- Dave DeGraw
- Web developer
- Father of two
- Owner/operator of
Catskull Electronics - First time at MAGFest(!)
- involved in chipmusic for a decade
- How To Make Dmg Gameboy Worthwhile Pc
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DMG-A40-01 – PCB Photo – MBC7 + ROM (256/512/1024 KB) + RAM (512B) + Tilt There are more cartridges compatible with this adapter board, you only need to check the footprint of cartridge ROM is the same as the adapter board. Nov 19, 2020 Finding an old Game Boy is awesome. Wasting time to find a lamp to sit under is not. That's why we have the Game Boy backlight mod! After almost 30 years, you can finally install a working light to play your original Game Boy in the dark. This mod is a little bit involved and could potentially ruin the original screen.
- What is (Gameboy) 'chiptune'?
- How is it made?
- How should I get started?
- Additional resources
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Chiptune, also known as chip music or 8-bit music, is a style of synthesized electronic music made using the PSG sound chips in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles. The term is commonly used to refer to tracker format music which intentionally sounds similar to older PSG-created music (this is the original meaning of the term), as well as music that combines PSG sounds with modern musical styles.
- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune)
Music made on old video game consoles and computers
OR
music that sounds like it was made on old video game consoles and computers
- 4 voices
- 2 square waves
- 1 free form wave
- 1 noise generator
- stereo output
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Arguably the most interesting stock audio hardware of any 8-bit console:
- original Game Boy (DMG)
- Game Boy Pocket
- Game Boy Color
- Game Boy Advance (SP)
- Super Game Boy
- Game Boy Player
- Good emulators
- Portable
- Great battery life
- Lots of accessories
- Replacement parts
still in production
- tracker style interface
- powerful composition ability
- less intuitive if you've never used a tracker
- buy the ROM, bring your own flash cart
- probably most popular
- sequencer interface
- compositions sound unique compared to LSDJ
- interface is a little more confusing but you'll be making good music faster
- available at nanoloop.com for ~$50
- does not use native gameboy sound hardware
- I don't think this counts as 'gameboy chipmusic'?
- still really interesting and cool (especially if you like nanoloop a lot)
- nanoloop.com for ~$80
- like nanoloop 1 but more!
- uses GBA sound hardware, so more channels and complex sound
- great option for a portable sequencer
- available at nanoloop.com for ~$56
- exposes the 4 voices as 4 midi channels
- can do 3 voice polyphony
- can be controlled with midi CC's
- less advanced instrument creation compared to LSDJ
- must be used with an external interface
- great if you already have a DAW
- basically less intuitive but more advanced mGB
- external interface required
- stock only runs on GBC and above, but there is a version that will work with a DMG/Pocket
- not very widely used
- the interface contains the rom (GBA remote boot)
- uses GBA sound hardware so less limitations
- intuitive yet powerful interface
- available at catskullelectronics.com for $55
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- PC cross platform tracker
- can target many consoles
- export songs as ROMs to play on real hardware
- fairly steep learning curve
- once you learn it, you can make chiptunes for lots of systems
- not widely used for Gameboy
- create music on a computer, then export it to be used in games
- Jake Kaufman used it to make Shantae
- almost completely unused today
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- console based tracker
- PC application to convert songs to be used in games
- used in demos and homebrew
- should be more popular than it is
- great option if you're nordloef