A new app that will soon hit the iPhone will allow you to experience the Game Boy Camera experience. Riley Testut, developer of the Delta Game Emulator and AltStore, today announced the upcoming launch of a new app called Delta Camera.
Introducing our new app — Delta Camera 📸A stand-alone app dedicated to taking Game Boy Camera photos with features you'd expect from a modern camera app☀ Manual exposure/zoom🤳 Camera Control supportComing later this year, but available NOW in beta for all Patrons patreon.com/posts/introd…
Today we have something very fun to announce, an all-new app — Delta Camera
Delta Camera is a stand-alone camera app that’s made specifically for emulating Game Boy Camera. We’ve been wanting to make this app for a little while as we’ve noticed a lot more people taking photos using their favorite retro hardware, like DSi, PSP, Nokia Phones, etc. However, one of our favorites things we’ve seen from this trend are the new Game Boy Camera carts with built in lenses — a great way to play around with both modern and retro hardware. So we wanted to play off that concept and really utilize the iPhone’s camera capabilities in combination with the playful, retro feel of using Game Boy Camera.
Game Boy afficianados will find that the app’s interface mirrors the Game Boy Camera, and the photos quality also mirrors the 1998 Game Boy Camera cartridge it is emulating, which boasted a 128 x 128 sensor. However, users will have the ability to adjust settings such as brightness, contrast, and manual exposure options.
The Game Boy Camera, released as Pocket Camera in Japan, was an accessory for Nintendo’s Game Boy game console. The accessory was released in 1998. The Game Boy Camera (GBC) interfaced with the Game Boy Printer, which could be used to print saved images onto thermal paper.
As is standard with emulators like this, invcuding the Delta emulator, you’ll need to obtain the Game Boy Camera ROM from elsewhere, due to laws that only lawyers truly understand (but I think it has something to do with new yachts and summer homes for the lawyers). Remember, the search engine is your friend and I’m sure you soon find an “archive” of some sort online that will have a copy of the GB Camera ROM.
Testut plans to launch the app later this year, but it is available now for those who subscribe to the AltStore Patreon.
