alt.hn

1/1/2026 at 10:25:53 AM

Show HN: Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version

https://www.wario.style

by birdmania

1/1/2026 at 8:35:46 PM

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

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.

by ekipan

1/1/2026 at 8:01:21 PM

It’s basically a midi search engine?

“No MIDI files found. Try a different search” …

by calmworm

1/1/2026 at 8:06:43 PM

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.

by memalign

1/1/2026 at 9:39:20 PM

Now just get Claude Code to build a hUGETracker exporter, and you could actually bring one of these songs into GB Studio!

by turnsout

1/1/2026 at 10:41:55 PM

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)

by CatMustard

1/1/2026 at 10:50:43 PM

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.

by ekipan

1/1/2026 at 11:13:32 PM

This is really cool!

Because I might learn something new: are there additional reasons for having an enable audio button that can’t be covered by the fact that the user has to interact with the page to Play the song anyways?

by Waterluvian

1/1/2026 at 10:24:49 PM

Add a download button, this was fun.

by nunobrito

1/1/2026 at 11:40:27 PM

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by anonymous908213