[Tanooki]

thunderstruck wrote:

VmprHntrD wrote:
Love that last image with the screaming monster, seems useful.

Just really posting to say great job all around and on the final cobbling of all that into a working translated game. I forgot it had never been done, and it was like the last big one needed (I think) around Gundam, Fishing, and Space Squash. Virtaul Lab maybe? I’ve never attempted it.

Again thanks, and great job. I’ve got a flashboy so this should be fun to take a crack at as time allows.

I did remove the Japanese from Virtaul Lab, translated the remaining few things in Space Squash and did the complete translation for Fishing.

Always wanted to translate the title screen in Gundam. I think VTetris has some screens that can be translated as well.

That’s good to know. I’ll have to keep an eye out. I can’t get any padding tools to work for me either which is infuriating as I wanted to pad out this Mansion game, but then I just saw the link up there to the padded rom. I don’t have Virtual Lab translated/padded, but the other I do from that smokemonster package. As stuff comes out I’m adding the originals + padded to it just as he did.

EDIT: Nevermind, found Virtual Lab you did, thanks very much for that and all you do. You’ve really made owning a VB again even more worth it than it was years ago with treasures like these. Between these lost to us Japanese titles, Richard with the Flashboy Plus, and then those 3 prototype games expanding the library too things really are great.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Tanooki.

I’ve tried using all 3 and can’t get any of them to work that are on the site and it’s maddening.

The one in this thread spits up some garbage about missing files.

The other two if you do as it says and use the default (21) to get a 16mbit file (for flashboy sizes) it acts like it does, no error, but back to a prompt and no file.

I don’t see why this has to be complicated but it is. I’m just trying to pad out that file for the english translated Innsmouth Mansion and would like to get it going for other odd files from the demo world and so forth.

Jack Bros is a bare minimum of 300 for some months now, some going higher depending on dumbass behavior. I’ve been eyeing it out of curiosity.

I have a small xacto knife and I had used the FB itself with a light pencil as a stencil then went about just slowly cutting along but the material kept snagging. I had initially pierced it using the same blade as the case cutting as it’s a very very thin point to it. Either way, it’s ugly and useable so it’ll be fine for now and I could just leave it depending.

I’ve got 3 games now, another 3 in the mail shortly, but before them I’ve got 6 boxes+manuals arriving Saturday to games I mostly have yet to get and one is a double of a box (Mario Clash.) I won’t be storing them in there, bad idea due to the age, so that’s why these cases are appealing.

Well I don’t have a good hand at cutting foam or a pro tool to stencil and clean slice the thing. Mine is rough, hacked away at looking in spots and I didn’t dare make that thumb half circle up top but it fits snuggly enough. I had a spare red case so I just used a leatherman blade to slice fairly smoothly the DS clip out, and that hides well under the cover art I printed which comes off faded since I didn’t use high quality paper or print settings either.

I figured when the time was right I’d just get someone else to do it as I lack the proper supplies.

What you did there looks great and I just used the red as I had it, either would be fine.

I’ve attached a quick pic of the usable creation in all its ugliness.

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I had asked a couple weeks back, they are, but they aren’t either.

He’s having trouble sourcing donor carts to get the connectors needed so they’re not actively being done. I think you could mail in a donor and have it done but that’ll be added time and expense.

No doubt.

I’m in an interesting strange valley just being back into the VB. The Flashboy I felt needed the encasement to protect it given the investment into that.

But I have been thinking despite having boxes, currently more boxes than games I even have in my possession due to a lucky break I don’t want to really ruin the things.

I’m considering perhaps going the route of finding a set of red cases pre-made since I can’t do it well on my own having done it now and shelving the games as I would with 3DS titles not in use. VB is an odd duck with those little pins and tiny holes, really not optimal or probably possible to accurately clean them like a typical row of pins on a Nintendo cart from any decade.

I can’t do the work, but I know someone who does them as a cheap fix the current way ($10 an eye) right now. He has come across a few failed heating method fixes that wrecked the ribbons and left him with spare bits and pieces. This would be very welcome. I think in general they probably would be a wise investment as the old ribbons aren’t exactly real high gauge thick stuff like old IDE PC ribbon cables by any means.

Love that last image with the screaming monster, seems useful.

