Online

This page is for information on the online menu of Mega Man Maker. For information on the cooperative online building feature of the Level Builder, see Build Online.

The online feature of Mega Man Maker allows players to play uploaded levels that have been created in the Level Builder.

To access the online features of Mega Man Maker, the player must first input their account password. Once the password has been inputted correctly, the player can play levels uploaded to the Mega Man Maker server and upload their own levels. To ensure that the level is solvable, the level must be beaten by its creator before it can be uploaded. As of version 1.8.5.2, a user can upload no more than 420 levels.

In 1.7.0, the server received an overhaul in order to optimize the user experience and loading. Many online features were either added or changed.

Email verification and password reset options were added in order to facilitate account recovery options and to discourage alternate accounts.
Instead of an overall score that is the difference between the likes and dislikes for a level, both values are shown separately. Levels are also graded by quality based on the number of likes and dislikes.
Level searching received more options to narrow down results.
Levels can be reported if they are offensive, inappropriate, unbeatable, stolen, or for other reasons mentioned by a user. Level moderators also received special tools to deal with reports.
Server space was increased resulting in more levels that can be uploaded by a user.
The number of deaths in a level are recorded to calculate the difficulty rating of a level for the difficulty options of the Wily Challenge game mode.
A level can only be uploaded every 30 minutes.

For more information on the server rewrite and API documentation, see this.

The user level upload limit was increased from 10 to 20 in 1.2.0, 30 in 1.7.0, 50 in 1.7.1, 75 in 1.7.2, and 100 in 1.7.4. The limit was increased in the server side to 420 in 1.8.0.

In 1.8.0 the server was updated to include level tags, but its implementation in the game's code was postponed.

Due to the overhaul, the team opened a position for level moderators to receive level reports and delete problematic levels. The discussion for level moderation is done in private channels in the public Discord server.

Options

Play: Brings the user to a menu where they can find uploaded levels to play, or play the Wily Challenge game mode
My Profile: List the user's account statistics and uploaded levels
Upload: Allows the user to go through the process of uploading a level to the server
Back: Exits the Online Menu and returns the user to the Main Menu

Features

Play levels that have been uploaded to Mega Man Maker's server
Like and dislike levels after playing them at least once, regardless if completed or not
Upload a level, and have it accessible by others on the server
Download a level for offline use
Search for levels via keywords and level ID
Sort levels by a variety of parameters
Play the Wily Challenge game mode

Level Search

The level search allows the player to look for levels by title. The search contains words that should appear in the title of the level, ignoring common words like "a", "the" or "in".^[1] Since version 1.7.0, the player can also use symbols to search for level titles with particular parameters:

Include (+ or no symbol): Search for levels that contain a particular query
- e.g. mega man searches for levels that contain both "mega" and "man"
Exclude (- or !): Search for levels that exclude a query
- e.g. mega -wily searches for levels that contain "mega" and excludes levels that contain "wily"
Alternate (* or ?): Search for levels that contain at least one of the specified queries
- e.g. mega ?wily ?light ?cossack searches for levels that contain "mega" and at least one of "wily", "light" or "cossack"
Sequence >: Search for levels that contain two or more queries in the specified order
- e.g. metal>man searches for levels that contain "metal man" as two words in that order
Multiple (,): Search for levels that contain multiple queries
- e.g. mega man, dr. wily searches for levels that either contain "mega" and "man", or contain "dr" and "wily"

Symbols between words or parts can be repeated, like a>b>c or a b, c d, e, and also strung together, like metal man, metal>man.

Sort Function

The player can sort the level list by one of nine categories. All sort functions except "Random" can also be used in conjunction with the level search to further narrow down search results. Levels are automatically sorted by "Newest" when opening the "Find Levels" tab for the first time after opening the game.

As a result of the server overhaul in version 1.7.0, the "Best Quality" option was added.

The nine categories to sort by are:

Newest: Loads the latest levels uploaded to the server
Most popular: Loads levels uploaded in the past seven days with the best quality rating
Oldest: Loads the oldest levels uploaded to the server
Best quality: Loads levels overall with the best quality rating
Best rating: Loads levels overall with the highest score
Worst rating: Loads levels overall with the lowest score
Most played: Loads levels overall with the most amount of plays
Least played: Loads levels overall with the least amount of plays
Random: Loads a random list of levels. The level list is randomized every time the menu is changed or the option is selected.