Super Mario Maker

Super Mario Maker (previously called Mario Maker when announced at E3 2014) is a game creator application for the Wii U which allows players to insert blocks, enemies, items, and more from the Super Mario Bros. series to create and share their own 2D Super Mario levels. The game was announced at E3 2014 and has been released in September 2015 (originally set to be released in early 2015), as part of the 30th Anniversary of Super Mario Bros..

The eShop version of the game requires at least 1.4 GB of storage memory to be downloaded. Additionally, as many as 100 different amiibo costumes are available in the game, but the player can unlock them without scanning the proper amiibo by completing the 100 Mario Challenge.

Also, while the game typically uses the GamePad, the Wii Remote, Wii Classic Controller, and Wii U Pro Controller are also usable.

Title screen
Similarly to Mario Paint, the title screen is highly interactive. A randomly generated stage will appear, and players have the option to choose "Create" and edit the stage, or "Play", to choose either Course World or 10 Mario Challenge. Players can even complete the stage before starting. Each letter will cause a different effect on the game title screen.


 * SUPER: Five Super Stars will appear and a crowd will shout "Super Mario Maker". Mario can collect them to turn invincible. The voices are random sometimes being male and sometimes female.
 * M - The letter M spins upside down and spells Super Wario Maker, and a Mystery Mushroom with a Wario costume appears (in the Super Mario Bros. game style only). In addition, Wario will taunt the player.
 * A - The letter A will summon a cluster of multi-colored stars to fall behind in the background. All enemies and shells present on the screen will be defeated. A train whistle can also be heard.
 * R - The legs of the letter R will extend and will shoot a shower of coins, similar to a Bill Blaster shooting coins. A cash register sound will also play.
 * I - The parakeet from Nintendo DSi Sound, which appears in the recording option, will appear and sit on top of the letter I, making it look like a lowercase I. Like in the application it debuted in, it will also record any sounds, and repeat them with a different effect. The parakeet will leave after a while.
 * O - The letter O will summon a Koopa Clown Car (Junior Clown Car in the New Super Mario Bros. U style).
 * M - The second M will summon an empty Buzzy Beetle or Spiny shell, and either can be worn as a Shell Helmet. An explosion sound can be heard.
 * A - Touching the second A will cause it to act like a rocket, with a intercom counting down before it shoots off, coming back soon after.
 * K - The letter K will turn the screen into a sepia tone. The music for the title with also turn into an 8-bit variation. Pressing the K again will revert the screen back to normal.
 * E - Touch the letter E will summon a Springboard for Mario to use. An oriental drum can be heard.
 * R - The second R will extend like the first R, turn around and summon either a Goomba's Shoe or a Yoshi Egg (depending on the game style). If there are two Yoshis, anymore Eggs summoned will hold a Super Mushroom. When using Yoshi, an extra drumbeat will added to the title screen music.
 * Clicking randomly on the screen will summon an enemy.
 * Dragging the stylus on the screen will produce a stream of magic dust, similar to how Kamek powers up an enemy like in the Yoshi's Island and New Super Mario Bros. games.

Days of the Week Boot Screen Animations
Each day the boot screen has a different animation associated with getting Builder Mario off the screen. All the enemies are in Super Mario Bros. Style.


 * Sunday - Luigi enters in, shoots a fireball at Builder Mario causing him to fall off, and then runs across the screen. A "Happy Sunday" banner is also shown on top of the logo.
 * Monday - A Koopa Shell goes across the screen hitting Builder Mario causing him to fall off the screen.
 * Tuesday - A Magikoopa appears and turns Builder Mario into a Goomba which walks off the screen.
 * Wednesday - A Super Mario Bros. style platform with wings carries Builder Mario off.
 * Thursday - Three Goombas enter in, pick up Builder Mario and carry him off.
 * Friday - A Gnat picks up Builder Mario, but a fly swatter swats it causing Builder Mario to fall off the screen. (NOTE: At the beginning, the day of the week is called "Flyday", but after the gnat has been swatted the word falls with Builder Mario and is called Friday.)
 * Saturday - A Thwomp falls on Builder Mario causing him to fall off the screen and then raises back up.

