Yes! The last time I dug out my Virtual Boy was to compete with @matt in a round of T&E Soft Virtual Golf back in June, and I had zero issues with the output after a few hours. This persisted into the following week’s session as well.
It’s almost been three years since I bought my Virtual Boy in a Book-Off super bazaar in Japan, I’m really glad it’s continued to hold up.
My seasonal Virtual Boy afternoon happened on a lazy boxing day yesterday, and yup, the image artifacting is definitely worse when the temperature is cold. But keeping the system on for a good 15 minutes or so cleared it up, at least, and I was able to torture myself on Mario Clash again. One of the hardest Nintendo games to ever go into production, I swear…
While warmth may be a temporary fix for ailing Virtual Boy display issues, it seems there’s a board that can be soldered on to the unit with a brand new display cable to boot.
Anyone brave enough to order one and try soldering it themselves?
Great website!
I never tried it myself, but I have a soldered Virtual Boy unit and it has never given me a problem again. I highly recommend going that route.
Note: Costanza had a Virtual Boy
And SNES
Love this
Love this thread. Haven’t had access to a VB in almost 20 years. Guess I’ll be installing the VirtualBoy Go emulator on the Quest 2 and getting cozy for the day.
This is amazing. Not sure how I missed it.
For those with a pc bound headset there is also Vbjin-OVR. replicates the VB look/experience pretty much perfectly.
Very cool!
And welcome
I ran across HyperFlash32 a while back for VB. The eink display for cartridge art makes it look super delightful. Could easily see myself spending more time making art for the carts than playing games.
Anyone here with real hardware have hands on time with one of these?
I have my hands on the predecessor flash drive for Virtual Boy - Flashboy+ I think it’s called. It’s very barebones in comparison to this. I think the same person created both if I’m not mistaken.
Definitely would not hesitate to grab it though (other than the high price). Compatibility was 100% with the old model, including user-made games. It also played Bound High flawlessly which was 99% of the reason why I got it in the first place (I think it’s the best game on the hardware and it didn’t even officially ever come out).
This one, in comparison, addresses all of my complaints with the old one. You could only load one game at a time and needed to completely reflash it with your computer when replacing the game loaded with another one.
Virtual Boy on Apple Vision Pro
