Oh mario paint. haha I remember when the first DS came out, I had a cart that let homebrews only run on it. There was one homebrew that was exactly this, maybe that was my first taste of chip music.

damn this is fun haha

If you'd like to build one, I would gladly host it.

Linux port would be nice!

By the way, I ported this to Mac recently so all you Macsters can play with it too. Download from link in OP.

It's open source, so go nuts.

I don't currently intend to add any more new features.

Ooooh, I should do a build with my own samples!

Edit: actually, a sample import/load would be a neat feature, especially for people who have patched versions of Mario Paint.

I've released a new version, v1.1, which you can download at the link above.

1.1 - 7/26/2013
- Fixed frame timing, now should run at consistent 60hz if sufficient CPU is available.
- Support for z10-z99 ZSNES savestate files.
- Fixed clicks in baby C, and yoshi A.
- Fixed pop at end of some samples (off-by-one error on length).
- Cut/Copy/Paste functionality.
- F9 enables extended song lengths.
- F10 exports extended songs as multiple savestates.
- Filename now appears in window caption.
- Confirm unsaved changes on load.
- Migrated Windows version to Visual Studio 2012.

"It also supports reading and writing music to SNES9X and ZSNES emulator savestates"
This is a really good idea !!! Nice work !!!

oh dear god.

edit: i'm not even entirely sure what this is.

I already like the title.

spiffy! gonna check this out later on

I wasn't happy with the existing tools, so I wrote my own music tool for Mario Paint:

http://rainwarrior.ca/projects/nes/mariopants.html