yep, to clarify, I have a new USB 64M EMS cart. Thanks for the info!

the ems carts that required windows were the old 32MB blue ones that only had a parallel port based flasher, for future reference.. though i know nitro was working on a usb cart flasher that could do pretty much every type of GB flash cart so if thats already out, its not the case anymore .. btw, since most of the other music roms youd be using ( electric drum, mGB, shitwave) don't need sav data, you can easily use the 64MB usb ems cart for lsdj (on the first "page") and all the others on the same cart (2nd "page" for everything else) as long as you're not planning to use them at the same time...

Cool! thanks a lot! That should do the trick!

http://thegaminguniverse.org/ninjagaiden4/mottzilla/

Finally got my EMS cart for the Game Boy! I've seen that there is quite a number of applications I can use with the Gameboy, I think I'll try them all sooner or later, but still... any suggestions on the things to try out first?

Also I've noticed that some ROMs won't work, any tips on what I should do or not do regarding this?

thanks a lot for the link! Yeah orange could be nice... and I agree the Nokia vibe has a certain charme

http://www.gameboymods.co.uk have a smaller range than kitsch, but is based in the UK and covers your basic gameboy modding needs.

I personally find orange to be the nicest backlight colour - soft, and gives that classic Nokia vibe

Ok the Cart thing has been solved. I have ordered the EMS one for now, and will consider a Derp when I have made my mind up about LSDJ.
Now I only need one more thing (well probably a bunch of those): a backlight for the DMG!

First of all, anybody knows a good place to buy such things in Europe? Otherwise I'm considering Kitsch-bent.

and second: I'm a bit clueless about which one to pick. I don't need multiple colours, just white would be fine for me, but I'd like something that isn't too aggressive on the eyes... so any experience you can share with me?

I'm ok with doing DIY (I've soldered/drilled/glued/dremeled enough stuff in the last years I can face any type of project now I think) I'm also thinking about adding an LTC-based pitch control to one of the DMGs, since I have a board lying around.

My plan is: take an EMS for the small stuff, and a Derp for LSDJ, but I have to decide if I want to have LSDJ at all... it had been sitting in my drawer for 2 years when I still had it, it somehow never grew on me...

I have one of the warped Bloops and it works perfectly in an official shell.

Yo littleFM will allow you to hold multiple LSDJ banks with a drag 'n' derp. So far, derps seem to be more reliable than certain eras of bleepbloops, so I would take bitjacker's advice with a li'l grain of salt.

LittleFM:
http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/02/04 … -released/
(there's also an 0.5.1 but all it adds is experimental EMS support:
http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/03/04 … fects-you/ )

do realize that lsdj consumes the entire cart. it wont allow other software to be present. unless you have a file manager or OLD version of lsdj.
if you can find a bleepbloop cart get one... dont even hesitate. i have ems, derp and bleepbloop. they all work. the bleepbloop cart sits on a shrine when it is not in my gameboy. the neat thing i guess is the bleepbloop cart has lsdj with a file manager (which gives me 6 different banks) so its like having 6 lsdj carts in one wonderful little plastic shell.

thanks a lot everybody! This has all been all very helpful, I have decided to buy an EMS now and then see how it works! If it turns out that flashing on the mac doesn't work properly I can alsways turn on my windows machine and try from there.
Being limited to just one rom on the Derp is not working for me.

For an EMS on MAC... refer to these.

https://ucollective.org/forums/topic.ph … mp;tid=356
http://chainsaw.musho.org/stuff/ems-on-mac/

Hmm, so basically the ideal thing would be to get a Derp for LSDJ and an EMS for the rest...
I had LSDJ but ended up selling it (ok I know some people will scream "how could you do that?") because it was one of those non-USB carts that needed a separate programmer.

I have the newer PCB-only Nanoloop cart, which works great!

I would still put LSDJ on the cart as an extra to have when I feel like using it, but for the rest it would be more for other things, smaller ROMs, like mGB or shitwave. Some of them fit on the Nanoloop cart, but the lastest version of mGB is already too big.

I read a lot about the EMS not working on Macs, but that apparently is old news. I guess I'll got that one then instead.