Getting the Best Quality Photos with a GAME BOY CAMERA

[@unknownbababooey7111]

Imagine a group of photographers with all of the best cameras and one guy uses a Gameboy Camera.

[@WulffDen]

that's my life

[@moose-mancer]

Sorry to butt in like this, but I was just wondering what music you have in the background? Specifically when you showed yourself taking pictures at the bridge near the end of the video?

[@TheEpicFace007]

Legion Entertainment I would be the guy with the game boy camera.

[@gunnereddie4821]

instaBlaster

[@CharacterDesignForge]

Well done Bob, Now get me pictures of SPIDER-MAN

[@CharacterDesignForge]

Seriously though, this video is the geekiest, coolest thing

[@benjaminprado6365]

In the 10:15 is steve

[@ThatsPety]

He's a MENACE

[@RetroCabeza]

I had the same problem taking pictures with the GBA SP. You can press select to invert the image upside down, if you didn't know that. It's still awkward to frame, but it works just fine.

[@JeshuaKO1]

you can also change the palette on the game boy color / game boy player using d pad and or B. that way you just choose the one that best suits you and that way you avoid editing

[@unknownbababooey7111]

Oh no! My Gameboy camera nudes leaked! Wait it looks like a flower... Huh. So I can still hide them. Wow. THANKS WULFF DEN!

[@JaKingScomez]

@Legion Entertainment watch your mouth child

[@urielc918]

Football Is Life welcome to the internet, do you have a reservation?

[@stpidstuff]

@@JaKingScomez if you can speak Spanish then what?

[@GeekTherapyRadio]

Man, back when this came out, it was absolute magic. I spent many, many, many fond hours tinkering with pictures and time-lapses of shadows moving across the yard.

[@Nintentional]

The image quality of that gameboy camera may be low, but the quality if your guys’ videos went through the roof! Thoroughly entertaining video, very well put together and produced. Hats off

[@ValiantNorth]

Those pictures look great, the boat literally looked like some gbc cutscene picture

[@chris_bx9432]

Bob with GameBoy Camera: “I feel hipstery and weird, look like a whack job and get weird looks while taking pics” Art student with shoebox pinhole camera: “hold my beer...”

[@nobody2021]

*hold my pbr

[@zeezull]

I still have a gameboy self portrait of myself from back in the day but after seeing this I THINK I CAN NOW DO BETTER...great video, Bob. Keep them coming.

[@42.0fmthefever5]

Fun Fact: Neil Young use the Gameboy camera for a album cover :)

[@richardgibson8403]

Vinyl Dad link pls

[@froekenur]

Silver and gold album. The album art is a photo taken by Neil's daughter Amber with the Game Boy Camera.

[@ketchcoreyvideos]

Well then he should have called it the "silver and gold, and amber" album

[@mint_kyuu99]

Fun Fact: You can actually send the photos of the Game Boy Camera to a PC with a obscure 3rd party accesory that only works in windows 95

[@sheriffaboubakar9720]

MetalMatiaxs X will it work with Win95 on VMWare?

[@mint_kyuu99]

@@sheriffaboubakar9720 If the machine supports the Communication Ports, it will work

[@mofo78536]

@@rhindlethered There is now a arduino gameboy printer emulator that you can build yourself if you really wanted to now. Written it not too long ago.

[@KizulEmeraldfire]

Actually, it works on Windows 98 and 98 SE as well! :) I have the MadCatz PC Camera Link Cable, though I have to admit that I haven't used it very often in recent years. XD

[@No_True_Scotsman]

I had that cable!!! It never worked tho. It would think it was transferring but just give me an image full of question marks.

[@PokemasterGamer45]

Bob’s unique awkward humor was perfect for such a strange topic. Great vid!

[@BurgundyBurnouts]

So niche but so interesting

[@WulffDen]

it's pronounced "pretentious"

[@BurgundyBurnouts]

its pronounced "nee-sh"

[@MrSoftypolimer]

I discovered my old gameboy camera a few months back with a ton of childhood pictures. Now I can finally make a big print out my old memories. Thanks mate.

