Support this channel on Patreon: / 8bitguy1 Visit my website: www.the8bitguy.com In this episode, I take a look at the Nintendo Gameboy Camera and printer accessory.
I traded in my GameBoy Camera at a store once. Around a year later, I came back to the store and bought a GameBoy Camera because I wanted one again. It was the *same camera* that I traded in.
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Oh that's Bigfoot time to pull out my trusty Gameboy, *doesn't turn on, adds new batteries* ok now it should work, *turns on but doesn't read cartridge, takes out camera blows on it and reinserts it* finally, wait he saw us he's running away I need to take this quickly, and it's perfect, there is no better camera than this *pulls out new phone* You would not believe what I just saw and I have proof
Fun fact: If you press to run button many times,some creepy peaple are going to appear. And this text: Why are you running from? Or Why are you running?
HopeTV Amazing, I've never seen someone not look at upload dates before making a claim like that. This video was uploaded in June of 2017, while Cinemassacre did his video in August of 2017.
I used it mostly for two things: - Stopmotion clips. - Creating mini games using that function that allowed you to place links to another photo. You could draw a room and if you clicked the door it would load a picture of the room behind that door. Like this you could create a point and click adventure. It has been 20 years since i last used it so i don't remember exactly how it all works right now but i had tons of fun with that thing.
Fun fact: There is a peripheral called the BitBoy was released a couple of years ago that emulates the printer and allows you to off load the images onto a SD card for modern usage.
I got mine in 1999 when I was 10 years old, and I loved the heck out of it. I will never forget how I used up all 30 photo slots to create little coherent stop motion films, like shooting 360 degrees around a friend holding a toy gun, trying to look fierce. Fond memories. Love your stuff, 8BitGuy! Greetings from Germany
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You can actually extract the original bmp data from the cartridges volatile memory if you've got the tools to do it. This gives the highest resolution of the images of course since it is the data actually generated by the camera and not filtered through multiple rendering and capture processes. I'd be willing to send over some of my own GB camera photos, or even help extract the photos on your cart for a future video if you'd like!
He also didn't mention that you could use the printer with some other games, to print out artworks… AND that you could also print out panorama shots you have done with the Game Boy Camera. I did that a few times, to get some actual bigger images as prints.
I was a bit peeved when you stated that printing pictures nowadays was out of fashion, digital files are preferred, but when I thought about it, your absolutely right! I concluded that in making videos of old tech such as this, you are in fact making a tangible historical reference to such, which is really important. Great stuff!
Watched this video on my 11 years old son recommendation and now I am glued to this channel with faithful following... Your videos are unique and just fantastic, best wishes
I've owned 2 game boy cameras, and even today it can hold my attention. There are so many little secrets on the cartridge, and it was fun playing and unlocking the games, as well as adding pictures of my friends into the games (game face). I love the gameboy camera, and it feels like such a unique thing to even use, since it can't be emulated. Anyway, great video on such an interesting piece of technology, but you did leave out a lot of detail on the best features. I never really enjoyed taking 'hi-res pictures' with the camera, since i never enjoyed it for its "great applications" in photography. My friends and i more enjoyed that you could take pictures on at all on such a device, and we would still have fun taking, editing, and sharing photos with it, then playing the built in games with them, features you mostly didn't even mention. You only really talked about taking pictures which is only half the experience.
The reason it can't be emulated is because emulators have major design flaws and when pointed out the creators turn the other way and don't listen. there's nothing difficult at all about emulating the gameboy camera but try to emulate with emulators now and sure it's pretty complicated.
And that's one of the camera's features - You can take photos which it will use as a "Game Face". In the little space sheooter screen where he selected the games, if you don't shoot any of the ships and let them go away, another space shooting game starts. The bosses are other game faces from the developers, and finally, your own game face.
Thank you for helping me revisit my childhood. I had that exact blue one and a printer as well. My family bought it for me when I was 11 for a Xmas gift. It came together as a blister pack combo deal for $99 I think including 3 spare rolls of paper. I spent HOURS at a time on that thing. I probably snapped 1000s of photos and printed 100s. Yah the picture quality was terrible and there were a lot better digital cameras at the time but the wow factor for a child like myself to actually “take pictures on a Gameboy” and to have a camera of my own (without wasting film) was amazing. Just seeing you run through the UI brought back a ton of memories. (How did you pipe video to a TV capture device, super game boy adapter on SNES?). That thing had a few other gems on it like alternate frames you could set for the pictures, put your face on the mini game characters, there was a music mixer mode in there somewhere. All kinds of fun.
I've always thought that new intros frequently make people want to go back to the old one... but THIS one was awesome and even better than the original!
2:18 That memorial is a beautiful and touching tribute to the memory of those who were killed in 9/11. Thank you for sharing this corner of your community with us.
DSFII if you select shoot and after selecting shoot you select run appears some weird images and the message "who are you running from?" this is just a easter egg
MrWafflesNBacon I’m running from the ROBLOX fan base. edit: i made this comment when i was 12 or 13 (between anywhere in very late 2017 - february 2018), i’m 15 now lol. how did this get 3 likes?
