And that’s some good graphics too now that I think about it… If that is an indication of the graphical quality of your next game, I am intrigued indeed!
People is just me on this one… And I didn’t even call him greedy, I just said that it felt a little greedy to me. But if he really spent 5 figures on this (which I didn’t know until after) I can’t blame him at all. The one I would call greedy however is the original owner of the ROM/cartridge/code or whatever.
Whenever the rom does get released, I’ll make a review of it.
Well first of all I think it’s great that you’ve gotten your hands on Faceball, one of the lost Virtual Boy games!
Second, I feel bad for you that you had to give up most of your VB collection to get it…
Third, I think reselling it for 100 dollars a piece seems a little greedy… But on the other hand of course you want to recoup your own losses.. I think if it was me I would release it for free then ask for donations or something, but I guess I still understand your side.
Fourth, I won’t buy it myself because it’s expensive and I’ve played Faceball 2000 on Super Nintendo and it sucked, it’s probably going to suck on Virtual Boy too.
Now Dragon Hopper is another story, if that turned up I think I would pay 100, 150 dollars to get ahold of that…
So now my final thoughts are, will Faceball ever be released as a rom? After you made your money back? And, why wasn’t Bound High sold this way at first? Maybe that didn’t cost as much to get, I don’t know.
This is it, my final Virtual Boy video. First I give out awards in different categories to VB games, then list all of them in one big Top 23 Virtuay Boy games. Hooray for Virtual Boy =)
At the end is some of your “why I like the virtual boy” speeches, I didn’t put all of them in there though, to keep the length of the video down. And enjoyment up.
akumie wrote:
I am a bit confused since I always though that ChuChu Rocket and Channel Sweeper where both vb homebrew games
If not then I need to change my video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ordTjzfduDk LOL
I use a DV camera and put it right up to the VB and film it. With the shutter speed at 1/50 the picture is good, only problem is that line that goes through the picture every now and then, but at any other speed the screen goes black instead so it’s a small price to pay. All of the homebrew games were played on a Flashboy, except VUE Snake, in which case took screenshots from an emulator.
Nice that you liked the video, and thanks for commenting.
Some afterthoughts:
1.
I forgot to film footage for VUE Snake, as you saw, so I grabbed some screens via Red Dragon, I finally found out the key to grab a screen was “P”, probably for Print…
I really do like the Double Mode, it’s awesome and really clever use of the Virtual Boy’s dual D-pads.
2.
I forgot to write a part in the script for Super Bounce! I filmed it, but forgot up until after I was done with the video that I hadn’t featured it. Here’s my thoughts: The graphical glitches are pretty severe at times but the basic game is enjoyable. But that sound effect of weeee-oooo when going up and down gets annoying fast, makes me turn off the sound. And levels would be nice rather than an infinite stage.
But as usual it’s in progress so it’s cool. I like the concept, so keep at it.
3.
I didn’t rank the games in the video, but here are the ones
that are my favorites to play, in no particular order.
Castle of Doom, GameHero, Mario Kart Virtual Cup and VUE Snake.
Blox, Blox 2 and Soviet Union 2011 are really solid, but the genres are not for me personally.
The games with most potential are Capitan Sevilla, Mario VB and VB Racing.
Remember, only my opinions!
Thanks again and there’s one more video to go, a summary of the Virtual Boy and it’s games, where I’ll also rank all the official games in order, and give out “awards” to them in different categories. Don’t expect it very soon though, my next most immediate project is playing through Megaman 1-6 and making videos about that 🙂
Ok so I’m on vacation right now and my girlfriend just left me so I’ve been distracted, but I plan to finish the homebrew video this weekend, for trulies. I got fed up with Adobe Premiere rendering previews for 10 minutes just to play AUDIO, so I said fuck it and I’m now going to edit it at work, in Avid. It’ll be interesting. Anyway I’m back home this friday so I’ll work on it this weekend.
Not sure if anyone cares(until a link is presented), but there it is.
Here’s my story:
I learnt of the Virtual Boy’s existence in the mid-2000s. I got really interesting the VB because it was Nintendo’s only mistake, only failure. I grew up on NES and Gameboy and I never knew they made a console/handheld that failed. Additionally the red/black headset of the VB always looked very cool, and I still think that. Virtual Reality was kind of a dream for anyone who grew up in the 90s, and the idea of looking into this thing and entering another world was really enticing. I finally ordered one off Ebay in 2007, and got Red Alarm, V-Tetris, Teleroboxer, Golf and Wario Land with it. I had seen screenshots of some games, so I knew somewhat what to expect, but I thought the image of the game would cover my entire field of vision, like I would have to look way out to see the edges of the screen, like I would look into a room in reality. Finding out that you just look at a ‘screen’ right in front of you was a small dissappoinment at first, but still I liked the games right off the bat. Wario Land, V-Tetris and Red Alarm most of all. I liked putting my head into the VB and it still did feel like entering another world… I took it to school the next day and it made a bit of a splash there too, most people were quite intrigued even if some said they got dizzy. One guy in class even used it to do a report on 😛
I sold this Virtual Boy before I moved to another town, because I feared it would break in the move anyway (I underestimated it’s durability, still do I think). After a while at the new place, I bought another one, and this time tracked down some more games. Due to financial troubles I sold that one too after 6 months or so, but I kept the games at first, of which I had 12. Later on I had to sell the games too =/.
Then 2 years ago I bought my third one, and this time I ‘swore’ to keep it. I was itching to play Wario Land again, and had since last time learned of the Flashboy. I found one on ebay after losing the first bidding war, and it was really, really exciting to play the rest of the library. I was most exicted to play Insmouse no Yakata since I thought a FPS was a dream fit for VB. I found it to be more of a slow survival horror game, but after a short while I appreciated it for what it was, and enjoyed that.
I played VB a lot for a while, managed to beat Jack Bros, Red Alarm(with cheats..), Panic Bomber and Wario Land. With Wario Land I had a loong session playing the final boss, I was really lucky my batteries didn’t wear out! I got really really frustrated, to the point that I thought it was impossible, it was then I continued to play it just to demonstrate to myself the depth of it’s impossibleness.. then I got better at it, once I got some distance so to speak, and did finally beat him! Unfortunately I had used 6 continues, so no good ending for me 😛
I then started making reviews of VB games, because I thought they deserve to be viewed in a reasonable light, not just “it’s a Virtual Boy game, hurts your eyes and sux becuz red and black”. As you know.
My VB now has the line-issue, but I will get help from TheForce81 one of these days!
I hope for the future to yield many more nice homebrew games and for more unreleased games of the past to crawl out from under stones and greedy beta-cart-owners, because that would be awesome, if they’re half as good as Bound High!
