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it sure would be nice to get the repository of mario maker 1 levels before nintendo burns the library down.

by noqc 3y ago

nothis 3y ago
I know Nintendo will never allow it to exist in the open but is this a way to archive the actual levels or just a list of names/codes? I'm genuinely sad thinking about the (very real) possibility of them vanishing forever.
- gjsman-1000 3y ago
  Most likely Nintendo (being an extensive AWS user) will just ship the levels to some S3 bucket; never to see the light of day. Even if each level were just 2 MB, that would cost them only $46/mo. to keep 1 million levels.
- hospitalJail 3y ago
  Just move on. I've realized that Nintendo finds a way to make me suffer in disappointment. Gaming got a lot better when I ripped the Nintendo bandaid off. (And I stopped buying games that are less than 1 year old)
- soap- 3y ago
  There's a dataset on huggingface[0] from this API that has the data, and a decoder on github[1] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230811134158/https://tgrcode.com/posts/mario_maker_2_datasets https://web.archive.org/web/20230811134158/https://tgrcode.c... [1] https://github.com/JiXiaomai/SMM2LevelViewer https://github.com/JiXiaomai/SMM2LevelViewer
- Amigo5862 3y ago
  It includes the levels themselves. However, there's not any current way to play them. https://pretendo.network/ https://pretendo.network/ is working on it.
cowsup 3y ago
This already exists online — won't link it here but it's easy to find if you know where to search. Players have been unable to upload since March 2021, so any archive that's a year or two old will still be up-to-date.
lofatdairy 3y ago
I think pretendo kinda does this? Someone who's more familiar should probably confirm/give caveats but I believe at the very least there are tools to pull down courses + metadata, but I don't known whether a public repository has been established.
Y_Y 3y ago
https://archive.org/details/super_mario_maker_courses_202105 https://archive.org/details/super_mario_maker_courses_202105 Typical archive.org to the rescue again.
- echelon 3y ago
  Mario is one my favorite platforming series, but I felt that the Mario Maker games never quite reached the level of innovation of LittleBigPlanet. (Both in the tooling and the community.) It looks like some users did the work to archive LittleBigPlanet, too: https://archive.org/details/@littlebigarchive https://archive.org/details/@littlebigarchive Hopefully it's comprehensive. People came up with all kinds of hacks to push the engine to its limits. They made FPS games, top down Zelda dungeons, and all kinds of crazy stuff with LBP. It was awesome. I haven't checked out LBP's spiritual successor Dreams yet (I don't have time to game lately), but I've heard it's phenomenal. That said, I do enjoy watching others try to clear some of the diabolically difficult levels that Mario Maker creators design.
  - cubefox 3y ago
    I looked into Dreams a while ago. Dreams is more a general game engine than a level editor, including a highly unusual rendering engine that is not based on polygons. But apparently all this innovation hasn't translated in much success.

it sure would be nice to get the repository of mario maker 1 levels before nintendo burns the library down.

by noqc 3y ago

it sure would be nice to get the repository of mario maker 1 levels before nintendo burns the library down.

I know Nintendo will never allow it to exist in the open but is this a way to archive the actual levels or just a list of names/codes? I'm genuinely sad thinking about the (very real) possibility of them vanishing forever.

gjsman-1000 3y ago
Most likely Nintendo (being an extensive AWS user) will just ship the levels to some S3 bucket; never to see the light of day. Even if each level were just 2 MB, that would cost them only $46/mo. to keep 1 million levels.
hospitalJail 3y ago
Just move on. I've realized that Nintendo finds a way to make me suffer in disappointment. Gaming got a lot better when I ripped the Nintendo bandaid off. (And I stopped buying games that are less than 1 year old)
soap- 3y ago
There's a dataset on huggingface[0] from this API that has the data, and a decoder on github[1] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230811134158/https://tgrcode.com/posts/mario_maker_2_datasets https://web.archive.org/web/20230811134158/https://tgrcode.c... [1] https://github.com/JiXiaomai/SMM2LevelViewer https://github.com/JiXiaomai/SMM2LevelViewer
Amigo5862 3y ago
It includes the levels themselves. However, there's not any current way to play them. https://pretendo.network/ https://pretendo.network/ is working on it.

cowsup 3y ago

This already exists online — won't link it here but it's easy to find if you know where to search. Players have been unable to upload since March 2021, so any archive that's a year or two old will still be up-to-date.

lofatdairy 3y ago

I think pretendo kinda does this? Someone who's more familiar should probably confirm/give caveats but I believe at the very least there are tools to pull down courses + metadata, but I don't known whether a public repository has been established.

Y_Y 3y ago

https://archive.org/details/super_mario_maker_courses_202105 https://archive.org/details/super_mario_maker_courses_202105 Typical archive.org to the rescue again.

echelon 3y ago
Mario is one my favorite platforming series, but I felt that the Mario Maker games never quite reached the level of innovation of LittleBigPlanet. (Both in the tooling and the community.) It looks like some users did the work to archive LittleBigPlanet, too: https://archive.org/details/@littlebigarchive https://archive.org/details/@littlebigarchive Hopefully it's comprehensive. People came up with all kinds of hacks to push the engine to its limits. They made FPS games, top down Zelda dungeons, and all kinds of crazy stuff with LBP. It was awesome. I haven't checked out LBP's spiritual successor Dreams yet (I don't have time to game lately), but I've heard it's phenomenal. That said, I do enjoy watching others try to clear some of the diabolically difficult levels that Mario Maker creators design.
- cubefox 3y ago
  I looked into Dreams a while ago. Dreams is more a general game engine than a level editor, including a highly unusual rendering engine that is not based on polygons. But apparently all this innovation hasn't translated in much success.