Allright… In that case… We can just narrow it down to “any power supply that delivers around 9V (whether it be AC or DC) that fits your AC power tap” I guess? (As long as it’s a center negative power supply)
In that case… I think a pal mega drive 1 power supply would also work since that outputs 10V DC.
I have played my vb now with the pal nes 9v AC power supply and it works fine. I read on several independent forums now that it is the AC tap that you should watch out for. US AC tab —> DC power supply. JPN AC tab —> AC power supply.
That is as far as I got. Maybe I’ll try to find some ancient wizzard from the 90’s at Nintendo who can give a definitive answer.
Allright, after reading more about it and researching even more I came to the conclusion that I needed my pal NES power supply.
As far as I understood, the region of the virtual boy doesn’t matter, but the AC adapter does. If you have a Japanese AC adapter, you need a power supply that outputs AC. If you have a US AC adapter, you need a power supply that outputs DC.
Furthermore, it doesn’t matter what kind of power supply (with or without step down convertor, EU/US/UK/JPN wallsocket etc) you use, as long as the output of the power supplies has the right voltage, and supplies AC or DC according to your AC adapter as mentioned above.
I hope this makes any sense and that I got it right. My japanese virtual boy with japanese AC adapter tap works perfectly with my pal NES power supply, which outputs 9V AC.
