[spencercw]

Nice idea to write that stuff down. Something that flummoxed me for a while was how Pokemon Yellow does the Pikachu sound, since the Game Boy doesn't really support sample-based audio. Turns out it does something akin to spending 100% of its CPU time turning the sound on and off to play the samples.

[zeta0134]

For anyone who might be curious as to how this worked in practice, Retro Game Mechanics does an excellent breakdown of the technique used here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fooSxCuWvZ4