What do you guys actually think about this thing and who here has one?
it's shitno one
>>12082801got one on clearance for $30 at TRU in like 1997played with it for a month and haven't used it in 28 years
I got one recently and my criticisms are>battery operated by defaultThis is retarded and makes no sense. It should come with the wall adapter by default. The battery pak should be for rich people.>small libraryIt really only got a launch lineup of games before being discontinued.>it's expensive and self destructsThese factors create a high barrier to entry. Having to drop a few hundred dollars for the full experience is a pretty big barrier. Also you have to fix the video ribbons which requires skill or the effort of getting it done by someone else. You have to be motivated to experience virtual boy.
>>12082801protip: you're going to get 99% people regurgitating some opinion they heard from an e-celeb because they never experience the virtual boy in personthe VB was fucking awesome and it's a tragedy that it had so few games
>>12082849I'm the anon above you and overall I really enjoy virtual boy. Those are my personal beefs with it and I could easily come up with a list of positives too
>>12082801lol so game stores are selling individual parts now for the price of a controller? Fucking parasites
>>12082801My neighbor had one. It was neat but I couldn't imagine playing it for really extended sessions and the library sucks balls. A novelty at best.
>>12082801I've only seen them on the shelves at a couple retro stores, never actually touched one. I have played some of its cool games on my 3DS, though.
Not as uncomfortable as you'd think. Protip: put the stand on backwards, then sit criss-cross and set it on your lap and lean back a bit on a couch or similar setup. Pretty comfy.
>>12082801Very sharp display. Played one a friend owned with a flashcart. Wario Land looks great with very nice large sprites. It burns your eyes after a while though. Would have been nice as greyscale.
>>12083616I'll have to give that a try, sounds cozy. I use it at my kitchen table which I find pretty comfortable for long term play so I haven't trying venturing out yet
Dad rented one of these from blockbuster for me when I was a kid. Played on it for hours and it made my vision pink afterwards. Thought it was pretty cool at the time
>>12082801It had a few genuinely great games, but they're way too overpriced to collect these days. Especially since they were not designed to survive for 30 years. Maintenance and repair is a bitch and a half, and they are on a timer before they finally die out altogether. Treat it like you would a boat. Don't buy a boat. Make friends with someone who has bought a boat instead.
here's my story with the VB.>buy a used VB off a local craigslist-like site>go meet the seller to make the transaction in person>arrive to the place, see one of those weird tiny modern cars parked>car door opens, it's an attractive dark haired woman calling me to enter the car>sit next to her>she pulls out the Virtual Boy>starts telling me how she had it as a kid and doesn't really want to let it go but she needs the money and she isn't really using it anymore, but has a sentimental attachment to it>I test the system and the games to make sure it works>she gets all nostalgic while hearing the sounds coming out of the VB>working fine, so I pay her for the system and games>tells me that she hopes one day she can buy it again from me>we chit chat a little bit more and then I leaveShe was a belly dancer and very talkative. I was a loser who had a gf at the time so I didn't make any further moves, regret it.The good thing is that, while most other Virtual Boy units were probably used by spergy kids, I have one that was used by a hot girl. This is important because you have to place your face "on" the VB.
>>12082801It really is quite harsh on the eyes. I got one on the cheap for the novelty and I still have original game boxes for six-seven games (which were also clearanced at-the-moment), or about a third of its entire library. I found Red Alarm slightly interesting, but slow. I was terrible at Teleroboxer and could never get past like the second or third guy. There were some basic puzzle games and Nester's Funky Bowling was amusing, but none of this really made any use of the "virtual reality" 90's meme. It's also jarring how every game hard-stops every 30 minutes and says "dude, take a break, rest your eyes". The Waterworld game is emblematic of the console itself.
>>12082818Also pretty much this, this much better/shorter post summarizes my personal experience with the thing. I sensed that it might be an interesting lemon-object to own years later (and dad slightly encouraged me to buy at the clearance price), hence etc.The captcha for this post was "VR4WG".
>>12082801I thought I wanted one for wario land but then I actually played a wario land game and realized i didn't want it anymore.
>>12082801I have one. There are a few good games on it. Teleroboxer looks beautiful but it's tough as shit after the second level. I could never progress.Wario Land is of course good. It's dick gets sugged all the time, but it's a fine game. For me, it has the best visuals on the system. The 3d effect looks quite good, and gives it a pop-up story book effect. Especially the title screen, which is one of the most gorgeous in gaming, despite being just shades of red.Jack Bros is quite nice as well. I actually liked that game more than I thought I would. It's definitely earned its rep as best (official) game on the system.My favorite game though, and it wasn't released officially, is Bound High. The gameplay is excellent, good use of the 3D. Really fun.I didn't have issues with eye pain, even after extended play, but my friend's eyes hurt immediately after putting it on. My guess is he has some sort of astigmatism. He was always a squinter.I got to the end of Wario once and the power cord on the controller moved a little bit and the whole game reset. No save cause the battery was dead. Fuck that experience.