Gameplay
The game is set up so that players can design their very own 2D Super Mario courses. They are able to set up and edit the length and width of the stages, the course's theme, and game styles, and are able to use various objects, items, and enemies. Players are able to switch between editing and playing their created stages, and can easily make any changes using the tools provided. A outline mode can also be used to show Mario's movements and to make positioning objects easier.

The game will start with only one row of course elements, as the game will feature a unlocking system, in which a set of elements will be available for the next day, so long as they spend at least five minutes using the tools they have. As part of a Day 1 patch, however, the elements can be made available immediately by using all available tools. Players can also add sound effects to their courses, using the SFX frog (which uses the frog icon from Mario Paint). These effects will happen when Mario walks over them in the play mode, with some effects generating visuals. Players can even record their own sound effects and add them to the game. However, these custom sound effects are replaced with a generic parrot squawk when uploaded to Course World.

Players can save up to 120 different courses onto their Wii U profile. In Coursebot, the course selection screen, locally saved and downloaded courses can be arranged into worlds, which are set up like in Super Mario Bros., with four courses per world. There is no way to upload courses in worlds; players can only upload single courses.

Sharing system
Super Mario Maker will have a dedicated way to share course creations with the rest of the user base. Nintendo is implementing a system to share courses online, similar to what was done with Pushmo World and the later games in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series, referred to as Course World. Uploading courses is limited to 10 at first, but players will be able to earn the ability to upload more when they are given more stars by players. In order to share a course online, players must be able to complete it. Players can download, play, and even alter courses made by other players, but they are unable to re-upload those altered courses to the online servers, as to avoid issues of stealing. Once a course is uploaded, players can comment on it via Miiverse and choose to give it a star if they liked it.

100 Mario Challenge
Players can also experience 100 Mario Challenge, where the goal is to clear a certain number of user-created courses with up to 100 lives; 8 courses on Easy; 16 courses on Normal and Expert. Courses marked as the selected difficulty (based on clear percentage) will be used. Players can obtain up to 3 1-Ups in each course, but must be able to complete the course to collect them. Additionally, players can save their progress while playing the 100 Mario Challenge, and they can choose to skip a selected course to try another one instead. At first, only the Easy and Normal difficulty levels can be selected, but the player can unlock the Expert difficulty by completing the Normal difficulty 100 Mario Challenge at least once.

Clearing 100 Mario Challenge will reward the player with a random Mystery Mushroom costume. However, there is a limit to how many costumes can be unlocked on a single difficulty level; this in return, means that the player has to complete all the difficulty levels in order to unlock every costume in the game.

10 Mario Challenge
Another variant of 100 Mario Challenge, known as 10 Mario Challenge, gives the player 10 Marios to clear 8 randomly selected sample courses. Unlike with 100 Mario Challenge, players cannot save their progress in 10 Mario Challenge. As many as 56 different sample courses will appear in this mode, and they'll be added onto the Coursebot's sample courses list when completed.

When the player plays 10 Mario Challenge for the first time, the eight courses that appear are predetermined, and will never change until the player has completed 10 Mario Challenge once.

After the player has completed 10 Mario Challenge for the first time, any courses that appear in the 10 Mario Challenge will be chosen at random, instead of being predetermined.

Sample Courses
Below is the full list of all the 68 sample courses that are in the game. The sample courses that are in worlds 1 and 2 are unlocked as the player unlocks new course sets. The sample courses that are in worlds 3 through 16 are used in the 10 Mario Challenge. The world 17 courses are unlocked after the player has completed all of the 10 Mario Challenge sample courses.

