MindWanderer Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Level 1:Try to swat everything as soon as it appears so you don't have to deal with a ton of the split off tiny flies. Level 2: Go for the big bugs as soon as you see one. Go after the tinier stuff only when big flies aren't visible. Level 3: If there's a bomb on the screen, hit it immediately. Otherwise, spend all your time hitting the boss. Only go after the tiny split flies if there's nothing else currently on the screen. Level 3's unfortunately really exacting with its timing, but it only took me about 4 tries once I'd stumbled on the advice above. This is exactly what I've been doing, but I'm just not terribly accurate or fast. I've tried a dozen times at least, and I don't always even get the boss to turn red. When I do, it's always during the last section. If there's no better trick to it than that, then this will probably just sit there as an empty spot on my list. I have my own question for folks, while I'm posting. Does anyone know how to make the alternate stage music last the whole stage? Whenever I'm playing around in Edit mode, and I put down a mushroom or Bowser music icon in mid-air on the start point to immediately begin the alt music, said music only lasts until I get about a screen-length away from where it was triggered, and then it goes back to the default music for the stage. That'skind of ridiculous, and I've seen several online stages using that SMB1 alt music via the mushroom where the song lasts the whole stage, so I know it's possible, but I don't know how to do it myself.You can also just place a whole mess of them on the ground, so the player keeps touching them. Doesn't work well for a long level, but does work for smaller rooms (bonus rooms and boss fights). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 I edited my Time to Decrease Your Slowness!! stage. Updated code is in the post above. Also right here. Time to Decrease Your Slowness!!: 1C89-0000-007E-4962 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrow Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 drag the sound effect onto mario I swear to god this didn't work when I tried it two days ago (I'd guessed that was how to do it as it was the most intuitive possibility), and all of a sudden it's working fine now. Eh, whatever. Thanks for the heads-up on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BardicKnowledge Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Is there an easy way to force the fly-swatting minigame to trigger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Grab a Muncher enemy and shake repeatedly. That's how I got it to trigger. Those are the ones that are nigh-invincible, and are the first item on row 5 of the menu by default. EDIT: New stages! Artemis's All-Out Assault: E924-0000-0080-8B6F Premise: The Greek Goddess Artemis is pissed and is firing at Mario with all she has. Can you survive her gauntlet of artillery and make it to the end? Choose Your Destiny: 1CF5-0000-0080-BCF4 Premise: 8 rooms, at the end of each is the end of the level. You can only choose one per run, so choose your destiny wisely. And lookout for great treasures lurking around the end of the stage! Training with Doc Loumbas: B81D-0000-0083-0369 Premise: Doc Louis is out sick, so it's up to his Goomba friends to train Little Mac's endurance. Problem is, they're not that fast... Rollin' 20s (Don't Press Things): 6ABA-0000-0084-979D Premise: My first autostage. Don't touch anything and watch a bunch of close calls as Mario maneuvers through this stage. Mad Monster Mansion (Banjo): 8E8B-0000-0086-67A3 Premise: Based upon the stage of the same name in Banjo-Kazooie, remade in Mario Maker. Explore the side rooms or the main hall of the Mansion, jump down the well, or even make your way through the haunted hedge maze to get to the church! Finish line's at Mumbo's hut! Spiral Mountain (Digimon): 702C-0000-008F-289C Premise: Based upon the place in the last arc of Digimon Adventure (that's the first season), the land, sea, mountains, and cities have all been spiraled into one large peak. Ascend it, defeat the Four Masters, and save the Digital World! Also I edited a few older stages to make them a bit more fair. Air Man Stage (Mega Man 2) Remix: 4EC8-0000-008F-2BEC Flying Machine (Shovel Knight): 598A-0000-008F-367A Castle of Choice: 30E7-0000-008F-4D28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Two new stages from me: "It's Co-Optitude Time!": [92A2-0000-008A-A02F] This has a theme based on Co-Optitude, the (mostly) retro Let's Play on the Geek & Sundry YouTube channel, with Felicia Day and her brother Ryon. I'm especially looking for feedback on this one because I'd like to bring it to the attention of the channel and hosts. "Topsy-yvruT": [b0AC-0000-008E-1634] Getting through this level will require an occasional change in perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I compiled a list of all my stages, along with little synopses like in my previous post. You can find it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 They're out there, and they tend to be pretty popular. Peach from OCR made one, actually: 5435-0000-003A-55B1That one is amazing. I've put some music into a couple of my levels, and it's trickier than it looks--the item limit hits pretty fast, and placing notes so they don't overlap or conflict, with only about 2 octaves to work with, is really tough. Peach managed to put in melody, bass, and percussion and really nailed it. Perfect length, too. As for blind jumps, I have a level with a bit of a dead end with a 1-up in a box. I expected people to understand that they needed to go back because there was nothing beyond that platform, but there are several red X's where people have jumped blindly to their deaths. The tendency for other levels to have blind jumps has conditioned people to commit suicide in my level. Great.I know what you mean. I made Topsy-yvruT so that the sub-level is almost exactly identical to the main level (but upside down), down to coin placement. And when people see coins, even when they're plainly right at the bottom of the screen and meant to be collected on the flip side, down they go. Turns out I got truly unlucky with my first go at Expert. My first three levels took about 40 lives, but