Sorry it’s been so long, but I’m finally in my house and currently unpacking. I found all my VB stuff and all the blank pcbs, now if I can remember how to make reproduction games I should be good to go

It’s been a crazy 3 years to get this far, after 36 mortgage payments, I’m finally in

Hi there,
no one is late, except me.. It’s been a rough few months :/

I wish I had better news. and this was something going on, but for now. its not going so well (housing issues that I’ve been dealing with for over 2 years now for a house I purchased back in 2016, long story, pretty much can’t living in the house I purchased, contractor screwed me over, so I’ve moved several times since in apartments and relatives, as the legal battle goes on and on and on and on and on and on (2 years later) and on and on and on

Hey everyone!

Not dead, just wounded 😛 Sorry I’ve been MIA for a while now, house stuff and living situation has taken a turn for the worse :/ as well as some issues in the family. So it’s been a slow start to getting the repro’s off the ground. I Still fully intend on doing so, just don’t have a ETA at the moment.

Hey Everyone,
Just stopping in, don’t want you to feel like i abandoned this. I still very much want to do this, and working on a few loose ends. I’m currently in the middle of packing up my house, moving it into storage, renovations, moving into another house, more renovations, and then finally moving into my new house. So it’s been super busy, I’m real sorry about the wait.

Soon I’ll start taking pre-pre-orders, where I’ll collect everyone’s name and email address and make a spreadsheet of everyone interested. Then I’ll create a mailing list and keep everyone in touch that way (using a BCC to make sure everyone’s email is hidden from the others).

It’ll make it easier for me as well as a few other reasons.

I’ll keep you posted!

Sorry again for the delay
~John

It is indeed the full version, not the demo
and I only mean that its hard to talk to the guy since I don’t know directly who it is, so I have to talk to a guy who knows a guy kinda thing. But don’t worry, its going to be alright ^-^

I’ll be setting up a final price and a pre-order post in the next few days

Looks like no objections to seeing the artwork ^-^

Here it is!

I’ll be getting more and more into place soon, stay tuned!

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Cool,
Seeing a great response. I’ll be figuring out costs soon. But in the mean time, who’d like to see the label? or should I keep it a mystery for now?

If it’s any comfort to any customers. I do have a WAY nicer pillow for the carts.

MineStorm wrote:

however minestorm already confirmed theyre re-releasing cart-only versions of this

I was referring to Johnny Phantom.

BTW I’ve seen his new label artwork and it is REALLY nice.

Thanks! ^-^

Seam wrote:
oh and if u do make other repros, id love jack bros and waterworld, as theyre the only 2 i dont own, cuz theyre just too overpriced.

I will be doing other repro’s, but sorry to say, I won’t be doing anything thats officially released. Just Homebrews, Translations, and other Rom Hacked versions

Seam wrote:
count me in, i need 2 copies. however minestorm already confirmed theyre re-releasing cart-only versions of this, so i seriously doubt theyd give you the rom for repro purposes.

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=37370#forumpost37370

at any rate, i would definitely buy 2 if theyre reasonably priced

Neat! minestorm is the guy who supplied me with the PCBs for this ROM, and I sent him a peek of the new label. Wonder if their is a connection 😛

Ok V fishing wont be my first one, Uncle Tusk is doing a batch of them and I don’t wanna step on any toes. I did get my Fishing license label pretty much done. But for now I’ll get a hold of some of the home brewers and try to get their ok. I’ll wait until sometime after Tusk has his out before I do a batch. Pretty much I’m still in the planning stages. I got 2 labels done so far, and I got some parts coming, so It looks like I’m all geared up to do some repro’s in the near future. neat! I won’t be doing boxes or manuals, I don’t have the equipment to do a great job so I wont, buuutttt.. I think I can get Tusk my art files once the games are announced and you can buy just the cart from me, and if you want to make it a sweet CIB get your paper needs from him ^-^

thunderstruck wrote:
Virtual Fishing is the only translated game that doesn’t have a repo yet. I talked to Tusk a while ago and he did want to make a cib run. However, I haven’t heard from him since.

If you want to make repos of it just go for it. I don’t want money, just one or two free copies.

Awesome!
Thanks for the okay, this will either be the first or second one I do

One thing I like to do, is to make my games stand out, as well as not hurt value(?) of other reproductions is to design or arrange my own label art. I’m no artist, so I wont be creating new content, but I’m pretty good at making some neat designs for labels with stuff I find online. I’ve done 3 games for the NES over at NintendoAge and did the labels myself, and I think they came out pretty well, my favorite being the Goonies. I’ll get cracking at a V.Fishing one today

I made one for myself,
they do have a battery, it’s the same as the original Japan cart, a battery is used to save scores and such. Pretty neat!, if I get this repro thing going, it’ll be def one of the games I do.

Hey Everyone,
I would say stay tuned. I feel somethings a (home)brewing and there may be reproduction details coming. Figuring out everything right now.

Here’s my rough draft of ideas for now. Nothing is set in stone, things can, and most likely will change between the time of this post and what may end up being the thing that happens at the end.

I’m working on getting a PCB supplier now. MineStorm has sent me his remaining stock (which I didn’t even ask him for, he’s just that cool!) and I have a 2nd source (not sure if I should be naming names as of yet) willing to help as well. So a lot of supplies, which was one thing I was worried about. So I can check that off the list. Now comes the next parts

Things to figure out:
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Talking to coders to see what/if they want as a kick back and get their “OK”
Will Donor carts be mandatory? or can I find a supply myself?
How hard would it be to do a bi-weekly/monthly thing, for example, is it possible to do a free for all and take orders (usually in small manageable batches like 20 give or take)? or do what I’ve done in the past with my NES/SNES reproductions and say “this batches title is XYZ!” and take orders that way, not to say if you missed “XYZ” theres only one batch before i move onto the next title, and if you missed your chance your SOL. I’d do a looping cycle, so after a few batches “XYZ” will return to the front of the line and so on. (I have a feeling this would be the method I do)

ok so I may be doing a test batch of a game. Not taking any spots for it yet, but curious, which game would you like to see first? (Keeping in mind, only doing fan translations, unreleased games, and homebrews). Once I get a feel whats the most in demand game for the first one, I can contact whoever’s involved with the ROM and get the ball rolling

I’m not the best in writing, so does all that make sense?

Thanks Everyone!

(oh! P.S. they would be carts only, I don’t have the resources to do boxes at this moment)

I got the shells and labels. I just gotta remove the old labels, right now those are 11 Mario tennis looking carts.
I may be interested in making repos but it would have to be a team effort between minestorm and I. He has the pcbs. Then it would be a matter of finding donors. I dunno. Maybe

Big Thanks to MineStorm! His PCBs have arrived and I was able to populate the needed chips and they work great!! Now I got 11 of the best homebrew/japan imports/translations on a playable cart! Couldn’t have done this without him! (even got a couple extra PCB’s incase Dragon Hopper ever gets a dump, hope hope hope)

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Looks like MineStorm came to the rescue, I should be all set now, thanks everyone! and big Thanks to MineStorm!!

This is epic! I’ll be there when the sales begin, can’t wait! You are truly awesome for letting this out!