Just stumbled across this thread. If you do make any more of these, I would be interested in a pair to replace a botched set of ribbon cables I recently removed from the lenses.

That’s exactly what I was going to do. Thanks again! It works great.

I was watching and was flipping out. It was in-box with the stand, controller, Mario’s Tennis, and the AC adapter. They talked about how it was short-lived and how it was the first “3D video game console”. The guy asked for $200 for it, but they offered him $80 and he took the deal. They probably looked up what it was worth before they saw it because $80 is near the going price.

They showed some of the graphics from the console, and it obviously had the lens issue, but I guess it wasn’t so bad that it wasn’t worth buying.

At the end of the episode, they had the old man play Mario’s Tennis, and he actually thought it was kind of cool.

Now that I’ve described the whole part of that to you ( 😛 ), you can see it right here at 3:00 in: http://www.history.com/shows/pawn-stars/videos/pawn-stars-darth-pawn#pawn-stars-darth-pawn

Also, go to the end to watch where the old man plays with it.

That eBay seller has no idea what he’s talking about. The standard Famicom power supply outputs 10V at 850 mAh. The Genesis outputs 9V at something like 1300 mAh. It’s actually LESS voltage meaning, if anything, the Genesis power supply is less harmful for the system than the actual PSU (assuming the Famicom works).

The VB uses 6 AA batteries, right? That means ideally, it uses nine volts of electricity (1.5*6). I am 95% sure that you won’t run into any issues using the Genny PSU with your Virtual Boy.

IIRC, the Super Famicom can use the same power supply as the model 1 Genesis, so assuming that this power bridge uses the SF power supply, then the Genesis power brick would work fine. Additionally, this means that the SNES adapter will not work because it uses a different connector.

Let’s worry about actually getting the 3DS in hand and able to run homebrew first before we start thinking about a VB emulator.

Indeed, it is a very cool prospect, however.

Excellent! Glad to hear it worked out for you.

I have 10/14 US games complete plus V-Tetris. The ones I have left are Waterworld, Jack Bros., Nester’s Funky Bowling, and 3D Tetris. These all cost an arm and a leg, so I don’t expect to get them any time soon 🙁

I believe you need the 4.5mm gamebit. I was actually able to order a long gamebit from eBay that gets down into the deep holes in the Virtual Boy. These are them, I believe: http://cgi.ebay.com/4-5-MM-3-8-MM-NINTENDO-SEGA-SECURITY-GAMEBIT-TOOLS-/170523099971?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27b3f80343#ht_2334wt_1141

Don’t expect to use these more than a few times though. They’re made out of a cheap metal, and they wear out the bit only after maybe 6 times of screwing and unscrewing anything. If you plan on opening your VB more than a few times, replace the screws with phillips heads so that you can get them out easily the next time.

I’ve sent a couple emails to Johnny over the last few months with no response. He also hasn’t logged in to this site since September. He must too busy to do the work right now. It’s a shame, he’s missing out on some monies 😐

Yikes! I didn’t mean I baked the whole Virtual Boy, just the eye pieces! ~_~

It’s a shame theforce81 lives in the Netherlands (I’m in the US), otherwise, I might have had him do them. In fact, I might still be desperate enough to ask him. Thanks 🙂

I sent him an email, but it looks like he hasn’t done any repairs on them in about a year, and hasn’t logged in on here since September. Is he the only one?