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Two more items have been added to Nintendo’s maintenance schedule for the week. Wii U and 3DS is up first, followed by Super Mario Maker.

Here’s the full schedule:

Wii U / 3DS

– 9 PM PT (Tuesday) – 1 AM PT (Tuesday)
– 12 AM ET (Wednesday) – 4 AM ET (Wednesday)
– 5 AM in the UK (Wednesday) – 9 AM in the UK (Wednesday)
– 6 AM in Europe (Wednesday) – 10 AM in Europe (Wednesday)

Super Mario Maker

– 6 PM PT (Wednesday) – 8 PM PT (Wednesday)
– 9 PM ET (Wednesday) – 11 PM ET (Wednesday)
– 2 AM in the UK (Thursday) – 4 AM in the UK (Thursday)
– 3 AM in Europe (Thursday) – 5 AM in Europe (Thursday)

When this maintenance is taking place, all online services will be impacted.

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Polygon has put up the latest video in its “Devs Make Mario” series. In today’s feature, Kenji Saito from PlatinumGames creates a level in the game. View it below.

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Since Super Mario Maker came out last year, some players have been affected by levels that have been removed by Nintendo or courses that have just disappeared for seemingly inexplicable reasons. The company’s support page now has new guidelines covering deletions. Admittely though, they won’t help all users determine why their creations were taken down.

Nintendo’s guidelines cover a few main topics. These include low stars, levels with bugs, requesting stars from others, and inappropriate content. You can read the full guidelines below.

• Low stars/plays
  • After a fixed period of time, courses with low stars/plays will be automatically deleted from the server.

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Super Mario Maker has received a new update, bringing the game to version 1.42. Nintendo says of the patch: “A number of issues have been fixed to make for a more pleasant gaming experience.”

354MB of free space is needed to download the update. Note that it’s required in order to access online features.

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Polygon has put up the latest video in its “Devs Make Mario” series. In today’s feature, Mega Man producer Keiji Inafune creates a level in the game. View it below.

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Super Mario Maker has plenty of Easter eggs. Today, GameXplain came across one that hasn’t been talked about too much involving the Spike Trap object. You can see what it’s all about in the video below.

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This week’s Nintendo Minute has now been uploaded to Nintendo’s YouTube page. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta sit down with SethBling for a Super Mario Maker play session. Check out the new Nintendo Minute below.

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Super Mario Maker’s newest Event Course and costume are live. Once you complete the “Starfy: Prince of Pufftop” level, you’ll unlock an outfit based on the character.

Here’s the Event Course description:

The legendary Starfy has discovered a mysterious lift in Pufftop Palace, his royal home in the skies, and riding it has landed him in the world of Super Mario Maker. “This is freakin’ me out… I wanna go home!’ Can our hero avoid the aquatic baddies and reach his goal safely? Go, Starfy, go!

And here’s a playthough of the level:

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Yesterday, Nintendo held a special event for kids at the San Francisco Public Library to teach kids about the basics of video game design. Special workshops were hosted by Nintendo game experts in which they were introduced to level design using Super Mario Maker.

According to the company, “Kids were split into groups and given hands-on time with the game and shown the ins and outs of video game level design”. They were also “encouraged to work together to design their own courses in the game, producing some remarkably creative results.”

Super Mario Maker players can play through one of the created levels by entering the following code in the game’s Course World: E02B-0000-020F-B9DA. It can also be found by visiting the Super Mario Maker Bookmark site.

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Starfy has been revealed as the latest costume addition in Super Mario Maker. After completing a new Event Course later this week, players will be able to obtain the new outfit.

Here’s a trailer for Starfy:

Starfy is going to be available in Japan starting on April 1, so it’ll probably be available in North America on March 31 during the evening.

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