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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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.
Hi MAC afficinados
if you want to download the MAC version, use this link
http://www.unfungames.com/mariopaint/mariopaintco…
as the link on the website points to the PC version as well
Regards
hunter19
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.
also the program comes with all the samples, so you can mangle it in a "real sequencer"
@gwenhwyfaer: Nope. Nope it's not. Fixed.
@peter: brilliant! Presence of the samples definitely makes this worth downloading…
download link for mac:
http://www.unfungames.com/mariopaint/mariopaintco…
4’33″ in 51 seconds!!!!!!! oh what is the world coming to?
4’33″ LE ???
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.
Er, is that last link (“almost sounds analog”) supposed to be pointing to http://createdigitalmusic.com/wp-content/themes/cdm/images/nav_link.gif ?
klangfreud's link works, hunter19's does not (forgot the r on composer).
Mario rocks! er..
@Ryan there is still a popup advertisement. It's quite annoying.
hey this pretty cool
Mario Paint 8-bit?? I thought Super Nintendo was 16-bit???
Super NES was 16-bit not 8!!!!
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.
This is a great way to make music and learn.
i like mario walking on music emoticons
……………….COOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!
go to unfun.ney and click download on the the top
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How do make notes sharp/flat?? I REALLY need to know this, so please HELP!!!
I packed up the soundfont in a reason refill. http://www.synthesizers.se/2009/03/24/mario-paint…
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.
COOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!:-D
how i make "b" and "#" on mario paint
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.
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=[
I downloaded this and extracted the files. But it says that some movie playlist thing not located. someone help?
warum geht es bei mir nicht???????????'
I downloaded this and extracted the files. But it says that some playlist thing not located.
so cool
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I'm your guy! I wanna download it but it has an error and i can't close it! WTF somebody help!
why cant i play it?
i have windows xp
I Love That Song.
i would like to freakin try it
PLZ TELL ME HOW TO CHANGE THE NOTES BLAHHH
I WANT TO PLAY DIFFERENT SONGS
PLZ TELL ME HOW TO CHANGE THE NOTES
how
why
i dont know but thats cool
holy crap
im autisac
im 9 years old and i know how to make music
stupid game wont let create songs i love this game
It says that there is a player script error.Can you tell me why it says that?
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.
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
…computer i did a virus check an there wernt any LOL
this download sounds fail
I already have Mario Paint Composer 2.0 on my Mac, it's awesome! I'm having some trouble with opening the program after using it the first time. Initially, it works great (other than the script error message that I click to start the program), but once I close it, I can't open the program again by clicking the script error message. My crappy solution has been using the zip file to open a "new program" every time I want to play. My stuff I've saved always works, but it's still annoying. Is anyone else having this problem?
@bunnygal_69 Just because the Main Processor is 16-bit does not mean the sound circuits are. And, a 16 bit device can do 8-bit sound. The SNES had an 8-bit Sony processor used to process sound with a 16-bit Digital Signal Processor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Enter…
lol i oughtta make a song named Doraemon
airplanes suck!
Omg i tryed playing it after exctracted the files but it STILL wont work how do i right a script for it…
zomg who has that downloaded
How do I upgrade it to 2.0?
how do you get mario composer
Dood this is so cool. I considered putting all my creations on YouTube so I think all you guys should look for them. One is the thriller by mike j. Farewell mike!
If you want a cool icon get a gravitar! Weirdo
The Windows version is broken. I download it and then when I try to run it I get an error that says something about an .ini file being missing.
[...] creation tool – Reason, my nostalgia would get the best of me and I would mess around on Mariopaint composer, a little program which recreates the music making experience of Mariopaint with a few extra [...]
looking to his painting i found it that in every stroke of this brush has a unique character.
looking to his painting i found it that in every stroke of the brush has a unique characteristic. i nerve saw it before.
looking to his painting i found it that in every stroke of the brush has a unique characteristic. i nerve saw it before. i was good.
i can not download this the error is i must sominthing first instal i do no what that is
It wont let me run it. It says i'm missing the .INI file =/ and i really want to play this, is there another good download that has everything it needs to run? If not, i'm going to causing lightning strikes to every house till I do >:D lol juskiddins
Hey guys please send me a Email:
Where can i download that editor?
thx
i mean for a composition
Can some1 help me i dont no wat im doing wrong when i download it i download it run it then click on it and it says theres an error
I hacked it with cheat engine lol now the tempo goes like 999999999 that what i put for the value lol
Mario does battle Poe too.
http://micr0lab.org/mu0l_0038/
An epic battle between Mario paint composer, NRJ Kellogs Mix master and the IXI softwares…
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T C R X T
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