26/3/2007

gameboy camera

I recently got hold of an old gameboy camera, and this page catalogs my attempts with it. It's got a resolution of 128x112 in 2-bit greyscale. Obviously the compositing and tinting weren't done on the gameboy, but I think I can get away with a bit of cheating for the sake of being creative... Click for full-size versions.   A brief note on the technical side of things - the images were transfered to a PC using the MadCatz parallel port cable (available on eBay every now and then) and the software from here (because the MadCatz software refused to work in Linux). Chose to do this mostly because the quality loss involved in printing the pictures using the standard gameboy printer and then scanning was too great.