I’m curious for those of us without deep pockets to get into oculous, has anyone attempted to convert this (or would it already work) on a non-3D android device. There isn’t much going on good in the world of VB emulation it appears these days.

No I’d say that seems to me that is a rental store one. Some I’ve seen for as far back as the NES got that detailed and with that kind of uniform font. Usually they were affixed into those plastic rental cases, as an included sheet or whatever. It more throws me having the frayed one side like it was torn out.

Yeah I’ve tried on occasion using my iphone8plus and it works, but it’s anything but sharp.

See for yourself.

That was after quite a few attempts to not be downright blurry. I do have a nikon digital camera I could try on a monopod as it’s kind of frisky on its own without being stabilized like that but I doubt it would improve.

Attachments:

1. 

   hyperfightingvb-scaled.jpg
   

If it’s ebay, unless it was listed as for parts and repair only AND they didn’t mislead you on why it is listed as such, ebay basically screws sellers and forces returns despite what it says.

So it’s kind of up to you if that’s where it came from if you want to fix it or forget it.

It’s fun, but dangerous to the wallet if you’re really serious about the JP library unless you’re loaded and just don’t care. Perhaps a bit less ambitious would be to start polishing off the US library. I got started at the very end of January this year and as of now I’ve got a few aftermarket pieces, but better yet I’m one short of the US library and just been waffling on buying the game (and no, it’s not Jack, I have it.)

It’s fun, and not too bad going after the US library depending the depth of the rabbit hole you’re chasing. But Japan, I hope you have thousands lying around as those last 4 games to come out for it get insane.

Ebay is a bit all over when it comes to the complete unit but not so wide as you put it. A broken bare headpiece is like $50 plus or minus a little bit. A complete unit though as it came from the box (vb, stand, eye shade/clip, tennis, battery box) those aren’t hard to value when unfixed but a fairly easy to peg value would be $150~ because a solder fixed unit would double the value as they can and will sell at $300.

Yet you have a few games, bundling cuts value but not grossly as VB is a small library and desired with smaller numbers to go around. I would think if you just said $200-225 someone would snap it up and just fix it themselves or send it off if they intended to keep it, for resale, nope but for keeps yes.

Virtual Tap is an outlier, how about finding good ways for someone to make a clean picture not using expensive mods. 😀 I’ve tried using cameras of a couple types before, didn’t work out all that well in most cases. I’d have to kill any light source around, then pick one eye piece and try and get a workable angle. Often you’d get a glow and a little blur, but on a rare time it worked it was pretty sharp. I had tried to take some pictures of Hyper Fighting a few months back for someone and got mixed results (and a few other games before that one too.)

pcmantinker wrote:
I purchased my first Virtual Boy which seemed to be defective so I ordered another one. It turns out that the first one was not defective, but likely just had cartridge slot oxidation which was preventing it from booting up. I tested my original console today and was pleasantly surprised to see it working again. My second unit has had the ribbon cables soldered on. Both units work great now!

Good job. Your story sounds familiar. Where did you end up getting your solder fixed unit? I know I’ve read something similar before on one site or another kind of recently.

I’d think if it’s only fixing 1/2 the speakers, then you have a cold/bad solder connection to the spot where that speaker is. Is, is the problem, is could be the ports, the trace between ports, solder at any junction. I’d work your way from A to B to C along the line and figure it out.

I’ve noticed that too, the site here has some strange holes as far as some downloads or even just general images, basic stats, and other reviews or statement pieces go especially with homebrew and prototypes too.

I was wanting to see like for instance what Hyper Fighting had about a week ago and it’s a ghost town.

Well I’m not sure if you were sourcing ebay for those parts, but they do come up cheaper. Problem is there’s this one disgusting piece of garbage on there that strips down units and charges exceedingly high prices per part just to stick it to repair people (lost$$found is the ebay name.)

The audio board if itself is fine but the wheel and the phones jack are fubar, you could just try and pop them off, do a thorough cleaning, and if that fails with fresh solder, see if you have a busted trace to bridge, or find another (not necessarily VB exactly) style wheel and phones jack and put them in as replacements. The left or right speakers on those are detachable with its own plugged in little cable and easily removed, again ebay would be best to just watch for a non-clown seller.

