…well at least this is something I would like to write.
But maybe I have your attention now 😉

A few people here know me. I am a very long time member of PlanetVB. I contributed a lot to the VB scene.
Many times without asking for anything in return.
The Virtual Boy always fascinated me, even with its flaws and problems. There are several real nice games on it and you can not find or play them on any other system.
And this brings me to the point of this topic.

The Virtual Boy and some of its games deserve to be played by a wider audience. There is also a lot of very cool homebrew by now. The sad thing is, because it is Virtual Boy not many can enjoy it in full and propably never will.
The System itself costs now quite a lot and lets not even talk about some games.
Also if you have a VB, chances are high that your system suffers from the display problems. This is fixable but it is not very easy to do. The usual new “retro fan” won’t bother.

There are emulators out there but with none you can enjoy the games and its 3D without hazzle.

The way I see it, we need to do something about it.
The only system which can bring the VB games to a real wide audience and also features the 3D without any problems is the (New) 3DS.

The Nintendo 3DS is out there now for a very long time. When this system came out, I did MPO files of Teleroboxer to show how well it would look like on it.
Now after many years, the 3DS and the New3DS is fully hacked and homebrew is possible without big problems. There is even a quite good working 3DS Emulator called Citra out there which should make development easier.

Unfortunately there is still no usable VB Emulator for the 3DS and this I do not understand at all!
For me a proper VB emu on 3DS was a inevitability from day 1.

The only VB emulator on the 3DS is Mednafen trough RetroArch.
On a limited system like the 3DS this makes no sense.
We really need a dedicated VB Emulator.
It should be possible to use sourcecode of available VB emulators for this but it needs 3ds spcific optimation.

I am not sure if the 3DS can be used but the New 3DS should be usable. There we have all the buttons needed, there is 3D, the screen offers high enough resolution so that no scaling shit is needed and there is Head Tracking. In theory all is there to offer a second best thing after the VB.

3D Pictures of 3DS Games on the VB is a cool idea but we should also do the other way around. Seeing all the effort with the VB homebrew I would say we have all the recources to pull this off.
What we are waiting for? A wider audience can only be good for the community.
We are also in luck because there are only a handfull of games to take care about. This should not take ages. What do you think? Also I am sure there are people on GBATemp who are willing to contribute to this project in several ways if done right.

If we look into this, I think we should first determine if the New 3DS is capable to emulate the VB at full speed or close to it and go from there.

PS: with a wider audience and more interest in the VB several things could happen:
Unreleased games surface (Dragon Hopper)
Or Nintendo finally stops ditching the VB and brings official VB Virtual Console Content which could lead in Dragon Hopper or others. When it came to emulation stuff, Nintendo always did it after the Internet community was first.

A proper thread here would propably the best.
Then we can start to spread the word and wait 🙂

I can’t find it and the link is I guess redacted by PlanetVB?

Guy Perfect wrote:
I set up a Patreon page, available immediately: [redacted].

Where do we want to go from here? Main page of PVB? Set up a comprehensive thread and solicit interest from other communities?

[Guy Perfect]

No, I removed it because it turns out that Patreon is not at all adequate as a donation platform. And that’s ironic, since half of YouTube apparently runs on it. It’s actually a subscription platform, and they do not facilitate one-time payments in any way. The proverbial last straw was when the first donator tried to donate and couldn’t because he didn’t have a credit card associated with his PayPal account, and Patreon requires payment methods to support recurring payments (and PayPal requires a credit card for those).

So instead, I’m just getting PayPal set up. I was on the phone with them a handful of times yesterday to figure out what went wrong with an ancient account and finally got that closed, freeing up my bank account to be used once again. As soon as their transactions are processed, I should be able to finalize it.

Fire-WSP: I sent you a file on Discord. Not sure if you regularly check Discord, but check Discord. (-:

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Guy Perfect.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Guy Perfect.

Guy Perfect wrote:
No, I removed it because it turns out that Patreon is not at all adequate as a donation platform. And that’s ironic, since half of YouTube apparently runs on it. It’s actually a subscription platform, and they do not facilitate one-time payments in any way. The proverbial last straw was when the first donator tried to donate and couldn’t because he didn’t have a credit card associated with his PayPal account, and Patreon requires payment methods to support recurring payments (and PayPal requires a credit card for those).

So instead, I’m just getting PayPal set up. I was on the phone with them a handful of times yesterday to figure out what went wrong with an ancient account and finally got that closed, freeing up my bank account to be used once again. As soon as their transactions are processed, I should be able to finalize it.

Fire-WSP: I sent you a file on Discord. Not sure if you regularly check Discord, but check Discord. (-:

Paypal.me is usually much easier for donations. I think it’s less of a fee than Patreon, too.

retronintendonerd wrote:

Paypal.me is usually much easier for donations.

Ah, so that’s how to do it! Many thanks. The PayPal website is fairly straightforward, but it’s missing some key information and features that one has to look up elsewhere.

One thing that irks me, and I confirmed this over the phone, is that PayPal doesn’t believe in privacy… For any given transaction, the identities of both parties will be made visible. This by itself might be negotiable, but it’s not giving me any options to receive payments from non-PayPal users (via credit card, etc.), so I’m looking at Patreon again.

For experimental purposes, I’ve reactivated the Patreon page:
https://www.patreon.com/GuyPerfect

While Patreon doesn’t support one-time payments out of the box, they made an official statement that you can effectively do it by canceling your pledge at the beginning of the month after the transaction is processed. Otherwise, a recurring payment is scheduled.

If anyone has further insights on using Patreon in this way, don’t be afraid to speak up! Otherwise, this is probably the route we’re gonna take.

I actually just had to check my PayPal.me link a little while ago since I forgot what it was lol. I personally don’t care if people see how much I donate but that’s just me. I think there might even be a way to work around it with a “screen name” of sorts.

I’m new to both platforms so if I learn anything new I’ll be happy to share 🙂

@GuyPerfect
cool, cant wait to get the ball rolling 🙂

So how is this one going? Id really love to see a full on good virtual boy emulator on the 3ds.