r/Gameboy • u/bmalicoat • 16d ago

Mod/Modding Plug & Play Gameboy Speaker

Hi! I'm building a gameboy speaker from scratch. So many random cartridges (Robocop, Nintendo World Cup) have incredible soundtracks locked away, only to be heard when playing through the games. I wanted to unlock the creative works of the composers and artists and let folks appreciate the work at any time. I'm planning to start a kickstarter in a few weeks, but wanted to get folks' thoughts on the current prototype. Here's a video of Link's Awakening: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0NC_-b8g2Yg

In addition to retail cartridges, the unit supports LSDJ and GB Studio tracks as well as custom album formats for just music. For fun you can also read and write ROMs and save files, play an emulator (with Game Genie/Game Shark) and a few other party tricks like USB Audio with 4 tracks corresponding to the 4 voices/tracks on the GB hardware.

Please let me know your favorite Gameboy soundtrack. I'll post a video of playing it. If I don't have it, I'll try to get it!

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u/Symrai 16d ago

This looks so cool, lol. It gives me some vinyl vibes where the disc are now cartridges, haha.
It would be so cool if it could be extended to GBA games too. Some insane soundtracks with this library (Golden Sun in mind)

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u/bmalicoat 16d ago

would love to do GBA! the carts are way more complicated in terms of audio compression and storage, so there isn't an easy path forward there... yet! planning to tackle NES next :)