Robpoke

24 rolls of paper

Robpoke — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:30:57 +0000

Why buy toilet paper when you can get Printer Paper dirt cheap from Ebay? Right now I’m printing out everything from pictures to notes and sticking them everywhere. You do know that the Printer Papers are stickers, right? Will my printer break if I keep printing 24/7? There’s three rolls in each packaging; white, red and blue.

I got 8 packages…

Atomic Purple camera + GB fort

Robpoke — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:25:29 +0000

Got my new Atomic Purple Game Boy Camera on the mail. My japanese lessons finally paid off, kinda. Okay not really.

Have you ever wanted to build a fortress for your Game Boy? Check out the color pics after the jump.

Beautiful, isn't it?

When's the last time you saw a packaging that looked this nice on the inside?

If you cut out this shape you can build yourself a nice cap for your camera!

A Game Boy fortress?! So that's why the box looked so weird, I'll put it together right away!

HOLY SHIT

Celebrating Game Boy’s 21st birthday

Robpoke — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:59:11 +0000

Today is the birthday of old Mr. Game Boy. He turned 21 today, how time flies when you play games… Fun fact: I’m as old as the Game Boy, 21. I also play games and am a boy. Today was also the last day of the three day long annual festival in my home town Helsingborg. Here are some pics.

Red more for a video of me bungee jumping! Ok, this is me bungee jumping! The rope hit me on my arm pretty hard and I didn’t expect to be completely dipped into the water, but it was an amazing experience.

Game Boy Printer Pikachu Yellow Edition

Robpoke — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:48:29 +0000

I bet you’ll never guess what I got in the mail today. Oh, you guessed it? Well you’re right, it’s a brand new Game Boy Printer. And it’s not the regular grey box you usually see, this one is yellow and black with a Pokémon Theme. The best part is that the “Feed”-button is a pokéball. It’s working but i might need to find new paper for it since the printing is a bit shitty. Read on for a bunch of color pictures of the printer!

Front of the box - really good looking!

As they say, "Every box has a backside"

Take a good look, this is the best looking Game Boy Printer there is! Not that there is much competition...

I like these kind of angles, they make me seem like a cool photographer.

A closer look

Cable goes where?

Aaah, MGB-007. We meet again. For England, James?

There's no paper in it! Should I put some paper in it?!

Is this porn? No, seriously, tell me.

This is the included roll of paper. It's very old though so I have to get new ones.

200 year old japanese batteries, are you still functional Battery-san? "YES ROBUPOKI-KUN I AM VERY KAWAII FUNCTIONAL DESU" Holy shit talking batteries!

This is a nice manual.

From the manual: Never clean the printer!

From the manual: Do not fight fires with the printer!

From the manual: Do not drive while printing (seriously!!)

Guide: Game Boy Camera photos to PC

Robpoke — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:47:27 +0000

Recently I bought a used french version of the Mega Memory Card, this one only differs from the ordinary yellow transparent version that is more common in that it is black and not transparent. This little(big) thing has the ability to backup saves from any Game Boy game and store it. You can then put the saves back into games. I’m using this cartridge to backup the save file from my Game Boy Camera and then restoring the save into my 64MB EMS USB cartridge that will allow me to put the images onto my computer. I got the tip to do this from this thread on ChipMusic.org. Here’s a little guide for you if you want do do this yourself:

How to get images from Game Boy Camera to a PC:

Using a Mega Memory Card:

Take pictures with your Game Boy Camera.
Backup the Game Boy Camera .sav-file onto the Mega Memory cartridge.
Restore the Game Boy Camera .sav-file onto a USB cartridge of you choice. Examples: Bleep Bloop USB, EMS 64 (Get one here or here)
Connect you USB cartridge to a PC and transfer the .sav-file using the cartridge’s transfer program.
Upload the .sav-file to this website: http://gieskes.nl/gameboy-camera/sav-converter/. When uploaded you will see a .gif-animation of all your photos and if you click on it you can download a .zip-archive containing all of the images in .bmp-format. (There is also a downloadable program for doing this called GBCameraDump but I do not know a good place to download it from. I do however have the program and if you want it I’d gladly send it to you.) The last option of getting the images out of the .sav is to simply put it in a Game Boy emulator together with a Game Boy Camera rom and then take a screen shot.

Using a Bleep Bloop or SmartBoy USB Programmer:

Take pictures with your Game Boy Camera.
Simply put the Game Boy Camera into your USB Programmer and transfer the .sav-file onto your computer. (This is by far the best way to get your pictures to a PC but the programmers are currently discontinued and were produced in a very low number, so if you happen to find it used or already have it in you possession then good for you.)
Repeat step 5 in the previous tutorial.

There’s also the old option of using a Mad Catz Camera Link that connects to a parallel port on a PC using the link port on a Game Boy. This only works if your computer have a parallel port of course.

Enjoy the low resolution.