Protoman85 wrote:
And now on GoNintendo toohttp://www.gonintendo.com/s/224109-random-time-mario-combat-a-homebrew-virtual-boy-game
I guess Mario Combat is the star of the competition.
It is just because it’s Mario and there is a video. There are better entries then mine.
jrronimo wrote:
That animalnewyork link seems to be the source of it all — they have a brief interview with thunderstruck, too. I think it’s really neat, even if the only think people remember about the VB is the headaches. I’ve never had one from it, but everyone’s different… haha.
The author contacted me through planetvb. He send some questions which I answered. I didn’t write anything about headaches or tearing eyes. That was his imagination.
i also have to respectfully disagree with thunderstruck’s comments. my VB is 100% comfortable to play.
Heh, every game I develop gives me major backpains. I think the main reason why it failed isn’t the red/black or headaches but that it is so complicated to play in comfortable position.Just my opinion though.
is this line even true? it reads like such an assumption: “His reasons are his own, but he certainly doesn’t seem embarrassed to be so enamored with such a universally disliked product.”
I don’t like putting my name on homebrews because in theory there would be legal implications with my working contract. Not that my company would care. Plenty of people here know my real name. It’s no secret. If you ask me I will tell you.
I told him that I would like not to have my name associated to my hobby. Not sure why he pointed it out so clearly. He seemed upset when I didn’t want my name on the article. I did tell him allot about how this community helps each other out and how great of a project Faceball was. Seems like that wasn’t interesting enough.
Also I don’t get why anybody should be embarrassed because he develops for/plays a disliked product. You must have a pretty low self-esteem for that.
He also said I am selling Faceball: Remastered. That is not true at all. It is sold by tusk. I told him very clear that I don’t make any money on it and that I only did the ROM-hack so that bigmak could recover from buying the prototype.
That said, it is pretty cool to see you own work popping up on kotaku.
SirGuntz wrote:
The VB console is too difficult to take apart for home users.
If you have the right screw driver the VB is very easy to open. Especially changing the lenses does only require a minimum effort. I meant to say that it would have been interesting if the VB would have come with exchangeable lenses by default though.
SirGuntz wrote:
Besides, even if the lenses were swappable, the LEDs were still red.
If I remember first grade art class correctly red LEDs with blue lenses would result in a pink image while red LEDs with green lenses would result in an yellow image.
