Here’s a pic of me and my Virtual Boy. 🙂
I have four games, Mario Clash, Wario Land (pictured), Galactic Pinball and Teleroboxer.
I got my first game today, Mario Clash. I inserted it into the Virtual Boy, and switched it on (I’m using the battery pack, by the way). Out of the VB’s speaker comes a sort of duh-duh, duh-duh tone, but nothing appears on the screen, and it doesn’t make any more sounds. When I look into the screen after turning it on, I can see what appears to be a lens start to move, but it stops after a couple of seconds and returns to it’s original position. After that, the Virtual Boy appears to be off, it doesn’t vibrate or hum, so I switch it off. This happens every time I turn it on. Anyone know what’s going on?
Edit: I put in some different batteries, and got a slightly better result. The tone plays for a while, then eventually fades. On the screen a message telling me to read the instruction manual shows, then the Virtual Boy logo appears, then a screen asking if I want to turn on the automatic pause. I pressed the A button to select yes, then the screen went blank and nothing else happened. I’ve tried turning it back on again a few times, but I just get the same result as I originally did.
Edit Edit: The fourth time I tried turning it on again it got even further. After I pressed the A button to turn on the pausing, the actual game started, I saw a couple of clouds, and some music was playing, then the VB just cut out and I was left with a blank screen.
Do you think it’s the batteries? I’m not sure what I should do.
Edit: Went out and bought some brand new batteries, put them in, and it works perfectly. 🙂
Ok, that kind of sucks then… I was bidding on a complete, sealed one, but I could tell it was going to be expensive so I gave up.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the $45 USD was including postage (and I’m in Australia). It cost $31 USD for just the game.