Virtual Boy

[adsharma23]

well after reflecting on the games that i play i came to realize that i haven't played the vast majority of old school consoles
seeing as i'm a huge nintendo fan, i atleast need to try all their consoles/handhelds
which is why i'm pleading someone to try a virtual boy emulator
i found some psp forum where they said it was possible and linked a few open source projects
Virtual-E - http://www.emuunlim.com/VirtualE/download.htm
Reality Boy - http://goliathindustries.com/vb/VBDown.html
Red Dragon - http://www.vr32.de/modules/tech/inde...us&eid=rdragon
but would anyone actually port this seeing as it was (i never played it but i've read) a failure of a console?

 

[nubie]

well after reflecting on the games that i play i came to realize that i haven't played the vast majority of old school consoles
seeing as i'm a huge nintendo fan, i atleast need to try all their consoles/handhelds
which is why i'm pleading someone to try a virtual boy emulator
i found some psp forum where they said it was possible and linked a few open source projects
Virtual-E - http://www.emuunlim.com/VirtualE/download.htm
Reality Boy - http://goliathindustries.com/vb/VBDown.html
Red Dragon - http://www.vr32.de/modules/tech/inde...us&eid=rdragon
but would anyone actually port this seeing as it was (i never played it but i've read) a failure of a console?

Never mind saw it in the stickied list my bad
could a moderator please delete this thread?



The real trick would be if it could generate a left and right eye image for real 3D (in monochrome, not eye bleeding red.)

 

[WizardStan]

Just display them in red/cyan so you can use standard monochrome 3D glasses.

 

[jaycee900]

I used to own a VB and I have to admit it was fun in short bursts, before needing to refocus your eyes without getting dizzy!
I remember the original idea was to have it completely sitting over your head ala VR headsets, but of course the whole sue you aspect came in when they thought little kids would be walking onto buses with a headset on or getting run over!
Good piece of kit, though unless you are completely transfixed into the image it won't be very good emulated.

 

[benjymous]

Just display them in red/cyan so you can use standard monochrome 3D glasses.

Or better still, rig it up so you can use one of these for that cyberpunk feel

 

[Yrx]

Actually portable Virtual Boy? Yes please. There weren't that many games, but what was there was mostly great.

Although I own a Virtual Boy with the AC adaptor, so I'm not too concerned.

 

[Chip]

Actually portable Virtual Boy? Yes please. There weren't that many games, but what was there was mostly great.

There were only about fifteen games, and the only one that is even worth mentioning is Wario land. The rest are mediocre at best, and many are downright terrible. The Angry Video Game Nerd did a show on the Virtual Boy a while back, and he actually went through every US released game. You won't be missing much if there is never a Virtual Boy emulator on the Pandora.

 

[nubie]

Just display them in red/cyan so you can use standard monochrome 3D glasses.

NO!

We have a widescreen, it would be possible to draw a left and right eye and use a slide viewer lens to see full 3d. See http://www.berezin.com/3d/viewers1.htm for the kind of viewers I am thinking of.

Anaglyph 3D glasses are just poor, I can't recommend them, there is too much bleed of one color into the other, it ruins immersion.

If the Pandora can display separate outputs on the screen and S-Video you can get a second screen and do some really neat 3D stuff.

I say if we can offer a 3d (stereoscopic) handheld game platform (in full color, not anaglyph), it would be really awesome.

I understand that this sort of thing is uber-geeky, some are repulsed by this, others like the idea.

See MTBS3D.com and check out how many NON-Anaglyph and NON-Shutterglasses 3D types there are, including Planar, dual projection, HMD, polarized monitor, autostereoscopic, etc. I quit playing PC games because nVidia has canned support for my 3D gaming drivers. Although there is a beta of drivers from iZ3D.com that allows me to use my Planar dual-polarized monitor setup again , with full shaders on recent games , and it is video card agnostic, so I could use an AMD 4850 instead of nVidia.

 

[atomicthumbs]

Just display left and right images. I can keep my eyes crossed for an unlimited period of time.

 

[benjymous]

Just display left and right images. I can keep my eyes crossed for an unlimited period of time.

Wasted youth in front of Magic Eye books?

 

[fusion_power]

If you have to much money, maybe there is a way to use one of these for a VB Emulation? :

http://www.zeiss.com/cinemizer

The FAQ has some sentences about 3D Usage:

http://www.zeiss.com/C125679B0029303C/Cont...;File/faqs.html

all you need is a propper Adapter (or two ) for usage onto the Wiz and of course the right Drivers. ^^""

 

[jhoff80]

There were only about fifteen games, and the only one that is even worth mentioning is Wario land. The rest are mediocre at best, and many are downright terrible.