I haven't had a net loss of more than a couple of lives each for the next 4 or 5. I haven't had the frustration tolerance to finish yet, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 New stage: "Weighted Companion Shell" (DF06-0000-009D-31A5). If Cave Johnson lived in the Mushroom Kingdom and worked with Koopa shells instead of portal devices, you might end up with something a little like this. ... I may have to play the stage myself and leave hint comments. It's lightly puzzle-ish--everything you're supposed to do seems really obvious to me--but the 0% completion rate speaks to greater difficulty than I'd intended. Then again, I'm not sure if people are really trying; one player walked right up to the Koopa Troopa at the start, got killed by it, and quit. Level 3: If there's a bomb on the screen, hit it immediately. Otherwise, spend all your time hitting the boss. Only go after the tiny split flies if there's nothing else currently on the screen. Level 3's unfortunately really exacting with its timing, but it only took me about 4 tries once I'd stumbled on the advice above. I finally passed the game, and learned that, despite the fact that this is the advice I see everywhere, it's actually wrong. I can now pass level 3 100% of the time (and have played it several times to make sure), with several seconds to spare. The trick is this: ignore the bombs when the boss is on screen. Priority becomes boss, bombs, gnats. The reason is that the boss flies away once you've destroyed a certain number of bombs, and you want it to stay on screen for as long as possible. Sure, it costs you a second when each bomb goes off, but it's totally worth it for the extra boss-whacking time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 There was an interview with Takashi Tezuka recently (longtime producer of the Mario series), and one of the things he said rings true. There is a tendency for the courses people make to be a little harder than they think they are. The creator already knows the design, where they have placed their traps, and the best route to take. So it would generally be easier for them to play through than someone trying it for the first time. As a result, the course ends up being more difficult than the creator meant it to be. Source That should explain your low completion percentage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 There was an interview with Takashi Tezuka recently (longtime producer of the Mario series), and one of the things he said rings true. Source That should explain your low completion percentage. Yeah, I saw that, and it certainly explains some of my other courses. But this one in particular has very little that can kill you, except for whacking yourself with the shell. There are no traps, no surprises, no alternate routes. I'm increasingly thinking there needs to be a new difficulty level in the 100-Mario challenge. An "expert" level can be anywhere from "tough but fair" that probably needs a few deaths just to figure out the course, to deathtrap guessing-game BS, to Kaizo-level insanity. I always finish Normal difficulty with 95+ lives left over, and I haven't finished Expert yet at all. The worst are the ones that start off moderately challenging, so you spend a few lives figuring them out, but have a finale that's just absurd, or worse, features surprise deaths. I end up wasting lives on those and then skipping them anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 Expert isn't that bad if you're careful. I've finished it like 12 times now. Only because you can only earn like 20 costumes in Easy and 45 in Normal, so now I'm stuck doing Expert to get the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnWake Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Expert isn't that hard but it's pretty boring. You have to skip many stages after being killed by a sucky trap. There are some good stages too but the amount of horrible ones makes it very boring to me. Mirby 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypnotikid Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Recently bought the game a few days ago. It feels limited in the beginning but as I kept playing, the money I spent on it seems to be fitting. I did the 100 Mario challenge without loosing a life first time I tried it, primarily because of the abundance of the auto Mario levels I kept getting which ruins the experience. I think Nintendo might patch this if they haven't already. I enjoy the game even though I spend more then an hour to upload my levels, I only make easy levels because I am too lazy to upload hard levels that I can only clear in edit lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonectric Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Expert isn't that bad if you're careful. I've finished it like 12 times now. Only because you can only earn like 20 costumes in Easy and 45 in Normal, so now I'm stuck doing Expert to get the rest. I got capped at 15 easy and 36 normal. I didn't even use any amiibo or anything. Baaah. Like you said, it's not hard to finish Expert mode, but it takes at least twice as long as Normal mode because of all the skipping. New set of Zelda courses, starting with: Cavern of Courage 7577-0000-00AB-C250 You can go to my profile from there and play the rest in order. They're labeled Z-1 through Z-4. I also tried my hand at a music course...or more accurately, a course with original music in it. I wanted to make a space level with the SMB3 underground style, but with something other than the underground or bonus area music. It's hard! You're very limited in the amount of enemies you can use to trigger note blocks (I ran out), and you have limited room for harmonies if you're trying to keep most of it off-screen. Every note takes up several blocks of vertical space. Makes me wish the game came with its own music sequencer so you could just add tracks to your levels. Ice Blue Raspberry Galaxy B2ED-0000-00A8-9687 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 I just got capped at 15 Easy as well. Still working through Normal, I spend more time making than playing. I was about to post a couple new levels of my own, but I'm probably going to remake them and a few of my others now that checkpoints are being added to the game (next