If you’re willing to expand this list to “Games that reference VB in some way”, then you should add Mutant Mudds — there’s a really great red and black hidden level. If you play it on a 3DS it’s even in 3D! 😀
Thanks so much for your work on this! I’ve been wanting to play Insmouse no Yakata for a long time, but was hoping a solid English patch would come along.
Oh wow! I’m quite late to the thread, but this is a fantastic find! Thanks so much for sharing, Cpt. F.! And thanks to your associate as well! We’re in their debt!
Here’s hoping the ROM looks good. It’s an amazing work of preservation going on here!
pinmagic wrote:
The Dreamcast may be my all time fave console, after the VB, of course! 😉 And Rez was one of the best DC games. So damn cool.
In Japan, they released all kinds of peripherals we never saw in the US, but I had a friend in JP who sent me a ton of them. One was for Rez. It a small box – maybe half the size of a cigarette pack – that you plugged into the DC, and placed in your pocket. All it did was vibrate when there was an impact in the game. Totally pointless, but so cool. I may still have that somewhere – not sure.
jrronimo wrote:
I’m curious: Did you make your own new PCB? If so, that’s fantastic! Can you share any information about the board?
Confession – the current PCB I use is designed by a fellow out in California named Kevin Mellott. For the record, I did tell him about this project, and he is alright with me using his board. I am in the process of designing my own board, as soon as I determine a Flash chip in 4Mbit, 8Mbit, and 16Mbit sizes that includes a #RESET line and operates on 5V. It’s harder than you’d think.
The board is viewable in the first post of the NintendoAge thread, fully populated except for the nvRAM and MaskROM.
Super cool! I’m glad to see people making their own boards for things like this. I remember hearing before about how hard it is to get the right Flash chips; I seem to recall Mindstorm or someone getting lots of really old Intel-made chips or something… The memory is fuzzy at this point, haha.
I’ve got one of the original productions of these, otherwise I’d be in for one of the new ones. My wallet, however, isn’t, heh.
