Yup… sounds like the cables. In particular, the brightness pins are likely not making good contact.

DogP

Fire-WSP wrote:
All that sounds absolutely great BUT is there a way for everybody to get such a device in the future?

The future IS 3D 😛 .

DogP

Heh, changed my mine about waiting until later to do red/blue… it’s added and working, although I still gotta tweak the shades to get good cancellation.

DogP

Just another quick update… I’ve got both the left and right screen being displayed in true 3D using shutter glasses. I just got done playing Wario Land for about an hour… VERY COOL! 🙂 Now I gotta see about getting it displayed in red/blue.

DogP

In whichever folder you drag your original ROM from, IIRC you should have a new ROM called the same name plus _pad. So if you have a Mario’s Tennis at c:\ROMs\mariostennis.vb , drag and drop it on the padder and you’ll have a padded ROM at c:\ROMs\mariostennis_pad.vb . There’s no user interface, and nothing should really happen (except maybe a quick short flash of a console window).

If you want to see the options and change them if you like, hold the CTRL key while dropping it on the padder. It’ll prompt you if you want to change the options… just press enter for the default value. At the end it’ll tell you where the padded ROM will output to.

DogP

KR155E wrote:

DogP schrieb:
That’d be cool, but I don’t think I’ve got enough time to be able to join in the fun.

DogP

too bad. 🙁 even if the competition runs until august? if you don’t have time to write something new you could also just dig out some old, unreleased project(s). 😉

The way it looks now, I don’t think I’ll have time. I just started a new job last month and it’s been keeping me really busy. If they send me on another trip, I may have some time on the plane and in the hotel, but I dunno how often I’ll be travelling. Plus, most of my VB time has been spent on my VB->TV adapter.

DogP

Congrats!

DogP

That’d be cool, but I don’t think I’ve got enough time to be able to join in the fun.

DogP

Maybe not a steal, but I wouldn’t think twice about it ;-).

DogP

Yeah… seriously… I really doubt anyone will pay anywhere near that for the “Mystery Box” games. If there are any differences between the released version and the version you have, telling what they are could only increase the value of the game. So by you saying there may be differences, but you’re leaving that to the buyer means to me that it’s the same as the released version. If you really can’t see any differences, I would also dump the EPROMs and hope that there is a difference. If there’s no difference, then the real value is the blank cart and the price of the EPROMs.

The way I see it, those items are pretty common… for several months those blank carts were available on Yahoo JP every week (selling for ~$200). A blank cart is probably worth more than that now since they’re no longer easily obtainable, but with the games being released, unless they’re totally different, there’s no way they’re worth anywhere near that much.

You just recently bought them… did you buy them only with the intent to flip them? Did you do any research before buying them? Why don’t you contact the person you got them from and try to get some history on them, or post who you got them from so others can contact them?

And yes… I’d pay that much for Zero Racers ;-).

DogP

Heheheh, April Fools on all you guys thinking it’s an April Fools joke :-). That’s actually a recent video of the display working… no camera tricks or any other kinds of tricks. I finally got around to working on it some more, and actually made some good progress… so I figured it was an appropriate time to show it off, since it was an April Fools joke a year ago.

DogP

Heheheheh… except it’s not an April Fools joke this year :-).

DogP

Cool… congrats! Keep us informed on the details.

DogP

Yeah, I tried copying the binaries of gccvb from my desktop to my laptop and it wouldn’t work… complained about some libraries that needed to be linked or something. Not sure if there’s something easily that can be done to fix it… I just installed cygwin on my laptop and rebuilt it on there (since I wanted cygwin on my laptop anyway).

DogP

9V is fine, as long as it’s DC, not AC. Of course it has to physically fit into the tap, and you really should make sure + and – are on the correct pins (sometimes + is inside and – is outside, and other times it’s reversed).

DogP

Heh, you mean like this 😎 :

That’s a screenshot of the gameboy emulator I tried porting to the VB… it worked, but VERY slow 😕 .

DogP

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I don’t see why LttP wouldn’t fit on a cart… it fit on an SNES cart, and I believe it was 8 mbits… that’s the size of most of the VB carts. There were also 16 mbit carts released, and 32 mbit carts could have been done with just a simple swap of the mask ROM on the board. The system actually supports up to 128 mbits, although finding that size ROM might be pretty tough.

I’d guess even though you’d need more graphics for the 3D effect, since the VB is only 2bpp (4 shades of red), you’d probably need less room for graphics since the SNES had more available colors (I don’t know what it is for sure, maybe 8bpp).

But yeah, that would be REALLY cool, but like I said… it’s a LOT of work to make a game, so getting someone to create that would be a HUGE task.

DogP

Sure it could be done… the problem is finding someone to do it 🙁 .

DogP

Heh, but that requires a grinder/dremel, which they don’t have :-P.

DogP

jojobean wrote:
if a site like this controlled the distribution of them they wouldnt even be all over the place, just here.

LOL! Once they got out, they’d be everywhere… there’s no way to keep them in one place on the internet.

I think the reason nobody has dumped and released them is because the people who have the carts spent the thousands of dollars to get them… why would they want to give them away for free? There’s been LOTS of discussions on this in the past… do a search.

DogP