Adventures in the 3rd Dimension is a YouTube series I’m making where I review every released game for the Virtual Boy and give my honest opinion on it. I have a very weird soft spot for the system (as do all of you 😀 ) and wanted others to see more than just an angry, hateful review of the games and system. Eventually I’d like to cover homebrew titles and other things people may not have known about.

PlanetVB user Dreammary helped name the series when I initially started and had no name for it yet.

Original Thread:
https://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6977&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&type=&mode=0&start=0

If you’re interested in watching the series, the playlist can be found through this link or the individual review links below.

Series Playlist:

Currently Released
Panic Bomber:

Galactic Pinball:

Waterworld:

Red Alarm:

Golf:

V-Tetris:

Space Invaders Virtual Collection:

Nester’s Funky Bowling:

Mario’s Tennis:

Jack Bros:

Virtual League Baseball:

Mario Clash:

Virtual Bowling:

Virtual Fishing:

retronintendonerd schrieb:

thunderstruck wrote:
I actually wanted to say that virtual lab does have potential. Just a typo. However, it will never be as good as Dr. Mario because Dr. Mario is the best game ever made.

Fix might be possible.

Ah ok, I wasn’t sure if it was a typo or not. Dr. Mario the best game? Those are fighting words to me jk 😛 The best game ever made is The Adventures of Lolo lol

Thunderstruck, how difficult would a fix for it be considering it’s been said to be a coding mess?

Seeing a remastered version would be nice, Dreammary. I would definitely spend more time on V-lab if it was made a little more playable.

I’m crazy good at Dr. Mario. I actually like to playing the PAL game in an NTSC console because it runs faster. I also hacked it to make it even faster.

No idea how difficult Virtual Lab would be to change (more). The code is kind of messy and stuff. Also depend on what needs to be done. Is there something besides the controls that needs fixing?

thunderstruck wrote:
I’m crazy good at Dr. Mario. I actually like to playing the PAL game in an NTSC console because it runs faster. I also hacked it to make it even faster.

No idea how difficult Virtual Lab would be to change (more). The code is kind of messy and stuff. Also depend on what needs to be done. Is there something besides the controls that needs fixing?

You’re a glutton for punishment! I beat it once on slow…with help from a Game Genie that put me on the last few levels lol

As far as game effecting issues, the controls are a little wonky and the Medium speed is actually the High speed.

Issues that don’t effect the game that could be I wish could get a polish are the audio/sound effects. I also remember reading that supposedly level 100 doesn’t display the level number correctly. I never made it far enough to see level 100 for myself though.

I have also considered fixing Virtual Lab. I even asked Benjamin Stevens (the only other person who likes it, heh) for ideas a few years ago. But since the code is such a mess, it might be easier to just remake it from scratch (community project, anyone?).

I would still like to figure out the music format because I actually like the music and there is some data in the ROM that I don’t know the meaning of, so it’s possible that it’s unused music.

As for the review, I laughed at your comment about the price.

It would be amazing to see such a project happen, but modify it to be similar to Dr. Mario?

HorvatM wrote:
I have also considered fixing Virtual Lab. I even asked Benjamin Stevens (the only other person who likes it, heh) for ideas a few years ago. But since the code is such a mess, it might be easier to just remake it from scratch (community project, anyone?).

I would still like to figure out the music format because I actually like the music and there is some data in the ROM that I don’t know the meaning of, so it’s possible that it’s unused music.

As for the review, I laughed at your comment about the price.

Oh a ground up remake of V-lab would be fun (if I knew the first thing about making a game lol)

Haha glad you liked my comment on the price. I mean considering the prices on the game I think selling your child to afford it may still not be enough lol

Dreammary wrote:
It would be amazing to see such a project happen, but modify it to be similar to Dr. Mario?

That would be neat! Would we then just need to stack the Mu of similar “color” on top of one another? How would it work?

Space Squash

That was another quality review, and as always I look forward to the next one. Space Squash is a very cool game.

Dreammary wrote:
That was another quality review, and as always I look forward to the next one. Space Squash is a very cool game.

Thanks! That was actually my first time playing it. I’ve had it for a while but never gave it a try until now. I was pleasantly surprised at how much fun it was. It’s a game I see myself going back to.

Imagine it had a first-person view and 2 player connectivity! *dreams*

3D Tetris:

retronintendonerd schrieb:
3D Tetris:
https://youtu.be/DaTAoMQig8k

I think you posted the wrong link.

Oops! So I have! That guy’s channel is pretty awesome too though lol It must not have copied correctly.

Here’s the correct link:
3D Tetris

Innsmouth no Yakata

Teleroboxer

Teleroboxer has impressive 3D effects, it’s highly convincing.

I was really impressed with the 3D in the game, too! I just wish it wasn’t so damn hard haha. Spokong/Big Rick are the biggest assholes in the game lol. Even the cat wasn’t THAT hard after some practice.

I wanna see a hack with lessened difficulty as well cause I cannot ever get past the second challenger.

Dreammary wrote:
I wanna see a hack with lessened difficulty as well cause I cannot ever get past the second challenger.

Yeah I was dying for a difficulty hack or even a level select hack. Spokong is a real bastard. Prin with her booby attack was funny though lol

retronintendonerd schrieb:

Dreammary wrote:
I wanna see a hack with lessened difficulty as well cause I cannot ever get past the second challenger.

Yeah I was dying for a difficulty hack or even a level select hack. Spokong is a real bastard. Prin with her booby attack was funny though lol

I did some things like those when I uncovered images of a scrapped character in the rom. So maybe one day.

That would be amazing to see the game with the new character added, and lessened difficulty. Maybe add an option on the start screen for easy and hard modes?

[retronintendonerd]

thunderstruck wrote:
I did some things like those when I uncovered images of a scrapped character in the rom. So maybe one day.

That is too cool! I would love to hear more/see more about it one day! Leave it to you to find some cool stuff lurking in the game code 🙂

Dreammary wrote:
That would be amazing to see the game with the new character added, and lessened difficulty. Maybe add an option on the start screen for easy and hard modes?

Agreed!

I am dreading capturing footage for the next episode. It’s gonna be on SD Gundam Dimensions War and I suck something fierce at tactical RPGs. I don’t even know where to begin lol. I wanted to save Wario Land for last so I could end the main series on a high note with the console’s best game (IMO).

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