Styles
The game will give players the option to choose the game and course styles from various 2D Mario games. There are four game styles and six course styles to choose from. Each game style will retain their respective gameplay elements and physics from their base games. For example, Mario can carry items beyond the Super Mario Bros. style, gains triple and wall-jumping in the New Super Mario Bros. U style, while able to throw Koopa Shells upward in the Super Mario World style only. Each game style will have their own exclusive elements, such as Yoshi being available in the Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U styles, but is replaced in Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3 styles by the Goomba's Shoe, as well as their exclusive power-ups and end-goals. Choosing a course theme will change the assets, objects and the music of the edit mode to appropriately share the theme. These game and course themes include:

Game Styles
 * Super Mario Bros.
 * Super Mario Bros. 3
 * Super Mario World
 * New Super Mario Bros. U

Course Styles
 * Ground/Overworld
 * Underground
 * Underwater
 * Ghost House
 * Airship
 * Castle

Course elements

 * (Brick) Blocks (Rotating Blocks in Super Mario World style )
 * ? Blocks
 * Hard Blocks (breakable by various objects)
 * Ground
 * Pipes (can be rotated at to face up, down, left, or right)
 * Super Mushrooms (can make many object larger; shake to turn into Weird Mushrooms after unlocking)
 * Coins
 * Trampolines (can be placed sideways )
 * Goombas (Galoombas in the Super Mario World style )
 * Koopa Troopas (shake to make Red )
 * Piranha Plants (in and out of pipes. Shake to turn into a Fire Piranha Plant. They are Jumping Piranha Plants in Super Mario World style. )
 * Wings
 * 1-Up Mushrooms
 * Arrow Signs
 * Vines
 * Cloud Blocks (they are solid-from-top and breakable by various objects)
 * Coin Blocks
 * Conveyor Belts (direction, length and speed can be changed)
 * Donut Blocks
 * Warp Doors
 * Goal
 * Goal Pole + castles in non-castle, Super Mario Bros. / New Super Mario Bros. U courses
 * Giant Gates in non-castle, Super Mario World courses
 * SMB3-style Goals in non-castle, Super Mario Bros. 3 courses
 * Boss bridge + axe in castle courses
 * Ice Blocks (breakable/meltable by various objects)
 * Hidden Blocks
 * Tracks
 * Mushroom Platforms
 * Note Blocks (shake to turn into a Music Block, plays a note that changes pitch based on its height)
 * One-way Walls
 * P Switches (appear as ? Switches in the New Super Mario Bros. U style)
 * Lifts (Tap arrow to change direction, shake to turn into blue falling lift)
 * POW Blocks
 * Semi-solid Platform (shake to change appearance)
 * Lava Lifts
 * Spike Traps (When used Underwater, they take the appearances of Jelectros in Super Mario Bros. 3, and Sea Urchins from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening in Super Mario World)


 * Bill Blasters (shoot Bullet Bills. Shake to turn into red ones, which shoot Bull's-Eye Bills and/or how it shoots it. Height can be adjusted )
 * Bloopers (shake to turn into Blooper Nannies)
 * Bob-ombs (shake to turn into lit ones)
 * Boos (shake to make it into Boo Buddies, drag into platforms to turn into Stretch)
 * Bowsers (shake to turn into Bowser Jr.s)
 * Buzzy Beetles (shake to make it hide in shell, becoming a )
 * Cannons (shake to turn into Red Cannons)
 * Chain Chomps (shake to turn into Unchained Chomps )
 * Cheep Cheeps (green by default; shake to make red. They are Blurps in Super Mario World style and Deep Cheeps in New Super Mario Bros. U style.)
 * Dry Bones (are Fish Bones underwater, when course is being played)
 * Fire Bars
 * Grinders
 * Hammer Bros (add a Super Mushroom to them to turn into Sledge Bros)
 * Lakitus (shake to remove it from cloud)
 * Lava Bubbles
 * Magikoopas
 * Munchers (Shake to quickly activate the Gnat Attack mini-game. )
 * Burners
 * Rocky Wrenches (Shake to turn into Monty Moles)
 * Spike Tops (Shake to make it into the blue, faster variation)
 * Spinies (Shake to make it hide in shell, becoming a )
 * Thwomps
 * Wigglers (Shake to turn into angry ones)
 * Fire Flowers
 * Super Stars
 * Mystery Mushrooms - by tapping amiibo onto the Wii U GamePad, that character can be inserted into the game as a transformation for Mario in the form of this item. - Exclusive to Super Mario Bros. style.
 * Super Leaves - Exclusive to Super Mario Bros. 3 style.
 * Cape Feathers in Super Mario World style.
 * Propeller Mushrooms in New Super Mario Bros. U style.
 * Weird Mushrooms - Exclusive to Super Mario Bros. style. Randomly appears from a ? Block instead of a Super Mushroom. Can be unlocked for use in the editor by completing world 17 (NWC 2015) sample courses.
 * Big Mushrooms - tapping either 30th Anniversary Mario amiibo allows this to appear and turn Mario into Big Mario. Enemies will also feature Mario and Luigi aesthetics and the screen will change to look like an old TV screen. - Exclusive to Super Mario Bros. style. Classic Mario Coloring changes Mario to Big Mario with Classic Coloring while the Modern Coloring changes Big Mario to his Modern colors.
 * Shoe Goomba both normal and a "stiletto" version in Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3 styles.
 * Yoshi Egg (hatches into Yoshi) in Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U styles.
 * Yoshi Egg (hatches into Yoshi) in Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U styles.

