Just tap the button, sync the requisite Joy-Con and you're hot to trot. Hard to miss now, whether you're on the Course World or Coursebot menu screen. From here select 'Network Play' and you'll see new options to 'Play with friends' by creating or joining a room. If you wish to play online against friends in Super Mario Maker 2, go to Course World (this can be accessed at any time by hitting the '+' button and (predictably) tapping on 'Course World'. How do you play online with friends in Super Mario Maker 2? Check out the video below by our resident video guru and all-round lovely chap Alex to get a better idea. They're not 'hidden', per se, but you may well spend a few minutes hunting around menus to find what you're looking for, especially if you didn't play the original Super Mario Maker.Īfter testing the new update, connection issues and lag seem to have been addressed to a certain extent, too. Some power-ups or options are playfully hidden in the editor, but it can be frustrating when other more fundamental modes aren't immediately or obviously accessible. Super Mario Maker 2 is a wonderful and incredibly versatile 2D Mario sandbox, but it sometimes has a strange way of doing the simplest things. There have also been tweaks to streamline how local multiplayer is accessed, and you'll find all the details below.

An update for Super Mario Maker 2 means that you can now play online with friends - we're here to show you how to get it set up as painlessly as possible.

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