GBA MML Music Player (Demo)

You can play and add songs.

Requirements

• gcc, make (For amd64)
• GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain
  • With your package manager (distributed as binutils-arm-none-eabi or something)
  • Direct download from official site)
  • From devkitPro devkitARM (feature-rich, multi-purpose with other utilities)
• Emulator such as mGBA (Optional)

Usage

To play a demo:

    cd src/
    make

And feed the main.gba to your GBA emulator or actual device.

This demo includes:

• "Gymnopedie No.1" (Erik Satie)
• "12 Variationen über ein französisches Lied 'Ah, vous dirai-je, maman'" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

To add songs:

First, prepare your song in MML format. The MML style supported are Mabinogi style and mjapa.jp style (Both are quite similar). Note that not all syntaxes are recognized so far.

• Reference:
  • Mabinogi MML
  • mjapa.jp MML

Now basic syntax manual is available: MML Style Overview

If you get ready:

    cd mml/
    make
    ./mml2dmg your_mml_filename_here

It converts MML to C array format.

(TODO: automate procedures from here.)

Copy the output, paste the array definitions beginning with const to the separate file in the src/ (e.g. song_newsong.c).

Add the declaration of tracks of your song to the file (e.g. const unsigned char *tracks_newsong[4] ={xxx_1, xxx_2, xxx_3, xxx_4}). xxx is your song name.

Create a new header (e.g. src/song_newsong.h) with contents similar to the following:

extern const unsigned char *tracks_gymno1[4];

(TODO: automate procedures until here.)

Modify songdata.c to include the header file, and add the track to songs array, like:

#include "song_newsong.h"

const uint8 **songs[] = {
    tracks_gymno1, tracks_ttls, tracks_newsong
    0 // sentinel
};

Then add the object file requisites to OSONGS in Makefile. It will look like this:

OSONGS = \
    song_ttls.o \
    song_gymno1.o \
    song_newsong.o

Finally, run make in src directory, and play the ROM.

The songs are indexed in the order of songs array.

About mml2dmg

mml2dmg has several options.

• -pX shifts pitch by X (integer)
• -oX shifts octave by X (integer)

If you see an error "Note number under 36!" or "Note number over 127!", it means that one or more notes are "out of octave range (= not in C2 to A9)".

Then you should try -o or -p options.

• -vX specifies the velocity scaling mode

Available parameters are:

X	Maximum velocity is
w	255
m	15 (like Mabinogi MML, etc.)
(-v is omitted)	127 (like mjapa style, MIDI, etc.)

Credit

Bitmap Font

Free, redistributable and modifiable "Misaki Font" by Num Kadoma 🏠 Web site