/vr/ - Retro Games

This picture is someone trying to qualify for the Classic Tetris World Championship top 64 bracket. I asked this guy if he wanted a copy of the photo but he was like "I played so bad I just want to forget about it." Sorry friend hopefully you'll get em next year!

Here's a pic of the old man. He doesn't exactly understand what's so fun about a crappy old camera. In fact... was he the anon making fun of me in previous threads?

Love these threads, thanks OP. I need to start taking pics again, I haven't really done anything since I moved last year. I'm ordering a new GB Boy Colour (they're great for taking pics with a backlit screen on the cheap, but they are chinese crap and my last one broke after about a year) soon, and then am probably going to get a GB Pocket with one of the new chinese IPS backlit screens after that. Here's my over-posted but 2nd best shot; the Boston skyline. Just a plain GB Camera and a GB Boy Colour in what I think was late summer a year or two ago.

>>6002275
Surely there's some way of getting the files off these and onto a modern PC digitally?

>>6002287
Many ways. You can dump the SRAM with a cart reader, you can use a comical assortment of an ancient flash card with a Mega Memory Card to pull the SRAM fro the camera, dump that to the flash cart, and then pull it from there. There's also at least two "printer emulators" on the market, that just let the GB "print" directly to BMPs on an SD card, which is how I get my shots for the most part. I saved my childhood shots by dumping the SRAM like pic related, but >>6002283 was printed with a printer emulator. If you just dump the SRAM you don't get the borders, which some folks may or may not prefer, not that you couldn't crop them out anyway.

>>6002294
>>6002283
Also if it wasn't wholly obvious, these are upscaled without smoothing from the original resolution.

>>6002287
OP here, I digitize all my photos with a Game Boy Printer emulator called a "Bitboy." It spits out whatever would be sent to the Printer into a BMP (pic related but a BMP file). I think these raw BMPs look great except they should be scaled up. That said, when there's a pic I really like, I go through the trouble of capturing it on the real LCD, cuz it looks cool.
If you want to digitize photos, don't buy a Bitboy. It works perfectly, but there are much cheaper alternatives and the Game Boy modding scene is growing all the time.

So here's some shit you don't see every day, check this out. From left to right: photo of GBPocket's LCD, photo of GBColor's LCD, and the upscaled output from my Printer emulator. What do you think? (hard mode: don't say "soul/soulless")

>>6002316
Middle looks the best by far, gives an illusion of more detail even if it's just noise.

>>6002318
I only have one other pic of the Color, sorry for all the dust. I don't personally prefer the Color's LCD for two reasons: it draws a "screen door" across a white background, and its grays are too strongly delineated for my tastes. The adjustable contrast and natural ghosting of the Pocket's lcd can even out dithering (in best case scenarios).

>>6002275
i have some that i took & ripped years ago

need to get it going again

>>6002275
Is there a GB Camera Instagram filter or phone app that lets you emulate GB camera photos?

>>6002283
If you want my 2 cents I think you should buy a chinese drop-in LCD for whatever game boy you already own. The GB Boy is a decent solution but man oh man is that aspect ratio suspect. A GB Boy costs around the same as a drop-in LCD these days right?
I modded my pocket to put a backlight behind the original LCD. I seriously hope you guys don't do this. The results were good but not better than drop-in LCDs, and it was a risky pain in the ass to do.

>>6002351
It's possible to emulate GBCamera on your phone with its onboard camera, not sure how but some other anon did it before.

Who needs a pickup truck when you have a derelict 93 saturn?

>>6002356
Yeah I've considered it but the GBs I have are all ones I wouldn't really want as my "main". My childhood pocket is great but I wouldn't want to mod it, and my 2 GBCs are beat. The GB Boy is $30, and a built out pocket with the new IPS screen is around $100 and I can pick the shell and whatnot. I liked my GB Boy before it broke, it's great for what it is, a beater. Here's my bridge shot, yours is great.

>>6002363
Ah right.

Will GB camera work on that new Analogue FPGA Gameboy?

>>6002390
It's extremely likely, all of Analogue's other consoles are accurate enough to use peripheral hardware. GB Camera is one of the reasons I'm looking forward to it.

