Dor-Si wrote:
VN10000956[9] US demo
VN10019475[3]
VN10045757[5]
VN10540408[6]

Wow, Dor-Si! Number 956! Very nice. I’m a bit jealous. 😉

How about >θ? (That second character is the Greek letter Theta)

You get the two characters, which look like a sideways “V” and a symmetric “B” in the proper order of “VB” itself. Depending on the font that one uses, the picture can look more close to a little symmetrical Virtual Boy unit.

Consoles I’d rank the Virtual Boy above:

Sega Master System
Sega CD
Sega 32X
TurboGrafx-16
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari Jaguar
Atari XEGS
Apple/Bandai Pippin
Philips CD-i
3DO
Xbox
Playstation Vita
Nintendo 64DD
Colecovision
Intellivision
Commodore 64
Bally Astrocade
Fairchild Channel F
Odyssey
Odyssey 2

Ahhh… that’s good. Now that’s showing a lot of love for the Virtual Boy. 🙂

Really, Protoman85? After all those reviews, no love for the Virtual Boy? 🙁

Here’s my list:

1. Virtual Boy
2. Atari Lynx
3. Nintendo
4. Super Nintendo
5. Nintendo 64

(I’m a retro fan and mostly Nintendo fanboy to the end)

If Kirby had been in a Virtual Boy game, he’d be in almost full color.

I don’t think there would be any need to wait for the problem to return before you try to fix it. If it had a glitchy display at all, it will only be a matter of a couple of weeks before you will see the problem again, and it will get worse and worse. Thus, you could apply the clamp right now, while it’s still working fine, and if no problem arises within a couple of months, you’ll know that the clamp is working.

Here is his current world record for the 70-Star run, an amazing 49 minutes and 34 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU8C4px6zXc

I have 2 USA Retail units not previously listed.

This one came with my Platform Display:

VN10031062[7]

This one is a solder-fixed unit recently sent to me (good-bye Oven Method! 🙂

VN10249735[7]

Sure. I’ll e-mail you the patched and padded ROM as soon as I get home from work in a few hours. I already tested it in my FlashBoyPlus and it works fine, so it should be ready to go for any reproduction cartridges.

I think Dreammary got a little confused about what we were discussing:

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/games/?r010i

As Dreammary said, the cart sticker for the Japanese Red Alarm (1st image under “Cart Scans” on the page above), does indeed contain almost only text. The image behind it, however, is part of the pilot’s mask, as can be understood by comparing it to the front of the game’s box. Nevertheless, the cart sticker is pretty bland much like the majority of the cart stickers for the North American cartridges.

This discussion does not deal with the Japanese carts but with the boxes for the Japanese demo games, since that is the only way to tell a Japanese demo game apart from a Japanese retail game. The sticker on the box for the Japanese Red Alarm (3rd image under “Box Scans” on the page above), is a different sticker than the ones on all of the other Japanese demo game boxes. And again, this is explained because there was a different publisher for this game than for the rest.

If I were you, I would treat this as a genuine and original demo game, not just as some sticker applied to a box in error. The fact that Wild Trax was published by Nintendo at a time when the Virtual Boy’s launch was approaching makes it highly probable that the stickers later used on the Virtual Boy demo games could have already been in use even before the Virtual Boy. Also, it is the sticker that Nintendo, the publisher, would have used since it is known that this is the same sticker used on the Virtual Boy games published by Nintendo. The reason why the sticker for Red Alarm looks different is because that game was published by T&E Soft in Japan, not Nintendo, so T&E Soft used their own sticker design.

I only started searching hard for them somewhat recently, so I don’t know if any other copies ever appeared since I got into the Virtual Boy in April of 2011, but I only ever recall seeing the Wario Land and Mario Clash ones available for sale online. Thus, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Galactic Pinball, Mario’s Tennis, Red Alarm, or Teleroboxer Japanese Demo games, unless they were not boxed, in which case I wouldn’t know. 😉

Yeah, Mawa, I must say that I’m a bit jealous over your Japanese Demo game collection. 😉 I realize that a lot of people don’t care much about the boxes with stickers on them, but I sure do, as I would like to have everything VB-related. Thus, if you ever find Japanese Virtual Boy Demo games, which you have but I don’t, online for sale anywhere, I’d appreciate it if you would send me a link to them. Of course, if the Mario’s Tennis one ever pops up, I’ll understand if you simply snag it away from me, but if I have a chance to bid on it myself, I might be a good contender for it. 😉

That is an awesome find! Many thanks for sharing that. I was also previously unaware of that. I’ve been searching for those Japanese Virtual Boy demo games with the stickers lately. Those darn things are extremely hard to find…

BigMak found a picture online of one of those stickers that was placed on a Virtual Boy Mosaic Box system, perhaps he can find the link to it again to post here.

VBrulez wrote:
Good job on the translation Ben. With reproduction carts do we still contact Richard?

The last I checked, Richard said he could make a reproduction cart of just about any game you want, so yes, you can contact him about this. He probably still wants 3 donor carts per reproduction cart made, but check with him to be sure. If you don’t like one of the stickers already posted on here, however, you’ll probably have to send him one of your own.

KR155E wrote:
That’s very nice, great work by Luke on that logo! I wonder why he used the box front as a base and not the original cart sticker? Also, the aspect ratio is pretty off.

The box front was used because on the original sticker, too much text that would need to be eliminated overlapped the pictures. It would be hard for Luke to eliminate such text while preserving the pictures, but perhaps someone with better skills could do so. The box image was then distorted slightly to make the height and width of the whole image in the right proportions to the height and width of a cart sticker, without cropping off too much of the bottom of the picture in the process. If someone can modify the actual sticker image better, attached is a high res scan of such.

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My friend Luke also made an image that can be used as a sticker for an SD Gundam Dimension War reproduction cart. Many thanks to him for this:

http://www.planetvb.com/uploads/newbb/1643_502533fcc6307.jpg

Here is another possible image to be used as a sticker for a reproduction cartridge of SD Gundam Dimension War. This one was made by my friend Luke. Many thanks to him for this.

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If a Virtual Boy unit had fallen off of a display and hit me in the head, I would have simply accepted the whole display itself as reimbursement for all my pains and suffering. 😉

Yeah, the play on words was, indeed, my best guess as to why it was written as “Neartendo.” I just wasn’t sure if there was any more significance behind it or not. I like it. :thumpup: