Thread 11870180

What am I in for?

drawing dicks

Creativity and fly swatting

>>11870180 (OP)
Doing actual painting would have been 1/10 of the price for the game, so why did people buy it? What's the point?

>>11870197
>digital editing
>music composition
>basic animation suite
>presented in a charming fun package

If anything, buying all the materials that would be available with mario paint would cost about as much as the game itself, and you need to restock on art supplies when you inevitably run out.

Kino paintvania / fruityloopslike
https://youtu.be/qCVNnBTmyDk?feature=shared

>>11870197
Probably for the novelty of a first-party non-game featuring Mario that comes with its own mouse. This was before PCs with mouse-driven GUIs had become a mass market. In 1992 they were still mostly boring stodgy productivity appliances for grown-ups.

>>11870197
>T. has never bought quality paint or brushes

>>11870197
Art supplies can run out, a lot of people had an SNES.
So I assume it was the idea of a paint program (with a mouse included) at times where not that many people had a personal computer still. Fun for kids, educational etc
>>11870189
Fucking hell, that's cool. I assume it's kinda hard to draw that well with the mouse tho

>>11870197
Because parents didn't have to worry about a kid spilling mario paint over the carpet, or having to call poison control and say "help, my kid just drank 3 bottles of mario paint!"

>>11870256
good thing he drew it using the d-pad

>>11870262
D-Pad? is it a romhack or a legitimate option in Mario Paint?
actually drawing with the d-pad seems even more hardcore

>>11870256
It's a process of erasing mistakes and getting the general shape of the original work. Apparently the person that drew it mixed colors with custom dithered stamps and made a single pixel stamp for fine details.

>>11870262
>>11870267
They used a mouse, if you want the video I can share it but it's one of those insufferable artsy personalities so, brace yourself. https://youtu.be/jJSx7q-Mt0c?t=6m23s

Why don't you play and find out?
>NOOOOOOOOOOO AS A ZOOMER IT'S SCARY TO PLAY GAMES THAT AREN'T PRE-APPROVED AND PRE-SCANNED AAAAAAAAA I'M GOING INSANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>11870290
I will when it arrives lmao. Calm down boomer, go mow your lawn or something.

>>11870283
What a weird thumbnail desu

>>11870301
It's basic as hell

>>11870197

For the pixel art.

Mario Paint is the only Super Famicom cartridge I own beside my flashcart. I wanted the mouse controller, and the Mario Paint bundle costed about as much the standalone mouse, so I figured I may as well pick up the bundle. I was hoping my cartridge would have someone's leftover art on it, but alas, the previous owner cleared everything before shipping it. When you get your copy OP, make sure to check for any left over save data before saving over anything. Unearthing long forgotten Mario Paint art is probably pretty fun. Not that I would know...

>>11870386
Sure will do when I get it (should be next week but we'll see, it's coming from Japan). Although seller said it was tested so maybe it's wiped, if it was sold as junk it probably would have something, just like my Pocket Camera for Gameboy did.

>>11870409
What was on the Gameboy camera? Can we see?

Man, I was so excited for this game, because I loved drawing, Mario/Nintendo, and always felt jealous of people with computers, but it really just taught me that even though I was normally good at drawing I'm really bad at drawing with a mouse.
I still might have learned, but not being able to print out my pictures or share them with anybody kinda just made me lose interest.

(At least it wasn't as depressing as Mario Is Missing. Going from just seeing screenshots and box art and thinking it's going to be much like a normal Mario game to playing it and finding out that it was nothing like that and just used similar assets, was the biggest let down I had on Super Nintendo)

>>11870418
Not that much interesting stuff, some Japanese teenager mostly taking photos of their pet hamster, some faces (mostly blurry, one with stickers all over) and some baseball photos

>>11870283
...that's a dude, right?

Reminder that they actually printed a fucking Player's Guide for this.

>>11870267
On a proper cartridge, it was mouse only.
There was also a Satellaview version with had D-pad support added.

