Post by _ on Sept 2, 2008 19:23:23 GMT -6
Here's some questions that all you fellow Mario Paint Composer users out there get quite a lot, whether you're well known or not.
Q: What's Mario Paint?
A: Mario Paint is a Video Game made back in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. In this game, using the included and needed SNES Mouse, you could draw pictures, make simple animations, play a game when you get bored of this stuff and of-course, make simple music. However, what we mainly use now is a 3rd party Mario Paint called a "Mario Paint Composer" which is Mario Paint without the paint and all the other stuff. It uses a much less strict feature set then the first one.
Q: How do you do sharps and flats?
A: Hold Shift while placing a note to make that note a sharp, and hold CTRL while placing a note to make that note a flat.
Q: How do you get the tempo over 500?
A: Go into your Mario Paint Composer folder, then the prefs folder and find a file with your song's name in it. Open it, and at the end you should see a number with a percent sign next to it. Change that number to what you want the Tempo to be, save and re-load your song and you should have the tempo.
Q: How do you upload your songs onto Youtube?
A: I use a Screen Recorder called "Camstudio" although there are other perfectly good Screen Recorders out there. So I record it and use the standard Youtube Video Uploading process.
Q: How come you've gotten over 94 measures?
A: I create multiple song files when I need to, each following the next part of the song. Then I video edit them all together to make one song.
Q: Why use the composer when you can use Emulation?
A: Simple, because many of us don't own the real cartridge making it illegal to emulate the game. For those that do own the cartridge like myself, we use the Composer mainly because it allows you to do more.
Q: How do I sustain notes for a certain amount of time?
A: Well, you can't really. The only instrument you can really sustain it the Car, as long as there's percussion going at the same time as the Car, you can sustain the Car by placing another card 2,4,6, etc (depends on tempo) beats ahead of the last Car with the same note.
Q: I know nothing about music, but I REALLY want to use the Composer. Can you give me tips?
A: Get music lessons perhaps.
Q: I'm getting this error and...
A: Stop right there! Just because we're avid users of the thing doesn't mean we've come across these errors. What your about to say most probably will sound like a bunch or garble to us. We can only recommend re-downloading the thing or asking on the Unfun Games Forums.
If there are any other questions I should add. Please tell me.
Q: What's Mario Paint?
A: Mario Paint is a Video Game made back in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. In this game, using the included and needed SNES Mouse, you could draw pictures, make simple animations, play a game when you get bored of this stuff and of-course, make simple music. However, what we mainly use now is a 3rd party Mario Paint called a "Mario Paint Composer" which is Mario Paint without the paint and all the other stuff. It uses a much less strict feature set then the first one.
Q: How do you do sharps and flats?
A: Hold Shift while placing a note to make that note a sharp, and hold CTRL while placing a note to make that note a flat.
Q: How do you get the tempo over 500?
A: Go into your Mario Paint Composer folder, then the prefs folder and find a file with your song's name in it. Open it, and at the end you should see a number with a percent sign next to it. Change that number to what you want the Tempo to be, save and re-load your song and you should have the tempo.
Q: How do you upload your songs onto Youtube?
A: I use a Screen Recorder called "Camstudio" although there are other perfectly good Screen Recorders out there. So I record it and use the standard Youtube Video Uploading process.
Q: How come you've gotten over 94 measures?
A: I create multiple song files when I need to, each following the next part of the song. Then I video edit them all together to make one song.
Q: Why use the composer when you can use Emulation?
A: Simple, because many of us don't own the real cartridge making it illegal to emulate the game. For those that do own the cartridge like myself, we use the Composer mainly because it allows you to do more.
Q: How do I sustain notes for a certain amount of time?
A: Well, you can't really. The only instrument you can really sustain it the Car, as long as there's percussion going at the same time as the Car, you can sustain the Car by placing another card 2,4,6, etc (depends on tempo) beats ahead of the last Car with the same note.
Q: I know nothing about music, but I REALLY want to use the Composer. Can you give me tips?
A: Get music lessons perhaps.
Q: I'm getting this error and...
A: Stop right there! Just because we're avid users of the thing doesn't mean we've come across these errors. What your about to say most probably will sound like a bunch or garble to us. We can only recommend re-downloading the thing or asking on the Unfun Games Forums.
If there are any other questions I should add. Please tell me.