>>12082801Wario Land and Teleroboxer look pretty cool as games, and the impression I get is that while the library is very small, it's virtually all decent or good, however, everything I hear about the Virtual Boy makes it sound like it's an uncomfortable system to interact with, and like the games are best emulated.>>12083596I need to jailbreak my old 3DS. Not just to try the VB games, but for other things too.
I had one, very cool but you have to be young to tolerate the neck strain from keeping your head perfectly still at the right height and angle. the games look amazing in 3d and I enjoyed it, but it's uncomfortable also because it makes it stuffy and hot around your eyes and the face cushion part has a smell. I beat Wario Land on it and it's one of my favorite gaming memories. I wish it had a Mario Kart.
I own three VBs, all the US games and im missing 6 of the jap games. (2 reasonably expensive one i will probably have by the end of next year, 2 very expensive and the 2 ridiculously expensive ones)I love the little red nigga. I have played it as a kid, a teen and an adult and it provides a really unique experience that emulation does not do justice, unless maybe you are using a VR headset. I wish it would have gotten more of a homebrew community on it, i would have loved to see new physical releases for it like the genesis and nes get. I dare say i have legitimate nostalgia for it in the same way one does for the gameboy or snes. It was a really cool idea and i can only imagine what its true potential could have been if Nintendo didn't jew out Gunpei and his plans and if the system got one more full year on the market for the stuff in development.PS- if you are holding your controller in front of the unit, you are playing it wrong. Also try and find a sitting spot where you can lean the system towards you, rather than you towards it
>>12082801I'm enjoying it flicker-free on my Nintendo Switch 2 :-)
>>12084640Check out vintex64, they make vb cart repros of the whole library including some homebrew and prototypes. He claims to be releasing zero racers and dragon hopper physically within the next two months before archiving the roms for general use, but we'll see.
>>12084645Soulless
>>12084686>dragon hopper physicallyWutThere's no way that game was completed and dumped. It's probably some "inspired by screenshots fanslop
>>12084854The game was finished and ready for release. It's not inconceivable that some wench would have a copy of it. Vintex is pretty adamant that he's going to release it in the next couple of months. It could definitely just be an autistic lie. But he is the only person ever to be manufacturing new vb cartridges from scratch so he's about as credible as anyone could be
>>12084914That's dope if so. I loved his release of Bound High. Still, I saw a lot of VB forum people saying they were skeptical
I sent mine away to Stone Age Gamer to have the permanent optic fix applied.I'm also waiting for a MrCART.
>>12082801I always loved it. Always. Ever since i first shoved my head into one at blockbuster. I cried like a sissy when my dad told me it was a flop and I couldn't have it for my birthday, he said it was too expensive for something that wasn't going to be supported anymore. A year later i scored $100 which was insane. I went to bandages and found a VB on discount, like probably $87. Got that and three games which I still love to this day. Wario, vertical force, and red alarm. Later scored mario clash from my indifferent cousin.The idea that it was a terrible system is so overblown now, especially if you're a retro gamer who is playing 8bit or dmg titles. It doesn't have 12 great games, but it has at least 6 which are a blast to emulate. Wario is legitimately one of the best 2d Mario's. Gay hands are now typing a boring rebuttal to my post, and also gayly typing "reddit spacing"
>>12085138Babbages* stupid autocorrect
>>12084981Well he has locked in and said that he's been told to start building up the pcbs, because they will ship nov/dec. So by Christmastime we'll either be playing unreleased nintendo kinos or it was all a lie.
>>12083827Here's your (you).
The hardware is a miserable experience to use but the library itself isn't so bad. I was excited when they first announced the NSO release, because I thought people would have a chance to legally play these on a decent screen... but they doubled down and they're making you buy a peripheral for it. So weird.
>>12085031Nice my flashcart comes in tomorrow and I'm excited to play something different from the little software I have. Did you get in on the second batch?
>>12082801It's pretty neat. Controller feels nice to use (even if the plastic on the shell itself feels cheap), and the screens themselves look very nice even with the color limitations in mind. The depth you get from the 3D effect is fantastic, better than the 3DS's effect to be sure. That being said, I did have to have a co-worker work on it when I got it because one screen had went out. Turns out the controller port itself was dirtier than I thought, and once that was cleaned out it worked totally fine so it may have been a power issue. The biggest issues I personally have with it is that its library is both small and expensive, but it seems like most games are pretty decent on it. I think out of the ones I've played (Mario Tennis, VB Wario Land, Jack Bros (which I of course emulated a few years ago), Red Alarm, and Teleroboxer), Mario Tennis was the worst while the others were all quite fine. I'd recommend getting a flash cart if you plan on getting a VB as it's going to be cheaper than getting some of the games on their own.