Given the few parts, broken units do turn up and they’ll sell for at/under $50 shipped (USD at least) and given what the audio wheel, audio jack, speaker and your bandaid fixed bits cost you could just gut the parts and get it going again with clean OEM pieces.

Well maybe mellott could help out somehow? He’s the one that seemingly has designed all these interesting toys the VB had intended for it like the link cable, and also new modern VB PCB boards for the various prototype copies, hyper fighting, and the others around. Maybe you could get a deal on some boards and what else is needed to do such a thing.

I don’t have deep pockets, but even I’ve found creative or accidentally creative ways to get some pretty big items for the VB from the blockbuser case to jack bros and even hyper fighting too. If the price isn’t prohibitive and the game looks like it would be fun to me I’d be on board.

In another decade and place I used to both be in the game industry at first with technical standards testing and development ideas then later media mainly for reviews. A lot has come across my hands over the years then and since so I kind of get a decent feel for what is and isn’t good at least in general. 🙂

It would be equally fascinating if not about mind blowing if there was some working code that somehow just appeared in the wild as well. Sure it’s yakuman, but hey mahjong is pretty fun and beggars can’t be choosers when it comes to lost titles or anything new popping up on the system that works.

I forgot to mention since that last post of mine in mid-April I sold my flashboy off.

I’ll be in for this when it becomes a reality. A great person designing what appears to finally be a great kit for the little 3D device that could before its time.

Nin wrote:
The game is still in development. I am sorry for not updating everyone sooner.

I forgot about this one too, thanks for letting us know it isn’t dead. If you ever do get this finished I’d like to grab a copy to play on my system. The new stuff slowly creeping out over the last few years from some competent designers (like hyper fighting for example) are so few and far between it’s like real VB development is happening again. 😀

Yeah where’s the restocks on these things? I’d be game for at least the Nikuchan Battle prototype either bare or remastered.

As to the others, honestly, the Japanese stuff I’d rather just get the mellot kit for that use later, but any protos that would have US retailed in time I’d snap up to complete the soft ‘what if…’ set. 😀

That may have to be the way to go, but that particular seller you linked I think as a matter of principle or a lesson should never be bought from in the VB community. The guy is a notable price troll who jacks up rates, tears up systems to sell each individual part for a high fee too. If you need to find the part, find another seller. 🙂

I think what was once a honeyhole for the non-Japanese to score great stuff has been ruined by the blowback effect of the predatory nature of the reseller market in the US. It got bad and high so fast it drove people to seek alternatives, one being Japanese games for cheaper versions. It didn’t take too long for them to figure out people were importing a lot out for cheap to then realize there was money in matching online values and that did it in.

I only got back into this system in the end of the first month of this year and found out about this a bit later. I have to say I’m thoroughly impressed about what it can handle. I see it has not been updated in a few years, so I’m assuming it’s dead? Was the source ever made public if someone wanted to take a crack at checking off more bugs or seeing if maybe further optimization could be done to remedy some speed issues?

Also I saw that later injectors also were to pad for flashboy, but what about with mellott’s tool coming later this year as that would be no longer necessary.

Well maybe this is more complicated than necessary, but do we know if the VB follows the same design concept of previous Nintendo hardware to date (1995?)

The NES, SNES and even Gameboy used memory mappers and other extended chipsets to expand beyond the capabilities of each piece of hardware. The NES with its MMCs etc, Gameboy with MBC1-5, and SNES with DSP through SA1, FX1-2, SDD1, C4, etc chips.

Would it be possible to create a new board like mellott did for larger games such as that Hyper Fighting cart, where an expansion chip can go on it. Maybe something like a DSP that can handle more math, or even a SA1 analog to SNES where a VA1 is a faster co-processor) could handle the work in tandem? I know this is just a reach, but can the hardware take more than it was intended for through outside means? Or is it limited like the GBA to clever programming and little else?