Sometime soon, I would like to translate as much Japanese information on the unreleased Virtual Boy games as can be found, and one of the things that I wanted to do was translate the information on the flyers for Virtual Block, Virtual Bomberman, and Virtual Jockey. I did some internet searching for these titles and found a site that already has a lot of the information on the flyer for Virtual Bomberman translated into English, which might be of interest:

http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/Bomberman/Virtual/info.htm

My Top 10 Favorite Commercially Released Virtual Boy Games in Alphabetical Order:
3-D Tetris
Galactic Pinball
Jack Bros.
Mario’s Tennis
Panic Bomber
Red Alarm
Space Invaders Virtual Collection
Space Squash
V-Tetris
Virtual Boy Wario Land

thunderstruck wrote:

thunderstruck wrote:
Wow, finishing Faceball would be quite and interesting task. I don’t know if I would be the right person to do something like this…

LOL

Isn’t it amazing what a little time brings. 🙂

That same seller has a fairly low-priced copy of Space Invaders… well, low for Space Invaders anyway:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Space-Invaders-Virtual-Collection-Nintendo-Virtual-Boy-Japan-C-/290808167492?pt=FR_Jeux_Vid%C3%A9o&hash=item43b5847c44

jrronimo wrote:
Boxed copy of SD Gundam Dimension War up on eBay for the low low price of US$1,500

Yeah, I don’t forsee a complete Japanese collection in my lifetime…

How about the one for about two-thirds of that price, eh? 😉

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SD-Gundam-Dimension-War-Nintendo-Virtual-Boy-Japan-/300780656080?pt=FR_Jeux_Vid%C3%A9o&hash=item4607ec95d0

I tried to make some nice scans and collages of the Virtual Boy Brochure.

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foil_lone_wolf wrote:
With my minimal knowledge of media materials

Have you learned how to see all of the known Virtual Boy flyers on this site? If you select a game, whether released or unreleased, that has a known flyer, such as Mario Clash, a picture of the flyer will appear under the “Images” tab for the game and in the “Flyer” section. If you then go to the far right of the Flyer line, you will see a link that says “Show All.” Click on it, and you will see all known flyers that Krisse has been made aware of and uploaded to the site over all the years. This is a good way to quickly inform yourself about all the media materials to search for, if you plan to collect them. If you ever find a picture of a new flyer, etc. that isn’t already on the site, bring it to Krisse’s attention so it can be added. Who knows what all is still out there to be found! 🙂

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/games/?r006i&s=f#f

e5frog wrote:

“If you want a cart (and don’t get one here), just buy a FlashBoy+ and make your own label. ;-)”

And if you really want to make your self-made reproduction cart look nice, buy another very cheap Virtual Boy cartridge, and replace the FlashBoy+’s shell that has the hole for the USB port with the new shell that has no USB port hole. Of course, you will likely have to remove the USB connector on the FlashBoy Plus board so that the new shell will fit over it just fine.

Uh oh… now the “secret” is out!

Okay… I just gotta know… Are the dog pictured in your profile here and the cat pictured in your profile on Kickstarter your own pets, or are they pictures taken from elsewhere?

Wow… so if everything written in the auction is true, only the winner of this auction and one other person on the planet can play Missile Command 3D in its Virtual Reality form, unless there is some tech guru out there who can make his own compatible VR headset.

Now that is a true Holy Grail item.

Yeah… I definitely treasure my Virtual Boy collection, and I’ve gotten to the point where I love collecting anything and everything Virtual Boy. The Virtual Boy is definitely my favorite hobby, and it’s about the only thing I spend money on other than the necessities. If I ever run into a financial crisis, I would probably sell absolutely everything else that I own first, before having to resort to selling off my Virtual Boy collection, but if I did start selling off Virtual Boy items, I’d probably try to recollect them some time later on down the road. Perhaps my Virtual Boy collecting could rightly be labeled as an unhealthy obsession, but oh well… 🙂

jrronimo wrote:
The downside to ordering these is that they have the DS card stand-offs in the center of the case. You’d either have to cut it out by hand or just maybe the VB games would fit anyway.

