/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5029112
Monitoring this thread

Hint: you don't need to use a card reader to transfer the files to your PC.
Simply photographing a Game Boy Pocket can give it a great effect if you play with the contrast a litte. You may even just put it in a scanner!
Another interesting alternative would be Super Game Boy + screen capture.

Be creative, have fun!

>>5029112
is that a sphincter

My camera is at home, see you in December OP

>>5029173
I prefer printing directly to BMP.

I extracted these deleted files from a GBCamera I ordered from Japan.

wonder if anyone at the time tried combining photos at different exposures for the world's shittiest HDR

>>5029241
There's this, which is kind of neat; but it's a modern experiment:

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/game-boy-camera-color/

>>5029208
Go get it NOW.

I apologize for this one

...and also for this one. I had to do it

>>5029227
We must find her.

>>5029227
Really? That's a lot of frames. Were all the photos on the camera dedicated to that animation?
When I got my GBCamera, all 30 pics were selfies taken by the girl in my pic. According to the game's records, her name is Paige.

I use my GBCamera to take pics on the daily
(for the record I am using sage on my posts because I'm posting a lot of images ITT)

>>5029282
Yeah they were, exactly. Much like any digital storage medium, the frames on the GBCam aren't 'erased' until they're overwritten; so first thing I did after seeing that the camera was blank upon arrival (except for pic related oddly), was to rip the SRAM; and then GBCameraDump.exe rescued the deleted images from that.

>>5029289
These threads always die, there's never been this many funtographers in a single thread, no need to sage every pic.

>>5029302
please forgive the JPEG artifacts, 4chan won't take the TIFs or BMPs.

Am I doing it right?

>>5029298
clever stuff my man

>>5029315
I spent too much money getting all the dumb accessories (Mega Memory Card / GB USB SMART CARD 64M) to dump images in the most complicated way possible only to have BennVenn release his GB Printer Emulator 2 weeks later; so I ended up with that too. Most of the pics I'll post are from the El Snappo; but I was able to save my high school shots from the Mega Memory Card / Smart Card rig, which is really cool to have backed up.

>>5029327
Glad to see someone making GBCamera purchases as dumb as my own. God bless

>>5029306
based and greenhued

>>5029345
amen my friend

For anyone considering buy a CartWheel for use with their SP... (as seen in this link https://gameboyphoto.bigcartel.com/product/cartwheel-with-case ) ...know that, while it works without a hitch, I increasingly feel like the chinese gameboy knockoff "GB Boy" would be a better purchase because a) better form factor b) backlit screen. I love my CartWheel but it's clunky and, knowing me, eventually I will smash it.

will post more later if thread isn't dead or totally fucked

>>5029372
I use a GB Boy Colour for my GBCamera shooting, it's cheap and easy. The squashed screen doesn't really matter either, since everything prints out correctly in the end.
>>5029374
Looks great, please do.

It wasn't until recently that I found out this shit is actually cool. I always just dismissed it as a really dumb novelty without actually seeing any of the photos it could take.


>>5029304
use PNG

>>5029445
much better, thanks anon. My CS3 copy of photoshop didn't have PNG as an export option in the resizing script I was using, but I can just convert batch convert them as another step.

>>5029282
Paige, if you're reading this you were a cutie pie

I'm curious if you could do that whole Color photo trick that the 8bit guy did with other black and white cameras, with gameboy camera pictures.

>>5029931
>https://www.wired.com/2014/06/game-boy-camera-color/

bout to post a lot of pictures

Protip: Use stamps

This is a picture of a teacher as drawn by a little girl. It reads "Relax she's nice"

last pic ever taken of this cat. rip she died after living a good life, even raising kittens. The other cat >>5030009 is still a huge fat virgin lmao

>>5030016

last one... for now

Raw b/w BMP extracts look pretty soulless to me, I'd at least give them a more appropriate palette.

A lot of those look amazing

I have a Gameboy pocket with a camera, always found it quite amazing how long it lasted on 2 AAA batteries.

Though I have no idea how to properly get them on a PC.

>>5029430
Beautiful

>>5030016
F cats are our friends.

>>5030016
>>5030434

One of the only photos I have of my old cat as a kitten. I miss her.

>>5030329
BennVenn's base-model El Snappo is the cheapest and easiest solution, unless you already have a GB cart dumper.

>>5030476
>El Snappo is the cheapest and easiest solution
except it isn't. I use the GBxCart RW v1.2 by insideGadgets, which is 30$. Not only can it be used to recover Game Boy Camera pictures, but it can also be used to backup and restore all other cart saves. As a bonus, you can use it to create ROM backups and even use it to flash some flashcarts.

The time lapse-feature is very interesting, I want to experiment some more with it in the future. Here's some passing clouds I shot this afternoon. I used the "fusion"-feature to ease the looping point a litte.

>>5030535
How did you get these images off of your gameboy camera?

>>5030547
I put the game boy under a magnifying glass and redraw the images pixel by pixel in MS paint.

