I remember being over the moon being popular for once, because I was the only person with a portable camera on a school trip. It was the game boy camera. And the school didn’t exactly have a lot of tech rules yet. I argued it was my camera, so I could use it. I was 15. I am now 35 (yes I’m old 😂)
the best picture i ever took with my gameboy camera was when i was in catholic school and saw mike ditka speak at a church, and he let me use it to take a picture of him in front of reporters. years later my file got corrupted and all the pictures i had on it got erased. i was so mad. lol
I really like it when people take 3 photos of the same object with different colored filters and merge them into one color photo. It is a really neat effect and looks great.
mGBA has a build on 3DS where it can emulate the Game Boy Camera. Pretty cool to be able to still mess with it and take pictures a recent Nintendo console, even if it is homebrew.
I used photoshop to edit the photos too, but I used the "Image > Mode > Indexed Color" option to set the palette. Sometimes I used the Pizzaboy emulator too to take some photos (yes, I can use the Gameboy Camera rom perfectly fine with my phone camera)
This reminded me of the Dex Drive for N64, which could rip your save data from N64 memory cards onto your PC -- I remember making a Geocities page for people to upload and trade data, which was kinda cool for trading custom characters and maps, etc, but it turns out that NOT MANY OTHER PEOPLE had Dex Drives and also I was like 14 and lived in a tiny town and had one friend, and wow if you've read this far you must be bored
easy mode is myoldboy! emulator on android. you can use the gameboy camera rom and it works with your phone camera and you can save them to your phone.
I actually just got some 3d printed parts delivered in the mail to modify my gameboy camera to support both pentax and canon lenses. I will probably be buying a GB01 at sometime in the near future.
I bought the Submodule cart reader after this video. Thanks. I've been always looking for something that works plug and play for Mac to download my gameboy camera photo
The way i get my pictures off of my camera is: GBCamera -> N64 Transfer Pak+ N64 controller -> Raphnet n64 to USB adapter + their pc N64 Adapter software to get the save file off of there, Then just take that .Sav file and use GBCamera Dump to get the raw .bpm files. I do it this way, since i already had a transfer pak and in my case just buying the controller adapter was cheaper than getting one of the other ways to rip a gameboy save file. So if one of you in the audience is thinkin' of doing something like this and have about the same stuff, do so! Taking these pictures and seeing them unfiltered is quite fun!
Photo-wise should be cool to turn that into some sort of zine or short kinda project online but don't see it being, at least to the medium consumer, useful for $50 worth of just casual use.
You're desktop background is amazing lol. I'm glad you finally tried using the printer in a video. Sorry it sucks. I've tried cleaning the heating printer element so many times and just can't get to it directly. It's essential a receipt printer that uses heat on thermal paper. I've actually threw a receipt from the store into and it works. Unfortunately, I left paper in it when I had it in storage and it became crusty and crumbly which is what all the mess is inside of it and why it doesn't print so great anymore.
I had one of these around 1997/8 and I was 12/13 at the time. This was insane! First ever digital camera, and before the Nokia face-plate brick phone came out in high school. I chose a green camera as I thought it went well with my see-through pocket GB matching the chip sets. Fond memories! Do I wish I still had it? No, it's f******* shit.
Awesome details and video! I was also inspired to try the Game Boy camera as a webcam. I made my setup slightly simpler again by using a Super Game Boy + a Retro-Bit Super RetroTRIO Plus 3 in 1, which gives your direct HDMI output and a cheap USB/HDMI capture dongle!
Smartphone companies really need to create more peripherals for cell phones like the Gameboy Camera - similar to the Motorola Modules. Please, I would pay good money for an official Gameboy Camera adapter.
This is really cool but I'm not likely to carry it around any time soon. A photo filter or Gameboy Camera lookalike app are more likely to catch my eye.
I look forward to that lens modded video in the future, also is that still the *same* boss in Megaman Zero that you're stuck on? (thanks for the cart-ripper suggestion, as well, might need to grab that...)
I’m a bit late to the party and the GB01 is no longer for sale. In your research did you find any other cart readers that have GB Camera-specific support?
