Save your Gameboy Camera images to your computer

Gronis · Mar 27, 2025

Hi,

I'm the author of gb-save-manager, a gameboy ROM for backing up your save games from real game cartridges. It uses 2 Gameboys (or GBAs), a flash cartridge, and a GBC link cable to copy the save file from the original game cartridge to the flash cartridge (or vise versa). You don't need to buy those fancy cart dumpers you connect to your PC.

Recently, I've added support for Gameboy Camera. Since the Gameboy Camera has a big save file (for GB standards) of 128kB, this might not work with all flash cartridges. You might still get a few pictures out of it even if your flash cartridge only support 32kB for example. It also work with almost all Gameboy and Gameboy Color games except for a few exceptions.

Check out the project on github:
https://github.com/Gronis/gb-save-manager/releases

Version 1.3.1 of the ROM is attached to this post.

Peeteris · Mar 27, 2025

Amazing work! Will come in handy, seems easy to use.

Gronis · Mar 27, 2025

Thanks! The only thing you might have trouble with is the gameboy resetting when hot-swapping game cartridges. But it usually only takes a few tries

Peeteris · Mar 31, 2025

Checked out your Github page. Are you still planning to add GBA flashcart support?

Gronis · Mar 31, 2025

Yes, at some point. I've been working on other things in the mean time but I'm thinking about picking it back up and make a gba flashcart version with the same functionality but can be booted from a gba flash cart.

The final vision is to have a single gba rom that can work with gb, gbc and gba cartridiges.

Jayro · Apr 27, 2025

I just use my GBxCart RW v1.4, it makes it easy.

SylverReZ · Apr 27, 2025

Jayro said:
I just use my GBxCart RW v1.4, it makes it easy.

And FlashGBX already has a GB Camera manager for saving photos as viewable images.

Jayro · Apr 27, 2025

SylverReZ said:
And FlashGBX already has a GB Camera manager for saving photos as viewable images.

Exactly, it's a winning combo. :3

Peeteris · Apr 27, 2025

Jayro said:
I just use my GBxCart RW v1.4, it makes it easy.

SylverReZ said:
And FlashGBX already has a GB Camera manager for saving photos as viewable images.

I guess you both are missing a point. If everyone could afford additional hardware, then yes, GBxCart is a better solution.

91ajames · May 16, 2025

My pkmn Silver

RAHelllord · May 16, 2025

Interesting project.
If you're worried about people trying to use this with only 32kb save support maybe you could offer an option of different ROMs that all grab different save banks and then allow the user combine the save via bat file or similar? I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement but you could basically just differentiate them with a part1 to part4 suffix to help users keep them apart.

Gronis · Jun 4, 2025

I recently had someone that tried the tool and then the save file wasn't compatible with 3rd party tools because of an incorrect file size. So I recently updated gb-save-manager to v1.3 so that it shows how big the save file is, and it will show a qr code with a embedded link to a web based resize tool that can be used to make the save file the correct size.

This is not typically necessary since most emulators and such resizes the save file automatically. But if the user have trouble with third party tools, there is now an easy way to resize the save file so that it works as intended with those tools.

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