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.
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
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...
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).
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.
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?
I had no idea they blocked imgur on the UK. I'll move it to self-hosted!
Thank you! Much appreciated
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...
Great work! I have a GB camera (and printer) in my collection
MGBA emulates the GB camera too.