Thanks for the expertise guys! I already suspected it to be possible, but very limited due to performance reasons. I still hope that this technique can be used for some simple effects.

I also talked to jorgeche about that topic in Skype and he liked the idea very much. The next day, he had added generic support for it to the VBJaEngine that lets you register any number of post-processing effects. Complete with a dynamic lighting sample effect that lightens up a box around the hero in our Platformer Demo. And the best part: there seems to be next to no performance penalty involved at all since the effect only affects a small portion of the screen. (In the emulator at least, have not yet tested on hardware.) 🙂

Thanks for the great scans, Ben!

Did anyone notice how page 39 refers to Mario Clash as Mario Smash (bottom left)? Theories anyone?

Also great to finally have a good image of the prototype VB system box. Is it just me or does it look a bit better than the final box?

These stories are amazing, guys, thanks for sharing! Here’s an unfinished “private projects” page of my resumee. I ended up not including it in the resumee I sent out… Well, got the job nevertheless, but I think I would definitely include some of my private tinkerings the next time. 😉

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Not a problem, PM me with the new one.

Looks more like a joke to me, since this is just the PC version with a red shader.

I have done the switch to Windows 10 and the FlashBoy software works flawlessly, no difference. 🙂

vuefinder83 schrieb:

KR155E wrote:

The same seller now also has the 1996 report for sale, which you might find interesting as well, since it will most likely contain Virtual Boy sales data. It’s also at only $5.50 right now: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Employee-1996-Shareholder-Book-from-President-N64-SNES-Marketing-/252269316976?hash=item3abc6c4b70:g:Bt0AAOSwLnlWntQ0

Just won this auction…

That’s great, congrats! And quite a bargain, too. 🙂

Thanks for the images vuefinder83, that’s some nice large promo shots of the system! Do you have a chance to get these scanned in?

The same seller now also has the 1996 report for sale, which you might find interesting as well, since it will most likely contain Virtual Boy sales data. It’s also at only $5.50 right now: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Employee-1996-Shareholder-Book-from-President-N64-SNES-Marketing-/252269316976?hash=item3abc6c4b70:g:Bt0AAOSwLnlWntQ0

speedyink schrieb:
That’s a really cool demo, Krisse!

Thank you!

Thank you DrWho198!

I thought that Notepad++ could not be made fully portable so that some settings like bookmarks or theme would not show up when VBDE was not in C:\vbde. But I had another look after your post and managed to change all hardcoded paths to relative paths.

So the next VBDE release will be 100% portable. 🙂

Lester Knight schrieb:
i’ve been in a writing mood lately. pouring all kinds of emotions, ideas, and research into a story. if you want to make a little game, let me know chris. i’d love to write the text (story) for a new vb homebrew.

i really like this graphix style and i think the vb needs another great platformer. although (wario land speaking) perhaps a story isn’t really needed, let the game play (design/stages/goals) be the story.

I will send you a PM as soon as I can sit down for a moment and sum up what I have so far, Lester. 🙂

Was anyone else wondering how this would look like in motion? Well, I built a quick playable scene from the above mockups today in the VBJaEngine. After running the ROM on a real VB, I conclude that using double width pixels to simulate a 192×112 resolution works quite well and aestecially it’s _very_ interesting and pleasing! I think I’ll play around with this art style a bit more. 🙂

BTW, cool “re-mockup” :thumpup: Now just slap it together with some old BLOX code and make a full game! 😉

[x] done (well, sort of :-D)

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Then there are some from various authors found on Twitter. There were made for @pixelsWeekly, topic #VirtualPet.

Updated my pieces with additional stat bars and other little changes for @pixelsWeekly #VirtualPet Theme #pixelart pic.twitter.com/HhzUrQPua9

— Sockthing (@Socklessthing) May 31, 2015

@pixelsWeekly #pixelart
I'm not fully proud of this one; but at least I tried. pic.twitter.com/ROukYFhUyQ

— 𝖓 | @nico_n@lia.fail | 🟩 (@nowk_n) June 1, 2015

My little DeepOne Virtual boy edition #pixelart – iä iä #Cthulhu fhtagn ! a little late entry for @pixelsWeekly pic.twitter.com/3ERWo6UNQM

— Fabien F. (@LeDjinn) June 1, 2015

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We maxed out hourly MySQL connections. I asked to flush the connections and up the value to get us back to normal.

Found more Jugemu stuff, from May and June 1995 issues, on this Japanese blog: http://astralunit.blog.fc2.com/

Put the site through Google translator and it reads as if May 1995 was the first issue of the magazine?

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Morintari:

The demo currently ends in the tower. I should’ve place an “Under Construction” sign on the first floor, as Jorge suggested. 😀

As for the key, there might be a hidden door nearby that leads to it. 🙂 The key does not have any function yet, though. Eventually, it will be needed to open the door to the tower.

I am glad you like it so much, Morintari, thanks for the feedback!

Jorge and I have tweaked the demo a bit more in the meantime and fixed some little bugs, so I have replaced the ROMs with newer ones. If anyone finds any more bugs, please let us now. 🙂

That’s a technical issue caused by the high age of CMS the site runs ons. Seems apostrophes get misinterpreted as the end of a string when reading from the database. We’ll have to live with that until the new site goes live.

This code should work on both the FlashBoy Plus as well as emulators: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=18663#forumpost18663

Reality Boy creates a *.ram file next to your ROM which you can inspect in a HEX editor to see if stuff was properly saved.

If it is correct in the ram file it will also be on the FB.

Note that the above code is hackish and only allows using half of the available Save RAM, but it will be more than enough for your needs.

Amazing, thanks for posting! Can you name the magazine or even the issue this articles appeared in?

In your email, you mentioned more articles about unreleased games. Could you post them as well? Even if the images are already known, the text could contain new information.