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Feb 27, 2013 • 02:02

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Atari Jaguar VR Prototype Headset on eBay

I sense that michaeljee’s comment was supposed to have hyperlinked text that would take one to an unrelated site if one clicked on it, but the hyperlinked text did not take effect.

Feb 26, 2013 • 18:26

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: I finally got a VB but I got a little black line issue

The black line issue is different from the typical glitchy display problem. See this thread here and be sure to click on the links mentioned in this thread:

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=21107#forumpost21107

Feb 26, 2013 • 17:05

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Virtual boy jacket

I found a picture of a nice-looking Virtual Boy jacket as I was searching for Virtual Boy stuff using Japanese words:

Original webpage here:
http://miki800.blog6.fc2.com/blog-date-200601.html

Text on webpage:
バーチャルボーイのおようふく
えーと昨日ていうか今日？結局全く一睡もせずに仕事行ってきたんですよ
いやあの時間に寝たら負けだしきっと起きれなかったし
ねむくなかったしボールペンあるし

そんなぐでぐでの状態で出勤してつかの間の休息を取り煙草を嗜む俺様に
外回り営業中に日本橋のメイドカフェ２軒はしごしてきた自慢話や
実はこんな仕事辞めてメイドカフェを開業しようと思ってるんですけど
メイドって時給いくらなんですかねとかマジで問い掛けてくるのはお願いだからやめてください営業のＮさん

「あー１０００円前後くらいじゃないっすかねー」　とガチで答えた俺に
「そっか！何とかなりますね！ぜひ客として来て下さいね！」とか言わないでください　
まず雇え

そんなどうでもいい感じで適当に仕事して定時にさっさとひきあげてアメ村行っておかいものしてきた

俺の今イチオシハード、バーチャルボーイをあしらったクールでキャッチーなナイロンジャケット！
たぶん裁判になったら負けます
でもにんてんどうさん的にバーチャルボーイ自体無かった事になってるだろうし大丈夫！あんしん！

買ったのはいつもわたしがゲームっぽいおようふくを買い求める堀江のスーパーレスキュウさんです（宣伝）
たぶんメーカーはここのやつ
あ、おようふくってメーカーじゃなくってブランドっていうんだっけ
詳細なデザインはこのへんとか
「３ＤＤＩＳＰＬＡＹＧＡＭＥＳＹＳＴＥＭ」のロゴがクール！赤黒！伝説！黒歴史！

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This reply was modified 13 years, 4 months ago by Benjamin Stevens.
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Feb 26, 2013 • 14:09

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: English Translations for Famitsu Magazines

User: djandy76 at assemblergames.com, who reveals himself to be very fluent in Japanese, gave me his translation of the article on the unreleased racing game for the Virtual Boy, which I’ve attached below. Many thanks to him for this!

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:41

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 346

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:41

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 346

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:33

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 345

Feb 26, 2013 • 13:27

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 344

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:25

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 343

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:23

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 341

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:21

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 340

Note: Of all the images in the magazine where there could have been some sticky substance on the page that tore up the image, it just had to be on a Virtual Boy game image. Thank goodness it wasn’t a screenshot of an unreleased game. (I don’t want to know what the sticky substance is…)

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:16

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 339

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:14

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 338

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:12

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 337

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:09

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Famitsu 323 Contents Page

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Feb 25, 2013 • 20:08

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

KR155E wrote:
Oh, man, This is great! Thanks for the scans! There’s some interesting looking articles and a bunch of new screenshots in there. Looking forward to what the later issues from 1995 will show, there should be quite a few unreleased games!

A little request; can you also scan the contents of issue 323? It has a small tradeshow image: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/articles/?s020261002

Sure, I will try to scan that contents page and include it in the next batch that I post here.

Information about unreleased games is the main thing that I was hoping to find in these magazines, so I already searched through all of them and made notes about them, which appear below. Basically, if you see a page number in my notes below, then something related to the Virtual Boy appears on that page of the magazine. But if you see additional words in parentheses next to a page number in my notes below, then something about that unreleased Virtual Boy game appears on that page of the magazine. Of course, I sometimes did not make notes for screenshots and articles of unreleased games, which I know already appear on this site. Thus, there wasn’t as much new stuff as I was hoping for but still some cool things. I do remember seeing two screenshots for Virtual Dodge Ball in a small article, so that was a nice find, but everything else will just contain some new information but not screenshots, unless I overlooked something. There is a small possibility that a few screenshots and new articles for unreleased VB games may appear within the January and/or February issues of 1996, but I don’t know if I will to try to bid on those issues unless I can maybe get all of them for a nice price or if I know for sure that I will be getting screenshots of unreleased Virtual Boy games that have not been posted online at all before.

