[KR155E]

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Japanese launch of the Virtual Boy, I’d like to announce that I have acquired the ROM for Virtual League Baseball 2 from a former game tester. It wasn’t cheap. I’ve been sworn to keep quiet about all details and I will not be answering any further questions about the acquisition of the ROM.

Special thanks to KR155E, Animesuperj, UnumSolum, dudeway4, RetroOnyx (mellott124), Speedyink, and other anonymous benefactors for their financial and logistical contributions to getting this ROM in the hands of the VB community. We could not have done this without a serious coordinated effort, support, and involvement of one other. In addition, shoutout to Thunderstruck for his help and expertise in digging through the software itself.

Everyone involved in this project has the ROM in their hands, so it’s not at risk of getting lost. I’d like to ask the community at large to please consider donating to help ease some of the financial burden we have incurred from this purchase. Here is the link to donate:

Please send as Friends and Family!
paypal.me/virtualbaseball2

Donations go a long way in assuring that we might be able to one day do something like this again. After the donation period has completed, we plan for a public release to occur on September 21st. I hope you’re all as excited about this as we are!

Here’s some promotional content to give you a taste of what’s to come. Credit to Speedyink for his work on the commercial!

All additional materials, including the box art mockup, commercial, and print ad are fan made and do not represent an official work of Kemco or Nintendo.

• This topic was modified 6 months ago by KR155E.
• This topic was modified 6 months ago by KR155E.
• This topic was modified 6 months ago by ThrownAway.

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Is there a release time for the 21st of September? Like 1 PM CEST?

Virtual League Baseball 2 ROM Release

Hello. Thank you all for your kindness. It’s really cool to have this available to enjoy.

Is there any information available for the build date or version of this file? I am curious to know if this was a release candidate or something a little earlier.

Cheers.

I don´t know if this information has been shared, but ThrownAway had posted the known bugs in the Discord-channel:

ThrownAway, 21.08.25:
There’s a few distinct things that give me this impression – and none of them negatively impact gameplay much at all.
1- there is no soft reset (L+R+A+B+Start+Select) built in to the ROM, so choosing a different game mode requires either completing the baseball game you’re in, or hard resetting the console
2- the announcer’s heads for the Sports News segment after each game disappear for a second after hitting A to continue to the next screen
3- after the credits roll upon beating the Pennant Race, the game does not loop back to the main menu, so you have to turn the VB off then back on again.
4- the Virtual Boy eye adjustment screen is flipped from the regular orientation of all other retail releases. This is only noticeable if you close one eye during the calibration screen and doesn’t have any impact, but it is interesting
5- the functions of the buttons Start and Select are swapped during gameplay. To switch a pitcher/batter, you hit Select during the game to bring up the menu, and you hit Start to go to the Virtual Boy eye calibration screen.