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       Show HN: Wario Synth - Turn any song into Game Boy version
        
       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.
        
       Author : birdmania
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2026-01-01 10:25 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.wario.style)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.wario.style)
        
       | calmworm wrote:
       | It's basically a midi search engine?
       | 
       | "No MIDI files found. Try a different search" ...
        
         | memalign wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | Now just get Claude Code to build a hUGETracker exporter, and
           | you could actually bring one of these songs into GB Studio!
        
       | ekipan wrote:
       | 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
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       | 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.
        
       | oersted wrote:
       | Ra Ra Rasputin! :)
       | 
       | https://www.wario.style/s/B4FB7uz3
        
       | nunobrito wrote:
       | Add a download button, this was fun.
        
       | CatMustard wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | 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.
        
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