
We've seen some weird Super Mario Maker 2 glitches since the Switch title was released, but this particular one is out of this world. All you'll need to do is create a custom Super Mario 3D World level, transform Luigi into a cat, crawl underneath a few blocks and then attempt to long jump. Once you've done this, Luigi will skyrocket...
News Super Mario Maker 2 Players Have Already Uploaded More Than Two Million Courses
And the game isn't even a month old!
Super Mario Maker 2 might have only been out for a few weeks, but the game's community has already uploaded and shared more than two million courses online. Nintendo of America confirmed this earlier today in the following tweet: In this short time frame, we've seen Zelda-themed levels, a full
Video Amazing Zelda Levels In Super Mario Maker 2 That Are Wonderfully Wholesome
Take a trip to Hyrule
Nintendo might have left amiibo costumes out of Super Mario Maker 2, but that won't stop the community from making Zelda-themed creations. Yes – there are still plenty of players out there creating lovely levels based on various entries in Nintendo's well-established action-adventure series. That's why our slightly sunburnt...
Video How To Use Every Power-Up In Super Mario Maker 2
Power-up your courses
If in-game tutorials aren't your cup of tea, perhaps you would prefer to watch the above 25-minute video, demonstrating how to use every power-up in Super Mario Maker 2. Yes, for your viewing pleasure, our lovely senior video producer Alex Olney has recorded how each one of the power-ups in the Nintendo Switch Super Mario...
Community Share Your Super Mario Maker 2 Levels And Know-How Here
Mecca for Mario Makers
Super Mario Maker 2 has been out for a couple of days now and we imagine many of you have been feverishly exploring its nooks and crannies. That goes for us here at Nintendo Life Towers, too, as the rest of the team finally get to sample the game firsthand and see exactly what Alex has been excitedly jabbering on about for the...
Video The Secret Super Mario Maker 2 Power-Ups We Couldn't Talk About
Spoilers ahead
Now that Super Mario Maker 2 has been released, our lovely senior video producer, Alex Olney, has uploaded a video about two particularly interesting items you eventually unlock in story mode. The first is the Super Hammer, which is exclusive to the Super Mario 3D World extra theme. It allows you to use a hammer to destroy a variety...
News Super Mario Maker 2 Has Already Received Its First Update
Providing a more pleasant experience
Nintendo has issued its first update for Super Mario Maker 2. Version 1.0.1 provides a more pleasant game experience. Here's the full rundown, courtesy of the official support page: Issues have been fixed to make for a more pleasant gaming experience. It's unknown at this point in time if this patch will...
News Mario Maker Producer Thinks Nintendo Has "Probably Been Influenced" By Community Creations
Inspired by you
The producer of the Super Mario Maker series, Takashi Tezuka, recently spoke to Game Informer about the sequel, due out very soon on the Nintendo Switch, as well as the original Wii U release. To this day, Tezuka is still surprised by the creative creations the community has come up with in the first game –
Review Super Mario Maker 2 - The Last 2D Mario Game You'll Ever Need
Build your own adventure
If there was one game designed with the Wii U Gamepad in mind right from the very start and used it to its fullest potential, it was ZombiU. If there were two games that did that, it would be ZombiU and Super Mario Maker. Everything about the feel of the game and the interface screamed that this is a title that is best...
Guide Where To Buy Super Mario Maker 2 And Receive Extra Goodies
With a Switch stylus, Switch Online memberships and more
Super Mario Maker 2 launches exclusively on Nintendo Switch on 28th June, letting us dive into the crazy world of Mario level creation once more. If you're hoping to grab yourself a copy, you're in luck! Below you'll find some of the best deals available, including options which throw in extra...
Preview Things We've Learned Playing Super Mario Maker 2
Five tidbits from our time with the game so far
Super Mario Maker 2 is a game we've hardly been quiet about, except maybe during that whole 'E3' thing. Well, now we can say with confidence that we actually have the game in our collective hands, and we've been digging right ruddy deep into it and learning as much as we can. In short (and before the...
Video Watch Miyamoto And Tezuka "Spin The Wheel" At E3 2019
What fun Super Mario Maker 2 facts will be revealed?
If you're one of the lucky people attending this year's E3, you may or may spot Nintendo's legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and the producer of Super Mario Maker 2, Takashi Tezuka. While the annual event is intended to be a business trip for most people within the industry, that won't...
News "Luigi Assist Mode" Makes Super Mario Maker 2 More Accessible
And reinforces the fact it's a game about building
There was a lot to learn about each of Nintendo's upcoming Switch titles on the first day of Nintendo Treehouse Live at E3 2019. When the localisation team sat down alongside Super Mario Maker 2 producer Takashi Tezuka, viewers were able to learn a little bit more about what to expect from the...
