Homebrew Chiptune Music with GBA Emulator on NDSi?

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I want to make an attempt at making music with chiptune, but I don't have a GBA at the moment. Is there any way I'd be able to create the same sort of music some produce with a GBA, with a GBA Emulator on DS/DSi?
 

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The GBA is a bit of a strange choice for doing chiptune music. Doesn't it do most of its audio mixing in software? Besides that, doesn't the DSi have KORG for audio synthesis?
 

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Audio on the GBA is mostly GB audio plus two 8-bit streams channels, capable of software mixing (which is equivalent to what the PC SoundBlaster would have done with samples-based music). On a DS, you would just have to use the GBA mode to get access to that... on a DSi, afaik, you don't have that anymore, but you do have 16 independent samples channel, so it's merely a matter of using gameboy-compatible instruments to make it sound chippy. I'd suggest nitro tracker for that. (tobw.net)

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