Bold = Elements that are available at the start.

Customization options
Most objects can bounce off Springboards and Note Blocks.

The following objects can have Wings added to them; in the case of some enemies (such as Goombas and Koopas), it makes them look and act like their "Para" variations in previous titles:
 * Bloopers
 * Bob-ombs
 * Boos
 * Bowsers
 * Buzzy Beetles (look like Parabuzzys, act similarly to Para-Beetles)
 * Chain Chomps
 * Cheep Cheeps
 * Dry Bones (look like Parabones)
 * Goombas (look and act like Paragoombas)
 * Hammer Bros
 * Koopa Troopas (look and act like Koopa Paratroopas)
 * Lakitus
 * Lava Bubbles (work like bouncing Lava Bubble from Super Mario World)
 * Magikoopas
 * Rocky Wrenches
 * Munchers
 * Piranha Plants
 * Spike Tops
 * Spinies (shoot spines)
 * Thwomps
 * Springboards
 * Wigglers
 * Moving platforms (makes them move slightly erratically)
 * Super Mushrooms
 * Fire Flowers
 * 1-Up Mushroom
 * Super Stars
 * Goomba's Shoe (holding the jump button, it acts like Yoshi's Flutter Jump)
 * Coins
 * POW Blocks
 * Solid Blocks
 * Brick Blocks
 * ? Blocks
 * Invisible ? Blocks
 * Donut Lifts
 * Cloud Blocks

The following objects can be made huge by dragging Super Mushrooms onto them:
 * Bloopers
 * Bob-ombs
 * Boos
 * Bowsers
 * Buzzy Beetles
 * Cannons
 * Chain Chomps
 * Dry Bones
 * Goombas
 * Koopa Troopas
 * Lava Bubbles
 * Magikoopas
 * Munchers
 * Piranha Plants
 * Rocky Wrenches
 * Spike Tops
 * Spinies
 * Thwomps
 * Wigglers
 * Goomba's Shoes
 * Yoshi Egg
 * Hammer Bros. (turns into Sledge Bros.)

Players can make ? Blocks, Brick Blocks, Note Blocks, Bill Blasters, Lakitus and Warp Pipes spawn one of the following objects, by dragging one of the following objects onto one of the former objects:
 * Beanstalks
 * Bloopers
 * Bob-ombs
 * Boos
 * Buzzy Beetles
 * Chain Chomps
 * Cheep Cheeps
 * Coins
 * Dry Bones
 * Fire Flowers
 * Goombas
 * Hammer Bros
 * Koopa Troopas
 * Lakitu's Clouds
 * Lava Bubbles
 * Mystery Mushrooms
 * P Switches
 * Piranha Plants
 * Rocky Wrenches
 * Spinies
 * Springboards
 * Super Mushrooms
 * Super Stars
 * Spike Tops
 * Wigglers
 * Muncher

