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MP3 for Gameboy

Posted by timothy on from the sewing-and-music-what's-next dept.

sluggo140 writes: "Cnet has an article regarding a new startup called SongPro that is devloping an add-on for Gameboy and Gameboy Advance. The add-on will play various music formats including MP3."

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  1. Processing power by gpinzone · · Score: 5, Informative
    There's no way a GameBoy has the processing power to decode MP3s natively. This thing has got to be an Rio with a GameBoy program to display the status on the GameBoy rather than have it's own LCD.

    Whoopdie dooo.

    Here's a better option:

    Amazon has the SP90 player at $85 - $5 coupon CHNKBKAMZNLT - $20 rebate = $60 shipped. There's a simple way to hack it and upgrade the firmware.

    • Plays standard audio CDs as well as MP3 + WMA
    • Electronic shock protection up to 120 seconds
    • Supports ID3 tags and audio CD title display (CD Text)
  2. Re:link request & loose thoughts by uebernewby · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was this product awhile back that was kind of an integrated low-level sound synth and sequencer/drum machine for the normal, 4-color gameboy. It was only available in europe, and you could make these REALLY funky tiny little techno tunes on it. Very aphexy. Does anyone remember the name of this, or have a link?

    I think you're referring to Nanoloop, which can be found here.

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  3. you should better spend money on a gp32 system... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://www.gamepark.com/

    it plays games, mp3's, it has a wireless interface, the dev scene is rapidly growing, the sdk is provided free of charge by gamepark and the screen is way better than the gba one.

    it already runs many emus (SMS, PC Engine, ZX Spectrum, GBC, Wonderswan) and there are many other emus and ports in progress.They have even made an DivX;-) player !

    Sega will also port some of it's genesis games !

    other links :

    http://www.gp32emu.com/
    http://www.emu.pl/gp32/
    http://www.lik-sang.com/