Virtual Boy for... Switch 1/2?

[Andrew NDB]

How nuts is this? They're even bringing back special hardware you can plug into your Switch 1 or 2 to play it.

[The Deadman]

Im excited for it, considering I never played the original thing. I dunno if I'm forking out the money for the actual thing though, may settle for the cheaper cardboard box looking thing.

[sdp]

I owned and liked the Virtual Boy as a kid, although it was not an amazing system. The games it had were fun enough, they're just short game boy like games though. The type of 3D it used can't be emulated properly even with this accessory but it'll give a close representation of what the real hardware actually felt like. At least the best way without having to use real hardware.

Even without the accesory yyou should still be able to play it, you'd only have two screens that look nearly identical next to each other. I'm really excited and will buy the fulll accesory but I have actual real nostalgia for the thing. I'm sure this will sell fine just out of morbid curiosity from fans that want to play "the system that failed".

[Coola Yagami]

Goodbye eyesight.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

The type of 3D it used can't be emulated properly even with this accessory

I was wondering about that. So we're not... actually getting the 3D effect of the original? Just a tactile simulation of what it might have been like just stuffing our faces into the Virtual Boy ages ago?

[sdp]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I was wondering about that. So we're not... actually getting the 3D effect of the original? Just a tactile simulation of what it might have been like just stuffing our faces into the Virtual Boy ages ago?

I was debating someone who said they could just emulate 3D games on their Nintendo 3DS in 3D for free but the type of 3D in the 3DS is different enough that the games don't feel the same. The difference between emulating VB on a 3DS and this is big. When you emulate the VB on VR glasses you get a much "truer" experience, although the VB emilators for VR headsets are full of bugs so not great experience either.

So yeah, with the accessory you'll get the closest experience you can without having to buy the actual hardware. It still won't be 100% the same since well the LCD is lower on the VB, the refresh rate is different, and since it was only black and red, unless you're playing with a Switch 1 OLED display, you won't get the true blacks that make the neon red look stand out. Also the pulsing glow effect is not going to be recreated since that's just how that specific outdated tech worked. On the plus side, this won't have ghosting which sometimes the VB would have.

But I'm getting too autistic, it's like those CRT filters on game compilations, yeah they're not the same but it's extremely close to the original that only few people are going to complain. The 3D will look great, hell it already looks great on the 3DS emulator, but with this official version it'll be better since you'll be able to get the actual depth the games were meant to have just by looking into the system.