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.
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 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).
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.
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.
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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...
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).
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.
https://bennvenn.myshopify.com/products/usb-gb-c-cart-dumper...