Getting the Pokemon Red save with GB01, hacking it into the 3DS virtual console pokemon, putting those pokemon into Home with Bank, aaand BOOM, i have my 20 years old Charizard in Shield
i recently found mine and put in my SP. got some cool pics of some dead relatives including my mom on it that i dont even remember taking. one day ill figure out how to get them off but for now its safe it a drawer
The gameboy camera gallery music is 8 bit lofi pre lofi 24/7 channels. That boop bu buh boo bu bu boo bu buh boo bu buh buhbuh boop bu buh boo bu bu boo bu buh boo bu buh buhbuh so relaxing I have a gameboy camera I picked up last year for old times sake. I only have a crap GBA original that you cannot see the screen on and has no battery cover to take pictures with using it. Overall it's cool but I've always wanted the printer. I wish there was a better way to print than the thermal printing that comes from the OFFICIAL gameboy printer. If someone made one that would print the pictures a bit better like how they were intended to look that would be cool. I never had the printer as a kid but the gameboy camera was one of my first digital cameras and part of the start of my love for photography. I just bought a new vlog camera this week the Sony Powershot DS (Digital Still) HXC80. I was considering the Canon Mark II for a point and shoot toss in my bag vlogging camera but it didn't have the flip monitor AND was over $600. The Powershot was only around $400. So far I am a lot happier with the Canon cameras I've used both for digital and analog over the years. In high school I took a photo class and had to learn how to develop in the dark room and also develop the film from the roll in this machine where it heats and dries the exposed roll or something. I barely remember the film development part but projecting the film to be developed on paper was a lot of fun and gave me a new love for photography. I now have a liking for somewhat older phone cameras which have that lagginess and distorted image that came with earlier mobile cameras before we had camera phones that are better than many old and casual cameras. I have the Blue Gameboy Camera in a plastic bag in storage in my closet and I found several mobile apps that ATTEMPT to recreate the gameboy camera but generally fail to do so. I still use them from time to time. All of them are on iOS except one called Retroboy I got for my Android. Retroboy is free and is probably the best of the bunch in terms of gameboy camera app knock offs. I wish my primary phone had Retroboy. On iOS I downloaded 8bit: Camera which is my favorite for its simplicity and relative closeness to the gameboy camera. I think it was 99 cents for that one but there's no adds and it works pretty solid. There is also one called "BitCam" which also is super minimalist and has a few basic color palattes and is much more "bitmappy" than the other apps. Finally I downloaded one called PowerUp which offers in-app purchases to unlock cameras imitating different systems. Of course the gameboy camera is one of the ones you have to pay for. It also recreates what photos would possibly look like on other retro consoles like the Genesis and SNES though to mixed (mostly poor) results. Powerup does have a fun user interface with a UI that imitates the controllers and themes of each system. If I was going to recommend one for iOS it would be BitCam because it's free and if you have 99¢ I'd get 8bit: Camera. I believe 8bit: Camera was developed a few years ago so it has a retro style feel to the app that is trying to imitate a retro camera. I think this is just unintentional and the logo for the app icon looks like it was drawn in MS Paint. I'm sure there has got to be someone who can do a better job making a gameboy camera app that shoots 1:1 or as close to imitating the gameboy camera as possible. It would probably take a lot of work to get that image to look as pixelated and messy as the original but I think they could just port the gameboy camera and then program some algorithm to interpret how the gameboy camera lens and software would interpret a picture. If Nintendo did it that would be awesome but I don't see that coming. Brian Eno has a great quote about outdated mediums. I think anyone could relate to it if you are into retro stuff. “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” ― Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices
The stuff Bob creates for his advertisers are as good as his actual videos (which are also brilliant). I always wondered if advertisers pay more for this as opposed to the standard "which brings me on to today's sponsor, script read nonsense" that we always see on most other TH-cam channels.
What an excellent video. I want to see a video of you walking around the city taking pictures. 2nd channel content!! Thanks
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I love your ips nintendo builds you do on old GB and GBA's. Jw where do you usually find your doner console?
Wulff says "Polaroid cameras" and then Elliot comes running lol
Kit & Krysta just did this
i'm commenting to make the algorithm happy
Nobody:
Bob: check out my Game Boy Camera extreme photography!
I’m all for it.
No shit! I remember being disappointed by this thing as a kid. It's still stoopid enough to make me smile.
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@@ZeroBtw_ sickkkkkk
Tynology Gaming ;)
This meme is really burnt out. Stop.
This are my favorite Bob videos, you can really see how he is excited by it
I spent hours with the camera and printer. Even took it to work and took selfies with everyone.... and making music was awesome. Thanks WD
Honestly the best AD I’ve seen yet. CHIPS!!
