Do you have an actual photo of the one he made for you?

Wonder mostly if it’s a black square with the red print on it or if the red print is placed directly on the T-shirt.

1)Srimok
2)Benjamin Stevens
3)mawa
4)adler_0
5)Randy Jeffery
6)Doesbenfoldfive
7)L___E___T
8)Glover
9) Bigmak
10)Alfissta
11)Bigmak
12)Robert Molander (Gamewarriors)
13)Travis
14)Jumpman
15)VBmills
16)Gwyndion
17)Gwyndion
18)Robert Molander (Gamewarriors)
19)Alfissta
20)L___E___T
21)RayXambeR
22)Camera
23)ZueriHB
24)VBmills
25)83skillz
26)TheForce81
27)e5frog

What’s the deal with the instruction booklet, is it a complete booklet or just the cover? If it’s just the cover, what’s the point? 😉

If it’s the ribbon cable then I can do it, I’m guessing you’re not in Sweden though so perhaps it’s better to ask someone closer.

I have used the soldering method on my two units – haven’t had a problem since then.

But Richard lives in the UK so shipping is probably more than 3.99 each and you’d have to buy from three different sellers…

At least $18 (currently) plus the extra shipping overseas.

Seems like it would easier to ask the guy selling V.L. Baseball to give you a good price on three unless you have spare ones already.

Seems to be no cheap items on amazon.co.uk.

Perhaps we can ask B.S. to buy and send them for us, the Amazon-sellers don’t seem to keen on shipping internationally.

Forgot to send my carts when he just wanted two carts… darn.

Guess I could buy three V.L. Baseball and have them sent directly…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/190589801366

Works very nice, better anaglyphic feeling on my CRT TV than on my LCD computer screen no matter which color glasses I chose.

I tried it playing Bound High!
There’s a few quirks, slows down when I changed the screen size, the initial size seems a bit squeezed together but the game was flowing with no graphical jerks. Didn’t find anywhere to reset it to the initial settings. Also got a hang that resulted in me having to turn the Wii off after returning to the menu twice and then trying to resume the game.

There should be some optimized Wii setting, they all have the same specs so it should be possible to calculate it so you don’t have to play around with size and framerate etc.

Good work though Mednafen is a good emulator.

Nice, I’ll give it a try, not that I’m usually able to find a pair of glasses that works or set the colors correctly to make the anaglyphic mode work for me…

[e5frog]

Seems there wasn’t a better label picture made, I spent the evening/half the night doing one in 1200 dpi. Scan of Galactic Pinball as base and used the logo from the box picture posted here. I should maybe clean the background up a bit to suit any future release… Looked pretty nice on photo paper.

Feel free to use it.

Also on postimage:
http://postimage.org/image/2rhhxrx2c/

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I missed this entirely, too bad – I guess I’ll have to make my own…

It should have been sold like this instead!

Looks great!

Unless you live alone there are always family matters, but what’s the hurry anyway? Last big project I worked on took about five years – that’s the timespan you have when just having a few hours per week to spend.

I think the biggest problem when working on something like this out in the open is that all the negative comments hit a lot harder than the positive comments lift – so you tend loose interest after a while and start to think that nobody really wants it…

There are always people that have comments, “you can’t route like that”, “why not use this and that”, “it looks bad”, “you’ll save $0.01 with this part instead” and so on…
But do we see them working on one – nope, if you suffer from perfectionism nothing ever gets done because it’s too much work to do it exactly right. So the people that have less of this and are more of “let’s do it”-people get it done and working (most of the time) even if it’s not according to every little rule the “know-betters” have learned on work, in school or at summer camp once 1989. 😉

Maybe you should skip it if it’s not fun anymore, do something more stimulating at least for a while. Getting a partner can help, you can take turns working on it. Trying to get something done that isn’t fun can really take you down.

Anyway, hope you do it – I will buy one if I can afford one, it would be very handy being to start the VB and choose any game instead of first having to hook it up to the PC and flash the cart. FlashBoy/FlashBoy Plus is the best thing out there now though and I’m glad to have one.

So what’s left to do? I’m sure there are people here willing to help if you divide it up in little parts.

If you make a list, what more have you planned to do? The hardware is done as far as a real prototype that needs some software to run, right?

Anyone can download the properly built version here, the proper code and the right compiler had been used before AFAIK but it didn’t build right until they got help setting it up right AFAIR.
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/games/?u001d

Damn this site is slow tonight, switched servers to a C64 or what’s up?

Yes the CRC32 is E81A3703.

Don’t give up, people aren’t here because they are playing games… 😉

… and it’s annoying that you have to log in and get directed to some other page than the one you got a link to in your e-mail before you can write an answer – that has left me out of a few threads now and then.

Interest moves in cycles, the same thing isn’t hot all the time.

Anyway, if you decide not to continue, why not team up with someone or at least share your work. FlashBoy Plus is in no way a replacement for this – it’s just a FlashBoy (that was around before you started) that has ram to be able to save the scores on the few games that uses it. It holds ONE game at the time – that’s the only bad thing about it.

Richard who made the FlashBoy is holding off his plans to further develop the FlashBoy into and SD-cart because you started this project (as far as I understand). He has already the same thing for Vectrex which he’s selling as VecMulti. Adapting it for VB will probably not take that much time since he has the FlashBoy development in his achievement history.

If you’re going to give up on it though because of lack of interest from us or yourself or economics (which prevented me from making my Multi-cart a reality) better to tell us so we can send bribes to Richard to start working on a FlashBoy SD.

I wasn’r really sure so I chose International shipping:

Payment method : Credit card One time paymentPoint usage : NoneShipping method : International shipping

Shipping was 420 Yen, that’s about US$ 5.19.

But who know if shipping costs have changed lately.

Not always, although it’s usually seen close to most digital circuits. I guess it depends on the recommendations of the circuit manufacturer.

The FlashBoy doesn’t have them:

So, next time make sure you make the PCB right and if that works then it’s done for production. 😉

What’s the standard pinout you expected, can’t you buy some other chip with the expected pinout instead?

I wonder though if it could all be compressed into fitting a standard cart shell…

You don’t need to solder headers on each card, there’s spring loaded probe connectors you can attach to your programmer and press against the holes. IIRC these are pretty expensive, looks like miniature gold drill heads.

Eager to see it work.

I forgot about the sucky postimage picture handling.

Here are the links to the full sized pictures:
http://postimage.org/image/h0r5uk10/
http://postimage.org/image/h0stdwis/
http://postimage.org/image/h0zfjahw/

I got it today!

Wonderful wonderful thing – fit’s like a glove!

It can’t possibly get any better than this!

Even the thicker part of the blade fits with some room to spare (goes in about 2mm).

This is THE Virtual Boy tool to get.

I missed this one:

akumie wrote:
Fuck, and I getting it next week
Wll it must be easier to modify then some regular screw

Yes, just sand down the lower part of the handle and it should fit.

You can send it back otherwise, I did and I got the cost plus shipping costs both ways back – very nice seller.

@akumie
🙂

When writing stuff like that it shows how little you know about programming.

First of all, they use different processors, basically nothing is the same and I think it’s safe to say almost nothing of the code for a Vectrex game could be used for a VB version. Maybe if there was some C/C++ source code for it…

Vecrex also has vector graphics, so not even that could be copied – fastest way would be to write it from scratch.

As bigmak mentioned, Danb’s super excellent Hunter engine would be a good start for such a Tank-game.