gbcam-rev-engineer

Tools used to reverse engineer the GB Camera using Arduino UNO.

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Tools used to reverse engineer the GB Camera using Arduino UNO.

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The Game Boy Camera has an analog output (a technical data sheet for the chip is available[1]), so the dithering is done in software. Although I am speculating, at first glance it appears to be ordered dithering[2]. EDIT: I did find a document detailing the dithering algorithms and registers used for this purpose reverse-engineered here[3]. [1]: https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/FinalPro... [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130512190753/http://white.stan... [3]: https://github.com/AntonioND/gbcam-rev-engineer/blob/master/...

There is some reverse-engineered documentation here: https://github.com/AntonioND/gbcam-rev-engineer/tree/master/... The ADC appears to be part of the ASIC which contains most of the circuitry to interface the sensor to the GB.