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.
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Here is a report of the discovery by MO5.com:
Un FPS Fallout officieux basé sur DOOM et autres news rétro de la semaine
Also another report by Time Extension:
Thanks for all the kind words and support, everyone! We’ve all been so excited to make this announcement – and just as excited for everyone to finally play the game. No physical release is planned. The ROM is small enough to fit on all available flashcarts, including legacy ones like FlashBoy and FlashBoy+.
I think it’s very cool that despite the short life of the VB at retail, it had 1 game which actually ended up having a sequel.
There’s some user reviews slowly being posted by people with the ROM. Both myself and other members of the group have found Virtual League Baseball 2 to me a massive improvement on the original game. I am comfortable placing VLB2 among my favorite titles in the whole library. It is insanely replayable and makes some of the best use of the 3D I’ve seen in any VB game, retail or homebrew.
To all of you who have donated to our fundraiser thus far, we sincerely appreciate your financial contribution. It’s so nice seeing so much support from this community for the 30 year anniversary.
I hope this question is not inappropriate: can you say in % how much you got back via funds of the initally paid amount so far?
If not, no worries, I am just curious 😉
And thanks again for making this possible! The VB community would not be the same without people like you and the other persons having worked in the background on this “project”.
Totally understand the curiosity, abarth! I’m sure you’re not the only one who’s wondering the same. Thus far, we’ve received a small percentage (about 15%) of the total cost in donations. At this point, we don’t anticipate recouping the full amount spent, but if we do, we will announce that and dedicate any additional funds to future such purchases.
We are very humbled of all the positive feedback we’ve received, and it means a lot that so many people have tossed some money our way to help us recoup the significant financial hit of this transaction. Every bit helps, as far as we’re concerned.
