Mario Maker player releases Super Mario Bros. 5 creation after 7 years of work
One fan has spent seven years building a proper Super Mario Bros. 5 within Mario Maker, and the incredible results of that work are now available for everyone to play.
If you just want to dive straight into creator Metroid Mike 64's take on Super Mario Bros. 5, you can hop into Super Mario Maker 2, input maker ID 0G9-XN4-FNF and get straight to it. This is a full Super World with 40 courses spread across eight worlds, all built to have a classic Nintendo feel with minimal gimmicks or gotchas.
"The gameplay is all classic Mario," Metroid Mike 64 says (opens in new tab). "I’m not trying to troll you or purposely try to kill you, I’m trying to provide you with something Nintendo should’ve done already, make a full Mario game within Super Mario Maker 2 that’s fun as heck!"
After playing through the first few stages, I'm already impressed. This is quintessential level design in the style of the best Mario games, expanding the classic types of levels with many of the new features that Mario Maker brings to the mix. And I'm just in the first world - later stages promise some absolutely (opens in new tab) wild (opens in new tab) expansions (opens in new tab) of the formula.
The gameplay is all classic Mario. I’m not trying to troll you or purposely try to kill you, I’m trying to provide you with something Nintendo should’ve done already, make a full Mario game within Super Mario Maker 2, that’s fun as heck! pic.twitter.com/EXCiPtvsPpSeptember 25, 2022
As Metroid Mike 64 explains on Twitter, work on Super Mario Bros. 5 began with the original Super Mario Maker in 2015. That means, yes, at some point a bunch of courses had to be transferred into Super Mario Maker 2 - something that you cannot do automatically. "I didn’t want those
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