What is wrong with your system?

Both displays are glitchy (don’t work, or display garbage, or a mirrored image, independendly of each other) and one of the speakers (I forgot which one) sometimes doesn’t work.

I’d love to have my VB repaired by you, but I’d like to hear some actual feedback from someone else. Also, does “90-day warranty” mean the system should work for at least 90 days before breaking again? If so, how long does the fix last? I wouldn’t like to send it off to repair every three months, but rather just get a screwdriver and do it myself.

By the way, i would love to see a picture of tones of Sega 32x’s attached on top of each other, would it still work if you had say a sega 32x attached to the sega mega drive (genesis), then a sega 32x attached onto another sega 32x so on and so on till you put a cartridge on the top?

Although I don’t have a 32X (not even a Genesis, but I do play them in the emulator), I don’t think it would work, since the cartridge slot isn’t the only connection between the two. While the topmost 32X probably _would_ pass data to the 32X below it, and the latter would think it’s receiving data from a Genesis cartridge, and so would just pass data to the 32X below, and so on, until they would reach the Genesis (with lots of lag of course), you have to consider that the 32X hasn’t got the input for the cables coming from another 32X, and I doubt it would work well. Still, if you get another 32X, why don’t you try?

I only had a headache _once_ in my whole life because of it, and that was when I first played it. But I was sick and dehydrated.

Don’t throw away your VB yet! I’ve been having this problem for months (on both screens), but I need to find the time to fix it. Look in the “Anyone got a VB screwdriver?” thread I started; I think someone mentioned where you can get such a screwdriver. About the oven, I don’t think much can go wrong – you have nothing to lose, and it seems to work for most people. Don’t lose your hope.

How come you have two 32Xs? I thought these things are nearly impossible to get because of all the many cables needed for it are so rare.
Also it’s nice to see you have a Jaguar. (I don’t own any console apart from a GBA SP and a VB, but I have played 3DO, 32X, Sega CD and Jaguar games in emulators. I like them – Jaguar isn’t bad at all.)

I think that @World refers to the console itself, and @Mark was the brand it belonged to, along with the FloppyDock, keyboard/tablet, controllers, modems, and other accessories.

I’d like to get a Pippin too one day. But they’re so rare and expensive (oh look here’s a rare black one from Japan, but the shipping is so expensive it’s really only for hardcore collectors: http://cgi.ebay.com/APPLE-BANDAI-PIPPIN-WORLD-BLACK-EDITION_W0QQitemZ250437805890QQihZ015QQcategoryZ139971QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ), and considering it’s just a Macintosh computer in disguise, makes you wonder if it’s really worth it. But it sure was innovative for its time. Compare it to the Xbox 360, for example. Do you see any similarities?

Wow, a Pippin. I suspect it’s the Bandai @World?

There’s a thread called something like “VB screen glitch problem” that sits at the top of the main discussion board.

Regarding the headache, did you set the IPD and focus correctly?

Garrison wrote:
My friend told me you can vote as many times as you want on an iPod touch, and the same is probably true on other portable internet capable devices. ;-).

You could probably do the same on any browser by just deleting the cookies. Hmmm, let’s try that…

EDIT (about 10 seconds later): No, it doesn’t seem to work, or I am doing something wrong.

Agreed.

Oops, looks like I should have been more observant!

So that’s what the back of the box looks like… shame on you KR155E for not scanning it in 🙂

There’s one particular photo of the Virtual Boy that people seem to use in 90% of all times when the Virtual Boy is mentioned somewhere:

I hate that picture. The stand is in the wrong position, the angle just seems weird, the controller looks ugly because the adapter tap is on it instead of the battery pack, and the lighting… eww.

Personally I set my stand to be in the right position (i.e. not the position shown in the picture above)

By the way, that photo on Wikipedia is really cool, although the stand is in the wrong position again.

What about Newton OS?

I’ve often thought of trying to make a BASIC interpreter/compiler to let people make quick VB stuff like demos and such. Anyone know of a good, simple, FOSS BASIC interpreter/compiler? Preferably one targetting a microcontroller.

That would be great, since my only programming experience is from ~4 years of programming with various dialects of BASIC and Visual Basic.

The intro song from Red Alarm… ahhh, it makes such good use of stereo sound and it’s simply epic. It’s also the first music track I heard on the VB.

How about Boot Camp?

but, yeah, a level editor for wario land would kick ass!

Or a Red Alarm level editor, that would be even better!