A Game Boy capture cartridge: The GB Interceptor

🤩 Seeing this project come to life is a dream! Great work, great result! (A Tetris enthusiast)

GB Camera as a webcam is just priceless. Congratulations on this project! Really well done and impressive! And thanks for open sourcing it ✊

This seems like one of those ideas where you would pitch it and everyone would call you crazy.... It's amazing to see how well it works and how clever it actually is

We need something like this for the DS/3DS. A non intrusive way to capture footage from original hardware would be amazing

This is unbelievably metal! This is taking the party gotcha of "well technically everything goes through that one place in the system [which is practically useless for all reasonable intents and purposes]" and just frigging running with it! Amazing!!

I got GB Interceptor earlier this month and I am now streaming Game Boy games live on my Twitch channel CantStopTheRaj (and uploads to my YouTube). This invention is EXACTLY what I wished for when I first started streaming, as I love playing my Game Boy but I want to play ON my Game Boy and not through emulation or another device like Game Boy Player. The GB Interceptor is perfect and allows me to show my viewers a big screen version of what I see on my Game Boy! I even posted my first TwinGalaxies Game Boy World Record this week with the use of the GB Interceptor (Most Points in Skate or Die: Bad N Rad)! I just wanted to say THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING INVENTION! You are a hero! THANK YOU!!!!

Awesome! A very very cool project and great execution! I like how you do not cut or modify the device, how you made it just show up as a USB camera, and many of your design choices. They show a clear attention to detail and a lot of care. Kudos! I made a somewhat tangential device for speedrunning competitions on the NES - with slightly different design criteria. I ended up going with an FPGA, although the rp2040 is a really neat option. Regardless, thanks again and great job!

This is a clever architecture. Before you explained you were running an emulator on one of the RP2040 cores I was thinking that maybe you were sniffing enough bus traffic while CS for the cartridge was not asserted to put the video state back together. I love your videos!

The 3D rendering explanation is top notch

This is SO cool!

Well done! I’ve been following this project on your other social media accounts and am incredibly impressed by this execution. Emulating the GB (no trademark violation 😝) on a RP2040 core is awesome! As always, great presentation and project breakdown, too!

Wow, just watched the whole video. Amazing, just amazing. I'll cover this on my next FPGA/Retro gaming video. Amazing product, great ingenuity.

Das eigentliche Produkt außen vor. Dieses Video alleine. RICHTIG nice wie viel Mühe und Arbeit alleine da rein geflossen ist. Und das Produkt an sich natürlich entsprechend auch. Hut ab. Richtig richtig nice!

Your work with the interceptor es priceless! Also the explanation of how it works is really detailed and well explained, I have one interceptor and functions really well with the games (and especially with the GB Camera). Greetings from Argentina!

Incredible project and a stunningly elegant solution. I’m a big fan of the original GameBoy and often feature its games on my channel. I’ve always struggled to capture classic GameBoy - usually either use a Super GameBoy or point a camera at a GBA SP AGS-101 model both of which work ok - but this captures the right “look” too (except with those exceptions noted in the video) Brilliant work - love this kind of thing!

That's a really impressive build! I loved the shots of using the GB Camera as a web cam, too. Thanks for sharing!

Great work, and the 3D animations are dope. This channel is really top notch content.

Legend, loved the project, it's always a pleasure to see someone on this world thinkering over this old devices. Nice explanation too, thanks for posting

This is absolutely brilliant! Really taught me a lot about how the GameBoy works!

This is phenomenal stuff! What you do is really impressive