So i want to get the photos off my Gameboy Camera to save them and be able to make new ones without losing the old ones wich are ~20 years old. Theres a lot of pages on possible solutions and i wondered if theres something that people here have experience with. Some Tools are at 100$ wich seems a bit overdoing it, some are cheaper and theres also a ton of DIY stuff. I also wondered if theres some stuff on Aliexpress or similar that works that anyone here might know about.Heres one of those pages with possible solutions: https://funtography.online/wiki/Exporting_images_from_the_Game_Boy_Cameraalso general GB Camera Thread, post your pics if you have some on pc!
>>12446980A bit unconventional of an option, but back when GB flash carts were <$50 I got a couple EMS USB carts for LSDJ and they ended up helping a ton in being able to backup my .savs before easier & more accessible options started to pop up.I'd use a Mega Memory Card I already had (if you're lucky you can snag one on eBay for around $20) to back up my GBCamera save, restore it to the EMS cart, connect EMS cart to PC to backup .sav, then use one of the handful of available GBCamera photo dump tools out there to extract the .bmp images.Pic related, I just took OP's photo.
I use a device called BitBoy which emulates a printer and saves .bmp to an SD card, but it's a hundred bucks. This was years ago so there's probably a better solution these days. Don't get an actual game boy printer because the decrepit paper it uses oxidizes and loses its image, plus receipt paper is carcinogenic. You can get decent results by taking off the gameboy case and taking pics of the screen
>>12448127*receipt paper not decrepit paper
>>12448093Also, this doesn't help with getting your old photos backed up, but for new photos moving forward mGBA is actually fully compatible with the GBCamera rom as of a few years ago, so anything that can run mGBA and has a camera (computer with a webcam, phone, modded 3DS, etc.) can take accurate Game Boy Camera photos.
>>12448093>>12448172gonna post random photos I've taken now
>>12448183
haven't used my GBCamera since the 90s, will the photos still be there or is it likely they're dead?
>>12448183apparently it won't let me post more than once every 4 minutes because idfkthank you 4chan, very cool
>>12448183Aquabats concert>>12448209solid chance they're still there but I wouldn't wait around to check.
Some of these are like shitty ghost photos.
>>12448183another
>>12448183>>12448217yeah.
>>12448183poppy show in like 2017
>>12448183TMBG
>>12448183cat>>12448262lol
These are some really cool photos thanks for sharing.
I like taking photons with mine from time to time. Bought an adapter from Etsy to get the photos but seems like it's discontinued.The maker has schematics for raspberry to build your own on his github but you still need parts from a Link Cable and shit
I love how everyone takes pics of their kots
>>12446980>So i want to get the photos off my Gameboy Camera to save them and be able to make new ones without losing the old onesgameboy audio dumper, if you have a flash cart
>>12448127OP here i actually have a printer from 20 years ago and some paper left so i might as well have fun with that while im at it.>>12448172oh wow this is nice to know, i have a modded 3ds anyways. also nice photos anon! did you take your gameboy to concerts just like that?I also looked a bit into everything and it seems like a normal cartridge dumper would do the trick and is quite easy and also usable for other things so im thinking of getting one of those.
>>12446980My GB Cam solution was to use a Super Gameboy and a cheap capture card to my PC to back up my pictures.
The camera on the 3ds works like a charm! Sadly i have no cat to photograph though.What tool do you use for extracting the photos from the .sav file?I found these https://gbcamlab.vercel.app/ https://www.marcrobledo.com/game-boy-camera-manager/wich work well but i would prefer something offline if it exists.
also found this, it looks fun https://funtoshop.sourceforge.net/i was thinking how a solution directly on the 3ds would be perfect. like a tool getting the files directly out of the sav on console rather than having to get the .sav out manually every time. but i guess something like that doesnt exist.
>>12448968This. Also you can use it to capture video sort of by just recording while its in the mode before you actually snap a pic.
>>12449067This one which is the one I mentioned in >>12448295Might want to give this a read https://github.com/antoxa2584x/gameboy-camera-adapter
Thread inspired me to check if the photos on mine were still alive. Still had pics i took around my bedroom sometime in the late 90s/early 2000s.
