Vintage game consoles

[kup]

That's a cool piece Kup...

I'm assuming you paid via PayPal? If the seller wants to be a douche, just claim against him... I dare say you'll see a remarkable turn around in his attitude.

Thanks Janda. We'll see what happens with the seller. I have given him a few days to reply.

In the mean time, I ordered some security screw drivers to open the Virtual Boy up and see if it can be fixed. The screw driver I have is too thick.

[kup]

Finished restoring my Virtual Boy! Fixed the faulty imager ribbon that was preventing one of the lenses from working by refluxing it a few times.




All games I own so far with Virtual Boy Wario Land playing.

[philby]

holy crap you actually have a virtual boy. what's it like??

[kup]

holy crap you actually have a virtual boy. what's it like??

It is unusual and although I don't suffer from motion sickness, playing on it a while and then stopping makes me feel as if i just woke up from a bad night.

The red and black is ugly but one can get used to it plus it is a somewhat novelty of the VB. The 3D effect is somewhat similar to that of the 3DS but still in a kind of 2D way. It is kind of if a paper cutout is placed more towards you further in front of the background. I guess similar to how opening credits text looks in a 3d movie

I believe you can now play emulated VB with the 3D effect using your Android smartphone and a cheap VR casing such as Google Cardboard.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I believe you can now play emulated VB with the 3D effect using your Android smartphone and a cheap VR casing such as Google Cardboard.

Didn't know that, I'd be curious to look into that.

[kup]

Didn't know that, I'd be curious to look into that.

Here:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/09/...gle-cardboard/

[millhouse]

Finished restoring my Virtual Boy! Fixed the faulty imager ribbon that was preventing one of the lenses from working by refluxing it a few times.

What was the result with the eBay dispute, if you don't mind me asking?

[kup]

I ended up getting a partial refund which I used to get the tools I needed to opening the VB for repair as well as obtaining a proper battery module.

The seller played smart as he knew there was no way around it but to cooperate in compensating me for what was not revealed about the unit.

It was a good opportunity to learn about how it works anyways, despite the end result not being very impressive, the technology behind the VB is - Did you know that there are no 'screens' for the lenses? The display is generated by a single row of LEDs that are reflected through a synchronised vibrating mirror to get the image. Without the vibrating mirror, it would just be a single row of dots.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Did you know that there are no 'screens' for the lenses? The display is generated by a single row of LEDs that are reflected through a synchronised vibrating mirror to get the image. Without the vibrating mirror, it would just be a single row of dots.

Fascinating, I love this stuff.

[kup]

Fascinating, I love this stuff.

It is necessary to get a very high frame rate that prevents blurring since technically all the system is doing is lighting a single row of pixels for each eye. It is possibly better in this regard that modern VR headsets.

Here is the actual LED display ribbon:



This is all that it truly displays, the game image you get is literally mirror trickery:



What produces the game image is the mirror for each eye display that vibrate back and forth a at an incredibly fast rate which is synchronised to the LEDs. So the display ribbon shoots the LED dot image to the mirror which it rapidly changes angle so that the 'pixel' is projected at a particular part of the mirror and reflected into the eye piece at a desired position - This happens an insane amount of times times per second and eventually draws the image. From a human eye perspective, the whole screen is drawn although in reality, its just a single row of blinking lights.

Here are the mirrors: