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You can now use the Game Boy Camera with your phone
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A new mobile app for the GB Operator lets you snap terrible 2-bit, 128 x112 photos without the need for a Game Boy.
A new mobile app for the GB Operator lets you snap terrible 2-bit, 128 x112 photos without the need for a Game Boy.
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The $50 GB Operator is an accessory that lets you connect, play, and authenticate Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges on PCs and other devices. Now it’s getting some new functionality for the Game Boy Camera. After turning the Game Boy Camera into a charmingly awful desktop webcam two years ago, device-maker Epilogue has just released an iOS/Android mobile app so you can take photos while the Game Boy accessory is connected to your smartphone through the GB Operator.
The Game Boy Camera was a terrible camera even by 1998 standards when it was released. It captured 0.01434-megapixel images in just four shades of gray and images were trapped on your Game Boy unless you printed them or bought a third-party cable to extract them. But it was accessible and affordable at $90, which is also part of the appeal of Epilogue’s solution to using the camera with modern devices.