There’s one particular photo of the Virtual Boy that people seem to use in 90% of all times when the Virtual Boy is mentioned somewhere:
I hate that picture. The stand is in the wrong position, the angle just seems weird, the controller looks ugly because the adapter tap is on it instead of the battery pack, and the lighting… eww.
Personally I set my stand to be in the right position (i.e. not the position shown in the picture above)
By the way, that photo on Wikipedia is really cool, although the stand is in the wrong position again.
CZroe wrote:
LordRayken wrote:
CZroe wrote:
This thread is at the top of Google search results and appears to be full of damaging misinformation so I must bump it with my two-cents.Way back when Nintendo still had replacement stands in stock, I broke my original clamp by trying to put it on backwards. I thought I was trying to put it on correctly, since the manual and every marketing shot showed it installed backwards.
If you look carefully you will see that it is keyed by having one nub slightly larger than the other. This was done deliberately to prevent you from putting it on backwards. It’s extremely unfortunate that all the official product shots and diagrams show it mounted backwards already but when someone searches to determine the correct orientation they will find this thread assuring them that it can go in both orientations. They are very likely to believe they can force it, like I did so many years ago. My mistake would be much more costly today, so please be careful!
The correct and only way it will mount is with the medallion logo and elbows of the legs facing away from the user (open side of legs facing the user). Do not force it on!
Totally wrong.
The Nintendo medallion should be facing you.Are you basing this on what you see in the manual and in official Nintendo pictures, because that is what I am saying is backwards. It simply will not fit the other way around and I know from experience that it will break if you try to force it. While it’s very odd that even the instructions are backwards, that’s exactly why it is important to set the record straight.
I don’t have a single clue what you’re talking about.
I went ahead and uploaded a crappy webcam video for you, and anyone else having this issue. It’s an issue I’ve never heard of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RFDK-jepRI
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Just wanted to bump this with my 2 cents…
Yes the head unit will attach to the stand either way, but it is easier to put the stand on in the wrong direction contrary to what’s instructed in the owners manual. This is why more than half the Virtual Boys on ebay have the stand on in the wrong position.
If you observe the picture provided below, you’ll notice that I highlighted 5 little features that appear under the head unit just above the serial number sticker, and then you’ll notice the highlighted marking across the top of the stand. When we put the head unit on this way, those 5 markings come in contact with the highlighted part of the stand, making it harder to put the head unit on this way. It’s as if those features were put there for resistance, keeping us from putting it on like this even though it says to in the manual.
The 5 markings under the head unit do not exist on the opposite side, making it a lot easier to attach and detach the head unit from the stand when it’s installed the “wrong” way.
Something definitely went wrong somewhere along the lines, especially since not only do early advertisements show the stand on backwards, it’s even embroidered on some VB shirts and can also be seen backwards on the wings of a prototype display kiosk.
