Wow.

Thanks a lot guys. I gave up searching ebay a long time ago, especially when I never found anything online. A huge thank you to KRI55E for the link. I feel a little better about my lack of success at researching this after reading the descriptions of these two items, it seems these sellers had a pretty difficult time figuring out how valuable it was too.

@runnerpack – I agree, those kids would definitely be the biggest Nintendorks out there.

@hedgetrimmer – I’ve never seen Mario styled like that before, I hope Nintendo didn’t pay the artist too much. Maybe they realized their mistake, you don’t see anything Mario from the 90’s looking that way.

Like I said originally, I’ve been on other forums and looked for help. I’ve never gotten anything but repeated comments saying “it looks homemade” and “those are clearly stickers”. It just goes to show that the members here are a different class of retro gamers. Just another reason for me to love this site!

Thanks again everyone!

P.S. Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans!

Thanks for the help Matthew, you’re right. That exact thing is in AVGN’s collection, I watched the Bugs Bunny video and there it was. I’m trying to get ahold of him, but he is apparantly horrible at getting back to people who try to contact him through his site. So I may still be on my own on this search.

Thanks again!

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Nice impovements pocket! Thanks for the info on the size, I was messing around with this label yesterday and the closest I could get to was 2.05 by 1.68 inches. I’ll definately print off your improved label and see if it comes off any better than mine.

If it helps, I did a 600dpi scan of my Galactic Pinball cart.

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Congrats Johnny!

Since we’re on the subject, I would like to say that I would definately provide any scan of what I have to anyone that would want it, but then I don’t know how helpful that really is since I am more of a gamer than collector and I mostly just have carts (though they are all in great condition). And my library consists of only 8 of the US games.

I satisfy my collecting needs with insects.

I was looking at the same auction on Ebay, and had the exact same thought. I’m pretty sure I could create a good label to replace the torn one on the cart, but like 113Mhz said – someone will have to provide a high res scan of an intact one for me to be able to reproduce it. This is on the top of my list of games to get too.

I would be interested in seeing a more detailed tutorial, some day I may have to try repairing my VB – the more instructions out there = the better.

It would also be great if you could do a video of the process. But I understand that might be asking a little much.

Whatever you do, there’s already some great information in your post. Good work.

Congrats!

I really enjoy both Red Alarm and Galactic Pinball, and would add those to your list of must-have-games.

Glad to help out, and I’ll let my wife know that all her hard work was appreciated.

Reminds me a little of Super Glove Ball for the SNES.

Congrats Magus! I hope it works for you once you get the rest of it!

I wanted to say first that I really like the updates you’ve been giving to the site, especially some of the cosmetic changes.

That said, I just wanted to state (if you weren’t already aware) that some of the functionality is lost a little when using the Internet Explorer browser – the most noticeable effects being in the side menu of the site. The site is still usable (and awesome as always) but navigation becomes a little harder.

The only other thing I’ve noticed – the sound byte (Red Alarm) at the site’s entrance doesn’t play. I never realized there was one, until I visited using Firefox.

Like I said, you may already know of this and this might be a useless post.

You know, Flickr accounts are free.

But I could send him some “FlickrMail” on your behalf if you would really like me to.

Maybe you’d have better luck trying to contact him through Flickr?

Are the batteries in the VB carts the same batteries that are in the NES/SNES/N64 carts?

On a “cool” factor, I would choose the Virtual Boy. As with pretty much everyone on this site – I love the system and no matter how much I play, I’m still engrossed in it’s uniqueness.

If I could only own one though, it would have to be the Game Boy. It was the first system I owned as a kid, and there’s a lot of good memories tied into playing it.

Happy New Year!

I would say that it’s completely up to you.

I realize it’s just a bit DogP and that it won’t work on all the screws for the the VB, just pointing out a good site and a good place to buy one. And I figured if anyone was wanting to open the VB, they could use your suggestion of modifying a bit like this with a slit in it for a flat head screwdriver.

@Heliowalton – I like the looks of that bit, thanks for the info!

You can buy a relatively cheap security bit at the online site – Nintendo Repair Shop.

Link:

https://www.nintendorepairshop.com/shopexd.asp?id=82