I remember being over the moon being popular for once, because I was the only person with a portable camera on a school trip. It was the game boy camera. And the school didn’t exactly have a lot of tech rules yet. I argued it was my camera, so I could use it. I was 15. I am now 35 (yes I’m old 😂)
Bob...that ad belongs in the MoMA...
I love this and probably won't ever own a GB camera, just love seeing cool projects with retro hardware
I appreciate the fact you make the ad reads really entertaining
When the merch become part of the content.
Dude the skit was amazing I needed that laugh. "MOM! I NEED MORE CHIPS!" Lmao
Best in-video ad I've seen in a long time. I had a laff
I came down here to read the comments about the ad. 😄
Screw the algorithm. More weird artsy retro bob videos!
I love your videos, and you inspire me to do TH-cam, and also you're the reason I got a switch recently, thanks for the great content!
Me to
the best picture i ever took with my gameboy camera was when i was in catholic school and saw mike ditka speak at a church, and he let me use it to take a picture of him in front of reporters.
years later my file got corrupted and all the pictures i had on it got erased. i was so mad. lol
Best sponsor clip ever?
I really like it when people take 3 photos of the same object with different colored filters and merge them into one color photo. It is a really neat effect and looks great.
The 8 Bit Guy did that with an old black and white webcam, it was a pretty cool video.
Can't even explain how much I want to watch Gameboy Camera livestreams
I remember an article a while ago about a guy using a gameboy camera to take (relatively) nice pictures of the moon. Super cool.
This motivates me to use mine for photography but I don’t know if I want to drop the money on the gismo yet
I think I know the reason why...
@@AlolaMasked what the fuck does this mean
I just gotta say, that was the *best* commercial I have have ever seen! I was laughing out loud a few times. You should be sponsored.
I hope you'll do this again when the Analogue Pocket comes out, I know I'll be trying it
I know the last Game Boy Camera video didn’t do great, but I LOVE these videos. I would love to see them more when you have more updates!
That sponsored ad tho. Love it
4:44
Wulff: "a guy in Romania"
Me: Finally, more people are learning the fact that my home country EXISTS!!!!
mGBA has a build on 3DS where it can emulate the Game Boy Camera. Pretty cool to be able to still mess with it and take pictures a recent Nintendo console, even if it is homebrew.
I used photoshop to edit the photos too, but I used the "Image > Mode > Indexed Color" option to set the palette.
Sometimes I used the Pizzaboy emulator too to take some photos (yes, I can use the Gameboy Camera rom perfectly fine with my phone camera)
same, but i dont know how to save my gameboy camera photos on my gallery
This reminded me of the Dex Drive for N64, which could rip your save data from N64 memory cards onto your PC -- I remember making a Geocities page for people to upload and trade data, which was kinda cool for trading custom characters and maps, etc, but it turns out that NOT MANY OTHER PEOPLE had Dex Drives and also I was like 14 and lived in a tiny town and had one friend, and wow if you've read this far you must be bored
Lol, Will made a stealth return to the channel with that voice over in the commercial. Nice!
Why am I more interested in Bob's PC Wallpaper 6:22
That ad was incredible
This is really interesting stuff. I like the idea of tech restraints to force distinct style of image.
Thanks for this video! I just ripped the photos from 2001 off of my Gameboy Camera and now they're safe on my hard drive.
i love this passion you have for the gb camera, all of your vids are so entertaining
How isn't this video way more seen, this is so f good
easy mode is myoldboy! emulator on android. you can use the gameboy camera rom and it works with your phone camera and you can save them to your phone.
Great video as always, Bob!
Can't wait to see this video again when the Analogue Pocket comes out.
I actually just got some 3d printed parts delivered in the mail to modify my gameboy camera to support both pentax and canon lenses. I will probably be buying a GB01 at sometime in the near future.
I bought the Submodule cart reader after this video. Thanks. I've been always looking for something that works plug and play for Mac to download my gameboy camera photo
The way i get my pictures off of my camera is:
GBCamera -> N64 Transfer Pak+ N64 controller -> Raphnet n64 to USB adapter + their pc N64 Adapter software to get the save file off of there, Then just take that .Sav file and use GBCamera Dump to get the raw .bpm files.
I do it this way, since i already had a transfer pak and in my case just buying the controller adapter was cheaper than getting one of the other ways to rip a gameboy save file.
So if one of you in the audience is thinkin' of doing something like this and have about the same stuff, do so! Taking these pictures and seeing them unfiltered is quite fun!
