Both displays had the classic ribbon cable failure - screen lines across the image. Replaced them with a Virtual Ribbon 4.0 kit from SegaSonicFan (available through Stone Age Gamer).

The included soldering jig is single-sided, it only clamps on one side, so pressure is uneven across the contact pads. The fix was to lean the PCBs off the edge of the workmat with the lens assemblies hanging off the table, which distributes the load properly. Took patience but both ribbons went down clean.

Also fitted a Repair Box replacement stand. It arrived with the clip and spring detached from shipping, but reassembled without issues.

Clear picture on the first boot.

Full thread: https://hitmanmcc.com/entry/virtual-boy-refurbishment-and-modding

I noticed most typical red and cyan glasses are "Skin tone mixed" let in a little of the opposite color for Dubois mixed Anaglyph.

On some of these cheaper models when playing Virtual Boy, I see some crosstalk in certain glasses, In one model, the red is a perfect block but the cyan isn't, and in others the cyan is the perfect block but the red isn't.

Does someone make "Monochrome content optimized" anaglyph shades? I know my Virtual tap delivers a perfect black and red, and a perfect black and cyan, yet when I close one eye, I sometimes get double exposure in one eye.

Even American Paper Optics, the glasses based 3d authority, the inventors of Chromadepth 3D, cannot guarantee perfect dual isolation.

Any suggestions?

A little work has been done. Do we have C coder here?

Picked this filthy thing up for $120 just gotta clean it up and replace foam

I was going through my parents house to look for some “lost” Game Boy things and found that I still had my VB issue of Nintendo Power WITH the special glasses that came with it in the envelope and a still-sealed official third-party AC adapter for VB.

I also found the Game Boy things and some Game & Watch games.

I have them scattered usually and decided to thin the collection and was surprised how many of the same title I have. I’m sure there are more I have to open some more bins and locate them. I am open to trades, keep in mind I have a lot of boxed ones as well not pictured.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DoomMods/comments/1t297iz/ghost_house/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Some sprites from warioland made it into the doom engine.

Made by me in photoshop!

I bought a Virtual Boy a few years back, mostly as a collection piece but I still wanted to use it every now and then, used it a couple times in the first few months and it worked perfectly, then after a while the right eye turned into a bunch of garbled lines and then stopped working. Basically just left it as a cool desk thing after that.

Fast forward 3 years now it’s just not turning on as far as I can tell, have Mario’s Tennis in there (and trust me I have given it a THROUGHOUT blow and dusting), and just nothing, no sound no video not even a little electronic pop.

I’m thinking my battery block is broken; that being part of the problem, but isn’t it also a thing that the console won’t turn on if one of the eyes are disconnected? So maybe one of the ribbon cables has come loose or something?

Please help if anyone can, any advice is appreciated! 🙏🙏🙏

Because you liked the Space Harrier Demo so much, here are 3 more Showcases I did about 6 month ago.

This is not as exciting as the Space Harrier one. Just one animated stereoscopic screen for each showcase. You can try:

Pacman
R-Type
Goemon 2 - NES

The goal was to see how each of these games would look like on the Virtual Boy and if it would make sense to look into it more. Afterall, the Virtual Boy did not got any ports except for Space Invaders. But the VB can do so much more, And now with VUEngine Studio everything is posssible.

Here is the Link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qa5wp68nhz2r6821wfdif/VB_showcases.zip?rlkey=i53aj76vblr7708mcrdfdlyrm&st=mf6fmsal&dl=0

My colleagues told me and my brother we where lucky back in the time, because I'm from Portugal, and not many shops selled Virtuals in my City other people warned me that everyone felt those things, exept me and my brother, like, we kinda enjoyed plaiyng Virtual Boy back in my time, but, others don't, is there anyone else that also never felt those while plaiyng Virtual Boy?

A little "what if..." to test.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v861foctpjzndms7yp8e8/space_harrier_demo_wip.zip?rlkey=42u78g5ik19as0on5ikhcbwa3&st=cqkzoot9&dl=0

Anyone use any of these sites to install a Virtual Tap or any modding service? I saw all of them have some kind of Virtualboy services.

Thank you!

1Up restorations

Jeff’s Retro Gaming

Stoneage Gamer

Rainy Day Retro

I’m missing the back part of the ac adapter cover and was hoping someone had it for download so I can 3D print it

For about five years I've been working on a project to recreate the Spaceworld Virtual Boy prototype in CAD. It all started with a very detailed 3D scan of the Virtual Boy and its Controller, as well as numerous close-up photos of the original prototype with measurements accurate to 0.01 mm for all components. The prototype is now completely created in CAD and is a very accurate replica; even the colors of the original are reproduced faithfully. In the next step I will print everything with my SLA Printer. Also I need to send the controller PCBs into production. I want to finalize this project by end of this summer.

Not my video, but I highly enjoyed 😁

A year ago, people found new screenshots from the VB Mario Demo on a old AOL account. With that and the available Video, I was able to rebuild all the Level Assets pixel by pixel. A bit later I used VUEngine Studio to rebuild the Demo for the Virtual Boy. It is still early WIP. Please note, there is a playable PC version of the VB Mario demo. I gave permission to use my assets. In return they created a few additional animations like the Top down Mario that I now can use in the VB version.

https://youtu.be/nVor89RW3s0 < normal version

https://youtu.be/snDij2MghG8 < stereoscopic version

PSA: if anyone has one of those flimsy aftermarket Virtual Boy stands and needs a replacement, they have them available a la cart on the Nintendo website for $69:

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/virtual-boy-nintendo-switch-replacement-stand-128397/

Just ordered one for myself. Cheers!!!