Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera(swiftrocks.com)
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Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera
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You can also dump GB Camera photos with GBxCart RW. Those can also be used to dump ROMs/saves and reprogram flash carts. The cheap GBC games off Ali express are flash carts in reality.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention that, it was the first option I considered but getting it shipped to Sweden was super expensive. So it didn't make sense considering I just wanted the camera dump feature. Buying the pcb and port on the other hand only costed me about 10 bucks since I already had an Arduino laying around, and also served as some necessary soldering practice :)
The GB Operator will let you dump photos from a Game Boy Camera as well as stream video from the camera in real time. It's a fun little device.
They'd promised a webcam driver, but that never materialized and instead just gave instructions on using OBS to use the video stream window as a camera.
https://www.epilogue.co/product/gb-operator
https://www.epilogue.co/support/playing-games/gb-camera-webc...
They'd promised a webcam driver, but that never materialized and instead just gave instructions on using OBS to use the video stream window as a camera.
https://www.epilogue.co/product/gb-operator
https://www.epilogue.co/support/playing-games/gb-camera-webc...
The Game Boy Camera was 128x112 pixels with 4 shades of gray. The fact that people are still finding ways to pull images off these things almost 30 years later is peak hacker energy
I recently played through a battery backed DMG game I last played in 1994 and the saved games were still good.
These look brilliant and remind me of the pictures from my Casio watch camera: https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/50th/Heritage/2000s/
I really need to dig that out, from memory the software only worked with Win98 or ME - but I guess there must be a way of getting it running elsewhere (or getting my ME laptop running).
I really need to dig that out, from memory the software only worked with Win98 or ME - but I guess there must be a way of getting it running elsewhere (or getting my ME laptop running).
This is very neat!
Some parallel thinking here, but it feels like it should be possible to build a software only version of this running entirely on a smartphone.
Take a picture of the GameBoy screen, and the app reconstructs the source image. It's only 128x128 2-bit depth pixels after all - the information content there seems well within the bounds of what can be reconstructed from a modern high resolution smartphone camera sensor.
Would be a cool computer vision project.
Some parallel thinking here, but it feels like it should be possible to build a software only version of this running entirely on a smartphone.
Take a picture of the GameBoy screen, and the app reconstructs the source image. It's only 128x128 2-bit depth pixels after all - the information content there seems well within the bounds of what can be reconstructed from a modern high resolution smartphone camera sensor.
Would be a cool computer vision project.
The JoeyJr is also a great tool for this. It can dump and write GB carts but specially detects when you plug in a GB camera and gives you a folder of image files.
https://bennvenn.myshopify.com/products/usb-gb-c-cart-dumper...
https://bennvenn.myshopify.com/products/usb-gb-c-cart-dumper...
Interesting article, but shame the images are blocked in the UK - guessing imgur?
Since when is that a thing?
I'll presume they're boycotting the new age verification laws?
Its been a thing since September 30th 2025, and apparently its just embedded content on third party sites, and account features on imgur itself that are blocked. I think its a "we don't want to adhere to your data protection laws" instead of an age thing
https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgu...
https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgu...
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Great work! I have a GB camera (and printer) in my collection
MGBA emulates the GB camera too.