Mario Paint

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General

Release Date: Aug. 1, 1992
Genre: Creativity
Publisher/Developer: Nintendo
System: Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Peripherals: SNES Mouse

Background

Mario Paint is essentially a tool where you can draw things, play the "Coffee Break" minigame, and compose music using certain "instruments", such as a Gameboy or a cat. Ultimately, although this game targets artistic talent, it is used primarily for its music feature. If you look on YouTube, you can find many Mario Paint videos for famous songs, such as Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain", Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", and of course, Mario's theme song.

Features

• A painting canvas, which includes:
  
  • 30 individual colors
  • 75 stamps
  • 15 customizable stamps
  • 60 textures or patterns
  • 9 different erasers
    
• A music composing program
• A minigame called "Coffee Break", or "Gnat Attack"
  
  

Trivia

• If you click on the "O" in "MARIOPAINT" on the title screen, the "O" will explode, and the infamous Totakeke Song will begin playing.

Information

Tool bar

All tools you use will be on the tool bar.

Pens

There are 3 sized different size pens. The small pen is good for detail but the larger pens write smoothly.

Mario Icon

Clicking on this will enable the stamp function. There are many stamps that come with Mario paint such as Yoshi and Mario. Click on Mr. Crayon until you come to the stamps. Also you can use these in animations and pictures.

Airbrush

This tool sprays paint onto the drawing board, you can make some good patterns with it.

Circle Icon

Clicking this takes you to a box of templates where you can use to draw circles.

Paint Brush

This is quicker and more accurate than the paint brush. Use this tool extensively.

Copy

Use the hand to draw a box around the object. Next time you click on the screen the image will be pasted.

Undodog

This undos your last move

Using Original Art

This is where you can draw something and it can move. For instance on screen one you might draw Mario with his eyes open and in the second screen you may draw him with his eyes shut.

Stamps

Stamp Making

This is where you can make stamps. You can save them and load previous ones. You can edit existing ones also.

Using Stamps

This is simple, for instance you ou can make Mario running by putting his head in the
same place in all four screens using the hand mechanism, and then attach feet to each one. First scene: feet together. Second: feet apart. Third: feet together. Fourth: feet apart.

Path Making

This is where you can add animations on to a screen with a background.

Music

This is where you make music, go to the piano icon to do it. You can make you song 3/4 or 4/4 time, and up to 24 measures or so.


Mario - piano
Mushroom - drum
Flower - horn
Star - xylophone? handbells?
Yoshi - Yoshi sound
Gameboy - electronic tone
Dog - woof
Cat - meow
Pig - grunt
Face -  ???
Boat - more drums
Plane - acoustic guitar
Heart - bass
Swan - string hit
Car - organ

Animation and Composition

This is where you can create brief animation with a coloured background and music.

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Major portions of this page were written by: Chad