Awesome video man. It so crazy how much more we can get out of "outdated" retro tech. So cool
You can do a batch print on the gameboy camera under the options section
Just thrifted a gameboy. Gonna try this out love how the images come out
Photo-wise should be cool to turn that into some sort of zine or short kinda project online but don't see it being, at least to the medium consumer, useful for $50 worth of just casual use.
Every minute of this video was so fun!!! Thanks for making it!!
Your videos are always interesting, insightful, well written and with no waste. Really a pleasure.
You're desktop background is amazing lol. I'm glad you finally tried using the printer in a video. Sorry it sucks. I've tried cleaning the heating printer element so many times and just can't get to it directly. It's essential a receipt printer that uses heat on thermal paper. I've actually threw a receipt from the store into and it works. Unfortunately, I left paper in it when I had it in storage and it became crusty and crumbly which is what all the mess is inside of it and why it doesn't print so great anymore.
I had one of these around 1997/8 and I was 12/13 at the time. This was insane! First ever digital camera, and before the Nokia face-plate brick phone came out in high school. I chose a green camera as I thought it went well with my see-through pocket GB matching the chip sets. Fond memories! Do I wish I still had it? No, it's f******* shit.
Me: Misses this video
*Fine, I’ll subscribe.*
Awesome details and video! I was also inspired to try the Game Boy camera as a webcam. I made my setup slightly simpler again by using a Super Game Boy + a Retro-Bit Super RetroTRIO Plus 3 in 1, which gives your direct HDMI output and a cheap USB/HDMI capture dongle!
Smartphone companies really need to create more peripherals for cell phones like the Gameboy Camera - similar to the Motorola Modules.
Please, I would pay good money for an official Gameboy Camera adapter.
Moto z3 owner here. They gave the people FOUR phones and no one cared
Thanks for the video! Awesome video man!
You are the Bob Ross of the Gameboy art world.
What an era we live in where we can love stream from a gameboy camera.
The GameBoy Camera WiFi Printer is epic!
Damn gameboy photo aesthetic goes hard
Need to see a Game Boy camera on the Analogue Pocket video now
I wanna see someone blow up one of these photos to the size of a billboard.
Tremendous!
Fall guys with gameboy camera from now on! Great stuff bobby boi
I love these kinds of videos! Makes me want to get a Gameboy camera. I had one back in the day 😁
you have the best sponsor ads
I like a lot the Gameboy Camera, it would be nice for me get an SNES Jr and a Gameboy Player too to make some mess with it too.
Great video the pictures give you a warm retro throw back feeling thank you for that 😊
You said on stream that your latest sponsor was gonna be wild and I foolishly dismissed it.
I never should have doubted you.
Love your vids dude
This is really cool but I'm not likely to carry it around any time soon. A photo filter or Gameboy Camera lookalike app are more likely to catch my eye.
i just use retroboy thats available for android phones. its really neat and lots of options. i use my profile picture with that.
In year where 4K and 8K+ cameras and consoles come out Bob is play with 128x128 pixels. Nice! 😎
Now that's the camera that can stand against the iPhone Camera
Cool stuff Bahb!
Surprised he didn't mention GBxCart RW. Very cheap and versatile option.
Hey, I have one of those cart readers. Time to go shopping for a gameboy camera!
Great video Bob
This nails that good ol’ fashion fun factor.
Bing! I subscribed! Thanks for making this video!!
Liking and commenting just because the omaze ad was excellent. I haven’t even watch the video yet :O
Bob's gonna spawn a group of niche photographers that use the gameboy camera exclusively and I'm in that group. Thanks bawb
I look forward to that lens modded video in the future, also is that still the *same* boss in Megaman Zero that you're stuck on? (thanks for the cart-ripper suggestion, as well, might need to grab that...)
Imagine when the Analog Pocket comes out and we can use the GB Camera with that device 🤔
I swear your the only channel i can say had good ads lol
Doing a great job! Love your content
I’m a bit late to the party and the GB01 is no longer for sale. In your research did you find any other cart readers that have GB Camera-specific support?
I am in the same boat. Any ideas?
yess I would love someone to actually mod a decent dish cam into the gameboy .
I loved game boy camera. I even had the little printer to make my own stickers
Everyone else on the planet: MINECRAFT SMASH BROS!!!
