{"id":17729,"date":"2018-04-19T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/weirdness_watch_in_horror_as_a_game_boy_gets_tortured_in_the_name_of_music"},"modified":"2018-04-19T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:30:00","slug":"weirdness-watch-in-horror-as-a-game-boy-gets-tortured-in-the-name-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/19\/weirdness-watch-in-horror-as-a-game-boy-gets-tortured-in-the-name-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Weirdness: Watch In Horror As A Game Boy Gets Tortured In The Name Of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/weirdness_watch_in_horror_as_a_game_boy_gets_tortured_in_the_name_of_music\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8T5S1kIofmE?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The humble Game Boy has long been used as a musical instrument by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2014\/04\/ninterview_joe_heaton_on_the_joy_of_game_boy_mods_and_chiptune_music\">chiptune enthusiasts<\/a>, but this latest audio &#8220;hack&#8221; really doesn&#8217;t just take the biscuit &#8211; it steals the entire jar and gobbles them all down in one go.<\/p>\n<p>YouTuber\u00a0<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCafxR2HWJRmMfSdyZXvZMTw\">LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; who does loads of really interesting and experimental things with old tech &#8211; decided to put some of faulty Game Boy consoles through the grinder to see what he could come up with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0soldered a wire from an oscillator to the timing crystal of the Game Boy itself, allowing him to override the timing and use the oscillator to muck about with the Game Boy&#8217;s CPU speed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The results are pretty interesting (there&#8217;s also some bad language in the footage, so be warned) &#8211; if a little upsetting for those of you who have a special bond with the trusty DMG-001. At least these ill units are being put to some use, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] The humble Game Boy has long been used as a musical instrument by chiptune enthusiasts, but this latest audio &#8220;hack&#8221; really doesn&#8217;t just take the biscuit &#8211; it steals the entire jar and gobbles them all down in one go. YouTuber\u00a0LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER\u00a0&#8211; who does loads of really interesting and experimental things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}