Since I found the others to not be very readable at small sizes, here’s another take at a GameLink logo.

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It’s not that much an issue with VBDE but the problem rather is that the Mario VB demo was built 8 years ago in a now massively outdated version of the VUEngine (still called “VBJaEngine” at that time). Also, back then, VBDE did not yet exist, so even compiling Mario VB with the correct engine version (3.0.1) would be quite difficult.

There’s absolutely no chance that the Mario VB source can be updated to compile with the latest engine – way too much has changed in the past 8 years. The way to go would be to rebuild Mario VB by taking the VUEngine Platformer Demo, replacing the graphics, and updating the mechanics a bit to feel more like a Mario game. If you want to try that, I could try to find all the graphics of the old Mario VB demo and post them here.

Fun fact: we started to build the Platformer Demo on the foundation of the old Mario VB code. We changed the graphics and name because we wanted a demo project that does not contain any copyrighted material and could thus be released under the MIT license alongside the engine. So… one could argue that the VUEngine Platformer Demo is sort of the latest version of Mario VB. 🙂

Wow! Outstanding as usual. I can’t believe what kind of effort you put into this. Chapeau, Martin!

Wow, amazing work! That must’ve taken forever! O_O;

I raised the max attachment size for this forum, btw, so you can attach this as a single PDF.

Got the same browser as you have and saw the same results.

In my (old) 3DS XL (11.4) browser however, I couldn’t even open Youtube. It always times out when trying to open the link and I get an error regarding the page’s size.

Thanks guys, I am glad you like our little flipbook! As promised, here’s the source code. Make sure you get the latest VUEngine from the repo (https://bitbucket.org/jorgeche/vuengine), since this will not compile with the version that is included in the 1.2.0 VBDE release.

Also, here’s the DaumenKinosaurier git repository: https://bitbucket.org/KR155E/daumenkinosaurier

Morintari wrote:
You really should consider writing a book or at least tutorials on how you did this. I mean I can draw in 3d in Pro Motion NG But what you have here is off the map! How ever did you do this just by drawing freehand?

Check the About pages in the demo, they explain how the graphics were done. It’s actually rotoscoped 3D models.

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[KR155E]

Thanks for clearing that bit up, M.K.! That’s a nice easteregg.

@thunderstruck
Congratulations for being the first one who found Lucky! I think you deserve a prize. Send me a PM with your email address and I will send you something cool.

Well deserved!

BTW, regarding ROM hacking, I uncovered myself a rather big secret in a commercial VB game. By writing a bit of additional code, I was able to get the hidden content working. Considering that the game makes now much more fun, it’s quite strange that this part of the game has been disabled for the final version. I will release a patch in a few days. Till then enjoy the thrill of anticipation 😉

Oh, wow! Can’t wait for the patch!

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Hey, nice. I did not expect a reply so fast. 🙂

It seems removing the main board is as simple as opening the VB and disconnecting all cables from the board.

See: https://de.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Virtual+Boy+Teardown/3540#s16968

The cart connector has to be desoldered, though. I’ll happily take the whole main board and desolder myself, if that’s too much work.

Nice, I’ll include your lauchner with the next VBDE release!

Nice, that looks really good!

I always wanted to create a Raycaster for the VB but never got anywhere. 🙁

Other have created such engines, though. Maybe you could ask DanB to release the source to Ballface? M.K. also made one, but never released it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDAJYc0FVQo

If you don’t need to have fluid movement, how about a dungeon crawler like engine as used in Insmouse? I have made such an engine but it’s not in a releaseable state, yet.

Do you have any programming experience?

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing these, Ben! Finally I can play all modes, even though I suck at fighting games. 😀

Some screenshots of the in-game Ben attached. Gotta love that quote!

I did, I also know about Lucky.

Now I am curious!

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This looks amazing, Kevin. Thank you so much for supporting the development scene with free cables!

Do you think a VB-to-USB cable would be possible, so the VB could speak to a computer? I am thinking about online Hyper Fighting versus play and such. 🙂

@e5frog: Here’s a list of homebrews supporting the link cable:
– 3-D BattleSnake
– Hyper Fighting
– Tic Tac Toe
– Virtual Boy Link Cable Test

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Found it: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Authentic-Vidpro-Card-Lot-Virtual-Boy-PS1-GB-NES-RARE-HTF-9-Cards-/201936849659

Wow, it must’ve been an intense 2 seconds between spotting the Dragon Hopper card in the photo and clicking the Buy-it-now button! Do you have a rough estimate how many beats your heart skipped in that moment? 😀

$250 seems like a good deal considering the rarity of the goods. For you, not the seller, that is. But since you paid the price he considered a good deal for himself, and we all got amazingly beautiful scans, I’d call the whole thing a huge win-win situation for everybody. 🙂

Morintari wrote:
Well I guess that’s the end of PVB using my box art for the cover.
🙁

Hm? We never did. The image that’s currently being used on the game profile page is from the old, low-res scan of that VidPro card we had for years.

Yes! YES! Y E S! Holy-friggin-uacamoley, the day has finally come! 😎

Nin, that’s great news, I hope you can pull this off! I’d love to do the port but I am too busy with other projects at the moment I am afraid. In case you end up using the VUEngine, I’ll try my best to answer your questions, though!

Very cool, mmora, thank you for doing these scans and translations!

Regarding the Club Nintendo article, I am pretty sure that they’re referring to the demos shown behind closed doors at WCES ’95. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC70nSxXGH8. “Road Racer” would be the racing demo, while “Vector Blaster” would be either Red Alarm or the demo commonly referred to as the “Starfox Demo” (See, for example, 1:26).

It’s a mystery where these names come from… They’re probably made up, but I guess there’s a slight chance that these are the actual titles of the Racing and Starfox demos.

¡Bienvenido a la comunidad! :vb:

Cool, thanks mmora!

[…] as I don’t see Virtual Bomberman mentioned in the articles on the two pages uploaded to that section of the site.

Oops! It seems that part of the translation belongs to a different article: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/articles/?s050185002

Thanks for pointing that out!