Chiptune

My Setup

Hardware

• 1x Game Boy Color
• 1x Game Boy Classic
• 1x EMS Smart Card cartridge 64MB (2 banks)
• 1x OTG USB Cable
• 1x Headphone

To buy:

• LDK game!!!
  • https://retrofw.github.io/
  • https://ldkgame.com/pages/guide
  • https://boards.dingoonity.org/ingenic-jz4760-devices/ldk-game-guide/
  • https://steward-fu.github.io/website/handheld/ldk/teardown.htm
  • https://boards.dingoonity.org/ingenic-jz4760-devices/
  • https://boards.dingoonity.org/ingenic-jz4760-devices/ingenic-devices-guide/msg185810/#msg185810
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20140225083130/http://www.ingenic.cn/en/en/proinfo.php?id=12&pid=782&fid=782
• Bittboy
• RG350 (Fo)

Software

LSDj

Get the full version by donation.

• LSDj releases and tools: https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/latest/

LSDj Patcher

Tool to add your kits to rom and tweak it. After that you can save it using EMS QART.

wget https://github.com/jkotlinski/lsdpatch/releases/download/v1.1.6/LSDPatcherv1_1_6.jar
java -jar LSDPatcherv1_1_6.jar

LSDj Manager

Tool to load your sav files.

sudo apt-get install libxrender1:i386 libxtst6:i386 libxi6:i386
wget https://github.com/jkotlinski/lsdmanager/releases/download/v1.0/LSDManager10.jar
java -jar LSDManager10.jar

EMS QART

Tool to read/write roms/sav files from/to EMS SmartCart.

wget https://github.com/rbino/ems-qart/releases/download/v0.9.4/ems-qart_0.9.4-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ems-qart_0.9.4-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

ROMs

• LSDj
• Nanoloop

Developing to GB

• See gb.md
• GBDK
• Pan Docs: http://problemkaputt.de/pandocs.htm
• http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Sound_Controller
• GBSOUND.txt: https://github.com/bogger33/jgbe/blob/master/docs/GBSOUND.txt
• More about GB sound: http://sebastianmihai.com/downloads/burlygb/gbsound3.pdf
• Step by step game tutorial: http://www.retroisle.com/others/nintendogameboy/Technical/Firmware/dev.php
• Awesome list of GB music roms/sources: http://tronimal.de/game-boy-music-software/4
• https://gb-archive.github.io/salvage/tutorial_de_ensamblador/tutorial_de_ensamblador%20%5BLa%20decadence%5D.html

Mods

• https://www.instructables.com/id/The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Creating-Chiptunes-on-the-Ga/
• ProSound mod on a Gameboy Classic: http://blog.xero.nu/gameboy_prosound_mod

Non-GB

• MDAL https://github.com/utz82/MDAL/wiki
• Bintracker https://bintracker.org
  • https://media.ccc.de/v/vcfb19_-114-en-201910121830-bintracker-_utz
• TI-82 Calculators (same author of MDAL/Binitracker): https://irrlichtproject.de/houston/

Scene

• https://ucollective.org/

Stores

• https://8bitaesthetics.bigcartel.com/

Artists

• Stress
• Nullsleep
• Bitshifter
• https://twitter.com/PleaseLoseBattl
• https://twitter.com/StarvingGOGO
• https://tomfooleryandthefamilyjewellery.bandcamp.com/ (nice!)
• https://datathrash.bandcamp.com/ (yeah!)
• https://classicmistake.bandcamp.com/
• https://soundcloud.com/havoccc (techno)
• https://gwem.bandcamp.com/
• https://triac8bit.bandcamp.com/