Hello everyone! I live in Israel.
One of the consoles I really want is of course, a Virtual Boy.
The only good retro store in israel is selling a virtual boy for 150$, with a controller, the battery pack, power cables, Mario Clash and Mario Tennis.
US edition. worth it? let me know what you guys think.
A Virtual Boy Buying Odyssey – Episode III: “The Netherlands”
After the red turtle had noticed, that it’s new VUE machine had glitchy goggles, it crawled to the netherlands to ask an experienced solder-blacksmith for help. He had soldered many hundreds of those goggles before and so a happy end to this odyssey seemed very close. But then – the blacksmith discovered a very rare problem with one of the goggles, he had only seen a few times before in his life: three deceased pixels! 😯
Hearing that, a friendly tradesman turned around and said, that coincidentally he has a pair of solder-fixed goggles left to sell!
“Cowabunga!” the red turtle shouted and bought the two goggles together with an other working VUE machine for a very fair price!
Fighting hard for a Virtual Boy, he finally ended up with two working Virtual Boys! Plus a pair of solder-fixed replacement goggles! :vb: 😎 :vb:
THANK YOU SO MUCH, for finally getting my VB working, TheForce81 and mawa!
ALSO THANKS AGAIN to speedyink, thunderstruck, Cosmoliner and all the others posting helpful answers in the forum and in PMs!
And by the way, I also got a discount from the eBay seller of my VB to compensate the repair costs :thumpup:
My advice for everyone searching for a Virtual Boy is: join Planet Virtual Boy! And go to the Netherlands! 😀
Special thanks to KR155E too, who gave me a quick introduction to VBDE! So I was able to figure out how to test my own graphics on the Virtual Boy already!
Also many thanks to Morintari and his litte son, for giving me an introduction to the sprite painting tools Gale and ProMotion!
And of cause to Alfista, who helped boosting my young game collection to another level!
I didn’t expect that I would feel home so quickly here – You are an awesome community! Thank You all!
Well, OK – enought honey spilled for now, we have some homebrew to do! >:-D
