Post pics of your VB Collection

Figured it would be nice to see everyone’s systems and game/accessory collections. I’m quite curious to see how many of the VBs on these forums are in good condition, and how many Blockbuster, retail display, japanese, etc kits there are among us.

Regrettably I sold the VB in my avatar many years ago after I first joined. I think I sold it to then fund the purchase of a new phat DS. Bad move.

I’ve just gotten back into the VB scene after missing it so much. I just purchased a Japanese console in mint condition, boxed. Can’t wait to share with everyone. I also bought a secondary head unit only because I thought I was going to be buying a VB set that had a defective head unit (I got out of that deal). I think I’ll be taking the spare apart and using it as parts for my Japanese model. Maybe have the ribbon cables soldered for when the Japanese model’s go bad.

So I’ll be posting my pictures soon. I have quite a few games already, which I’ll show when I get the console pics up.

But everyone else can start ahead of me. Let’s see those VBs!

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Sep 20, 2012 • 20:48

Dor-Si

mawa wrote:
awsume collection and display dor si
and i feel great that i have inspired you to make a nice display for your Virtual boy collection.

Thanks! Discovering this whole community has made me more passionate about my collection. I used to keep everything all boxed up in the closet (other than my demo units), but what’s the fun in that? I really like your display cases and don’t have as much room as bigmak with his half room display (forgive my jealousy there), so I stole your display case idea instead. 🙂

Benjamin Stevens wrote:

Is there a particular site online where one can buy one of these display cases?

Ben,

I don’t know about mawa because I haven’t been able to find anything quite as refined as his. Mine came from Craigslist after months and months of searching and sifting through all the garbage. I searched for the terms “display case,” “display lock,” and “glass curio” and finally came across this used retail display. I snatched it up for just over $100 + drive time, which is quite a deal vs. the cost of new. I just had to make sure mine had a lock to keep it safe from little monsters. Although…I am also curious where mawa got his because they are really nice.

Sep 22, 2012 • 11:49

glaros

I am going to hide in a cave,from
shame.
Congratulations for your collections. :thumpup:

Dec 01, 2012 • 06:44

Dor-Si

I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m tired of stalking EBay on a daily basis in hopes of finding some rare piece of Virtual Boy history. Instead I decided to cure my EBay frustrations and design my own VB signs (When I say “design,” I mean copy/paste stuff from the interweb to incorporate in very basic designs on MSPaint and then forward off to the sign makers). The first of which is an acrylic 3-D sign with raised VB letters and an inset Nintendo logo with mirrored outlines. Pictures don’t do this one justice due to lighting issues, reflections, angles, my ragged microfiber couch, etc. But I can say that it looks pretty slick in person. The mirrored VB logo is raised about 1/4 inch above the background (~.5cm for everyone outside US). I used my boxed Japanese VB as size reference. Sign is 2 feet wide x 12.5 inches (~61cm x 32cm)

I also have a lighted sign on order that I will update when it arrives, but it is more simplistic and will definitely be lower quality. I don’t have high hopes for that one, but we’ll see.

Oh, and I figured I’d slip in pics of my boxed 1995 E3 media kit which I recently acquired as well. Not sure if it’s complete, but it seems pretty extensive. I don’t think much else would fit in the Killer Instinct box either as it’s pretty full. Note the 1995 Products book and the glossy look VB with black knobs and the words “AC adapter” marked out on the next page. Also included are press releases for the Nintendo Ultra 64 and Earthbound to top it all off. 🙂

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Dec 01, 2012 • 10:09

Benjamin Stevens

That acrylic 3-D sign looks beautiful!

The lighted sign sounds exciting. I hope the end result exceeds your expectations. 🙂

Dec 01, 2012 • 10:37

TheForce81

WOW, that sign looks so good! How much do you ask for it? :p

Dec 01, 2012 • 18:07

foil_lone_wolf

WOW!

The sign is amazing. That will make your collection/gaming area look sweet, and draw you right in. I want one…I’ll have to make some calls, excuse me…..
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Um, oh right, so that 1995 products book, makes the VB look sexy. I like it.

Dec 04, 2012 • 15:18

Dor-Si

TheForce81 wrote:

WOW, that sign looks so good! How much do you ask for it? :p

This one’s not for sale! 🙂 If you’d like one or would like to design your own, PM me and I’ll give you the info for the company that made mine.

The price range is anywhere from a few bucks for key chain size versions all the way up to infinity and beyond for large versions. Mine was $120 plus shipping, but the price exponentially grows after that…similar to televisions. One could get a much more reasonable price for a smaller size.

For instance, the quotes I received were:
24″ – $120 USD (mine)
31″ – $280
36″ – $455

The difference is due to the larger, more expensive machines needed to cut the designs and the oversize acrylic sheets that have to be ordered.

VB is the only thing I collect, so this is where I throw my money.

Dec 04, 2012 • 15:25

Benjamin Stevens

Wow… I didn’t want to ask, but I was guessing that your sign would have cost about $200.00. Looks like I was very close based on the quoted figures you gave. I guess $200.00 would be the price of a 27″ one. 😉

Dec 05, 2012 • 06:53

foil_lone_wolf

My sign finally arrived as well so it’s time to update my collection pics. Custom sign for my display case cap $45, viewing the collection with it…priceless.

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Dec 05, 2012 • 13:22

Benjamin Stevens

Wow! Looking at your display cases makes me feel like I’m in a store in 1996, and the Virtual Boy is still alive, and there’s hope that Dragon Hopper and Zero Racers will be released soon!

