The humble Game Boy has long been used as a musical instrument by chiptune enthusiasts, but this latest audio "hack" really doesn't just take the biscuit - it steals the entire jar and gobbles them all down in one go.
YouTuber LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - who does loads of really interesting and experimental things with old tech - decided to put some of faulty Game Boy consoles through the grinder to see what he could come up with.
He soldered a wire from an oscillator to the timing crystal of the Game Boy itself, allowing him to override the timing and use the oscillator to muck about with the Game Boy's CPU speed.
The results are pretty interesting (there's also some bad language in the footage, so be warned) - if a little upsetting for those of you who have a special bond with the trusty DMG-001. At least these ill units are being put to some use, right?
[source youtube.com]
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Wtf.. a chocolate tea pot is of more use to the world.
@Multi Huh? I have no idea what you mean by that!
This fella just comes across as trying way too hard to be "edgy," he's rather annoying actually.
That Christmas mismatched casing might've been charming bit given the context feels more like Toy Story Sid.
I thought that was really cool. Sent it to Carl Craig on twitter cool.
I'm happy to say see the Gameboy fight back and produce some pretty awesome audio. Just a shame it didn't fry the guy on it.
Isn't this the same guy who built that horrifyingly awesome Furby organ?
The presenter might be the human equivalent of a sawtooth wave, but it's a genuinely interesting video he's put together.
Always fascinating to see old tech broken down to its fundamentals and manipulated in novel ways. In fact, the whole idea of exploring and expanding upon 'withered technology' was one of Nintendo's core design philosophies for a long time, and is still perhaps evidenced by the fact we're all lining up to play with reanimated cardboard.
So I applaud the thinking and general lunacy behind this, and will happily accept the onslaught of gloh'all stops that come with it.
"The humble Game Boy has long been used as a musical instrument by chiptune enthusiasts, but this latest audio "hack" really doesn't just take the biscuit - it steals the entire jar and gobbles them all down in one go."
Was the author and/or editor of the article referencing what some folks might call a cookie?
The bad language warning is more appreciated than you'd think! 😄
Futures, monkey muff!
@Mario500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit
There's more than one kind of "Game Boy Horror"!
(If you've played Luigi's Mansion, you'll get what I mean.)
He reminds me of Nam Rood a little bit, in the small dark room with loads of wires and stuff
@Damo
I did not understand your response to my question (I was expecting either a "yes" or a "no" to the question).
@Mario500 Yes. People in America call them cookies. People in Britain call them biscuits. People in Britain still call them biscuits when writing articles on dismembered Gameboys. Biscuits are cookies. Cookies are biscuits. B is for biscuit. And biscuits are for tea.
Anyone know about Atarimatt? Saw him at Classic Game Fest in Austin, TX, last July.
Dude has two old giant wooden-box-on-the-floor TVs stacked on top of one another, two Atari 2600s with the audio going through a guitar pedal board, and I'm guessing a few copies of the 'teach yourself programming' title with various labels indicating different sections of music and visual whatnots.
It was a trip, and it was like 2pm when I saw him.
he is vying with Jamie Oliver for a place in front of the firing squad but that was a genuinely novel and interesting hack
@Maxz: I remember being slightly confused on that word when reading Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix back in the day. Thankfully context clues solved that one!
...Unlike the word "torch" in Prince Caspian. That one took me awhile, though I was admittedly pretty young at the time. XD Gotta love English!
@samuelvictor ha, a fellow furtler! I never knew at the time, but his name is Door Man backwards. The show just keeps on giving.
@samuelvictor thanks for the heads up, not heard of this until now! I recognise most of those names too. Will it be broadcast on YouTube?
He looks like Christian Slater in 'Gleaming the cube'
@samuelvictor thanks for the info! No idea how I missed this. I’ll definitely be watching it, and will spread the word!
Poor Warioland!
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