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8-Bit Pocket Camera – Review and Mod!

Do you want to capture some amazing lowresolution photos with the Gameboy Camera? Great! First you have to purchase a Gameboy and then a Gameboy Camera.. when you have these you can start capturing photos but there is just one problem, how to get the photos transferred off the gameboy camera cartridge? Its possible, but no.. its just to much work! The simple solution is to get the 8-Bit Pocket Camera app for the iPhone! (But if you still want to do it the real way, check my Big Gameboy Camera Guide for all the info you need about the Gameboy Camera http://thermoptic.posterous.com/the-big-gameboy-camera-guide )

I got this great comparison photo from Edd! @ Flickr showing the difference between the iPhone 8-Bit Pocket Camera app (shown on top) and the real Gameboy Camera (transferred with the Mad Catz GB to PC Camera Link Cable shown on the bottom)

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The 8-Bit Camera app for the iPhone works really great! The creators of the app has been very accurate when it comes to have the same amount of pixels on the photos as the original Gameboy camera. This means that it has the same low resolution to have that authentic feel. You can save the photos and after choose between different borders just like the gameboy version. And then you can save the photo to your Camera roll or share it on facebook, twitter etc. But there are two big flaws… the border does not say “Nintendo” on the top and  “Gameboy” on the bottom as it should, instead it says “8-Bit” and “Pocket Camera” and this really ruins the feeling of the photo. Also the “paper” that the photo is “printed” on is really ugly :/ So i just did some modifications to the files and fixed both the border and got a really nice scan of a Gameboy Printer paper instead of the ugly one that comes with the app. Here you can see the results:

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Of course this modification is only possible on a jailbroken iPhone. I will try to send these modified files to the creators of the app to see if they are willing to add them for a later version of the app. If you want to study the modified files (Only tested on 8-Bit Pocket Camera 1.1.3) you can download them here: https://www.box.com/s/f4e0aa067f939c66c31a

Update edit: Cristofer was kind and just shared some modded files with new boarders in the commens section for this post. He also informed me that its possible to add these modded files without a jailbreak 🙂 Location: root/User/Applications/Pocket Camera.app

Clarity – Eight taps to awesomeness!

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TapTapTap recently released a new update of the iPhone app Camera+ where they added a new amazing hdr-like filter called “Clarity” and I must say that it works really well! But there is just one thing that annoys me and its that TapTapTap calls Clarity “One taps to awesomeness” no.. its more than one tap. Here is my letter to TapTapTap:

“Hi! I have read many reviews of your new awesome feature to Camera+ called “Clarity” and it looks and works really well! But the problem is that you call it “One Tap To Awesomeness!” but i cant get this “one tap” thing to work. Here is what i need to do. After i have started the Camera+ app i first tap once on camera button, then one tap to take the photo, then one tap to go to the library, then one tap to select the photo, and one more tap to go to the “edit” section, then one tap to select “clarity”, then one tap to select “done”, then one last tap to save the photo.. *phew* that’s a total of EIGHT taps.. not really *one* tap, and this is certainly not “awesomeness” for the usability of the app 😦

Maybe im doing something wrong? Maybe i have missed some “preset” feature to just tap once and then it takes the photo and automatically adds clarity in one go? If not, can you add this? Cause that would be awesome :)”

They replied and told me that they meant that you only need to tap once to apply the clarity filter to the photo.. well duh 🙂

Crazy PhotoTropedelic!

Bara jag som har lekt lite med iPhone appen PhotoTropedelic. Man kan ta ett eget kort eller välja ett från biblioteket. Finns ett gäng inställningar, hur många färger det skall vara, detaljnivå mm. Tar ett tag att generera kortet, men det är ganska kul för den lägger på alla effekterna i realtid så man kan titta hur bilden sakta skulpteras fram. Ganska meningslös app men lite kul en stund 🙂 15kr http://www.phototropedelic.com/

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Lite blandade iPhone foton

Fotade lite med iPhonen i Göteborg för ett par dagar sen. Som vanligt är dom fotade med min favorit app TiltshiftGen. Fick även tips om en ny foto app till iPhonen som heter Format126 som har ett gäng olika retro/toycamera presets. Appen ser mycket bra ut och är faktiskt helt gratis så det är bara att dra ner och testa http://format126.com/Format126/Home.html

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Retro spelkvällen 2009-10-18

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Då var ännu en spelkväll med datameck avklarad! Det blev en hel del spelande och en hel del meckande.. fast mest meck för @andreas28 då och mer spelade för oss andra 🙂

Verktygen på detta kalaset var inte mindre än 5 st Amiga 1200! Fast det var bara tre st som var inkopplade samtidigt. Och även en c64 i form av en Competition Pro jockstick.

Det hela började med en otrolig tävling av California games till c64:an vilket alla var otroligt entusiastiska i. Ingen lyckades göra något välbetänkt, det enda som jag lyckades få till förutom att dratta väldigt presentabel i jordytan var en 360 graders spin med cykeln i Bmx grenen, vilket led att jag tog hem medaljen för cupen:)

Under tiden som @andreas28 meckade med att länka ihop två Amiga 1200 så spelades det Nebulus till c64:an, intensivt folkkärt! Även hel hel del matcher i Rampart avverkades. När meckandet med datorerna var färdigt så började kvällens höjdpunkter, nämligen Bratwurst och Blob kombat. Bratwurst är sjukt kul och föreslås glödhett för någon som har en uphottad amiga 1200 med en såndär extra grej där bak för att plugga in 2 extra kontroller!

För att summera kvällen med fem till trettio ord så måste jag säga att det var riktigt kul! Inga fashionabla Pc datorer inblandade utan bara retro för hela jetongen! Vi hade en hel del requests på att spela Worms som också jag hade sett fram emot, men det blev inget av det så vi satsar helt enkelt på Worms till nästa retro kväll!

Foton från kvällen hittar ni här: http://thermoptic.jalbum.net/Photos/Retrokv%C3%A4ll%202009-10-18/index.html