A few days in the past a consumer on r/Gameboy requested the neighborhood if there was any approach to flip his Game Boy Camera into a functioning webcam in order that (in his phrases) “I may be an a** to individuals I don’t respect.” Nicely, somebody got here by means of and confirmed that it’s truly attainable to do that.
The entire thing began with consumer u/eye_for_an_homonculi on the r/Gameboy subreddit, who had a little bit of a passive aggressive axe to grind. Earlier this week, he requested the subreddit if there was any method to make use of his Game Boy Camera as a webcam in an effort to “piss off” some individuals who had positioned some ridiculous streaming guidelines onto a “skilled growth take a look at” he needed to take.
Irony apart, after placing the query on the market, retro gamer and {hardware} modder Bernard Capulong got here by means of. It is attainable… though it’s not precisely easy.
You may see his setup right here:
it was my future to reply this query within the nerdiest method possible pic.twitter.com/nYDaz63B3K
— Bernard (@bernardcapulong) September 1, 2020
In accordance with Capulong, Step 1 of this course of is “don’t.”
When you select to disregard Step 1, the remainder of the setup contains combining all the following:
- A Game Boy Camera cartridge
- A Tremendous Game Boy 2 cartridge
- An Analogue Tremendous Nt or a Tremendous Nintendo/Tremendous Famicom with an upscaler like a Retrotink
- A Seize Card
- An Exterior Microphone
Put all of those collectively, and also you’ve turned your Game Boy Camera into a webcam that can be utilized with Streamlabs OBS or Zoom no drawback. In reality, the video up high is a transformed recording from a Zoom assembly.
Granted, when it comes to picture high quality and effort-to-reward ratio, that is in all probability a step within the fallacious path… however it’s important to give the person factors for ingenuity and elegance. And if you happen to occur to run in some nerdy circles, this might earn you some severe avenue cred.
Watch the video pattern up high to see how this mod turned out, and click here if you wish to see tons extra Game Boy Camera hackery.
(by way of Nintendo Life)
