Droneboy vs mGB

Droneboy

Drone music application for Gameboy (by purefunktion)

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mGB - Nintendo Gameboy MIDI control for Arduinoboy (by trash80)

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Droneboy		mGB
	Project
3	Mentions	7
40	Stars	212
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
C	Language	Assembly
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Droneboy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Droneboy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.

Console-Based Music Tools (Gameboy-Centric)
8 projects | /r/chiptunes | 21 Mar 2023

3 projects | /r/MrScarletOnTheMoon | 21 Mar 2023

Droneboy Well done drone sound software. https://github.com/purefunktion/Droneboy/
Droneboy. A homebrew drone music application.
1 project | /r/Gameboy | 4 Jun 2021

mGB

Posts with mentions or reviews of mGB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.

Console-Based Music Tools (Gameboy-Centric)
8 projects | /r/chiptunes | 21 Mar 2023

3 projects | /r/MrScarletOnTheMoon | 21 Mar 2023
suggestions for hardware synths that make videogame/ chip tune sounds
2 projects | /r/synthesizers | 16 Feb 2023

My chiptune setup for years has been an arduinoboy connected to an original gameboy running an mGB cartridge hooked up to a MIDI keyboard/interface of some sort. Something like this using a keystep37 would give you a very portable, playable, and decently affordable chip tune setup with lots of modulation and some sequencing options!
Quick question does anyone here have any experience flashing this ROM onto any GB Cartdridges? I’m attempting to make a Synth out of gameboys
1 project | /r/Gameboy | 14 Sep 2021
Whats your favorite VST for making NES style 8bit music?
2 projects | /r/chiptunes | 11 Jul 2021

Retroplug (https://github.com/tommitytom/RetroPlug) is pretty rad. Dowload the mGB ROM (https://github.com/trash80/mGB) and you’ve got anear perfect gameboy sound!
My first full track, sequencing Elektron Model:Cycles and a Gameboy (DMG-01).
1 project | /r/PolyendTracker | 20 Jan 2021

I'm using this device from catskull electronics to send midi to the DMG. The gameboy is running mGB.
My first time doing chiptune on actual hardware (DMG-01)
1 project | /r/chiptunes | 18 Jan 2021

I got the Polyend Tracker for Christmas and am using it here to sequence a Gameboy via the arduinoboy from https://catskullelectronics.com/. The gameboy is running mGB. I'm also using an Elektron Model:Cycles to add some fm sounds.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Droneboy and mGB you can also consider the following projects:

rgbds - Rednex Game Boy Development System - An assembly toolchain for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color

RetroPlug - A frontend for the SameBoy GameBoy emulator, with a focus on music creation. It runs standalone and can be used as an audio plugin (VST) in your favourite DAW!

hUGEDriver - An easy-to-use, fast, tracker-based, public domain sound driver for Game Boy homebrew

nitrotracker - A Fasttracker II style tracker for the Nintendo DS

Carillon_Editor-for-GBDK - Carillon Editor for GBDK

hUGEBuild - refactoring of a hUGEDriver, make it work with new SDCC and GBDK-2020 library

Arduinoboy - Official ArduinoBoy Repository for serial MIDI communication to the Nintendo Gameboy.

gbdk-2020 - An updated version of GBDK, C compiler, assembler, linker and set of libraries for the Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear.

gba-remote-play - 📡 Stream Raspberry Pi games to a GBA via Link Cable.

mmlgb - MML to Game Boy parser and driver