Hm interesting. I wonder if it’s still being developed. Hopefully we can get some of our programmers out there to make improvements on it. Wouldn’t it be cool if one day we had near perfect emulation of GB, NES, and maybe even SNES on the VB? I don’t know how others feel about it, but I would love to be able to play all sorts of games on the VB. The red doesn’t bother me, and I love how good the sound system is on the VB, and the fact that you are “immersed” in the game.

Oh ok I see what you mean. Now that I’m going through my GB roms, I see that they are all 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, and 1024 KB. So it should be easy enough to put some on there that add up to 2024 kb.

And actually, there is 1 game that is 2024 kb! “NIV Bible & the 20 Lost Levels of Joshua”. haha

[Reel Big Fish]

Wow that’s amazing. I can’t wait to try it out. So could you put a few roms on there and stay under the 2MB mark, then use the padding software to pad the rest so you get to 2MB?

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I have no words to describe how much I hate Buzzfeed.

Guy Perfect wrote:
How are SSDs performing these days? A few years back I’d advise against using them for video editing because of the above-average write behaviors, but maybe these days the technology is better than it used to be and you won’t wear out an SSD so quickly that way.

I would never have a computer without a SSD in today’s world. A HDD may require a few minutes to boot up, but a SSD will boot up a computer in 7 seconds.

I would absolutely have a SSD for the operating system, and all your programs (especially video editing, music editing, photo editing, etc.) If you have a lot of adobe programs, I would ABSOLUTELY have a SSD. They take so much less time to load up that way.

What I do is I have a SSD, and a HDD, and whenever I do video editing I just save the files to the HDD. Of course the software is on the SSD though.

If I were you I’d get a computer with the following specs:
An intel i7 CPU
8-16 GB of RAM
A graphics card such as a GeForce GTX 960
A Solid State Drive (SSD) of whatever capacity (250 GB, 500 GB, etc). The SSD for the operating system, and all the software programs that you can fit onto it.
An extra HDD of 2TB or 4TB. The HDD for storing music, video, pictures, games, etc.

It’s important that you get a computer that has ample upgrade capabilities. Cheap computers will lack necessary PCI slots, power sources, and etc. to be able to upgrade. Look into alienware, cyberpowerpc, etc.

Of course these are just basic guidelines, it really depends on how much money you want to spend.

That’s awesome, too bad the VB never got a formal release in EU 🙁
Also too bad I don’t understand german lol

This is great news! Is this being developed for windows? Hopefully, because we don’t really have the greatest emulators for the system on windows OS…

Speaking of pokemon, I made these pictures for fun today (attached below).

Maybe someday I’ll make one of them my avatar. Pokemon came out when I was young and I’ve played it since I was a kid. Don’t care too much for the new pokemon though.

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Yeah, let’s see here, I’ll watch through it again. They said repeatedly “In order to enjoy the virtual boy, you have to play it”. And I agree, emulators or videos do the system no justice.. Ok lets see here..

At 7:10 she said “this game here is called Dragon Hopper, it’s like Zelda more or less. Its one of the new games for the virtual boy. Let’s look on the television and see it playing”. They only showed it for a few seconds, unfortunately, then the switched gears and started talking about Super Mario RPG.

Interesting to note that Dragon Hopper was going to be a RPG game like Zelda. You know, I don’t know why nintendo didn’t just release more games, they could have made a go of the virtual boy if they would have released more software I bet.

Wow, what good timing! I just bought them!

A standard usb port is 5 volts, while a virtual boy runs on 9 volts. You are able to power electronics with different voltages, however, it can be bad for them and shorten their life.

You have to be careful, online (for instance – ebay) sells items that claim to be AC adapters for the NES. The NES also runs on 9 volts, but some ac adapters supply 10 volts. It will indeed power your console, but it will also shorten it’s life. Therefore, if you ever buy an AC adapter of any sort, be sure to check voltages before you buy.

Do flashboy+ come with dust covers?

Alright 🙂 I PMed you a few days ago about a repair. Would you mind replying to that when you are ready to take new units? Thanks

Yeah I’m in the states, alright thanks I will try contacting that individual

Thanks for the post. I lived for brazil for a number of years, so I can actually understand spanish pretty well. Interesting find, nostalgic stuff here, at the end of the SNES life, the brink of the release of the N64, and of course the launch of the Virtual Boy.

Hahhaa, exactly. Coupled “BOB SAGET!” with the “who’s the faggot with the tuba?!” was the inspiration for the name. Some people may just get offended, I may just create another account.

Ok thanks boss. That was my original guess. I was wondering if batteries in JP carried the same voltage and my guess was yes. But yeah then it makes sense it’s the AC adaptor that converts the 120V into 8V or whatever it is that the VB runs on so that makes sense. So even if Japan ran on a different AC voltage (which I’m not sure if they do or not), it would still work in both areas – I see now, makes sense.

Do you like the screen name? It’s a homage to the Tourette’s guy if you know what that’s all about.