Wednesday). Unfortunately, KP9000's repository doesn't have any functionality to update or delete entries. I'll just use Nintendo Life and MarioMade. I will share this one, though: B155-0000-00B1-31F5. I made a crappy version of "Still Alive" for Weighted Companion Shell, so I made a better version as a standalone level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peach Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Hi, guys! I checked out a few of your courses. Pretty neat! And Hylian Lemon, thanks for sharing my first Melody Road! All of my Melody Roads are showcased on my YouTube channel. Here's a spooky Melody Road, made available just in time for Hallowe'en! A unique take on the iconic ghostly theme of Luigi's Mansion is the spotlight of this stage. Unlike the speedrun gameplay of past Melody Roads, this one slows things down a bit with an autoscrolling adventure through a new haunted manor. Surprises and various details await the player at every turn! There are rumours that a new music remix accompanies a familiar foe in the old mausoleum.... Melody Roads: Luigi's Mansion BA4C-0000-00BD-7923 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Melody Roads: Luigi's Mansion BA4C-0000-00BD-7923 This was the top US level by star count this past weekend, nice job! And I believe it was #2 after a Japanese level. I especially enjoyed the boss segment with accompanying music. Apparently someone discovered my "Still Alive," too. It sat there for a week and a half, slowly getting a star every couple of days, then on Friday it exploded, getting plays and stars in a steady stream while I was building other levels. Over 100 stars at last count. Not sure how that happened, I can't find anywhere online that mentioned it. Did it show up as "Featured" to anyone else? Which is kind of frustrating. Making these things isn't tremendously hard (Peach's being an exception, since they're actually playable levels as well) if you have any music experience, and especially if there's sheet music. But last time I checked, something like 80% of the top starred levels were music, and the rest were automatic. Making a good, fun, actual level is much harder, but they don't get any recognition unless they get featured by a popular site or streamer (and they mostly stick to things featured elsewhere, or made by other popular media personalities). I feel like several of my other levels are much more deserving of recognition. The only way to use the game to find non-automatic levels is to set the difficulty filter to "Expert" (even "Normal" shows mostly auto/music levels, it seems). Speaking of which, I reiterate that the game needs another difficulty tier. I saw levels in Expert with clear rates of about 12%. That's not tremendously hard; I usually beat levels like that on the first or second try. These should really be separate from the levels with <4% completion rate (that seems to be about my threshold for where levels move from "challenging" to "frustrating"). And of course the ones with <0.1% completion are another beast entirely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peach Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Thanks, MindWanderer! I played "Still Alive" Thursday night after seeing the course ID for it here. You said that it exploded on Friday.... I wonder if recommendations appear based on certain traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Yeah, my Mad Monster Mansion stage exploded after you played it, Peach. So thanks haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peach Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Oh, wow. So maybe it does work that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonectric Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 I got a sizeable influx of players on Ice Blue Raspberry Galaxy, too. I'm guessing people like to look through popular makers' recently starred courses. Anything you touch turns to gold, Peach. The new update is available now! Checkpoints, size-sensitive powerups, and event courses. I unlocked a Tri Force Heroes costume from one of the event courses, so I guess that's a thing that happens. I also reuploaded my first course with a checkpoint in it. For everyone's reference, you can delete a level without losing those stars from your total. You'll lose the nice comments and play data and stuff, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Someone left a "Fuck you" comment on my Mad Monster Mansion stage (I don't know why, apparently they didn't realize that you can still enter pipes if there's vines going into them). Also that's literally what the handwritten message said. I reported it. Anyways, I made a new stage, Roller Ghoster Tycoon. Apparently if you pass an upside-down checkpoint the M looks like W so I used Wario Mystery Mushrooms for it. Also the joke is all the ghosts are the people you've killed on your death coasters you've made in Roller Coaster Tycoon, you monster! You can check it out at 45A1-0000-00D6-BA5E Also since Nintendo deleted a stage of mine, I've reuploaded it, nerfing it slightly and adding a checkpoint. It's found at 0DDC-0000-00D6-9C06 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 New update is out! Comes with three new objects. Bumper: Shake the Grinder (those sawblades) to get a donut that you bounce off all sides of. P-Switch Door: Shake the normal doors to get blue ones that only appear when a P-Switch is active. P-Switches have been redesigned to be blue in all themes, btw. Fire Koopa Clown Car: Shake the normal Koopa Clown Car to get one with a fiery paint job. Hit Y to shoot a fireball from the car's mouth, hold Y and release for a larger fireball that does more damage and can break most walls. Already made a shmuppy stage using the last one. Apparently that's what it was designed for. Oh, and that Bookmark site is now up. Pretty nice, you can even directly share stages or your profiles. Also found a pretty slick Metroid-themed stage using it. Never would've found it otherwise haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chernabogue Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 If I had a WiiU, I'd play the shit out of this game. It looks so funny and creative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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