I'm one of the few people who had one as a little kid so I feel that gives my opinion far more importance than some adult who got it years later, I owned it when it was new and the target audience.>What do you guys actually think about this thing?As a kid I liked it, the audio was really cool, I had never heard stereo like this before. The whole it hurts your eyes was a lie, it never did, and I would just click "yes" to the "you should rest for a while" screen that would pop up every 30 mins or so.The controller was weird since I never liekd the second D-Pad, would've preferred more buttons but the controller was comfortable. The games were a bit disappointing. I liked that the sprites or whatever seemed far more detailed than the SNES ones but I hated that it was only red/black. I loved some of the games like teleroboxer, wario land, mario clash and some space shooter game. I hated mario's tennis. I thought the cartridges were very cool. I always thought this was like the next console after the SNES, since it was 32 bits. Overall I didn't undestand why more games didn't come out and stopped playing it as I got bored of the ones I had.If you did play it for a long time and stopped, it would take a couple of seconds (seconds, not even a minute) before you stopped seeing black and red shit everywhere, but never had headaches or anything and my eyesight to this day is great. The 3D was very immersive and the Nintendo 3DS emulator does not do the 3D justice, it was far deeper and immersive with the VB, I wonder if the switch NSO app will do a better job at recreating that.
>>12085794Worthwhile insights. How much inferior is the 3DS emulator in doing the 3D effect? Teleroboxer is the one game where I'm actually really interested in the VR gimmick at all, it looks cool, and I wonder if it conveys at all on 3DS. I really wanna play Wario Land, because I love the Game Boy games, but it's one of those games where it looks like the 3D effect isn't too important and you don't really miss much from its absence.For headaches, the impression I get is that people got headaches because they didn't find a comfortable and natural enough position to play it in, so they strained their necks (and headaches are fundamentally caused by strain and tension in your neck muscles).You probably always played the games in a comfortable position.
>>12085867well the 3D on the 3DS can't do the same level of depth, nor can it replicate the enclosed setting that the games took into account when programmed.It works fine for most games, you get part of the 3D but it's not the same. I think Teleroboxer might be the best example, you literally felt you were getting punched, that feeling is completely gone in the 3DS even if it's still in 3D.Wario Land is still a playable game even in 2D, though the 3D is missed, all the bosses and some obstacles relied on the 3D. It's like when you play the non 3D ports of Mighty Switch Force that came later, what made some of those obstacles/puzzles fun was the 3D. So yeah, I mean the gimmick is what helps sell those games, it's not like they change the game up but they do make them feel unique experiences. The enclosed setting and deeper 3D means more immersion than on 3DS but it's still a fine way to play them.As far as headaches I always roll my eyes when people say that, I honestly think they're making it up. And it's hard to get your neck strained if you're playing on a desk, I mean there aren't that many ways to adjust the visor, it's not difficult. I did get neck strains a couple of times though, but that's when I used to play it on the floor or the bed or other place it wasn't supposed to be played in.
>>12082801I have one, it wasn't worth but I played the shit out of Wario Land VB, peak of the series.
>>12085138fuck yeah anon
Got one for my birthday one year with a pile of games after they went on clearance. Loved the damn thing so much my brother went out and bought a second one the next day. Not a single bad title in the games I had, the weakest being 3D Tetris.>>12083827I hate how Mario's Tennis is locked on this fucking thing. The character sprites are some of the best they ever made for the Mario cast. Peach has subtle jiggle for fuck's sake, this shit is important
Im hoping that with the Switch 2 stuff, we finally get some Virtual Boy content in the next Smash. I always thought Max from Teleroboxer would be a cool fighter, but i would settle for an assist trophy. I would also say it would be nice to get some VB Wario Land music in, but soccerguy hates Wario if it isn't repping the Ware series.
>>12082801Mine needs a repair, always thought it was extremely cool. The hardware is legitimately clever and we got robbed of an era of gorgeous sprites and unique sound. Got it for $30 on clearance back in the day.
>>12082801i've had multipleinstead i recommend:launch model 3ds or 'new3ds'+viper emulator w\3d effect at maximum.the sound chip is incredible on original hardware but, that is a silly\ridiculous reason to purchase a fragile\aging\breaking childrens toy.without the 3d effect the entire gimmick is pointless (even if nearly ALL the games are great)>waterworld>vertical force>red fuckin alarm>arcade sports titleseveryone loves wario and jack brosbut i found both of them to be un-fun and too difficult, esp on original hardware (10-20 minutes max due to eye fatigue)
>>12085138i got mine at launch and got to feel the heartbreak in the magazine 'news' saying it was toast within 8 months of us buying it mom was madbut im glad i got to check it out for myself
>>12082849How much do you get from the dindendo to post here?
>>120871032 buck
>>12085369I got notified via email when they opened up orders for the upcoming drop but I don't know what round I got into if there was one.I also ordered a stand for it (since mine didn't come with one at the garage sale I bought it from). James isn't wrong about the thing needing a headstrap but such is life.
>>12085204?
>>12082818Dad?
Yep it's gaming time my nigs. What should I play first?
>>12087353Head strap would be based. I can imagine a pretty easy and cheap design for one. I'm surprised no one has really tried to make a good one before.
>>12087086waterworld is fuckin killer, like robotron
>>12087731galactic pinball is genuinely fucking fun
>>12087353What I need is a replacement eye shroud, mine fell apart over a decade ago
>>12083835bitch
>>12087731Innsmouth no yakata
>>12087731play homebrew
