Looking good. Thanks for doing this!

I can get parts to build 5 more if people are interested. Send me a PM.
After that there are no more VB motherboard connectors available.

I’ve gotten my last two jobs like this. One I worked for 7 years and the second one I’m still at for almost 10 years now. It shows passion outside of work. You can also talk in depth about it. Most job interviews are so boring that it at least changes things up and shows you have a drive beyond just collecting a check.

Maybe I’ve been using the wrong padder this whole time. I have one thats called Pad_VB.exe and it won’t pad up to 256Mbit on my machine. Says padding size is too large.

I was using Python the pad the files before burning them.

Thank you sir!!!

OK, maybe one more print. REV7 parts going out for a test print.

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Thanks Thunderstruck!

It’s two t’s. Mellott. 🙂

Updates made and another test print order just went out.

All the parts have come in to build and test this. Just minus the case. If all works out well then I’ll start on the case design.

First test prints. The one that looks like a VB USB controller adapter is fine. Its not too surprising since I’ve done that before. The other end needs some tweaks. Going to adjust and do another test print.

In general the centers are printing quite nicely.

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RunnerPack wrote:

mellott124 wrote:
The Onyx prints I do are FDM just like for the link cable parts.

Oh, I just assumed they were done on some kind of fancy SLS printer. I looked up Onyx, and it’s a nylon filament with bits of carbon fiber mixed in.

Have you tested any of your parts designed for Onyx in regular ABS or PLA, to see if they still function properly? I’m mostly concerned about little locking tabs and things not being flexible enough, or the pins being too hard to insert.

I have a little piece of black nylon I bought as a test, but I haven’t installed my all-metal hot-end, yet, so I can’t try it out. Some of these would be a good use for it, if I have enough.

The reason for the onyx is the strength of the thinner pieces of the parts. You can try regular abs prints but may not come out strong enough. Covers would be fine.

I did try SLS. Finer features but not as good as Onyx. Also did SLA. Spent lots of time and money up front on link cable parts testing.

Some excess material in a channel was causing the slight gap in the assembled unit in the picture above. Fixed now.

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Now that the VB USB adapter parts came out successfully, I’ll have these new cable extension parts printed and tested. Picture of REV4 below.

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It came out pretty nice. Fits nice and snug too.
Its carbon fiber FDM so very strong.

Model also attached.

Here’s the d-sub male pins used:

I trim the crimp end a bit on the d-sub pins. Be careful after trimming them as they can be razor sharp and cut you. They insert very tightly into the 3D printed connector as designed. Then bond the back with an epoxy to help them stay in place.

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Yes solder cup. I’ll post a part number after it’s tested. First prints are on their way.

The Onyx prints I do are FDM just like for the link cable parts.

astro187 wrote:
Here is another question about this setup: could 2 player games be supported? I have only played Hyper Fighting 2player so I don’t have many data points. . It seems like if both players see the same screen for the game it might be more easily doable, but if each player has a different view split screen would be required which I would imagine is more difficult to emulate?. Just spitballing thoughts since I don’t know the technical details of all of this.

Don’t know of any emulator that implements linkport functionality. I have notes somewhere of someone building a new emulator and specifically adding linkport support but haven’t heard any updates in about a year.

This will allow SNES to VB adapters to be made fairly easily as well.

VirtualChris wrote:
Insecticide was my first Virtual Boy game. Since the creation of much of the code that is in the game that is about 10 years old, I have learned a whole bunch of stuff since then that I want to create now a good game in Chris’s Casino. While it is true that it took 10 years of hard work to make Insecticide, it was just basically a game whose sole purpose was to get my feet wet into Virtual Boy programming. But since it took 10 years, I wanted to have it released. I guess this was something I shouldn’t have wanted. I guess I should have asked for one boxed copy just for myself to have. Oh well. Lesson learned. I will still be working on Chris’s Casino.

I’m impressed you finished it. Keep going. Can’t wait to see your Casino game CIB and any future games!

RunnerPack wrote:
1. What are you using for contacts?
2. Will the models ever be downloadable?
3. Would you sell (parts for) individual connectors?

VB controller pins are d-sub pins. Yes I’m going to post all the design files. Not really interested in building 100 extension cables myself. Yes I could sell 3D printed parts if people want them. They’ll be cheaper if bulk buys are made. I’d probably do it once right at the beginning and then after that people can get them themselves.

And now the connector model. Once I’ve tested it and built some, I’ll post the model. Then the entire VB controller USB adapter can be built from new parts.

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