What have I missed?

They weren’t limited collectible releases..(maybe the faceball proto release).

But, the idea was not to make hundreds of say ..bound high, and in a few years not have the material to make more games without donor carts (I want to end up with more games then were released for the system eventually).

We want to be in this long term to help the coders and people that work on these games get a physical release they can hold or put in a frame and say…I did that. The releases aren’t just to give back to the community, but to the coders that sacrifice their time and energy into a little system that people gave up on.

They weren’t limited to make them collectible (I guess that’s what i’m saying). We want to get these games in as many peoples hands as we can (that will play the games). But with limited resources, choices have to be made.

Now..total turn around time..this is just my opinion.

I can actually see making bound high again if fan’s are really interested in it, but not in any large amounts and not frequently. Don’t take this the wrong way thou. We won’t be making 50 bound high carts and posting that we are selling them (and i don’t want a bunch of posts saying..i want game). But, I can see possibly making 5-10 once a year if real fans (not just collectors or fly by night collectors) are interested. It’s hard to say ‘no’ to a collector that’s been collecting for 10 years and just hasn’t visited planetvb and missed the games.

So, in summary…yes they are limited, but not to make them collectible..but due to material (and in some sense time..we don’t do this for the money (haha like we make money)). I won’t write myself in a corner and say they will never be made again..but I don’t THINK they will ever be made in ANY large number again. It might be best to put a post in the wanted section.

Oki, enough of my wandering thoughts on the matter, I think I rambled a bit to much. Also, if people want to talk about the philosophy of the releases..and if they should be limited and how much..maybe we should start a separate thread 🙂 I want to hear peoples ideas and thoughts.

-Eric

bigmak wrote:
… I can see possibly making 5-10 once a year if real fans (not just collectors or fly by night collectors) are interested…

Separating the wheat from the chaff might be a bit difficult there, unless “real fans” are simply determined based on their public activeness on Planet Virtual Boy.

Benjamin Stevens wrote:

If you want to play these ROMs on your Virtual Boy system, there is no need to search long and hard for some reproduction carts that have been made for some of these, since you can enjoy all of them on a FlashBoy Plus. Thus, if you haven’t already done so, you can order one from Richard Hutchinson by following the instructions here:

There is another option — not that the flashboys aren’t excellent, they are — but — plugging a flashboy into the computer, flashing it (padding the game first), and then moving it to the VB, takes a little time.

If you’re good with soldering, make a “cart w/piggy-back ZIF” (perfboard and ZIF extends past the cart edge), and get an inexpensive eprom (or rom) programmer. Then save each game in a ROM. Simply flip the lever on the ZIF socket, swap out a ROM, flick down the lever, power-on, have fun! You won’t be able to save levels, but you can change games in 4-5 seconds…

Just sayin’…

Edit to add — you could also buy a few of your OWN “donor carts”, and find someone with a PCB made up to accept ROMS and buy a few (and buy a few roms). Swap out the game-pcb with the eprom-pcb, keeping the case & connector. Then you could make your own very passable facsimile carts, complete with labels! Necessity is the mother of invention!!!

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