That’s a neat idea. The whole thing would need a bunch of privacy settings, but in general it should be very possible to implement using the Google Maps API.
I am wondering, who of you would make use of such a feature and enter their home addresses to find other VB fans near you?
Attached to this post are two files, the one being the dump of my EPROM cart and the other being the Version 1.0 of the program, retrieved from this site. Strangely enough, if you run both programs in an emulator or on a Virtual Boy, the programs appear to be exactly the same, but if you examine the code of each program, they are vastly different. I don’t know what to make of it and was hoping others might give some input as to why this might be the case.
Does the one you dumped run at full speed on hardware and has all the objects like the banana? Any blinking or other buggy stuff? I know you said both ROMs looked exactly the same on hardware, but one possible explanation I have is that your version is actually one of the early builds we made with gccVB. To get the demo to compile on gccVB, the code was rewritten and the demo did not run perfectly. I have to find those old builds and do a byte level comparison…
I have rented a managed standalone server and moved over one heavy site to it, which might have a positive impact on the performance of this site. Let’s see if the error 500 problem persists, and if it does, I’ll move all sites over to the new server.
I am very annoyed by the permanent server errors, but the provider does not seem to be able to fix the issue… Looks like we will have to move to a new server this summer. I do have a vServer, but I am looking for a managed server that’s also a bit more powerful. Have to see what I can spend, a new server will be much more expensive.
@Ben:
Hard to say what’s going on. Maybe we can debug your problems? Could you start up the web console in Firefox with CTRL+Shift+K, reload PVB and see if there are any JavaScript errors?
Stuff like this happens quite often and in different forms, but usually I can manage to delete spam user accounts before they post any crap. Luckily spammers are not very smart with choosing email addresses and user names, so it’s easy to tell them apart from real accounts. 😉
In obvious cases like this, you don’t need to take action, just wait a little while. But in case of more sneaky spam, like PMs sent to you or spam URLs on user profiles, please shoot me a PM.
That’s awesome and very generous, what you’re doing for bigmak, Krisse.
Thanks! But I think it’s actually the other way round. What bigmak and a certain other person did for the community is simply amazing and we can hardly send enough thank yous back. 🙂
Benjamin Stevens wrote:
Well, I have searched the News Archive, all the Homebrew titles, all of HorvatM’s forum topics in which he posted, and I cannot figure out what any of the other simulators are, which you are referring to. Help, someone?
Oh, I thought thunder was referring to the speech sample on the title screen having a russian accent as well as Chuck Norris’ random appearances at the other side of the gun?
Anyway, a worthy addition to your long running series of Advanced Nonsense Simulators, Matej! 😉
Three eastereggs spotted, when including the filename. Can anyone spot more than three? I assume the date not being set to April 1st does not count as another (weird kind) one? 😉
Benjamin Stevens wrote:
Do all of the 20-piece boxes that you know of look like the attached one?
If so, the only way that I could see 5 of these being packed into the 100-piece box is if 4 boxes were positioned upright, but then the 5th box would have to be positioned on its side. I guess it is possible that they could have done that, but I’ve never seen it done that way before.
Yes, they’re all this form factor. I don’t know what you mean by 4 upright and one on the side? I think all 5 would fit side-by-side if the side that your photo shows is facing upwards.
Cool find! This is the first time I see a 100-piece box as well. It seems to be incomplete, though. Judging from the space between game boxes I bet these boxes contained 5 of the smaller 20-piece boxes.
I updated our reviews database with issue numbers and links to the scanned reviews. I also corrected two minor errors with scores. Thanks again, Ben. 🙂
It seems that SD Gundam was the only not reviewed Virtual Boy game, as it is mentioned in issue 367 on the bottom of the first review page (http://www.planetvb.com/modules/articles/?s020160003). I think that games listed on the bottom of review pages were either never reviewed or reviewed in the next issue.
That will be interesting, Ben! Do you mean every single Japanese unreleased game listed here?
I hope the 1996 issues can be found as well, they should contain a lot more stuff like Dragon Hopper and Zero Racers. Maybe even an as-of-yet unheard-of game.
That’s some very interesting thoughts, Ben. Your theory sounds very plausible, this should definitely be observed further. I want to add one thought: Identical Virtual Boy screenshots were often printed across many magazines from all over the world. Since it was impossible for any publication to capture good screenshots themselves without the necessary hardware, they were probably simply using screenshots that were released by Nintendo and distributed to publications for printing, in form of, e.g. dias. The screenshots found in Famitsu might also come directly from Nintendo of Japan. I guess if we found the same screenshots in other Japanese magazines released at the same time, this would proof that the images were not taken by Famitsu themselves.
