While the newest SP with the brighter back-lit screen is what I enjoy playing on, The GameBoy Light was pretty cool in it’s day. I grew up in the days that you often needed a crappy 3rd party light just to be able to see the screen on car rides, etc. I Still don’t know what Nintendo was thinking when they released the GBC and first GBA without a lit screen since side-lit tech was relatively inexpensive.
Jeez, my posted Vertical Force scores were all earned on a VB with a glitchy eye! Sometimes it was impossible to play unless I only had one eye open, and other times I needed both eyes open during the glitchy mess. It was tough, but my purpose was just to rank with the listed PVB scores. I’ll try for 1st place once I get my glitchy eyepiece repaired! 🙂
Mind you, all my vertical force Highscores have a screenshot. According to such, I have the first place in easy and hard mode with a pic, and second place in normal with a pic. 🙂
Just finished a complete boxed US collection myself also including the 2 loose “Not for resale” Red Alarm and Wario demo carts. Now I just need those pesky “Big 4” JPN games, and InsMouse/spaceSquash to complete the library, until I buy all the JPN doubles of US games I own to get a 100% collection (+the sample JPN games).
TheForce81 wrote:
Yes, I agree, though maybe in the past of the existence of this website there was not a good option of submitting screenshots of highscores?
As this website is KRE155’s property, we of course cannot tell you what to do Krisse 🙂 but we can suggest, can’t we?
It would be best to scrap all non screenshot submissions in my opinion, now that there is a very good way (if this ever was the reason of course) to submit screenshots.
I have many highscores for many games that are better than ones posted on websites. I can’t prove it, and if I cared to I could have taken a photo or a video.
Shoulda’ coulda’ woulda’, eh?
Badges or not, I think all non-proof highscores are undeserving of *any* recognition at all. I’m not saying that all non-proof submissions are lies, but if there’s no proof they’re surely not important enough to the gamer to deserve recognition.
I had some great VB fishing catches before I deleted my save data, Oh well, I say. I’ll do better next time if it means enough to me.
Hey, I got 999,999,999 in vertical force once… I didn’t care to take a pic, but it’s true!!111 :-p
KR155E wrote:
I don’t want to exclude any game on highscores, but I need to understand what’s to going on in the game to add highscore tables for it… There’s so many stats in the game that it’s not so easy to determine which highscore tables need to be created for the game. 😀 Any help would be appreciated!
I suppose I’ll have to play through the entire game so I can translate all fish names/species to english, unless you wish to list them in their original Japanese text to avoid confusion since non-Japanese speaking members will still only be familiar with the japanese text/characters that represents each fish name anyway.
サ-モン = Salmon
Maybe most folks won’t know that, but they will know the high score they have listed for “サ-モン”. 😉
First off, there’s basic tournament mode. when you win a tournament, you can see your max length of all combined caught fish (combined length is how you win), and also it lists the largest fish caught during said winning tournament session (not how you win, but nice info in case it’s larger than the largest said species you’ve caught in free-play.)
I don’t really think largest individual catch in tourney-mode should matter in highscore ranking, since it doesn’t matter at all for winning the tourney.
You can decide on this one, KR155E.
Free Play mode: In this area you have unlimited time to just fish as much as you like. From the title screen, you can check your largest catch of any species caught during freeplay. As you play more areas, more fish are unlocked and available in the freeplay area (You CAN catch unlocked fish, but they appear much less often). Since the timing to set the hook for each fish species is different, this is the most versatile fishing mode. For example, since you wouldn’t know if you had a Black Bass or a Salmon biting at your hook, you have to go with the flow and attempt to set the hook at your discretion, often losing the fish. So, the more fish you unlock, the harder free-play gets.
It has come to my attention that there are 18 fish slots available in the largest catch ranking, so I guess there are a whole 18 different types of fish to catch in this game.
Time Attack mode*
I haven’t played this much yet, I’ll report back on it in the next day or so. I believe you can only play time-attack for the 6 basic fishing areas, thus only for the main 6 different fish species available at the start of the game. ???
akumie wrote:
I think its lame if people want to pay over $1000 for a unreleased game or protoype
Release all the games clitched or not including sourcecode and maybe for once we can see some full 100% working 16/32 bit vb homebrew games
Like when someone released the 4 rare vb games, I did not care if some strange person lost thousands of dollors because I think when the vb has so few games (including homebrew) people should release anything they have so atleast more people want to play the vb, join this community and make more homebrew games
I’m sure people would gladly want to share all the games with the community, but…
If you’re so gung ho about the next prototype getting released, then please buy the next one that pops on eBay or Yahoo Auctions, spend thousands of your dollars, and release the ROM to the community for free.
If you’re not willing to do this, maybe you could understand why others don’t wish to either. The second a ROM is dumped and released from a one-of-a-kind prototype cart, the actual prototype cart will no longer demand the same kind of price that it went for before the dump.
To put it bluntly, the owner of an unreleased prototype would be shafted if they didn’t get monetary compensation that comes close to their initial financial investment. This isn’t a charity, it’s a hobby. Not trying to flame you or anything, just hoping to put such situations into perspective for you.
I’m still very new to the scene, but I just wanted to chime in with my 2 cents.
I have been a long term video game enthusiast, and I love prototype carts. Prototypes are the dream that keep one going, just that hope that something else is out there and will hopefully surface one day. Heck, I’m always thrilled to get a prototype of a released game to have in my collection.
The drama comes in when an unreleased game surfaces, obviously. The person with the original game I think should dump it for the owner’s personal archives no matter what, just to insure that if something were to happen to said game that it wouldn’t be lost forever. The choice to share the game is a nice gesture, but it does literally “devalue” the demand for the original cart/source.
In the Atari 2600 scene, people usually sell preorders for a limited release on physical carts, to make up for the initial investment put into buying said prototype. Once the pre-order is sold out, enthusiasts can have their physical re-release cart, the owner can rest easy knowing that he/she got his original cart essentially for free, and the less than enthusiast public will inevitably have their freebie ROM image.
Unfortunately for the VB scene, VB Flashcarts / Socketed Eprom carts aren’t exactly cheap to buy, or super easy to make. Until someone manufactures a batch of clone PCBs from the Nintendo Dev carts (along with the inconvenient task of getting VB connector pinouts as well), it will be tough to come up with a wise way for people to release these unreleased games.
There are only 3 ways to handle unreleased prototypes
1. Keep it for yourself (and dump it exclusively for your own archive recommended)
2. Re-release it on physical carts and make your expensive financial investment back.
3. Dump it, release it, and make your Multi-thousand dollar investment worth considerably less. There will always be a demand for said original cart, but I doubt in the thousands anymore.
I wasn’t aware that the Bound High ROM image didn’t come from a cart dump, but one thing for certain is that the second the ROM was given to somebody that started selling the ROM to the public on eBay/Craigslist, the cat got out of the bag.
