Planet Virtual Boy

The third Planet Virtual Boy Coding Competition, dubbed "Virtual Fall", has ended and we're going into the voting phase. This time, we again saw a total of 7 entries, which you can download all zipped up in one file here.

Please take your time to review all entries before casting your vote. In this secret voting, every user (registered before March 1st, 2014) can freely distribute a total of 10 points to the submitted projects. Contestors can not vote on their own project.

The voting will run for about 2 weeks until Monday 17th, then the results will be published.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE!

The "Virtual Fall" coding competition closed with three more last minute projects.

Mario Combat by thunderstruck is a first person shooting game demo that's reminiscent of Yoshi's Safari.



Deathchase by HorvatM & Runnerpack is a remake of the 1983 ZX Spectrum game of the same name by Mervyn J. Estcourt featuring higher resolution, stereoscopic graphics.



Last entry is a Game Boy Emulator made by M.K. that brings the entire Game Boy library to your Virtual Boy with multi-ROM support, full sound emulation, optional 3-D environments and pretty good compatability with few glitches!



Although the project had to be cancelled due to limitations of the Virtual Boy's affine mode, Guy Perfect's F-Zero Maximum Velocity remake deserves a honorable mention. You can check out the whole story of the project as well as the last ROM in our forum.



Have fun checking out all the cool submissions before the voting starts very soon!

It is one of these rare holidays again on which a Planet Virtual Boy coding competition ends and the entries keep coming in. So far we have three new ones today.

First, DanB, winner of the last Coding Competition in 2010, is at it once again with a demo of his new game "Zpace Racers", a futuristic wireframe racing game inspired by Nintendo's unreleased Zero Racers. But compared to the original, this one has more visual impact because of it using filled polgons thanks to the Yeti 3D engine! Check out Zspace Racers in our forum!



The second new entry is "3D Crosswords" by VirtualChris, a game that makes clever use of the third dimension for its puzzles.



Third just came in from DogP in form of a GIAD (game in a day) clone of the unbelievably popular Flappy Bird, called "Flappy Cheep Cheep". Addictive!



With Greg Stevens' Wireframe Library, that was released a few days ago, we're now at a total of 4 competition entries.

On a side note, I'll be away until Monday, so apologies to any future contestors, whose projects can not be explicitly mentioned here! To try out all entries before the voting next week, remember you can find them all in the competition forum.

One week ahead of the final deadline, the current Planet Virtual Boy Coding Competition has gotten its first entry. Greg Stevens' wireframe library provides programmers with a well-documented and highly optimized toolset of functions for writing directly to the Virtual Boy's framebuffers. The library comes with an impressive demo program that mimics Starfox, wireframe-style.



Download and discuss this fine release in our forum.

Brut Press (ブルートプレス) was a monthly Japanese video magazine about video games. Volume 17 of the magazine from December 12, 1994 covered Nintendo's 1994 Shoshinkai Show, including the 3 minute Virtual Boy report below: