Under advice from agargara I have made a new thread instead of continuing in this thread.

Super Mario Paint is a free modern cross-platform sequencer, available here

that's inspired by the composing tool of Mario Paint and is developed as a modern and cross-platform implementation of Mario Paint Composer and Advanced Mario Paint, both ancient tools no longer maintained.

Compared to Mario Pants, it adds:

• Accidentals for notes, allowing for sharp notes
• A whole set of new sounds not found in Mario Paint
• An arranger mode that allows the user to sequence multiple songs in order similar to OpenMPT patterns
• Custom time signatures
• Expanded note polyphony and note range

Accepted submission types: *.txt (for single songs) or *.zip (for arrangements, must have all song .txt's plus arrangement .txt)

Note: Indeed, Super Mario Paint does support different sound fonts, however they have to be formatted in a specific way for the tool to work, and I also believe that using a custom sound font defeats the purpose of a format like this, as then you might as well just have a general sequencing format.

Therefore I propose no custom soundfonts - only the base sound set (called soundset3.sf2, embedded within the .jar file).

Although already suggested about 12 years ago, linked in the thread above, where the consensus at the time was that there was no need for such a format, we have had a Mario Pants Extended format now, which extends the song limit (but adds no other features, think of it like vanilla doom limits vs vanilla doom limit-removing source ports), we have the Moai and Jummbox formats now as well, which fill a similar niche. (Side suggestion: "Sequencist" class for formats that are primarily accessed via sequencing only?)

The usability of Super Mario Paint is similar to FL Studio - you use your left click to input notes, right click to delete notes, you have a "VOLUME CONTROL" which controls the volume for all the notes above the bar, with the only notable difference being that you press the shift/control key to add sharp/flat notes respectively. There is a manual provided on a Google Docs page that goes into detail about specific features as well.

I would love to know everyone else's thoughts on this, if such a format is wanted 12 years later or if the community reaches the same decision as more than a decade ago.

EDIT: In a later reply, I have made 3 potential sets of icons. Of these it seems like the Fire Flower one was the most popular and was my personal favourite. You can find a link to these here

, however I also embedded them (they're hosted on my website storage at the moment, this will be temporary until either the format is added to BotB or until it is decided we don't want the format after all).

yeah but we still dont have any limit removing doom source ports somehow. just boom. im very sad about that still.


either way this seems like a cool format.

I love this idea and would very much like to see it!
Accidentals sure would make mario pants a more appealing format lol

this looks fun! I've always wished for accidentals and even a slightly increased range for the samples in the regular version. seems like it'd be a solid format

the format icon shld be this:

I've only played around with this program a little bit, but I already like that you can set the tempo to insanely high values and still have accurate playback.

I support this format!

Edit: Please see the OP for further icon information.

I've gone ahead and made a few icons for this format that could be potentially used: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12RUFw-GgepclZTZptkKwE-vVyRHPTQSw/view?usp=sharing

They're all standard instruments found in the program, with the following notes:

- Mushroom: Tried to stylise it similar to how it looks in SMW and the program itself, however this could be confused for the NSF formats (even though it's a different shape/colour)

- Star: Shaped similar to the SMW one but with extra detail. While I like how it's turned out this could be confused for a potential Mario 64 level editor program with the details on the star if they decide to use the same icon style (This isn't really a concern in other words)

- Flower: Obviously also styled after the SMW one (all of the game's graphics are either bespoke or taken from SMW) but with extra detail. I personally like this one the most out of all of the icons but I'll leave it to puke's/rest of community's discretion. I just felt like making a thing :)

these are awesome! I like the flower icon the most too!

this is a good idea
i'm too young to feel nostalgic about mario paint but let's do it. wait macos and linux compatibility too? this is a great idea!

if there are sequencists would ƒormats from daws like fl and lmms become real as well?

i don't think FL would be viable as a format as it relies on a paid tool

i more meant it as a suggestion for already existing formats like jummbox, moai, (maybe panda). if we don't want a new format though then i think mixist makes more sense for this format than chipist

edit: actually all the midi formats (msgs, xg, sc55) we got atm except mt32 cld be really good candidates for a "sequencist" class