Discussion about software development for the old-school Gameboys, ranging from the "Gray brick" to Gameboy Color
(Launched in 2008)
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Are you asking if there's any way to play a MIDI song on Game Boy?
What I've tried before is to convert the MIDI to MOD using OpenMPT, and then convert the MOD to GBT using mod2gbt, and then play the GBT on the Game Boy using GBT Player.
But when I tried this, it sounded horrible. (The MIDI file was specifically designed to use only three channels, and sounded great as a MIDI. I'm guessing that MIDI just doesn't convert to MOD very well...)
If anyone else has any other suggestions, I could use the help as well. Maybe some sort of tool to convert directly from MIDI to GBT? (I wonder how difficult or time-consuming it would be to write one? Maybe I'll try doing that, if I can't find any better options.)
Last edited by h0tp3ngu1n (2019-12-08 12:25:24)
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MIDI and MOD are different. MOD includes the sounds of the instruments in the file, MIDI doesn't. You can convert the notes easily, but the instruments are a different story.
That's why GBT Player has a template MOD file. It's not that any MOD file can work... only MOD files that are like that one.
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