Yes, Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays, Joyous Snowflake Day, Happy Festivus, and other other generic holiday wishes. As we all know, “Specificity be the enemy of unity :)”

*Waits for someone to get the reference*

But seriously, hope you all have a great end to 2017. As mentioned, this has been a tremendous year for the Virtual Boy. So much awesomeness happened and I’m so glad we have this community full of great people. Without it, our wonderful little system wouldn’t be half as great.

Here’s to another great year!

The sound they put out is incredible for just TV speakers, huh?? I can’t believe you got it for $20 and he delivered it. I had to pay $50 and pick it up like 15km away. He had the original box even, but I didn’t take it, it was way to big for me to store. He did throw in a CIB Sony D-EJ1000 discman though which I thought was pretty cool, looks barely used.
I don’t mind the fact mines widescreen, I mean it is kind of a waste of space when playing 4:3 games/movies, but I also have 16:9 games and movies, so it’s kind of 6 one half a dozen the other. Plus I’m usually too busy eye humping the amazing picture this thing makes out of even a composite cable.

As for the light guns, I heard they just don’t work with HD CRTs. They run at 100Hz rather than the traditional 60Hz. I still have an older TV as a backup for light gun games, but I really don’t play much light gun games.

Hey, that TV looks pretty darn familiar! I have almost the exact same one. My SNES, N64, PS2, and Laserdisc TV 🙂

Yeah, it’s super weak. I’ve never had it get in the way for me though, I guess I own all the games that have saves. Luckily I don’t think any of the games with save backups are that expensive to buy.

UHATEIT wrote:
I was kind of hoping that the flashboy which implements a save function would actually give it one haha. Ah well.

Question if any of you know, but with a flashboy+ if you save a game or get a high score and then reflesh a different game, but then flash the first game back again does it save the scores or is it erased when a new game is flashed? Sorry that’s off topic but I asked that in the Flashboy section and never heard back.

I’m pretty sure the answer to your question is no. Once you reflash a new game the save is gone.

At least the high scores on this site can somewhat fill that gap

That’s funny, I bought the Q Bert “Arcade classic” for my husband, since he likes Q Bert. They’re pretty nice looking actually, while I kept the box mine sits outside of it. They make it pretty easy to put them back in anyway.

Ironically I think I have more VB games than N64 games =P

I always thought the Gamecube controller was inspired by the VB controller. They’re both very comfortable and the same sorta style. Also, check out Faceball 😉

I enjoyed it too, thanks for sharing.

I also just noticed, there’s a little stack of VB games behind the guy talking about the VB conversion.

Everyone is in the same room, so that may just be the producer of the videos, but I thought it was a coincidence :p

Welcome to the forum! I enjoyed the story, somewhat reminiscent to my past, whenever I wanted to experience games other than super mario I relied on my friends. Somehow I totally missed the Virtual Boy until like a few years after it was discontinued. Even then I gave up the opportunity to get a N64 instead, since I knew way more about it and all my friends already had one.

Really cool you got one for Christmas, I’m sure you’ll thoroughly enjoy it 🙂

astro187 wrote:
Lol! I’m not sure what form that would take but I know there are some creative folks on this site! If anyone asks, you can tell them it’s for all the headaches you supposedly get from playing so much VB. I swear, I feel like that had got to the the most widespread video game psychosomatic thing ever. I have played countless hours of VB and never once got a headache. Maybe we are the weird ones though 😀

I already have one which has Super Mario mushrooms built into it, the VB one would probably be a color scheme mostly =P

And I hear ya, I’ve played so much VB and never experienced headaches. I think the same people who get headaches on the VB are the same people who get headaches on the new VR head sets as well. Some people’s brains just can’t handle the stereoscopic display I guess..

And I will definitely show pics if I do get one retronintendonerd!

Hmm, good idea, I need to get in touch with a glass blower..

Huh, that is interesting. Definitely looks like a torx head or similar, so it must be for security so they could “lock” a VB to its stand. Since they were that concerned about it I wonder if they used cartridge locks too, similar to the ones included with kiosks. I mean, you’d think the cartridges would be way easier to swipe, you can’t exactly pocket a VB head unit..

Very cool to see indeed 🙂

Wow indeed. That’s quite the collection.

Yeah I wouldn’t pay new pricing for a used one. $90 or a little less.

thunderstruck wrote:
Someone who is able to build and flash his own cart will most likely also be able to dump existing ones. The insane HF prices on ebay are actually a result of it’s rarity as there is no other way to play it. I’m pretty sure the prices would drop if the ROM was released.

There are so many people having the rom I’m surprised it has not been leaked yet.

Ahh yes that makes sense.

I’m surprised it hasn’t leaked either! I mean I can see why, it was definitely frowned upon when discussing its release. I know I wouldn’t want to be “that guy”

^^^ What she said ^^^

Also I think it’s to help stop the more sketchy VB cartridge makers in making their own and trying to capitalize the VB market. There’s a few out there selling games made by homebrewers here and they’re not even asking the makers or giving credit where its due.

I bet going to the museum was a fun experience though!
This is definitely not a situation I ever would have guessed would ever happen, especially living in a place most of my friends call the middle of nowhere. It’s a funny world sometimes.