KR155E wrote:
it has a standard size connector, so any multi ac adapter can be used. sounds very useful for us europeans. no more stepdown converters. 🙂

Actually, I’m European and I use the official Nintendo adapter tap with a 9V DC adapter from a ZX Spectrum. It works flawlessly.

The serial number is supposed to be on the bottom of the VB too, you know.

I still don’t get it why Nintendo chose to use volatile RAM instead of flash RAM.

Exactly. The World Wide Web is becoming the USA Web. But I’ve had luck with USA-only sellers – I just ask them if they would ship their item to my location, and there is a 85% chance they will, even though the listing says that it’s only for USA.

Exactly. But at the same time it is really satisfying when you wake up the next morning and see the auction is yours.

There is a thread called “The VB Glitchy Display Problem”, you know.

I think that all display problems (except unalignment) are caused by this — my VB occasionally shows weird images in the right display too, but I lightly tap my hand on it, and sometimes it works. I also have noticed that some games will have different display problems than others.

EDIT: Damn, DogP, you were 28 seconds faster than me! 😀

I started modelling a VB in SketchUp once, but since my skills weren’t so good, I quit.

A few days later, I attempted to recreate Stage 1 of Red Alarm with it. I might get to finish it once. But I think that will take a pretty long time since Reality Boy can’t properly emulate it yet.

Space Squash for $50:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-SPACE-SQUASH-nintendo-virtual-boy-Japan_W0QQitemZ250360928177QQihZ015QQcategoryZ139973QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ships worldwide.

The left eye shows a horizontal line, and the right eye shows the vertical lines.

I asked because, you know, such cases don’t get treated very well… they’re dropped, shaken, knocked over, and such things.

The hard case?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nintendo-Virtual-Boy-System-5-Games-Plastic-Case_W0QQitemZ280300833990QQihZ018QQcategoryZ139971QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

See it for yourself.

It rocks! I’d definetely want to see it.

You forgot Game.com.

Sure, it’s cool, but it hasn’t got the immersiveness of the Virtual Boy. When I play Red Alarm I sometimes move my head a bit because I think that the enemy missiles are going to hit me!

It was just the cartridge, with the plastic dust cover.

Today’s game manuals are black & white/grayscale probably because it’s cheaper to print them. I think that the same thing happened to PC game packages: the old games had a big, colorful box with nicely drawn art with floppies, a manual, a registration card, technical support info and sometimes even more stuff inside. Nowadays, they’re just sold in DVD boxes. But I have never found game manuals to be helpful.

Oddly enough, I just turned on my Virtual Boy and noticed that for some reason, the right display now works again, but it’s still a bit darker than the left one (and occasionally shows some garbage).
So, should I even bother opening my VB?

[HorvatM]

How did you know I have Red Alarm? Anyway, I got to level 5, but then I shut it off.
There’s a cheat in Red Alarm to skip levels (and do other funky things):
At the title screen, press Select as fast as you can until you hear an explosion. You have to do it before the demo starts playing, otherwise you have to press Start and do it again. Next, start a new game. Then, you can press L, R, Select and A at the same time to bring up a hidden menu which should be pretty self-explanatory to use.

Also, I saw several cheap copies of Virtual League Baseball on eBay once, is it a good game?

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I have a Virtual Boy from eBay. I don’t know when it was bought originally as it didn’t have the box, but the serial number is:

VN103970064

It’s the US version.

I’m too young to have a first-hand VB – I was born in 1995 😉

Also, it would be cool to know the pattern in which serial numbers are written – maybe they include the manufacturing date, or maybe they are just random numbers.