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Thanks, JackieX. I know some people don’t like what you did with Zero Racers in particular because it’s AI and I definitely have major issues with AI, coming from a creative background, but I think it looks pretty nice. I printed it up and slapped it on a box for my collection.

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You didn’t miss anything, he just only lists one of each color at a time. They’re definitely still available.

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Tusk’s still around, he has an Etsy shop! He sent me some old stock VB boxes and manuals earlier this year when I asked about pairing boxes with the four games in my retail collection that are repros (the four most expensive JP exclusives) but he had very little stock left and when I mentioned that I hoped someone was going to work on physical product, he basically said “yeah, that would be nice.” Didn’t realize it was going to end up being me making the manual, lol–since I became a parent I end up with about one creative project in me every few years.

He did send me one of the old Dragon Hopper boxes as a surprise, so that was very nice to see when it showed up.

If anyone’s curious, I posted WIP versions of the the first five pages of the manual on the #general channel on Discord. I’m making progress, but slowly (as I guess I keep saying)! I’m using Wario Land’s manual as a template. I have about 300 screenshots from NSO with textual details, spell icons, etc., so I’ll be poring through those as I do about a page a night (or a page every two nights) over the next couple of months. I do want to have a few illustrations in the manual but there’s literally ZERO art out there aside from Mike Tagaki’s cover art and unofficial art, so once I get to the “content complete” phase I may commission my wife or someone else to do the illustrations (or I’ll do them myself.) They’ll be based on the in-game character portraits, which this game is great for.

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I’m working on the manual! It’s slow-going, but I’m a few pages in. It’s going to be a bit on the longer side owing to story, characters, dragon forms, spells, bosses, stages, bonus stages, etc. I have about 300 screenshots from my NSO playthrough to sort through and just a ton of image editing to do—hard to do right now when my oldest kid is always home until school starts again in a month.

I don’t think Uncle Tusk is going to be doing anything for this release, based on conversations with him earlier this year.

Yes, they’re dumped! They’ve been dumped since last night. I can confirm they work fine on a Mr Cart and I’ve heard “around town” they work on the other flash carts too.

I finished Dragon Hopper today! An excellent game with enough depth to encourage multiple playthroughs, fantastic music, and easily the longest game to 100% on the system. My total playtime was 3:22 and collection rate was 81%.

Good news, D-Hopper haters: the game is referred to as Dragon Hopper in the ROM. Nobody need be exposed to the obscene alt title Nintendo came up with for marketing to get around that legal issue with the gambling machine of the same name.

(Also, the game is *really* good.)

Now available worldwide! (And dumped.)

The games are available now on the Japanese app! Dragon Hopper is called Dragon Hopper in the game, and there’s a language option as well — English or Japanese! Sadly they did not mock up a box for Zero Racers so I guess that’s up to someone here. I can write copy for manuals if someone wants to start working on that project—former games media and entertainment industry marketing guy, so this would be a fun project for me, even if a lot of the copy would come directly from the game.

Hit me up at mikebrns15@yahoo.com if you’re someone who wants to work on manuals and are looking for a writer!

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Anyone else planning to play around with these on the Japanese app ahead of the app updates in other regions, or are we all waiting patiently for the local updates? I’m in Oregon and the Japanese app should update around 6pm tonight for me.

Based on past updates, I’m unclear on whether the North American app will be updated at 9am or 6pm PST tomorrow. I don’t necessarily want to play Dragon Hopper in Japanese for the first time, but also… 30 years is a long time to wait! I’m clearing my work schedule for tomorrow, though (and thankful my kids are in summer care this week.)

Is anyone working on manual designs for these games (and a box for Zero Racers)? I’ve got a box for Dragon Hopper waiting patiently for a cart and manual. 🙂

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Thanks for the reply! As it turns out, after a good amount of canvassing, I was able to locate the rest of the series, as well as 95% of everything else that ever went up on the channel. I’ve been in touch with the creator of the channel a bit, and while he isn’t ready for any of his content to go back online, it seems like he’s interested in having My Retro Life show up on the web again at some point. And now that he has the backups, fingers crossed that’s in the not-too-distant future 🙂

bigmak, thanks so much for your hard work. When will there be details on the physical carts being given away? I’ll be happy to make a donation at the end of the month, but am hoping beyond hope to get a physical cart (I even wrote a letter to Nintendo Power once, as a 12 year old VB enthusiast, begging them to make Faceball for Virtual Boy.) Suffice to say, I’ve been waiting a long time for this.

Awesome! Buying a copy for sure.

Hello, I would like a copy of Bound High as well – please count me in for one when you get more carts! I can pay immediately.