We've all wondered this, right? The Game Boy camera was the first camera device that Nintendo ever made, with its rotating head for taking pictures of yourself, arriving long before we were holding our phones in front of our faces, getting selfies with everything from buildings to plates of food.
With the arrival of Game Chat and the new Nintendo Switch 2 camera alongside the fact that Ninty have said that many other webcams will also work with Switch 2, it got me thinking whether there would be a way of making a camera from 1998 that outputs in 128 x 112 resolution and doesn't natively output video work with the new console.
Hey, if you can mod the ASCII GameCube controller to work with games that didn't natively support it, then anything is possible, right?
Well, the answer, unbelievably, is that you can get the Game Boy Camera hooked up to the Nintendo Switch 2, though it's not exactly a 'plug and play' solution as Andre from GameXplain shows in a video documenting the entire process.
To get the Game Boy Camera working on your Switch, you'll need:
- An Analogue Pocket
- The Analogue Pocket dock
- A video capture device to turn an HDMI signal into a usable video signal through a USB cable (useful for hooking up cameras to your Switch 2).
By placing the GB Camera in the Analogue Pocket dock, attaching a capture card to the HDMI out on the back of the dock and connecting it to the USB-C port on the top of your Nintendo Switch 2, you can use the GB Camera to pick up your face in Game Chat! Andre's video shows his face popping up in the Game Chat panel and also appearing in the small circle above his Mario Kart character for his friends to look out for while racing.
So there you have it, proof that you don't need to buy the 1920 x 1080 resolution Nintendo Switch camera if you want to see your face on Game Chat. All you need is your Analogue Pocket, a GB Camera, a video capture card, and some cables to add some retro vibes to Ninty's new system!
Check out the full video from GameXplain below to see it in action!
