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Thank you for sharing this, just bought a GB BOY Colour! At that price it was tempting to get two of them but I controlled myself I've read that the sound on them is comparable to the original gameboy.

I actually recently released a pre-configured version of Raspbian for the raspberry pi that includes LGPT. It's in the early stages though, things like mounting USB drives and syncing to MIDI are not yet complete in my release (I hope in future to have time to make a more advanced boot menu that allows this), but if you run the app on the desktop it should be possible to setup, since these are just the limitations of being in the terminal - the LGPT app itself should support midi just fine. It's not too tricky to run LGPT on the raspberry pi actually, you just download the Debian version, extract it to a folder, then plop the Pi exe in the bin folder, chmod it 777, then run that.

Very modern sound done with retro parts - great stuff

Sure, I'll make a note!

Cool, thanks for the feedback. Really this is sort of a proof-of-concept level to show it can be done. My ultimate goal was the boot menu to be a console based SDL app that was more visually appealing, but I'm not sure if I have the available time to do something like that.

Most of your points seem more oriented around your own personal setup, though you make a good point about automounting the USB, right now the user has to cancel out to the shell and use the mount commands which is never fun - I'm thinking that this bootmenu itself could detect when a flash drive is inserted and mount it.

Also the whole issue of MIDI is a bit difficult, I haven't done anything with that on the Pi yet, have no idea how that would work with everyone's different midi devices etc.

I work full time as a web developer, and I've previously worked as a software developer. However I do have a degree in music composition, though the way the world is now this degree is pretty useless when it comes to jobs - it is getting harder to find decent paying jobs as HR people love to throw out unqualified candidates, even though I have nearly 5 years experience.

I make a decent living, but after 8 hours a day in front of the computer screen, plus socializing with my girlfriend, it leaves very little time left for music. Right now I'm also doing work on the side to help pay off some credit card debt, so really there's no time for music left at all. It sucks - music is my passion but I'm forced into something I don't really care about that much just to pay the bills. It could be worse, it isn't manual labour, but it's still a drag.

I think a big part of it depends where you live as well, Vancouver is a very cool city, but it's a place where you have to work your ass off to have any sort of decent standard of living as housing and car insurance is so expensive. This means the buzzy areas for music and art are in more affordable cities, in Canada I've heard Regina talked about a lot as "the new music capital" for it's arts programs and cheap rehearsal space, and in the US I've heard a few things happening in Detroit where you can live incredibly cheaply there. How appealing those places are in general is another matter entirely though.

Yep sound is messed up on the AtGames SEGA Genesis clones - the PSG is 5 semitones to low or something like that. I have one and it sounds horrible.

The Sega Genesis Retrogen shown here has a cart slot, I've never played on or owned one though so I don't know if it's any good.