Virtual Boy:Has a flashcart with a color e-ink screen that when you select a game can display the cover art (or any other picture you want) despite the fact that not only was the Virtual Boy a device that covered your eyes so you wouldn't be able to see it, but it made you plug the cart inside it so the label would be blocked from anyone seeing it anyway.Just about every other console which has the cart sitting visibly front and center:Flashcart has a paper label.What is this backwards shit?
>>12387332To justify the ridiculous price
>>12387353Not OP, but wouldn't the price be not so ridiculous if it *didn't* have a fancy e-ink screen label?
>>12387375>>12387353Who knows. There's not a whole lot of VB games that people actually want to play in the first place, not to mention that the total library isn't very big, even including homebrews, so I'd imagine the incentive to purchase a flashcart is relatively low compared to other consoles with larger libraries (and more homebrew). End result is that maybe they felt incentivized to market the flashcart as more of a boutique product, a displayable collector's item in and of itself, as opposed to a largely utilitarian product.
>>12387375>more negatives than it has genders>obviously knows nothing about the product line and other optionslol>>12387457>Who knowsPretty much everyone involved in the products conceptualization, design, and production. And any human with an IQ>50 could easily infer it. Even you got there in the end.
Those eink displays at that size are no longer made and the guy has like 50 left, so you won't have to worry about many more of these kinds of things being made.
I've got one of these. You select ROM files from the eink display, but you need it plugged into a 5v microusb to do so. There's touch sensors on the backside. Works pretty good, arguably nicer than scrolling through a rom list while looking in the VB visor. Definitely an oddity.
>>12387754That's the Hyper Flash 32, the OP picture is of the Hyper Flash 32 Plus, which despite the plus name actually lacks features like being able to switch between ROMs and the buttons you mentioned, though it does have a better screen.
>>12387484>le "they don't make it any more" maymaycrycryuser is underage
>>12387978Wut
>>12388043an underage says wut?
>>12388079Lay off the pipe cheech, I don't even understand the bait lol
>>12388089>I don't even understandBecause you're underage
>>12388089That trying way too hard anon was implying that the creator was only pretending to be running out of stock to try to induce FOMO... despite the fact that this is hardly a popular or high-selling item and stock has been sitting there for months now.
>>12387332This would had been cool for NES, SNES, Genesis, N64 and Neo Geo flashcarts.
>>12390161>NESI meant Famicom
>>12390168I was thinking the same thing. That would be pretty fucking cool
>>12389907I wasn't implying anything, silly child. I was pointing out that underage frequently cry here about something not being made any more when it still is. Only underage failed to understand that.
>>12387375Wasn't the point of e-ink that it was cheap as shit since it was basically like an etchasketch or some shit? I remember e-ink readers being dirt cheap but I didn't too much attention to the tech.
>>12390994No, the point of e-ink is that it pretty much looked just like paper, didn't need a backlight, and the display retains the image with no power. You only need to supply power to change the image, once it has been changed the image remains until power is applied to change it again.This made it ideal for ebook readers since they could have battery life measured in weeks or months since they would only need to turn on for a few seconds to turn the page then turn off again.
>>12391537>No, the point of e-ink is that it pretty much looked just like paper, didn't need a backlight, and the display retains the image with no power.I am aware of all of that, I still have an old e-reader that uses it, its amazing. I just remember them being cheap as shit for years before people just moved over to tablet bullshit and phasing them out entirely.
