http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwdnMcM0NXg&feature=g-all-u&context=G20ee77eFAAAAAAAAGAA

-Eric

Congratz it turns out I was the one(s ?) bidding against you. I’m a bit angry..I haven’t even gotten an email from him telling me it’s sold yet. Can I ask what your plans for the ROM are ? I think I know already who is getting the cart.

-Eric

Is there any difference in the instruction sheet ?

-Eric

I have some repro’s in my collection…I use them to play the more expensive games, so I don’t get my copies messed up. The labels on mine are very fuzzy..just made from a color printer. You could spot the difference pretty easy. They’re not made to fool people..just to have a game handy to put into the VB.

-Eric

It’s pretty rare..I’d pay about 75 for it….but everyone will have there own opinion.

-Eric

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Console-system-NINTENDO-VIRTUAL-BOY-3-JEUX-AC-Adaptateur-JAP-/270938021231?pt=FR_Jeux_Vid%C3%A9o_Consoles&hash=item3f152a1d6f#ht_15787wt_974

In France, BUT

I would pick up this auction but I just got the Japanese VB. The nice thing is…yea..in the pic..that’s a mosaic tap. I emailed to buy the tap separate (need it for my collection), but got no response. OH well..it’s a buy it now. Pretty good deal for what you get.

-Eric

Oki..

When I first started looking at what might be possible on the vb..I was also wondering about ‘doom’..well not doom..but what came before it..wolfenstein 3-d. At first, I thought there was no way a game like this could be made to play on the vboy. Then one day..I saw a surprise entry in the Coding Competition in 2008.

VB racing.

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3381&forum=8

When I found out this game used a ray casting engine..I automatically thought of wolfenstein. I actually asked the question in the forum if he could use his engine to code a wolfenstein type of game. He said no..but he was working on a raycasting engine that might work. Actually had a demo of it on youtube.

I haven’t heard anything else about the engine he was working on….but then came another contest..and we saw:

Yeti3d (if i remember right, an entry to the 2009 contest ??)

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/games/?h058d

This is a raycaster that shows the VBoy can pull off a wolfenstein type of area.

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3727&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&type=&mode=0&start=0

But, I’m not sure if you could code enemies or what in this 3-d environment..because of the way it draws the rooms ect…it seems like anything drawn would actually be behind the lines of the room and you wound’t be able to see it.

It does give me hope that one day a first-person shooter might be made for the vboy. But, the work involved in being able to code something like that is just staggering.

Hope this clears up some of your questions..please follow some of the links..and download and try out the demo’s.

-Eric

I would gladly support the coders any way I can. Instead of a donation, I’d rather pay to have a physical copy of the game. If it has a box or not is just a bonus.

If Richard is up for it (?) we could do 50 dollars to the coder and (insert # here) games to Richard to flash them ?.

If we could get boxes for them..that would be even better, but it seems to have hit a snag with bound high ? (guess, just seems to have taken awhile ?)

-Eric

I think he might be selling the whole box..but it’s still kinda high.

-Eric

HAHA

Well, I have never played any of the guitar hero games..and..I need to practice…fun Scored the big 30 on level 1

-Eric

I’ve gotten one from him already it was fine :). hrms..took forever to get here thou.

-Eric

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Virtualboy-Mario-Clash-Japan-Brand-New-one-item-one-order-/320845504180?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab3e1deb4#ht_1180wt_741

Hard to find because it’s under virtualboy and not virtual boy..but a good price on a mario clash Japanese demo. Quite a few of them for sale it looks like..if you buy it..i’d make sure the seller sends you the one pictured (with the orange sticker).

-Eric

Been crazy around here..but I’ll find time to try this out been looking forward to it.

Way to go! That didn’t take you long to fix. What was the problem ?

-Eric

http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h161402621

Oh a Japanese yahoo auction..no bids for 67 dollar US..over in 3 days…what’s that I see in the background..a loose virtual bowling ??

-Eric

I would defiantly put this in it’s own post under the development board :).

Some people were trying something similar last year (?)..but they were waiting to have a standard library built. I think dogp (?) was working on that ? Can’t remember, but that sounds right. I can’t code, or draw…maybe I can test ? no idea. I might have a suggestion or two if that’s oki.

*update found the other thread about a community based game:
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4103&forum=2

I would start with a demo or an engine that is already built..and try to work it that way. There are several examples that might work out (with the authors permission). Actually, I would contact the author to see if he wanted to spearhead the project.

Some examples-

DanB’s Yeti3d engine – It does things I didn’t think the VB could do

Jorgeche’s VbJaEngine – he made a Mario entry in one of the coding competitions using it. I think this was built to help people code on the VB.

MK’s Virtual Racing – Amazing racing game.

Runnerpack’s Hover Demo – If this is the ‘bouncing’ demo..it could be made into a puzzler. I remember it looked great and compared it to bound high at the time. Maybe a top-down version of breakout (where you are the ball)…or a bound high type of game where you have to bounce between different levels of platforms.

Again, I wouldn’t want to pressure any of the coders for their code. But, this is some of the examples of some engines that people have made and could be worked on for a game.

As for music..I think we actually had a musician here at one time wanting to code music for vb games. Manicfoot ?

-Eric

I have received multiple things from Richard in the past. I give him the highest props.

If this was ebay –

Amazing seller, fast shipping, great communication. A++++++

-Eric

If anyone needs a Travel master case for their collection :), I can help. I’d rather trade it at this point to other VB stuff I don’t have :)..or maybe the Travel Master + cash, if it’s a really cool item. But, if anyone wants to talk about it..please PM me.

-Eric

I think this is the best review I’ve ever read on the VB.

Actually I don’t think, this IS the best and most informative review I’ve ever read on the VB.

I was the one that bought that case last night..I didn’t have time to post, but thank you. I had to get up at 2 am, and didn’t have time to go back to the site. Thank you again.

-Eric