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!

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.

Comments

[engquiky]

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

[dude22072]

English site???

[survivorwolf]

can you use a hard drive?

[cdmaster]

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

[mariomurder]

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]

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]

opps lol looked like a O to me

[Kasm279]

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]

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]

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]

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

[sc4rzz]

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]

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]

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]

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]

YEAH APPLE SUCKS sorry i just had to

[drummonkey92]

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]

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]

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

[nature223]

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]

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

[ultrauber]

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]

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]

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.

[ultimatesx9]

can you use a GBA SP aswell? ive got one (somewhere) and id find it eaiser that getting a pocket

[team_nes_1986]

... Or you could hook it up to the Game Boy Player for GameCube and then your TV could display the track info. Say, there's idea.

[denniSinned]

or just play the CD in a playstation 2 and not have to do all those complicated things. theres an idea too.

[ultimatesx9]

A. Please can you give me a step by step or something & B how do i burn the GB file to the chip?

[team_nes_1986]

I never thought to use chip sockets as a jumper system. Thanks for the idea, dude. :-)

[guy12]

this is cool but a little confusing

[jj32x]

Do you think it would be possible to hook it up to a hard drive and boot linux/windows/other operating system on the gameboy?

[jordi87]

No, I don't think GameBoy is a supported arquitecture for linux and windows. I don't know if there are operating systems especially for GameBoy.

[ReCreate]

there may be an emulator...though it would run...ha quite quite slow!

[ultimatesx9]

i cant anyway, its only 8-bit, OS's need at least 16-bits or more, color might help to

[anthonywin]

What's the point

[HammyHavoc]

Because we can. And it's hardcore, duh [:

[ultimatesx9]

this reminds me of the mega\sega CD for the mega drive

[HardCoreHacker]

Will it work on a micro?

[craig3]

seeing as how you cant play gameboy colour games on a micro, it might not work

[ultimatesx9]

like the DS, the micro has two peices of plastic where the GBA compatibility switch is