Hello everyone,
I’ve built a brick-breaker for the Virtual Boy, and it has reached V1.0. It’s free, it runs on real hardware, and it comes with a full illustrated manual.
https://czarh85.github.io/virtual-breakout/
The one thing that makes it a Virtual Boy game rather than a Breakout with a red palette: the playfield has two depth planes. The shoulder triggers move your ship between them, the ball adopts your plane every time it touches you, and a brick at the back can only be broken by a ball at the back. Every guardian’s defence is undone by the opposite plane.
12 sectors, 4 guardians, 9 chip tracks. The ROM, the manual (online and as a printable PDF), the soundtrack and the screenshots are all on that page.
Built with VUEngine.
First release — I’d like to hear what breaks or feels wrong, especially from anyone running it on hardware.
Feedback from my side, played on real hardware via MrCart:
– I like the Atari vibes
– it runs great on real hardware
– the collision is sometimes a bit weird and unexpected
– the ball is sometimes hard to see (it hardly distinguishes from the background in some cases)
– music is nice!
– highscores seems to be off: it starts with a highscore of somehing like 6x xxx.
– the current score during gameplay is also not shown correctly, the stage is overlapping it.
Thanks for sharing this!