Just really posting to say great job all around and on the final cobbling of all that into a working translated game. I forgot it had never been done, and it was like the last big one needed (I think) around Gundam, Fishing, and Space Squash. Virtaul Lab maybe? I’ve never attempted it.

Again thanks, and great job. I’ve got a flashboy so this should be fun to take a crack at as time allows.

I know this is a bit of an older post, but thank you for that DS case art. I went ahead and carved up this one spare red DS case I had a bit ago and got some thin foam board and ghetto made a case for my flash boy plus with it. The cutting job isn’t pretty on any of it, but it printed out alright enough and what’s important is the thing is protected.

Thanks.

It couldn’t hurt to try, Console5 sells a cap kit for the VB that’s ready to go.

I want to say yes to this only because of the way the unit I have now looked before then after the solder fix.

I think it would be great if someone developed this. Isn’t that kind of what that locked up board section is on the site, here developmental based in some means (an engine to make games, or an emulator, or both, not clear on it.) It would be slick to see either classic Battlezone, or perhaps something like Gameboy’s “X” popped onto the system, if not both.

I think when you’re talking about that color drive, it’s kind of where the color just totally does like this pulled out bleed effect through some/much of the space, and this on top of those straight lines right?

That is a classic sign of the cruddy glue going south on the ribbon cable connecting to the board it should have been soldered to in the first place.

I got one within the last months worth of time, and one of the eyes originally was out (left) the first day, and right worked, the next day left would pop on but right was behaving like what you wrote there. I got a solder job done by a friend and it’s bright, poppy, and evenly lit for red on both sides like factory fresh.

Looks very nice, kind of wish you had broken it up some. I could use the games as I only have a few. Those loose ones would have been perfect, also still lacking a stand which sucks.

Good luck moving it all in a lump like that, sure someone will dive into it to save a big headache.

Thanks, that’s impressive however you found that old GBA prototype board, and interesting game glitches there too. Shame the switch for the older GB family wasn’t present.

I know this is a huge necro grab here, not sure if that’s frowned upon but didn’t want to re-run history.

I got a VB a week ago, it’s fixed now and going. Galactic Pinball was a game with it and all the scores are loaded in there I’d love to kill.

If I am reading this, I just get a AA battery and run the + of one end to the – of the other using like a couple pieces of wire to make the connection for just a matter of seconds and it jumps it back to default high scores?

And if that’s really it, could this be done with 3D-Tetris, Wario Land and the others?

mellott124 wrote:

VmprHntrD wrote:
See now if someone made an affordable adapter for another existing controller I’d be on board with that. It could be a bit weird but I do think you’re onto something with the SNES style jack except it’s 2 buttons short.

With the d-pad, B, A, L, R and Select with Start that adds up to 10. Maybe a wired Nintendo Wii Classic controller or as annoying as it could be a non-analog original Playstation Controller. The PS1 controller you use the face buttons for d-pad #2, top buttons would be your BALR. The Wii Pro Controller that’s wired also has the same array.

There are adapters for SNES controllers.

Oh really? That’s interesting given the buttons. I’ll have to look into that, not that I don’t feel the VB controller is anything but comfortable as it is. It could be nice for a homebrew item or something later as a 2P setup.

Not putting down the VB but was it really that insanely low? The system thanks to a mix of media hounding and then the perpetuated lie since that it causes migraines and blindness it has a rep. People either figured you’ll get hurt, or it sucks, perhaps both so it’s either ignored, still mocked, or forgotten. That could easily affect the price vs it being a cooler hip machine to poach rarities from.

Based though on actual scarcity value given how badly the system sold and got the plug pulled a bit earlier than deserved I would agree it’s low.

The one I got just days ago now came in a repurposed black hard plastic brief case with a thin foam pad on the bottom, upper part has a button in folder deal there with sections.

As it is, the system fits nicely in the bottom with the controller, battery box, and ac adapter kit too and the few boxes I got in there (system came with 3 games.)

I’m considering finding a piece of foam once I get a stand for it and just cutting it best I can so it doesn’t shift around and can stay in there to keep dust out of it when not in use.

Optionally may still keep most on there, but the system near my desk to see it on the stand at times too. I figure if the old owner kept it in this case for 10-20 years, it’s good enough to protect it for more with a little modification. And the nice thing is the loose carts would fit into that folder space that’s divided off into 3 horizontal spaces which likely held pens and stuff originally. The games do slide into it well.