The following objects can be made to move along Tracks by dragging them onto one:
 * Hard Blocks
 * Bill Blasters
 * Boos
 * Bowsers
 * Chain Chomps
 * Cheep Cheeps
 * Grinders (if they fall off they roll along a surface like in Super Mario World)
 * Spinies
 * Skull Rafts
 * Goomba's Shoes (unknown if possible when in Goomba's Shoe form)
 * Buzzy Beetle
 * Lava Bubble
 * 1-Up Mushrooms
 * Super Mushrooms
 * Fire Flowers
 * Super Stars
 * Propeller Mushrooms
 * Coins
 * Invisible ? Blocks
 * Brick Blocks
 * ? Blocks
 * Note Blocks
 * Ice Bocks
 * Moving Platforms
 * Donut Blocks
 * Fire Bars
 * Rocket Engines
 * Goombas
 * Trampolines (can be grabbed)
 * POW Blocks
 * Bloopers
 * Cheep Cheeps
 * Piranha Plants
 * Magikoopas
 * Mystery Mushrooms (unknown if possible with forms other than Feather form)
 * Dry Bones (In Fish Bone form, they won't target Mario.)
 * Munchers
 * Thwomps
 * Cloud Blocks
 * Wigglers
 * Cannons

The following objects can be put into Koopa Clown Cars. The car will resize to fit the enemy, if it does not fit. If it has an object in, it will try to drive into Mario:
 * Bill Blasters
 * Bloopers
 * Bob-ombs
 * Boos (Clown Car stops moving when looked at)
 * Bowsers (Bowser will sometimes throw Bob-ombs while Bowser Jrs. tosses Koopa Shells.)
 * Chain Chomps
 * Dry Bones
 * Goombas
 * Hammer Bros
 * Koopa Troopas
 * Magikoopas
 * Monty Moles
 * Piranha Plants
 * Spinies
 * Super Stars
 * Thwomps
 * Coins
 * Yoshi Eggs
 * Lava Bubbles

The following objects can be put into Lakitu's Clouds:
 * Bill Blasters
 * Bowsers
 * Hammer Bros
 * Piranha Plants
 * Rocky Wrenches
 * Wigglers
 * Magikoopas
 * Springboards
 * Cannons
 * Goombas
 * Thwomps

The following objects can press P Switches:
 * Bowsers
 * Hammer Bros

The following objects can be stacked on top of each other:
 * Bill Blasters
 * Bloopers
 * Bob-ombs
 * Bowsers
 * Buzzy Beetles (not while in helmet form)
 * Chain Chomps
 * Goombas
 * Hammer Bros
 * Koopa Troopas
 * Magikoopas
 * Piranha Plants
 * Rocky Wrenches
 * Spike Tops (unknown if enemies can go on top of them)
 * Spinies (not while in helmet form)
 * Thwomps
 * Wigglers
 * Dry Bones (unknown if possible when in Fish Bone form)
 * Boos (unknown if possible when in Stretch form)
 * Cannons (unknown if enemies can go on top of them)
 * Goomba's Shoe (unknown if possible in Yoshi Egg form)
 * Hammer Bros.
 * Munchers

Object limits
There is a limit to how many objects can be placed on any course. The list below shows the limits of each object group in a single course layer.


 * Block objects: 2,000
 * Includes: Coins, Ground.
 * Platform objects: 200
 * Includes: Beanstalks, Warp Pipes.
 * Warp Pipe warp objects: 10
 * Power-up objects: 100
 * Does not include power-ups that are inside blocks.
 * Enemy objects: 100
 * Includes: Goombas, Koopa Troopas, POW Blocks, P Switches, Goomba's Shoes (Yoshi Eggs), One-way barriers, Skull Rafts, Junior Clown Cars, and Moving platforms.
 * Arrow objects: 100
 * Door objects: 4 sets (8 total)
 * Bowsers: 3

Differences from Original Games
Although the recreations are mostly faithful, each style has some minor differences from its source material (disregarding console limitations, etc.):

