The Super Mario Maker community is celebrating the completion of all levels uploaded to the Wii U game's servers ahead of a shutdown after it was found that the controversial "Final Boss" was fake and illegitimately uploaded.
The celebrations came a week later after the community, along with the group spearheading the efforts, Team 0%, believed that Trimming the Herbs was the last level that had yet to be cleared. However, it turned out that the level was a tool-assisted speedrun level, which was discovered when the creator came forward.
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The absurdly difficult Super Mario Maker level required pixel-perfect and near-inhuman reactions to complete. The original creator of the level, Ahoyo, said that he uploaded the level using tool-assisted speedrun techniques. These allowed him to clear the stage and upload it to the server without actually proving that a human is capable of beating it.
Prior to the revelation, a few members of Team 0% had expressed their suspicions that Trimming the Herbs was uploaded through illegitimate means. However, prominent members of the group dismissed the idea due to the belief that there were no means to create a TAS for the Wii U, according to GamesRadar.
But Ahoyo said that those exact tools do exist, adding that someone messaged him about a TAS that was being worked on for the Wii U. They sent him a video that seemed to show the tool working but noted that they were abandoning the project.
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One of Ahoyo's friends then replicated the TAS after two days of building and this is what he used to upload Trimming the Herbs on the Super Mario Maker server. The level's creator apologized for the drama that his level caused, adding that he regrets the entire ordeal.
He later congratulated Team 0% for spearheading the efforts to completely finish all of the levels available on the Super Mario Maker servers ahead of the scheduled shutdown. The actual last legitimate level that was cleared was The Last Dance created by a player known as Yamada.
Uploaded Through Illegitimate Means
The fact that Ahoyo used TAS to upload Trimming the Herbs does not mean that the level cannot be beaten by a human. However, it does make it significantly more difficult because there are 20 frame-perfect jumps that must be done to finish it, said Video Games Chronicle.
Super Mario Maker is scheduled to be taken down, alongside other Wii I and 3DS games on Apr. 8, 2024. In March 2023, Nintendo had already closed down the eShops for both systems but players were still able to use online services in-game, including online multiplayer and rankings.
The first game in the franchise was revolutionary and allowed players to create their own levels and share them online for other people to complete. At the start of the years-long effort, Team 0% had a backlog of thousands of levels.
The completion of all levels in Super Mario Maker is only the start for Team 0%, which has now shifted its focus to beating the ones in Super Mario Maker 2 for the Nintendo Switch. The group's Super Mario Maker counter website was also being updated to show the statistics for their endeavor, according to GameRant.
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