Planet Virtual Boy

Just wanted to come back to this and add that I tried Krisse's program (10 colour demo) out on real hardware and was quite impressed.

The flickering and stereo blending methods don't work, but the dithered 10 colour demo works great. It doesn't give a steady 10 colour gradient, as several dithering patterns look almost the same on real hardware.

However, it sure looks like at least 6 separate colours in there and you can hardly see the dither - unlike the intro to Bound High! The dither is very obvious there as he boosts into the sky. Krisse's demo blends tones much better.

Sorry - that seems a bit obvious yet I missed it - if you do want a translation, do that and pass back and I'll have it translated.

I'll measure my JPN box when I get home.
I insist on giving measurement in mm though ;)

Can you post a close up shot of the sticker so that the text is readable? I can get that translated if necessary as well.

Looks interesting!

Gunpei Yokoi was vilified at Nintendo after the Virtual Boy nearly crippled the company. Despite the fact that it was not rushed through R&D by him, he was made the scapegoat of course.

I imagine they're paying respect to his memory in their own way, by not spending time on his 'failure', even though it was not his fault that it failed. If they'd have waited one more year, the VB could've/would've/should've been full colour because the red and blue LEDs came on the market at an affordable price.

Wow, that IS cheap - unfortunately in Europe we don't have that option :(

You could, but I'm sure you could find cheaper 'cart only' listings.

I just got mine too! BIG THANKS!





...so good it got Instagram'd

Sorry to double post, I can't figure out to to merge or edit a post - but I thought I might try and illustrate what I mean about the interlacing.

I've mocked up the 4 tones and interlaced these to try and get mixed colours, but it doesn't really make much difference unfortunately: [click to full-size, preview has 2600-syndrome]




Of course, you could try the flickering option, but given the VB's headache issues as-is I can't see this being a good idea. I have no idea what the refresh rate is (60hz x 2?) and even less about sprite limits, I can't see it being a viable option to explore.

This is really great of you - can't wait if you're able to do a Jack Bros. rip!

ALSO, here's Blue_Kirby's WarioLand rip, in case people missed it:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=69K5RKT7