Bob: Hey guys uhh, check out my Gameboy camera
Getting the Pokemon Red save with GB01, hacking it into the 3DS virtual console pokemon, putting those pokemon into Home with Bank, aaand BOOM, i have my 20 years old Charizard in Shield
me watching the popcorn cooking in the microwave
i recently found mine and put in my SP. got some cool pics of some dead relatives including my mom on it that i dont even remember taking. one day ill figure out how to get them off but for now its safe it a drawer
this is some beautiful stuff
The gameboy camera gallery music is 8 bit lofi pre lofi 24/7 channels. That
boop bu buh
boo bu bu
boo bu buh
boo bu buh buhbuh
boop bu buh
boo bu bu
boo bu buh
boo bu buh buhbuh
so relaxing
I have a gameboy camera I picked up last year for old times sake. I only have a crap GBA original that you cannot see the screen on and has no battery cover to take pictures with using it. Overall it's cool but I've always wanted the printer. I wish there was a better way to print than the thermal printing that comes from the OFFICIAL gameboy printer. If someone made one that would print the pictures a bit better like how they were intended to look that would be cool. I never had the printer as a kid but the gameboy camera was one of my first digital cameras and part of the start of my love for photography. I just bought a new vlog camera this week the Sony Powershot DS (Digital Still) HXC80. I was considering the Canon Mark II for a point and shoot toss in my bag vlogging camera but it didn't have the flip monitor AND was over $600. The Powershot was only around $400. So far I am a lot happier with the Canon cameras I've used both for digital and analog over the years. In high school I took a photo class and had to learn how to develop in the dark room and also develop the film from the roll in this machine where it heats and dries the exposed roll or something. I barely remember the film development part but projecting the film to be developed on paper was a lot of fun and gave me a new love for photography. I now have a liking for somewhat older phone cameras which have that lagginess and distorted image that came with earlier mobile cameras before we had camera phones that are better than many old and casual cameras. I have the Blue Gameboy Camera in a plastic bag in storage in my closet and I found several mobile apps that ATTEMPT to recreate the gameboy camera but generally fail to do so. I still use them from time to time.
All of them are on iOS except one called Retroboy I got for my Android. Retroboy is free and is probably the best of the bunch in terms of gameboy camera app knock offs. I wish my primary phone had Retroboy.
On iOS I downloaded 8bit: Camera which is my favorite for its simplicity and relative closeness to the gameboy camera. I think it was 99 cents for that one but there's no adds and it works pretty solid. There is also one called "BitCam" which also is super minimalist and has a few basic color palattes and is much more "bitmappy" than the other apps. Finally I downloaded one called PowerUp which offers in-app purchases to unlock cameras imitating different systems. Of course the gameboy camera is one of the ones you have to pay for. It also recreates what photos would possibly look like on other retro consoles like the Genesis and SNES though to mixed (mostly poor) results. Powerup does have a fun user interface with a UI that imitates the controllers and themes of each system. If I was going to recommend one for iOS it would be BitCam because it's free and if you have 99¢ I'd get 8bit: Camera. I believe 8bit: Camera was developed a few years ago so it has a retro style feel to the app that is trying to imitate a retro camera. I think this is just unintentional and the logo for the app icon looks like it was drawn in MS Paint. I'm sure there has got to be someone who can do a better job making a gameboy camera app that shoots 1:1 or as close to imitating the gameboy camera as possible. It would probably take a lot of work to get that image to look as pixelated and messy as the original but I think they could just port the gameboy camera and then program some algorithm to interpret how the gameboy camera lens and software would interpret a picture. If Nintendo did it that would be awesome but I don't see that coming.
Brian Eno has a great quote about outdated mediums. I think anyone could relate to it if you are into retro stuff.
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
― Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices
Best ad to date
Very cool video, I think that the GB01 is no longer available unfortunately, have ordered the wifi printer module, is a good price.
I'd watch a whole video on that ad you made
that desktop background
Can you print the images in bulk with the wifi printer? You can with the actual printer
I remember back on the 3ds era I take my og 3ds and take photos to everything I see (yes it’s bad quality but who cares I was little)
The stuff Bob creates for his advertisers are as good as his actual videos (which are also brilliant). I always wondered if advertisers pay more for this as opposed to the standard "which brings me on to today's sponsor, script read nonsense" that we always see on most other TH-cam channels.
I want to see someone use the photos as like, sprites for a game and then maybe some other pictures as the backgrounds and soofs
Bob! You look well rested... NICE! :)
Getting the photos off of the camera - why not simply lay the screen onto a scanner like the Epson V700 and scan it?