mawa wrote:
i also had spot this one looks like a nice buy for somebody that not have virtual lab.
I will not bid on it or the price have to be low then maybe i will buy them ( iff somebody from here is goining for it please tell me then i will not bid on it )

Unfortunately, I have to break my earlier promise of not bidding on anything on yahoo.jp. :/

I can’t pass up a chance to bid on Virtual Lab. I was hoping maybe you all went on vacation or something, haha. Anyway, I will be bidding on that auction, so if no one else here needs/wants it, I’d love to take it as cheap as possible….Just saying. 😉

Also, regarding Jack Bros…. That is a very nice copy on Ebay, so I’d recommend jumping all over it. You can sometimes get these shipped directly to VGA for grading. Just check out the FAQ’s page (Costs and Submission Question #10 – – – (http://www.vggrader.com/faq.aspx#ebaypurchase) which states:

“If I purchase and item on eBay, may I have the item sent directly to your facilities?
We only extend this offer to our International customers to assist in lowering shipping cost.

In order to have this done, you must first contact us letting us know that the item(s) are being directly sent to us in your name. The package(s) being sent must have a note stating that it is for you and you must send the submission packet in its entirety to us via fax before the item is set to arrive.

If continuous problems arise and our guidelines are not followed specifically, we will have to discontinue the service being extended.”

That may be your best option, but I’d also recommend stepping up a tier or two to speed up the grading process. Otherwise, you may end up waiting 2 months for something without knowing if/how it arrived to VGA.

kkabalka wrote:
What size should the box art be before printing? I’ve made a sample box but it was way to small.

Just found the original posting with the box art and manual that I used to modify above. The post below gives printing instructions which state “DO NOT SCALE TO FIT.” I went to Staples to get mine printed, but they had to use 13″x17″ stock using the “Do Not Scale To Fit” option. ****They also had to save it as a .pdf on their system first before they could accomplish this (not sure why, but this worked)***

Depending on how close you fold it, the box will either be slightly larger than normal or significantly larger than normal. Maybe scaled down to 98-97% of original size would work a little better, but I’ll leave that for someone else to tinker with.

Here is the post for the original box with instructions:

Coleseonwilson (Post #60):
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=15219#forumpost15219

Also, see the same thread (Post #100) from Virtualboyfreak who created the manual. Thanks to both these individuals for doing the hard part!

I’d highly recommend going somewhere like Staples because it only cost me $0.69USD per copy vs. wasting all my own ink. I printed several copies to make sure I’d have a few to practice with.

kkabalka wrote:
we need to get a batch of bound high cartridges made. would there be any way to do that without using something like a flashboy? could you just reprogram a game cart like mario tennis with a vue debugger? oh and i have to disagree with the whole u.s./ japan art thing i like the North American art better.

Here’s some info on the Bound High cart.
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4286&post_id=17887#forumpost17887

kkabalka wrote:
Yeah i found my first at a local game store in the hard case with 3 games and bargined it down to 60$. My second and current one i found at our local BOOKSTORE for 75$ with ac adapter and mario tennis. You just have to look around and be ready to hassle for it i hear about them turning up in places like goodwill all the time for 20$

Beware: I’ve recently seen Goodwill auctioning Virtual Boys on their own website during my last internet search for random things. Nothing up there right now, but it seems like they’re finally catching on to us! :o/

Almost forgot pages 1 & 9. I removed the shadow which was visible in the original scan.

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*Special thanks to the individual who created these works of art. I hope I’m not stepping on anyone’s creative toes by editing this stuff!

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I had some issues creating my own version of the manual due to the page numbers being too close to the outer margin and would end up becoming partially cut off when trimming the manual to size. I corrected that by moving the page numbers inwards a bit. I also bolded the outline and shadow on the Bound High cover title to smoothen it up and removed the white marks present on the inner artwork (notably page 7).

The colors looked a bit flushed to me, so I cranked up the contrast to make it pop a bit more (Maybe too much?). I also added red outlines to the screenshots shown on page 6.

…And finally, the original box art had a misspelling on the last bullet point: “Challenging scenarios will *provice* players…” I corrected this on the version I printed.

Not sure if this is any better, but I had some extra time to devote when making mine. Although, mine are made out of 80# paper stock, so a more professional cardboard version would be nice! 😉

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Nintendo-Virtual-Boy-Special-Value-Promo-Button-/320949339397?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aba124505

Let’s see how long this one lasts before someone grabs it… A bit too rich for my blood.

Sorry Mawa. That was me. I ended up with all that seller’s fliers. Although, I was regretting it once I totaled it all together and calculated exchange rate and extra shipping…

I’m out of the market for a few months until my pocketbook recovers from a few other recent purchases, so you won’t have to worry about me on there any time soon! 🙂