Planet Virtual Boy

Version 1.0 of FacEdit has just been released by thunderstruck. It allows you to edit Faceball and is the tool with which Faceball: Remastered was created. The features:

• Completely modify all 56 levels of Faceball
• Set wall positions and types
• Place enemies of any type
• Change enemy strengths
• Change items dropped by enemies
• Set star orientation of enemies
• Change enemy behaviour
• Set item positions
• Set player health
• Set timer
• Change music for levels
• Modify credits
• Change control scheme
• Enable/disable debug menu
• Test in Mednafen
• Flash to Flashboy
• ...and more!

Check it out in our forum!

The coming fall will be all red and black with the third Planet Virtual Boy Coding Competition starting right now! It will run for the rest of the year, until January 1, 2014. Could there be any better way to spend your time during the cold season than to create hot new Virtual Boy homebrews?

After the 4 months competition period spanning September 1 through December 31, the usual secret PVB community vote will find the winner, whose project will see a limited complete-in-box production run! Many thanks to Minestorm, Uncle Tusker and bigmak for making this possible! And, while I am at it, thanks to Hedgetrimmer and morintari for their support with the official poster plus many others for continuosly reminding me to finally hold another competition. ;-)

For detailed rules and more info, have a look at the Competition Forum.

Now have fun creating, everyone!

Today, a new homebrew game in development for the Nintendo Virtual Boy has been unveiled... and what an amazing one it is!

"Hyper Fighting" is a fighting game developed by "Mr. Anon" and based on a fighting engine made by yours truly, M.K., creator of VB Racing. It is a clone of a well-known fighting game, and, what else could I say, this thing is absolutely impressive! Great music and sound effects, crystal-clear speech samples, amazing 3D stages, flawless controls and perfect overall polish. If the name Nintendo stood on this, I would not doubt for a second that this was a commercial game created by the big N!

A demo version has been released and the full version of Hyper Fighting is said to be released soon. In the demo you battle 4 different fighters in 4 different stages. Press Start and you'll be able to change the background music, 3D depth and brightness.

You can download and discuss the demo in the Hyper Fighting release thread.

I'll say no more and let you check it out for yourself. This doesn't seem to work on emulators, but if you're one of the lucky FlashBoy owners, wait no second to flash this beast! Round 1... FIGHT!

Time to release two batches of scans submitted by mawa a while ago. First one is (a part of) a Bullet-Proof Software pampleth about upcoming software from December 1995, showing an alternative Faceball flyer. The other one is the official catalogue for the Consumer Soft Group exhibition in Tokyo on September 17th, 1995.

Another articles scan has been submitted by jzagal: "Seeing Red - The tragic prescience of Nintendo's Virtual Boy" from the Summer 2011 issue of Kill Screen Magazine. Definitely a must-read!

Also, you should not miss to check out the "Wire Frame Graphics Library and OBJ File Parser Beta" released by Greg Stevens in June.

InsmEdit version 1.2 has been released by HorvatM.

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More info and download here.