Super Mario Maker gets mid-level checkpoints on November 5th

Nintendo has just announced that Super Mario Maker will be getting a huge update on November 5th. The update will include the ability to add mid-level checkpoints to courses. You’ll be able to edit and retrofit your old courses with these checkpoints as well as including them in new stages. There will be a limited of two checkpoints per level.

The update will allow you to insert power-ups that are dependent on Mario’s status. Nintendo uses the following example;

By attaching a Super Mushroom to a Fire Flower and placing it inside a block, Mario will receive the Super Mushroom when he is small, and the Fire Flower when he is large.

The update also adds an Event Courses section not the games Course World online section. This will feature courses made by people outside of Nintendo, this is where the ‘Ship Love’ stage that the staff at Facebook created earlier in the year.

New event courses will continue to be added over time, including ones with Mystery Mushroom transformations. Think Nintendo is hinting that themed stages there.

We’ve also learned that the update for the game will drop on November 5th at 10am local Japan time. That’s around lunch time on the 5th for Australia in the Eastern States and 9am for the west.