I bought Space Squash and Red Alarm in Japan about 2 weeks ago. Space Squash was 2000 yen(15 euro) and Red Alarm was 1000 yen.

Great games, especially Red Alarm.

You don’t need a converter. I just use a AC adapter.

I bought those games for about 500 yen each in Japan. That was a bit more than 3 euro at the time. Mario Clash was 1500 yen, about 10 euro.

So it isn’t a great deal.

[Murfo]

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So yeah, ofcourse you shouldn’t download these roms. Besides being illegal, the source is very VERY old and have been protected for many years. Agreements were made, deals were done etc. Oh and not to mention they are not yours.

Lets take a step back and look at some very important points.
There is a world of unreleased “items” for the Virtual Boy. They exist and you will now almost certainly not come to know their name let alone ever play them. Ever.

The VB inner circle is very tight, the people who are in it already know who leaked these and why. Now anything that is held even by 1 person will be held even tighter.

Haha, the VB has been dead for 13 years and in all those time, the people with their ‘world of unreleased items’ never released them anyway. Nobody dumped those for 13 years and they still never gave info about these games. So it’s not like anything changed after they got dumped.

The VB ‘scene’ is really sad if it’s like what you say. A tight inner circle with people not willing to share anything. It could’ve been a bigger, active and open community, with everybody sharing their experiences and making sure others would also be able to enjoy their console in every possible way. But instead of enjoying the console the way it was meant to be, it’s all a big quest for the rarest items. It’s like those World of Warcraft geeks. Ohhh look I’m level xx and got this ultrarare item! While everybody in the real world really doesn’t care.

Well, those unreleased games are probably not that good anyway(like almost all VB games), so I couldn’t care less. I hope those people in the inner circle enjoy their crappy $600 unreleased/unfinished VB games that nobody knows of and nobody really cares about.

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I’m from Holland.

They’re banning shrooms because one dumbass French tourist girl jumped off a bridge 🙁

Cannabis won’t make any difference. You could compare that to playing it while drunk.

Shrooms/LSD might be interesting though. I ate some shrooms a few times and it was amazing. Never played on my Virtual Boy though. I did play Unreal Tournament once. It didn’t change much, although it was much moodyer. The problem was I couldn’t remember anything I did (where am I, where are the other bots), so I was just shooting at anything that moved 😉 ). Graphics were great though 😛 . So the Virtual Boy must be interesting to play while using some hallucinative drugs.

Need to buy shrooms though, they’re only legal here until 1 december 🙁 .

Never used LSD.

That’s because they’re less rare. Ikaruga will set you back $100-$200 and that game was released only a few years ago. I won’t be suprised if that game will set you back $1000+ in another few years. Not because it’s worth that much money (although it’s considered a classic already), but just because there will be undoubtly a person willing to spend a lot of money on the only copy available on ebay.

Besides that, it’s all depending on how much people are looking for a particular at a particular time. If you got two people bidding against eachother for Space Invaders on the Virtual Boy, the paid price could be very high, but if there’s only one guy bidding at ebay, he’ll probably get it for a lot less.
I saw that game in Tokyo a few months ago when I bought my VB. It was around 70-90 euro. Didn’t buy it though.

The Virtual Boy doesn’t have a large installed base, so all prices are based on a few fanatics. They’re just based on the price the last copy went for. Value = rarity * crazy people willing to spend a lot of money.
There are no stable prices, because there isn’t a real market.

Dumped games won’t change a thing. Selfish gamers who cry about their ultra-rare games being dumped: grow up.

they just don’t want people to play games they paid hundreds of dollars for. That’s all it is.

Prices wont drop when games are dumped. Just look at the Dreamcast, a lot of the rare games are +$100, while you could easily download them. You don’t even have to chip the DC to play backups.
Rare games are simply interesting for collectors. A lot of those people even keep those games sealed and play a backup version. In this case, the owners of those rare games benefit from the dumped versions, because they’re sure their $xxx game won’t get damaged.

The reason a lot of owners don’t want the dumps to be released is simple. They want to be unique and play games that only a few on this earth would ever be able to play. More a show-off type of thing. They don’t want to share their experiences.

The prices of the cartridges will stay the same.