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
shaaac
@Ryan there is still a popup advertisement. It’s quite annoying.
May 6, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
lola
hey this pretty cool :D
June 3, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
bunnygal_69
Mario Paint 8-bit?? I thought Super Nintendo was 16-bit???
October 6, 2008 @ 3:31 am
bunnygal_69
Super NES was 16-bit not 8!!!!
October 6, 2008 @ 3:36 am
Aidan
If you want to bring in all your old Mario Paint 1x songs all you need to do is copy your prefs folder from version 1 into this folder.
December 20, 2008 @ 5:32 pm
Hobo
This is a great way to make music and learn.
December 29, 2008 @ 12:44 am
ynno
i like mario walking on music emoticons
January 16, 2009 @ 6:59 pm
Sora
……………….COOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!
March 1, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
Sora
go to unfun.ney and click download on the the top
March 1, 2009 @ 9:29 pm
Sora
*unfun.net*
March 1, 2009 @ 9:29 pm
Tobi's A Good Boy!
How do make notes sharp/flat?? I REALLY need to know this, so please HELP!!!
March 23, 2009 @ 6:09 pm
erik
I packed up the soundfont in a reason refill. http://www.synthesizers.se/2009/03/24/mario-paint-reason-refill/
March 24, 2009 @ 4:32 pm
Wow
wow, you guys asking for a download sure are genius.
If you read the article, maybe you’d see that there’s a link to the website in it already.
March 25, 2009 @ 5:58 am
Helzo
COOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!:-D
April 3, 2009 @ 3:58 pm
how
how i make “b” and “#” on mario paint
April 13, 2009 @ 7:36 am
Swamp
Yo, how! To make flats(b) you hold ctrl and then enter the note, to make sharps(#) you hold shift and then enter the note.
May 8, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
dbob
well to make a sharp you hold down shift and make a note and for a flat you hold down control. and for the people who keep getting script errors, it is when you click somewhere or perform an operation that the program didn’t account for in its programming, and therefore it erases your entire file. it sucks because there is no way to get your file back that i know of yet. you just have to not use that file again and make a new one=[
May 14, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
drumboy1313
I downloaded this and extracted the files. But it says that some movie playlist thing not located. someone help?
July 1, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
blabla
warum geht es bei mir nicht???????????’
August 2, 2009 @ 12:49 am
orochimaru1236
I downloaded this and extracted the files. But it says that some playlist thing not located.
August 3, 2009 @ 1:22 pm
fofa
so cool
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August 8, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
michael
I’m your guy! I wanna download it but it has an error and i can’t close it! WTF somebody help!
August 15, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
blabla2
why cant i play it?
i have windows xp
September 20, 2009 @ 8:15 pm
ian
I Love That Song.
September 23, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
hunter
i would like to freakin try it
October 25, 2009 @ 10:04 pm
Cyndaquil
PLZ TELL ME HOW TO CHANGE THE NOTES BLAHHH
November 19, 2009 @ 12:08 am
Cyndaquil
I WANT TO PLAY DIFFERENT SONGS
PLZ TELL ME HOW TO CHANGE THE NOTES
November 19, 2009 @ 12:10 am
hunter
how
November 24, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
hunter
why
i dont know but thats cool
holy crap
November 24, 2009 @ 5:57 pm
hunter
im autisac
November 24, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
hunter
im 9 years old and i know how to make music
November 26, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
hunter
stupid game wont let create songs i love this game
December 5, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
bryce
It says that there is a player script error.Can you tell me why it says that?
February 19, 2010 @ 7:42 pm
Melanie
Is there a way I can copy my song to a CD? I wrote something as a part of a school assignment and I need to get it to my teacher.
February 21, 2010 @ 10:16 pm
not telling my name
yeah on another computer i downloaded this game it said “100%virus free”, 2 days later i got a virus on the computer.I have a new
March 19, 2010 @ 1:07 pm
not telling my name
…computer i did a virus check an there wernt any LOL
March 19, 2010 @ 1:09 pm
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