>>6002390
I forgot about that thing. It actually looks great for use with the game boy camera... but I'm not fuckin gonna buy one, they're $200. As the other anon said, you can buy a pimped out modded GBPocket for $100. Not my thing but I'd love to try it with the GBCamera in person.

<3 this thread

>>6002452
How far we've come...

This was my dog circa 2001. His name was Kirby. I miss him.

>>6002481
Sorry anon. Your dog had some really cute antennae.

I've actually been somewhat productive since the last thread and took my GB cam along on my vacations to the Austrian alps and to Amsterdam.

Pic related: Soft waves rippling across the surface of a glacial lake on Mt. Rosskogel.

What do you guys want to see? Alpine vistas, or varied impressions of Amsterdam?

https://bennvenn.myshopify.com/products/gameboy-printer-emulator-kit
https://github.com/MrHDR/GBPrinter-Emulator-Kit-Minimal
https://bennvenn.myshopify.com/pages/diy-projects-1

These threads always make me want to dig mine out.

>>6003072
Give me the Amsterdam baby.

>>6002275
Ah mah nigga! This gives me an excuse to take some pics. I also have some from Colorado vacation but they turned out not too good. Will upload when possible.

>>6003072
Hi anon, still rocking the SP? Nice animation. I've tried a few times to record trains going by but there's nothing I'm happy with yet. I might try to figure out some kind of tripod solution for very long time lapses, overall I haven't played with the setting very much.
>>6003514
dig baby.

>>6003521
Amsterdam it is. I haven't ripped the pictures from the SRAM yet, but I'll get around to it in the next couple of days.

In the meantime, here's a friend enjoying his beer.

>>6003839
Actually, most of the pics I post have been taken with the GBC I take with me on the road. I only use the AGS 101 SP when at home (like in pic rel. from the archives).

My dad dressed up as some kind of gnome

>>6002351
Retroboy on F-Droid sort of.

>>6003839
I did, finally. Had to get new batteries for GB though. Will take it to the park tomorrow and see what I see.
>>6002496

why the hell does no one on ebay sell new (not old stock) thermal paper for the printer? REEEEEEEEEEE!

I remember I read an blog once saying it was possible to take coloured Game Boy Camera photos with some examples. I think it's a similar system to how we do it today (with red/green/blue filters)

Has anyone here ever tried it?

>>6006513
Rainy and way too cold to take fun pictures. So here's a shot of Godzilla off my tv, a fairy statue I saw by the park and my feet. How do you get direct captures onto the PC?

>>6006664
Any thermal paper works as long as it fits. Don't buy on-brand retro Game Boy Printer paper since it's surely oxidized by now and won't work.
>>6007796
You can do it either with a Game Boy Printer emulator, or with a cart reader that allows you to dump your SRAM. This anon here >>6003848 dumps their saves and opens them in an emulator with a custom filter, I forget how exactly. All that said I don't think there's anything wrong with your current method as long as it works for you.

Is there any way I could get the green-tinted images you get when using the GB camera with a GBC? I love how it looks that way but everything prints to black and white.

>>6007913
Ah I missed the post above. Interesting, I like the border so maybe the printer emulator is the better bet.
>>6002316
It's funny how the lack of grain blending makes it look less detailed. I guess such is the trade-off, there's no perfect solution.

>>6007913
what the hell paper size am I looking for? Links?

As promised, here's some highlights from Amsterdam. I put them into a sort of collage this time, so as not to clog up the thread too much. Descriptions are left to right, top to bottom:

1. Typical Amsterdam housing. Most of the (very narrow) houses feature ornamental brickwork. These 4 had some features in white brick, which makes the details stand out a little better on the b/w picture. Sightseeing boat in the foreground.

2. The Rijksmuseum, which is the countries national museum, covering both history and the arts. Sadly, no time for this one!

3. Sculpture of a woman's head near Dam square.

4. A spoopy skeleton. Actually, no photography allowed in the Van Gogh museum, but I pulled a little sneaky for you guys.

5. View down the Prinsengracht, one of the many waterways that criss-cross through the city. Tower of the Westerkerk church in the distance.

6. The house where Anne Frank (and of course 7 others, only one of which survived the holocaust) stayed in hiding for over two years. It's actually the rather unassuming building half covered by the tree - go figure...
There's people lined up on the curb to take pictures. (Also, Sightseeing boat strikes again!)

