Planet Virtual Boy

Thanks to Benjamin Stevens, we got high-res scans of the rare first edition of the privately published Japanese VB Guide from July 1996 for you.



In other news, Ben is currently translating lots of Japanese articles and flyers of unreleased games into English, unearthing tons of new information. In this process, he is also creating crispy high res scans of these artices from Famitsu and the included screenshots. Here's the respective forum thread.

Apparently, complete-in-box copies of Mr. Anon's and MK's incredibly well-crafted homebrew game "Hyper Fighting" are now out there in the wild, as impressions of the game are starting to pop up here and there. At the time of writing, we have no further info from the team behind this, but it seems that the game won't see a public release due to the obvious copyright dilemma. For now, we can only gaze in awe at the imagery lucky owners of the few existing copies share with the world.



The above photos come from Vectrex Roli. speedyink has even shared a full video review.

Happy new year! It's 2015 and it will certainly be a great year for all you fellow Virtual Boy fans! Not only will your favorite website turn 15 years old in a few days, but this year will also mark 20 years since the Virtual Boy hit the market in 1995.

The community here at Planet Virtual Boy is going to celebrate the Virtual Boy's 20th anniversary all year long with all kinds of cool projects. New homebrew games & tools, fanart, music, ROM hacks, competitions... whatever we can come up with. It's #VirtualFest!

Please see the official thread for an always up-to-date list of #VirtualFest projects. Of course, the greatest projects will also hit the frontpage news.

So, what will be your project?

HorvatM has released a new, superior assembler for the V810 processor used in the Virtual Boy, called simply "Matej's V810 assembler" or "MV810ASM" in short.

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You can get it for multiple platforms on Matej's Website. For more info and discussions check out the respective forum thread.

Also check out the source to Matej's Faceball control scheme hack for a practical ROM hacking example.

DanB shares dumps of the 4 floppy disks that came with his recently acquired VUE-Debugger kit.

These disks contain by far the latest known versions of neat stuff like the VUCC compiler or the sample programs.

Click the disks to download: