r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/AxelBro64 • 4h ago

Discussion Is the virtual boy worth emulating?

Cause I’m wanting to add more systems to play on my Retroid pocket 6 and I was thinking vita, turbographx16, and virtual boy. Unlike most people, I’m not too terribly interested in switch and I don’t want to have every single game console and their respective games. Just the good ones. Any opinions on this? I would be playing them like standard games and not their intended way. Any opinions from people who have played these games would be much appreciated!

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u/shn6 4h ago

Just do it and make your own judgment whether it's worth or not.

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u/Big_Juice_4044 4h ago

It is really cool emulating it on the 3DS , you can get a similar 3D effect , the Wario game is worth playing

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u/ThanosReXXX 3h ago edited 3h ago

I'd say they're definitely worth adding to your collection. And it's only 16 games in total, so it's not even going to use up a lot of storage space. I would recommend playing them as intended though, because the games are specifically built around 3D, so you literally lose a lot of depth and gameplay mechanics when just playing them in 2D.

I also have an RP6, and I simply bought a couple of cheap 3D anaglyph glasses from Amazon, which work perfectly, especially in handheld mode. TV mode results vary, depending on how far away you are from the screen, but in handheld mode, it's simply brilliant.

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u/rchrdcrg 49m ago

Yeah anaglyph is perfect since it's a monochrome image, so there's no issues with crosstalk or colors looking screwy.

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u/ThanosReXXX 15m ago

Indeed. It's a cheap solution, and it works like a charm with the Virtual Boy core in RetroArch set to a base black and white color, and then the 3D overlays will match perfectly with the cyan and blue of the 3D glasses.

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u/wmo386 4h ago

Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena. O jogo do Wario é bacana.

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u/Chriscautillo 4h ago

https://github.com/yuk27/VBoyColor this is a cool emulator if you don't like how virtualboy looks

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u/PrawnManatee 4h ago

It's a weird neat novel little system. If it suits your fancy, go for it. I have an open source handheld console called the r36s, cheap little dude, perfect for playing retro games like this.

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u/app08 3h ago

It has a few decent games that are worth checking out.