Morintari wrote:
mellott124:
since this cable has to hook up to a computer could we have 6 ft of cable?

It’s a 6′ cable now. Extensions should work too.

Got mine today too. Looks great. The other boxes also look great. Thanks!

OK, finally got back to this. Got the board up and running and I’m switching back and forth between player 1 (master) and player 2 (slave) modes via a terminal program on the PC. Streaming data to/from a VB running DogP link cable test code on a Flashboy+, and my PC. Still some kinks to work out but getting closer to putting two VBs on the network to see what the games do.

There’s two LEDs on the board. One of them glows red or blue depending on whether you’re player 1 or player 2. The other LED pulses amber if a byte is coming from the VB to the board, or it pulses green if a byte is being sent from the board to the VB. Those will stick through the connector housing to give you an idea of what’s going on with the USB link cable.

I’ll need to spin the board to make some assembly updates and fix a connector flip (doh!).

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MortoffGames wrote:
Levine91 contacted me over at Atari Age to discuss if I could have the cartridge shells re-made. Its something I am pretty familiar with and should be able to accomplish. I will keep you all informed about my progress. Won’t be until likely January that they would be done.

Great news! We really need it, especially with new games on the way.

MineStorm wrote:
I think we need to have a word with this guy –

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/269536-vectrex-clear-cartridges/#entry3839450

He’s done this stuff before and he has contacts in China.

I did contact a few of the Nintendo sites that have molded cases. Got a few responses that VB interest wasn’t high enough to make them want to do it. Are you going to contact this guy?

Lester Knight wrote:
this will have to be the future of this community. we can not use donors forever. i really like these and would like to try a few with my 1-off carts if they ever become available.

If anyone in the group has a Formlabs form2 printer, or access to one, that would help quite a bit. I need to check that I have permission to post the cart design files. Then anyone could have them printed. But like I mentioned $8 is the material cost. A vendor will add profit to that and then add labor and machine costs.

I had cart printed with dust cover and the VB connector and it was just under $100. We need access to a machine that we can use for free and just pay material costs. Then it might be worth it.

Not carbon fiber but Formlabs Tough Resin SLA. All the features come out and it looks quite good. Came out a bit flexible which I read is not correct and due to them over curing or washing the resin. Going to try to get another print done but this is the best I’ve seen in 3D print cases so far. Color is fixed in blue unfortunately. These would be too expensive to have a company print but if you have a Formlabs printer then its only $8 in material for the top and bottom case covers.

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Wow. Great work guys.

Here’s an interesting one. Reprogrammable Bound High cart.

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/332403603473

Levine91 wrote:

mellott124 wrote:
Updated the second one now.

That looks fantastic!!

I noticed the link you had for the replacement tripod mount is no longer available. Is there any alternatives you recommend or possibly another link for the same item?

Thanks!

Interesting. Maybe he stopped making them?

Here is his eBay email: chuppe_ir6158pafx@members.ebay.com

Updated the second one now.

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Levine91 wrote:
Here is Google Drive I created, dumped every Virtual Boy DS Case Art I have in here… if the person(s) who created these roam these boards, I apologize as I can’t recall where I originally got these from.

It’s a mixture of English, Japanese, & Homebrew releases. The pictures are set to scale, so you should be able to just print them and they will property fit into a DS container.

If I am missing any DS case arts or if anyone has any alternatives to share, would love to have them! I’ve seen a template before as well but the only one I could ever find was very low-res so I didn’t bother getting it.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B37BZDVB61sIODBzbFpwX1h4Vzg?usp=sharing

Wow. Really nice. That has to be the most complete set I’ve ever seen. It’s a pain to go hunt them down from every site. Thanks!

Nice. Picked up a few. Any chance of manuals for the current box onlys in the near future?

S7AYONTARGE7 wrote:
I have over 10 years of professional graphic design experience, along with some sprite/background pixel artwork experience for this very platform on a never released VB game.

Willing to help anyway I can, be it for in-game graphics or for things like box or manual layout design.

Thanks.

Which VB game?

S7AYONTARGE7 wrote:
Ok… I’ll be the idiot and ask:

Do you need two copies of the game to play 2 player, or is it like the DS multiplayer games were only one person needed a cart?

Thanks, and beautiful work as always!

2 copies of game are needed. One for each VB.

Knightcrawler wrote:
You are awesome, Mellott. …So will there be no more link cables through you? I never got a PM in response to my wanting one.

Yes I’m continuing to make them. I don’t recall a PM from you but it’s possible I missed it. Please resend.

I currently have parts to build 1 or 2 more. I’ll reorder parts if more people are interested.

You’d probably need to do some test runs. Really depends on feature size. SLA can print pretty fine features and some of the resins are probably perfect for a plastic gear. I’ve been meaning to try the Formlabs tough resin or something similar.

FDM with Onyx may not print the feature size you need. But could possibly. You can’t really trust the resolution numbers they give like 75um for FDM Markforged Onyx printers or any other printer I’ve seen. There are limitations but gears are the types of things they’re supposed to do well.

I use 3D Hubs to test materials with different print technologies. It’s come a long way.

Got mine the other day. Looks fantastic! Thanks!

thunderstruck wrote:

mellott124 wrote:
I also have a 128Mbit PCB cart which can allow an additional 128Mbit for expansion space (no game currently uses this). It has a 8k x 8 nvSRAM. It will be updated sometime in the future for a 256k x 16 nvSRAM. This is intended for large Homebrew titles. This cart is also reprogrammable.

Sounds like I could fit allot of Snatcher on such a cart. Cool stuff.

If you want to put Snatcher on that cart, I’ll send you a free dev kit when it’s ready.

All link cables orders have been built!

That’s 71 cables containing 568 hand stuffed pins, 426 connector parts, 426 wires soldered, 71 sections of heat shrink, 142 red zip ties, half bottle of Loctite 401, 7 containers of DP100 epoxy with mixing nozzles, and 18 syringes with dispensing needles. Whew!

All cables have been shipped with exception of 6 that are awaiting more info. 9 free cables went out to developers, with a few developers paying despite the free offer.

Thanks everyone. That was certainly more interest and initial units then I was expecting. Cables were shipped all over the world. It was way worth it to see the excitement and hear about the things to come.

Thanks again to everyone who ordered a cable.