u/allmyfas

Hiya.

I recently got an Analogue Pocket and dug out my Game Boy camera. While there's lots of tools out there to extract pictures from the save files, I got bored having to use Photoshop to upscale and process them. So... Over the last week or so I've spent a bunch of time building a dedicated web-app called 'DMG DarkRoom' with Claude to have everything in one place.

You can try it out for yourself here:

https://dmgdarkroom.allmyfriendsarejpegs.com/

It has a whole pile of features including:

• Load Game Boy Camera .sav/.srm files directly: Drag and drop or open from file. Also supports Analogue Pocket.
• 100+ colour palettes: DMG, GBC, SGB, Lospec community palettes, plus a custom palette editor with .pal/.gbp import/export and favourites.
• Contact sheet export: All photos in a single image, great for sharing your whole roll at once.
• Tone controls: Brightness, contrast, and split toning (shadow/highlight colour with intensity and balance sliders)
• LoFi Style Effects: CRT, LCD grid, halftone, dot matrix, phosphor glow, chromatic aberration, vignette, noise, VHS ghosting, scanline jitter, and more - each with granular per-filter controls.
• Per-photo or global edits: apply palettes and effects to individual photos or across your entire roll at once, with copy/paste settings between photos.
• GIF export: Build animated GIFs from any combination of your 30 photos, with a drag-to-reorder frame strip, per-frame palette, bounce mode, and loop controls.
• Batch PNG export: Upscale and export individual, multiple, or all photos at once with your chosen palette and filters applied.
• Effect presets: Save, load, export and import your favourite filter combinations as JSON files.
• Completely free and open source... runs in your browser: No installation needed, works at dmgdarkroom.allmyfriendsarejpegs.com - source available on GitHub.

I've included everything I could think of that I would actually like to have when processing Game Boy camera pictures - and spent a fair bit of time testing and updating all of the features. Hopefully it will prove useful to other folks too. :) If you spot anything that doesn't work, drop me a comment and I'll fix it up.

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Credits:

SRAM format research: AntonioND/gbcam2png and the Game Boy Camera Club community.
GBC and SGB palettes: sourced from The Cutting Room Floor.
Community palettes: sourced from Lospec — individual palette credits to Kirokaze, Kerrie Lake, Poltergasm, WildLeoKnight, Klafooty, Space Sandwich, and BurakoIRL.