Kouji Murata (GB Driver)

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Kouji Murata (GB Driver)
Released 1992-07-24
Programmers Kouji Murata
Language Z80 Assembly
Formats ?

Kouji Murata is an unofficial name of a sound driver used by Minakuchi Engineering on several of their Game Boy games. It was programmed by Kouji Murata, who did music and sound effects on most, if not all of the games which used the driver.

Release History

The driver was first used in Bionic Commando (GB), and would subsequently see use in most of the line of Mega Man games on the Game Boy. Though it was officially only used on a handful of Minakuchi Engineering's own games, many bootleg and homebrew games have also made use of the sound driver.

Output

The driver outputs to the DMG-CPU B chip. It notably has a range of unique bass instruments for the Game Boy's PCM channel, as opposed to the then more common method of using the PCM channel as a third square wave channel and/or emulating the NES's triangle channel.

Games

Released Title Sample
1992-07-24 Bionic Commando (GB)
1992-12-11 Mega Man III (GB)
1993-10-29 Mega Man IV (GB)
1994-07-22 Mega Man V (GB)

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