😛

Some did not work, Red Dragon just gave an error, plus when I opened them in a graphics editor, the graphics had several wrong pixels, so I assume those are corrupted.

Thanks Bill! Will add it soon.

V. Bowling final on all of them, some corrupted though, probably because the windows where not covered.

OK… those were originally sold on Yahoo Japan along with a lot of other auctions for stuff from Athena (including numerous empty VB dev carts). The buyer recently sold the chips to the person in sweden who i assume is the seller of this ebay auction. I received dumps of the chips and compared them to the rom dump of the final version and (unfortunately) they were exactly the same. I have no idea why Athena had the final version burned on eproms, though. Virtual bowling was shown on Shoshinkai 1995, maybe some sets of chips were burned for that, or as pre-release review copies for japanese magazines or something…?!

I’m with Shizbah, you can PayPal the 20 bucks to krisse@vr32.de, DogP 😉

I’d also have use for music in Blox, if I ever get arond to adding sound ~_~

Music would have to in mod format (midi-like!?), but wav is also possible. I have not yet worked with sound on the VB though, so I’m not 100% sure.

I guess well-made level designs and sprites are always welcome ;D

Yes, they’re real! They do not contain a beta version though, the contained ROM is exactly the same as the final version.

Yup! ^_^

hmm, I should be able to receive up to 1 gig. maybe try krisse@gmx.de directly.

Ok, keep us informed 🙂

Hmm, looks like both pictures are of different cases o_O I bet this isn’t a vb case.

Sorry, didn’t find the time to add the new scores, they’re up now, though!

Lol, what a cheap story… and people actually believe him? Anyway, we an always hope 😛

Joa, wie in der Demos Sektion nchzulesen, sind diese japanischen Demos (kamen mit den Store Displays) absolut mit den Retail-Versionen identisch, bis auf eben diesen Sticker auf der Box. Ein guter Scan wäre übrigens nice 😉

Only this one: <http://vr32.de/werkstatt/vb_headband/index.e.htm>

Either try every option 😉 or use this passwords to set the difficulty:
1000 (Very Easy)
2000 (Easy)
3000 (Normal)
4000 (Hard)
I hope they work in the japanese version as well.

Welcome \^_^

To answer my own question: yes it is supported, you just have to select “27C040” 🙂