You can now use the Game Boy Camera with your phone

现在你可以用手机使用 Game Boy Camera 了

A new mobile app for the GB Operator lets you snap terrible 2-bit, 128 x 112 photos without the need for a Game Boy. 一款为 GB Operator 推出的全新移动应用程序，让你无需 Game Boy 掌机，也能拍摄出那种糟糕的 2-bit、128 x 112 分辨率的照片。

The $50 GB Operator is an accessory that lets you connect, play, and authenticate Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges on PCs and other devices. Now it’s getting some new functionality for the Game Boy Camera. After turning the Game Boy Camera into a charmingly awful desktop webcam two years ago, device-maker Epilogue has just released an iOS/Android mobile app so you can take photos while the Game Boy accessory is connected to your smartphone through the GB Operator. 售价 50 美元的 GB Operator 是一款配件，允许你在电脑或其他设备上连接、游玩并验证 Game Boy、Game Boy Color 和 Game Boy Advance 卡带。现在，它为 Game Boy Camera 增添了新功能。继两年前将 Game Boy Camera 变成一个“迷人且糟糕”的桌面摄像头后，设备制造商 Epilogue 刚刚发布了一款 iOS/Android 移动应用，让你在通过 GB Operator 将 Game Boy 配件连接到智能手机时，也能进行拍照。

The Game Boy Camera was a terrible camera even by 1998 standards when it was released. It captured 0.01434-megapixel images in just four shades of gray and images were trapped on your Game Boy unless you printed them or bought a third-party cable to extract them. But it was accessible and affordable at $90, which is also part of the appeal of Epilogue’s solution to using the camera with modern devices. Game Boy Camera 在 1998 年发布时，即便以当时的标准来看也是一款糟糕的相机。它只能拍摄 0.01434 像素（约 1.4 万像素）、仅有四种灰度等级的照片，而且照片会被锁在 Game Boy 里，除非你将其打印出来或购买第三方线缆导出。但它当时 90 美元的售价使其非常亲民且易于获取，这也是 Epilogue 提供的现代设备适配方案吸引人的原因之一。

The GB Operator isn’t free, but paired with the new Flashback app and your phone it’s a cheaper alternative to devices like the $240 Analogue Pocket that also work with the Game Boy Camera. The app reads the data straight from the Game Boy Camera’s aging Mitsubishi M64282FP sensor so the images you capture with the accessory attached look exactly the same as they would have decades ago. But the app’s experience is better than what was offered on the original Game Boy with options to make adjustments to settings like shutter speed, gain, exposure, sharpness, dither, and grain, plus the ability to apply one of 32 different color palettes. GB Operator 并不便宜，但配合全新的 Flashback 应用和你的手机，它成为了比售价 240 美元的 Analogue Pocket 等同样支持 Game Boy Camera 的设备更具性价比的替代方案。该应用直接读取 Game Boy Camera 那颗老旧的 Mitsubishi M64282FP 传感器数据，因此你通过该配件拍摄的照片看起来与几十年前的效果完全一致。不过，该应用的使用体验比原版 Game Boy 要好得多，它提供了调整快门速度、增益、曝光、锐度、抖动（dither）和颗粒感等设置的选项，还可以应用 32 种不同的调色板。

If you don’t own a Game Boy Camera or the GB Operator, Epilogue’s Flashback app also features a software mode that simulates the accessory’s capabilities. Photos captured by your smartphone’s camera are processed and output as low-res 128 x 112-pixel images with dithering and a minimal color palette. When using the real Game Boy Camera hardware or the app’s simulation mode, images you create are stored in your phone’s Camera Roll so they’re easily accessible and shareable. 如果你没有 Game Boy Camera 或 GB Operator，Epilogue 的 Flashback 应用还提供了一种模拟该配件功能的软件模式。通过智能手机摄像头拍摄的照片会被处理并输出为低分辨率的 128 x 112 像素图像，并带有抖动效果和极简的调色板。无论是使用真实的 Game Boy Camera 硬件还是应用的模拟模式，你创作的图像都会存储在手机相册中，方便随时查看和分享。