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That's really weird, i used visual boy and no$gba to test it while developing it, and on my crappy 1 gHz 'eee pc', and it ran fine, so i'd think its something unique to your setup or maybe its a different version of VBA to the one I had? It's also totally possible there's some horrendous bug in my code as well - as for the PSP emulator I remember testing it on some iPhone emulator and it didn't work at all...

Anyway let me know if you figure it out though. It *should* run fine on the flashcart!

Right now I'm not really able to work on this, but sometime in the future I'll sort out the syncing modes and save issues cause I really want to use this tool in some live setups! It seems the options for adding custom samples are either coding some gnarly rom patching tool, re-writing a new audio engine in ARM assembly (not going to happen anytime soon) or downloading the source & toolchain from git and re-compiling the rom with the new samples (which is a pain but i guess is already totally possible)

Jeez, so its uncommon in commercial gba games but it definitely is possible to manipulate the old hardware sound registers via software, and thats how goomba and FAT work. Therefore if goomba makes a noise on gba micro, then the gba micro must have the 'right' sound circuitry. I think there's some inconsistencies with the way goomba parses the data though so it maybe would sound weird. And the wav channels on gbc and gba are implemented pretty differently.

Anyway pretty cool that this tracker is back on track. Wait for years for a new gba music software and two come along at once what?

Hey I've never used but it seems fairly legit. You are aware that it doesn't actually include an arduinoboy though right? It's just got the optocoupler ic (basically the MIDI-in part of the arduino). You'd still need a teensy or an atmega chip if you wanted to build an arduinoboy. (Don't wanna sound patronizing if you already knew that.)

$35 for $5 of components seems a bit steep to me, but it's a real nice pcb and I guess the guys gotta eat.

Hey thanks for the feedback, I haven't been playing around with this at all recently - I'll try and fix those problems though. The save method is really unreliable at the moment, ideally I'd like to write a system so you can save more than one song on a cartridge, although I'm reaching the limit of what I can achieve in terms of 'feature creep'.

Yeah no worries mate, didn't mean to sound annoyed. I agree with you, and also ideologically with open source in general. Just didn't wanna rush to release sloppy code! Thanks for your interest though, it keeps me motivated to work on this, and make it tidier!

I def don't want another vaporware like m4g/fat, hence me not making huge slick announcements until I already had something pretty usable. I massively appreciate the support and kind words of everyone on the forum, and don't want to make promises I can't keep.

Actually I kinda just did everything I wanted to do, except test the latest changes on hardware. I wanna release it now cause I'm excited to share it with y'all, but expect things to maybe not work properly.

NEW DOWNLOAD LINK

Heres some of the stuff that changed:

-improved samples screen  (global volume/pitch/pan)
-improved patterns screen (cursor wraps, neater layout, still no key repeat yet i'm afraid )
-color modes
-various graphical improvements
-fixed controls and help screen!

-beta sync modes, "nano slave" only, works for me with "nano" mode on lsdj with 2xgba- not fully tested yet at all!! expect this not to work yet.

and maybe the save is a bit broken, and def not compatible with the last release.

Syncing with external sequencer, every pulse being a tick. (diy analog step sequencer)

And nanode, yeah the note tuning controls/interface are totally haphazard atm and will get sorted out soon. But if you have any suggestions for a better layout let me know!