It’s probably been said before but original Battlezone is one of the few games that I believe is truly timeless. Even though it’s dated nowadays, there’s nothing like the original. Part of what draws me to the Virtual Boy is the potential to play games with the timeless mystique of Battlezone. A good example of this is Red Alarm.
Hey all, I too am a bit lost in loading ROMs to my FlashBoy+. When I connect my FlashBoy the window pops up but I do not see any ROMs. What might be going on?
There was plenty of space in the console room for a VB setup. Other than that and the Panic Bomber cart I bought, a vendor booth had a controller for sale and that was it.
I think people would really appreciate the VB’s presence and it just might be a calling for PVB to step up and represent. Just going to say it again: if anyone’s interested in putting something together for next year, I too am also interested. It did feel like Virtual Boy was missing.
On the other hand, if it’s better that Virtual Boy remain an enigma of sorts, then I am all for that, too.
Aaaaaand if there’s anyone that cares, this is the coolest indie game I saw there. When talking to the devs, they totally were familiar with my reference to Teleroboxer, and that makes me curious about whether or not something like this would be possible on the VB.
That looks cool. What would a high quality, custom dev arm look like? My thinking is something along the lines of a professional microphone boom stand with more flexibility and stability. It’s been in the back of my brain for some time now because leaning over is not fun after a while.
Just want to share ideas about the arm. One day I’ll get to designing one if nothing pops up here.
Thank you so much for responding. I will keep coming back to this thread for help when needed.
A few minutes after posting, I asked for and received help at a local dev spot. A lot of it was based on “implied” knowledge that someone like me would never have figured out without asking, like, the main directory thing or downloading another program to view the code. So in a sense I have learned. This is my level of computer programming: laughable probably from the eyes of an experienced coder on a Windows machine I’m sure.
As far as the language self improvement, RunnerPack, I don’t think you could be more correct. Thankfully there is a spot in town where local devs hang out and help noobs like me for a small fee.. Up until this point I have been providing sound design and music for their games. They have encouraged me to program but I didn’t have a vision to jump in and get dirty. Now I do. It’d be great if there was a MAC version for this but I’m not bummed there isn’t, it would be nice to get a new DELL anyway. But if there are MAC tools available, yeah it’d be great if they were in a single location. I’ll look around a bit more for them. For me the last few years have been full of watching and digging for tutorials to learn music software and transcribing scores, so I’m sure learning C should be a similar experience. Also, if there is a thread about this somewhere on the forum please let me know. The last thing I want to do is something redundant.
The end result here is that I should come out a better sound programmer and composer, be able to communicate more effectively to more levels of a dev team, and hopefully be on my way to creating something cool.
Lastly, I wonder how many other people feel the way I do about this type of thing. Several months ago I asked about composing for VB and got good feedback on PVB but it was all so technically confusing to me. My hope here is to also overcome this.
Please forgive me for my noobular format. I am so lost. Maybe. Probably. I don’t know. Gonna say yes. Files were downloaded and unzipped. I opened the demo1 folder then the demo1c. Computer asks me what program I’d like to use to run the program and the options are like notepad, wordpad, and media player. None work. I am lost. Is this due to my modern Windows noobness? Gonna post here and then ask for help at the local dev spot in town. :/
Shokwav, my understanding of programming languages is beginner at best, but I do understand the difference in high and low languages. As far as writing any code though I have never done it except for a line or two at a community intro course.
Thanks for the tips guys. Looks like I need to poke around a little more to see how things work. Even simple stuff like opening the right software to check things out seems daunting. As a MAC user primarily, I have to relearn (and buy) a Windows machine. XP is my most recent.
Morintari, I downloaded ProMotion and it looks so cool. I can’t wait to bring some creations to life with it. But just like programming, learning the software looks and feels daunting.
Since my exposure to a Windows machine is limited to a local makerspace right now, progress is looking to be on the slow side of things.
KR155E, thank you for the tip on programming software.
For a clean design which is what I’m after, would you recommend putting the controller pcb inside the fightstick chassis?
My thinking is to somehow find a way to “adapt the adapter” to some sort of external port on the stick chassis as well as the controller to system cord.
Nice. What are you doing to accommodate the power supply, put an extension port on the outside of the fight stick box? Also what are your ideas for the right D pad, will you be installing a second stick?
The construction of my joystick continues and I have hit a huge snag in the design. It’s a multitude of issues that could be approached from several directions. Maybe chatting things out with you might help flesh out the final design.
