Super Mario Maker’s checkpoint update is now live

The update include this ability to add mid-level checkpoints to courses. You can now edit and retrofit your old courses with these checkpoints as well as including them in new stages. There is a limit of two checkpoints per level.

The update allows you to insert power-ups that are dependent on Mario’s status. Nintendo uses the following example;

By attaching a Super Mushroom to a Fire Flower and placing it inside a block, Mario will receive the Super Mushroom when he is small, and the Fire Flower when he is large.

The update also adds an Event Courses section not the games Course World online section. This will feature courses made by people outside of Nintendo, this is where the ‘Ship Love’ stage that the staff at Facebook created earlier in the year.

New event courses will continue to be added over time, including ones with Mystery Mushroom transformations. Think Nintendo is hinting that themed stages there. Game Center’s leading man Arino also features in this new update with a new costume for Mario.

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