i finished teleroboxer a while ago and been doin it a bit lately and finished the game without dying to one of the robots beating the final boss (wich is awesome and the music is as well) seing the real ending and credits… as it scrolls through the credits it says

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gumpei yokoi

can his name be spelt gumpei yokoi or is it gunpei yokoi like it says on wikipedia

what other games have spelling mistakes? i know virtual lab does, what words?

also a question

what way do you have the stand holding the virtual boy, it attatches both ways, i see pics where it is one way and then its facing the other way holding the virtual boy

is it also common to get glitchy display in both eye peices, the right eye got mirrored images and my dad used a fine sandpaper to then be able to re solder it wich fixed it then i got horizontal lines and i thought it musta stuffed up but now this is in the left eye..

and one more question… when your unscrewing the screws in the virtual boy (needing the modified screw peice to get them out, if you snap one of the screws inside how is it possible to get it out? as you would have no way of latching onto a broken tip and twisting it out… it hasnt happend to mine but it could happen

also i live in australia and got a ac adapter free with some games, just the attatchment for the controller… is it fine if i get a converter thing to plug it into a australian power point and does it run on 9 volts?

Will virtual boys become that little bit rarer when time passes? as well as the games?

i’ve never seen his name actually written in japanese, but judging from the romaji, its probably gunpei. there is no character for a basic ‘m’ ending sound in japanese, but there is one for ‘n’. the ‘mu’ character could be shortened down to lose the ‘u’ sound on it, but it wouldn’t be written that way.

again, without seeing it in actual japanese i cant be certain. but i’m pretty sure i’m correct in saying its gunpei.

ok cool thanks for the info

mathew wrote:

…gumpei yokoi…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi

what other games have spelling mistakes? i know virtual lab does, what words?

“Nintenndo” and “Ninntenndo” are printed on the Virtual Lab box, but I don’t know of any typos/mistakes inside the game. There really isn’t that much text in there. In fact, not many VB games have much text.

what way do you have the stand holding the virtual boy, it attatches both ways, i see pics where it is one way and then its facing the other way holding the virtual boy

http://www.vr32.de/modules/hardware/index.php?type=vb&sec=manuals

I think in pictures they tried to get the Nintendo logo facing the camera to “grow the brand”.

is it also common to get glitchy display in both eye peices, the right eye got mirrored images and my dad used a fine sandpaper to then be able to re solder it wich fixed it then i got horizontal lines and i thought it musta stuffed up but now this is in the left eye..

If it’s in the other eye, then it’s time to repair that one, too. There’s exactly the same probability of problems happening to either display, since they’re identical and under the same stresses.

and one more question… when your unscrewing the screws in the virtual boy (needing the modified screw peice to get them out, if you snap one of the screws inside how is it possible to get it out? as you would have no way of latching onto a broken tip and twisting it out… it hasnt happend to mine but it could happen

It would be next to impossible to snap off a screw in the VB, but if it happened, you could probably grab the remainder left in the hole with some pliers and unscrew it.

also i live in australia and got a ac adapter free with some games, just the attatchment for the controller… is it fine if i get a converter thing to plug it into a australian power point and does it run on 9 volts?

It will run fine on anything from 6 to 15 volts, as long as the polarity is correct and it gets at least 850mA of current.

Will virtual boys become that little bit rarer when time passes? as well as the games?

I don’t know of anyone destroying VB’s or games, but there is a finite number of them. Each one that gets sold and either kept, lost, destroyed, or thrown away will be one less for someone else to get.

Thanks for that post, you answered everything i needed, thank you

The issue with Gunpei’s name is a a Romanization issue. Hepburn Romanization requires a m inside of words – so that’s what they used!

Kunrei Romanization does not, but it has other awkward issues.

It said somewhen last year that ISO made another request to come up with a unified romanization of Japanese, but other than that I’ve heard no news about it. Anyway… it’s correct.

cYa,

Tauwasser