Fwow13 @ Fwow13 @lemmy.world

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I've always loved it, didn't get one as a kid - but drooled over store kiosks and dreamed.

Shortly after I got married, my (then new) wife surprised me with one after hearing me make a comment once about how cool I thought they were as a kid.

She then helped me track down every NA game for it over the course of that next year or so.

The system means a lot more to me now. 🙂

Have to expect this comment in some form or other whenever you post about the Virtual Boy on the internet. 😅

I really only got into soldering and electronics repair in order to maintain my old systems. Gotta take care of this stuff!

Not for pro (which is what I was talking about). A lifetime subscription (a one-time payment) is $99 to get all of those locked features.

I happily paid $20 already for no-ads (even though I use an ad-blocker and never saw ads in the first place)

I've been loving it, feels good to be using it again. Lemmy isn't as active as I would love it to be (especially in the topics I'm interested in), but being able to scroll around using Sync has really motivated me to be active here. I hope that happens with more people.

I really wish I could submit posts using the app, and there are a couple of the features that feel like should be basic functions that require a subscription to use. Happy to support the developer, but I don't like subscription models and not sure if there's enough value here for me (yet) to justify a one-time $99 payment.

I'd also love it if the "no more posts loaded. Retry?" toast message would time out and fade away. It ends up blocking some of the info for the last post it loaded at the bottom of the screen, and it just doesn't leave!

The OEM cart connectors are much better (in terms of fit in the system), but not destroying original carts more than makes up for the new connectors' shortcomings. New plastic cart shells have come a long way in terms of quality in the past few years too. Very happy that we have these options now and can make legitimately new carts!

The HF32 is a lot of fun to customize, hope you're getting some good use out of yours 👍

No idea! Good question, that thought hadn't occurred to me. 🤔

I guess I'll have to make sure to check on on it periodically if I store it away.

Probably a good question to bring up in the Virtual Boy community, not sure if the Blockbuster cases did any damage to the systems as the foam in those decayed?

I've always been nervous about taking it out of my house (like when someone I know really wants to try one out), but now I feel so much better about it. I've been able to easily take this with me on several trips now just to have it with me!

I definitely want more. I have another Virtual Boy that would be nice to store like this too, and I'd love to make one for my Game Boy(s) and another for Game Gear.

Good eye lol! Yes it is, and 1 HyperBoy cart!

I was helping the guy that designed and produced them at RetroOnyx, I did a lot of beta-testing. I also did quite a bit of digital artwork to contribute to the community and he told me to just keep the carts. I bought one of them, the rest came from him for testing/development.

It's nice to be able to flash several of my favorite unreleased commercial games and homebrew onto different carts and be able to just swap them out instead of constantly reflashing 🤷🏻.

I mean... I guess so. But if you need a case for your Virtual Boy, no need to wait for me to die - there are tons of cases readily available at sites like Amazon that you can get to make your own!

One of the best games in the (small) library!

The system still has a pretty loyal and active fan community around it. There's been some impressive new homebrew and hardware accessories that have been released in recent years.

They're unfortunately getting to be pretty pricey things to track down nowadays. Emulation is a thing, but this is one of those quirky systems where it's almost impossible to really replicate the original experience. I've heard there's a really good emulation solution for the Oculus Go though, if you have access to one of those!

(And "red" is a big part of the experience lol)

Mario Kart 8 with my kids but I'll probably break out the Game Gear when everyone is finally in bed!

Now... It's when I hear my wife stirring 😴🫣

I use a program called Blockada on my phone. (get it from their website, not from the Play Store) Blockada runs a VPN locally on your device to filter all ad traffic from your data usage.

You can whitelist specific site requests that are getting blocked, or whitelist whole apps to allow ads in them specifically.

I never saw ads in Sync (I presume because of my system-wide ad blocking), but I went ahead and purchased ad-free to support the continued development of Sync.

Sounds like I'm (at least) already there, I've been gaming since I was a kid and can count on one hand the number of things over the years I've let go. Including all the cardboard from every game and system I purchased.

I'm also with you on your philosophy regarding finishing games. I play to play, and it doesn't matter if the game is over or I get 100% completion. And if I come across a game in my library that I don't enjoy... I still don't get rid of it, I may come back a year or two later and find that it clicks with me then. 🤷🏻

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I hope to play the original game before I ever play the sequel. Whether or not I purchase the sequel will depend how I enjoyed the first game. If I can't get through enough of my 3DS backlog to get to it before the opportunity to buy the new game goes away - I may just purchase it (assuming the reviews are good) and add it to my backlog as well.

Having a family really eats into any video game time I might have had.... Someday I'll get to play these games!

I still haven't played the original, despite it sitting on my shelf and that I purchased the DLC for it before the eShop went dark... 🤦

Same - been waiting for the app release first!