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Test Chamber is a new (2025) puzzle homebrew for VB. It’s a first-person puzzler similar to games like Portal or The Talos Principle.
You can view the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8aCWv88mXs
Enjoy!
V.O.R.T.E.C.H.S. Games prepared a little surprise for the Virtual Boy’s Japanese release date, and it is… a parody of Dragon Hopper!
In Dragon Chopper, you are Sven, a cool nordic Viking ship builder, who one day finds himself in a world that has been fully transformed from his cozy Nordic homeland into ancient Greece! It is now your task, your quest, to restore the country back to normal. But first, you really need to go to the bathroom…
This demo is a sneak peek of the first area, up until you obtain one of the first major power-ups. The full game will feature maps that you will jump up or down to, with a zoom effect as you land onto the next elevation level (much like what was planned for the original Dragon Hopper).
This demo has been made by Morintari (game concept & artwork), Simon Gellis (programming) and DaVince (ideas & maps).
Floogle has just dropped v1.0.0 of Red Viper, the amazing Virtual Boy emulator for Nintendo 3DS. With this release, all officially released games run at playable speeds, with no major glitches or slowdow. But wait, there’s even more!
- New “Multicolor” mode, allowing for more versatile color remapping
- Circle Pad Pro support
- Software renderer to reduce visual glitches, enabled in Golf
- Double buffering to hide garbage frames and improve frametime accuracy, enabled in Red Alarm and Bound High
- Numerous performance improvements
- In particular, interrupt checking was moved from a polling-based system to predicting exactly when the next interrupt will trigger, improving performance particularly in the Space Invaders intro
- A ROM can be bundled with a Red Viper CIA, to create what is commonly called a “forwarder”
- An error code is now shown when loading a ROM fails
- Fix “Discard” not correctly restoring settings for New 3DS Speedup
- Fix occasional graphical glitches on touch screen when toggling Home Menu
Get it here.
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Japanese launch of the Virtual Boy, I’d like to announce that I have acquired the ROM for Virtual League Baseball 2 from a former game tester. It wasn’t cheap. I’ve been sworn to keep quiet about all details and I will not be answering any further questions about the acquisition of the ROM.
Special thanks to KR155E, Animesuperj, UnumSolum, dudeway4, RetroOnyx (mellott124), Speedyink, and other anonymous benefactors for their financial and logistical contributions to getting this ROM in the hands of the VB community. We could not have done this without a serious coordinated effort, support, and involvement of one other. In addition, shoutout to Thunderstruck for his help and expertise in digging through the software itself.
Everyone involved in this project has the ROM in their hands, so it’s not at risk of getting lost. I’d like to ask the community at large to please consider donating to help ease some of the financial burden we have incurred from this purchase. Here is the link to donate:
Please send as Friends and Family!
paypal.me/virtualbaseball2
Donations go a long way in assuring that we might be able to one day do something like this again. After the donation period has completed, we plan for a public release to occur on September 21st. I hope you’re all as excited about this as we are!
Here’s some promotional content to give you a taste of what’s to come. Credit to Speedyink for his work on the commercial!
All additional materials, including the box art mockup, commercial, and print ad are fan made and do not represent an official work of Kemco or Nintendo.
