UPDATE:
Oculus Quest Touch controller support in VirtualBoyGo works great now. Here’s an APK built by me from the current source code for anyone who doesn’t want to wait for the official release.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o1G1p_jcDLjM9WPxq8Q2HPKXb0nD6B1R/view?usp=sharing
(old post below)
Hey there folks. This is a post about VirtualBoy emulation on the Oculus Quest.
Right out of the box, on launch day, the existing VirtualBoy emulator for the Oculus Go called “VirtualBoyGo” already worked on the Oculus Quest, because it turns out the Quest is just an Android device in disguise! You just need a Bluetooth game controller such as the 8Bitdo SF30 Pro Controller to play this version with. All the games look and sound great. You can get the program here. You’ll need something that uses ADB to sideload it onto the Quest, such as SideQuest or the Android SDK.
But I think people shouldn’t need to buy a separate controller and fiddle with pairing it up in order to play VirtualBoy titles on their Oculus Quest. They have two perfectly good Touch controllers that come with the device. These should be more than capable of providing input for VirtualBoy games. I know a little programming, so I should be able to make this happen.
The VirtualBoyGo source code didn’t build right out of the box, but I got in touch with the developer, CidVonHighWind, who doesn’t own a Quest but was able to help me to get the program to build. I then made a PowerShell script which pulls down all the dependencies and makes building the program (at least on a Windows 10 computer) so easy that a retarded monkey could do it.
I still haven’t had the time to figure out how to change the input so as to support the Touch controllers, but I thought I’d at least post about how to build the program so anyone with an interest in this might be able to contribute.
So here are the instructions:
1. Make sure you have 7-zip installed in the default location because my PowerShell depends on it.
2. Make sure you have Git for Windows installed. Might as well also grab GitExtensions, GitHub Desktop and Notepad++ because these tools are nice to have, but not required. Git for Windows is required, however.
3. Get Android Studio and the Android SDK. The way I recommend doing this is through the JetBrains Toolbox app because it will keep your tools updated for you.
4. Set your ANDROID_HOME and ANDROID_NDK_HOME environment variables. Yes, you need ANDROID_NDK_HOME set for this to build.
5. Make yourself a folder to work in, such as C:\Oculus which I used.
6. Get Oculus Mobile SDK 1.23 which comes as a zip file called “ovr_sdk_mobile_1.23.zip” and save it in your working folder. My PowerShell will unzip it for you, so just save the zip in the folder.
7. Get my awesome PowerShell script and save it in your working folder as “VirtualBoyGo.ps1”
8. Get my easy PowerShell launcher and save it in your working folder as “VirtualBoyGo.bat”
9. Run “VirtualBoyGo.bat” The batch file will launch the PowerShell for you if the names match. Hopefully it should run without errors. 🙂
10. In Android Studio, import the gradle project in your working folder\ovr_sdk_mobile_1.23\VrSamples\VirtualBoyGo\Android and build it. I used Gradle version 4.4
That’s it. Now it’ll build. If you want more detailed build instructions, such as if trying to build on another OS, then you can probably reverse-engineer my PowerShell fairly easily.
I’m going to eventually figure out how to get the Touch controller support added, but if anyone else wants to pioneer ahead and get to that goal before I do then I thought I’d give them a boost with these instructions. Please share your results if you achieve anything! 🙂
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