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10334938 No.10334938 [Reply] [Original]

>lasted for a year
>still has a more worth playing library than most retro consoles

Nintendo truly is something else

>> No.10334967
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10334967

>>10334938
For me it's Vertical Force. The proto-Ikaruga.

>> No.10334970

I love mine. I have all but 5 games, and I'm really pleased with it.
My favorite is either Jack Bros or Mario Clash.
Red Alarm is really good, and is completely unplayable in an emulator because it loses any sense of depth.
>>10334967
Vertical Force is a really neat game.

>> No.10334972

I love Inmouse No Yakata and would absolutely kill to get a hack with Resident Evil 1 monsters. And to me, Bound High! is the best canceled game that ever got released.

>> No.10334974

>>10334967
How can you have an Ikaruga with only one color?

>> No.10334987

>>10334974
with depth, the ship can switch between two altitudes

>> No.10335024
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10335024

>"Retrotubers" started lurking and posting in 4Chan since 2019s
>Tried to increase the price of the Saturn
>Failure
>Tried to increase the price of the WiiU
>Failure
>Tried to increase the price of the 3DS
>Success

Are you guys trying to raise Virtual Boy's already ridicoulus price now? For what? For Mario Tennis?

>> No.10335029

>>10335024
emulating is pretty much the only way to play vb games without getting eye cancer
even better if you use vr as it will be pretty much how it was originally intended

>> No.10335064

>>10335024
Take your meds, schizo.
>>10335029
I used to have a quest 2 but vb games look much better on real hardware. Vr can't replicate the 3d effect. Also the eye cancer thing isn't real, it's a bullshit rumor circulated by YouTubers who have never even played a VB. It's no different than looking at something like a pinball matrix display.

>> No.10335486

>>10335024
Think you nailed it on the head judging off his bullshit.
>>10335064
All VR headsets are capable of producing images that are 3D to the viewer.

>> No.10335505

What could have saved the Virtual Boy bros? I'm thinking if it had a color screen instead of red it would have lasted longer. Perhaps a mainline Mario game at launch? Even a port of something like All Stars or World would have been nice.

>> No.10335506

>>10334938
I loved Teleroboxer and Wario Land. Mario Tennis was alright. Never really liked Mario Clash. That was all I owned for it. Wario Land I 100%'d, Teleroboxer rekt my shit on the secret boss and I don't believe that I ever beat it.

>> No.10335515

>>10334938
I'd unironically buy VB if a) I had some free space to store it b) if it was under $40 or so.
I already have Tobidase Panibon cartridge (because I collect everything Bomberman-related and it was cheap as dirt in new condition) so I'd have something to play for first time.

>> No.10335538

>>10334938
People don't like to hear it, but Nintendo is just the best game developer. It's really that simple.

>> No.10335541

>>10335024
>> Retrotubers" started lurking and posting in 4Chan since 2019s
Spoken like a 2016 newfag cancer

>> No.10335547

>>10335505
I love my Virtual Boy but I don't think anything could've saved it without retooling it.
>full color screen
>standard console or handheld
>either nix the 3D concept or make the headset an optional peripheral where games have a toggle (akin to Famicom Grand Prix 3D Hot Rally)
>and if they did stick with the headset, please let us strap it to our heads
The controller and internals of the console are fine but the whole concept is a really hard sell as-is. Nintendo should've looked at the Sega Nomad if they wanted to design a portable console. I've never used a Nomad so I'm not sure how good they are but just from a conceptual standpoint, it's significantly better.

>> No.10335553

>>10335024
litcherally stop posting you're embarassing yourself newGOD

>> No.10335736

>>10335486
You can tell they got caught because they only come here talking about some random obscure console nobody used to give a shit about so they can try and lurk it off gullible lurkers or consoomers (they tried with WiiU, Saturn, Neogeo and now they're doing it with the Virtual Boy, next one will either be the Nomad or the GameGear)

>>10335541
>>10335553
>>10335064
Retrotubers spotted. Please go back and talk about how a shitty thing was actually not that bad when in fact it was actually a piece of shit and there's a reason it flopped

>> No.10335745

>>10335736
>wii u
>obscure

>> No.10335976

>>10335736
You are way too retarded to continue living

>> No.10335989

>>10335505
First thing they've had to do is make it more compact. But the tech wasn't probably there yet.

>> No.10336304

>>10335486
Then whoever programmed that emulator did a bad job.
>>10335506
Do you like classic Mario Bros? Clash plays like an upgrade to that.
>>10335538
This anon gets it.
>>10335736
The VB isn't that obscure. Nothing released by Nintendo is. Go back to r*ddit

>> No.10336328

>>10336304
>Do you like classic Mario Bros? Clash plays like an upgrade to that.
I do like the classic Mario Bros., but Clash doesn't really feel the same to me. I know it's supposed to be an evolution of that concept, but something got lost in transition. The levels just don't really feel good.

