Cosmoliner schrieb:

speedyink schrieb:
I’ll take this opportunity to thank you again for selling me one of your stands, Eric 🙂

Although that comes with original packaging, which is kinda nifty. Not $1400 nifty, but still, neat to have I’m sure.

Hi Bigmak,Speedyink,
What do you think, how much I have to pay for a loose used stand or new one?

I’m looking for a japan stand since my first Virtualboy.
The stand looks fantastic and fits perfectly to the VB.
But the price for this is much to high…

Thanks,

Cosmo

If I may add something here, it is always hard to say what rare items are worth and the sellers always hope for a crazy collector that pays an insane amount of money, which sometimes happens when you look at some auctions for the game “Hyper Fighting”. In my personal opinion 1.400 USD is way too high for that Japanese stand, just to give you an indication, you can get a middle size US store kiosk unit for around 1.200 USD + shipping on eBay. This one has even the nice Virtual Boy logo with a lamp on top, so why should anyone buy the Japanese stand for much more?
The Japanese stand you can see in my “Virtual Boy Extravaganza” video around 18:05 did cost less and it also came with the Mosaic box system:

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I also wanted to contribute something, but as I neither can program 3D games nor do anything else useful, I just did a “Virtual Boy Extravaganza” video:

If you got any 3D device supported by Youtube, like the “New 3DS”, you can watch this video also in 3D:

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bigmak wrote:
http://page12.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p494147144

Even has the Japanese foot plate.

-Eric

Very nice! Too bad that shipping to Europe would cost an arm and a leg I guess, or maybe even 2! 😀

I understand, I didn´t expect any translation of course, I just was curious if you already knew some more details about it. 😉

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
Both issues of the rare VB Guide at a Buy-It-Now price of 12,000 yen.

http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g161293087

Thanks Ben, is there any more detailed information about those magazines available? All I know is that it is a “fanzine”, but is it known who produced that, how could you buy that back then and how did the target group look like? So obviously there were also others types of those fanzines available that were not Virtual Boy related?

I cannot remember the details how I connected everything, as it was month ago, but yes, you connect clock to clock, latch to latch, and so on. You also need to connect ground to ground. “+” of your DC Input from your power brick you connect to “battery supply voltage” and “-” to Ground I would say.
As the VB accepts a range of Voltage input I assume there is some kind of voltage regulator built in and as I didn´t check any schematics how that thing works I went for just 9 Volts input to create not any unnecessary heat. I canot use European SNES adapters anyway as they have AC output instead of DC. But US SNES adapters should work fine.

If you want to use a switch as a power switch all you need to do is to put it in between your power supply voltage line.

Here my quick hack for such an adapter I did a while ago. I always wanted to show it on my Youtube channel together with some other VB stuff, but didn´t have time for that yet.
I simply use a stabilized power supply set to 9 Volts DC output to power the VB and a SNES extension cord and some VB controller cable. The ugly soldering job is hidden within a shrinking hose, so no case here.
It works but for someone like me that didn´t play with a SNES back in the days it does not really make much difference, but of course for gamers that had a SNES it is a completely different story. I still have to test if the SNES arcade stick with the micro switches brings any advantages in some of the games though.

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You just can use one of those stabilzed DC power supplies, I use one for mine and set it to 9 Volts DC. It might be that the VB works also with 6 Volts, but as far as I remember there are 6 x 1,5V AA batteries in the battery pack (didn´t check now) which adds up to 9 Volts then.
Then you don´t have to deal with rectifiers and capacitors and stuff like that.
In Europe the power supply needs to be able to handle around 230 Volts AC Input, I think in Japan there is still 100 Volts AC.

It was still available here a few days ago:
http://www.uncletusk.com/home/259-virtual-boy-bound-high-complete.html

I would defintely support a crowdfunded VB game, the amount of money would depend on the type of game and also if a release on cartridge will be available for those who supported it.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

Well not an auction, but I got this link from a friend which I shared in the Virtual Boy Facebook group and want to share also here:
Virtual Boy

This is a Japanese web store and they sell also Virtual Boy games. Maybe useful in case you still need some of the common Japanese titles.

Thanks 😉

Yes I guess so. I was checking out the camera data and some reviews a while ago, but there are many features missing compared to a real 3D video camera. I wanted to give it a try, but whenever I found one on the web it was still very expensive for such an old camera.

Thank you, I need to try that out soon.
Great idea to bring Red Metal´s idea to life finally.

“…it’s my take on a game that had been in development for the VirtualBoy but was never released…”

Thank you very much for that hint, I will not sleep at night now, because I will always think about what game exactly that would be now. 🙂

Thanks for releasing this!

mawa wrote:
here somebody makes repro boxes from mario tennis usa
now it will be hard to tell if boxes are originaal or not anymoure now they make them off games that have come out
http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Virtual-boy-box-only-mario-tennis-usa-version-/271794786400?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item3f483b5060

Yes, exactly what I thought. I am glad I got my box already a long time ago.

Thanks a lot, extremly interesting to learn more about those unreleased titles.

It is also mentioned here:
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/02/finally_street_fighter_ii_has_been_ported_to_the_nintendo_virtual_boy