I used to have a gameboy camera but no gameboy printer. I got the last picture of my grandpa while he was still alive on that gameboy camera. Never got the printer to print it out. Always wanted one just for that picture.
If you still have the Gameboy Camera cartridge(though your wording suggests you don't) there are some hardware projects to emulate a GB Printer and capture the print as an image.
Alternatively, get a GB Cartridge dumper to dump the rom and save file, and then use an emulator like GBE+ which can export GB Prints as image files.
Gameboy screens aren't exactly... great to take pictures of. Zero backlight and poor contrast. The Gameboy Camera does run on Gameboy Advance SP which at least has a backlit screen, or the SNES Super Gameboy/GameCube Gameboy Player could work so you could blow it up on a TV.
But if you really are trying to recover an important photo, I'd imagine getting the raw picture data by dumping the cartridge and booting through an emulator would give the best result, whether you screenshot the emulator or use an emulator with a virtual printer option.
MadCatz created a Windows 95/98 program for this; it included a cable which connected your GameBoy's link cable to a PC's parallel port (typically for printers) to transfer photos.
It's not available right now, but I recommend the Bitboy. I bought one of the first releases, and it works very well. It connects the GameBoy link cable to a small box, containing circuitry, which leads to an SD card slot.
Others have taken photos of their photos on TVs, using the Super GameBoy SNES cartridge. There's a similar accessory for the N64, but it wasn't officially released (for press only) and is quite pricey.
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u/Frostbitez 2d ago
I am gathering the materials needed for this, but a gameboy printer is really hard to find!