I believe you are being a little too careful, but I also don’t know your soldering tools or your soldering experience.
Logically if you use a little bit of solder on each pin, you should be able to clean up the inconsistencies and then leave your soldering iron on the pad log enough to insert the cable, since the Virtual Tap is a “through-hole” PCB. Then you can solder the other side.
You can also, find a way to hold the PCB (clamp, etc.), so you have both hands free and on the front of the PCB heat up the pad and insert a way from the otherside to open the closed holes up if you don’t have any desoldering tools.
You can also try a de-soldering braid or de-soldering iron, if you can pick one up locally.
I’m from the USA, but I guess I’m a little confused on your issue. The only thing that needs soldered is the VGA, SCART port to the card and the SPST button.
With respect, let’s not turn VB into the NES scene. People who care know what’s “official” and what’s not. If you see the need you can do something with a paper certificate, but grading and plastic packages is what helped turn the NES and the SNES into a chaotic, cash-heavy, egoistic mess. PlanetVB and VB in general is still full of good people with their heads on straight.
no it didn’t make its money back. The guy who commissioned it, didn’t get a cut, if I’m not mistaken. Ben put down the cash, then a lot of us paid $80-100 bucks for the release, none of which went out to him. Now, I’d be cool if the release promoted for those other games to come out using the same engine (Mortal Kombat, etc.)
I’m sad for the loss of the information on those boards, yes I know some functionality is there. However, I am also not saddened by the increase in stupidity it helped develop for the game collecting or game playing community. It supported many things like their graded support system whatever it was called, it helped to increase the cost of games, and became really topic, especially those who were developing and purchasing old IP Nintendo games. Again, I will miss a lot of my posts for NES translation PCB hacks.
Many of us have the rom, but we were asked very nicely not to share it, if I recall. So, this isn’t a legendary thread, it’s kind of a dick move. Especially creating a sudo account just to post it.
I did something similar to mine when doing my snes controller mod. I’d recommend just buying a unit only one and replace the board. The method listed below is a bitch.
And that sir is why I have multiple emails and use the various passwords for every account and don’t use the same for my real accounts. But yes, the www redirect url was listed in the dump, but that list is like 6-8 years old.
My favorite part is everyone who comes to the site just for the Marketplace within their first 5 posts, provides a “nice” comment and then asks for Jack Bros for a reasonable price. Because you know everyone here has a Jack Bros in their collection and another one to share for a reasonable price.
It’s a community, discuss a little with everyone before jumping into the marketplace.
Yes, that makes sense with the large volume of homebrews we have lol. Just messing, but yea there’s not that many to justify doing that, but I get your mindset.
Planlos1988 wrote:
I think we have to made an petition to intelligent systems and write a hand wirte personal letter from all active PlanetVB users and all VB lovers we can reach on the world and ask for it if they still have the only VB Cartrige from dragon hopper.. and if so, if they whabt to sell it to the Planet VB forum.
Then we all pay together for the game, and the forum admin that also pay for the sever of this forum and keept it allive over the years become the game..
Then we can dump it for all other users..
And also we all can se the holy grale of the virtual boy 🙂
Um… The oven trick does work. I have two non-soldered VBs to prove it. So, I wouldn’t flat out say that. I would not do the oven trick unless you’ve done your research though. And yes you already did the solder method, which means you probably didn’t do it right, I’m sorry to say. Typically it’s oven trick first, then solder. Or solder first by someone on here.
