• CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I can’t believe they acknowledged the Virtual Boy ever existed. Why they never ported the games to 3DS is mind boggling.

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      8 months ago

      The homebrew community has ported the games to 3DS with an emulator.

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        7 months ago

        Yes, it’s called Red Viper and it’s great! I’m just surprised Nintendo didn’t do it themselves.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah the fact that this already exists and it is pretty much perfect just makes me think that it is a lame move from Nintendo, even if it was meant to be a joke lol.

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        8 months ago

        There’s also an emulator for the oculus quest, the moment you launch a game you understand why it wasn’t that successful and why VR was abandoned for a while.

        Monochrome games are all good and fun when the screen is not a few cm from your eyes and that’s the only color you can see hahahah

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      8 months ago

      Luigis Mansion 3 has a pretty overt acknowledgement of the Virtual Boys existance. The entire in game menu is in one.

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    8 months ago

    I thought Virtual Boy Pro was what Ben Shapiro’s famously dry wife called him until he paid her to stop?

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      8 months ago

      Stop putting the onus of wetness on the poor woman. She’s dry when she’s with him, but you can’t blame her for that, the man is a human silica packet

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        8 months ago

        You’re right and I’m sorry for any confusion as I very much intended to blame the human silica packet for his sexual ineptitude and general repulsiveness lol

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      8 months ago

      Wait, what? How do we even know it has a VR mode if no Nintendo hardware exists that renders anything but the Labo kit in VR?

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        8 months ago

        The VR mode was added to work with the Labo kit. But these headsets also exist now… because…? I don’t think the Labo was head-mounted, but maybe I’m wrong because I never had Labo.