I almost spilled my lunch all over myself trying to set it down so I could look at the screen shot! Wow!
…so when can we start mass-production? 😉
Honestly, I love soldering and building circuits, so if you need any such grunt work, let me know! I’d be glad to help out for sure!!!
Not nagging…just asking…but are you planning on outputting red/blue for 3D glasses use? I know you can still buy actual (non-cardboard) 3D glasses–nice ones–because I have a friend that did. With some of those and this super-cool bad-boy project you have there, we could all get the VB experience full blast! *drooling*
I wonder how close the VB display aspect is to 16:9… *imagining VB on my 50′ HDTV* *drooling on keyboard*
Keep up the great work!! You are a legend in your own time!!!!!
Yeah, I’ll hold out for a pure, beautiful, ultra-crisp SVideo-outputted version. Now I need a spare vb to disembowel and some “electronics for dummies” books… 😛
A long time ago, I bought some replacement VB parts from nintendo and tried to get a link cable too, and the official replay was “they were planned but never made”. But, hey, look at F-Zero X for N64…it was made before the 64DD was, right? But it had the ‘hooks’ in it to look for the additional hardware being present, and it added opened up the track designer capabilities then. Maybe we just haven’t hit the right link-cable configuration yet. Are there patents or schematics that we know of that would help?
I’m trying to figure out how to make a distinction of what data belongs where in the buffer, so as not to start late and end up drawing at the start of the output what is actually in the middle of the display image or something along that line. Do we know if there is any actual sync signal? I know you said that the “vibrating mirror” is master, so it has to somehow know when to be in a certain position, right? I’m just trying to get a grasp of what horrors lie ahead. I have to assume that for there to be a constant viewable display produced by the VB, it needs a means of syncing itself accurately and with precision. Something has to feed the mirror array…
I’m either gonna know a whole lot more about electronics when I get done with this, or I’m gonna be a card-carrying VB hater… 😉
I suppose if all else fails, just replace the existing LEDs with waaaay brighter ones and replace the eye pieces with powerful (red/blue tinted)magnifying lenses…then just play the vb in a dark room and it’ll project onto a wall…acquiring accurate convergence may be a problem…but hey, since I’m joking about this vb-projector idea anyway….
I read on one site something about other people trying to address this display issue, and one thing proposed was to create a ‘terminal cart’ that would itself capture and provide a bitmapped version of the displays. Perhaps it could be done like the Game Genies of old, having the actual game plug thru this cart?
Also, something that has been running amuck thru my mind is whether anything can be gained by examining carefully the coding that the emulation programmers have employed to display this video. I mean, it’s working for them right? They obviously had to handle this same problem of generating a viable display from a series of LED blink patterns.
Anyway, is it possible that it would be greatly more feasable to do this via a plug-thru cartridge instead of directly modifying the VB? I am interested in this prospect, but concerned that nobody has done it…so there must be a reason that it can’t possibly work… 🙂
I knew it would be hard…maybe not THIS hard…but I’m open to ideas. I do want to pursue this, but I’m by no means an electronics engineer or rocket scientist.
RGB+Sync is all my NTSC/PAL encoder circuit needs to generate a valid signal. The fully-produced circuit can be made for around $50 too. Its the same kind of circuit used in a JAMMA ‘Supergun’/’Supernova’ type device for arcade games. If we can somehow acquire some semblence of an R+sync…hmmm…that’s interesting…because I can feed a signal speecifically to any color I want to…so I *could* send the signal from one display to the encoder’s R circuit, and the signal from the second display to the encoder’s B circuit! Problem solved!! The Red and BLue can be created and linked by this one circuit!! I was really crunchin on how that could be feasibly done…now…all we need is the signal, REGARDLESS of it’s frequency, my circuit will correct it to NTSC/PAL. Wow, I am excited that others have thought about the prospect of this.
Hey, am I mistaken or weren’t there some actual units made that had a single-screen kiosk like arrangement, like maybe they were used at E3 or Spaceworld? I remember seeing a stand that had a VB, and a display so that the observers could see what was going on! I know this can be done!! I remember seeing it!
What an awesome thing it would be to be able to finally play/watch VB on a big screen…no more neckaches! Wow.
Anybody else out there that can help? I know we can do this!