[@qwertypc_game17]

When you press select, you can flip the picture while you are taking it

[@lanedj801]

I’m glad you dive deep in the transfer of resolution and lighting conditions. This is nerdy and I appreciate the dorky Friday evening photo shoot.

[@cube2fox]

3:22 "No matter how you spin it, the image will always appear upside down" 🤯

[@physicsdenier793]

yet i turn the gameboy upside down to not get upside down pictures

[@PhoenixDwn.]

Aesthetic of the opening of this video, and his room are just lovely

[@ItsAMeErick]

Gonna take a photography class, and show up with a gameboy camera.

[@RombusEvilBones]

The gb camera is awesome! I wrote one of those programs to extract bmp files out of gb .sav's and I use the "Mega Memory Card" to extract the save files and the "Ems flash cart" to transfer it to an sd card. You said those can be pricey but you're using a GameCube + Game boy player + Action replay. Maybe the real problem to my approach is to actually find the items for sale. Anyways, my software generates indexed bmp files that allows you to change the palette without doing anything weird. Here it is for the interested github.com/Rombusevil/rgbcdumper Anyways, awesome video to see these days!

[@lsdryn2210]

Great video man! Super niche but at least it’s something your fans can tell you have a passion for. Also I probably say this a lot but your production value on your videos has been crazy good recently.

[@marcfuchs6938]

This is one neat little device. I remember how I enjoyed to work with this thing as a teenager. Even did fascinating stop motion stuff, that I sadly never recorded onto anything. Anyway, this thing still emits some weird fascination. Working with the absolute bare minimum needed for photos really is something, and the esthetics are unique. I am thinking about starting to take my good old Game Boy with me everywhere and take well adjusted pictures of stuff. It only holding 30 pictures gives it an even bigger challenge. Putting out a collage after years would be a nice thing.

[@ProNerdy]

Now we need to make a whole video using gameboy images right after another

[@Rockband2991]

Pro Nerdy so like stop motion?

[@paulybeatz3688]

Ye

[@KizulEmeraldfire]

That's simple enough: get a Super NES and a Super Game Boy, plug the Game Boy Camera into the Super NES, and record footage of the Super NES's video output via some capture card. :D It can be used like a very low-FPS webcam that way!

[@orwwan]

OMFG This is such mindblown/cool video that i NEED to save it forever!!!!!! No other content on this channel would ever come close as this to puuurrrfection. You, Sir, are winning the internet!

[@3DSage]

Wow you put a lot of work into this. Long live the gameboy!!

[@ianchandler4649]

Your actions speak louder than words; you put Minecraft on the GBA.

[@3DSage]

@@ianchandler4649 Thank you! And I have a lot more I want to make for the GBA :)

[@SpyroTheSmallDragon]

That's great man, literally just bought a Gameboy Camera 2 days ago to complete my Gameboy Printer that I've had for years and years

[@MondoMurderface]

Those sticker prints the GB Printer made were pretty good. There is still a picture of my Mom on the back of her desk from my old gameboy camera I had as a kid.

[@GrayDisciple]

You know Bob... I appreciate you. Thanks for painstakingly doing ALL of this for my viewing pleasure of 12 minutes and 41 seconds. Keep on... Fuckin' & Chuckin'!

[@s0ggy_flannel]

4:50 you take great selfies bob. good video today. had to watch later because of school

[@EPMTUNES]

10:00 is this matt gray from Matt and Tom Scott?

[@Calv1ncc]

The last thing I had on my mind is how to get the best picture of a game boy 📷, but this video, I found it to be highly interesting. And yes, the guys at my life in gaming are awesome, not only the Gameboy video but a ton of videos they have on their channel.

[@octoroktwinkie9271]

There's a camera app i use called Retroboy, it has a game boy mode. It has other retro shooting modes as well (pxl-2000, amstrad cpc464, roy lichtenstein, etc.). I would recommend it. This is a much easier way than doing all this stuff, unless you really care about getting authentic gameboy camera photos. You can get it on the fdroid app for free.