That thing has its advantages, but it requires a computer, which are generally more than the $40 it costs for the El Snappo. The Snappo can also be used to 'print' from other games that support the GB Printer, which a cart dumper can't do. A dumper has its advantages, but if you want a standalone GB Printer printer replacement, you can't really shit on a $40 device that does exactly that and does it well.

>>5030494
That thing has its advantages, but it requires a computer, which generally cost more than the $40 to get the El Snappo. It can also be used to 'print' from other games that support the GB Printer, which a cart dumper can't do. A dumper has its advantages, but if you want a standalone GB Printer printer replacement, you can't really shit on a $40 device that does exactly that and does it well.

>>5030392
thank you, I think that's easily the best shot I've taken. It's the Boston skyline, for context.

>>5030579
Only few games used the printer connection. Plus, the printer interface can be emulated in software as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_j0w7r6xSk

So if you have a cheap cart dumper like the GBxCart, you can still do all those things. "requiring a computer" is a bullshit disadvantage unless you live in a 3rd world poophole. Even with the hardware-emulated GB-printer by BennVenn you still need to transfer the files to your PC.

>>5030592
>Only few games used the printer connection
It's closer to 40 than a few
>Plus, the printer interface can be emulated in software
Why would I want to use a computer to do what a pocket-sized device could do in the 90s? Also, requiring a computer isn't a bullshit disadvantage at all since the GBCamera holds so few shots. If you're actually out taking pictures you can offload them and then clear the camera. Look, I don't have any issues with the device you're shilling, and I've considered buying one (and still am) to dump carts with, all I'm saying is that a purpose-built device that doesn't require a computer has its strengths.

>>5030617
With how many games have you actually used the printing interface outside he GB camera? Be honest.

I'm not shilling anything. I just wanted to point out the cheapest solution, that is all. Why are you defending your overpriced product so ferociously? Post-purchase rationalization?

Do you actually use the printer emulator in the field? Transferring 30 images one by one must be a pain. Having a laptop with you and just dumping the save-file is probably more convenient.

>>5029973
That's neat to see, even if the color sucks, but I guess a lot of that comes from the shoddiness of the camera in general. Still would be cool to see others do such

>>5029270
>>5029264
If you wanna post forced memes, take them to /v/

He once made a whole thread where he dumped all those GB camera images he posted here, including the /v/ memes, all while bragging about how proficiently he had mastered the intricacies GB camera. What a twat.

Also his pictures are amateurish at best.

>>5030724
He once made a whole thread where he dumped all those GB camera images he posted here, including the /v/ memes, all while bragging about how proficiently he had mastered the intricacies GB camera. What a twat.

Also his pictures are amateurish at best.

>>5030649
Just a handful so far, I have an EverDrive so I've been slowly trying them out. Super Mario Bros Deluxe has some really fun stuff. The solution I'm using costs only $10 more than yours, so I don't think it's overpriced by any means (that other SD card solution that costs $100 is ridiculous though), and I certainly don't need to rationalize a $40 purchase to a stranger on the Internet. I know this is 4chan, but it's OK to have different options for doing things. Also you can batch print from the camera, you don't need to do it one-by-one.

Fly me to the moon...

>>5029112
That obviously meant to say "game boy camera photographs", not "game boy color".

>>5030753
Aww you remembered my thread :) thanks buttbuddy
Why don't you post some of your own photographs and show an amateur like me how it's done?

The pen's acceleration curve makes no sense. It's so bad that I might consider doing further editing on the computer instead of in-game (which makes me feel dirty).

>>5030753
You sound jealous as fuck

>>5033074
To be fair, my thread was pretty annoying. I was writing GBCamera tips as if they were Hardcore Gaming Tips(TM) and the joke got tired by the end of the thread.

My favorite frame!

No more good pics. Time to go /out/ and snap a quick 30. See you next thread my fellow kids

>>5029112

I remember using my Gameboy camera to make an animation of my dick spinning around like a helicopter propeller. One day I found my dad playing with the Gameboy with the camera attached, just checking out the features. Before I could stop him, he found the animation. His face scrunched up, then he gave me this look of deep disappointment I have never forgotten.

>>5029264
>>5029270

You are the worst

>>5029372
I use a game boy light with mine, this thread makes me want to buy another one to use while waiting to recover my photos from storage.

>>5033105

>>5030043
Interesting texture

I have an ED64, could I use EDGB to dump camera pics?

Also, any reason you couldn't reflash the zelda camera rom to a normal camera?

>>5032364
Amazing work! How did you take this pic?

>>5030591
Bostons a beautiful place. You think you could get a picture of the harbour front or boston commons next time?

>>5029372
Might as well get a Gameshark that does exactly the same thing.

>be kid
>take pictures of my peepee with game boy camera
>catch sister playing with my game boy later
>realize she probably saw all the pictures
>mfw

Anyone tried stacking images with astrophotography software or similar?

>>5033173
Somebody once attached a telephoto lens to a GB camera to take pictures of the moon at a similar resolution.

My picture however is a trickshot which comes in a little cheaper.

>>5029270
It's curious to see a Switch photographed in a GB Camera.
Something so new in something so old, both from the same company.

Bump, let me see some more pictures!

If you have no way of getting them off the camera, photographing the screen is fine!