The Game Boy Camera Picture of Picture Reverser is an application aimed at providing an easily accessible way of transferring photos taken on a Game Boy Camera to a computer.
The GB Camera is a game cartridge that also has a camera attached. It allows users to take photographs and save them to the cartridge, where they can be viewed on the handheld console. However, without special hardware, it is not possible to transfer these photos to another device, such as a computer. This tool aims to provide a way to do so, using only the GB Camera, a GB console, a camera (other than the GB camera), and this app.
This app is written in and requires python 3 to run.
In addition, the python packages listed in requirements.txt must be installed. e.g.
pip3 install numpy opencv-python Pillow
Note that tkinter is also required, but may not be installed on some systems.
After python and the required packages are installed, clone this repository.
git clone https://github.com/leecwj/gbc-poprev.git
Next, navigate to the newly created copy of the repository.
cd gbc-poprev
Execute the application via the entry point, poprevapp.py, e.g.
python3 poprevapp.py
The purpose of this app is recreate GB Camera photographs by using a photograph of the photograph as a reference image, such as the one below.
This app relies on the reference image being deskewed and cropped like so.
Currently, this cannot be done in the app itself. However, there are plans to implement this feature in the future.
To begin, load a reference image (such as the one above) by going to File > Load Reference.
The reference image will be displayed on the left.
Below the reference image are four buttons. They are used to classify the pixel highlighted in red.
In this example, the highlighted pixel is white. Clicking the white button records this selection and moves to the next pixel.
After many more pixels are classified, the image may look like this, resembling the reference image as intended.