General

 * Thwomps can be stood on, but Mario will take damage unless he is riding a Yoshi.
 * All castle areas end with a boss bridge and an axe. This is to keep consistent with Super Mario Bros.
 * Mario does not need to enter the fortress in Super Mario Bros. and New Super Mario Bros. U styles. He just needs to grab the Goal Pole to complete the level.
 * Also Mario does not have to reach the door after beating a castle level in all 4 themes.
 * To be consistent with non-Japanese versions of Super Mario Bros. 3, and all versions of New Super Mario Bros. U, Mario can take two hits if he has a "second tier" power-up (such as a Fire Flower). That is, he will revert to Super Mario instead of Small Mario.
 * Similarly, if a "second tier" power-up is grabbed as Small Mario, he will go straight to the appropriate form, instead of only growing to Super Mario, as in the original Super Mario Bros..
 * The Ghost House and Airship themes are available in all four styles, even though airships didn't appear in Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario World, and ghost houses didn't appear before Super Mario World. As such, new music has been composed for these themes, arranged to fit the styles of the original games.
 * In the Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U styles, Yoshi can be used in the Ghost House, Airship, and Castle themes, despite never appearing in, or even being allowed in those courses. New Yoshi drum beats were added to match the music.
 * Similarly, new Yoshi drum beats were added to the New Super Mario Bros. U Underwater music, since Yoshi did not appear in underwater levels in either New Super Mario Bros. U or New Super Mario Bros. Wii (where most of the music of New Super Mario Bros. U originated).
 * Many items found in Super Mario Bros. 3 (Frog Suit, Tanooki Suit, Hammer Suit, P-Wing) and New Super Mario Bros. U (Super Acorn, P-Acorn, Ice Flower, Mini Mushroom, Penguin Suit) are not available. In addition, the P-Balloon from Super Mario World is also not available.
 * Lakitu's Cloud in the Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3 styles is wider and can be ridden on, consistent with the Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U styles.
 * The Underground, Underwater, and Castle backgrounds have been given extra details (statues, railings, skeletal remains, seaweed, etc.), when originally only the Overworld had such details. This also extends to the Ghost House and Airship backgrounds (lanterns, grandfather clocks, bolts, small flags, etc.), which didn't feature extra background details when shown off at E3 2015.
 * The HUD for all four games is in the style of the HUD from New Super Mario Bros. U, with the coin counter on the left and the score and time counters on the right.
 * Bowser cannot throw hammers; Bowser Jr. (with wings) has that option instead. However, a Hammer Bro or a winged Bowser Jr. can be put on Bowser's head to simulate this.
 * In Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World, whenever Mario collects a Fire Flower or a Super Star, he cycles through different palettes (Mario's current palette and the three current palettes of the other sprites in Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3, and the palettes of Mario, Fire Mario, Luigi, and Fire Luigi in Super Mario World). In this game, to be consistent with New Super Mario Bros. U, Mario cycles between his normal and Fire Mario forms when he obtains a Fire Flower, and a rainbow cycle when he collects a Super Star.

Super Mario Bros.

 * Moving platforms and mushroom platforms could not be jumped through from underneath in the original game; this was changed to be consistent with the platforms in Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U.
 * All shells now have spinning sprites, unlike in the original. This is consistent with the other styles.
 * The player gets extra height from jumping on an enemy, just like all games since Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
 * The player can now fully backtrack.
 * Water and lava are animated, much like in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe.
 * Hitting blocks and bricks with shells will cause them to break or otherwise react as if Mario were to hit them, consistent with the other styles.
 * The player can hit coin blocks underwater, just as in other styles.
 * The beanstalks have Piranha Plant heads on their tops, making them consistent with other styles.
 * Enemies no longer have different color schemes in underground or castle levels, except for Nipper Plants, Chain Chomps, Bob-ombs, Buzzy Beetles, and Bullet Bills, due to them being black.

Super Mario Bros. 3

 * Switches could not be carried in the original game, but they can here. This is consistent with Super Mario World.
 * Fire Flowers were colored white and blue in the original, but are instead colored red and green in this game. This is consistent with Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U.
 * Similar to its GBA remake, the score counter is not present on the bottom of the screen. The P-Meter has also been moved to below the coin counter.
 * Bowser hopped in place in the original game, but here he hops forwards and backwards, and can jump normally; this is consistent with the other styles.
 * Mario cannot go into the background when ducking on a White Block platform. Instead, Mario will do a short hop in-place.
 * Mario could not get out of the Kuribo's Shoe unless he hit an enemy in the original, but here Mario can exit the shoe by pressing ZR. This is consistent with the Yoshi mechanics in Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U.

