Okay, so it’s clear that this US adapter requires a US-style power supply. Just to be clear, even though the adapter is US, my Japanese VB can still draw power safely from it, right?

TheForce81 wrote:
You need a EU or JAP adapter with a JAP adapter tap or US adapter with US adapter tap to get it working per specifications. Though using the US adapter will get you to the next problem, you need a converter from 110-220V then.

So would one of these work on my Japanese VB with US adapter, perhaps?

http://en.retrogamesupply.com/products/power-supply-for-nintendo-virtual-boy-us

speedyink wrote:
I also wondered that. There’s some other interesting stuff too, like why there are so many warnings, and the research that was done that proved it was actually good for the eyes. It’s too bad that research never finished in time to promote it as a benefit. Instead the media went in the opposite direction, latched on to all the warnings and used them as ammo for their ‘unhealthy’ campaign.

Ooh, I never heard of reports that it helped the eyes – do you have any links?

Lester Knight wrote:
ROMs need to be padded to 16MBit to flash and load. Are you sure you aren’t using pre-padded ROMs? Perhaps your Mario Tennis ROM was corrupted or did not flash correctly?

Fairly sure as the size pre-padding was not 2MB. Perhaps I messed up somewhere on the line, I’ll redo.

Dreammary wrote:
Unfortunately, it’s an eventuality that the screens will fail. They will need soldered because Nintendo chose to glue the screens rather then solder them.

Yeah, that sucks, what a bizarre design choice. Still, I know this forum will be very helpful in that event

Thanks for your post Speedle. Turns out it does work after all! I was using my FlashBoyPlus, and a padded Mario’s Tennis didn’t work, but an unpadded VB Wario Land worked fine! So I guess it’s just the ROMs.

Sorry for the panic, but delighted it works! Now to figure out why the padding on Mario’s Tennis failed.

Mine’s arrived already too. Amazingly fast. Thanks Richard!

Just ordered one! Excited!