Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera

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).

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

Interesting article, but shame the images are blocked in the UK - guessing imgur?

Great work! I have a GB camera (and printer) in my collection

MGBA emulates the GB camera too.