That is made attainable utilizing the GB Operator: a USB dock that enables Sport Boy, Sport Boy Colour, and Sport Boy Advance cartridges to be performed on a pc (or the Steam Deck) by an app referred to as Playback and the open-source mGBA emulator. The dock may again up save recreation information or simply extract images captured by the Sport Boy Digicam.
Epilogue, the corporate behind it, shared a brief video of the brand new function on X and instructed Time Extension, “We now have a dwell feed from the Sport Boy Digicam, however nonetheless must fine-tune some issues and permit for configuration choices.”
It additionally described the brand new function as “the worst and the most effective webcam you’ll ever have.”
A earlier try at turning the Sport Boy Digicam right into a webcam required a stack of {hardware}, together with a Tremendous Nintendo, a Tremendous Sport 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 easier and practically painless — apart from these pressured to see their co-workers livestreamed by a relic of digital pictures.
Along with the Sport Boy-focused GB Operator, Epilogue just lately shared the primary photographs of its upcoming SN Operator, which affords 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.