Just wanted to make sure I had this right. If I buy Flashboy and I buy a copy of Wario Land and Galactic Pinball then I should be able to play the Virtual Boy library just fine?

I need Wario and Pinball because the Flashboy doesn’t save the games/score, correct?

The flashboy plus has a save battery in it. The original flashboy didn’t. So, it depends on which version you get. Also, keep in mind…you can have 1 game loaded at a time.

-Eric

Oh, well that’s even better! 1 game loaded doesn’t sound like a bad deal either.

So if I switch out Wario Land for another game then I will lose my sava data for Wario and the new game will replace it?

Mr. Halloween wrote:
… So if I switch out Wario Land for another game then I will lose my sava data for Wario and the new game will replace it?

Correct.

I did not want to make a thread for just a (probably) stupid question, so I will ask here :

Is there a way to create a multiboot-rom / homebrew compilation / to merge several little roms into one 2048ko rom ?
I use my FB+ mainly for homebrew, that would be very handy 🙂

Craby wrote:
I did not want to make a thread for just a (probably) stupid question, so I will ask here :

Is there a way to create a multiboot-rom / homebrew compilation / to merge several little roms into one 2048ko rom ?
I use my FB+ mainly for homebrew, that would be very handy 🙂

HorvatM once posted (can’t find the thread anymore) that he wrote an tool that can merge 2 roms into one. There was a problem with running the merged rom on hardware though. Also I don’t remember if he published the tool itself.

I don’t think there exists a proper solution right now.

Too bad… Thanks anyway :]

thunderstruck wrote:

Craby wrote:
I did not want to make a thread for just a (probably) stupid question, so I will ask here :

Is there a way to create a multiboot-rom / homebrew compilation / to merge several little roms into one 2048ko rom ?
I use my FB+ mainly for homebrew, that would be very handy 🙂

HorvatM once posted (can’t find the thread anymore) that he wrote an tool that can merge 2 roms into one. There was a problem with running the merged rom on hardware though. Also I don’t remember if he published the tool itself.

I don’t think there exists a proper solution right now.

I didn’t release the program, but if you want, I can continue working on it so that it hopefully becomes useful.

There will never be a fully automatic ROM joiner though because to join two or more games, you have to hack each one to be compatible with the others (most of the work can be automated, but you still have to do some things manually). So probably the best way to do this is to make pre-made compilations of games. Even then, some games would be incompatible with others if they use all 8 kilobytes of SRAM (they would erase each other’s data, but otherwise they would work fine).

Aww, wait a second. I didn’t even think of that. So for my donor cart I either need to use Wario Land or Galactic Pinball to get the save function?

Anybody need a copy of Vertical Force? =P

I don’t think the FB+ reuses the RAM from the donor cart. It would be a lot of extra work to remove the chips (there’s also a chip to automatically switch between VB power and the battery), and it would mean the tons of Baseball carts out there would be useless as donors.

RunnerPack wrote:
I don’t think the FB+ reuses the RAM from the donor cart. It would be a lot of extra work to remove the chips (there’s also a chip to automatically switch between VB power and the battery), and it would mean the tons of Baseball carts out there would be useless as donors.

Phew, thanks! I just thought of it and wanted to make sure I didn’t screw up.

Aww, poor Baseball. Nobody loves you

Benjamin Stevens wrote:

Mr. Halloween wrote:
… So if I switch out Wario Land for another game then I will lose my sava data for Wario and the new game will replace it?

Correct.

i played wario land for a while. then i flashed a mario clash hack and played that for months. i put my vb away and only recently pulled it out. mario clash was still on my FB+. i played it for a few days and then flashed over wario land. my wario land save from a year ago was still there. so i do not think the save data area is erased, it is only overwritten if the rom you flashed can save.

Well this cart sounds better and better now!

How about the loading time? The review said that some games take a minute or two to load, is that every time you turn the VB on with the game on flashboy?

Lester Knight wrote:

… i do not think the save data area is erased, it is only overwritten if the rom you flashed can save.

Wow… that’s really cool. Didn’t know that.

Mr. Halloween wrote:

How about the loading time? The review said that some games take a minute or two to load, is that every time you turn the VB on with the game on flashboy?

The minute or two loading time refers to the amount of time it might take to load a Virtual Boy ROM from your computer to your Flash Boy Plus cart. Once the game is on your Flash Boy Plus cart, the game will start up in your Virtual Boy system and run just as fast as if it was on a commercial cart of the game, assuming that the ROM that you loaded to your Flash Boy was a successful dump of the game and that you padded the ROM to make the file size 2,048 KB.

HorvatM wrote:

I didn’t release the program, but if you want, I can continue working on it so that it hopefully becomes useful.

Of course i want :] One homebrew to bring them all, and in the Flashboy bind them. That would be a precious contribution !

There doesn’t seem to be anything negative I can see about this cart. I have to get one of these eventually!

What would you say is the best cart to buy for a donor cart?

Whatever you can find for the cheapest price.

Mr. Halloween wrote:
There doesn’t seem to be anything negative I can see about this cart. I have to get one of these eventually!

What would you say is the best cart to buy for a donor cart?

Agreed with Lester — probably Mario Tennis or Baseball since there are lots of those around.