1. No. 317 – 1/6&13/1995
2. No. 318 – 1/20/1995
3. No. 319 – 1/27/1995
4. No. 320 – 2/3/1995 Pages 8,
5. No. 321 – 2/10/1995
6. No. 322 – 2/17/1995
7. No. 323 – 2/24/1995 Pages 85, 94-100
8. No. 324 – 3/03/1995
9. No. 325 – 3/10/1995
10. No. 326 – 3/17/1995
11. No. 327 – 3/24/1995 Page 8
12. No. 328 – 3/31/1995
13. No. 329 – 4/7/1995
14. No. 330 – 4/14/1995 Page 8, 153
15. No. 331 – 4/21/1995 Page 9, 129
16. No. 332 – 4/28/1995 Page 8, 139
17. No. 333 – 5/5/1995 Page 147, 195
18. No. 334/5 – 5/12&19/1995 Page 163
19. No. 336 – 5/26/1995 Page 81, 91 (Street Fighter II Rumor), 123, 167
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20. No. 337 – 6/2/1995 Page 6, 131, 174
21. No. 338 – 6/9/1995 Page 8, 137, 178
22. No. 339 – 6/16/1995 Page 82, 85, 123
23. No. 340 – 6/23/1995 Page 11, 91, 123, 162
24. No. 341 – 6/30/1995 Page 149, 195
25. No. 342 – 7/7/1995 Page 155,
26. No. 343 – 7/14/1995 Page 145, 186
27. No. 344 – 7/21/1995 Page 9, 155, 199, back cover
28. No. 345 – 7/28/1995 Page 9, 110-112, 114-116 (Virtual Double Yakuman), 126, 130-131, 163, back cover
29. No. 346 – 8/4/1995 Page 8, 9, 21-27 (Virtual Double Yakuman), 84-85, 169
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30. No. 347 – 8/11/1995 Page 29-30, 160-161, 177, 223
31. No. 348/9 – 8/18&25/1995 Page 33, 92-95, 169, 205 (Virtual Bomberman & Virtual Block)
32. No. 350 – 9/1/1995 Page 10, 32, 138-139, 171, 212 (Bound High!), back of back cover
33. No. 351 – 9/8/1995 Page 74-75 (V-Tetris & NikoChan Battle), 137, 145 (Virtual Jockey), 152-153, 169, 217 (Virtual Jockey)
34. No. 352 – 9/15/1995 Page 131, 154-155, 169
35. No. 353 – 9/22/1995 Page 89, 100-101, 103, 139, 187 (NikoChan Battle & Virtual Dodge Ball)
36. No. 354 – 9/29/1995 Page 163, back of back cover
37. No. 355 – 10/6/1995 Page 38, 171, 223 (Sora Tobui Henry and Wangan SenSen Red City)
38. No. 356 – 10/13/1995 Page 29-30, 169, 211
39. No. 357 – 10/20/1995 Page 31, 128, 171
40. No. 358 – 10/27/1995 Page 163
41. No. 359 – 11/3/1995 Page 171
42. No. 360/1 – 11/10&17/1995 Page 10, 183
43. No. 362 – 11/24/1995 Page 163
44. No. 363 – 12/1/1995 Page 103, 104, 106-107, 109-114, 163
45. No. 364 – 12/8/1995 Page 32-33, 201
46. No. 365 – 12/15/1995 Page 31, 171
47. No. 366 – 12/22/1995 Page 24, 177
48. No. 367 – 12/29/1995 Page 22, 34, 193, 217, 243 (Doraemon: Nobita no Doki Doki! Obake Land)

Feb 25, 2013 • 14:43

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: The Noteworthy Auction Thread™

John E Bravo wrote:
Anyone looking to buy a Virtual Boy Pen?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Virtual-Boy-Ink-Pen-Mid-90s-Swag-/321079327024?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ac1d1b930

Kinda cool!

Not only cool but also extremely rare. I am highly confident that these pens were never mass produced for the market but rather were made on a very limited basis for certain employees of Nintendo, or maybe they were handed out at one of the few tradeshows where the Virtual Boy had an appearance. Either way, these almost never appear for sale online anywhere, that’s for sure.

Feb 25, 2013 • 03:35

Benjamin Stevens • Topic: English Translations for Famitsu Magazines

You both are very welcome. 🙂

Here is an interesting article from Issue No. 336, May 26, 1995, page 91, which raised the question: Was Capcom making “Street Fighter II” for the Virtual Boy?

カプコンがバーチャルボーイ版
『ストリートファイターII』を出す!?
Capcom Producing a Virtual Boy
Version of “Street Fighter II”!?

任天堂の32ビットゲームマシン、
バーチャルボーイ。それに関して
二んな噂が流れている。
There are a couple rumors flowing
about Nintendo’s 32-bit game
machine, the Virtual Boy.

「カプコンがバーチャルボーイ用
のソフトを出すらしい。しかも制
作しているのは、『ストリートファ
イターII』。もちろん対戦ケーブル
でバーチャルボーイを2台つなげ
れば、対戦プレーも可能だとか」
(ゲーム雑誌編集者)
「オープニングでは、リュウの波
“Capcom is apparently producing
software for the Virtual Boy. More-
over, they are making ‘Street
Fighter II.’ Even match play will be
possible, if 2 Virtual Boys are linked
together with a link cable.” (Gaming
magazine editor)
“In the intro, Ryu’s Hadouken looks

動拳が、目のまえに飛び出して見
えるらしい」(ゲーム雑誌ライター)
というもの。ニれについてカプ
コンの返答は‥‥‥。
「いまのとニろそのような予定は
ありません」(カプコン広報)
確かにカプコンはバーチャルボ
ーイへの参入はまだ正式に表明し
ていない。『ストリートファイター
II』のファンの期待が作りだした
噂なのかもしれないね。
like it is flying out right in front
of you.” (Gaming magazine writer)
Capcom’s response to the afore-
mentioned reports:
“Right now, there are no such or
similar plans.” (Capcom PR)
For sure, Capcom still has not
officially announced entry into the
Virtual Boy. It might be a rumor which
began to be built by the expectations
of “Street Fighter II” fans.