Well I did “Happy Birthday” the first time, but had to log in to say cool cake and awesome chainsaw fish is awesome!

There’s InsmEdit:
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/tech/?sec=tools&pid=insmedit
(a editor for Insmouse no Yakata)

and FacEdit:
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/tech/?sec=tools&pid=facedit
(a editor for Faceball)

Welcome to the community Vue.

Attached is a recent Photo of myself 🙂

That is awesome. You HAVE to have that set as your avatar pic.

This has come up a few times in the past. The process is straightforward enough. To quote… me…

Dave_ wrote:
The battery is a CR1616, spot-welded to the tabs.

I put a new one in my Wario Land a few years back. I de-soldered the tabs (with battery attached), then used a blade to get the old battery free. Then I soldered the tabs back in place.

Next I slotted the new battery between the tabs and closed everything back up – I didn’t bother using anything else to secure the battery as it seemed to stay put just fine. And It still works, so yay me.

I hear some places sell batteries with the tabs attached, but it wasn’t too difficult freeing the dead one and simply reusing them.

Thanks for clearing that up speedy and Lester. Sorry if my post came across as suggesting a conspiracy – that wasn’t my intention. There just seemed to be a piece of the puzzle missing and I was scratching my head trying to figure out what I’d missed.

I get that it’s unlikely to be put up for sale but how did people end up with copies of this?

Reading the comments on the news story it seems there are a few copies out there. I figure a small amount were made by someone and then sent out to people they knew, but in one of his comments Lester mentions picking up two copies, suggesting there was at some point an opportunity to order. Did Tusker stick up an order page for half an hour?

That connecting a SNES controller seems like a cool feature although the VB controller (based on the demo) works well – Mortal Kombat Armageddon did something similar with the Wii version when using a Wiimote.

[Dave_]

This used to happen with me a lot, but I found adding some buying requirements helped.

To select buyer requirements for all your listings:

Go to My eBay.

Click the Account tab, and then click Site preferences on the left.

In the Selling preferences section, scroll to Buyer requirements, and click Show.

Click Edit.

On the Buyer requirements page, select your requirements.

Click Submit to save your requirements.

My requirements are currently set to block anyone that:
-Have received 2 unpaid item(s) recorded on their account within 1 month(s)
-Have a primary delivery address in a location I don’t post to
-Have a Feedback score of -1 or lower {EDIT: this isn’t actually possible any more now they don’t let sellers leave negative feedback}
-Have a Feedback score of 5 or lower and no credit card on file

On the preferences page there is also a link to a blocked bidder page, where you can add people to stop them bidding/buying on any of your future listings.

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I remember the list. Never signed it, but I remember it.

In GIF form:

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Some games are too glichy (or don’t run at all), but I’ve still had fun with this. The 3D effect works well and I’d definitely be interested in seeing this emu progress.

They look great.

Found out about this last night. Played through a few times and… wow. Extremely impressive work. I look forward to further releases.

Good effort though unfortunately there actually is a seller with that name. I hope he’s not going to get harassed by VB fans now.

Top five in no particular order:

Bound High!
Virtual Boy Wario Land
Red Alarm
Jack Bros.
Space Squash

Next five in no particular order:
3D Tetris
Vertical Force
Mario’s Tennis
Galactic Pinball
Panic Bomber

I’ve got both books and think they are great. I’m looking forward to future volumes and the Gunpei Yokoi book.

c0ldb33r wrote:
Where can I send a donation? Is there a paypal address?

Details here: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=361

I meant to post earlier, but…yeah this sucks. I thought something like this might happen though as it seemed to be getting a lot of press attention.
I wasn’t that interested in a boxed copy, but was going to get one anyway – a cool bonus for contributing to the “Keep Bigmac off the couch fund”

gamesbloke wrote:
Can something be done in terms of editing the software/sprites to make a game CIB that is intellectually unique???

Doubtful. I imagine any such project would have to be coded from scratch. Physical BallFace release anyone?

segagamer99 wrote:
You think BPS, god knows what it is now, will care?

It seems it became Blue Planet Software, founded by Henk Rogers who also founded the Tetris Company – the BPS site currently redirects to the Tetris site. With that in mind they are kind of a big deal and although they have done nothing with the property in years, Faceball is theirs (Xanth sold it to them around 1993 I think).

DanB wrote:
Fun fact: The rom header in the Faceball proto still says “V-Tetris” and has the same game id (VTRJ) as that game, which might suggest it was developed by the same team, or even built on the same pc/using V-Tetris as a framework 🙂

OK forget Riverhill. Looks to me like BPS developed this one themselves.

Whilst Bulletproof Software only published the Game Boy and SNES games, they did also develop games themselves (including V-Tetris), so I wouldn’t necessarily rule them out as the developers of the VB game.

However for the Game Gear colourised version of Faceball 2000 (the GB one) and the PC Engine Faceball, they were “licensed to Riverhill Soft”, so perhaps they were the developers for the VB entry.

Other thoughts:

– This is not a “spruced up” version of one of the other games. It does not resemble any of the others.
– It’s worth noting that all the games are different from each other, even though two of them (GB/SNES)were called “Faceball 2000”. The exception (as mentioned above) is that a colour version of the GB game was released for the Game Gear.
– The VB game is titled Nico-Chan Battle (ニコちゃんバトル) which is interesting as the previous games released in Japan used the English title on-screen. Packaging included Japanese but was again “Faceball” (フェイスボール).

I’ve always used http://www.shoppingmalljapan.com/ and never had any trouble.