I just made this in retroarch. I should point out that it is a pain in the ass to draw with a mouse via emulation. The mouse moves way too fast.

>>11870487
Two guides, actually. The Japanese one has completely different art. They're both really cool. You should check them out:
https://archive.org/details/MarioPaintGuideBook/
https://archive.org/details/Mario_Paint_Japan_USA

I think I like the USA one a tad more since it has tons of very detailed pixel art, but the Japanese version has this rendition of Picasso's Guernica, so its pretty close.
They also made a VHS tape to show off the game's various functions (in case the 20 minute attract screen demo wasn't enough). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9fap8Qb0c0
At 19:25 they animate the Guernica. Its a sight to behold.

>>11870186
WHO'S BEEN DRAWING DICKS?

>>11870480
In that specific video, it seems. If you need to ask, you probably already know the rest.

>>11870197
This was much better for kids who sucked at drawing (like me). You could mess around all you wanted and never feel like you'd invested anything. When you made a stupid ugly mess you would be rewarded for it with the opportunity to use one of the many cool full-screen eraser effects, rather than being punished with the mildly depressing task of placing your ugly wasteful failure into the trash can. The UI, background music, and extra toys scattered about (title screen gimmicks and Gnat Attack especially) were HUGELY charming. The music editor was super fun and did not require as much skill as the drawing aspect. Oh and you could easily use the stamp editor to make pixel-perfect reusable image tiles like what you, a video game fan, had already seen used in many video games, and then you could use those stamps like LEGO blocks to build a complex scene - can't do that with paper and paints/pencils. Mario Paint was extremely cool.

>>11870569
Huh, they did a surprisingly decent job at squeezing some okay-looking animation out of this game. (Mario Paint is great but I think the animation aspect of it is the weakest.)

>>11870487
That is the only Player's Guide I've ever actually wanted to read. I never used it as inspiration for any Mario Paint projects, but it was fun to look at.

An odd experience

https://youtu.be/s-5BVb7hrvw?si=-Nyki1WOpUx64yIY
I'm grateful I had this one as a kid.
As an adult I still fuck around with the fly minigame and also I enjoy the stamp maker more now, as a kid I didn't have any patience. Experience drawing sprites also came handy for Animal Crossing and the Able Sisters.

mandatory homestar runner toons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2kXFSJVBA

>>11870197
Turning all the notes in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star into cats

>>11871827
I think my sister and I did exactly that. I know we did something similar, because I specifically remember the silly interjection by dogs that we added for emphasis. It went like
>meow
>I
>won
>der
>what
>you
>are WOOF WOOF WOOF

>>11872020
Oh and here's another memory: One time our mom took us to the Kay Bee Toys at the local mall and they had a demo SNES out with Mario Paint in it. My sister and I found the music editor and made it play through the first demo tune (the Mario music one) several times because the editor and tune together amazed us so much. Probably that was what inspired the eventual purchase of the "game", which I don't recall either of us ever asking for, but it's possible that my sister did without my knowledge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6xthprIpSQ

>>11870180 (OP)
Fuck these threads just fucking play it

>>11870197
>why did people buy it? What's the point?
It was a reddit thing you would not understand. Its about belonging and making your life about a brand.

How do you beat this game? Where does it rank in difficulty among the Marioverse?

>>11870180 (OP)
>What am I in for?
as an adult? probably just a fleeting few minutes of novelty. as a kid i spent quite a number of hours with it exploring everything and making stuff. however this is not something i have any desire to revisit due to the nature of it not actually being a game (besides the fly swatter thing)

>>11872128
You create at least one good piece of art with it. Difficulty: highest across all Mario games, close to the top among all video games period.

>>11872095
I bought it you retard, I'm waiting for it to ship.

>>11872631
Don't mind tards that don't read threads

Good times and creativity!

>>11872132
>as an adult? probably just a fleeting few minutes of novelty.
even as an adult you spend longer than that just finding all the stuff on the title screen
especially if you wanna try and click on that damn shooting star