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#1 2023-05-27 16:57:07

mattu82
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How do you play music in gbdk? GamingMonsters tutorial not working.

I was following GamingMonsters tutorial ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W7j3GQSmvU ) to play music in gbdk, but it is not working for me.

I downloaded their code from https://github.com/gingemonster/GamingM … king_music and ran the makefile, but the output is not right. The .gb file still plays sound, but it is a garbled mess, definitely not what was intended.

I suspect that there was some change in gbdk2020 that makes this code no longer valid, but I am not sure what that would be. Hoping someone more savvy can figure out what I'm missing here.

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#2 2023-05-27 22:59:46

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Re: How do you play music in gbdk? GamingMonsters tutorial not working.

Sure enough, I installed the old gbdk from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gbdk/files/ , and then the makefile produced the desired output. So there is something new in gbdk2020 breaking it.

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#3 2023-05-29 14:18:18

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Re: How do you play music in gbdk? GamingMonsters tutorial not working.

Probably you need this change to support the updated calling convention:
https://github.com/AntonioND/gbt-player … cbc7d9ef6f


However, HugeTracker is the more modern way to play music with GBDK and provides better sound and capabilities.
https://github.com/SuperDisk/hUGETracker


In general for these kinds of things, you can check two parts of the GBDK 2020 documentation.

"Migrating From Pre-GBDK-2020 Tutorials"
https://gbdk-2020.github.io/gbdk-2020/d … totoc_md23


"Migrating to new GBDK Versions"
https://gbdk-2020.github.io/gbdk-2020/d … sions.html

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#4 2023-05-30 20:29:48

mattu82
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Re: How do you play music in gbdk? GamingMonsters tutorial not working.

Ah, yep. I replaced the gbt_player files with the latest and that fixed it.

I hadn't come across hUGETracker yet, I will have to check that out next. Thanks!

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