Dec 05, 2012 • 15:08

Dor-Si

Those displays look amazing! Nice job piecing it all together. Very nice!

Dec 05, 2012 • 20:04

foil_lone_wolf

So after my pics yesterday I have a new addition today! And yes they are all complete.

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Dec 25, 2012 • 16:39

Benjamin Stevens

Several people asked me to post some pics of my current collection, so I have begun to make pictures of everything. Right now, I’m trying to find a way to display everything as nicely as possible within the 6 picture limit on the profile page, and the first idea that came to mind was make a collage of all my games using a scanner and Paint. Attached is the collage of my game collection. I shrunk it to 58% of its original size in Paint so that it would be under the 5000K limit for this thread. This is now also the first picture on my profile page, where it appears in a much smaller form.

I’ll probably try to scan all the other items that will fit on my scanner as well as take photos of the other ones individually that won’t fit on my scanner and make collages out of those. I actually like using this collage as my desktop background. I don’t have too many icons on it, so I keep black margins on the sides where the icons go and then I can see Virtual Boy stuff in the middle everyday at work, which is a nice helpful start to my day. Just giving this as a suggestion to others to make collages of your Virtual Boy collections for fun and artful purposes.

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Dec 26, 2012 • 00:13

VBmills

That’s really good Ben, definitely the way to go I think. Looking forward to seeing some more.

Dec 26, 2012 • 09:34

MOLINASON

Woooooww Ben!!!!!!

What a great colection, I hope to get one like yours some day….. On purpose, those prototypes that you have unmounted ,which games are they? Are them Faceballs?

I want a complete one and Richard told me that complete games are distributed by Uncletusker and can’t contact on him……

Do you know who could help me?

I also want to say that I’m very interested in buying games, so if you can offer something…..

Dec 26, 2012 • 14:54

Benjamin Stevens

It would be totally awesome if one of those EPROM carts was an original prototype cart of Faceball, but unfortunately, that is not the case. They are EPROM carts containing Sample Soft for VUE Programming and Space Pinball (the prototype version of Galactic Pinball).

Because the ROMs of the Sample Soft demo and the Space Pinball game have been available on this site for sometime, there is uncertainty as to whether or not these two carts are “genuine” (meaning they contain actual versions of the ROMs that were flashed onto them way back in 1995 during the development phase) or if they are “fakes” (meaning someone took the available ROMs of these and flashed them onto the genuine dev carts at a much later period of time). No matter what, though, the carts themselves are genuine dev carts made by Nintendo. Nevertheless, I am strongly convinced that these carts are fully genuine, and some of the reasons for this are as follows:

The uber-collector from whom I purchased these carts had these carts in his possession for many years, and I am 100% confident that he had the Space Pinball prototype cart in his possession long before its ROM was made readily available online.

Also, as best as he can remember, both of these carts came from the main office that wrote guides for Nintendo Power back in 2007 when the office didn’t get its contract renewed at the time of Nintendo Power’s move to San Francisco. Thus, these two cartridges left that office when it closed and, in a short time, found their way into his collection, where they remained until I purchased them. There is good reason to suppose that the cartridges would have been in that office since they originally arrived there in 1995 and remained in that office until the office closed in 2007.

The most major proof, however, lies in the cart of Sample Soft for VUE Programming itself. If you look closely at the cart that has VUE SAMPLE 1 on it in my collage, you will notice that the “VIRTUAL BOY” and “Nintendo” molded letters, etc. appear nowhere on the outer shell of the cart. To me, this is strong evidence that this cart was made during a pre-production period before the EPROM carts were sent on a large scale to developers, because all dev carts that I have ever seen, save for this one, have those molded letters on them. The Sample Soft for VUE Programming would have been one of the first things that developers would have wanted to flash onto an EPROM cart to test out on a Virtual Boy, since it was one of the first programs made for the Virtual Boy, so it would make sense that it would be the ROM to appear on a very early version of the EPROM cart. What are the chances that a hoaxer would have access to such a rare cart, in order to be able then to flash the earliest available program onto it to make it look “genuine”? Very slim in my estimation, especially since it doesn’t seem that this cart was ever publicly put online for sale in an attempt to get a large profit.

All of this evidence convinces me that these two carts were sent to the Nintendo Power office originally in 1995 to test out on a Virtual Boy, remained there until 2007, found their way into the uber-collector’s collection, and then found their way into my collection. But I guess I still can’t say this with 100% certainty, unfortunately.

Faceball’s release on cartridge should occur in a few months, and it will indeed be released by the UncleTusker team, the same team that released Bound High CIB recently. Eric, the owner of the game who is trying to get back most of his money that he had to pay to acquire it, has mentioned that complete copies of the game might sell for $100.00 each, and if that is too much money for anyone to spend, then they should simply wait for the ROM to be released online after he has gotten back most of his investment. He also said that nothing is set in stone yet. Thus, if you desire to get a complete copy of Faceball, I would recommend checking this site regularly for updates on when it will be released. The month of February 2013 has already been mentioned as the possible date for its release.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any extra copies of Virtual Boy games to sell, so I can’t help you there, but I wish you the best in your quest to expand your VB collection! 🙂

Regards.

Jan 22, 2013 • 00:21

Benjamin Stevens

I’ve made some more scans of Virtual Boy items that I have.