Dammit, SO wish I had a flashboy! Can’t wait till they’re available again so I can try this!

This is sad to hear for sure. I hope it doesn’t take long to get back on your feet, Ben.

That’s not good, hope you get out soon!

I always had a thing for Super Mario RPG. That game is just so awesome.

This is crap. The Virtual Boy games were on there because the guy hates the console. Coincidence the only two Mario games on the Virtual Boy are on the list? What about Mario teaches typing? Mario’s missing? Mario Picross? Way less enjoyable games then either of the two VB ones.

If Mario Clash is on the list, so should Mario Bros. It’s the same game mechanic.

Mario’s Tennis is a solid tennis game, I can’t think of any other one at that time of its release that was as fun as Mario’s Tennis.

sw201444 wrote:
My MacBook is in for the summer, so I am using the windows ‘top. I hate the camera..:(

Change your camera settings

sw201444 wrote:
Who’s Benjamin?

An avid Virtual Boy collector(to put it mildly). He’s well known here.

DreamTR wrote (later that conversation):

I keep confusing you with Neil as the guy that I know that has Dragon Hopper wants to hold onto it like it’s his first born but he doesn’t do anything with it. One day it will pop up from someone else like the Neo Geo Ironclad did and no one has to worry about it anymore, LOL, but at the very least Bound High is out there for most people….

Just received mine today, I have to say, amazing job! I felt like I was buying a brand new game from the store. I would recommend these Repro CIB sets to anyone!

UncleTusker wrote:

I love your rock formations!

Thanks man! Those are my smaller ones, thought they’d spruce up the retro gaming collection.

The VB has some great tracks spread throughout the game library. It has a capable audio chip in there for sure. Keeping in mind all these games are first gen games, imagine what developers would have produced a couple years in!

Well, thanks guys, I think I have a full on addiction now!
So here’s the pics of my current collection. One vertical force is for my Flashboy donor cart when they’re available again. Also note my wicked awesome stand riser to get it to a more comfortable height. And ignore the midst of house renovation…

On the way:
Bound High CIB
Mario Clash CIB
Wario Land CIB
Nester’s Funky Bowling CIB

Considering I’ve only had this thing a month…I think I have a problem.

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Warioland NFR starts at 60 bucks Buy it now 100 bucks. No idea how much these go for but seems not to bad for a NFR to me.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Wario-Land-NFR-Not-For-Resale-Version-Virtual-Boy-EXTREMELY-RARE-/290948683654?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item43bde49786&_uhb=1

Edit: And another at $43

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Nintendo-Virtual-Boy-3D-VB-Wario-Land-SUPER-RARE-DEMO-WarioLand-/261246042961?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3cd37a4351&_uhb=1

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
The key to achieving limitlessly high scores in Galactic Pinball is: “Play it slow and safe.”

Whenever the puck goes near one of your flippers, you want to try to “catch” the puck with the flipper instead of quickly hitting the puck away, meaning you raise and hold the flipper and allow the puck to come to a complete rest on the upheld flipper. Then, when you let go of the flipper button and let the flipper fall back down, the puck will begin to roll slowly down the flipper, allowing you high precision with your next shot. Basically, when you play a table, you want to take note of where the puck goes in each case when you shoot the puck off from a particular location on the flipper, after having allowed the puck to come to a complete rest on the upheld flipper. Then, you want to make sure that you keep track of which spots on the flipper are the “safe spots,” meaning if you let the puck slowly roll down the flipper and then shoot the puck away when it reaches the “safe spot” on the flipper, you will be sending the puck to a place on the table where you will rack up points and the puck is also guaranteed to return to one of your flippers safely after you have gotten your points.

For instance, let’s say you find out that on a certain pinball table, if you “catch” the puck with the lower right flipper and then let the puck slowly roll down three-fourths of the length of the flipper and then shoot out the puck with the flipper when it reaches the three-fourths distance point on the flipper, it will always enter a bonus hall where you will get points and then the puck will return to one of your flippers where you can catch it once more and even get it safely resting on your lower right flipper again in a short time, you could choose to use this method alone to rack up an endless amount of points over the course of a long period of playing time. The only thing you really have to worry about with this strategy is the timing of shooting out the puck when it reaches the three-fourths distance point on the flipper. If your timing is good each time, you know exactly what is going to happen after you send the puck flying, because the thing with Galactic Pinball is, due to the limited graphical capabilities of the Virtual Boy, there is actually a fairly limited number of places along a flipper that the puck can occupy at any given moment. The flipper might have 30 or so places on it, maybe even less, which the puck can ever occupy, and if you shoot out the puck when it is occupying one of these 30 or so places after having let the puck come to a complete rest on your upheld flipper, it will always do the exact same thing for that particular place on the flipper. Thus, all you have to do is memorize each pixel on a flipper that is a “safe spot,” and when the frontmost part of the puck is in position right over this pixel, you can shoot the puck away and know exactly what will happen each and every time that you do this, whereby you can then get the puck safely resting on your flipper again and repeat the process over and over again.

