GSM Player GBA: Difference between revisions

GSM Player
GSM Player
	File:Gsmplayer2.png
General
Author	Damian Yerrick
Type	Media players
Version	2021
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2021/07/07
Links
	[2004 Download]
	Website
	[2019 Source]

Revision as of 06:12, 8 September 2022

GSM Player is an audio player made by porting the GSM RPE-LTP (also called GSM Full Rate) audio codec, which has been used in mobile phones, to the Game Boy Advance. Now you can use your GBA as a portable music player, with up to 150 minutes of Good Sounding Music on a 256 Mbit flash cart.

From mid-2004 to mid-2019, GSM Player for GBA went unmaintained, and changes to popular GBA homebrew toolchains rendered it unbuildable. The repository ports the application to a more recent version of devkitARM.

Building

If building from Release 20040823:

Drop some .wav files in the wavs folder and then run Go.bat (Windows 95, 98, and ME users should run Go-win9x.bat instead).
This should produce a ROM called gsm.gba, which you can write to a GBA flash cartridge.

If building from source:

make build/allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba
padbin 256 build/allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba
Convert audio files to GSM at 18157 Hz (a nonstandard rate; see docs/lying_to_sox.txt for how to force this in SoX and FFmpeg).
Pack them into a single GBFS file using gbfs included with devkitARM tools: gbfs gsmsongs.gbfs *.gsm
Concatenate the player and the songs.
- On Windows: copy /b build\allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba+gsmsongs.gbfs allnewgsm.gba
- On UNIX: cat build/allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba gsmsongs.gbfs > allnewgsm.gba

Controls

Left/Right - Previous/Next track

L - Seek left/right

Select - lock/unlock controls

Start - pause/resume playback

A+B+Select+Start - Reset GBA, such as to exit to your loader menu (works only on Visoly and F2A carts)

External links

Author's website - https://pineight.com/gba/gsm/
GitHub - https://github.com/pinobatch/gsmplayer-gba

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 ==Building==
-'''To build from Release 20040823:'''
+If building from Release 20040823:
+* Drop some .wav files in the wavs folder and then run Go.bat (Windows 95, 98, and ME users should run Go-win9x.bat instead).
+* This should produce a ROM called gsm.gba, which you can write to a GBA flash cartridge.
-To build a GBA ROM containing several recordings, just drop some .wav files in the wavs folder and then run Go.bat (Windows 95, 98, and ME users should run Go-win9x.bat instead).
+If building from source:
+* <code>make build/allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba</code>
-This should produce a ROM called gsm.gba, which you can write to a GBA flash cartridge.
+* <code>padbin 256 build/allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba</code>
+* Convert audio files to GSM at 18157 Hz (a nonstandard rate; see [https://github.com/pinobatch/gsmplayer-gba/blob/master/docs/lying_to_sox.txt docs/lying_to_sox.txt] for how to force this in SoX and FFmpeg).
-'''To build from the source:'''
+* Pack them into a single GBFS file using gbfs included with devkitARM tools: <code>gbfs gsmsongs.gbfs *.gsm</code>
+* Concatenate the player and the songs.
-If build from source:
+** On Windows: <code>copy /b build\allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba+gsmsongs.gbfs allnewgsm.gba</code>
-<code>make build/allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba</code>
+** On UNIX: <code>cat build/allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba gsmsongs.gbfs > allnewgsm.gba</code>
-<code>padbin 256 build/allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba</code>
-Convert audio files to GSM at 18157 Hz (a nonstandard rate; see [https://github.com/pinobatch/gsmplayer-gba/blob/master/docs/lying_to_sox.txt docs/lying_to_sox.txt] for how to force this in SoX and FFmpeg)
-Pack them into a single GBFS file using gbfs included with devkitARM tools: <code>gbfs gsmsongs.gbfs *.gsm</code>
-Concatenate the player and the songs.
-On Windows: <code>copy /b build\allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba+gsmsongs.gbfs allnewgsm.gba</code>
-On UNIX: <code>cat build/allnewgsm-bare_mb.gba gsmsongs.gbfs > allnewgsm.gba</code>
 ==Controls==