Super Mario World

 * P Switches turn Used blocks into Coins in the original game, but here they turn Rotating Blocks into coins. This is consistent with Super Mario Bros. 3 and New Super Mario Bros. U, in which P Switches turn Brick Blocks into Coins (Rotating Blocks are the Super Mario World equivalent to Brick Blocks).
 * Bowser now features a new sprite that more closely resembles his modern design than his sprite in the original game. He can also be used outside of the Koopa Clown Car, consistent with the other styles.
 * Yoshi cannot change Red Koopa Shells into fireballs after eating them. This is consistent with New Super Mario Bros. U, as well as due to the lack of Yellow and Blue Koopa Troopas.
 * Instead, when Yoshi eats a Lava Bubble, he spits three fireballs, similar to the original Red Koopa Shell fireballs. Yoshi can eat fire from a Rocket Engine and release a single fireball.
 * In the original game, the players got a 1-up for finding a Yoshi Egg when they already had a Yoshi, but in this game, another Yoshi hatches.
 * Yoshi can eat hammers and spit them out. This is consistent with New Super Mario Bros. U.
 * Upon clearing the Giant Gate, Mario stops and turns to face it, rather than walking away from it.
 * The players cannot clear the course just by passing through the Giant Gate; they must touch the tape. Touching the tape at the very top results in a 1-up, similar to the flagpole in Super Mario Bros..
 * In the original game, when Mario loses a life, he goes into his death pose, but it isn't animated until he starts flying upwards. In Super Mario Maker, his death pose is now animated from the moment he falls.
 * Bob-ombs and Munchers have more detailed sprites.
 * The Koopa Clown Car has been scaled down to the size of a Junior Clown Car.
 * Grinders, Lava Bubbles, and some other enemies can no longer be spin-jumped on.
 * Fishbones home in on the player, as in the New Super Mario Bros. series.
 * In the original game, when Fire Mario's fireball hit an enemy, it turned into a coin, while in this game they fall off the stage, consistent with the other Mario games.
 * When in a Koopa Clown Car, Bowser will throw Bob-ombs instead of Mechakoopas, similarly to Bowser Jr.'s second fight in New Super Mario Bros. U.
 * This is also due to the Mechakoopa's lack of presence in the game.
 * Bowser Jr. will throw Green Koopa Shells when in a Koopa Clown Car.
 * When Mario goes through doors while carrying a P-Switch or Koopa Shell, it doesn't disappear.

New Super Mario Bros. U

 * The Goal Pole base was wider than one block in the original game, as well as in reveal build at E3 2014, but it is only one block wide here. Additionally, after jumping off the pole, Mario immediately enters the castle without doing his victory animation, but he'll still say "Oh yeah, Mario Time!" before entering. Both of these changes are consistent with Super Mario Bros..
 * Switches cannot be carried in the original game, but they can here. This was possibly changed to be consistent with Super Mario World.
 * Trampolines cannot be carried at Mario's side, only above his head, in the original game, but they can be here. This was possibly changed to be consistent with Super Mario World.
 * Mario can now Spin Jump on Piranha Plants and other spiked enemies. This was possibly changed to be consistent with Super Mario World.
 * The face on Lakitu's Cloud doesn't turn when flying, and instead faces the screen. This was possibly changed to be consistent with Super Mario World.
 * When attacking Dry Bones, their heads do not fly off their bodies, and instead stay on their bodies. This was possibly changed to be consistent with the other styles.
 * Bowser can destroy solid blocks with his body or fire.
 * Yoshi can eat Hammer Bros.
 * The HUD is solid white as in New Super Mario Bros. Wii instead of the metal opaque color from the base game.
 * Objects do not dance to the music. This was possibly changed to be consistent with the other game styles.
 * Fishbones do not collapse if they collide into each other.
 * Bullet Bills do not collide with each other. This was possibly changed to be consistent with the other styles.
 * The goal pole will not play the original Super Mario Bros. course clear music when the last two digits on the timer are the same.
 * Mario does not look directly at any enemies or items whenever he's near them.
 * There is no cheering or applause during chains of 1-Ups.
 * Enemy animations are less detailed when compared to in New Super Mario Bros. U.

