1 Reply by Bizcochitos

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catskull wrote:

On midi out mode, do any of the LED's light up when LSDJ sends midi data? If not, it's probably an issue with your link cable connection. Even if midi in works, midi out will use some different link cable pins.

If the LED's do light up, it's probably just the MIDI jack wired wrong. Try swapping the two wires going to it.

Well! It was just as the next command said, I just added some q commands and switched two wires and everything started working flawlessly.
I'm so proud I made this thing work :-)

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2 Reply by Bizcochitos

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Fuck yeah! I got it to work! The octocoupler was upside down :').
Midi out lsdj still doesn't work, Any suggestions?

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3 Topic by Bizcochitos

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Hi all!

I've managed to make an arduinoboy with a funduino board (cheaper). I wanted to try if it worked but midi input-output doesn't really work at all.
Here are some things that happen:

-The led startup phase seems ok, but the status led isn't ON except sometimes when the game boy is connected but switched off (?).

-The leds for the modes only blink when selected and then they turn off.

-The lsdj-master with arduinoboy-master works fine, the status led follows the tempo and the others blink for each bar (1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4....).

-Lsdj slave mode is always busy or breaks when trying to connect it (in older versions of lsdj). When switching modes it starts when certain mode is selected but it gets stuck until I change the sync mode.

-Midi output mode (for lsdj) and midi input mode (for mgb) don't work, any of the midi ports seem to be doing anything at all.

-When switching modes on the gb it gets stuck on keyboard mode until I switch off and on the arduino.

My guess was that the optocoupler was faulty or something, but none of the midi ports work (neither input or output! with lsdj 4.8.8 midi output mode) Later I tried switching some wires to make sure nothing was turned around, but I only managed to get a weird midi output thing.

I'm using a usb-midi interface (https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B01J9Z … &psc=1) and Ableton Live Suite connected to it, also an EMS 64 usb cart and a DMG 01 (i've got two, none of them seem to work...). For making the gb cable i've used the original arduinoboy sheet and I've ripped one of the sides of the gb cable to see where each wire goes.

Does anyone know how can I fix this? I'll upload photos of anything needed.

http://imgur.com/a/fvexb here are some photos of the assembly and the gb cable. (The gb cable also has a center non-plastic covered wire , but I don't know what to do with that one)

(Sorry for bad English! )

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4 Reply by Bizcochitos

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urbster1 wrote:

I would like to link to the El Cheapo SD FAQ as it probably does a better job of explaining how it works, but I will do my best to explain it here.... Hope this helps!

Well that was a pretty good explanation and I feel like that's the cartridge that suits my needs the most! Thank you a lot. I was going to buy one of those but seems like sending it to Spain from kitsch bent  will take forever... I've seen another Spanish web that sells the ems 64m so I'll make my decission.

Thanks a lot for all the replies, I didn't really spect so many! . I've read all of them and I've learned quite a lot! I'll keep posting when I get the cart

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5 Topic by Bizcochitos

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Hello everyone! I'm new to this forum and I'm introducing myself into the lsdj-making music with the game boy thing. (I'm sorry for my English, I'm Spanish actually...)

Here's my problem: I don't really know how flash cartridges work, I haven't found anything about it after some research and I'd like to buy a flash cart that works with LSDJ but also with some game boy games. (Only GB games, not gbc).
I've seen that usb 64m smart card doesn't support multiple saves, does that mean I can only have one song on lsdj at a time? I found that BennVenn has released a "El cheapo SD flash cart" that can support multiple save files... but I haven't found a single guide that explains how to get the roms in the sd and make them work...

My question is: What is the best decission to make music out of the gb? El cheapo or Usb 64m? And if el cheapo is a better idea, does anyone have a tutorial that explains how to make things work(put roms into the cart, manage save files...)? I'm a little bit lost and I'd like to buy the best option.

I'm sorry If this isn't the right forum to ask this questions. Thanks for reading!

Z H E

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