Alexander wrote:
Hey guys got a boxed vb yestiday at an expo cheap. Came with Mario tennis and I already had wario land vb off eBay years ago. Works great, no display issues, no sound problems and stand is perfect. It’s part of my collection but what to do next. Thinking of getting panic bomber or Tetris off eBay as less than 15 pounds. I’m in uk so the games are much harder to come by here.
Greetings Alexander, and welcome to the community. Two other Virtual Boy games that I definitely think you should get, which you should also be able to find at low prices in the UK, are Red Alarm and Galactic Pinball. These are two very fun games that are rated high by most Virtual Boy gamers.
This was a very interesting conversation indeed. It actually looks like the seller understood your question very well, but then, for some reason, it seems that his or her response was typed into a translation software program in Japanese, and then the English results were spit out, copied and pasted, and then sent to you. I’m guessing that whoever answered your question must not have been the same person who created the details in the product listing.
But yes, it is clear that the seller was only selling the shade without a box and that the image was not the actual image of the product for sale.
If anyone plans to acquire that auction in the hopes of finding interesting Virtual Boy coverage contained in any of the magazines, I recommend not getting your hopes too high. Here are all of the 1996 issues of Famitsu that I have:
There is not a single bit of Virtual Boy coverage in any single one of them, apart from the names of some unreleased titles appearing on the release forecast schedule, but all of those names already appear on this site. Surprisingly, not even Dragon Hopper or Zero Racers ever had their names placed on any of these release forecast schedules.
This is a most excellent article that shows good research and much respect to the console and the community. It is so nice to read Virtual Boy articles like these, as opposed to the ones made by nincompoops.
If the laser disc had a good bit of coverage for Zero Racers and/or Dragon Hopper, especially coverage that has never been posted online before, it would indeed be interesting. Nevertheless, since the seller says that the videos are from around 1995, that must mean that there is absolutely no coverage of either of those games, in which case one would be paying a grand simply to see games that one can already play.
If Nintendo still has all the VB protos (or possibly no hardware, but still the source code/ROMs), I don’t see them getting out, unless they go under (look at all the crazy Atari stuff that has appeared from them closing).
I hate to say it, but given the success, or rather lack thereof, of the Wii U, the day Nintendo goes under might not be too far off. I will certainly make every attempt to be at that auction and throw my whole life into the VB carts!
I think 3rd party protos are more likely to be released… probably just sitting in a box somewhere, or maybe backed up by one of the programmers… not even realizing that anyone would want that stuff, or not releasing the stuff since it’s technically “owned” by the company.
I actually had a dream once that I was playing Virtual Bomberman. Perhaps it was a sign that it will be the next unreleased VB game to surface.
I am actually still on my way to getting all of the green stars in Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the first time, as my nephew and/or niece sometimes make me play the game when I am spending time with them. I actually didn’t realize that I hadn’t gotten everything in the game initially until playing it with them recently, and I usually do try to get everything in all Mario games. Still haven’t gotten a WiiU yet, but that day should come sometime down the road.
speedyink wrote:
There had to be a few prototype carts I would think. It was playable at E3, which had to have been on more than one unit, looking at the videos there were a few Virtual Boys to set up.
Apparently one of the carts is owned by someone who treats it like their baby and most likely won’t ever part with it or dump it, because they feel elite or something owning the only known copy. Childish, really.
Hopefully another cart surfaces though, I would love to play the game.
If those rumors about the very secretive Dragon Hopper owner are true, I highly doubt that he would have left the game undumped, as surely he would know that the cart could go bad any day. Thus, he probably managed to get it dumped by some means, and thus, the ROM is out there at least on one computer. But yes, if we are ever going to get Dragon Hopper, we must find some other source.
HoMenace wrote:
I was looking around online to see if anyone sold custom made game cases and had no luck. I did how ever find this article: http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=79852 . Its pretty darn nifty what this guy did. Nintendo even sells them in red. How awesome!
I contacted that guy at NintendoAge and got the image files that he used to make those cases and posted them here on the site a while ago. Here is the link to them, in case you want to try to make your own cases:
VirtualChris wrote:
The first two reasons. I would pick up a lot that had a WoF2 with other carts if the price was right. I don’t really need the box. Just the cart. I don’t think very many were made. I do have the ROM for it though, which was why I asked.
Well, I can help you acquire it. I was thinking of getting a Game.com sometime down the road anyway. If I happen to find Wheel of Fortune 2 included in a lot, I can buy the lot and send you that game.
VirtualChris wrote:
… it looks like I’m never going to get WoF 2.
Is the reason why you think you will never get an original Wheel of Fortune 2 cart for the Game.com because it isn’t made available for sale often enough, or is it because when it is made available for sale, the price is too high or it is included in a lot with other Game.com games which you don’t need?
HP Lovethrash wrote:
This seems like the quickest way to get some advice…
Does anyone do a lot of eBay selling and has some wisdom to share with me regarding selling a second time to buyers you had annoying experiences with? I just relisted a group of rare-ish thrash metal CDs at someone’s request, who said he’d offer $70 for them. Then, before I could even accept his price, someone offered like $190 :-o. The problem is, Mr. $190 is a guy in China that I sold a couple really valuable ones to in 2011, and he left negative feedback because I think he didn’t read the description thoroughly. If his offer was even $120 I’d decline, but I guess I’m a sucker for punishment and want to accept his (excessively) high offer out of greed.
Thoughts? He has tons of positive feedback, I’m guessing he just doesn’t remember me specifically. The paranoid part of me thinks this is part of some kind of long con to get back at me :p
If the guy in China knows English well enough for you to be able to explain to him the condition of the items and for him to be able to confirm that he understands their condition, I would say that it makes good sense to sell the items to him. It sounds like he wants them a lot because of the offering price.
So far, I’ve been lucky not to receive any problems from buyers on Ebay. I don’t know when the day might come when I have my first, though.
thunderstruck wrote:
I just had a closer look at the manual. I was wondering if you used mine after all or if you created a new one from the scratch.
I took the background images from your manual, so the light red, checkered court walls, as well as your image of the Virtual Boy controller, and brought them into my Open Office document, which was otherwise made by me completely from scratch. All of the in-game screenshots in this manual were made by me hitting the “Print Screen” key as I played the game on the Reality Boy emulator and then pasting them into the document. I also revised my original English translations a good bit, so that they would read more smoothly in English. Moreover, I condensed all the information onto far fewer pages than the original Japanese instruction booklet, to help save Uncle Tusk some printing costs.
Thank you very much, by the way, for the background images and the controller image. If I would have had to have made those by myself, they wouldn’t have turned out so good.
HorvatM wrote:
And you of course are a legendary coder who pumps out professional-quality games in weeks. And our standards were of medieval quality before you came along. And we are all idiots needing hand-holding having no idea how to accomplish things. And nobody else can think of cool ideas to implement.
I’m not so sure that Guy Perfect’s vanity will allow him to see the sarcasm in your statements. He’ll probably take everything that you wrote as a compliment.
