Hey Neil! Sorry for another bump of this old thread, but I just got a large Virtual Boy kiosk myself. Finally – only took like 20 years of longing. However, it’s a US unit and I like the Japanese style so much more. Would love to replace the ads. So if you’re still up for scanning yours, I would be super happy to help on the Photoshop side of things.
Well… as it turns out, the working implementation I had previously was almost complete and doesn’t need too much work to finalize. The collection feature will be back very soon.
I currently don’t have plans to implement a new collections feature. I spent a ton of time on other user interaction feature like highscores, ratings or game lists and they’re very hardly used by anybody. These days, where we all are using Discord, the site appears to be more of a side note. Or archive. It just doesn’t seem worthwhile to invest the time in a new collections feature if nobody’s gonna use it.
Nice find, thank you for the great scans! No idea where the stereoscopic part came from, probably it was carried over from one of the auctions we got the previous images from. I renamed the album until we know more about these cards and added your scans to it: https://www.virtual-boy.com/games/marios-tennis/images/978507/
Hello! VBJaEngine was the former name of VUEngine. You will have a hard time trying to compile this game today. It requires an old version of gccVB (2.95) and I have no idea of the work involved beyond that, really. It would not make much sense either because the the engine, and the tools around it, became so much better in the meantime. The Mario demo evolved into VUEngine Platformer Demo, so it would make the most sense to rebuild it on that in the latest engine version, if you want to work on it.
We did know, actually. nori_bomber has tweeted about having worked on the game a few times before. But it’s awesome to finally see some of the design documents!
Quick update: fixed the online emulator. It stopped working a while ago because playing audio requires user interaction in modern browsers. It now prompts the user to click once to start the emulation once the ROM is loaded.