I got my Virtual Boy link cable today and as I don´t have time for making another Youtube video, I thought I will share some photos. Even this is the most expensive cable I ever bought for any retro system I own, I am quite pleased with what I got. The plugs fit perfectly and I tried “Hyper Fighting” in link cable versus mode.
My test setup consists of a Virtual Boy on an US store kiosk stand and a 2nd Virtual Boy with a SNES controller and VGA-2D-out and as expected 2 player mode works great. I have not tested the other homebrew link cable games yet, but will do so later. The only thing you need to take care of when using the store kiosk unit is that there is not much space for the plug and this will put some stress on the cable which might ruin it, so a 90 degree plug or a shorter plug would be great, but I guess it might not make sense to produce such a thing for the few people that would need that.
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