The Even Newer Sounds of Nintendo Radio
By Pop Tronics on March 23, 2024 3:32 am
All sound were generated from an original 1989 Nintendo Gameboy.
Earlier this week I got an Arduinoboy and mGB cartridge from a seller of Etsy. I was super excited as I've had this Nintendo Gameboy for a really long time. Until this week it was primarily used for Tetris and Dr Mario. Needless to say I was excited to receive it in the mail.
Unfortunately I was unable to experiment with it most of the week. Finally on Friday evening I got a chance to play around with it. This is the product of my initial go at it.
At first I was trying to use the EP-133 KOii to control it. Mostly because I thought they looked cool together. I quickly pivoted to the Synthstrom Deluge as the controller. I really like the piano roll and ability to easily play arpeggios on the Deluge. It really lent itself well to working with the Gameboy.
I had a lot of fun putting this together. I'm going to look into getting some other music creation cartridges for the Gameboy. I'd also mod the Gameboy to have a backlit screen for easier use. All that being said, I doubt I'll do too many songs with only tones from the Gameboy. It seems like something that will be more fun to incorporate here and there.
Anyway... Enjoy
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