Super Mario Maker 2 how to play other people’s levels

In addition to making your own levels, Super Mario Maker 2 also lets you dive into online courses and our how to play other people’s levels tutorial will show you exactly what you need to do. This will give you access to a massive batch of new levels to test your skills on, giving the game the kind of replay value that is pretty much unmatched outside of the realms of Minecraft or or big MMOs.

The first game in the series came out on the Wii U, which is widely regarded as one of Nintendo’s least popular consoles, despite it being a lot of fun and a strong pre-curser to might of the Switch. Despite the low unit sales of the console, Super Mario Maker was still a big hit and resulted in excess of 7 million levels being created.

The Nintendo Switch is far more popular than the Wii U, so SMM 2 will have even more players than the original, so if anything there are going to be even more other people’s levels to try. A conservative estimate would be in the region of 20 million levels being created for Super Mario Maker 2, so it’s going to provide a lot of game time over the years.

How to find and download other people’s levels

When you first start in the game, you’re probably going to focus a lot of your time on either Story Mode, where you learn how to make levels and Make Mode where you create them yourself. However, there will come a time when you’ll want to play other people’s levels and you can follow the steps below to get started:

1. Firstly, you’ll need a Nintendo Online account to be able to download courses.
2. One you have that you need to start from the Make Mode screen. If you’re not in Make Mode you can get to it by pressing the – button on the top of the left Joy-Con controller.
3. From the Make Mode screen bring up the main menu either by pressing the + button on the top of the right Joy-Con controller or by navigating over to it using the analogue stick and pressing A (it’s the yellow box with three lines on it over on the right hand side of the screen).
4. In the main menu, scroll down and select Course World, which is the second to last option in the main list, just above Coursebot.
5. This will open up Course World where you can see the levels that other people have created. You can obviously navigate around using the analogue stick to get to the different options available in Course World.
6. Search for levels that you’re interested in and use the star rating system to help you decide which ones you want to download.
7. Once you’re happy with your selection, confirm to download the level to Coursebot.
8. You can choose as many courses as you want, but storage space might be a consideration if you’re planning on a big haul.

You can find out more about Super Mario Maker 2 at Nintendo, and you can follow along with the the latest from Nintendo with the official Twitter page at twitter.com/NintendoAmerica.

How to play other people’s levels

Once you’ve downloaded some Super Mario Maker 2courses, you then need to follow the steps below to be able to play them:

1. Return to the Main Menu following steps 1 and 2 above.
2. This time choose Coursebot, which is the last entry in the list.
3. In Coursebot, you’ll start out on the My Courses page, but you need to press up and select Downloaded Courses to see the levels that you picked out earlier.
4. Use the analogue stick to navigate the area and move to the level that you want to play. Press A and click Play on the following screen to start to play the level.

More Super Mario Maker 2 hints and tips

You can see more hints, tips and info on the game right here at Tuppence Magazine, including how to play as Luigi, how to make a troll level and how to make big enemies. It’s a part of our wider Super Mario Maker 2 guide, but if there’s something that you’re struggling to do you can drop us a comment at www.facebook.com/TuppenceMagazine/.

You can also see more details on all of the enemies in the game and how to save a level and upload it online once you’ve created it.