I picked up a bunch of carts and another system off of craigslist. Looks like it is the actual VB and not the Wario Demo cart.
I tested out the carts is the new VB and they work – didn’t work on the older one.
Any idea on what would be a good idea to look into for fixing the VB in the stand? Should I just try to swap out of the systems. The new one I got looks to be in better condition (at least the foam flap anyways).
DogP wrote:
Are you sure your start button isn’t bad? There’s no reason that carts should stall anywhere, unless just part of the ROM is actually bad (VERY uncommon, and very unlikely to show up as stalling at the warning screen). If it boots to a screen, your cart is most likely fine. Do you have any other carts to try?
DogP
I don’t think it is the start button because once or twice it made it do the Virtual Boy screen and then seemed stuck there.
I will look into it some more. Hopefully it isn’t the console or the controller because it looks like it would be a pain to have to replace those on the setup, but at least it will give me a good chance to really clean everything.
Sadly, I don’t have any other carts. I just never got into the VB. Someone actually contacted me about trading some NES games and such when he mentioned he had this. I saw the working light and the advertisements on the side and new I’d have to have it.
I was looking to pick up some other carts close by on craigslist but what I found was overprice so I will probably order a cheapy or two off ebay to get everything rolling.
Thanks for the help! I will update this thread after I get to the next step.
Yeah I tried that a bunch of time. It didn’t seem to help. Out of probably a 100 times the cart has made it to the screen where it say Virtual Boy and then freezes.
I was hoping there was a way to maybe clean the contact or something, but I wouldn’t know how since they are those strange tube ones.
