GameBoy CD Player

Build a CD player with an old GameBoy, an ATAPI drive and some electronics. The CD player it's a kind of game cartridge to play CD. This is the final version, plug it to a GameBoy and listen to music!

Wanna see how it works?
http://personales.ya.com/proyecto_gb/ ->down
the new web page is http://perso.wanadoo.es/jordi__87/

Do you like it? Give me feedback please!

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Step 1: Get a GameBoy!

First of all we will need some things:

-A GameBoy to show track information and control the playing.

-A GameBoy cartridge: we will need it to interface the GameBoy to a board.

-An ATAPI drive to play the CD.

-A 12v-5v power supply.

-An interface board: we can find it at http://personales.ya.com/proyecto_gb . Go to Hardware section and build the schematics. We will talk about later.

engquiky says: Sep 5, 2011. 5:31 AM

Incredible!
It looks like the ship put into the Delorean in Back to the Future Part III !

dude22072 says: Apr 26, 2011. 2:56 PM

English site???

survivorwolf says: Nov 25, 2010. 4:38 PM

can you use a hard drive?

cdmaster says: Jul 4, 2010. 6:35 AM

how about adding a schematic of the ide port on the cd drive?

mariomurder says: Jul 20, 2008. 9:59 AM

did anyone else notice the serial number on the POP game???the first 3 letters are OMG. Fitting i think considering its fate. lololol

Kasm279 in reply to mariomurderJun 17, 2010. 6:24 PM

err, actually thats DMG, and its the model number. All the original US Game Boy games have DMG-xx-USA (where xx is the game, like Qix has QX) , just like the DS games say NTR-xxxx-USA, where something like Mario Kart says NTR-AMCE-USA or Metroid NTR-AMHE-USA

mariomurder in reply to Kasm279Jun 17, 2010. 8:42 PM

opps lol looked like a O to me

Kasm279 in reply to mariomurderJun 17, 2010. 11:13 PM

Yeah, that bit of dust/plastic shavings does make it look like an O. Had I not had a few of these carts i would have thought it was an O too :)

Colonel88 says: Oct 29, 2009. 12:50 PM

Can someone make an 'ible on how to make the GBA SP into a video player? It's got good battery life, and a pretty good LCD as well!

Kasm279 in reply to Colonel88Jun 17, 2010. 6:18 PM

Theres a thing called the Game Boy Movie Player just for that. Its found more use as a storage device for DS homebrew, though >.>

dude22072 says: Jan 6, 2010. 10:13 AM

Can you modify it so you could but a link cable on it and have sound coming from the GB?

sc4rzz says: Dec 18, 2009. 5:02 AM

very nice, doable project.
What did you use to flash the chip?

I'm thinking about recreating this, only with an atapi to SD adapter, and flash to chip to play the roms from the SD... that would be epic. Now for the code.. anyone that can help me with that?

dfc849 says: Jun 11, 2006. 12:26 AM

PPL on e word four letters IPOD much smaller, lighter, easier, and holds 750 times as much as a CD (60B) or 375 times as many (30GB) Nano: 50 times as much (4GB) 25 times (2GB) and thats a 20 song cd ( not common)

Colonel88 in reply to dfc849Oct 29, 2009. 12:52 PM

PPL the ipod costs freakin 150$ for only a 4gb nano. That's freakin too much! I bought a sandisk for only like 100$, and no im not advertising

ARVash in reply to dfc849Mar 10, 2007. 3:32 PM

One word.. Stupid.. Dfc, do you understand that this is Instructables, not Advertise apple overpriced products? Honestly .. try to use some grammar as well, this isn't aim. You know how much it costs for a 2 gb ipod? .. way too much.. XD.

ReCreate in reply to ARVashFeb 9, 2009. 5:28 PM

YEAH APPLE SUCKS sorry i just had to

drummonkey92 in reply to ARVashMay 12, 2008. 9:26 AM

he wasn't realy blatantly advertising apple products, he was just suggesting an improvement. that's pretty much what the comments are for. that said, it did seem a bit over the top to say the full range on ipods and how much more data they hold than a cd

dfc849 in reply to ARVashMay 10, 2008. 11:27 PM

Okay, I apologize for my unpleasant remark. Instructables is a creative community of smart, fun projects, not entirely of permanent solutions for everyday routine use, though some projects do serve as such a permanent solution or project. I realize the "GameBoy CD Player" is a project to have fun and play around with. My previous comment was, in face, quite stupid and inconsiderate.

dfc849 in reply to dfc849May 10, 2008. 11:34 PM

Typographical error: "face" is meant to be "fact"

nature223 in reply to ARVashMay 10, 2008. 9:40 PM

ahem...he's correct though,a nano 2 gb is way more portable and carries so much more dataload as to be a "why bother,but as an intellectual excersize". I have "only" 90 songs in my 2gb..it doesnt even register as IN there..tell me what CD/player contains 90 songs in a player I can stick with earbuds in a altoids tin,and charge off ANY USB port,including my Playstation2??

denniSinned in reply to nature223Jul 10, 2009. 11:54 AM

...IT PLUGS IN A PS2!?!?!

ultrauber in reply to denniSinnedSep 26, 2009. 10:02 AM

yeah ps2 has usb ports. at least the fat does. but after the old ipods they have blockers so it will only chg with itunes or apple approved chargers

arcarter369 in reply to ARVashNov 6, 2007. 5:01 PM

yea the 2 gb nano used to be about $150 USD but I bought an iPod classic for $250 USD and it is 80 GB and you would pay way more than that for even half the cds that it holds and you don't have to buy a new cd player every year because the old one broke and a new good one is about $100 USD so I wouldn't bad mouth a great product that saves millions of people tons of money and space! AC

Irregular Shed in reply to dfc849Jul 11, 2006. 7:26 AM

Have you never tried doing something just for the sake of it? I think this is great. And an iPod doesn't give you cause to learn something new, whereas Jordi's learnt about ATAPI, has built an interface for it that gets powered by a neat Z80 program on an interesting embedded platform, and has documented that journey. People like Jordi make the world a richer place.