Filed under: Fun, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh
Make your own Mario masterpiece with Mario Paint Composer
by Drew Olanoff Jul 2nd 2008
Mario Paint Composer lets you do what you know you've wanted to do all of your life...compose music in the key of Super Mario. You'll remember this from the Super NES days, but everything is way more fun on the computer.This baby is free and it's available for Windows AND Mac and it comes from unFun games. Yay.
Don't have any music writing chops? No problem, neither do we. It makes fun noises and has cool Mario icons. 'Nuff said.
The default song when you load up Mario Paint Composer is a jazzy version of your favorite video game theme song ever. But it's up to you to write the next masterpiece.
And not just any masterpiece, you get to use pigs and cats and hearts.
Best part is that when the app is loaded, everywhere you click on your computer, the sounds follow. I like hearing a nice Yoshi sound when I click on an email or on iChat.
unFun built an interface for you to lo in and download all the songs you want, for your personal listening and partytime enjoyment, but it took forever to log into the system, so we wouldn't hang our hats on that feature.
[via chris pirillo]
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