Ethan.Snyder98
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Virtual boy repair fraud i lost 487 dollars cause a false police report. (GOOD UNEXPEXTED NEWS)
Very, very sad to hear something awful like that happening to you, especially after just giving me some great info on my virtual boy’s problem. This is a community I know is full of so many talented, honest, good-hearted, like-minded individuals all sharing an incredible amount of passion and dedication for this underappreciated console, so it’s incredibly disheartening to hear how selfish a couple individuals can be, and how stressful dealing with them can be.
To me it definitely sounds like a dishonest person, no one would refuse to believe a respected reputable member of the community, and start trying to lie if fedex actually screwed up. Someone would only attempt that with the malicious intent to screw the other person over. If fedex did indeed mess up, they might not necessarily work with the buyer, possibly for the fear they might be getting screwed over by a dishonest seller (dealt with a couple of those myself) but they would be as honest as possible, knowing they did nothing wrong. All evidence points to this person trying to scam you, no doubt.
I would try to call both ebay and paypal to talk to a human about this, since there’s a lot to unpack here (and reasoning with an automated service-robot won’t go well) I wish I knew more about this sort of thing, but that’s all I can suggest, really sorry this happened to you.
Now the cause of just a solid line could be a couple things, but it’s not the ribbon cable. The cable has been soldered many times, and the problem always persists, plus a loose cable would result in multiple thicker lines or glitchy display, not one solid line. It could be a cracked mirror, or a line of dirt on it, but that’s been cleaned, it could be the glass in between the LED’s and the mirror, but that’s perfect as well, so the problem for me at least must lie in the LED’s themselves. The casing around the LED’s is firmly attached to the board, so that means nothing’s getting in or out, so the likelyhood of dust or other particles entering in and sitting on an LED are slim to none. So either one if the bulbs is bad, or one of the connections is, and seeing how microscopic the connections are to the LED, it’d be almost impossible to replace a bulb or re-solder it. The only option is to replace the whole LED-unit/board altogether, which are hard to come-by unfortunately, so I’ve just learned to live with mine. I don’t know what yours looks like, but I’m guessing the issue is the same. Hopefully I was able to answer some of the questions you’ve been having problems with.
Very sorry for the long delay, I haven’t been able to work on my VB for a while due to work. So this is what the left-eye of my VIrtual Boy looks like. There is a single horizontal like going through the middle of the lower half of the screen, which in most games you can’t see, but in some with reds all over you can see pretty clearly. Due to the max file-size limit, I have to split the images up into a couple posts:
1: The first one is where I first noticed the line, which you can see on the lower half of the bumpers. The other lines are just from the camera.
2: You can see it in the bottom of the text box right under the shadow, it’s harder to see in the darker reds.
3: you can clearly see it next to the box, it’s always in the same spot, just sometimes more noticeable than others.
4: and you can VERY clearly see it here on the clouds, when the whole screen is red, it’s bright as day.
I just sent him an email recently and he sent this back, he’s probably talking about the multiboy, which means now you’re “the guy” 🙂
