The Game Boy Camera will soon get a second life as an awful webcam

This is made imaginable utilizing the GB Operator: a USB dock that allows Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges to beryllium played connected a machine (or the Steam Deck) done an app called Playback and the open-source mGBA emulator. The dock tin besides backmost up prevention crippled information oregon easy extract photos captured by the Game Boy Camera.

Epilogue, the institution down it, shared a abbreviated video of the caller diagnostic connected X and told Time Extension, “We present person a unrecorded provender from the Game Boy Camera, but inactive request to fine-tune immoderate things and let for configuration options.”

It besides described the caller diagnostic arsenic “the worst and the champion webcam you’ll ever have.”

A erstwhile effort astatine turning the Game Boy Camera into a webcam required a stack of hardware, including a Super Nintendo, a Super Game Boy cartridge, a instrumentality to person a composite video awesome to HDMI, and a video seizure paper for a PC. Epilogue’s solution looks overmuch simpler and astir painless — but for those forced to spot their co-workers livestreamed done a relic of integer photography.

In summation to the Game Boy-focused GB Operator, Epilogue precocious shared the archetypal images of its upcoming SN Operator, which offers the aforesaid functionality and PC connectivity but for Super Nintendo cartridges. There are presently nary details connected erstwhile the SN Operator volition beryllium released, and “coming soon” is the lone timeline shared for the GB Operator upgrades.