ChipMusic.org - Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-25T06:48:16Z

Had an atomic purple GBC as a kid, got some kind of bebe stuck in the audio jack, had hot soup spilled on it in the car once, and later fucked it up beyond repair while trying to circuit bend it. Later had a white GBA, and cracked the screen somehow. I was hit by a car on the first day of 9th grade, and I was in a wheelchair for a while during the schoolyear, and some senior felt bad and gave me his yellow Play it Loud when he saw me dicking around in Famitracker in my extra study hall. I held onto it, and waited until I got an EMS cart in senior year to use it. My greyboy (and second cart + link cable) I later got in a [edit] BRKup.

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-25T01:49:39Z

my ass

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-25T00:59:51Z

all the gameboys i ever owned as a kid were the really cool see thru ones (clear pocket, clear purple gbc, clear blue advance) which have always managed to find themselves terribly, terribly lost. The first gameboy i starting writing chips on was a shitty teal gbc i picked up at a yard sale.

I then proceeded to write fake music on fake electronic gear like circuit bent shit and computers.

In terms of dmg vs gbc: personally, i find the processor lag is really rad, it adds a swing to your song that is impossible to emulate with groove or T commands.

DEATH TO GBCS

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-24T22:38:54Z

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Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-24T19:45:36Z

I got a greyboy as an xmas gift a few years back, mainly used it to play Pokemon, then bought an LSDJ flash cart from DJTransformer soon after.

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-24T02:47:55Z

Got mine from a flee market for 10$ it's in better condition then most colors i've seen.

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-23T22:11:48Z

I started writing music on an emulator, but now I use the atomic purple GBA that I've had since childhood.

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-23T15:01:38Z

I didn't have an one gameboy (my first gameboy I used for music was a mix of 5 killed gameboys, I dubbed it Frankenboy). But got them all from internet for about 5 euros each (then they where working, I killed most of them trying to mod them but RCA mod can be aweful when you dont know placement). And before that I had a Translucent purple GBA.

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-23T14:16:56Z

Starpilot wrote:

no shitting you, my first gameboy was found in the forest behind my parent's house. my brother found it and gave it to me. i got my friend in electrical engineering to prosound it for me cuz i'm too shaky to use a soldering iron.
i never had one as a kid.

Haha classic.
I still had my turquoise GBC, so I just used that. Later bought a green brick from this russian guy at my flea market for 5 bucks. Since then I've acquired a bit more, but I still use the green dmg a bunch:)

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-23T13:36:33Z

Got mine on a store that sells vintage toys...
I was aiming to buy a traslucent GBC and a Pokemon Yellow cart, but the GBC wouldn't work. The store guy spent five minutes, trying different carts on the GBC, without a result. Then he put the pkmn cart on a pink GBC, the cart wouldn't work either.

So he offered me a pink GBC with a PKMN blue cart (wasn't labeled, though)

Just when I was about to accept his offer, I noticed a translucent fuschia GBA on a corner, and asked too see it. I think the he got fed up with my presence, since he offered to give me the defective pkmn yellow cart as a gift if I bought the GBA.

Turns out, the cart contacts were dirty.

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-23T11:13:49Z

Starpilot wrote:

no shitting you, my first gameboy was found in the forest behind my parent's house. my brother found it and gave it to me. i got my friend in electrical engineering to prosound it for me cuz i'm too shaky to use a soldering iron.
i never had one as a kid.

Now THAT'S a story!

I got mine in 1992 I think. I didn't get one untill prices of the old gameboy dropped haha. I was stuffed in the house somewhere. Untill I read online that people were making music on gameboys. Took me a while to find it back

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-23T11:03:22Z

no shitting you, my first gameboy was found in the forest behind my parent's house. my brother found it and gave it to me. i got my friend in electrical engineering to prosound it for me cuz i'm too shaky to use a soldering iron.

i never had one as a kid.

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-23T08:51:33Z

I think my parents got me one a long while back, a Gameboy Pocket.
Then got myself a Gameboy color with Pokémon Yellow (way too awesome.).

A while back a friend of mine gave me his DMG so that was pretty nice and now I bought another one.

Love these things

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-23T08:48:20Z

I got mine from a friend, 6 years ago maybee.
some guy lend it to him, so still it's not mine actually :-).
Grey DMG1.
It's not light grey, it's more yellow coloured, because it layed somewhere on a sun for a longer time (maybee in a window in a junk shop).
I didn't have a Gameboy, when I was a child.
Not many people here had one between 1989 and 1994or5 ...
but I wanted it a lot...
I tracked my first song on an emulator (remix of my own band's song),
then I bought Transferer II & Card from Rob Webb and started a proper work.

Re: Where did you get your first gameboy for music making?

2012-10-23T08:07:13Z

EBay. It's the simplest place to get gems like this:
EBay Gameboy