Yeah, I suppose Nintendo Power comments could count as official. Nevertheless, it is hard to tell exactly when the Nintendo ’96 Report was issued. Page 43 mentions June 27, 1996 as if it was a date already somewhat far in the past at that point. Plus, it seems that Dragon Hopper and Zero Racers were already fully considered to be scrapped at the time the ’96 report was issued, or else there probably would have been hopeful mention of them earlier in the book with the upcoming products.

That comment about the Virtual Boy on page 31 could very well be Nintendo’s last official statement about the Virtual Boy from that era.

Here’s the ’96 report.

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thunderstruck wrote:
As far as I can tell the translation is complete (except for a strange dialog that I found in the game, but that is never shown)

Hey, thunder!

First off, I want to say: way to stick with it! I know this probably wasn’t the most exciting project for you.

Secondly, the dialog that you said is never shown in the game reads:

すべてのデータを初期化しますよろしいですか?
はい —– いいえ
Are you sure you want to reset all of the data?
YES —– NO

If there is no in game selection to reset all of the data, then perhaps it is possible that some button sequence entered during the game might bring up this option.

You’re welcome, and thanks!

I’ll try to get the scans made for the ’96 report by this weekend. Even though there isn’t much mention of the Virtual Boy in that one, it’ll be nice to have for Nintendo fans.

Here are 200 ppi scans of every page of the book.

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Do you happen to own a homebrew link cable, for 2-player Hyper Fighting?

VirtuousRage wrote:
I was going to update the 1st post as well, but I couldn’t figure out how to do that. Are you able to edit your posts on this forum?

You can only edit a post within about 30 minutes after you first posted it. After that, you have to create a whole new post in the forum thread, but making a new post is best anyway, since it kicks the thread up to the top of the list on the main page of the site.

By the way, great job on the boxes!

I finally managed to beat Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures on the Hard as Balls setting! The last boss was such a cheap piece of crap. Even after learning all of his patterns, beating him was still ridiculous. Once he started diarrhea dumping on my head, it was somewhat manageable, but it was hard to keep track of where he would crap next, since his balls were always in the way. His balls were the hardest of all! I kept focusing on his balls as much as possible, watching their every move, but he would keep hitting me in the face with his balls nonetheless. And then, when I would finally get him down to almost no energy, one of his balls would drop really low, and he’d keep swinging it and smashing me with it, and his balls were so hard that I couldn’t just shoot through them to hit him in the face when using the Nerd. After over 150 failed attempts, I finally managed to beat the cheap piece of crap! I don’t even think I’m going to try the Impossible difficulty level, let alone YOLO.

Since there is still a possibility of a CIB release of the game, I’m guessing that the makers want to keep all art and everything a surprise for the release.

Hello, and welcome to Virtual Boy awesomeness.

Happy gaming!

I recently got a new Virtual Boy flyer. The Panic Bomber Flyer 2 and Vertical Force Flyer 2 are actually two sides of the same flyer from Hudson Soft.

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vuefinder83 wrote:

That’s weird, the lines look more like a design than they do distortion. They even appear on the scans pictured here…

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/hardware/?type=vb&sec=images&show=ad&aid=16&page=1

Pretty strange.

Yeah, I don’t know why two different scanners with two different but very similar pamphlets would produce the same look. Perhaps certain resolution settings create the lined pattern illusion, while other resolution settings do not. I think mine was on the 200 ppi setting.

My pamphlet is 8 and 7.5/16 inches high, and since it isn’t folded perfectly into thirds, I measured it across while fully opened and got 10 and 15/16 inches wide, so divide that by 3 to get what it should be across when closed.

The paper is definitely of high quality, like a pull-out poster you’d get in a magazine, with a glossy finish.

I verified that the lined pattern of red as it nears the bottom was, in fact, the result of distortion created by my scanner, so my pamphlet, to the naked eye, appears to fade away gradually the same as yours.

My pamphlet is stored at my apartment, and I don’t think I’ll be returning there for a few days, so I will have to make myself a reminder to check it out and measure it.

I do want to say that I think the lined pattern of the red as it nears the bottom is some sort of distortion created by my scanner. I’m pretty sure that to the naked eye, it appears to gradually fade away the same as yours, but this is something else that I will verify when I check it again.

L___E___T wrote:
A friend of mine is selling his brand new Space Invaders.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPACE-INVADERS-Mint-Brand-New-Virtual-Boy-Japan-Nintendo-/272388630594

Wasn’t sure what a good price is for the game in today’s market, but I can definitely recommend him as a seller, I’ve bought various Famicom items from him for the last ten years now. He’s approachable.

Wow! That is extremely minty fresh! With it being in that condition, it could certainly go for a bit higher than the typical market rate.

I, too, never would have guessed that the patent would have taken so long to be issued.

Cool and informative thread.

vuefinder83 wrote:
… it seems to me that the unique base plate was the creation of Design Phase, as a early concept on a way to secure head units to displays perhaps?

Sweet! Now THAT is some seriously strong evidence! Yeah, I’d have to say now that the base plate had to be made by Design Phase. There’s just no way that some retail store or other possible custom display maker would have made a base plate that perfectly fits into one of Design Phase’s displays. For that to happen, they basically would have had to have already had one of these displays in their possession, in which case there would be absolutely no reason to go to such lengths to make such a hefty and fine-looking, custom base plate. Design Phase probably ended up going the standard base plate with support bracket route to save on costs, rather than make more of the hefty base plates, one of which you now have in your possession.

vuefinder83 wrote:
… included with this head unit was a recently discovered USA demo tap, and we can associate those demo taps with the white box USA demo units…

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4547&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&type=&mode=0&start=0

So most likely, this was a very early unit…

Yeah, I have to agree with you there. The base plate itself certainly shows that it was intended for this unit to be put out on some sort of display for demonstration purposes, for a lot of different people to be able to try out the Virtual Boy in a comfortable setting. The presence of the demo tap shows that this unit was very likely in use before or around the time of the beginning of mass production of VB units. I guess the only questions that remain are:

1. Was the display a custom one, made by someone either who had to make up for the fact that Nintendo had no proper demonstration display at the time or else who could not acquire one of Nintendo’s proper displays at the time?

2. Was the display actually made by Nintendo, in which case such a rare display has yet to be found in the wild?

vuefinder83 wrote:
Oh, and speaking of the Virtual Boy mall tour (Nintendo news vol.2 issue 9 page 2), here’s a Virtual Boy mall tour pamphlet…

There is one of these already pictured on this site, but this one is in its most purest form, meaning that it never had a “schedule of events” or a “mall stamp” ever placed on the last page.

Your pamphlet doesn’t just seem to be of a “purest” form but rather of a different form. If you compare yours to mine, you’ll notice that the “3-D” on the front of my pamphlet is white, while yours is red, and the back of your pamphlet has a “MALL STAMP HERE” note, while mine evidently never had one. It appears that these are two different versions of the pamphlet made at two different times of printing.

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