Free 8-Bit Music App – Mario Paint Composer

20Apr08

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Mario Paint Composer is a remake of the music system from the original Mario Paint for the Super NES. It is a free music application made by unFun Games. It’s available for both Windows and Mac.

It’s a pretty limited app – but that’s part of the fun. Here’s the Mario Paint version of Bohemian Rhapsody, as an example:

via CDM

Tags: Free Music Software, music games, NES

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63196 Responses2008-04-20+21%3A32%3A38synthhead to “Free 8-Bit Music App – Mario Paint Composer”

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1 two_ears_good on Apr 20th, 2008 said:

So why is it called an 8-bit music app?
2 synthhead on Apr 20th, 2008 said:

It’s emulating the sound generation of the NES – an 8-bit gaming system.
3 fatty on May 8th, 2008 said:

is this copy written?
4 Dylan on May 15th, 2008 said:

Mario Paint was 16-bit.

But that doesn’t change the awesomeness here.
5 DontAsk on Jun 20th, 2008 said:

MPC is pretty cool, but the 5 note-per-beat limit sorta stinks…

I’m trying to make a song called Broken Wings from Trinity Blood by using the sheet music…. the
6 Katie on Oct 17th, 2008 said:

If you think the five-note limit is onerous, you should see the original SNES game – three notes per beat, one octave, no accidentals.

Also, if any other Linux users find their way here, there’s no native Linux version of MPC (yet?), but at least the Windows one seems to work fine in Wine.

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