video upload by Bird Cartel
via the developer:
"Hi! I’m a solo developer working on Retro Song Bird - a music player for your Game Boy games.
Plug in any Game Boy or Game Boy Color cartridge and the music starts playing, just like a cassette or CD. In addition to music playback, Retro Song Bird can back-up and write ROMs and save files, can be used as a USB webcam with a Game Boy Camera, and can even wake you up every day as your alarm.
I’m excited to get Retro Song Bird in the hands of musicians and chiptune artists. For the first time ever, they can plug a physical cartridge in and get stereo line-out as well as USB Audio with each of the Game Boys four instruments broken out as separate tracks. Using MIDI, they can control playback, track selection, and even tempo so they can beat match two cartridges and perform a DJ set. Here’s a video of me, a non-musician, remixing the chorus of Tetris with the drums of everyone’s favorite Japan-exclusive fish finder, Bandai Pocket Sonar: [video below]
I’m launching a Kickstarter 11/15 to raise funds to turn the prototype into a real production run: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/birdcartel/retro-song-bird"
I did not expect Tetris × Pocket Sonar to produce such a banger 🤘
video upload by Bird Cartel
Retro Song Bird supports Game Boy® or Game Boy Color® cartridges. Once inserted, their soundtracks begin to play.
SUPPORTS
Supports 1,900+ games. Plug in your favorite and let the soundtrack teleport you back in time.
Every track, plus sound effects
Physical controls for next, previous and volume
Stereo line out for your hi-fi
Accurate, register-level sound emulation