>>12449275aw
>The cover art of Neil Young's 2000 album Silver & Gold was taken using a Game Boy CameraHuh, didn't know this, but in hindsight it's kinda obvious I guess.
>>12449260these are nice anon. very nostalgic.i played around yesterday and now the gbcam runs on both my 3ds and my phone
i took a bunch of photos at the bonsai museum in Washington dc i already posted one in this thread
>>12446994This one is fucking sick
There could be a 3ds camera the copies the aesthetic by scaling down the picture and using filters
>>12448902>did you take your gameboy to concerts just like that?Yep! Pic related. Haven't done it in a while though.
>>12450663Ya, and they did a pretty shit job at that.
>>12446994not bad, not bad at all
>>12448213I was at that concert!
>>12449271Cool VB, mad I missed out when they got clearances out back then
anyone have a .sav with everything unlocked?
>>12446980I now remember when people were putting telephoto lenses on it because why the fuck not.>>12448183Honestly the GB Camera would be perfect for a raw Black Metal band.
>>12446980i ripped my gameboycamera srm with the photos using a gameboy emulator on a ED64 PLUS and then using the game boy camera manager website i saved my pictures.
>>12454014>I now remember when people were putting telephoto lenses on it because why the fuck not.i had a friend who built a "lensholder" for his mini telescope. it worked well too.
>>12446980I built a Game Boy Printer emulator using an Arduino Nano. It costs like $6 to make, and you juyhave to plug the Game Boy link cable into one end and a USB-C computer into the other, it serves as a bridge between the Game Boy and a PC. You just select the print function on the Game Boy as if you were printing to a real printer and you can capture that data in your PC. It's awesome.
>>12455214(me)Forgot to post the link.https://github.com/mofosyne/arduino-gameboy-printer-emulator
>>12448968Is that the king?
>>12454027this photo is really nice anon!
>>12446980You can use a Transfer Pak on a N64 for this right? Pretty sure that's how I backed up my GB saves.
>>12446980The best and most reliable way is the insideGadgets GBxCart RW v1.4c Pro, I don't know if there's a newer one but this one can dump and write saves and roms, it's quite essential.>>12448172It's too bad it doesn't support using both cameras to take stereoscopic pictures, that would be sick>>12455214These are pretty neat and cheap to build but they're usually slow as shitYou can do some crazy shit with the game boy camera, pic is a color photo I made in a dark room with an RGB led, taking 3 photos and mixing the channels
>>12455774I also posted the worst one, this is a better version, I repeated the process two more times at different exposures and I averaged the results.I do have a custom game boy camera with a custom ROM that allows manual exposition settings, however the first experiments I did I was able to shoot with a stock camera by abusing panorama mode to keep exposure fixed
>>12455569yes
>>12455774>>12455780>You can do some crazy shit with the game boy camera, pic is a color photo I made in a dark room with an RGB led, taking 3 photos and mixing the channelsdamn that is really nice! how did you get that custom rom i looked for some mods but did not find any. did you mount the gameboy on something for the 3 pics?
>>12455838I started with the stock camera and ROM on an analogue pocket on a tripod, but I could have used a regular game boy, it's just that the AP has a built-in save dump feature so it was the easiest way to dump the photos early on.After setting it up on a tripod I turned off the lights and turned on the RGB led to Red, then I engaged panorama mode and shot the first pic when the exposure looked good. Unlike the regular mode, the panorama mode locks exposure between all shots so it's easier to take consistent photos.After that I took a Green and a Blue photo.Then I repeated the process two more times but at different exposures. After that I merged my 9 pictures 3 by 3 in photoshop to obtain 3 color photos at different exposures, finally I averaged the 3 photos with each other to increase the dynamic range.Later on I got a guy in the netherlands or something to make me a custom flashable PCB with parts taken out of an original game boy camera, I had the shell 3D printed in china.I also had a tripod mount for the game boy color 3D printed
>>12455896>>12455838If you have a regular flashcart you can also do cart swapping with this ROM: https://github.com/breademan/silihBasically you load the ROM, yank the cartridge out and shove your game boy camera in, the ROM in memory will keep running and launch the game boy camera in a custom mode that allows completely controlling every single setting just like the custom camera ROMs do. It's a bit fiddly and some game boy models won't work but when it does it's a really cheap way to do advanced photography with little hardware investment
Later on I started experimenting with using colored filters to take photos with natural light but it's really difficult to find correct filters and it takes a lot of trial and error, I eventually got bored of it because I ran out of interesting shit to shoot and the work involved was too much
I really miss taking color game boy camera photos, but having to carry a tripod to places was getting annoying
>>12455774>with an RGB ledTell me more. I've heard of people using colored sheets as filters, this is the first I'm hearing of using an LED.
