Protoman85 wrote:
Well I won it for $107,50, yay!

Can’t wait to try all VB games and the homebrews.

Awesome, playing on a VB unit is just the best, emulators are ok but really it has to be the hardware to get the full experience, don’t forget Boundhigh, that on a VB is great.

I’m looking forward to seeing what you programming folks have been busy with, games, demos, effects anything & everything is of interest. If i get the time i will try them all on my Flashboy.

I used to know a few programming languages when i did my collage stuff and i certainly know how hard programming can be, maybe one day (like at retirement age most likely) I’ll have another go at programming, but by then Akumie’s thought generated game engine will be working and any game we imagine will instantly be ready to play on any platform, you just have to wish for it hard enough.

mawa wrote:
here a virtual bowling on ebay compleet boxed and looks in good condition.
http://cgi.ebay.nl/virtual-bowling-boxed-virtual-boy-japan-/180568187794?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item2a0ab3e392

Crikey thats a lot of bucks, it can’t really worth $1500?

jojobean wrote:
you can’t blame him for asking about the quote. if you’re going to be that forward about it someone is going to ask questions. the way i see it the is no harm in you putting it up and no harm in akumie’s asking about it.

Very true, no harm in asking, but i think referring to them as lame in the initial question is a little insulting.

KR155E wrote:

Vaughanabe13 schrieb:
Although, wouldn’t there be some kind of legal issue with selling a cart that has a Nintendo ROM on it like that? Maybe he was talking about just making a cart for himself and not to sell.

Yeah I know he was.

I guess like 20 homemade Bound Highs would stay pretty much under the radar.

I was only pondering making myself one, as it is i would have to rely on someone producing for me the internal bits, chip with ROM and pcb fitted to a connector etc.
No real point in selling them as the Flashboy does a fine job, it would just be for my own benefit of always having a copy of bound high to hand to play on a VB and not to have to flash it.

Dust covers could be made too, but might work out cheaper to just store the cart in a zip-top baggie. all down to cost and how much folk would pay, supply and demand as ever.

Vaughanabe13 wrote:
Honestly I don’t know much at all about designing cases so I would probably leave that up to the vb community.

I’m up for doing the design changes etc to get this connector to fit & mount a pcb, might take some time (only cos i got stack of work on) but it’ll benefit us all if we can get completely fresh made cart cases & connectors.
I so want to get Bound High on a dedicated cart, maybe even a clear cart case, just to be a bit flash.

Off the shelf connectors, top work finding those, if i can get hold of a CAD model or dimensions i could alter the cart shells to hold this connector in place and totally eliminate donor cart requirements. Well thats the theory.
I think a re-model of the carts is needed before anything gets made, the design can be simplified to take out a lot of details and just custom them to hold this connector and a pcb.
I think having batches of the shells CNC machined would be cheaper than a mold, especially if the shell is simplified. Time is not my friend at the mo but if i get a chance to suss out the connector fitting in a shell I’ll give it a go at modeling them up so quotes can be accurate.

I couldn’t resist having my flashboy & flashboy plus gold plated, here they are in the collection.

Yes i did travel forward in time to pick up the Flashboy Plus, the evidence is there, irrefutable evidence, now if i can make the time curtain work as a teleporter I’ll be on DogP’s door step for a game session in the basement.

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getting connectors made triggered a memory that someone here at PVB made up a flash cart with their own connector strip, it was an off the shelf part with the right pitch, I’ve not searched the forums to find out who it was but I’m sure its been done. Would be great to work that bit out then maybe a batch of cart shells and connector strips could be made, I’m up for doing any CAD models that are required.

Thanks folks.

SNK wrote:
Is it possible to show the Virtual Boy console in that way too?

Once i have the head unit modeled in 3D i can show it almost any way i like. I’ve not yet started modeling the head unit, so i just amused myself by rendering a virtual cart collection.

