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Or you could clean the existing one by getting some rubbing alcohol into the wipers with a Q-tip and rolling it back and forth a few dozen times. That might do it, I've had the wipers stick in a couple of mine before.

Yeah, if I ever get a good instrumental single I'm happy with, I might try my hand at tracking out a deflemask or carillon "Single Edition" for ROM cart distribution.

ROM Carts for game boy cost maybe $10-$15 in parts to produce, so that's an expensive novelty, but it's also something unique to chipmusicianship as far as merch goes.

I've been researching something like this long enough to know that it will take me a good while to ever do it as well as I would like to.

As for examples, MorphCat released an NES music disc called Turquoise Palace.

Apparently preceding that was VegaVox by Alex Mauer and NO CARRIER, and NO CARRIER later released an open source version of that framework called VegaPlay.

So, this has been done on the NES a few times and could be done again without too much trouble.

As for Game Boy, I'm not aware of a Game Boy music disc having been made before.

Some trackers, like Carillon and DefleMask, have tools to compile a ROM that plays a single song. In theory, one could patch custom graphics into one of those ROMs to make a PROM cart single without being a proficient ASM programmer.

Oh, cool, I didn't know that Anamanaguchi used Game Boy formally as well. I guess that makes sense for "Mermaid" since it's got so much atmospheric stereo pan and echo. That bubblegum paintjob matching set is pretty fresh.

I agree with 4mat. Letting the hardware upstage the musicianship is a problem, but the relationship the hardware has with the musicianship is interesting since the art is a product of the limitations and constraints in some regards.

Anyway, as it pertains to the article, I think it's good that the emphasis isn't on hardware, but I think if they are going to go past "old computer with sound synthesis chip running custom software to create music," then they should endeavor to get the details and facts they bring in accurate.

Well, since this thread is still going, here's an unironic post:

I scored both of these as includes with Craigslist or Goodwill Game Boys. It worked out pretty well!

Politely telling someone that they are wrong on twitter isn't trolling or grounds for a ban.

I'll agree that it's esoteric and hard to research as an outsider, and I certainly don't know anywhere near an expertise-level amount.

That said, how hard is it to find out on google that Anamanaguchi uses an NES, not a Game Boy?