Updates
The following is a list of updates that Super Mario Maker has received.

1.01
The official description of the update:

This update adds some additional features to the game, with most of them being aesthetic.


 * "Create a course” scene: a small element was added.
 * Condition(s) for increasing the amount of usable parts (in the Course Maker) were added.
 * Course sets can be unlocked sooner than normal by playing around with the Course Maker.
 * Various changes meant to improve the gameplay experience.
 * Changes the waiting period for more building materials from a 24-hour period to about 15 minutes.

Development
Shigeru Miyamoto had shown interest in developing a user-generated Mario game since at least 2009, citing the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series and Flipnote Studio as examples of Nintendo products already featuring such content to demonstrate how open he is to the idea.

Reception
Super Mario Maker has received critical acclaim from critics, praising the game's simple but well designed interface, social elements and highlighting the 10-Mario Challenge. Some criticisms towards the game include the lack of certain elements, with checkpoints and slopes being the most common, and the issue in finding courses from friends on the Course World feature.

References to other games

 * Super Mario Bros.: The first game style is based on this game.
 * VS. Super Mario Bros.: Using the bonus room SFX in the Super Mario Bros. game style will make the high score table music from this game play.
 * Wrecking Crew: Forman Spike is a playable costume and several jingles from the game are used along with the costume.
 * Super Mario Bros. 2: The door sprite from this game is used in the Super Mario Bros. 3 game style. When using Princess Peach and Shy Guy as Costume Mario, various sound effects from this game are used.
 * Super Mario Bros. 3: The second game style is based on this game. The Course World menu music and 100 Mario Challenge map music are both remixes of the Grass Land map theme. Using the boss battle SFX in the Super Mario Bros. game style will make the Hammer Bros. battle music from this game play. The P-switch theme in this game style is also from this game. The Toad sprite that appears when beating 10/100 Mario Challenge in the Super Mario World style is based on his sprite from this game.
 * Super Mario World: The third game style is based on this game. The map theme for the 10 Mario Challenge is a remix of the main map theme from this game. The credits after clearing a 100 Mario Challenge is a small portion of the Ending Music.
 * Super Mario Kart: The invincible theme from this game is used when the Mario Kart costume uses a Star.
 * Mario Paint: Super Mario Maker is inspired by this game, and thus features similar elements. The game's logo and the interactive title screen is similar to this game's logo and interactive title screen. Gnats will occasionally roam across the screen, and swatting them will trigger the Gnat Attack minigame. A frog icon, used to add sound effects to the level creator, appears on the left in the edit screen, which is the same as the one used in the music composer mode. The eraser icon, Undo Dog, the rocket that deletes everything on the screen, and the robot that appears when saving something in this game also reappear. When selecting a level to play in Super Mario Maker, the screen used is also based off of the robot. The two people that appear in the presentation before starting the game reappear on the loading screen for the Course World.
 * Super Mario 64: The Wing Cap and Metal Cap themes are used for Gold Mario's and Silver Mario's invincibility.
 * New Super Mario Bros.: Mega Mario is mentioned in the digital manual, when describing what the Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary amiibo does.
 * New Super Mario Bros. Wii: The fanfare of beating 10/100 Mario Challenge (Easy) when in the New Super Mario Bros. U style is the fanfare of rescuing disguised Kamek.
 * New Super Mario Bros. U: The fourth game style is based on this game.
 * Super Mario 3D World: When clearing a 10/100 Mario Challenge in a Toad costume, Toad will address Mario as "Captain", referring to Captain Toad.

References in other games

 * Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U: A stage based on Super Mario Maker will release on September 30th, 2015 as downloadable content for both versions of the game.

Trivia

 * On very rare occasions, when falling into a pit, the death jingle is replaced by a much longer sound clip; one of them is of Mario falling and landing at the bottom, shaking himself off and jumping back to the top, getting into a car, laughing and yelling, "Bye bye!" and then driving off. Undo Dog, the budgie that records the player's voice and a gnat are also heard following Mario.
 * When placing an object onto the stage, a distorted voice will say the name of said object (e.g. "Pipe" for placing/adjusting a Warp Pipe), which will correspond in tone with the stage's music.