I have been racking my brain to think of endings I enjoyed and honestly I don’t remember most of them, but one does stick in my head, so maybe not the best ending but it certainly is the most memorable:

House of the Dead Overkill (Wii)

Disturbing, funny, odd, but you definitely won’t forget it if you see it.

Looks good, some higher res pics would be good around the area you have the clamp unit fixed.

I guess the base of that is quite heavy to allow the VB to sit on top and it all not to fall over, or would it tip up if you extend it beyond a certain point?

Nice work and a good find.

Thanks to all who have bought a kit, I have now sold out of the current batch so need to get more made.
Could be a few weeks but I will keep a list if anyone PM’s me and we can sort payment etc once the new batch is ready.

Runnerpack pointed this out to me yesterday, I think it fits this thread as the seller recommends you drill your VB to allow the bit to get to the deep screws, drill it!!! the guy is nuts, he should spend the small amount of bucks and get the bits ground down a little (it takes no time at all for any half decent engineering shop to do) to fit the deep holes.

Personally i have no problem with painting or coating a console, so long as its a decent job and don’t look like its done with correction fluid.

@foil_lone_wolf, post us some pics of your blue console collection, I’m interested to see them.

L___E___T wrote:
I know a guy that overclocks Starfox carts – makes a good difference to the gameplay. Not sure how possible it would be, or how much crossover for something like Red Alarm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOU2GikRRY8

Thats sweet. But…..
it couldn’t be done to any VB cart though as (and I am only guessing, not done any research or nothing, which being as we are on the internet makes me an expert…..) the Starfox overclock relates to the Super FX chip in the cart and has no effect on the actual processor in the snes.
As far as i can figure all VB carts hold the ROM and thats about it, no special chips to enhance the gameplay.

Or

>8

The point seems a little more central than using a B.
(edit: but now I see it in this post font not so, oh well, its quite central in Word using Times or Ariel font)

I think it needs to be simple and quick to type using standard chars, just IMHO

Just a thanks to
http://www.retrocollect.com/
for picking up this thread as I got a sale through it.
Look like a cool site, check out the link above.

If it needs one it should only be 2 chars long, IMO.
B< would be fine I think.

MetroidHatchling wrote:
New here, My first post! Nice to meet you all.

I just found a working virtual boy at a yard sale a couple days ago and have been busy playing around with it. It was missing the stand and power cable, but my local game store happened to have both. Now I just finished playing 3d Tetris for about 2 hours straight. My eyes are burning. xD

Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Legend of Dragoon (finally getting around to finishing it) and playing around with my Super nes and Super famicom. Star Trek Deep Space 9, crossroads of time, being the most played atm.

Howdy new fella, welcome to the best VB site, I like your nickname.
Sounds like you got a right deal at that yard sale (saw the other games you also got with it in another post), good find.
I am sure you will have top fun with your new purchase, it is a great machine.
My only recommendation, buy a Flashboy, invaluable for VB gamers.

@Ben, I agree, it just goes to show the temperamental nature of the glitchy display problem. That unit was sent to me with the glitch and every time I have fired it up I had the glitch, but not yesterday.
I need to open it up again and see what could be done, then like you say if it doesn’t come back, it could well have worked.

I thought I would fire up my second VB and see what could be done about the glitchy display it has, and to my surprise it now works fine, no glitch, no lines, no graphic break down, its fine, for now. This may sound odd but I was disappointed it worked, I wanted to try and work out another solution to fix, maybe using some type of clamp that holds the ribbon cable to the pcb, I haven’t worked out any details but wanted to get a start.
I can still try and figure out something and hope that the glitch returns in the future so I can try and fix it.

I forgot I had the last Layton on DS, the Last Specter, spotted it on the shelf and was trying to think what the story was about, then my memory finally kicked in and I realized I had not actually played it, so I’m puzzling my way through that.

Sweet review, memories of playing coming back, think I might have to fire up the Boy tonight for a blast.

Yeah thats the only reason, its nearly a Nintendo item, just a naff play on wording.

A perfect repro could be made, but couldn’t be machined as its copying a molded part etc, but I guess outer faces could be the same but that requires turning the product over to machine the other side, meaning the line up has to be bang on to make it work, not very feasible with our set up.

A quality 3D print could do it, but they are expensive compared to finding another stand.

Its a personal thing about the looks, I get that some folks want an identical copy but these are a basic simple shape to try and keep costs down.
Fit for function, which personally I think is all that matters in a repair.

If you did want to get yourself a 3D print of the original I do have it modeled and I’m happy to let anyone have a copy to get printed, just PM me.

Thanks for the nice review Chris.
The ones I have sold seem to be working out for folks, it pleases me to know maybe some forgotten VB’s can get a bit of love now.

That looks quality, nice work.

Thanks for sharing, nice article, some interesting things.

I doubt my boss would accept the same kind of thing if i fell asleep in a meeting (its happened) but I will keep that gem of an excuse just in case.
“its so good I don’t need to listen anymore, you’ll be fine, keep up the good work, I’ll just have a nap”

Nice shots from your XL there.
I have the demo on mine and played that V level in it, it certainly is cool to play a red n black 3d visual on the new generation.

Good spotting, done a screen grab.

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Dreammary wrote:
Amazing but yea it looks like Johnny 5.

Haha good one, johnny5 alive.

I do want to get the aluminium bits black anodized but we very rarely get that done at work so i just have to wait and slip them into the next job that calls for black anodized frames.