Emulator App Turns Game Boy Camera Into 'The Worst and Best Webcam You'll Ever Have' (timeextension.com) 7
Epilogue, the company behind the GB Operator emulator, which lets users play Game Boy cartridges on a PC, announced that it's working on an update to turn the Game Boy Camera into a lo-fi webcam. Time Extension reports: The Playback app currently allows you to download photos from the Game Boy Camera accessory, but Epilogue has just demonstrated the ability to use the peripheral as a webcam.
"We now have a live feed from the Game Boy Camera, but still need to fine-tune some things and allow for configuration options," says the company. "We wanted to share this update because it was exciting to see it finally work, and [we] can't wait to see everyone having fun with it. It's the worst and the best webcam you'll ever have."
"We now have a live feed from the Game Boy Camera, but still need to fine-tune some things and allow for configuration options," says the company. "We wanted to share this update because it was exciting to see it finally work, and [we] can't wait to see everyone having fun with it. It's the worst and the best webcam you'll ever have."
Super niche. (Score:2)
Beyond being a fun feature for a few retro enthusiasts and some rich kids that will buy anything to entertain their boredom, it's a pointless feature. However, it would seem the most important contribution is that it has clearly helped advertise their products and company. That alone likely made it's development worthwhile.
Re: Super niche. (Score:2)
Though that is the market that these companies are operating in. I am guessing that they are essentially at loss companies. They do something because they think it is interesting and personally want to do it. And they are selling the product at a slight markup to make a little bit of rolling money; but the engineering is done at a loss.
Re: (Score:3)
Most of these companies are single person operations to be honest. Some guy engineers something "because they can" and decodes to do something fun with it. They're doing it purely for the fun of it.
The fact they sell it is just a way to help pay for their hobby. It's not hard - plastic parts are 3D printed (you can get many professionally 3D printed these days) and circuit boards professionally made and slap them together. Then run to the post office every few days as an order comes in.
Beats my Nokia3310 (Score:2)
In fact, it did not even have a camera.
Everything old is new again (Score:1)
Back in the 90s, I was running Linux (some non-enterprise Red Hat version) on a NEC Versa 2000C laptop, and knew someone online who worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. I don't remember their name, but maybe they're on here and will chime in. Anyway, one day they said hey, we've got this chip we call an Artificial Retina; want one to test? He sent me a little circuit board with the chip, a serial port, and if I recall, a connector for a 9-volt battery for power. I plugged it in and playe