I was surprised to learn that a Virtual Boy community like this exists (though knowing the web, I shouldn’t have been) and even further surprised that there were actual homebrew developers around. The Virtual Boy is a truly mysterious piece of hardware to me, and I think it’s really great that there are people still invovled with this esoteric bit of videogame history.
For my part, I have never actually played a Virtual Boy, let alone owned one, but I now plan to order one off eBay as soon as is practical.
What I was wondering is if I could be of any real use to the scene in general. To be honest, I don’t know much about it other than what I’ve read on this webpage and these forums and I’d be happy to learn more. I’ve been wanting to work on a homebrew project for a long while but I’ve had underwhelming experiences with some Gameboy Advance developers. The Virtual Boy seems like it would be a really unique platform to work on.
Anyway, as for what I can do, I’m an experienced pixel artist and not inexperienced with programming (not that this means I’m knowledgable or skilled). You might look at a game I’ve done with Game Maker called FlapFlapFlap though it shows neither skill to great effect. I can also send any interested parties some of my work if they like. Too bad I seem to have lost the Virtual Boy game mockups I did long before I knew of this site.
So, yeah, basically what I’m asking is; what is everyone doing and can I help?
