Super Mario Maker's impossible level has been legitimately beaten by Team 0%

After it was revealed that one of the final Super Mario Maker levels on 3DS and Wii U that had never been beaten was cheated, Team 0% went ahead and beat it anyway.

Nintendo announced last year that it would shut down all 3DS and Wii U online servers on April 8, 2024. Since then, Team 0% has been working tirelessly to complete every Super Mario Maker level before those servers go down and the game is unplayable. A month or so ago, they were left with one level to go, Trimming the Herbs, but it was then revealed that the level was cheated and illegitimate. But that didn’t stop the group from completing it.

Trimming the Herbs has been completed without the use of cheats in Super Mario Maker

A couple of weeks ago, Team 0% reached the point where there was just one Super Mario Maker left for it to complete: Trimming the Herbs. The group has been tracking this with a website anyone can check. After Trimming the Herbs gained traction on social media, the original creator, Ahoyoo, published a series of posts explaining how they’d used speedrunning tech to help them complete it and get it uploaded.

For those who don’t know, Super Mario Maker levels can’t be uploaded unless the creator can complete them to avoid any impossible levels hitting the servers. Ahoyoo claims they made this level for competition and intentionally used speedrunning technology, informing the judges of the competition ahead of time, but it was uploaded regardless.

With this win, Team 0% has completed its goal: successfully finishing every user-generated Super Mario Maker level. Whether in some fit of madness or stubbornness, user sanyx91smm2 took it upon themselves to keep trying and finally completed Trimming the Herbs two days before the server shutdown. Their video reaction is priceless and exactly how I’d sound in this situation.

As a result, Team 0%’s website now has a 101% completion rate because, against all odds, it has also added a cheated level to those it completed. This is a true world first because not even this level’s creator could finish it, and I can’t think of a more fitting end to this quest.

Furthermore, if the bounties on this level, which grew greatly before it was revealed to be cheated, are upheld, sanyx91smm2 stands to be paid $2,500 in cash and $1,100 in gift cards alongside a selection of other promised rewards for a human completion of Trimming the Herbs. If you’re curious, this is the full list of all the bounty rewards placed on the level.

• $10 / a month Nitro
• 2 months Nitro
• Tier 3 Gift Sub
• $10
• Steam game ($80 max)
• $100 + $100 vid
• $50
• $20
• $20
• $10 / Amazon gift card
• Bad Rats: The Rat’s Revenge (Steam)
• $50 + $50 vid
• 50 Gift Subs
• Soundodger 2 (Steam)
• $25
• $20
• £19
• Lawn Mowing Simulator (Steam)
• Crash Drive 2 (Steam)
• €10
• $1000
• Doom Eternal DX (Steam)
• $50
• $15
• $1,000 nostalgixtcg.store Gift Card
• $25
• $50 (vid!)
• People Playground (Steam)
• 5 CAD + 10 CAD if all other bounties are paid out
• 1 Year Gift Sub
• DeWalt Herb Trimmer + shipping
• $100 + $100 vid
• $100
• Flowereverie (Steam)
• $10 / Getting Over It (Steam)
• DDLC+ (Steam)
• 12 month gift sub
• $10
• $500 / 50k Twitch Bits (vid!)
• $10/€15 Nintendo e-shop Gift Card
• $5
• $100 (vid!)