>> No.10336346
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>>10334938
>>lasted for a year
>>still has a more worth playing library than most retro consoles

>> No.10336364
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>>10334938
the library is mostly great
too bad the marketing didn't spin it as a toy
they should have aimed more cutesy instead of whatever the fuck the commercials were showing

other thing is the reliability is poor
even with "repaired ribbons" and pcb replacements
the physical eyepiece will fail\go out of calibration on ALL units
unless you keep it as a shelf ornament

i did the expensive rgb mod
i appreciated the memories of mario tennis
but realistically its just not the same
god tier sound chip


thank you for reading my blog

>> No.10336393

>>10336346
The VB has a better library than the 32X. I own both so I'm allowed to say that.

>> No.10336396

>>10336393
this is an objectively wrong take though
32x has thousands of times the color output
it is not a portable system, it also has kolibri
which is, quite possibly, one of the greatest shmups ever made

>> No.10336403

>>10336396
I have to agree with this. While I think the vb is neat it really only has a few games that are ok to good, Warioland being pretty damn good. All the noteable 32x games are really well done, but I might bir mixing up some 32x and Sega CD games.

>> No.10336404

>>10336396
Different guy, but 2/3 of your points aren't about the game library. Thanks for the recommendation though. I'll have to check out Kolibri.

>> No.10336410

Holy shit, shills do walk amogus

>> No.10336841

virtual boy games are limited by both portable nature and the necessity of taking breaks from eyestrain

wario land is the best game on the system, and yet its only 4 worlds long and designed to be speedrun in 20 minutes or less

>> No.10336964

>>10336364
I played some Red Alarm and Mario Tennis when it was brand new at a demo kiosk in Target back in the 90s. When I stopped playing I saw everything around me like the last Giygas fight in Earthbound. Shit was terrifying.

>> No.10337008
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>>10334938
STILL waiting for a working VirtualBoy emulator for the 3DS.

>> No.10337175

Virtual Boy has a fairly varied library for how little there is, but I can't believe there was never a racing game released for it when it's one of the best genres to showcase 3D.

>> No.10337186

>>10334970
>Red Alarm is really good, and is completely unplayable in an emulator because it loses any sense of depth.

This game filters the shit out of zoomies who don't read the instructions, so they don't know how to sharp-turn or strafe-boost, both of which are essential for controlling your ship properly

>> No.10337193

>>10335505
>What could have saved the Virtual Boy bros? I'm thinking if it had a color screen instead of red it would have lasted longer.

That, and make it a premium N64 peripheral instead of a standalone system. N64 was more than up to the task of rendering 2 views, as it did 4 in plenty of games. Compromises would need to be made in VR mode to maintain 30fps though.

>> No.10337204

>>10337008
I thought there was one?

>> No.10337885

>>10336364
Queer keyboard

>> No.10337903

>>10335505
They legit should have just given it an composite output that lets it output to a tv in anaglyph 3d and bundle one of those blue and red glasses

>> No.10337993

>>10337885
v insightful post anon
i gave a wall of text as input
you care about my royal kludge keyboard i got on sale
(cherry mx brown copies)
the rgb lights can be customized\turned off

>> No.10338694

>>10335505
more portable (collapsing stand into the visor)
flip up screen for spectators to observe

>> No.10338702

>>10338694
maybe even having the controls be on the visor's sides itself so its all only unit in psp style

>> No.10338706

>>10337204
Work was started on one, but it was never fully realized. https://github.com/mrdanielps/r3Ddragon

>> No.10340308
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10340308

mine developed that ribbon issue and I don't have the soldering skills to fix it

>> No.10340352

Always wanted to see a jrpg for the VB. Or something like Red Alarm but with polygon shading.

>> No.10340360

>>10337008
VR headsets are a solid option. Pretty much all the PC emulators support SBS 3D then you can use something like virtual desktop to make that work with your headset.

Would be nice if there was an emulator that just had built in VR support. Only one I know of is some ancient fork of VBjin and that requires going through hoops to run unless you have an Oculus Rift.

Was never too impressed with 3DS' 3D so I don't know how good the experience would even be there. Better than just playing in 2D though, I guess.

>> No.10340462

>>10334938
>22 games
>>10336346
>40 games
Next somebody is going to say the Casio Loopy was the best with its whopping 11 games

>> No.10340998

>>10340360
The 3D wasn't good until the New 3DS models with "super-stable" eye tracking 3D.

>> No.10341561

>>10334938
>still has a more worth playing library
No it doesn't.
>than most retro consoles
I mean... if you're including, like, how there's 90 foreign "knockoff" versions of the Gameboy or "console" versions of single-game arcade cabinets, then I guess so. But no. The Virtual Boy was awful. It really was.

>> No.10341795

This thing could of been a fun gimmick if it had hooked up to the N64 for party style games where its like the headset user VS 4 other players