True true.  I would do the same.  Nothing beats the original DMG if you are serious about chipmusic.  It's a relatively cheap option to get I to electronic music even factoring in a cart.

It will be a start.

@DMGer he would still need to buy an EMS cart as well.

Use the money you'd use on a DS flash cart for a DMG!!

The Ezflash IV is a GBA cart but works great in a DS as well.

I have an ezflash IV cart for sale with two 2 GB micro SD cards.  I would part with the set for $40 shipped!

Sorry to be so blonde, but cold someone provide the name of/a link to buy a cart that I can use to put gameyob on, and also a reliable place to download it from?

again, i'd recommend that you grab the LSDJ rom, the gameyob emulator, and a DS flash cart that supports gameyob.  these 3 components are the absolute minimum for your needs.  it's hardly the most purist solution, but it'll get you started, and the sound reproduction is "good enough" in my opinion.  (i have a feeling the sound accuracy will only improve over time.)

once you feel motivated enough to get more familiar with the legit hardware, it's up to you to decide on picking up a game boy and a relevant GB flash cart - just don't be surprised if/when all your existing songs don't play correctly on the DMG because you wrote them on a DS with inaccurate emulation.

and to answer your question about DS-native trackers:  there's NitroTracker, but it's quite limited in the control of the sound (effect commands don't really work), and the interface is too clunky to be significantly productive.

Aargh. Feeling overwhelmed again.

Flash carts, micro sd cards, emulators etc. I'm not attached to using lsdj, it's just that much as I love nanoloop, I want to be able to write long melodies without having to break them up into tiny pieces.

Is there an official ds tracker I can buy, or do I have to learn about and choose all sorts of hard/soft/firm ware to enjoy handheld Chiptune composition without buying yet another type of gameboy?

If not, then am I right in thinking I need a ds flash cart and something called a micro ad card to make this happen? Anyone selling what I need?

Interesting, looked at the source and it seems the noise channel is based on a sample?
https://github.com/Drienn/GameYob/blob/ … ce/sound.c

Anyways i think here is the source code you need to change for the keybindings:
https://github.com/Drienn/GameYob/blob/ … oy.cpp#L71
or
https://github.com/Drienn/GameYob/blob/ … r.cpp#L112

Link port support is cool as well, maybe someone should work out to the dev and see if he is keen at making lsdj fully compatible,

I haven't actually tried Gameyob because my DS is currently broken, but maybe it is possible to remap one of the shoulder buttons to act like select?

woah, this caught my attention just now as i'm acutely aware of lameboy's shortcomings, but i haven't heard of gameyob -- so i gave it a whirl just now.

the good news is that sound reproduction indeed is way better on gameyob overall.  i'd say it's currently about 85% of the way there in terms of accurate sound reproduction.  whereas lameboy made WAV channel samples grainy and garbled beyond recognition, gameyob plays back samples MUCH clearer, i'd say on par with a GB color i guess.

the bad news is that is the noise channel still needs some tweaking.  some of the noise instruments in the songs of mine that i tried out sounded a little too loud or "bright".  although, the overall noise channel sounded quite good otherwise.

bottom line for OP:  if you absolutely must get LSDJ on a DS form factor, gameyob is your best bet.  although i'd question one's productivity with a DS lite anyhow, given the tiny and awkward start/select button placement... also, if you're going to emulate it at any rate, why not just do so with a better emulator on your computer?

make sure you stay away from r4isdhc.com carts if you want more than emulators and homebrews

^what everyone's said
It's not even worth it, every channel sounds like ass.
You're much better off using DS-10, M01, or Nitrotracker or something.

it still sucks on ds. lameboy needs a lot of work