The HyperBoy, a rom cart for Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, originally developed by Kevin Mellot from RetroOnyx, is now available for purchase at Stone Age Gamer. It’s priced at $165 and, at the moment, can be ordered in two different colors: red or black. For an additional $50, you get a box set containing: a quick […]
Following the success of his full-size Virtual Boy Consolizer Case, Marcus Mitchman has just released on thingverse the design files of a remodeled smaller 3D-printed VBC case that he’s naming: Virtual Boy Mini Consolizer Case. The new redesigned small form factor shell snuggly encases the Virtual Boy’s motherboard and the parts needed to complete the […]
Developer/Modder SegaSonicFan just released a kit that replaces the Virtual Boy’s original problematic eyepiece flat cable assembly, called: the Virtual Ribbon. The Virtual Ribbon unassembled kit consists of two right-angle mounted PCBs for each eyepiece, two ribbon cables, and two separate connectors (each must be soldered to the main Virtual Ribbon PCBs). SSF went for […]
A 3D printed design was just posted that’s meant to be an easier way to create a Virtual Boy controller extension cable. Unlike the ones posted last year by Kevin Mellott, these utilize an RJ45 jack as the cable. The theroy is, printing these adapters and using the housings and pins of a serial port […]
Thunderstruck, a long-time Virtual Boy coder from PlanetVB forums, has released an open-source Vectrex emulator that runs on the Nintendo Virtual Boy. It currently runs Minestorm only, and very slowly. The author is hoping that another coder will come in and do the “boring” work of optimizing and improving it. Details on how it was […]
Update: The event was a success! Thanks so much for everyone who participated both live and on-stream! Video footage of the event is below, as well as a link to the full stream! Tonight at Next Level in Brooklyn, NY is NLBC + Virtual Boy Livestrem event, brought to you by @nycfurby! People will be […]
Anyone attending the weekly NLBC Wednesday night event on May 8th will have the ability to play and stream the Virtual Boy version of Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting! NYCFurby has graciously offered a table at the event where there will be a full Virtual Tap setup and a livestream on the RetroRGB channels! Anyone attending the […]
Kevin Mellott has just posted a few status updates regarding his “MultiBoy 32” Virtual Boy ROM/flash cart project. He’s received quotes and selected a board house for the initial prototype run of 10 carts. Unfortunately, these will be costly and he’s looking to secure funding for both this and the main project. At the moment, […]
Benj Edwards is now selling his BX-250 “Virtual Man” Virtual Boy stick controllers at a 22% off sale for $250. These are small, but high-quality arcade sticks for the Virtual Boy that include a power supply, completely eliminating the need for an original controller & PSU. Benj will also be selling his Hyper Fighting sticks […]
Kevin Mellott has just announced the MultiBoy 32: A MicroSD-based ROM/Flash cart! Yes, that’s right, no single loading or configuration, just dump your VB roms and start playing!!! Features include: Flash space: 32 slots of 32Mbit RAM via a 1Gbit Flash. RAM space: 256k x 16 SRAM space (8k x 16 per slot) using MRAM […]
