How could you play Virtual Boy games without 3D?

While this is really cool, the virtual boy library has already been dumped. There is also an out of production flash cart so you can play the dumps on the original hardware. I really wish I owned one.

And believe it or not, there is a very quiet homebrew community for the Virtual boy.

14 games in the US according to the wiki…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Boy_games

@PidGin128 The new firmware for the Retrode will have support for Virtual Boy carts, it gets the game name from the ROM header to make the file name.

“just for the record, the virtual boy actually used a single row of LEDs and a rotating mirror, like a POV setup. Not two screens.”

lol yea anyone who has actually played one of those eye killers knows that

I picked up a used VB on eBay not too long ago, mostly for the nostalgia factor. It’s great! And there is definitely a surviving homebrew community at http://www.planetvb.com.

Also, once you adjust the unit properly for your eyes, there are no headaches! I’ve played for hours and never gotten a headache. The neck issue is still there, however.

@Erik
> the virtual boy library has already been dumped

Right, and how do you legally obtain these dumps? Only by making your own.

Yea, everything’s dumped, of course… Only thing is that the only real VB emulator hasn’t been updated in years and the best of the few games are unplayable- Project needs some folks to pick it up.

The VB game Red Alarm is this really, really great throw-back to “ray trace” type arcade games from the late 70′s. It’s like Star Wars arcade, but the line polygons are stereoscopic and it’s a freely explorable environment!

People complaining about aches and pains from the display are… “overly sensitive”. haha Never had a problem with it. It has always been popular to mock this system- I suspect most kids who claimed it was awful had never even touched one. I still miss the controllers- I wouldn’t mind trying a usb interface for one of those.