https://fusoya.eludevisibility.org/lm/
Also, go check out the Grand Poo World III videos. Absolutely peak Mario.
I can't get past the first jump though, but still, thank you barb!
I gave up on the games because it seemed like most of the user submitted content were weird non playable machines where people bend the rules of the engine to hurl Mario along to the goal automatically.
Interesting to see that, but it got to the point where I saw nothing else, and it’s been on the shelf for years.
I doubt you can ever build a perfect fix for this, but it could be a lot better than it is right now. Unfortunately it's just an abandoned project at this point, and the inevitable Mario Maker 3 will likely just have the same issues.
For me, couch multiplayer would make it 10x better. I bought the game and was sorely disappointed to see that this wasn't included.
There's some garbage in there too, but that's the game! There's definitely good sets of levels nowadays IMO.
Was quite a fun challenge, some interesting tech at play, and interesting algorithm work to render out the slope tiles.
The original inspiration was a DGR video in late 2021 when he showed the original chinese-language windows-based level viewer. That inspired me (as a Mac user) to seek out the API and level format documentation, then it was a whole load of trial and error to get the rendering working. There are more popular viewers (AFAICT) out there, but I enjoyed the challenge.
I wonder if the API is still running off the developer's personal Nintendo account?
Typical archive.org to the rescue again.
It looks like some users did the work to archive LittleBigPlanet, too:
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.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230811134158/https://tgrcode.c... [1] https://github.com/JiXiaomai/SMM2LevelViewer
Gaming got a lot better when I ripped the Nintendo bandaid off. (And I stopped buying games that are less than 1 year old)
I generally dont understand how some sites go down so quick.
I'm glad people do it. Just curious about the legal considerations.
Size: 1.45MB zipped, 3.10MB unzipped
Minimum OS: Win95 (Win98SE if you want to use DirectX 9 option)
Version: 3.40
Updated: September 24, 2023.