New picture, without the double.
This hasn’t been photoshopped, in fact the clue is in the title its a virtual cart collection, only existing as 3D models in my pc, so i rendered on a different worktop this time.
I didn’t include the flashboy as its not an ‘official’ release, thanks for dropping it in, looks good, i’ll have to do one with Flashboy & FB plus some time.
The labels do look a little different as i just used the scans from PVB to make textures for the labels and didn’t edit them to have similar lighting.

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KR155E wrote:
Haha, very nice. You were bored at work, weren’t you? 🙂

I will trade you the missing game for the one you have twice, got a few of them. 😉

Not bored as I got stacks on, just didn’t actually want to draw the dull things, and boss was away.
A double, oh arse didn’t check close enough, I think i have one of them in my drawer, I’ll have to set em all up again to take another pic, maybe I’ll do this one on my lovely chrome polished table. 😀

‘king sweet setup, bet your party was top fun, I too love the flooring.
Reminds me of a vegas casino carpet, maybe with some fear & loathing elements in there.

In ‘English Westcountry Dialect’ its Virchel Bay m’loverrrr.

Ever heard of the Werzels, thats how they speaks they do.

Only messing about thats just how it sounds when said by a local down here in plymouth.

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:

Hedgetrimmer wrote:
There is less time than i thought, grab your pets and head to the nearest transworld portal 😀

wait, just my pets? I can’t take my Virtual Boy?! 🙁

Electronics don’t fair well through portals, thats why i’ve never managed to bring back photographic/video evidence when i pass through the orange curtain. 😀

There is less time than i thought, grab your pets and head to the nearest transworld portal 😀

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:

Hedgetrimmer wrote:

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:
But my Gameboy has splattered battery acid around its case so its not the dusty-not-as-bad kind…

OMG, get out, get out now, its gonna melt through the earths crust and we’ll all have to escape the coming implosion as the planet folds back in on itself, and we never did play Dragon Hopper…….all cos you didn’t take out your Gameboy batteries when left for a prolonged period, as the manual states…..

I also have old batteries in my WonderSwan and Wii Remote that are as old as the Gameboy’s batteries…

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:
But my Gameboy has splattered battery acid around its case so its not the dusty-not-as-bad kind…

OMG, get out, get out now, its gonna melt through the earths crust and we’ll all have to escape the coming implosion as the planet folds back in on itself, and we never did play Dragon Hopper…….all cos you didn’t take out your Gameboy batteries when left for a prolonged period, as the manual states…..

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:
how do I get myself less nervous about this? (its “GBA of 2004” all over again) and do I keep it? there IS battery acid around that Gameboy after all 😯

Last night i went to play a dvd, not done for ages, the remote didn’t work and as i turned it over i saw the white dusty evidence of leaked batteries, now i had been holding this pressing buttons and felt nothing, aside from that my wife had been trying first and she felt nothing on her hands and she can get bad eczema from some detergents etc.
There really is nothing to worry about, wear some kind of gloves, open it up and knock out the batteries, with a bit of a brush out it will most likely still work.

Before I got my VB I thought I would hate Red Alarm, because every review I have ever read on the internet says it is a crappy game and extremely hard to tell what you’re doing. I found the opposite when I actually played it. It’s very easy to tell what’s going on, in almost all situations.

Yeah i saw them too, but as i have worked with 3D wireframe for many years i just knew i would get on with it, and with the depth the VB 3D gives just makes it easier to see whats going on.
its alway the second game i make anyone play when they have a go on my VB, i do tennis first as that is generally going to be everyones first Vb game and IMO a great little intro to VB
You are gonna enjoy 3D tetris, i need to get me a cart of that, i have played it a bit on flashboy, but that made me then want to get the cart.

Deadly-D wrote:
For me it would be….. Red Alarm hands down because of the depth. Bound High would be next Teleroboxer or hmmm Vertical Force are tied for 3rd. I’m sure if I sat down and played them all I’d change my mind except I would still stick with Red Alarm as number 1 out of my 3 choices.

I can’t believe i forgot Bound High, this working for a living thing really screws up your memory, filling my head up with design changes & dimensions, damn them customers.

Now does Bound High come before Red Alarm, tricky, can’t decide, will have to try and find some time to play them both.

As for depth in Red Alarm i have it full up.