Boy, if I would have had to guess which of your reviews would have the most views, I never would have guessed Insmouse no Yakata. I wonder why it has so many views over the rest?
I usually get a nervous feeling inside of my stomach for people who are trying to be funny in front of a large audience and who appear to be failing miserably, because I feel bad for them. I got that feeling as I watched and listened to these two.
But the homage to the Virtual Boy was most excellent! 🙂
I’ve never found that bug while playing Galactic Pinball, but I did find a score bug on the Alien table, which I know also theforce81 and Undead found, and I don’t know if either of them ever explained it on this site, so I’ll go ahead and do that now:
If you manage to get 1 billion points on the Alien table, you “break” the score counter, and it begins to cycle back and forth between the scores 999,999,999 and 1,000,000,000 each time you hit anything on the table that should give you more points. Therefore, you cannot gain any more points beyond these marks. When you lose your puck, a screen appears that applies the “Lost Bonus” to your score. These points are, in fact, added to your score on this screen, so your score becomes 1 billion points plus your Lost Bonus. However, if this was not your last puck and you begin to play the table again, the “broken” score counter takes effect again, so it cycles back and forth between the two scores mentioned above again, which lowers your total score back to one of these two scores. Consequently, you lose your entire previous Lost Bonus. Hitting objects on the table won’t increase your main score but will allow your Lost Bonus to accrue once again (but there is no way to keep track of what amount your Lost Bonus is at; you only see it when you lose your puck). When you lose your puck again, the new Lost Bonus is added to your 1 billion point score again, and only if this is your last puck will this Lost Bonus be saved to your score and, therefore, appear on the TOP SCORE screen. Otherwise, the cycle will continue again, and you will lose your Lost Bonus with the next puck that you launch. Even if you don’t hit anything with the next puck launched, your score becomes either 999,999,999 or 1,000,000,000 again just by launching a new puck.
Therefore, if you are going for a high score on the Alien table, the absolute best score that you can get is 1 billion points plus the highest possible Lost Bonus ON YOUR LAST PUCK (no other lost bonus for any other puck will matter). If I remember correctly, the highest possible Lost Bonus you can get is 8 million points, without any multipliers. Once you do whatever is necessary to get it that high, you cannot make it increase any further. I don’t remember there being any multipliers on the Alien table. If that is true, then the highest possible score that one can achieve on Alien (where the score is saved and, thus, appears on the TOP SCORE screen when you are done) is 1,008,000,000. If there are multipliers, I’m pretty sure that the highest Lost Bonus you can get with the maximum allowable amount of multipliers applied is 32,000,000, so you could get a score of 1,032,000,000.
This score glitch does not appear on the Cosmic table, and I don’t know if it appears on the other two tables since I haven’t broken a billion points on either of them yet. I know that I can break a billion points on Colony but I haven’t put in the time to do so yet, and I don’t think I will ever be able to break a billion points on UFO because I can’t “figure the table out,” in order to be able to safely rack up points using a reliable method. So at least on Cosmic, you can get as many points as you want. But Alien has “the perfect score” due to the bug, and I hope nobody ever gets it and posts it on this site since that will make me have to run the pinball marathon again and try to match it. 😉
I would have to give a mint and complete copy of Virtual Lab a worth of at least $1200 to $1300, in order to put it on par with complete (but not necessarily mint) copies of Virtual Bowling, primarily because of Virtual Lab’s extreme rarity (I’m sure most would agree that Virtual Lab certainly isn’t as well-made or fun as Virtual Bowling, though).
I also think that $600 is a good offer for this copy of Virtual Lab on Ebay at present, especially because of the condition of the box. However, the current sale price of 20% off also looks like a good price to me. Concerning one of the two Ebay auctions for Virtual Lab in the past, which I mentioned in my previous post, I lost the one auction with a bid of $700. There was one person who bid higher than me and won that auction. It’s condition was a little better than the current one, but I still think the current one is in nice condition, despite the wear and tape on the bottom of the box.
Should I be concerned that the bottom of the box has some wear and tape? Or is so rare that I should find a way to get it?
In the more than 1 year and a half that I’ve been tracking Ebay, I’ve seen a complete copy of Virtual Lab up for sale twice. On two occasions during that same time period, users on this site offered their copies for sale on this site. Then I saw the one that Dor-Si got on Yahoo auctions a little while ago. That’s the total I’ve seen.
There might be 2 that surface per year on average, I would guess, so if you want to wait it out, that is a likely outlook to have.
I’m not good at being patient, as bigmak can tell you, so I would do whatever is necessary to get it, and then if another one in better condition pops up in the future, that could be purchased as well, and the lesser conditioned one could likely be sold for probably about what was paid for it, since there will likely be more serious collectors looking for it at that time. Of course, should another one not pop up, you’d already have your complete copy.
But like Dor-Si said, I’d make an offer for this one before going at it at full cost, since it’s probably not going to disappear too quickly, I would guess.
Well, I tried my best to get a score glitch by turning my Virtual Boy off and on as fast as possible on several occasions, and I was unable to get a glitch, so if this was a problem that existed in an earlier version, it doesn’t seem to appear in the most recent demo released.
I was able, however, to produce a graphical glitch by turning the system off and on extremely fast. One of the rectangles in the top row of the “Thunder Engine” screen disappeared, and the upper right “DEMO” text on the Title Screen had changed to an image of a bubble. This only happened if I turned the system off and on as fast as I possibly could, which we all know shouldn’t be done anyway. 😉
The next time I play it, I’ll deliberately try to turn the VB off and on to see if I can get a score glitch, but I never experienced any score glitches when playing it on my VB the last times.
If anyone on here is planning to bid on it, thinking that you will be getting the demo version, make sure you contact the seller first to ensure that it is, in fact, the demo version. The main image simply looks like a stock photo, and the seller doesn’t indicate that he/she knows the difference between the two versions.
Even though it received a gold rating from VGA, which makes it all the more special, I would think that the cartridge itself would have to be one of the gold ones, in order to sell for that amount, but perhaps I could be proven wrong.
Actually, if it was a gold level gold cartridge, it would probably easily go for over $30,000.00.
I also like the idea of the player being able to adjust the speed of the enemies in the final version of the game, to serve as different selectable difficulty levels. Perhaps 4 or 5 different speeds to choose from would be suitable.
