Free Mario Paint Composer for Windows and Mac; Mario Does John Cage
Hidden as an extra, Mario Paint Composer was one of the first software creations to meld music creation with game. It’s been a novelty favorite among 8-bit fans — not really a serious tool, but a curiosity nonetheless. But that requires a copy of Mario Paint. Now you can get the Mario-infected goodness on your Mac or Windows machine, free. (Thanks, Wally!)
Mario Paint Composer [unFun Games]
The Mac software link is broken, so here’s a direct Mac download link (thanks, Hunter!)
It’s not really about Mario Paint Composer the tool, though. For some strange reason, this creation has inspired endless musical oddities, uploaded to YouTube. Witness, for instance, a somewhat randomly-chosen musical cue from the TV show Lost. (Composer Michael Giacchino’s work is lush and brilliant, missing out on the Oscar this year for Ratatouille. Here, however, in 8-bit glory it sounds like a theme from a B-grade action adventure game for SNES. I’m fairly sure I was lost in a jungle playing that at one point.)
The pièce de résistance?
Mario’s rendition of John Cage’s 4′33".
If you have any source of stress this weekend, any difficulty sleeping just keep watching … Mario … run …
All is well.
I wonder which compression codec they used to upload the sound to YouTube? The silence is really pristine — almost sounds analog.
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Leave a Commentdead_red_eyes
Haha, I love the 4′33″ cover. Looking forward to giving this a go this weekend. I used to love messing around with this years ago when I still had Mario Paint and my Super Nintendo.
April 19, 2008 @ 10:19 pm
Adrian Anders
Awesome. Mario Paint was my very first introduction to music sequencing. I remember taping a composition I made for a school art project. It was one of my fondest memories of my elementary years.
April 20, 2008 @ 12:03 am
hunter19
Hi MAC afficinados
if you want to download the MAC version, use this link
http://www.unfungames.com/mariopaint/mariopaintcomposeosx.zip
as the link on the website points to the PC version as well
Regards
hunter19
April 20, 2008 @ 1:07 am
Techbot
4′33″ in 51 seconds!!!!!!! oh what is the world coming to?
4′33″ LE ???
April 20, 2008 @ 4:47 am
peter
also the program comes with all the samples, so you can mangle it in a “real sequencer”
April 20, 2008 @ 8:09 am
gwenhwyfaer
Er, is that last link (”almost sounds analog”) supposed to be pointing to http://createdigitalmusic.com/wp-content/themes/cdm/images/nav_link.gif ?
April 20, 2008 @ 9:57 am
Peter Kirn
@gwenhwyfaer: Nope. Nope it’s not. Fixed.
@peter: brilliant! Presence of the samples definitely makes this worth downloading…
April 20, 2008 @ 10:21 am
Klangfreund
download link for mac:
http://www.unfungames.com/mariopaint/mariopaintcomposerosx.zip
April 20, 2008 @ 10:36 am
Ryan
Does this still have that popup ad built in when you close the program? I used to play around with this but decided to just use an emulator with the actual mario paint game instead, since it didn’t have any unwanted advertisement.
April 20, 2008 @ 11:04 am
BirdFLU
klangfreud’s link works, hunter19’s does not (forgot the r on composer).
April 21, 2008 @ 1:19 am
(noou)
Mario rocks! er..
April 21, 2008 @ 2:17 am
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April 22, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
shaaac
@Ryan there is still a popup advertisement. It’s quite annoying.
May 6, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
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