I thought the age limit Nintendo made for the 3DS was 7 years and older, which should be the same as the Virtual Boy (etc.)
It’s just to do with the development of eyes, no child under 7 should use any 3D based system extensively, as it could lead to less than stellar eyesight.
Interesting to say that about something you yourself made. Why not say something more along the lines of “I’m the only one making this repro cart”. The way he says it makes it sound like it’s a well known VB collectors item.
I like both versions. It’s best to just play them on a flash cart to try the differences, but here’s the basics:
Prototype:
Easier
Only some levels included
Japanese title screen
Controls a little less refined
Some enemies included
Remastered:
Harder
New levels created to fill in missing levels
Title screen now english
Slightly revamped controls to match modern games.
Missing enemies are now used
That’s a decent price for cart only, and also the choice to try the auction is very nice. Good find!
I agree it sucks how pricing can get ludicrous for certain items, I mean just look at Virtual Bowling and other similar ones. As stated though, it’s the classic supply vs demand effect. It’s just how it works, nothing anybody can do about it. At least it makes finding those good deals feel so rewarding, so it’s not all bad I guess =P
But yeah, I’m not proud of the price I’ve paid for a couple of my gaming items…
Reel Big Fish wrote:
Ah you know what you are right. I was forgetting that to emulate requires much much more processing power than the original. The VB has a better processor than the NES and one similar in strength to the SNES, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is good enough to emulate those consoles….
The VB processor is actually more powerful than the SNES’. The SNES CPU was effectively clocked at 3.58mhz.
But yes, I could see NES maybe being possible, but it would require a similar type of coding skill that it took to make the GB emulator. In other words, it won’t be a simple task.
Nitrosoxide wrote:
Can it save your game in the gameboy games?
It’s suppose to but I’m getting hit or miss results with it.
He did release one update, but honestly I’m not sure there’s a whole lot else he can do.
While I think it would be cool to play all those systems on the VB, I’m not sure how technically possible it is. I can’t believe even the Gameboy worked. The VB only has a ~20mhz CPU. If you tried to emulate a Gameboy on any PC with a CPU about that powerful it would be a complete slideshow. I know, because I tried on a 386 quite a few years ago =P
You need a lot of CPU power to emulate another piece of hardware. There’s a reason you need a CPU in the hundreds of mhz to emulate a SNES decently. Nintendo couldn’t make the Super Nintendo emulate the Gameboy, it simply wasn’t powerful enough. That is why the Super Gameboy contained all the necessary Gameboy hardware inside the cartridge.
Like I said, I can’t believe the GB emulator for the VB is even technically possible. It must have taken some serious technical wizardry!