So, as a general strategy, you first have to play test each table in Galactic Pinball and learn how to safely catch the puck with each of the flippers. Then, you have to try shooting out the puck from each of the spots along the flippers and determine which spots are “safe spots” for each flipper and which spots will result in your puck ending up in one of the side lanes or going down the middle and draining off the table. Then, once you learn this, which might only take an hour or so, always try to catch the puck with a flipper and only shoot the puck away when it is over one of your “safe spots,” and the best thing to do is to constantly use the “safe spots” that get you the most amount of points in the shortest amount of time, which will allow you to rack up those points and blow away your previous high scores with ease.

To be honest, this strategy has worked for me on the three tables: “Cosmic,” “Colony,” and “Alien,” but I have not yet been able to find reliable “safe spots” along the flippers in the “UFO” table, which is why I still have not posted a high score on Planet Virtual Boy for that table, since my current high score for that table is admittedly embarrassing.

Dude, thanks! I was wondering how you guys on the top scores got those insane scores.

Yes, as you already noted, “Virtual Battle Ball” was later named “Virtual Dodge Ball.” Only 2 screenshots of this game are made available online, as far as I know, and they come from Famitsu Magazine Issue 353 (Sep. 22, 1995 Issue):

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/articles/?s020292006

No way, I didn’t know there were screenshots of that game. I just assumed they all made it onto this websites game library. Looks like I’ll be looking through the famitsu scans some more!

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
…Thus, since “Chiki” isn’t used in the English language at all but “Chitty” is, and in the case of the song, it is used as an onomatopoeia to describe the sound that the car makes, I concluded that if the title “Chiki Chiki Labo” had been retained and translated into English, it would have likely appeared as “Chitty Chitty Lab.” It certainly does sound like a strange title to me, so I’m glad they went with “Virtual Lab.”

I think it’s “Chiki” in Japanese because there’s no way in their alphabet to say “ti.” Instead in the “T’s” table of their alphabet is “Chi”. So there’s “Ta” “Chi” “Tu” “Te” and “To.” So, when they have to pronounce a word like “Chitty”, instead of saying “Chichi” which wouldn’t sound like the onomatopoeia, they replace it with the next closest sounding, “ki”

Nikochan battle is the same as Faceball.

Virtual battle ball however…not sure what that is.

Thanks for translating Benjamin!

I think that’s what the Video Boy is for. Unforunately they’re quite rare. Otherwise I think someone is working on an attachment for your virtual boy that will require you to open up your system. So there’s no real easy way as far as I know.

Robert Molander wrote:
Yes.

Finally 🙂

And verry low price

Nice snag!

Well what do you know. Great minds think alike. Not saying that I’m a great mind or anything, but you understand.

Heheh, I get what you mean. It has to turn up..it just has to.

morintari wrote:
Dude, I keep on thinking of the movie “Field of Dreams”. If you build it they will come. Call me crazy but…I can’t help but to wonder somehow in the universe if this is just the first step to getting the Rom.

Dude..I was thinking the same thing last night. I even got down the details of repro carts available by themselves for the people that already bought the box =P

We can dream, can’t we?

[speedyink]

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:Well, it said it was a race game, right? maybe it’s a joke on “rat race”.

As for “tat”, I know that’s British slang for “rubbish, junk” but I doubt that’s what they were referring to.

Yes, it does say it’s a race game. A play on ‘Rat Race’ would make sense..Perhaps you controlled rats that ran through mazes to see who could find the cheese fastest =P

Interesting…”Strange Animal School” is listed as a 3d Shooting game(??), Just like Out of the Deathmount above it

speedyink wrote:
Wangan Sensen Red City says it’s a shooting game in these scans, but on here it says it’s a war simulation. Judging from the other games this publisher was making probably an airplane dogfight game.

Actually looking closer it doesn’t list it as a dogfighting game like the other game on the list. It’s some type of shooting game anyway

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