Was the attempt to complete all remaining courses in Super Mario Maker before the Wii U's online service ends successful?
' Super Mario Maker ' has created a new way to play Mario, where players can freely create and share courses, and play courses created by others. It was clear that the courses full of users' ingenuity would no longer be playable when the Wii U online service ended, but behind the scenes, efforts were being made to 'reduce the number of uncleared courses to zero before the Wii U online service ended.'
Inside the quest to finish Super Mario Maker's disappearing levels - The Verge
In 2015, Nintendo released ' Super Mario Maker, ' a game that allows users to freely create, share, and play courses. In 2019, a sequel, ' Super Mario Maker 2 ,' was released for the Nintendo Switch. However, in 2021, the ability to upload courses to Super Mario Maker was discontinued, and in January 2024, Nintendo announced that it would end its online services for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS in April 2024. As a result, the various courses that users have created in Super Mario Maker so far are destined to be lost.
Nintendo announces that it will end online play services for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U in early April 2024 - GIGAZINE
When it was announced that the Wii U's online service would be shut down, there were about 26,000 uncompleted courses in Super Mario Maker. A group called Team 0% set out to clear all of these courses before the Wii U's online service shut down. Rumal, a member of Team 0%, said, 'I was pretty disappointed when the announcement was made.'
'Super Mario Maker is my favorite game and I have so many memories playing it, so I'm very sad to think that all of the user-created courses will be permanently deleted,' said Black60Dragon, one of the founding members of Team 0%, who is also a member of the group. 'Many people, including myself, are trying to create as many Wii U accounts as possible in order to download our favorite courses before they're gone forever.'
According to Louis_XIX, a member of Team 0%, when Team 0% raised their voice about the initiative to 'reduce the number of uncompleted courses to zero before the Wii U online service ends,' many gamers offered to cooperate. Although most gamers do not have the skills to clear high-difficulty courses, they were useful as manpower to clear relatively easy courses. Furthermore, by starting the initiative, Team 0% also succeeded in rekindling the motivation of top players who had temporarily left the community.
'For many of us, the goal of completing all the remaining courses felt like the best way to send the game off,' Black60Dragon said. 'I know what it's like to put so much effort into making a course that you really love, only for no one to play it. Completing every course at least once is very rewarding.'
When the project started, there were 26,000 uncompleted courses, but by March 2024, they had succeeded in reducing it to two: 'The Last Dance' and 'Trimming the Herbs.' Then, on March 15, 2024, they succeeded in clearing 'The Last Dance,' leaving only one uncompleted course.
Below is how to clear 'The Last Dance'.
The Last Dance (by So) - YouTube
Furthermore, the author revealed that 'Trimming the Herbs' was a course created using a fraudulent tool. As a result, 'Trimming the Herbs' was removed from the list of uncompleted courses, and the number of uncompleted courses in Super Mario Maker was reduced to zero. However, on April 6, 2024, sanyx91smm2 succeeded in clearing 'Trimming the Herbs'.
Trimming the Herbs Has Been Beaten [Clear Video] - YouTube
Louis_XIX of Team 0% said, 'The announcement of the end of Wii U online services has clearly had an effect. Many Super Mario Maker players were disappointed when the end of service was announced, but Team 0% was extremely motivated to achieve our goal before the end of service.'
Black60Dragon added, 'If the Wii U's online service hadn't been terminated, the excitement wouldn't have been as great as it is now. Before the announcement that online service would be ending, Team 0% was just a small group of people steadily working their way through the mountain of courses they had left uncompleted. But with the deadline announced, everyone was motivated to achieve their goal of having zero courses left.'
In addition, Team 0%'s new goal is to have zero uncleared courses in Super Mario Maker 2, and at the time of writing, they have succeeded in clearing all courses created in 2019 and are working on clearing courses created in 2020.
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