Aww 😢 I had this. I just realized that this would have been my first digital camera. I always wanted the printer. So much nostalgia, thank you for doing this video!
I remember being a 10 year old kid a year before my grandma passed and her buying the camera and printer for me for christmas 98' , thank you for this video🙌 !
6:38 You can change the exposure before printing by pressing Select and Up, you can adjust it if you want to print it light or darker And of course, you missed even many more options and functions (if we talk about taking photos), such as add giant frames to the photo, put a description and be able to print it next to the photo, change the palette before taking the photo, turn dithering on or off, change the sound when taking the photo and flip the photo c: Still, good video!
I still have mine! Never owned the printer, though my friend did (who always got EVERYthing it seemed) so I'm thankful to have a clear memory of the experience when it first came out. :D
Nice video! Whenever one of my favorite RU-vidrs cover the Game Boy Camera, I'm always reminded of the fact that Neil Young used one to take the photo for the cover art of his "Silver and Gold" album.
I like the new intro! And the Video was also very good, interesting weird tech. Love that! Just at some times I felt that the audio mixing in the video was off where the music was much louder than the previous audio track at the very end.
I think the reason the original paper had an adhesive backing would have been to do with Japanese photo booths (Pri-Club) which dispensed adhesive backed mini photos which people then stick on all their stuff (phones, diaries, etc...). Very popular among the younger crowd in Japan, even these days. Might have been aimed at that market. Edit: The stamping function is definitely inspired by Pri-Club, leading me to believe this was intended more for the Japanese market.
Still got mine! My buddy (who got EVERYthing) had the printer too, and we had a lot of fun printing stickers! For about a day. Then we just tried to figure out how to make the naughtiest/funniest printouts.
You could actually print digital pictures at that time, there were places to develop them from capturing them on a viewer machine. Game boy camera was monochrome, but we like it for actually taking pictures without film, my cousin hated waiting to develop. He mostly saved some of his photos on floppy disk.
OM G yeah, it was impressive when our photo lab started printing photos from VHS tapes and floppy disks. That was for printing screenshots of home movies and video games scores. Now it's easy to use a digital format to print.
Um, OMG, you're wrong on a few levels: 1. We didn't even have digital photography until the mid-'90s at the earliest. 2. Analog photos were and are still printed, either digitally or analogously. 3. You just contradicted yourself with "dot[-]matrix printers can only print text, though you can print images..." If they can print images, then they can print more than text. 4. Computer printers are all digital (except maybe a daisy-wheel printer that converts a digital text signal into typewriter-quality, text-only prints).
I had both the camera and printer as a kid. I spent hours playing the games and taking photos. I remember there was a way to screen grab with the printer from Pokémon yellow in the hall of fame box.
honestly, kids these days dont appreciate how easy it is to take photos at the drop of a hat and at basically no cost instant snap. i take heaps of photos, not to be annoying, but because i grew up thinking 'i wish i was able to get that on camera' now , everything is on camera :D
@@swainmusiclessons EXACTLY! sad part is it wasn't even worth it, probably worth like $150 bucks now, $20 lol I mean that's just a guess but I know people pay crazy prices for unopened stuff
I was a kid when I played this. As a kid, I really enjoyed this and the nostalgia is powerful. 3:35 That purple one is my GB. The owner of this video complained a lot about this product, but when I was a kid I loved and played with it everyday.
Awesome. It's very cool of you to open an unopened printer for the video. It bummed me out so much as a kid I couldn't print Zelda: A Link's Awakening DX's sprite sheets that were unique throughout the world. Very rad demonstration, I dig it.
My Gameboy Camera seems to have lost it's ability to take photos that resemble anything. Even the pictures you took are 10x better than how mine shoots now.. Everything is just a hazy mess, and no amount of trying to set the brightness or contrast helps.. When I look at the photos it took years ago (over 10+ years!), it looked far better then. I wonder if something in between the lens and the sensor itself and is fogging up the sensor.
I wonder how hackable it is? Or if there's some way to use some enhanced compression for better resolution image, Or better interpretation to add color or derive color from the 4 shade gray.
I was the target audience for that camera. Born late 1989. I can tell you, as a 7 or 8 year old, in the mid 90s that it provided endless entertainment. And it was amazing to have a photo on a game boy in school or at a friend's house of something. Brother and I even used it with the long timer to take pictures of the tooth fairy. 11/10 for the time and price point. You also missed some games in there.
I was born 1990. When I saw the thumbnail my brain exploded from memories of that awful printer lol. I loved it. Do you remember when Walkman came out with the waterproof walkman??? Shortly before CD became the thing to have?
@@jamesparker223 lol I don't. I had that yellow discman that was rubberized and tough. That and a Sony portable tv that was in a black square housing, with a thicc nylon rope to hold it around your neck. Antenna in there. Saved up a lot of grass cutting money to "have my own tv" lol
