Team 0%
| Team 0% | |
|---|---|
| File:Team-zeropercent-logo.png | |
| Type of project | Clearing all user-created levels in Super Mario Maker and Super Mario Maker 2. |
| Established | December 2017 |
| Status | Super Mario Maker: Complete Super Mario Maker 2: Active |
| Website | Super Mario Maker: issmmbeatenyet Super Mario Maker 2: mm2 |
Team Zero Percent (stylized as Team 0%) is a community project with the aim to ensure that every user-made course in Super Mario Maker and Super Mario Maker 2 has been completed by at least one person.[1]
The project completed all levels in Super Mario Maker before the Wii U and 3DS online servers shut down in April 2024.[2] As of March 2024, the project's goal is to now clear all uncleared levels in Super Mario Maker 2 created before 2022.
History
The project started when a player compiled a spreadsheet of levels with a zero percent clear rate (meaning nobody online had cleared the level) in Super Mario Maker and shared it on Reddit. Players online then created a Discord server dedicated to clearing all levels on the spreadsheet.[1]
In March 2021, Nintendo suspended new uploads to Super Mario Maker, making it realistically possible to clear every level.[3] Attention from streamers continued to grow the project's popularity.[1] By February 2023, there were only 41,113 uncleared levels.[4]
In October 2023, Nintendo announced the closure of their online services for the Wii U and 3DS, including Super Mario Maker. Following this announcement, a significant number of players joined the ongoing effort to clear the remaining uncleared levels in the game before the online services were shut down, as the levels would no longer be accessible.[5][6]
With a deadline of April 8, 2024 and a consistent list of uncleared levels, players rapidly began clearing levels. Four weeks after the shutdown announcement, the team cleared 7,384 more levels, with less than 25,000 levels remaining.[1] By March 5, 2024, 178 levels remained.[5]
On March 15, 2024, the last level was cleared. It was believed that another level, "Trimming the Herbs", remained until a week later when the creator of that level revealed that it was uploaded using a tool-assisted superplay, excluding it from being a "legitimate level".[7]
As of March 2024, Team Zero Percent plans to continue clearing all levels in Super Mario Maker 2.[1]
Rules
Levels considered necessary for clearing are humanly possible levels. Levels uploaded using cheats that are impossible or not uploaded legitimately were excluded.[7] Similarly, levels that were possible with glitches that were later patched in software updates of the game and can’t be beaten in an unintended way were not counted as clearable. Most of these have been deleted by Nintendo.[1][3]
For a level to be considered "cleared", the level must be cleared legitimately without cheats or external tools.[1] They cannot be cleared by the creator of the level, as the game does not recognize that as a level being cleared.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Plant, Logan (2024-03-18). "Inside the Multi-Year Quest to Finish Every Single Mario Maker Level Before the Servers Close for Good". IGN. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
- ^ Davis, Wes (2024-03-23). "Congratulations to Team 0%!". The Verge. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ a b Orland, Kyle (2024-03-19). "The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ "There are only 178 levels left to overcome in 'Super Mario Maker'… and one month to achieve it". Softonic. March 7, 2024.
- ^ a b Dustin Bailey (2024-03-05). "Super Mario Maker players are 99.62% of the way to beating every single level - and they've only got a month left to clear 178 of the most devious platformer levels ever made". gamesradar. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ Shutler, Ali (2024-03-01). "Fans are trying to beat every level of 'Super Mario Maker' before server shutdown". NME. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ a b Dustin Bailey (2024-03-22). "After 280,000 attempts, the final level of Super Mario Maker turns out to be a fake, and now players can start celebrating a victory they already achieved a week ago". gamesradar. Retrieved 2024-03-23.