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Download the .NSF for the game and listen to it in an emulator if you'd like. You can find it on Zophar.
This was the only Famicom game produced using this expansion chip, so this is the only real bit of first-party VRC7 music that you'll find "in the wild," so to speak.
EDIT: All of this stuff is pretty well documented, FYI. Get FamiTracker if you haven't played with that yet, and start experimenting! 
Oh hey little thread~
I'm not around much these days, but I went to considerable trouble learning how to make DMG-04 to PS/2 adapter capables, so I'll try to get some informative pictures up in the near future when I have some time.
There's a lot of good information in my old LSDj keyboard thread, which was active when GoingHam and I got our first working LSDj keyboard setups together.
EDIT: here's a link to the specific post with information about the keyboard I've used successfully and like to use when making LSDj keyboards on commission.
I don't have a handy explanation or ready answer, but try this on a computer running Windows XP if at all possible.
The EMS Inter-Link driver doesn't seem to play nice with some newer USB implementations for whatever reason; if you have an old computer with a Windows XP install collecting dusk somewhere, hook it up and give it a shot. You can also try running WinXP in a virtual machine or a separate partition.
We are friendly people. 
I encourage you to make contact if there's even a remote possibility you'll come through during SXSW; formally or informally.
Also if you come through and it's not during SXSW. 
I had forgot Freq 801! it's nice. I should manage to install Yamaha XG on my Windows XP... I don't know why I can't make Legacy Drivers work, I read that it's possible.
Legacy drivers only work on an MSDOS based version of windows, to my knowledge. If you have a computer with the proper hardware (that is, an XG chipset connected to an SB-Link header on the motherboard), they should work fine.
I've managed to correctly install the legacy drivers and run AT2 in Win98SE on a computer with an XG chipset, but no sound — I don't have a motherboard with the right SB-Link header to use the OPL3 functionality.
i believe in you. CGB version, perhaps? Wishful thinking / low demand?
The CGB and the MGB both are single circuit board designs with a separate LCD attached to a smaller ribbon cable that the one found in the DMG. Modern frontlit/backlit premanufactured drop-in replacements for those Game Boy models would be very different products that what resident Game Boy Wizard kitsch seems to be developing.
Semantics Moment with Telerophon:
The readily available backlight kits we are all familiar with are true backlights: Their installation involves removing the two part reflective foil and polarizing film backing to replace it with an internal light source. This is true for both MGB screens and DMG screens.
The somewhat popular frontlight modification for CGB involves removing the frontlight panel from a (hopefully) broken GBA SP, and then installing it into a CGB between the existing LCD and the screen protector. These sorts of screens by design cannot be backlit with the same method typically used in the DMG and MGB.
The Backlit LCD on the AGB SP-101 was the first of its kind available in a Nintendo handheld to be a truly backlit color LCD. Afterwards, I believe all of the DS models have used similar screens.
Designing, manufacturing, and selling a Backlit CGB LCD drop-in kit likely wouldn't be impossible; however, conceiving, designing, and manufacturing such a product would far exceed my technical capacity.
A penguin, having reached the middle of his life, realizes his office job at the zoo aquarium is really middling. He has trouble accepting that this is all he will get out of life. Crisis is upon him.
Having considered his place in life, he decides new experiences and reaffirmation of self are what he needs, and he sets out to do this in a most American of ways: ROAD TRIP!
Halfway through his trip, he has reached the desert, near the border with Arizona and Nevada. At this point, his car breaks down and proceeds to spew steam from under the hood.
He quickly surmises that this setback is beyond the scopes of his penguin powers; and he, being a penguin stranded in the desert, is in mortal peril. Unsure of his fate, he resolves to keep a stiff upper beak; and sticks a flipper out behind his car on the roadside, waiting…
Fortunately, not too much later; he's given a ride into town, which is only a couple miles away. At the nearest garage, he gets the mechanic to tow his car back into town. Once they get the car into the shop, the mechanic says "Well hey, fella, it's gonna take me a bit to figure out what's up with her. Why don't you come back in about an hour?"
The penguin agrees, and considers what to do with his hour in the small desert town, realizing he will likely never be there again. He begins to wander the town, observing the auspices of rural desert life.
A while later, he comes across an ice cream shop a few blocks from the garage, pausing, and then realizing how perfect it is. He, a down on his luck penguin, had found an Ice Cream shop! In the desert! He knew immediately the comfort an ice cream cone would bring him.
Walking up to the counter, he is entranced by the thirty some-odd flavors. He samples many, but settles on a gold standard and personal favorite: Two Scoops of Vanilla Bean ice cream in a waffle cone. He's so excited at the prospect of his desert ice cream after the trials of the day that he doesn't even notice how messily he's eating the ice cream. Being a penguin, his flippers and beak are ill equipped for ice cream consumption.
After finishing his ice cream, he basks in his own satisfaction for a minute before walking back to the garage. When he walks in the door at the auto shop, the mechanic shouts at him from across the garage:
"It looks like you just blew a seal!"
"Oh… no, dude, it's just ice cream!"
You will all be happy to know
that I located my user name and password
and am now making LSDJ tracks on my new PC
in my secret lab that is an annex and hideaway of sorts
from my main studioI keep all my consoles stored here
and recently purchased my atari2600 keyboard controllers
so I can use my synth cart properlyNow only time will tell if I use this liar for good
or if I waste countless hours watching RAI and American Pickers and Youtube
when I should be creatingThank You all for the help
Beautiful poetry here, dude.
i didn't
This is great.
You are great.
This is just how the LSDj keyboard works. Every frame in which you have a key pressed during realtime play back, it triggers the note.
It's very simplistic compared to something more elegant, like a MIDI compliant device.
You might be able to create something that sounds like sustain using a very clever combination of tables and effects, but I don't think you'll be able to ever easily do what you're describing with the LSDj keyboard by itself.
EDIT: If I had anything close to good advice, it'd just be to keep playing with your patches and tables designed for use with the keyboard in real time. You might come up with something that solves the problem, or something that renders that problem irrelevant for your music.
I'd also like to buy one of these. I figured I'd bump this thread instead of posting a new one, though.
Please get in touch with me if you have one them that still works and you would like to sell it.
Otherwise, I guess I'm building my own...
Yessssssss
Hahaha Peter with the fucking X-Metals spray can.
Why are you not a DJ anymore? You could always do some traditional DJing between sets and mix in your own work as a chipmusician.
If I had a dollar for every time I got a caustic burn from having the cooler of original recipe Four Loko dumped on me…
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