You are right. I’m pretty sure that the DS card stand off does have to be cut out for the VB cartridge to fit in properly. Nevertheless, people with good crafting skills can do this and also add foam padding in the inside to make the whole inside look very nice if they wish, while the outside of the case looks great anyway, even if no other work on the case is done after cutting out the DS card slot.

It seems that I have 2 variations for the Mario Clash case. Here’s the other one:

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TheForce81 wrote:
Great, I at least have the covers now, that is a great share Benjamin! Now I need to figure out a way to get the boxes to the Netherlands…

If you are serious about getting the red cases from Nintendo’s site, you could use me as a middleman. I could order the boxes and then ship them to you, and you could pay me back the costs that would be necessary. If you do want to do that, send me a PM and we can set it up.

TheForce81 wrote:
This is cool and it sucks at the same time, since I live outside of USA/Canada I cannot order them…

Thanks though and I hope others enjoy this way of storing them…..

I’ve seen a lot of black DS cases selling for very cheap on Ebay at times. If you don’t mind the outer case being black instead of red, you could go that route. Not sure how often the red cases might appear on Ebay, though.

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Glover wrote:
Possibly DS game cases? A while ago they re-released every Mario-themed DS game in a red box (in the US at least), so it was easier to spot “Mario” games on the shelf. (I think this coincided with the release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which was also in a special red case.)

They look a little thin for that to be the answer, though. Very cool looking, whatever they are!

Edit: Got ’em! Check these out:

http://store.nintendo.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&langId=-1¤cy=USD&ignoreCrumbs=N&crumb1=&crumb1Ignore=&crumb2=&crumb2Ignore=&crumb3=&crumb3Ignore=&translateFrom=%C3%88%C3%89%C3%87&translateTo=EEC&usrSearchText=&searchText=&selSrchType=&page=&view=&productId=83693&categoryId=58694&lastAction=ProductDisplay&orderTotal=null&tranId=0&jktranid=&rpComment=&dropOff=

Yes. That is the best place online to buy the red cases that are needed to make these. I don’t know if there is any place online that actually sells these, so you have to buy the cases and then print out your own case artwork for each game. It just so happens that I found someone online who gave me all of the artwork files for these. Let’s see how many I can attach to one post. These will probably bog down the page for a lot of people, but at least they will have access to the artwork, in case they want to make their own custom cases for the games.

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MineStorm wrote:

because they could no longer sell their FlashBoys with buggy Bound High!

I didn’t know people were doing that.

Yeah… in addition to the buggy Bound High! ROMs that were put on eprom carts and then sold on Ebay, there was at least one other person at the time who sold a FlashBoy on Ebay and made clear mention of the fact that Bound High! was on it, and I’m assuming he wasn’t the only one who tried to sell Bound High! like that before its online release.

It makes me wonder who may have possibly ordered FlashBoy Pluses from you, for the sole purpose of putting Dragon Hopper or Zero Racers or something else unreleased on them, in order then to secretly sell the cart with game to another. One just never knows what all goes on in the dark underground world of Virtual Boy collecting.

vb-fan wrote:
What was the drama associated with the release? (Someone on this thread said the words “ebay fiasco”; people paying too much on ebay?)

There was also an earlier Ebay fiasco associated with Bound High! before the most current one:

Before Bound High! was released online for everyone to play for free on May 3rd, 2010 (http://www.planetvb.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=301), there were people who secretly had buggy versions of the ROM, and they would put these buggy versions of Bound High! on FlashBoys and then try to auction them off on Ebay for very high prices, which worked for them as long as not very many people could play the game at all. The main reason why Bound High! took a while to get its online release is because PVB had expert programmers who were working on trying to fix the bugs, so that everybody could play the fully complete and fully functional game for free, but while they were working on this, there were the profit-seekers trying to make as much money off of the buggy version of the ROM that had somehow made its way into the hands of private collectors. Of course, once Bound High! was publicly released online, this then made a lot of the private collectors upset, because they could no longer sell their FlashBoys with buggy Bound High!, or sell just the buggy ROM via secret e-mails and payment exchanges, for large profits anymore, thus all the drama.