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RockRiver

@rockriver • Registered September 12, 2022 • Active 12 months ago
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Dec 15, 2022 • 16:31 Profile Photo RockRiver • Topic: Virtual Boy Color / super Virtual Boy (Mednafen Palette)

Hi! enderRaltor , here you have my first attempts of VB.PAls
Notice that here are one palette file for one game. I choose that colors but you can change it with a hex editor.
(I use imHEX cause shows hex colors on screen.)

Put VB.PAL files in mednafen palette folder… you can put the same name for game and palette and starts with that palette.

SuperVirtualBoy with 4colors palette it is allowed nowadays with Virtual Tap or Mednafen emu.
Furtekk said ” … the palettes can be customized( …) but keep in mind that the color resolution is low so the color choice is basically limited to the same palette the Sega Master System had.”

Mednafen wants a VB.PAL file of 768bytes/256colors but I think the system (virtual boy) doesn’t use all of that bytes. I’m mapping that… for example background color is the first triplet rgb hex 00 00 00 (black) or you can choose other…

These v0.1 only has 4 colors but some software use more palettes/brigtness (“Vertical Force” gives you info about palette color use in options). More colors in future PALs .
“INSMOUSE NO YAKATA” use 8 colors

I use Mednafen/Mednaffe for sVB.
This winGUI only works for me with windowed option. And it´s needed to move window to one screen view. Before I expand view to my screen dimensions (scaling x , y axis) and I prefer filter/shader of scaleX2

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Oct 18, 2022 • 23:08 Profile Photo RockRiver • Topic: How to work around the VB's color limitations

Great!! one viewer…
All people at Discord, I suppose. And I was wrong.
Weird my ideas. Sorry!
Ok. Thanks for your answer and excuse me about that.

(here one fan of your great work. forgive my indiscretion)

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Oct 18, 2022 • 13:59 Profile Photo RockRiver • Topic: How to work around the VB's color limitations

mednafen vb.pal gives that …

Yeahh I know, weird multi color is not VB. (emulators too)

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Oct 17, 2022 • 12:48 Profile Photo RockRiver • Topic: Virtual Boy Color / super Virtual Boy (Mednafen Palette)

But THIS is better !!!

Jack Bros Colorized (missing emu? and coder?…)
Brilliant “remake”
Please, the same with “VB Wario”

More than 4colors… “winner horse”

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Oct 16, 2022 • 20:02 Profile Photo RockRiver • Topic: Virtual Boy Color / super Virtual Boy (Mednafen Palette)

Some screenshots of “Super VirtualBoy” / VirtualBoy 4color …

You could change to your favorite colors with custom VB.PAL file in Mednafen.
Thanks to Mednafen coder Team for this great option. And anaglyph 3d

Editing VB.PAL in a hex editor

Any interest in VB.PAL files???
If you want , I’ll upload some here…
(I’m mapping colours inside vb.pal and how works palette change/brightness option in games that allow it)

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Oct 15, 2022 • 16:31 Profile Photo RockRiver • Topic: Virtual Boy Color / super Virtual Boy (Mednafen Palette)

Ok DONE !!!
SUPER Virtual Boy (4 RGB color Custom Palette)

Nowadays studying VB.PAL hexadecimal files 256colors/768bytes through Mednafen emu / MednafFE front-end (win)
Then will go to Raspberry and …
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What about to make a VirtualBoy TAP v2 or update v1?? with *4 color(or 8) palette selection???
4 shades of black&white(grey) to *4 different RGB colors selection ???

Check for Habisoft’s fpga Color-In add-on board for monochrome 8bit european/uk system Amstrad PCW / Schneider Joyce

https://www.habisoft.com/irmia/comentarios.asp?id=358
(sorry in spanish use g translator)

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Oct 11, 2022 • 16:35 Profile Photo RockRiver • Topic: Is it possible for a Virtual Boy change colors? my ideas

Hi Deco , regards from an old user of forums.

Nowadays Mednafen emulator could do that. Custom Palettes (vb.pal)

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Sep 27, 2022 • 07:05 Profile Photo RockRiver • Topic: Jack Bros. Color Mockup

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Sep 12, 2022 • 18:56 Profile Photo RockRiver • Topic: Green Virtual Boy?

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