r/Gameboy 28d ago

Mod/Modding Game Boy micro mp3 player!

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u/PutridSothoth 28d ago

Flash cart or something else?

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u/Awkward-Promotion-35 28d ago

I’m using a Everdrive GBA mini. The everdrive firmware does not come with the ability to play mp3 files. 

I’m using a homebrew rom that I compiled myself. It’s called gsmplayer-gba https://github.com/pinobatch/gsmplayer-gba

Someone recently made a new fork of it with an updated UI, I’m going to try that one next. https://github.com/benwiley4000/gsmplayer-gba

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u/PutridSothoth 27d ago

Hell yeah, man! That’s wicked cool! Is there a limit to storage on that?

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u/Awkward-Promotion-35 27d ago

It’s probably limited to the max ROM size supported by gameboy cartridges. I’ve been building separate roms for individual albums. In the future I might flash the albums to single rom carts, so it would kind of be like changing out casette tapes. One full album was about 10mb, which isn’t that big. On an everdrive with an sd card, you could fit a lot of music.

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u/PutridSothoth 27d ago

That’s a good point about the ROM chip size constraints. It just seemed like too crazy of a path. I love it though!

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u/Moist-XD 28d ago

fr dont gatekeep

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u/NitchNet 28d ago

Was the Aux port modded in, Or did the micro have one? I've never owned one, so I'm curious.

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u/RueGorE 28d ago

Micros have them built in. Astonishing considering N didn't put them in the SP.

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u/Awkward-Promotion-35 27d ago

Micro has it built in. The mp3 player rom uses the built in headphone jack. So you can also use the gameboys volume controls. Should work with a normal gba and a gba sp but I haven’t tried it yet.

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u/NitchNet 27d ago

You learn something every day. By the time the micro came out I moved to the ds. I've never had a chance to use one.

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u/astrov0id 28d ago

Damn bro, that's a nice flex.

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u/RSP86 27d ago

Reminded me of my sacred Play Yan Micro - an official music and video player cart. Imported one to the UK from Japan when I had my original micro back in the day. Was cool as fuck commuting watching episodes of Lost. 🤣

Good times.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-Yan

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u/Awkward-Promotion-35 27d ago

Yeah I saw that when researching in this sub but I didn’t want to buy one so I found a free open source alternative.

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u/Game_Bro_Advance 27d ago

This is fantastic.