Ebay will never disclose who reported him, so he will never find out who’s behind it.
I was a top rated gold level power seller for 2 years. All I had to do was call my eBay rep and I could get any information I wanted about my buyer. I used it on a few occasions to handle problems with items selling in our shop by another employee before the auction had ended. However, in this case, the guy doesn’t have the status to request such information.
What if someone listed a Bound High! or Faceball cart, started it at .99 and explained what it was and how it came to be. Would you guys flag the auction as well? I’m just curious if the reason for everyone getting upset is just the asking price or the fact that someone listed it on eBay.
Actually, Mr. G said that he doesn’t own the card but had the permission of the owner to publish pictures and videos. Thereby, I guess he wasn’t the one who sold the card but Mr. Gs friend. Maybe should call the original owner Mr. X.
It is fairly obvious to me that Mr. G. had permission to “advertise” the proto. I personally believe that selling the cart was always “their” intention.
Are you keeping detailed documentation of how you are doing these changes? It might be extremely beneficial to future hackers if they have access to this information.
I don’t want to be the person that suggests that a collector shouldn’t collect, but have you considered a Flashboy+? For $100 USD (includes shipping) you would be able to enjoy everything you lost, and gain experiences from homebrew, demos, hacks, translations, etc.
If everyone involved were OK with it, I would suggest that a few full reproduction sets (box, manual, cart) are put on eBay and the funds from those auctions is put towards the FaceBall project. I might be a really nice way to give back to the community while also providing a nice Homebrew cart for a lucky VB fan.
Of course, the auction description would need to make note of the situation. Namely that it is a Homebrew, not a long lost game, and that all proceeds are going to fund further VB reproduction development.
Finding ROM dumps would be great. A chance to experience something lost and forgotten. But asking someone to recode that experience for us just seem to me like a waste of efforts. Instead, I would rather entice these talented coders to concentrate on original content. The Virtual Boy has so much untapped potential and compared to other systems it has so very few completed homebrew projects. So wouldn’t asking for new games and applications outweigh the experience of a shot-in-the-dark remake of an unreleased game?
I often like to compare the Virtual Boy to the Vectrex when discussing homebrew development. Currently, the Vectrex has more completed homebrew games released for it than official games. There is no reason the Virtual Boy can’t be the same way. All it takes is a dedicated few to tackle the easy (tic-tac-toe, matching, puzzle) to the much more challenging (Virtual Boy Zelda, Virtual Boy Doom, etc).
i am not an expert on the design and i would hate to speak for richard. i see it as a limitation on the type of technology used, and perhaps a reason of cost.
compared to pretty much every system i enjoy homebrew on, the virtual boy has very few completed projects. please do not ask to have this thread removed. this project should be completed and released for everyone to enjoy. consider working on it and then holding off on a release until the faceball carts have gone on sale. this compromise would seem to appeal to everyone.
i love my vb and i would hate to see great homebrew project go unreleased.
space pinball is the prototype for galactic pinball. its really fun. the tables are different than the retail release. i haven’t played mine for awhile, i recall some things like the highscore was never coded.
I was under the impression that Faceball was never completed. That the version being played and photographed did not have the last bit coded, and that there was no ending. Is this incorrect?
Ben and Eric, it was really nice of you guys to do this. Thanks for being so selfless. There are a lot of games still in private hands that we may never get to play. Thankfully, this is no longer one of them.
In regards to the price… It seems that the VB reproduction carts have been priced higher than reproduction carts for other systems. I assume the price is to offset the cost of printing boxes and labels. I hope that future “homebrew” releases (ie: blox) are priced more affordably. Contrary to some comments, $100 is a lot for some people.
For a community with such a small amount of completed Homebrew releases and a scene so small that we can count the number of those involved quickly, it would be nice to see differences set aside and for this game to be completed.