[@WulffDen]

that's for quitters

[@octoroktwinkie9271]

WULFF DEN I guess i'll be a quitter in this situation. Not all of us have the money and time to spend aquiring authentic gameboy camera pics. That's why we watch you do it :)

[@madscienceman436]

9:56 Hey, it's Matt Grey! Another photography nerd and member of the technical difficulties

[@HarmoniChris]

What a rad project! Hipster or no, your snaps are righteous.

[@n.storyteller9826]

For a device that's so outdated this is really interesting to watch on ways on how it does and dosent look good at times.

[@sirhendro]

I loved making stop motion videos with the gameboy camera.

[@sethtaylor6373]

Watching this on 144p

[@joaquinroman7621]

Finally a good video about this camera. Thank you

[@lightdialga9110]

4:37 he be lookin like store brand Keanu Reeves

[@oscarcacnio8418]

Oh! Hey! It's Matt Gray! And thus shrinking the Six Degrees of Separation you have with Tom Scott to about 2.

[@DengekiGamer]

It's really Gun to go out and take Pictures with the Game Boy Camera, I do that a lot. But I dump my Pictures with an (inexpensive) Card Dumper end extract die Photos from the Savefile itself. Also, try to do some Color Photos with the Game Boy Camera. Its not easy, but the Outcome is great.

[@tretrotrotre]

Can i ask for the dumper's name? I was thinking about making one with an arduino but If your dumper is not expensive i can buy one instead

[@CyUzi5280]

Ya immediately reminded me of IronicSans and his color GBCamera photo. The pure black and white bitmaps would come in handy for making color photos.

[@GaryMeacher]

Love this video. Would be happy to see more content like this. I love exploring the old peripherals and all their quirkiness.

[@bendu8282]

The Bugile will pay you double for this, Peter may have competition...

[@andrewcorner2971]

To get my photos off my gameboy camera I used a Madcats Camera Link. It is a GB-25pin Parallel port cable that runs in windows 98, I just dumped the photos and used a flopy disc to get the files onto my main machine (with a USB floppy drive). It works quite well, I have 2 boxed ones in my collection. However if I had have known about this solution I would have not bothered with tinkering with old PCs and Laptops to get the files and just used that.

[@Awesomepedia]

I was looking for years for a good, affordable solution and finally found one in J.Rodrigo's Cart Flasher. It's all you need to rip the .sav file with the images and it's only 37 eur on Tindie (shipped directly from the guy who makes it). There's a few reviews of it on KZbin but in short it works great, and it's fast. Plus you can backup Game Boy save files with the same device if you're so inclined!

[@JosephSalomonsen]

That selfie just looked awesome!! I would use it as it as profile pic👍

[@draz1000]

Loved the video dude, wish I had all that gear to be able to do it myself.

[@neosaurus]

Thanks for posting the most important camera guide video on KZbin :D

[@Tony_3XL]

I LOVED this as a kid. Interesting as video concept. Ggs.

[@JaseyStudios]

If u have a flash cart, I heard you can put a gameboy camera ROM on it, and use a link cable to transfer pictures from a gameboy with the camera to the link cart. From there you can just rip the save file from the flash cart on ur computer and extract the pics from there. I haven’t tried this yet, but I sure want to !

[@DavNoel]

Love watching you figure stuff like this out. Well done!

[@kekchanbiggestfan]

But does it shoot RAW?

[@heavenlyderpfowl1180]

just as a note, if you click select in the camera mode you can access a mirror mode

[@cyanrazorCel]

I dare someone to make a whole feature film with the gameboy camera. It's possible.

[@Defectee]

Super cool video as always! Photos are fantastic!

[@MrCrossa]

I went the extra mile and used Japanese exclusive photo borders/frames (of which I found on TCRF) on my pics and added them in while editing the color palette.

[@lucasfilmstudio2729]

I love this lil thing, so damn cool

[@zyriuz2]

i thought you where gonna strap that gameboy take 3 pics in RGB filters and then use those three pics to correspond to each colour and then have coloured gameboy pictures, and you know getting the most out of that camera... but this is cool too since the process of getting just one image out of that is pretty hard too x)

[@gitarkin]

So THAT'S what Mr. House used for his avi.

