RegTheEvil - Forward⚡ (Song made with LSDj, EZ-FLASH Jr., Game Boy Player & Game Boy Advance SP)

You can download my song in MP3 & Game Boy save file format (.sav file) from this link (both .sav and .MP3 are inside zip-file):

https://a0a47e39-74e6-4236-9c24-0c1c01fd6a8a.usrfiles.com/archives/a0a47e_63b92b3ac0644df1bbe17f819be905e6.zip?dn=RegTheEvil_-_Forward%E2%9A%A1_-_2024_GB-LSDj_sav-file%2BMP3_22032024.zip

If you use the included sav-file, you can play the song with your original Game Boy hardware by using EZ Flash Junior Game Boy cartridge or something similar and use LSDj Game Boy software, preferably version 9.3.9 because this song has been made with that version. It's possible the song will play with any version of LSDj but I haven't tested this. You may have trouble playing it with emulators though. I tried to play it with VisualBoyAdvance version 1.7.2 and I couldn't hear all the instruments and the ones that I was able to hear, sounded weird at times. It's possible that some other emulators or newer version of VisualBoyAdvance works better with my song but you will have to experiment this to find out which one works the best.

I used the combination of GameCube's Game Boy Player at my home & Game Boy Advance SP at coffee shop to make this song using LSDj software on EZ-FLash Jr. Game Boy cartridge. The regular version of LSDj doesn't work properly with EZ-Flash IV Omega that uses Game Boy Advance cartridge (I have tested this myself) but there might be Goomba-builds that support it. You can't save LSDj songs using Omega and the song's playback speed is reduced. Also if you move around the screen with your d-pad, then the song speed reduces even more. This may be the case possibly because Game Boy and Game Boy Color games (not Game Boy Advance games) on GBA cartridge work through Goomba-emulation and regular LSDj versions are not optimized for Goomba emulator. If you use EZ-Flash Jr. Game Boy cartridge intead of Omega that's for GBA, then you can access Game Boy hardware directly without Goomba emulation.

You can download LSDj software from here: https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/latest/rom_images/stable/lsdj9_3_9-stable.zip

Consider donating to its author here: https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/

I bought my EZ-Flash Jr. Game Boy cartridge from this website: https://www.micomputer.es/en

If you check the newest LSDj manual from here: https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/latest/documentation/LSDj_9_2_6.pdf

you can find this text from page 14:

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Certain Game Boy Advance/Nintendo DS cartridges do not work with
Little Sound Dj. If you have problems with such a cartridge, try one of the
Little Sound Dj builds named “Goomba”.

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I haven't tried Goomba-builds myself so I don't know how well they work with EZ-Flash IV Omega and whether or not you can save your songs with that combination but you can find Goomba builds here: https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/latest/rom_images/goomba/

I recorded video visuals from Game Boy Advance SP and sounds from Game Boy Player because Game Boy Player had loudest sound output and much less noise than second best Game Boy Advance SP or the worst of the three Game Boy Advance. I tested them all to find out which one has the best sounding audio and Game Boy Player is the clear winner. I recorded sounds using M-Audio Delta 44 PCI sound card on my old and still in use WIN7-PC and Cockos Reaper software to record audio. What you see and hear in this video is partially "fake" because sound is not captured from Game Boy Advance SP even though visuals are. However I made this song using both Game Boy Advance SP and Game Boy Player so in a way it makes sense to combine them both in this video the way I did.