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Gameboy music is a type of Chiptune produced using the Nintendo Game Boy, gaming system. To do so, one just needs a gameboy and a cartridge containing the appropriate software. There are several pieces of software available, but most gameboy musicians use nanoloop or little sound dj.

Nanoloop was programmed by Oliver Wittchow, a German artstudent. The user interface is very minimal and quite different to "normal" musical userinterfaces.

LittleSoundDJ (LSDj) was programmed by Johan Kotlinski, who lives in Stockholm. Littlesounddj is a kind of 4 track tracker. Most of the more technically interested gameboy musicians use this software.

The gameboy music scene is quite small and spread around the world, with musicians creating music in a wide range of styles. Several major signed artists have also been known to use LSDj and Nanoloop.