Disagreed. There were probably 5 or so Virtual Boy games worth playing. Wario Land was the best of them, yes, but Teleroboxer was great, as were Galactic Pinball, Mario Clash, and Mario Tennis. I've heard that 3D Tetris was really good too, but I never played that one.

 

[nubie]

Just display left and right images. I can keep my eyes crossed for an unlimited period of time.

Wasted youth in front of Magic Eye books?

He has a very good point, at normal playing distance on a screen this size crossing your eyes (converging) shouldn't be a problem. My brother can diverge his eyes! That I can't do, it freaks me out! (To be fair he is also the brother of mine that exercises separate control over his eyebrows, creepy.)

If you are in the mood for more fun stuff like this see: http://amasci.com/~billb/cgi-bin/instr/instr.html

If you have to much money, maybe there is a way to use one of these for a VB Emulation? :

http://www.zeiss.com/cinemizer

The FAQ has some sentences about 3D Usage:

http://www.zeiss.com/C125679B0029303C/Cont...;File/faqs.html

all you need is a propper Adapter (or two ) for usage onto the Wiz and of course the right Drivers. ^^""


That is interesting, it looks like it takes a side-by-side 640(2)x480 picture and gives one half to each eye, a lot of headwear uses frame-sequential or field-sequential, which is what I believe the Vuzix VR920 uses: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/vi...dset-review.ars .

The Wiz doesn't have working video output yet, they couldn't figure it out, the scene needs to do that themselves. The Pandora (AKA the forum we are in), does have S-Video, but I don't know how well 3D output from that will work to the gravis glasses, as it is standard NTSC or PAL resolution.

Don't forget to check out MTBS3d.com if you want to learn a lot, good forums there for 3D nerds

 

[Chip]

Disagreed. There were probably 5 or so Virtual Boy games worth playing. Wario Land was the best of them, yes, but Teleroboxer was great, as were Galactic Pinball, Mario Clash, and Mario Tennis. I've heard that 3D Tetris was really good too, but I never played that one.

The games you list may be "great" by Virtual Boy standards, but there is nothing about them that you can't get on another system, and usually better implemented. The 3-D aspect of all those games is a tacked-on gimmick and doesn't really add anything to the gameplay.

 

[jaycee900]

Disagreed. There were probably 5 or so Virtual Boy games worth playing. Wario Land was the best of them, yes, but Teleroboxer was great, as were Galactic Pinball, Mario Clash, and Mario Tennis. I've heard that 3D Tetris was really good too, but I never played that one.

The games you list may be "great" by Virtual Boy standards, but there is nothing about them that you can't get on another system, and usually better implemented. The 3-D aspect of all those games is a tacked-on gimmick and doesn't really add anything to the gameplay.

True, but it does add to the gameplaying experience, which is what its all about in the first place.
Though you could say that about any game past 1986, all the genres had been done, 3D games don't add anything to the gameplay, hydrolic cabinets don't anything.....etc etc don't go through life hating stuff, enjoy it for what it is

 

[pariah]

Don't care how "bad" it was, I loved Red Alarm and would love to play it again via the Pandy!

p B)

 

[waffles]

I heard that robot boxing game was pretty neat.

 

[cb88]

...I have separate control of my eyebrows... can't diverge *yet* though <.>

 

[nubie]

Disagreed. There were probably 5 or so Virtual Boy games worth playing. Wario Land was the best of them, yes, but Teleroboxer was great, as were Galactic Pinball, Mario Clash, and Mario Tennis. I've heard that 3D Tetris was really good too, but I never played that one.

The games you list may be "great" by Virtual Boy standards, but there is nothing about them that you can't get on another system, and usually better implemented. The 3-D aspect of all those games is a tacked-on gimmick and doesn't really add anything to the gameplay.

That is a fairly close-minded stance, it adds to immersion, and that is what gaming is all about.

 

[emil10001]

Sort of wondering if something like this would work well with a VB emu for the pandora:
http://www.i-glassesstore.com/i-3d.html

It claims to display 'true stereoscopic images' with 'properly formatted' media. I'd probably be willing to pick them up if i cold do VirtualBoy in 3d with them, and also a 'bigger' screen for some other games, without hogging the TV. Though I'm sure my gaming would be constantly interrupted by my girlfriend laughing at me.