{"id":29274,"date":"2025-07-29T05:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29274\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:59:08","slug":"grab-your-nintendo-switch-2-mice-mario-paint-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29274\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab Your Nintendo Switch 2 Mice, \u2018Mario Paint\u2019 Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mario<\/p>\n

Mario Paint<\/p>\n

Credit: Nintendo<\/p>\n

Nothing like a good shadow drop: Mario Paint is now available to play in the Nintendo Switch Online Super Nintendo catalog for both Switch and Switch 2. If you\u2019re a subscriber, you\u2019re good to go. If you\u2019re not, well, I\u2019m so very sorry.<\/p>\n

Mario Paint features mandatory mouse control (Joy-Con 2 or USB, your choice), so you can\u2019t use anything else, not even a Pro controller. This isn\u2019t at all surprising, given that the original 1992 release shipped with the official SNES mouse and even an accompanying mousepad.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Nintendo consoles always launch with some sort of gimmick, from R.O.B. on the NES to the N64\u2019s trident analog controller, and the Switch 2 continues this tradition with its ability to turn any Joy-Con 2 into a computer-style mouse.<\/p>\n

In compatible software like Welcome Tour and now Mario Paint\u2014in addition to the system\u2019s main menu\u2014you can detach a Joy-Con 2 from the console, slap on one of the handy smooth-footed straps, flip the Joy-Con 2 over and use it as a fully functional mouse.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny that Mario Paint is launching on NSO tonight, because I literally published an article<\/a> earlier today complaining about the lack of a proper Mario Paint sequel on the Switch 2. It\u2019s no sequel, but the first Mario Paint is way better than nothing, and honestly, what a nice little retro gift.<\/p>\n

After booting it up, I did notice some input lag when using a Joy-Con 2 as a mouse, which felt borderline unusable in the fly-swatting minigame. So, I switched to a wired USB mouse instead, and this felt somewhat better, though not perfect.<\/p>\n

Mario Paint<\/p>\n

Credit: Nintendo<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to remember what the SNES mouse responsiveness felt like over 30 years ago, but even after adjusting the in-game sensitivity, as well as the Switch 2\u2019s native sensitivity option, a touch of lag remained. I\u2019m not sure if this is due to my monitor\u2019s settings or Nintendo\u2019s hardware quirks. Either way, it\u2019s bothersome, but not necessarily game-breaking, at least in the artistic segments.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s been a blast diving back into Mario Paint. I spent so many hours messing around on this cartridge when I was a kid. Other than fly-swatting, the game has no real concrete objective, other than to make cool stuff, which includes music composition, filling out coloring book pages or simply drawing. Creativity in game form.<\/p>\n

Maybe Mario Paint\u2019s arrival on NSO means Mario Paint 2 is in the works somewhere. I won\u2019t hold my breath, but at least we\u2019ve got some 1992 nostalgia to appease our collective sentimentality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Paint Credit: Nintendo Nothing like a good shadow drop: Mario Paint is now available to play in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,27836,10844,27837,105],"class_list":["post-29274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mario-paint","tag-nintendo","tag-switch","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}