Feel free to post any little hidden tricks, cheats or tips you may have found here!
Updated list to easily find some various interesting tips (9-12-14)
Unlock all items on first day:
1. Keep playing around with the editor until you get the notice stating new items will arrive on (Specified day)
Method 1:
2. Quit the game right away, go into system menu and change the day to (Specified day)
3. Restart the game and new items will be unlocked. Repeat steps 1-3 until everything is unlocked.
Method 2:
Place many many objects to have the game deliver it early. One easy method to do this is to enter copy mode (ZL/ZR) and copy a mass amount of blocks over and over through the course.
Shake Everything!
- ton of the items and SE can be shaken to produce a different item/SE.
Fish bones
Dry Bones become Fish Bone in the water themes though they won't change in the editor oddly.
Fly Swatting Game
- If you keep shaking a muncher, eventually three flies will fall out. If you splat all three flies, the minigame will begin. Beating the minigame unlocks the builder mario mystery mushroom costume.
Flaming Cheep Cheeps
-Putting Cheep Cheeps in a castle level causes them to catch fire and bounce across the lava. Flaming Cheep Cheeps can't be jumped on.
Custom Bowser Battles
-If you're planning to customize some bosses, slapping wings onto Bowser Jr. makes him throw hammers and, if he falls off the screen, makes him fly up the screen and then groundpound back down.
So if you want a Bowser that throws hammers like in SMB1, just stack a winged Jr. onto a Bowser and voila.
Putting Bowser into the Clown Car makes him spill out Bob-Ombs, much like what Bowser did in SMW.
Nintendo World Championships 2015 Levels and Luigi Mushroom
-To unlock the four Nintendo World Championships levels, complete the 10 Mario Challenge mode 7 times. Complete all four to unlock the Luigi Mushroom item, which can be used in Course Maker by grabbing and shaking a Super Mushroom. It can only be used in Super Mario Bros. levels.
Homing Thwomp
-A Thwomp in a clown car will still be able to stomp Mario. Because of the clown car's bouncy properties, it'll knock Mario away instead of hurting him. As a bonus, it's somewhat similar to that homing thwomp boss everyone just loves so much.
Reflecting Fireballs
-Want some reflecting fireballs from SMW? Just stick wings on your podoboos!
CRT mode
-When a level is loading, hold down+B+A to activate CRT mode. which basically emulates old tube TV's.
Insert your own Decorations
-Tired of the decorative background objects like trees and bushes only appearing at random? Just select the ground tiles underneath and copy with ZL to create a new tile with the same decoration on top.
Bigger Enemies
Feed a mushroom to almost any enemy to make them bigger. Feeding them again make them temporarily bigger, only for them to sneeze it out and return back to the previous size.
Object Limits
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
Different onscreen stylus
Press R3 (press down on the right control stick like a button).
Master Uploader
If you want to upload more levels, you need to get stars from your levels to earn medals. You get the first medal after you earn one star, but you need 50 stars to get the second medal and the first upload expansion.
Layout by LDA during C3.