I can only speak for myself, in general – no, I would rather have a (good) reproducion. Of course, it would depend on the level of damage to the label. In a perfect world, I would definately prefer an original to a reprint, but when I have a dozen carts with perfect labels on them and then one with a large chunk of the label missing (including the name of the game) – the damaged label really sticks out.

I’m not as much of a collector as I am a gamer, and the cart is an original so I’m not too picky about how much of the outside is fake.

As far as this specific issue with the damaged Jack Bros. cart I have, I’m not actually going to replace the entire label. I’ve decided to preserve what label is left, and “patch” the missing portion with a reprint of that part.

Given the poor quality of this article, one could make the argument that it’s a good thing this site wasn’t mentioned. I wouldn’t want them saying that they got their misinformation from this site and by doing so make Planet Virtual Boy look bad.

While looking through this article, one of the glaring mistakes I saw was a screenshot of “Virtual Bowling” which is clearly a screen of Nester’s Funky Bowling. Looking closer at the image I noticed that the player’s name in their screenshot is PVB…

Did they seriously use an image from this site? If they did, how the hell could they have not done at least a little reading to get their facts straight?

This is ridiculous.

His user name is DogP, and he is pretty active here.

I think this is an interesting game concept and I can’t wait to see what you make of it (but being an entomologist – my interest is somewhat skewed). I wish I had some programing experience so I could offer help. If this idea amounts to anything, it might be the homebrew title that finally pushes me to order a flashboy. (Not that Blox & Blox2 aren’t fantastic games)

There’s a thread in the main discussion board with some information on making labels here.

The drop menu that comes when you hover over the “Profile” tab at the top of the screen has an option to edit your collection.

Since stag beetles are insects that are actually pitted against each other in fights, I think you should include one in your character line-up. Sadly, I don’t have any clever names for you.

I’ll be spending my time (like I bet others from PVB will) playing some of my newly aquired Virtual Boy games.

Happy Holidays back to you Hedgetrimmer!

I’ve messed around with the Jack Bros label further, and thought I’d share. If anyone would like to compare it to their cart and make any suggestions, I would appreciate them. I want to make this as close to the original as possible. I’ve mainly attempted to enhance the color in this attempt, but I doubt it’s perfect due to my color blindness. 😕

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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.