7. A crane resting on one of the many small boats lining the canals. In the background, roadside cars and more boats reflected in the calm water.

8. A sculpture of an enormous mirroring cube on the museum square.

9. People playing chess in the street with a giant chess set.

I bought a Japanese Gameboy Camera a while back and it already had a few pictures on it, I'll post some of those and some I've taken as well. This bird was called Mogu I think.

Through Google Translate's hand-writing function I figured out that the text here says Ninomiya Kazunari, the name of a japanese idol. Owner must have been a fan.

>>6009914
he's actually getting married now, I bet she's not happy about that

No idea who this is but I like the picture.

>>6009926
Damn, sucks to be them.

I thought it would be fun to take some Nintendo-themed shots in NYC today. No better place than the actual store. They usually have a big DK though, I was really disappointed he wasn't there...maybe they're fixing him up? He had some cracks on him.
>>6009796
love your building shots - 1,2,5,6...they look great

I took this one using the mirroring function, I think you can take some pretty cool pictures with it.

This is my wife

And here is a picture from my city. Gonna look into some other ways of capturing the pictures, maybe using an emulator like someone mentioned above could be cool.

>>6009796
Did you do something to get those vignette-like effects in 5 and 7? Looks great!

>>6009982
>my wife
Did you give her the ol' Retron 5?

>tfw you don't have the hardware and need to use emulation

>>6008830
1.5-inch-wide (38 mm) thermal paper.

>>6009982
This is mine.

>>6010156
Noooo, I was actually looking for that one pic, but I think I have it on my other comp, so I posted the other one instead.
Well, fair enough anon. Let's be happy with our GBC waifus.

Is there an .STL online so I can print an adapter to use Nikon lenses?

The only printable one I can find is for a lense I dont own.

>>6009796

Yeah but what about pregnant Anne Frank?

>>6002339

>>6009993
How do you do that? explain please

>>6010651

>>6010153
Thanks anon

>>6009983
I use a set of magnetic lenses. Those 2 shots were taken through the "2x telephoto" lens, which results in the vignette effect, but also helps bring out some smaller details. Here's the same view of the Prinsengracht without the lens - more trees and buidling visible in the periphery of the image, but also less detail on the clock tower (which I wasn't satisfied with).

>>6009796
Thanks! Buidlings are one of the easier subjects to catch with the camera's limitations in mind.

>>6011586
>>6009983
I also prefer the telephoto when it comes to animals as it allows me to keep a little more distance. Most of them are already rather uncooperative to begin with, and getting too close just makes them more nervous.

Here's another shot of the crane - it was already eyeing me with contempt when I took this one. I like the other shot better, as in this one, the head lines up weirdly with the black car in the background.

>>6011602
>I also prefer the telephoto when it comes to animals
Unless they are very small, that is. In that case, I use the macro lens and get as close to the critters as I can.

>>6010651
>>6010905
>MR BONES B/W RIDE

>>6011609
How do you attach the lens to the camera? Those lenses attach to a magnetic ring right, did you glue the ring on?

>>6003072
This is beautiful.

I really like getting pictures of pets.

>>6011609
Damn, that's really cool, haven't thought much about attaching other lenses since it seems kinda finicky.

>>6010472
Just download mGBA on your 3DS, Vita or phone.

>>6011996
https://gameboy.guy.is/

>>6002282
love this

>>6011996

>>6011868
Yeah, the lenses are magnetic and come with metal rings. There's an adhesive on the back of each, but that only last so long, so I ultimately had to glue it on.

>>6011941
>it seems kinda finicky
It is. They are a pain to get centered properly. Pic related is what shot number 2 looks like with a wide angle lens attached.

>>6011602
Looking at some images on google, this was more probably a heron, not a crane. Not that it makes much of a difference, but the resolution is high enough to make out the characteristic dark patches on the head and upper part of the folded wings.

Anyway, who wants to see some alps?

Cable car ride down to the city of Innsbruck (gif). The namesake Inn river can be seen stretching across the valley in the distance. Near the end, another cable car passes by.

>>6002316
I like the softer, more blended look of the Pocket LCD. The GBC looks like a LiteBrite and the emulator looks like a shitty MS Paint drawing.

>>6011996
Is there more where this came from?