Ziggy587 wrote:I actually don't have to dig the tapes out, I already know where they are. They're in a pile of other VHS tapes that I have to digitize. I guess I've just been too lazy. :lol
I'd love to see them one day! I still have a bunch of tapes that need converting too, but I "think" as far as Mario Paint goes, I've uploaded the highlights. If it was any longer it would start being a form of torture lol.
Ziggy587 wrote:When I got my Wii U, the first digital game that I downloaded was
Art Academy Sketchpad. After playing that, it was clear that the Wii U Gamepad was perfect for Mario Paint. But then I read that Takashi Tezuka was interested in making a Mario Paint for the U, but turned his ambition for it into Super Mario Maker.
I remember the seeing the UDraw thing in stores and thinking the same, but like you said, it wasn't meant to be. I get flashbacks when I load up Mario Maker, so it makes sense. It has a similar look and feel. Honestly, I would have preferred Mario Paint over Mario Maker, but at least it was something fun and creative. In a way, Mario Maker felt like a way for Nintendo to "kill off" traditional 2D mario games for a while. But that's a whole different topic...
Ziggy587 wrote:Anyways, thanks for posting this! Until now, I wasn't aware of anyone else that did this sort of thing with Mario Paint back in the day. I wonder how many other people did...
No problem! Thanks for watching it. I hope it brought you some nostalgic joy! It's for people like you that I decided it would be worth sharing/preserving. There are surely other people out there who did similar things with MP, but most of them probably lost the tapes or aren't as crazy as we are to upload them
If you search on YouTube, you will find SOME of this stuff, but not a ton. Nintendo Power released a thick Mario Paint book back in the day, which showed how to hook it up to a VCR, etc. But it was an inspiring guide, as it gave interesting animating ideas, and you could "copy" the stamps in the book or try to mimic some of the artwork inside. I remember having a friend sleep over one night, and we spent the entire night trying to make the Statue of Liberty all out of stamps. Ha.
One trick I always loved: the main "thin" drawing tool was still pretty thick. If you created a stamp that was a single "dot" -- you could then use that stamp and drag it around to draw with. This gave you a much thinner paint brush for more detailed drawings. Cheers!
