A neat bit of work if you are RNG/statistically inclined.
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Patrick Klepek (Vice): This 'Mario Maker' Level Has Been Played 2.6 Million Times and Never Beaten
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A neat bit of work if you are RNG/statistically inclined.
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I checked out of curiosity and it seems the Wii U has 1/4th the power draw of other gaming consoles (and let's not go into power consumption for high-end Nvidia graphics cards on the PC).
Some form of Mario Maker Mornings will come back, and it'll definitely be frequent in the early days after release.
Huh, wow. I assumed it'd be using something like the lanky Mario trick (where the weird mushrooms that turn you into lanky Mario can spawn randomly for players, but never spawn for the uploader, so you can pelt players with mushrooms and make the level unclearable for lanky Mario to get a ridiculously low clear chance), but it really is pure RNG even on the uploader's part? That's quite some dedication.
Probably just borrowed a bunch of Wii Us and left them on for a few months. Maybe not the best use of electricity, but it's certainly a very cool idea.
Since I'm not a math person I'm impressed by the Reddit user who crunched all the numbers. Great article.a
Patrick, as a MM noob but video watcher, what's the deal with the Magikoopas spawning coins and why does Mario have to collect them when spawning to the right? Also, where's the level finish line?
My thoughts were the coins wouldn't activate the note blocks, but that seems to be wrong, I'm missing something on this level :D
My thoughts were the coins wouldn't activate the note blocks, but that seems to be wrong, I'm missing something on this level :D
I could be wrong here, but my understanding is the coins aren't necessary to beat the stage, technically—it's not like there's a bank at the end. But if a coin doesn't spawn, whatever else does will prompt you to die.
They also could have hidden a secret for themselves to complete the level, a hidden door or something that triggers a hidden door to the ending right?
Gotcha! That's how I understood it from watching as well.
Man I hope I'll be motivated enough to join the MM fun with the Switch version :D
On the bottom left stream in the clip you can see all 6 blocks turn into coins but one hits a noteblock and activates the p-switch. It needs to spawn all 6 coins and they all need to bounce back towards the magikoopa.
Pretty sure you can go in the editor and see how other people's levels are made to see where hidden stuff is. Also hidden blocks are probably going to be found easier anyway than someone beating a super hard level, there's only so many ways you can hide stuff in MM.
Either the creator got lucky with RNG or he cheated or something.
They technically are the 1st person to beat it, but in terms of people playing the finished level nobody has beaten it.
Man, MM levels have gotten really weird.
On a related note, did you ever go back and beat that Dan level?
Nice!
On a related note, did you ever go back and beat that Dan level?
this is basically a slot machine with even worse odds and no payout
Aha I didn't know you could also see others levels in the editor, there should be a trick though, unless the creator spent like an eternity in a hyperbolic time chamber endlessly trying his own level.
cant wait for you and Dan to go head to head again, this time he can be even meaner.
When a magikoopa hits a coinblock it can spawn either random enemies or coins or powerups. When the "thing" spawns and goes left it'll hit a noteblock with makes a muncher hit a p-switch, changing all of the blocks mario is riding on into coins and dropping him to his death.
To clear it, all of the 6 blocks have to turn into coins and the coins need to go right. Since enemies don't occupy the same space they can only go left and hit the noteblock but coins and enemies can occupy the same space so it would give Mario long enough to be ferried to the end before eventually having the momentum to hit the noteblock.
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So I did the math and the odds of the original uploader completing it successfully on a single machine in 2 weeks is... 2.3%.
In R, pgeom(60*60*24*7*2/6.9, 1/((7*2)^6))
In R, pgeom(60*60*24*7*2/6.9, 1/((7*2)^6))
Haha, no. My ability to complete those levels vanishes the moment the machine is powered off. I'm not even sure what I'll be playing on with Switch...I guess I need to buy a Pro controller? I became oddly attached to the Wii U GamePad, to the point that I didn't trust other controllers.
My kids play on my Wii U everyday, so mine is being used a lot. Also the control seems to be unbreakable since every week one of my twins them drop it on the floor and it simply refuses to die!!!
... How?
Oh wait. He could put one of these RNG deathtraps at the end of one of his levels...
That's not as low as I thought it would be.
Maybe you'll go through the same process with the joycons. I play my Switch in portable mode most of the time, and I've gotten so used to the joycons that I usually forget it doesn't have a real D-pad.
