Game boy camera resource post.

The Game boy camera was released in 2 versions, one for US/EU and one for Japan, the only difference is that the Japanese version was called "PocketCamera".




There are 3 ways of transfering pictures over to your PC.

1) Buy the Mad catz cable.























Mad Catz Camera Link Software (Disc ISO)
Mad Catz Camera Link Software (Extracted Files)
(Ripped by Anthony from obscure-gaming.blogspot.com, thanks!)
Theres also a barebones version of the Mad catz Camera Link Software that you can download from the Mad Catz homepage Here.

Here is the Mad Catz Camera Link manual scanned by me Korvkiosksgubben;):

1) 4meg .png file from imageshack
2) Megaupload mirror

It is recommended that you use Windows 95/98 but if you are using XP/Vista/Win7 then check out this tutorial on how to get the Mad catz camera software working http://obscure-gaming.blogspot.com/2009/09/game-boy-camera-to-windows-xp.html

2) Build a EXT cable , the easiest way is to buy a link cable and cut off one end of it and solder a db25 onto it , you can ignore the mad catz diagram and just look at the first and second diagram , i'm only posting the mad catz diagram just to include everything.



























It appears some parallell ports require the 2N3906 transistor for it to work but you can test the cable and see if it works without a 2N3906.

I'm not 100% sure that the Mad catz program works with the homemade cable so you will have to use Game boy Printer Emulator instead:
Game boy Printer Emulator V2.0 (Latest version)
Game boy Printer Emulator V1.3

Game boy Printer Emulator homepage: http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/macro/730/


















Sources:
http://www.devrs.com/gb/hardware.php#hardlink
http://www.workmaster.ru/old/pcgbeng.htm

3) Dump the SRAM using a backup unit, use gb_cam_dump and Gh0st Camera, you can download them here: http://drx.a-blast.org/~drx/projects/gameboy/howto/index.en.html
















To record videos using the Game boy camera you need to buy a Super Game boy cart and connect the Game boy camera to it and then you connect the Super nintendo to a tv card and then you can make videos and record them using any program.

Another much more expensive method is to use the Game boy player for Gamecube.





Here is a little video I made using this method:


Have fun!




Links.
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Game boy camera reset switch mod tutorial.

Scanned Game boy camera manuals:
English
German
Dutch
French
Spanish
Japanese

Credit goes to The Bushpig & tommarques for scanning the regional manuals , originally found Here.

Illusion City translation project for PC98.

ded302 has released a work in progress demo of his translation for the PC98 version of Illusion City.

Download illcitydemo.zip
Project Site: http://ded302.110mb.com/

iQue Player resource post.

The iQue is basically a n64 in a joystick with a encrypted flash card and it runs games as large as 256mbit like Sin and punishment. It was only released in China/Hong kong so all games are in chinese for it. iQue is a company and a brand name so it shouldn't be confused with the chinese version of the DS that has a similar name.



Sadly nobody has reversed engineered it and worked out how to run roms on it so when the online game buying function is shut down and all the depots are gone then it will become semi-useless unless you managed to get all the games for it.

One big problem is that you need to access one of the physical depots in Hong kong/China to be able to upgrade your firmware cause the new firmware has the online function for buying the games! and most people in the west bought their iQues from liksang back in 2003 and none of those have the latest firmware.

One of the last iQue depots were spotted in "Jiuguang Department Store B1" in Shanghai, click Here for a map of it's location.



On iQues homepage there are 2 versions of the windows application for buying games, it's kinda like a iQue "PSN".

The 205meg version most likely contains all the roms released for the system so all your doing when your buying a game is basically just unlocking it out of the .exe file for use on the iQue, kinda like how it works when your buying DLC for Resident Evil 6/Bioshock 1/2 on 360/Ps3 so theres definitely alot of potential of hacking that file ;).

I have no idea how the 2meg version works but I must assume that instead of already being packed with the roms it downloads them from their server, I guess its intended for people with slow modems who can't download the whole 200meg file , this is after all meant for China and not the West;).

iQue@Home-standard.rar 1.2Meg
iQue@Home-complete.rar 205Meg
Torrent mirror of the 205Meg version


I recommend as many people as possible to download these apps cause even if you don't own a iQue it's good that many people just have them cause once they're gone from their site then they're "gone" from the internet ;).


This is the best place for info about the iQue, here you can find out how to buy games online for the iQue:
http://www.chayx.net/2008/12/the-chinese-nintendo-64-ique.html
iQue players official site: http://www.ique.com/M_athome.htm
iQue hacking page 1: http://www.reinerziegler.de/ique/ique.htm
iQue hacking page 2: http://www.crazynation.org/
The obligatory wikipedia article: iQue Player Wiki

New shmups running in Makaron.

Dknute has now gotten Mamoru-kun wa Norowarete Shimatta and Shooting Love 2007 running in Makaron!.

http://dknute.livejournal.com/32781.html

Kale's Naomi/Atomiswave wip update.

Kale has updated with some nice pics of the games King of Fighters Neowave and Sega Marine Fishing running in Mame.

http://mamedev.emulab.it/kale/

Segasaturno.com protos

The people over at http://www.segasaturno.com have posted a few saturn prototypes that they have and want to release if people donate money.

1) Chill - an unreleased snowboard game.



2) Alpha-version of Virtua Cop 2.



3) Newer prototype of Werewolf the Apocalypse.




For more information check out the thread here: http://www.segasaturno.com

FBA - Pirate Ship Higemaru ported to the Saturn

Vbt has ported a FinalBurn Alpha driver to the Sega Saturn running the game Pirate Ship Higemaru.

"SATURN CONTROLS:
Directional: these are mapped to the arrow keys.
A : mapped to the button 1.
B : mapped to the button 2.
C : mapped to the button 3.
X : mapped to the button 4.
Y : mapped to the button 5.
Z : mapped to the button 6.
L : mapped to the button Coin 1.
R : mapped to the button Coin 2.
Start: mapped to the button Start."

You can grab the bin+cue files Here and try it on your sega saturn using the swap trick incase you don't have a modchip;)

Swap trick tutorial