Hidden Street is MapleStory Classic's catch-all region classification, used internally for any map that does not belong to one of the named continents or sub-regions. It is not a geographic place that players can travel to as a unit; it is the bucket that holds every map the world map's biome tree has nothing else to do with.
The classification matters because the wiki indexes maps by their declared region. A map left without a region falls out of region-based lists and queries; tagging it as Hidden Street puts it back into a discoverable category alongside the other unclassified maps, without lying about where it sits in the game's geography.
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What counts as Hidden Street
The Hidden Street label appears in two distinct kinds of maps:
- Hub and utility maps that exist outside the normal world geography. The Free Market Entrance is the canonical example: it is reached through dedicated portals in Perion and Henesys Market, but it does not sit on any continent as a discoverable plot of land. It is a shared, instance-flavoured social space that every server-wide player visits, so classifying it under any single continent would misrepresent what it is.
- Genuinely hidden maps: secret training spots, event arenas, GM rooms, and the small back rooms reached through unmarked portals on otherwise normal maps. These are deliberately undocumented in-game and have no "address" on the world map; Hidden Street is the only honest classification available.
The label comes directly from the game's own data. Every map in MapleStory has an internal "street name" string in its WZ entry, normally set to the named district the map belongs to (Victoria Road, Henesys Park, Cloud Park, etc.). Maps that have no such district are tagged "Hidden Street" by the data team, and the wiki carries the label through unchanged.
Editorial guidance
When creating a map page, pick the region the way the game does:
- If the map sits visibly inside a named continent and connects to that continent's town network, use that continent's region (Maple Island, Victoria Island, Ossyria).
- If the map is a hub, a secret, an event map, or anything else without a clear geographic home, use Hidden Street.
- Do not invent "Other" or "Misc" as a region. The previous auto-import pass used "Other" as a placeholder for maps the scraper could not classify; those should all be retagged to Hidden Street as they are revisited.
Notable Hidden Street maps
- Free Market Entrance: the player-to-player trading lobby, reached from Perion and Henesys Market.
See also
- Free Market: the most visible Hidden Street system on the wiki
- Maple Island · Victoria Island · Ossyria: the three named continents Hidden Street is the complement to
- World map: the illustrated chart of the Maple World, and how to read it.