I’ve literally been saying this for years and I will die on this hill.

I’d love to get my hands on just the cart! I just hope it won’t be too expensive, any price estimates so far? To be honest, I’ve never purchased a homebrew game before, so I’m not really sure what to expect.

Ah, okay. Thanks for clearing that up! 🙂

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
I do think that the one option would be better phrased as:

“Once you go red and black, you never go back!”

I didn’t want to alter what the original user said, although I do agree.

RCAstudioII wrote:
How about “It’s not a bad console so stop beating up on it” or “Why do people who have never played it hate it?”
Sorry , just fed up with all the arbitrary VB hate.

I hear you, man!

And you don’t have to be sorry, that’s nothing compared the the ‘Outburst’ I had a few years back on a thread that I hope stays dead…

Thanks for the link, Astro. I’ve found this on an old thread, it might help ease your woes a bit.

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Reel Big Fish wrote:
(many adapters out there are 10 V, which will work but may shorten the life of your unit).

Well, since the VB’s on-board regulator is rated to 13V – and probably a little conservatively, at that, since it’s the more efficient “buck” (switching) type – I don’t think anyone should worry about using a 10V adapter (especially since that’s what Nintendo themselves designed the U.S. tap to use :-P)

Astro, you mentioned your tap was delivering 12.5V DC, that should be within the VB’s regulator rating, although by a very narrow margin, however. I guess that could lead to the system running a bit hot?

I wish I could view a more credible source other than gossip about VB’s frying and/or otherwise overheating due to a Power Adapter…

It’s possible all that talk of them being damaged by AC adapters is just a bunch of rumors.

Greetings everyone!

I’m going to post this here because it relates to fixing VB displays. Essentially, I need some help with ribbon cables.

Sometimes when I swap out ribbon cables, the end that goes into the motherboard gets damaged (see pic).

How does this happen? What can I do to prevent it? And is there any way to fix it?

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers!

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Just got this one:

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Seeing as it is an early/low serial number, and that it came with my recently acquired Blockbuster Hard Case, I believe that this was once a VB that was rented out through Blockbuster back in the day.

Performance made a Power Tap?

Can I get a photo of one?

I’ve always thought that when people would refer to it, that they were actually talking about an actual power adapter (that plugged into the wall), and not a tap.

This retail game holder looks like a neat piece of VB history, for those interested.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Virtual-Boy-Retail-Store-Display-Case-Game-Holder-/162589452382?hash=item25db16285e:g:87oAAOSwTY9ZZyz9

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HoMenace wrote:
I love how he keeps referring to it as an “unreleased” game.

Yeah, Gamester81 is known to be wrong about a lot of things. He once claimed that the Magnavox Odyssey 2 had a built in calculator, and that the Atari Jaguar didn’t support AV output despite him showing the back of the console with a port labeled ‘AV’ while he was saying that. I really wish he’d do more research, scripting, and planning before making his videos.

Cosmoliner wrote:
NINTENDO Virtual Boy “Special Value” Button Pin
3 pcs.available to sell at $39,99 a fair price!!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NINTENDO-Virtual-Boy-Special-Value-Button/182606312430?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D41451%26meid%3De3b7673e2a6a47e7b7d9ef985c33d75f%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D3%26sd%3D292140835570

Just picked up one myself! 😎

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Virtual Boy sunglasses, anyone?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Virtual-Boy-Sunglasses-/222565785465?hash=item33d1f45f79:g:u2IAAOSwbopZV0i-

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Lester Knight wrote:
my glasses cause my vb image to appear biconcave. it is higher on the corners than it is in the middle. this doesn’t really bother me now but when i first noticed it, it took me awhile to figure out what was causing it. i also have blurry edges on some games, but that is because of the red lenses.

My glasses did that too, they also stuck out a bit so I could rarely see the corners. Awhile back someone mentioned trying to make red glass lenses for the VB to avoid the blurry corners, fuzzy visuals, and overall durability that we can get with the standard plastic ones. I hope one day we’ll see them produced.

TheForce81 wrote:
Really one of my most beloved and annoying piece of hardware there is.

I couldn’t’ve said it better myself lol.

I know I’d be interested! I’d really love to try some of those more obscure Virtual Boy games, but getting a FlashBoy is expensive, and I can never seem to get anything ‘ROM + Retro Gaming’ to work right, plus, it kinda takes away part of the retro gaming charm to me. Being able to one-handedly pull out a nice fat stack of VB games and say it’s nearly the thing’s whole game library it just too great to lose in my opinion.

One thing I would suggest (if you are planning to pursue this further (which I hope that you can do)), is to make it a bit more apparent that the repros, are repros. You wouldn’t want someone to buy them from you and then sell it off to a newbie VB collector at the full value of the genuine version, simply because they don’t know any better. Maybe try to minimally print ‘Reproduction’ somewhere on the label, and/or use different custom artwork.

Good luck with this project! 😉

I’ve heard that too, which is the main reason I’d rather use the Jag Adapter. I just wanna be certain that I won’t be doing any harm to my console.

*UPDATE*
I’ve read somewhere that a DC adapter would make the VB run a bit less hot, so I’ve found that because of this the Atari Jaguar AC adapter is a better alternative to the NES AC Adapter. Is that still acceptable for giving my VB a long lifespan?

Cheers!

I suppose that this question has already been answered for the most part, but I’d like some clarification. I too have recently purchased a Japanese VB AC tap, and after the mini-freakout I had when my SNES adapter didn’t fit, I found that my American NES adapter actually fit perfectly, and seemed to work fine. But being that the AC adapter isn’t exactly the US VBs recommended voltage/ampage/whatever, and that the tap itself is foreign and uses a whole different adapter, I can’t help but feel worried that over time that power setup may ruin my Virtual Boy. Should I be worried? Since mine appears to work with an NES adapter, and Reel Big Fish’s works with a Genesis Model 1 adapter, what other console adapters are compatible with the VB? Is there a certain range of volts/amps that will work? Virtual Boys are sadly growing so expensive I almost have a heart attack if I see people so much as breathe near mine, so even finding replacement parts for it is a dreaded nightmare I have. Hopefully someone out there can put my mind at ease.

Cheers!

speedyink wrote:
You’re SLR quality iphone camera (lol) isn’t the problem.

High scores have a max image size of 1024×768
Avatars have a max image size of 100×100 or something.
Photo’s uploaded to a forum post just have a max 20MB size (I think)
Collection pictures also have the 1024×768 image size limit I think.
Forum posts can be edited within 30 minutes of the original post using the edit button.

All these limits are visible at the point of upload, but maybe you can’t see them on the phone (scrolled off the screen maybe?). I guess I’d suggest using an actual computer to upload pictures, since I don’t think you can change the amount of pixels the image contains on the iphone.

I am using a computer to upload the pictures but I take them on my iPhone. I just don’t know how to shrink photos.

Picked up yet another unit, being soldered, this one would last me a long time! 😀
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