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128•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 comments

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132•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•161 comments

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181•alephnerd•2h ago•125 comments

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57•thelok•4h ago•8 comments

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493•theblazehen•3d ago•178 comments

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231•alainrk•7h ago•366 comments

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19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

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278•isitcontent•22h ago•38 comments

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22•sandGorgon•2d ago•12 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version

https://www.wario.style
72•birdmania•1mo ago
Search any song, get a Gameboy version.

Emulates Nintendo's Sharp LR35902 sound hardware: 2 pulse waves for melody/harmony, 1 wave channel for bass, 1 noise for percussion.

Finds MIDI sources, parses tracks, maps to GB roles, resynthesizes with Web Audio. Everything runs client-side.

Site: https://www.wario.style

Open source: https://github.com/b1rdmania/motif

Hobby project, non commercial, so please don't sue me.

Comments

calmworm•1mo ago
It’s basically a midi search engine?

“No MIDI files found. Try a different search” …

memalign•1mo ago
It looks like it requires a MIDI which it then converts to sound like it’s coming out of a Gameboy.

Here’s what the FAQ says:

> How it works

>

> Search a song, pick a MIDI source, hit Generate. The Wario Synthesis Engine analyses the MIDI and resynthesises it using Web Audio oscillators tuned to mimic the Game Boy's 4-channel sound chip. All processing runs in your browser.

turnsout•1mo ago
Now just get Claude Code to build a hUGETracker exporter, and you could actually bring one of these songs into GB Studio!
calmworm•1mo ago
That’s fine, but “turn any song into…” is just a lie then.
ekipan•1mo ago
Cool enough I suppose, but the framing had me expecting the more farty twisted squarenoise instruments like in Wario Lands 1-3, and less smooth sines and squares. I tried out Kimi No Shiranai Monogatari and Daft Punk's Aerodynamic.

https://www.wario.style/s/yWHphmhO

https://www.wario.style/s/BSN15NEs

Maybe you could list examples for midis you thought sounded cool next time you share this, or in a comment.

Edit: though I guess a huge part of Wario flavor is the dissonant intervals in the music, as much as the farty instrumentation.

ekipan•1mo ago
Shoutouts to SimpleFlips: https://www.wario.style/s/BRwFnLDe

TTYD File Select: https://www.wario.style/s/paznaBKf

Chemical Plant Zone: https://www.wario.style/s/L7kD5jJP

Robo's Theme: https://www.wario.style/s/MzeU9PVc

Everyone's beloved Rick: https://www.wario.style/s/byMyoc3Z

Better MIDI search: <https://bitmidi.com/> I guess you could copypaste the 12345.mid id number into the Wario Synth URL, but it's a bit tedious.

oersted•1mo ago
Ra Ra Rasputin! :)

https://www.wario.style/s/B4FB7uz3

YeGoblynQueenne•1mo ago
Not fair. That's a video game soundtrack already.

... no but it so totally could be.

nunobrito•1mo ago
Add a download button, this was fun.
CatMustard•1mo ago
After 5 or 6 misses I found gimme gimme gimme by ABBA worked pretty well:

https://www.wario.style/s/owplrJi2

(first 20 seconds are junk but then it sounds a bit like a castlevania song)

ekipan•1mo ago
Wanted features: (1) a way to preview the original MIDI again from a share link like this so I could still compare. Searching "ABBA Gimme Gimme Gimme" found one with the title "ABBA Gimme Gimme Gimme L" so I can't be 100% sure it's the same. And (2) a seekbar for the preview as well.

Kinda weird that search results seem hard-capped at 5. I guess it keeps things simple.

Waterluvian•1mo ago
This is really cool!

Because I might learn something new: are there additional reasons for having an enable audio button that can’t be covered by the fact that the user has to interact with the page to Play the song anyways?

palisade•1mo ago
Boogie Wonderland https://www.wario.style/s/42pJyn4i
kbouck•1mo ago
A few fun ones:

Walk this way: https://www.wario.style/s/Eg9zi56k

Live and let die: https://www.wario.style/s/8qt4OfdS

Ramblin Man: https://www.wario.style/s/wSd51DBA

Smells like teen spirit: https://www.wario.style/s/CQq6Dc6f

Paranoid: https://www.wario.style/s/202Hs3lV

and of course...

Stairway to heaven: https://www.wario.style/s/SNPSmI8u

caminanteblanco•1mo ago
Always happy to listen to some Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb - https://www.wario.style/s/gODq0CUm
arthurstarlake•1mo ago
OOT Title theme - https://www.wario.style/s/qQ8kCQGX

Reminded me of the first time I learned to program, I made an "ocarina songs" player in the console. It plays 3 songs. I figured them note by note, finding the notes online, testing until it was right :) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lhIzyJLJbNTViWmh0bUlYMzg...

terrycody•1mo ago
I can't find a download and upload button, Do I missing sth here?