>>12456121nta but it's basically the same principle, except instead of using coloured lenses, you use coloured (R, G and B) lights to light the scene
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>>12446980Literally any cart reader, export the save data, then grab them from an emulator or there are online tools that can directly extract the photos from the save. Not exactly rocket science, anon
>>12455896>>12455904this really is cool anon, but it also sounds like a lot of work for one photo. the LED thing just works inside too, right? i cant really imagine doing that outside, except for nighttime maybe?>>12455912>colored filtersyou mean like filters in front of the lens? or is it a digital filter?>>12455917maybe use a rom on your phone, it works quite well and you have it with you anyways i assume.your post made me remember those colorization pages for b/w photos and i tried it out. the result is kinda funny
>>12456897another one. i kinda like them.
>>12456897The LED only works inside, it might work outside at night but it needs to be really powerful and expensive.The colored filters are just transparent colored sheets of plastic, I use ones made for coloring flashes but it's really difficult to find ones that have the right color and transparency. I bought many filters that were completely wrong and didn't work
>>12455912>>12455917Can you give me one of a beach? Colored or not, both would work. It's for a job application. I can credit you or just say I found the pic on the internet. It would be nice if it had a gameboy caption underneath
>>12449067>Sadly i have no cat to photograph though.just pick up a stray by giving him/her food and give it a good home.
>>12458334why would you use the work of somebody else for your job application
>>12458816Because I need an image with a certain feel that I think anon captured best.
>>12458334I don't think I have one of a beach, while I have been on a beach with the game boy camera it didn't turn really interesting, I don't have any in my archive
I have hills
>>12460198Extremely beautiful|/spoiler]
>>12460224
lil bumpdid you guys play those games in the camera a lot? what about the dj thing? i used to mess around with it as a kid but nowadays i mostly use the photo function
>>12446980Open Source Cartridge Reader. It can make backups of your saves.
>try mGBA @ 3DS>get filteredhow can I git gud, bros?
>>12448209my photos from a grade school trip to philadelphia are still there. unless your shit got wet or too hot or cold they should be fine?
This shit is great. I'll try it later with my 3DS
>>12466584>>12465186Can you guys provide a guide?
>>12467327Load the rom with mGBA on 3DS, there's an option to change the camera on the emulator. For some reason it looked like shit, maybe the 3DS camera gets too much light.
>>12467336exactly like that, just look at my cat
>>12467590>>12449067>>12449087these and picrel are shot with my 3ds, i think they turned out okay? but maybe it was darker in the room then in yours
>>12467336Thanks for the tip
>>12460198>>12461225Looks like Tuscany.
>>12470353How is it so recognizable even in game boy form? I was attending a friend's wedding on the Tuscany hills indeed
I wonder if anyone has taken any lewd photos with the gameboy camera
hockey
>>12471521kek, well I went to Tuscany back in 2010 and the countryside is seared in my mind. The area looks like it was painted.
Went on a photo frenzy today
Also obligatory kot pic
>>12448213lol, funny to see an aquabats reference. my friend showed me this band like a million years ago. i just remember this song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTtzAvbIAvw
>>12472141I love this. Who are the characters?
>>12471656There is probably a non-zero chance if you buy a used one that it has some kid's genitals saved on it.
>>12472315First two on top are both Yurika Misumaru from Martian Succesor Nadesico.Third and fourth are Fuu and Umi from Rayearth.Last two are Kohran Li and Sakura from Sakura Taisen.
i got a cartridge reader today and my photos off the cam. there were a few pokemon opening shots, heres one of them. you can really see the different lense quality compared to the phone shots.
also i finally can post a cat rip Q_Q
Face Riders on 3DS feels like a spiritual successor to the GB Camera
>>12473467Lovely <3 this thread needs more kot pictures
>>12475068I'm surprised there wasn't a GB camera filter for the 3DS
