It’s the same five blocks each time and they line up the same each time, they just come into the screen at random starting points and tumble randomly to get their respective places in the opening line up.
Does it give you a random word every time? With no save functionality, it won’t just repeat the same series of words the next time I boot the game up, will it?
My OEM stands allow for my Virtual Boy units to easily clip in from either direction. I have one replacement stand (from Hyperkin’s “Repair Box”) and it seems to be identical (aside from any Nintendo branding) but will only allow any of my Virtual Boys to easily clip in backwards.
I have found that I can “slide” the head unit into the replacement stand clip at a very direct angle and sort of pop it into place to get it on the correct way.
This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Fwow13.
Thank you for doing a video on soldering the ribbon cables.
If you have a flash cart, I would recommend grabbing the VUE-Master “Color Test No. 1” rom off the site. (https://www.virtual-boy.com/homebrew/vue-master/downloads/) It has full screen solid color images for each shade of red, and is really useful for finding dead or dim lines in the displays.
Otherwise, as far as retail carts go, I generally use Mario Clash for troubleshooting. It has a bright, full-screen opening, and is one of the games that makes sound right from boot (on the precautions screen). Makes for a good test cart.
Even if I disagree with your lukewarm stance on soldering the cables to the display boards, you did a great job here with this video. Hope it helps people that are brave enough to attempt it!