Download & Manipulate your GAME BOY camera pictures without issues…

Seems like a stupid tutorial (i know), but I got about 3 emails asking me about how to download the GAME BOY camera pictures in MAC or PC without strange lines across the files or without communication issues between the old EMS transfer-er and your GAME BOY camera cartridge. Well first TIP, put in the trash your EMS transfer-er hahaha, (just kidding) , but for me was really quick, easy & professional the fact about download my pictures from my camera using the Bleep Bloop USB cartridge programmer.

Just follow this steps:

1. Put your gameboy camera inside the USB programmer & connect the USB programmer cable in one of your USB ports (Mac or PC).

2. If you are a mac user, just open your PARALLELS Desktop application (I use Win XP vesion).

3. Open the Bleep Bloop software application (the same app you use to back-up your LSDJ song files) and confirm that your GAME BOY camera is detected/connected.

4. Now you just need to download and safe your camera .SAV file.

5. Download the application called GBCameraDump and install the application in your Mac or PC computer.

6. Now, the fun a best part of the entire process… just open your .SAV file with the GBCameraDump software and you will see your pictures set in a kind of grid. At this point you can choose to safe the pictures one by one as a .BMP file format, or safe the entire collection in one shot .

NOTE: If you want to delete the old pictures inside your GAME BOY camera just do this command: Pressing START+SELECT while the gameboy is turing on to delete all pics .

Enjoy!

6 Responses to “Download & Manipulate your GAME BOY camera pictures without issues…”

1. Prg It Loud says:

   November 30, 2009 at 1:47 am

   You can also use the USB Gameboy Cartridge Programmer (by BleepBloop) on Linux (I use Ubuntu). It’s easy to install if you know how to:

   1. Download the USB GB Cart. Programmer software (linux/windows drivers included): http://gameboydev.org/wp-content/files/Cartridge%20CD.zip

   2. There is a “Linux Installation” section on README.pdf but I could see that it has some obsolete repositories. Do this:

   2.1. Copy linux\usbcartprog to ~\bin, if it does not exist, create.

   2.2. Install libftdi. On Ubuntu run the command: sudo apt-get install libftdi1 libftdi-dev

   2.3. Install QT4. On Ubuntu run the command: sudo apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-gui

   2.3. Gives execute permission to the program (in the ~\bin directory): chmod +x usbcartprog

   2.4. Plug in USB Cart. Programmer.

   2.5. Execute the programming software by running: sudo ./usbcartprog

   Now you can read RAM (.sav) from your GB camera and execute GBCameraDump.exe under Wine (it works perfect) to save your pics

   Peace & Long life to GNU/Linux!
2. Drop 1410 says:

   November 30, 2009 at 5:29 pm

   Thanks for these complete review and information using UBUNTU software .

   Cheers!
3. Roc says:

   December 31, 2009 at 3:51 pm

   Where can I buy it?
   I order it at 8bit collective and paid via paypal but I got no response and it dosen’t look like they will send it to me
   Thanks,
   Roc
4. Drop 1410 says:

   December 31, 2009 at 4:17 pm

   Hi Roc, just sent an email to Jeremy Webster: adamantiumarcades@yahoo.com

   His a Jose Torres co-worker , I think he would be able to help you and get one.

   Let me know.

   
5. Roc says:

   January 25, 2010 at 2:23 pm

   Hello!

   I finally got my bleep bloop cartidge from Jose

   I did follow all the instructions but I can’t get the pictures. I can download the .sav file but then, when I open it with CameraDump, all the pictures look black.

   Any help please?

   Thanks

   pd. Here’s a printscreen…
   
6. Roc says:

   January 25, 2010 at 2:24 pm

   http://es.tinypic.com/r/34e3iwj/6