Plug in any Game Boy® or Game Boy Color® cartridge to hear the soundtrack of your childhood.

Shipping Late 2026

A Retro Song Bird speaker with a Game Boy cartridge plugged into the top

Step 1.
Plug in a cart

That's it. Enjoy.

Music

Supports 1,900+ games. Plug in your favorite and let the soundtrack teleport you back in time.

  • Every track, plus sound effects
  • Controls for next, previous and volume
  • Stereo line out for your hi-fi
  • Accurate, register-level sound emulation
  • Plays homebrew game soundtracks made with GB Studio
A cartridge with music notes rising from it

Archiving

Because art belongs in a museum, Retro Song Bird helps you preserve the carts that matter to you.

  • Back up and restore save files
  • Back up ROMs
  • Flash writable carts
  • Export any soundtrack as WAV
A cartridge being saved down into a tray

Chiptunes

Dig through the clearance bin: every cart is a gem when you can remix its original instrument stems.

  • Each of the four sound channels (two square, wave, noise) as its own USB audio stream, ready for your DAW
  • Plug in an LSDj cart to play back your saved songs
  • Releasing an album? GBAlbum turns it into a ROM that plays on real hardware and Retro Song Bird
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USB Webcam

Plug in a Game Boy Camera® and Retro Song Bird becomes a USB webcam. Join your next meeting in beautiful 0.014 megapixels.

  • 128×112 pixels
  • Four shades, classic dither
  • ~5 frames per second? Look, it's a bonus feature.

...and More

  • Alarm Mode wakes you with any cartridge. Press the button to snooze, or pull the cart to stop
  • Play (and cheat) in your browser, with Game Genie and GameShark codes
  • Build Mixtapes from across your collection and flash them to writable carts to woo your crush, '80s style
  • A history of every cart you've ever plugged in
  • An open API for developers: read, flash and back up carts, grab Game Boy Camera® frames, and more, all via web requests
  • Over-the-air updates add features and supported carts, so it keeps getting better