The Recreation Boy Digicam will quickly get a second life as an terrible webcam

That is made potential utilizing the GB Operator: a USB dock that enables Recreation Boy, Recreation Boy Coloration, and Recreation Boy Advance cartridges to be performed on a pc (or the Steam Deck) by an app known as Playback and the open-source mGBA emulator. The dock may again up save recreation information or simply extract photographs captured by the Recreation Boy Digicam.

Epilogue, the corporate behind it, shared a brief video of the brand new characteristic on X and instructed Time Extension, “We now have a stay feed from the Recreation Boy Digicam, however nonetheless have to fine-tune some issues and permit for configuration choices.”

It additionally described the brand new characteristic as “the worst and one of the best webcam you’ll ever have.”

A earlier try at turning the Recreation Boy Digicam right into a webcam required a stack of {hardware}, together with a Tremendous Nintendo, a Tremendous Recreation Boy cartridge, a tool to transform a composite video sign to HDMI, and a video seize card for a PC. Epilogue’s resolution appears a lot less complicated and almost painless — apart from these pressured to see their co-workers livestreamed by a relic of digital images.

Along with the Recreation Boy-focused GB Operator, Epilogue just lately shared the primary photographs of its upcoming SN Operator, which presents the identical performance and PC connectivity however for Tremendous Nintendo cartridges. There are at the moment no particulars on when the SN Operator might be launched, and “coming quickly” is the one timeline shared for the GB Operator upgrades.