[@Trekeyus]

The asmretro altane can dump the SRAM as well. I use my atlane for capturing Gameboy camera pictures. The software supports several different color palette

[@JohnnyCProduction]

Nice video. I did a music video a couple of years ago where I used a game boy camera to shoot video with it. It was a fun experiment since I had no knowledge on how I was suppose to do it.

[@1TZAH]

my pic was taken with el gb player + elgato hd, not the best method, but it can record video

[@crocomire936]

10:14 his face looks like steve

[@oncameramastery]

Love it! I wish I'd watched this before using my Game Boy Camera for a video recently!

[@MapleMilk]

A ton of Bandcamp musicians thank you.

[@tretrotrotre]

You can also use green, blue and red filters to take pictures with color.

[@VGPlaysGames]

This was a really fun video, man. I might have to pull my GameBoy Camera out...

[@Der_Ed]

I use an arduino nano. Cut a link cable and solder 4 of the wires to the arduino nano. This way you can use the print function to send the hex code to the pc and decode that to an image.

[@SrNibb]

I admire the work you did to make this only the insane would figure this out

[@sofawota]

totally doing this! thank you so much for going through this experimentation and making a great vid on it. subbed

[@J03098]

I didn't expect you to show a picture of Matt Gray.

[@bennycheca9426]

Thank you for this vid now I can actually work with my game boy camera

[@moth.monster]

I have to admit, I prefer the look of scanned Game Boy Printer. By the way, you can use any old thermal paper with it.

[@TdogEN]

dude this is super dope, it kinda makes me wish that the Nintendo switch had a camera on it lol

[@luigimaster111]

When I bought a GB Camera, it had someone's nudes on it. The original Game Boy's screen was so bad I didn't even notice they were nudes until I popped the cartridge into a Game Boy Pocket

[@AustinRoberJohnson]

Awesome and very informative. Thanks man!

[@kylewynn3147]

Regular Fleshy Bob: Eh Green Puke Colored Bob: Mmm, Perfection.

[@ashleymachado5146]

A whole 30 pictures?? Well hawt dayum

[@1MikeTakesAHike]

Very cool video. Makes me want to check if my old pictures are still there on my GameBoy Camera but my GameBoy Camera is at the other end of the world rn hahahaha damn.

[@erik3371]

Would be very cool to redo this video in 2023! With these new developments!

[@joeallen8139]

Most productive 12 minutes and 41 seconds of my life

[@chrisbetteridge6579]

If you used a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP GBA Game Cartridge Changer by Gamester it adds a 3 cartridge slot on the top for the camera to slide in perfectly

[@twkarches]

To use the SP upside down, flip the image from the Select menu.

[@MakotoIchinose]

Ironically watches this video in 144p (because my connection is so unstable so often but not regularly)

[@Rrodfer]

I love your videos, great work

[@TastingKitty]

The process seems pointless, but for what the camera does...this is pretty dang cool! Wouldn't mind seeing somebody come out with a modified GB Camera that allows you to dump the files directly onto an SD card once you're done :)

[@Nordlicht05]

Have an self backlit Gameboy. I took this when I take pictures outside

[@Cruptile]

Another way to get a bunch of weird looks is to run around with a gamegear, TV tuner and plug in some headphones then pretend you're watching something.

[@mdlouis1859]

Wow i fucking love this. Thank you so much for making this

[@pabloemartinez]

Honestly Bob, dope.

[@TheZarpia]

I love your videos, i lol at all of them at some point.

[@treasurehunter80]

you can put it on a snes with gameboy adapter card and use it on a tv, soo if you have a portable power and mini display and a snes console with you outside...... :)

[@Randomsae]

0:59 you could have said, "You know the first resolution on the list" and got the same outcome.

[@cablekar]

5:45 suddenly I want to take pictures on a gameboy camera

[@carrionslayer8227]

4:10 i think i will make my own gameboy backlight

[@Hamerparsa]

man he really dedicated himself to Nintendo videos

[@mikegem]

I gave him a like for the retroness.

[@cablekar]

I'm so interested in this suddenly