mellott124 « Users « Planet Virtual Boy

Jan 30, 2021 • 05:17

mellott124 • Topic: Alternative HyperFlash32 eInk labels

I didn’t think the Virtual Fall ROM was available?

Jan 25, 2021 • 21:04

mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

Hi Everyone,

It was really impressive to see what people came up with given the display limitations. It was tough to decide and I know everyone put in a lot of work into these. One did bubble to the top for me.

Congrats to Mirai604 for the WarioLand labels. I’m declaring him the winner of the b/w/r contest. I’m specifically showing the N3 label below, which I liked the most and had a great blend of the colors, game theme, and a strong 3D perspective. I also really enjoyed the VB loading screen aspect. The badge included was also a clever addition. It really feels like it was made for a production b/w/r HF32 cart.

So congrats to Mirari604!

In other news, the eInk manufacturer may have some exciting news on b/w/r labels…
I should hopefully find out this week. I’ll keep it a secret for now. 🙂

Thanks,
Kevin

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Jan 25, 2021 • 06:12

mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

OK, he’s the last of the updates for the contest. Nice job everyone! I think everyone showed that yes you can make some good labels given the limitations of a tri-color eInk screen. I’ll post the winner tomorrow. Thanks!

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Jan 23, 2021 • 22:06

mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

OK, here are some of the Red Menace labels. I picked the ones I thought looked the best.
The Teleroboxer ones look really clean on the b/w/r display.

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Jan 23, 2021 • 07:40

mellott124 • Topic: PVB Community Research Project for Anthropology Class

Sure, I’ll do it.

Jan 23, 2021 • 07:36

mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

Some more Fwow13 labels. Looking good!

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Jan 23, 2021 • 07:33

mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

Very nice!

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Jan 20, 2021 • 20:12

mellott124 • Topic: VB extension cable

I still make them.

Jan 18, 2021 • 05:56

mellott124 • Topic: VB mini Raspberry Pi

OK, great. Likely going to pull the trigger on a new 3D printer tomorrow that can do a variety of materials in different colors.

Jan 16, 2021 • 06:26

mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

Here’s Mirai604 images converted. They’re all good but nd3 is really good. Love it.

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Jan 14, 2021 • 03:58

mellott124 • Topic: homebrew connector strip

Here’s that COTS connector in a shell to help position it correctly. It’s working and I’m playing Bound High on one of my 16Mbit PCBs. Next steps are to try to see if I can get it to work with a regular VB case. Some bonding/gluing that needs to be figured out, as well as some revisions on the frame to add a back cover. I could build my own carts right now with this. I may want to spin the PCBs to use the memory that is in place on HF32 to give the case some more thickness over the chip. I’ll keep playing.

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Jan 14, 2021 • 03:52

mellott124 • Topic: Carbon Fiber VB Game Cases

My 3D printed cases are coming out much cleaner now.

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Jan 11, 2021 • 08:29

mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

Fwow13 labels. The red looks beautiful!

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Jan 11, 2021 • 00:22

mellott124 • Topic: Black/White/Red eInk HF32 Contest

I guess we could just to make sure the black/white/red are there correctly. It would be those three colors stacked on the far right instead of the 4 shades we had previously.

Jan 09, 2021 • 23:36

mellott124 • Topic: VB mini Raspberry Pi

Thinking about picking this project back up. 2 versions. Maybe 3.

1) Just a simple Raspberry Pi case that people can use just because its cool. VB mini case. People can buy just the case.

2) A Pi case setup with Retro Pi as a VB console emulator. VB mini case. I assemble it all. I guess really just an assembled setup version of #1.

3) And then a case for console people who want to use a VB motherboard and Virtual Tap. VB mini case. I could ship with assembled or not.

Maybe with those 3 options I can justify doing this project and getting a printer to do so. I also got permission to use the VB mini case on Thingiverse from the original author. That design is more of a clone of the VB than my version. But it has some design work to make it actually work. It’s actually not useable directly from Thingiverse, I learned.

Jan 08, 2021 • 09:58

mellott124 • Topic: The Noteworthy Auction Thread™

These are up on Mercari Japan. VB game flyers. Not sure if they’re authentic or not but they claim 1995.

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Jan 05, 2021 • 06:10

mellott124 • Topic: Questions about a flashcart

That’s the idea. It’s just a lot more development work on multiple fronts so I keep pushing it back to work on other things. But feels like 2021 is the year.

I actually have a designed PCB but I never built it. But given HF32 work, I want to go back to the drawing board and change some things.

Jan 05, 2021 • 00:57

mellott124 • Topic: VB: Legend of Zelda

I believe there’s a new effort on Zelda for VB. Someone playing around in the background. I cannot find the info though. They’re on Discord.

Jan 05, 2021 • 00:56

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash 32 default label set (e-ink screen)

Mumphy, I imagine you like this when you’re working on eInk labels. Amazing.