Neglect your cellphone cameras and laptop computer built-ins; your subsequent webcam could possibly be your outdated Recreation Boy Digital camera. The workforce (form of) bringing this peripheral into the fashionable age is Epilogue. The corporate makes the GB Operator, which lets individuals play unique Recreation Boy, Recreation Boy Advance and Recreation Boy Colour cartridges on a present PC or a Steam Deck.
At present, Epilogue introduced that it’s engaged on an replace that can make the Recreation Boy Digital camera right into a webcam, however one which’s a fuzzy, lo-fi, 16 kilopixel expertise. The magic occurs via the Playback emulator app that powers the GB Operator.
“We now have a dwell feed from the Recreation Boy Digital camera, however nonetheless have to fine-tune some issues and permit for configuration choices,” the corporate mentioned. “We wished to share this replace as a result of it was thrilling to see it lastly work, and [we] cannot wait to see everybody having enjoyable with it. It is the worst and the perfect webcam you may ever have.”
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