A truely great find! Thank you very much for this contribution.

I have compared this to a photo of the final display, and I can spot several physical differences. Plus, both inserts look different. I’d love to have this display. 😀

Info and image added here: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/hardware/index.php?type=displays&model=dphase&sub=counter_version

[KR155E]

OK, I hacked something together: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/games/index.php?r002h#l

If there’s anything else bugging you, please let me know and help to further improve the site. 😉

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A very good point you got there. I have already been logging dates for a while on new highscores, so everything we need is there. I just need to come up with a few lines of code. 🙂 This is going on top of my todo list. Thanks for the tip!

Another great review, thanks for that! 🙂

Great, thanks again! 😀

Corrected this, thanks! ^_^;

Would have been nice if we talked about that before, Richard, as I am sitting on tons of donor carts and box prints. So, in theory, we would be able to offer those to the people as an option. (Boxes probably for self-assembly.) Should be cheaper and more convenient for most people than having to send in a donor cart. And they get a box. 😉 Please let me know if that’s an option.

Exporting as stereo bitmaps seems to be the best option on the VB to me.

We are in the planning stages for a community game project, you’re warmly invited to take part in it. Stereoscopic environments and sprites would be ace! Got something to show?

Definitely! I created a forum posts with the results and pointed the URL to the compo forum. Thanks. 🙂

This has to do with Opera not being able to switch the input field type from text to passwort on onfocus. At least that’s what it seems, but if you press tab again, focus jumps back to the user input field instead of the submit button. Press tab again to get to the password field and it works… Some weird Opera bug?

Really great work! Added the mp3s to the VL Baseball game page.

Not a nice assumption. 😛 No, I am not pushing it. But I am amazed by the price.

From now on I will ebay all FlashBoys.

(just kidding)

No, assembling is not difficult, just takes a bit of time. I get the FlashBoy Boxes on raw printed sheets from an online printing service, cut them out with a knife, cut the round corners out with scissors, mark out where they will be folded, then glue them together. The link cable boxes would not need the cartridge holder and therefore require less time to assemble, though.

I just took a 2.5m ethernet cable and tied it together. Needed approx. 18x6x6 cm of space. Do you think that’d be sufficient?

Heh, depending on how many FlashBoys will be build in the future, we could offer a very limited premium development package featuring two FlashBoys, a link cable and the USB adapter. 😉

A box would be nice, and I’d like to help with my experience of building FlashBoy boxes and by designing (part of?) the box, if I can find the time.

For the raw printed sheets, a box should only cost a few dollars. It’s the time needed to assemble the boxes which plays a much higher role. What are you people willing to pay extra for a FlashBoy-style box? I’ll check out if it’s doable at that price.

I think the link cable box should follow the artwork and measurements of the official headphone box, at least this is how I’d imagine the offcial PlayLink box:

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/hardware/?type=accessories&sec=images&id=9&page=19

I need to do high res scans of the headphones box anyway, so I could use those as a template.

A FB Plus/link cable bundle would be nice, probably a bit hard to coordinate. If it sells well, maybe there will be a second batch of link cables coming out at about the same time as the second FlashBoy Plus batch? 🙂

Sorry guys, if any more FlashBoy Plus remain unclaimed, I’ll have to offer them to the next people on the preorder list. The list is LONG, so the second batch is long sold out.

Sadly, I have to push batch 2 back to Q2 2011, since I will be busy with my bachelor thesis until April. Dang.

I don’t have a direct translation, but have you seen the FAQ by Brian Hodges yet? It should be useful for you: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/games/?r013ff017 🙂

Moved to main VB Forum.

For music without sound effects, the Panic Bomber debug menu contains a sound check. Here’s the patch: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/games/?r009d 🙂

I’d take one as well. 🙂

What I mean is, if, for example the serial for Blox 2 was VUE-VB2M-DEU, what would that make people think if they don’t know what the last three digits are intended to stand for? They’d probably think that the game is in german, since they’re used to serials that end with the region, like USA.
Or how about VUE-VSUE-SVN for Soviet Union 2010? 😉

The idea of using the last 3 digits for the country where it was made is a nice one, but couldn’t that be a bit confusing? Nobody would understand what’s meant who didn’t read this read or some explanation somewhere.

I’d agree with Fwirt that those digits should be used for their intended purpose: the region the game is intended for. In the case of homebrews it’d be “the world”, “the scene”, “the internet” or similar.

Proposals:
“HBR” – Homebrew
“WLD” – World
“INT” – International
“UNL” – Unlicensed
“RF” – Region Free

Instead of making something up, we could also just omit the last three digits for homebrew projects. Those are not coded into the ROM and were only prited on boxes and stuff anyway.

What do other devs say? Maybe we need to set up a poll for that.