Easy enough. Get the google translate app on your phone. Open the app and click on the camera icon in the app. Hold it up to the flyer image on your PC/laptop and you’ll have an instant translation. Worked really well for me, tho I only did the first page.

Good timing. I’m just starting to sell off my collection. Just sold VBowl, but I have original Gundam and VLab. Message me directly. Thx.

Got one! Thanks to MrFlower for doing this, and to Super Bros. for the notice.

[pinmagic]

I’m in for one. Thx!

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Hey, I must be a dinosaur. Email thru PlanetVB doesn’t work (cause I’m on a mac?). Chat doesn’t work. I don’t know how to use Instagram (tho I think I have an account there), and I can’t figure out Discord to save my life. Please write to me at pinmagic@msn.com. Email is something I know how to do! Thx.

Neil

I tried to send you a PM, but the system wouldn’t let me. I might be willing to part with my Virtual Bowling. I can check the condition tomorrow, but it should be as close to mint as you can get. Where are you located? I’m in Delaware.

I used to have those – got them from ToysRUs when they stopped carrying VB. I sold them long ago. Maybe that’s my set!

I wrote to them and did get a response that I’ll be added to the wait list. But Nintendo is pretty aggressive about their IP, so I’d be surprised if these games do get released. Still, hope springs eternal.

Just as an aside, as an original collector of VB since ’95, I find it amusing that you say you got a “good deal on a sealed copy of Virtual League Baseball.” I can recall when you could buy a case of those on ebay for next-to-nothing, cause it was such an unpopular game on an unpopular system. I toyed with buying a bunch at the time to stockpile them, but didn’t. Story of my life!

[pinmagic]

Don’t think the ones at customgamecases.com are it.

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I hope not, cause if someone does know, I suspect I’ll be spending a lot of money on those! 😉

Now, THIS is an old topic! I think I had actually done this previously, but I can’t find the files. My scanner isn’t very good anyway, so I’d like to do it professionally. I know some places won’t do it, because the stuff is copyright (tho that’s probably expired by now). But I’ll check around this week to see who can do it. If I find a print shop that can scan it, they should be able to produce it in one piece, so no photoshop needed. I’ll let you know.

Looks nice, but seems to be much shorter than the original. Why is that?

I did write to RetroOnyx (thru the contact form on his site) a few days ago,. I asked if he had considered offering a package deal for 2 Virtual WarZones, since it works with the link cable. I also mentioned that I want a CIB, but I’d be pretty disappointed if I ordered that and the cart-only shipped ahead of it. Thus far, no response, but I know he’s a one-man shop, and this is holiday time.

You likely paid $19.95 on clearance at Toys-R-Us. All games there were on clearance for $9.95 each, I believe, with just Waterworld and Jack Bros. at either $12.95 or $14.95 – can’t recall for sure.

[pinmagic]

Are you talking about the US or Japanese version of Mario’s Tennis? The US version was never sold in a box, because it was the pack-in title when you bought the system. Nintendo did print a limited number of Mario’s Tennis boxes (without any inserts), but they were strictly for store display purposes at places like GameStop. So if your friend got a “CIB” US Mario’s Tennis, it’s because someone got a demo box, and put a cart in it. As for a baggie around the cart, I believe that every US (and Japanese) game came from the factory that way.

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That’s some very cool stuff! What is the Game Boy cart?

Maybe 15 years ago, there was a claim by someone that they knew the publisher of a gaming magazine who had received a copy of DH in exchange for putting some other Nintendo game on the cover of his mag one month. A few of us got together and pursued that lead – we asked the middleman to talk to the publisher about it. We told him that, given that the game was supposedly on a proto board, it should be copied onto something more stable to preserve it. The offer was made to send him the equipment to make a copy, and let him keep the copy. The priority was just preserving it with no commitment to share it. The response from the middleman was that the owner of the game wasn’t interested.

Frankly, I got the impression that the middleman was full of crap – there was no DH. But who knows?

I saw an article about this a few weeks ago. Looks good, but I will bet anything that it fails big-time. I would be surprised if they even issue another cart. This type of thing is just too obscure to survive.

Can anyone explain to me why PCBs have those windows on them? Is there a reason they were designed to be so vulnerable to light?