2bit PXLR Studio
2bit PXLR Studio is a custom ROM ("firmware") for the Game Boy Camera targeted on accessing the full potential of the original Game Boy Camera's sensor, as well as giving photographers more control.
It is meant to be used with HDR's flashable Game Boy Camera PCB.
For convenience there's also a itch.io page.
You can also tag your images with #2bitpxlr or use the hashtag #2bitpxlr on Twitter.
Current features:
- Most settings of the camera's sensor are already configurable
- Images can be saved, deleted and printed
- Sensor settings are being saved across restarts. To reset hold
start+selecton boot
Feedback
Remember: I can only improve things I know about!!
If you have actually used this ROM any type of feedback is very much appreciated. Please provide any feedback via the issues.
Feedback includes but is not restricted to things like:
- "I'd like to have feature XX"
- "I've used the following combination of parameters which work really well/bad"
- "When I set param XX, I'd also like param YY to change"
Building / Setup
This project has been created with GBDK 2020.
This project requires an environment variable GBDK_FOLDER="..." pointing to the folder of GBDK
E.g. on wsl for windows add export GBDK_FOLDER="/mnt/c/path_to_gbdk" to your .bashrc
Credits
Thanks to the following people for direct and indirect help with this project:
- Toxa for a lot of help while refactoring, and for the GBDK in general.
- @rembrandx for the Logo/Splashcreen
- Raphaël Boichot for the in-depth analysis of the Game Boy Camera's RAM structure
- AntonioND for the outstanding Documentation regarding the camera's sensor / PDF
- reini1305 for the print function and general help with some C concepts
- Alex (insidegadgets) for figuring out the flickering issue and more
- All the folks from Game Boy Gamera Club Discord for their support and ideas
Other resources
- Mitsubishi Sensor Datasheet
Contributing
This project is very much a work in progress.
Join the Game Boy Gamera Club Discord for discussions in detail. And feel free to check and add to this project's issues
License
This project is released under the MIT License