There’s a new Nintendo Virtual Boy platformer in the works, Capitan Sevilla 3D. The VUEngine project aims to rebuild the award-winning Capitan Sevilla 2 demo from the ground-up, turning it into a fully-fledged game. It’s being built using the Virtual Boy Development Engine, and will be complete with stereoscopic 3D separation. Consider backing VUEngine’s Patreon […]
Thunderstruck has released an English translation of Innsmouth Mansion [インスマウスの館] for the Nintendo Virtual Boy. VB hacks/homebrew/translations/protos, and new releases are rare, and any new English game significantly expands the consoles small library. Pre-patched ROM and screenshots are available at https://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7285&forum=2
I recently picked up a Virtual Boy and couldn’t resist the urge to make a display for the only game I currently have Virtual Boy Wario Land It is a super simple design that prints fairly quickly! Files are available in the (still in progress) 3D print section of the website here: http://retrorgb.com/virtual-boy-3d-print-cartridge-stands.html
Jeremy Parish declared 2019 The Year of Virtual Boy, and to kick it off Benj Edwards of vintagecomputing.com revealed the Virtual Boy dual arcade stick that he will be selling, the BX250. The dual stick is designed with buttons in several arrangements suitable to all VB games including the rare Street Fighter Homebrew. Benj currently […]
Members of the Planet Virtual Boy forums have just released a newly-dumped version of the unreleased game Bound High: https://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7247&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&type=&mode=0&start=0 The game itself is almost identical to the version previously dumped, however this version seems to have been complied in a different way. So far, testing shows almost no difference, but there’s the possibility that certain […]
A crowd-funding campaign went recently live on Indiegogo for a Virtual Boy development/sound tool by Martin Kujaczynski entitled “VB Music Tracker”. This is basically a software that will allow game developers and composers to create high quality music for their upcoming releases on the VB. Unfortuntely, some, if not most homebrew VB games suffer greatly […]
As previously promised, Furrtek has released the schematics for his Virtual Boy TV-Out project called the Virtual Tap. He’s still taking orders for the current batch he’s making, but only until the end of December: http://furrtek.free.fr/virtualtap/ https://github.com/furrtek/VirtualTap Code, schematics and layout, as promised 🙂 https://t.co/X2csOy6gHwI'll be taking orders for kits until the end of December, […]
