It’s a larger pattern of ignoring an overlooked key to Mario Maker’s success, especially in the months and years after most folks have moved onto other games. Nintendo doesn’t talk about this part of the community. The whole, very good video of CarlSagan42 playing Psycrow’s experiments is right here. Psycrow has essentially pulled off a romhack on Nintendo’s own hardware and software. The scaling of items to sizes much larger (or smaller) than is officially allowed. The ability to swap bodies with enemies and suddenly have their movesets. Psychedelic effects that completely distort the screen.
A level that stretches that stretches on forever, breaking the size limits set by Nintendo. Piles of poo that dance across the screen like goombas. This is because while Psycrow enjoys discovering glitches that can be shared with everyone-see, the notorious black hole glitch where items stack on one another and infinitely clone-he also delights in straight up hacking the game. Wait, shipped? As it turns out, this is the second time Psycrow had shipped a piece of hardware to CarlSagan42-last time it was a Wii U. Psycrow got on my radar again after noticing he shipped a Switch to Mario Maker streamer CarlSagan42, someone with a knack for making (and beating) troll-y levels. Admittedly, those tools often broke the game in hilarious ways, like exceeding the enemy limit and allowing designers to dump infinite Bowsers into a level, which is why Nintendo kept their distance. Long after Nintendo stopped updating the original Mario Maker, Psycrow, whose day job involves billing issues between hospitals and insurance companies, was still mining the game for glitches, exploits, and other ways to give designers new tools. “Harmless glitches, whenever you can even guess what Nintendo considers a glitch, only add to the possibilities and variety of levels, and don't take anything away from them,” said Psycrow, one of Mario Maker’s most infamous creators, known for trying to evade Nintendo’s banhammer while simultaneously enriching the community he was being chased out of. If anything, it’s only emboldened the romhacking scene’s most dedicated creators to bring their expertise to Nintendo’s official level creator in a format where a potential audience of millions could experience their work.
But the arrival of Mario Maker, essentially a Nintendo-blessed canonization of the practice, did not eliminate romhacking from the world.
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