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I wonder, if I wanted to recreate the Gameboy Camera with an emulator...has anyone done this with a webcam and a thermal printer? How hard was it?

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Most emulators are able to export a PNG that you could then print with something like this project! They don't support using a webcam with the ROM for the Game Boy Camera though.

If you buy the real thing, there are lots of projects for extracting and printing the pictures though.

This project implements a fake GB Printer that you can then access via WiFi to download the prints: https://github.com/zenaro147/NeoGB-Printer

This project I wrote a while ago allows you to use a printer very similar to the one in this submission as an actual Game Boy Printer, connected to an original Game Boy: https://github.com/iamjackg/esp32-phomemo-gameboy-printer

Yes, emulators support the gameboy printer. In hardware it is implemented very close to the way the screen is written.

That might be fun then; have the emulator write to a thermal printer, relive a bit of nostalgia I have for the awful printouts of Pokemon characters I used to have (and might still have in a box somewhere actually).

Next step: make a DIY gameboy printer that works with a real gameboy

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