That looks like a rally interesting VB item – congrats on the find and thanks for scanning the pages!

I’d love to read this, but site appears to be down, DaddaRuleKon 🙁

Beautiful, if only I had the funds! 😀

I’m with RunnerPack, especially if there was more than one LED so that they could flash in a ‘flowing’ sequence.

Batteries on these don’t last long, so that would make sense too.

I don’t think there’s any kind of connecting data hidden away that would interest a VB historian as such, as it is just an LED on a badge. A remote control would need a much bigger PCB for example.

Thanks for the snaps – I like them, if only you could swap the KS for letters VB 🙂

In seriousness, you could probably get some Virtual branding applied somewhere somehow. There are similar headphones that allow the plates to be switched out etc.

Does anyone offer this service for the UK or Europe?

I have a broken VB that I can’t diagnose…

Interesting – I’ll pick some up if the red matches pretty closely! 🙂

This is awful – how many carts of each game were in that package?

Love this poster so much – who designed it and made the wireframe image? Is there a high res version of that somewhere on the site??

In tracks record terms, the whole thing is a fad. I don’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings – but 3D and VR have come and gone numerous times and every time people get excited and the pickup is never sustained, it’s a novelty by nature.

Like I said not to hurt anyone’s feelings, I really liek 3D and VR type applications and I think as long as they’re practical, we should believe in them. Just remember the odds aren’t good 🙂

Also on Kinect – it was billed as this amazing thing and again, it got great pickup and MS did a really good job in converting people to that, but it was never sustainable past that initial wow phase, so understandably when people are forced to buy Kinect 2 for extra, that transientce is still fresh enough in their memory for it to sting just a little bit.

I think you’ll enjoy reading through this – congrats on the find.

http://blog.beforemario.com/2013/04/nintendo-magic-roulette-ca-1966.html

Thrift stores should really do a quick google on the things they pick up – they always miss little grails like this.

Oh man you just got me thinking – Imagine a VS style cabinet that was set up for 2 player Hyper Fighting…

That link cable couldn’t come soon enough!

How does everyone else feel about the listing?

To be honest with a little boy on the way I’m also downsizing some of my collection, and if somebody offered me that I’d really have to think about it. Not that I have it listed or anything, just saying.

Add into the mix that I am a serious Street Fighter collector, I have some sealed Japanese soundtrack collector boxes that are very, very rare, as well as arcade hardware, sales brochures and all sorts of other things. So I love my copy for both SF factor and of course VB factor.

Street Fighter 2 is my favourite game of all time, I play it often.

Looks incredible! Can’t wait to see more!

Yeah, no way are these going to go back on sale for $80, sorry but I’d be surprised if they weren’t double that originally, a lot of work went into squeezing the game onto a VB PCB.

In terms of playing the game, there’s always the Flashboy demo, which gives a great playable impression of the game. And the rest is of course, SF2 as you’d expect it with some awesome enhancements.

I think with the attention this now has, Capcom would have to follow it up if a re-run ever went public, especially with SFV now in production they have to actively protect their IP.

Minggus wrote:
I wonder how much hyper fighting would go for in the end. Its allready at 410 USD with 9 days to go 😐

How does the forum feel about this? I am surprised to see them being sold.

Also this:

Thank you both very, VERY much for doing this work.

I actually find the game quite therapeutic but could never really understand what was going on, so will look forward to giving this some play time!

Thanks again you guys, awesome effort for the VB community!

I would just add that legally, Capcom have to fight this.

Nintendo may not care about Bound High so much (and are generally lenient with fan efforts) but Capcom are a different group, and are still making Street Fighter games and selling them now.

Legally speaking they have to be protective of it, otherwise copyright law dictates they don’t own the copyright. Bonkers, but the law.

~ and you just bumped it to the top again 😀

But yeah, the VB is a very niche product these days – but while the forum may seem quiet, the amount of work, research and discussion on other parts of the site is very large.

Perhaps most topics have already been talked about in such detail already.

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Here are some I have always wanted – games where the Red & Black charm works appropriately:

– a Makaimura game (could be Ghouls n Ghosts or gargoyle’s Quest / Demon’s Crest)

– a Megaman/Rockman game

– a Castlevania (classic 16-bit style, no RPG baggage)

– a sprite-based FPS ~ish Terminator game (from T800 perspective)

– a wireframe / polygonal F Zero (some great homebrew exists!)

– a sprite-based OutRun (some great homebrew exists!)

– a Wario Ware game (fill it with NES and GB style gameplay)

– a top-down Sweet Home style horror-themed dungeon crawler

– Street Fighter 2 3D (it happened!)

– a classic 2D Metroid a la Zero Mission

I think that’s about it for all my ideas, I wrote them down somewhere ages ago, there may have been more.

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