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**77rexulceme** · 10-05-2008, 10:12 PM

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Lovers of the sound of the original Nintendo Game Boy, the Minimoog of game systems with its distinctive, rich 8-bit sound, this may be the best solution for integrating it with other music gear.

Our friend trash80, aka Timothy, has completed a project with open-source code for the affordable, easily-programmable [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.] electronics platform. To make it work, he’s built his own custom cartridge, adding standard MIDI communication with other devices. An 1/8” minijack plugs into your Game Boy cart, but you get standard MIDI DIN on the other end for connecting to keyboards, computers, and the like. With all the code available, you should not only be able to build your own MIDI Game Boy, but apply some of trash80’s techniques to other MIDI hardware projects, as well.

Full documentation:

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That’s the full Arduinoboy shield below:

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77rexulceme Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 504 Senior Member	A MIDI-Ready Nintendo Game Boy, with Help From Arduino [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.] from [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.] on [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.]. Lovers of the sound of the original Nintendo Game Boy, the Minimoog of game systems with its distinctive, rich 8-bit sound, this may be the best solution for integrating it with other music gear. Our friend trash80, aka Timothy, has completed a project with open-source code for the affordable, easily-programmable [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.] electronics platform. To make it work, he’s built his own custom cartridge, adding standard MIDI communication with other devices. An 1/8” minijack plugs into your Game Boy cart, but you get standard MIDI DIN on the other end for connecting to keyboards, computers, and the like. With all the code available, you should not only be able to build your own MIDI Game Boy, but apply some of trash80’s techniques to other MIDI hardware projects, as well. Full documentation: [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.] [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.] That’s the full Arduinoboy shield below: [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.] [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.]
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