Just bought a Virtual Boy yesterday !

Morintari wrote:
Greetings K-K Man,
Welcome aboard,
You gotta get a Flashboy from Minestorm.
Once you do that you gotta play Bound High and the Hyper Fighting demo.
You may have to wait a year for the roms but it’s well worth the wait.

Yes i definitely will get a Flashboy !
As a fan of Street Fighter and in order to play all those cool homebrews !
By the way i heard Hyper Fighting was only playable on a cart (the full version) is that right ?

speedyink wrote:
Congrats on getting a VB and welcome to the forum. I wouldn’t bother returning it for the line missing on the display. Regardless of which system you end up with, you’ll want to get your displays soldered by one of our trusted display solderers here. All Virtual Boys are going to end up with lines eventually, the permanent fix is to get them soldered 🙂

Yeah i saw that, so the dead pixel is part of that fix too.
I have region switched most of my pal 8/16 bit systems and backilghted some Gameboys already, the best thing i did was completely changing the caps of a Game Gear, which was kinda hard due to the lack of space inside.
I fixed my pinball machine and the monitor of my Killer Instinct cabinet too but that was so much time consuming that i would rather send the boards of my VB to repair.
Depending on the price i could try it though, i fixed a Gameboy screen once so i feel pretty confident.

Yeah i know a dead pixel when i see one, and this one is pretty much dead.
So if it’s not fixable i’ll definitely bring it back, thanks for saving my money guys !

I saw one complete in box today, new and never opened in an obscure shop… the box has seen the sun but it was quite cheap for what it is, the guy also had Jack Bros and Mario Clash all unopened at decent prices. So if they don’t have one spare i’ll go grab that one instead.

mawa wrote:
KK-man
i read you have buy it at Akihabara may i ask what the charge you for the system
i come there allot whas there in januari and in march this year
But prices are crazy high there for systems like this
did you buy at super patato or beep shop ?

There was one in Super Potato last month boxed for not so much but i missed it, i remember it being close to 20.000yen but i’m not sure exactly how much.
The one i bought at Trader was 19.000yen, loose.

I saw one complete new in box in a shop, which i will not tell where it is located at the moment because it was clearly never found by any ebay scalper yet, at 25.000yen.

What are you opinions on this ?

So i’m in Akihabara right now.
They refuse to refund my money, they say it is not part of the warranty as it was written on the package.
Which is funny because everytime i bought a game there they would mention if something was missing in the box “no manual” or if they weren’t able to say if the battery in the snes carts were good they would say “save batteries no warranty” but they didn’t say anything when i bought the Virtual Boy, so i didn’t even bother asking as they are always so nice.
I guess they wanted to get rid of it, and i can’t read japanese so they got me good.
plus, usually the things written there are just comments about the state of the product (like “label faded” or “box scratched”).

I need to get rid of it very fast because otherwise i won’t have the money to buy the other one.
Anyone is interested ? I’ll sell it the exact same price i paid, which is 20,500yen. I’ll put it on craigslist and if it fails i’ll bring it to another store to have at least some cash back.