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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. Not the first time by boa13 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... such announces are made. I remember such an product being announced for the Neogeo Pocket Color. Does anybody know if the maker of this one has a significant financial backing? Do they have a chance of making a well-distributed product, or will this just be offered on some catalogs and bought by geeks?

  2. Whence the content? by casio282 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It does say there's a USB interface for file transfer, but also mentions in the "about the company" section that...

    ...users will have access to thousands of SongPro enhanced files on our website, partner sites, and Digital Docking Stations. Nintendo® Game Boy® users will be able to download multimedia content to their SongPro(TM) players from stations located in airports, retail stores, entertainment centers, hotels, and other locations...

    Has anyone seen any of these reputed SongPro stations?
    --

    :wq
  3. Yuck. by CaffeineAddict2001 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First you convert music to digital information that is an approximation of the original sound and you say "No, it's still good!" Then compress and stream the music and it's like "No, it's still good!" Now you are playing Digital Compressed Music through Gameboy speakers? What's the point? This is like taking a painting and then running a guassian blur filter on it.

  4. GB Karaoke? by gatekeep · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This seems to me to have the potential to be HUGE in Japan. From what they're saying it'll allow the ability to display lyrics on screen, presumably in synch with the music. From what I've read, the Japanese are nuts about Karaoke, and also about Gameboys. There could be a huge market for this thing over there, probably less so in the US.

    That said, how does one go about loading the songs on the unit, and what will it's capacity be? Those are the key things I consider in a portable MP3 player. So far, I've found nothing rivaling the iPod (pause for Nomad and Rio users to chime in). At the $99 price point I'm guessing there's not much storage there.

  5. Re:you should better spend money on a gp32 system. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And it uses standard SMC cards !!!

  6. 8 bit sound by TrilinearDesign · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a GBA developer I can tell you that the GBA can at best do 8bit 16khz music, perhaps slightly more with a custom hardware assist, far from the 16/44.1khz cd standard. If you regularly listen to music through a fuzzy telephone, you may like the GBA's sound. And don't even think about the original GB. The GP32 is the only handheld game platform at the moment that comes close to cd quality.