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1. Music
2. Restrictions on submit
3. Voting
4. See also

GB Studio is a quick and easy, drag and drop development tool for creating Gameboy (and Gameboy Color) games which are playable on a real system. The software aims to be usable even by those without programming experience, though functionality exists to dig deeper under the hood, if desired.

Official website - https://www.gbstudio.dev/
Donload - https://chrismaltby.itch.io/gb-studio
Documentation - https://www.gbstudio.dev/docs/

Music

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GB Studio offers a couple different options for including music in your game:

1) .uge files, which are editable both in GB Studio itself (piano roll layout) and with hUGETracker (link

), a Gameboy music tracker

2) .mod files, using a particular template that GB Studio can read from, editable with some external software such as OpenMPT - find the template in [your project name]\assets\music\template.mod

Not a fan of using hUGETracker? Check out fur2uge

, which allows you to create [somewhat limited] .uge songs using Furnace!

Restrictions on submit

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Please do not include copyrighted content in your submission.

Option 1: .gb/.gbc, a Gameboy ROM which is playable in an emulator or on hardware via flashcart. Export to .gb/.gbc by going to the Game menu, Export As -> "Export ROM".

Option 2: .zip, an archive of your entire GB Studio project folder - the one where your .gbsproj file resides. If you submit this filetype, also include an exported .gb/.gbc ROM.

Although GB Studio can also export to webpage, this format only allows for the previous two options. (But there is always the HTML5 format...)

Voting

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To play a .gb ROM, open it in your emulator of choice (or for true ballers, put it on a flashcart and play it on your actual Gameboy!). A couple of popular emulator options are bgb

and SameBoy

.

If the entrant submitted a .zip of their GB Studio project, it can also be played by opening the .gbsproj, going to the Game menu and selecting Run. A ROM should be included alongside that, though.

See also

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- gameboy (format)
- tic80 (format)
- html5 (format)