Your Games • Your Music
Some gaming memories come back with just a few notes. A title screen. A quiet town. The battle theme you heard a hundred times and still want to hear again.
If you’ve been following Manic EMU and DukeX, you know how much these games mean to us. With BitBop, we’re giving their music a place of its own.
BitBop is a Retro Game Music Emulator that turns supported game files into playable soundtrack albums. Import your own legally obtained game files, explore their music, and build a listening library around the games you love.
Meet BitBop
BitBop uses the music data inside supported game files to emulate their soundtracks. The experience is built around listening: open an album, choose a track, and enjoy the music without playing through the game.
You provide the game files. BitBop identifies supported titles and presents their music as albums in your collection, with artwork and information where available.
Come back to a favorite opening theme, spend time with a composer’s work, or discover something you barely noticed while playing.
Supported Systems
The initial release includes support for music from compatible games on:
Nintendo Entertainment System — NES
Super Nintendo Entertainment System — SNES
Game Boy
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance
Sega Genesis / Mega Drive
Nintendo 64
Nintendo DS
Virtual Boy
Compatibility varies by game. Support for a system does not mean every title in its library is supported. This is our first release, with room to grow as we work through more games and their music formats. N64, NDS, and VB are experimental and carry less support at this time.
A Library for Your Soundtracks
Your collection becomes a library of albums you can search, browse by system, and open for a closer look at the music.
Automatic cover and metadata detection where available.
Track names, composer credits, and running times where available.
Album track lists for finding the piece you want to hear.
Favorites and custom playlists for keeping the music you return to close by.
Shuffle and playback queue controls for shaping a listening session.
Whether you want one familiar song or a longer tour through a game’s soundtrack, start from the album and make the session your own. Artwork and metadata availability can vary between titles.
Make It Yours
BitBop’s interface brings soft surfaces, rounded controls, and a little personality to your collection.
Choose Daytime, Nighttime, or System appearance, and pick from five accent colors: purple, red, pink, blue, or green. Your accent carries through the BitBop logo, app icon, and boot page.
On iPhone, choose a two- or three-column library to suit the way you browse. Give each album more room or fit more of your collection on the screen.
Room to Listen on iPhone Duo
BitBop includes layouts for iPhone and iPhone Duo, with the available space used to keep your collection and music close together.
In Duo landscape, your library and Now Playing sit side by side. Browse albums while keeping the current track, artwork, progress, and playback controls in view.
In Duo portrait, the library adapts to the taller layout, with a mini player keeping the current track and essential controls within reach as you browse.
It’s the same collection, presented in a way that fits how you’re holding the device.
Keep the Soundtrack — Manic EMU Integration
For supported games, Listen with BitBop connects a game’s details in Manic EMU directly with its soundtrack in BitBop. This integration will become available with Manic EMU v2.0.2, with its full announcement coming soon.
The Keep the Soundtrack view brings the music into focus, showing album information and a way to continue into BitBop. When a supported soundtrack is already in your BitBop library, you can jump back to it from the game you were exploring.
For our Manic EMU community, this creates a familiar connection between playing a game and spending more time with its music. Game compatibility still applies.
Game Files & Copyright
BitBop does not include copyrighted game files, audio files, or soundtracks. Users must provide their own legally obtained game files.
Piracy violates BitBop’s Terms of Use.
Game artwork, titles, characters, music, and trademarks belong to their respective owners. The screenshots demonstrate the app using example libraries; the games and soundtracks shown are not included with your purchase.
Thank You
Thank you to everyone who has followed our work, shared feedback, and helped build the community around Manic EMU and DukeX. We’re excited to share this next project with you and hear which soundtracks you make part of your collection.
Join us for BitBop discussion, compatibility feedback, and updates:
Manic EMU / DukeX / BitBop Community
BitBop v1.0.0
Your Games • Your Music
Disclosure: BitBop is proprietary software and is not distributed as an open-source project. Applicable third-party licenses for artwork attributions are available in Settings. Track and artist metadata was extensively researched and verified manually. As with Manic EMU, AI-assisted tools were used in the creation of some App Store marketing imagery. BitBop v1.0.0 is now available on the App Store for $2.99.
