Now for me as I've said before while I sure do get a kick out of the chance to get a taste of games that weren't even close to being finalized (e.g. Super Mario Wacky Worlds, or Sonic Xtreme. My holy grails are those that are basically complete games or almost complete game (e.g. StarFox 2). Now this brings me to my current game of interest. Bound High! for the Virtual Boy, probably the most promising game created for the virtual boy. It was completed but never released. To this day people still review the game as being quite a fun experience. For more info check out Planet Virtual Boy Now while copies of the unreleased game are quite rare they do exist. As many VB fans know a prominent user on this site, also the owner of "http://www.vr32.de/" does have a review up on his site of the game, which he was able to obtain a copy of. In addition, a while back I posted a topic on this in the unreleased games sections and got 2 interesting replies, futher fueling the idea that this game is in fact very obtainable. I was wondering if in fact, we as a community could obtain it in a similar manner to Sonic Xtreme as obviously people have it. Now I don't expect anyone to infact, reveal their sources directly to the users of this board, as obviously it could be invasive. But if anyone does have information and could reveal it to a trusted member such as assembler and in similar fashion could organize a auction. Personally it is an extremely important game to release considering that it would be the cream of the crop for the VB. A system that never saw its chance to shine. I believe that by a release at least it would get a sparkle. What does everyone else think? I hope I'm not being too imposing. But, I honestly don't know how long the timeframe to obtain something like this might be before it vanishes to obsurity.
maybe you might find a copy floating around, but the total lack of emulators and the extremely low diffusion of the machine would make fund raising extremely hard...
I believe there are some VB roms and as far as know there is a few emulators for it but I can't say how good they will be.
yeah, there are some emulators even for Mac and Xbox. But I think it's not much fun to play a Virtual Boy game with an emulator. You have to play it on a real Virtual Boy. There are guides for building programmable cartridges. I think this is the way to go. I'd love to play some Virtual Boy prototypes like Bound High or Zero Racers. Many good games have never been released
As for zero racers "A prototype definitely exists, because the game was previewed by Nintendo Power". And that would be an incredible boost to the system as well as it is a lost sequel to F-zero. But, unfortunately I have no proof if anyone outside of nintendo has it or if someone on this board does. By releasing one prototype it does show interest in other VB prototypes, so by releasing Bound High! we could indirectly uncover Zero Racers or Dragon Hopper. But, be quite doubtful on this as again who knows if it exists. I definitely think there is merit to pursuing Bound High!. Even with the "low diffusion" of the system, its still not hard or expensive to get one (bundles as cheap as 10$ go on ebay, and thats with other games) For one good game I'd definitely pick one up, and maybe I'm opmistic, but I think some members would too. Futhermore, the virtual boy's legacy and Gunpei's is quite crippled, and hopefully releasing one good game, might bring some grace back. In fact, encourage emulators to be developed. Heck Red Dragon is doing pretty well. And VIBE is still in development and just released a new version. In addition I'm not sure how complicated building a programmable cart is, as I'm abit at a loss in the matter http://www.virtual-boy.org/projectvb/dev/VBEPROM.htm But, I'm sure say someone has a lot of trouble in putting the game on a cart members involved in the auction and adequate in the process could certainly help out for a fee. But, would anyone be interested in helping out for this sort of thing? Besides this we're not even sure of the price yet. And if anyone has info of a possible way to organize this feel free to post here. If your unfamillar with the game please read up on it. In fact, Nintendo Power actually did a review of it after it was cancelled a few years later, which is quite interesting. http://www.vr32.de/content/articles..._(10_05)/nintendo_power_usa_196_(10_05)_1.jpg
I think there are better choices. The problem with VB games is that even if we have the ROM you can't really enjoy them. Now I've never played a VBoy emulator but I can't see it being as good as the real thing. How tough would it be to put this in cart form? If you can't make that happen I say there are better picks to ask 50+ people to contribute to. However, if hacking a Mario Tennis is possible I say this is a great choice.
There are definitely ways of creating "reprogrammable carts" this website shows one http://www.virtual-boy.org/projectvb/dev/VBEPROM.htm and this one shows a similar way (with a aprx price list of what you'll need) http://www.goliathindustries.com/vb/VBCart.html (the large cost is the EPROM programmer and the UV EPROM eraser, which really ain't that bad as you can use these for other projects) Its a bit of work definitely and it seems you have to know what your doing to some extent, but its not a insane task. In fact, someone whos skilled in this sort of thing care to comment? While I can think of plently of choices for other systems. I do want to show the VB some love, especially when there are exclusive titles that may have been quite interesting.
I once saw a picture of a vb emulator running and it was displayed on the screen in such a way that it worked with 3d shades. apparently. which I think is an excellent idea if it does work. the vb does have great surround sound type effect, so that's another matter. I'd defo fork some cash. a vb flash cart would be cool no?
The fun(ny) thing about VB emulators is that they have odd options, like support for multiple types of 3-D glasses, ie. red/blue shifted images. It's not exactly like the real thing, but it is a nice effort.
I'd like to see someone unearth a copy of Faceball 2000 for the VB. The game was nearly completed, possibly entirely done and the release was scrapped. Someone owns a copy, because I saw it in a retro gaming mag out of the UK a while back. a VB first-person shooter? I want.
well there are more then one person who have Faceball but they dont want to share or even talk about it. Same for Dragon Hopper! Thats a shame!
Well since he already said that they aren't willing to share or provide details there's no point in getting their names. Harrassing someone over their private property is not the way to go about getting releases. If you had something else in mind, forgive me, but that would be that only logical reason I see that you'd be asking.
Well maybe I should refraise my query "Who has mentioned someone having a copy of Dragon Hopper." Is what I mean. Meaning I am asking who has in the past been somewhat involved in a inquiry into the matter Meaning your right I am aware that contacting "unbudgable" owners can be fruitless. But, contacting those aware of certain details and willing to talk definitely is logical and can sometimes help lead you to other details of things you weren't looking for, including new developments.
