Well, this wasn't on my bingo card for 2026.

So Nintendo was just sitting on these roms from 3rd party developers for all this time... I know they were sitting on Star Fox 2 but that was known and it was 1st party. Dragon Hopper actually looks neat, I always assumed it was a Pokemon-like RPG, not a platformer.

Oh well, I am sure the roms will get dumped the second the update containing these drops.

I was just thinking about Dragon Hopper the other day joking it would shadow drop with EB64 online the same day.

>>12346223
EB64 was likely still in the tech demo stage, or at most an alpha. Nintendo generally doesn't like to show off stuff in an unfinished state. Look at all the stuff that was leaked in the 2020 Gigaleak. Hell, X/Lunar Chase was in a finished state in English and they never released that officially to this day.

>>12346147
>Dragon Hopper and G-Zero
My knees... they're bending on their own!

I wish this was just a collection of VB titles you could buy and not the subscription shit.

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>>12346147
What are the odds of these ROMs being dumped? Is that a thing you can do with this subscription service?

>>12346329
EVERYTHING is going subscription, there's more money to fleece from customers that way. You sell something once, that's it. You keep making them pay for it, the money keeps coming in. With this AI bullshit even the hardware manufacturers are clearly trying to push towards people renting cloud PCs instead of buying the hardware outright. The reason SEGA recently removed all their retro games from Steam is likely due to the subscription service they want to start.

>>12346345
>What are the odds of these ROMs being dumped?
I would honestly be shocked if they are not dumped within an hour of them coming out on NSO, it's pretty much guaranteed. Every undumped ROM that was ever on any service or device was dumped immediately as soon as said service/device released, if not even earlier from pre-release access.

And yes, of course you can dump the ROMs, people already have for all the current NSO games.

>no bound high
all my interest is lost this game has so much soul
https://youtu.be/Ne2GjitXCNg?list=PLeWsYhNaVofdUxnWe4CeYuzEQA2iWnwYW

>>12346147
Awesome news! I'm still not buying NSO, I'll wait for them to get dumped.

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>>12346329
>>12346347
>>12346535
Oh, you'll buy the subscription. You'll ALL buy the subscription.

>>12346147
>Virtual Boy Wario Land
>Teleroboxer
>Jack Bros
What were they thinking by releasing a console with at best 3 worthwhile games on it?

>>12346564
Fool. I don't even pay for internet.

>>12346147
Do you think we'll get any more unreleased games, or just those two?
I'd personally really like to see Out of the Deathmount, Sora Tobu Henry, and Virtual Jockey.
https://lostmediawiki.com/Virtual_Boy_(partially_found_unreleased_games_for_Nintendo_virtual_reality_system;_mid_1990s)

>>12347003
Given that they already announced different games today, I'm feeling hopefully for a round 2. They did hold back plenty of the officially released game. Many of which are terrible. But still

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>That Zero Racers title theme
Hey, that's the music from the Game Boy Color demo cart!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EeVsDG0I8
Interesting that Nintendo chose, of all things, the theme to an unreleased Virtual Boy game for use in store demo displays.

>>12346653
Well I played red alarm and vertical force on mine and those games are pretty good. Especially red alarm. That one kicks ass. You have to play that shit with the headset on and some headphones and its pure ludo

>>12346170
>So Nintendo was just sitting on these roms from 3rd party developers for all this time
You should have known that from the 2020 leaks when their famicom/nes and GB(C) lotcheck collections leaked and unreleased games were in there.

It's a shame wack0 was too much an autistic retard to grab more of the lotchecks. He had plenty of time in their systems(two whole freaking months).

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Ah yes the Virtual Boy, ultimate classic system

>>12346347
Sega Channel when

>>12347003
Probably not. All of the unreleased games they have eventually released were games that were basically finished or so close to finished it would take very little effort to finish them. Star Fox 2, Zero Racers, Dragon Hopper, etc. If it was a game that was halfway along they aren't going to bother spending the time and money to finish it up.

We aren't even getting Bound High nor have they given us Lunar Chase even though those were finished.

>>12347027
They might not have the rights to release every Virtual Boy game ever made, it's not a guarantee of a round 2. I would love to see Bound High released in an official manner, but I am not holding my breath.

>>12347392
There is a revival project going on actually, they have pretty much all of 1994 playable right now, and a few bits of 1996.

Oh my science, are we getting not just one, but TWO corporation sanctioned releases of retro Lost Media??? This is even more exciting news than when the Bull was diagnosed with HIV!!

>>12347996
>Haha fuckin nerds playing corporate releases of unreleased retro games
>I, a cool guy, only play modern definitive edition re-releases of indie games
You have the intellectual consistency of soggy bread

>>12346347
>EVERYTHING is going subscription
Retail games aren't.

>can't find them on the ROM repository I normally visit

Is this genuinely the first time these have been made available?

>>12347996
Feel free to show me the leaked version of Zero Racers i can play right now.

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>>12346492
D-Hopper is pretty close to it in spirit, and I had no idea it existed.
>did they really shorten Dragon Hopper to D-Hopper like seriously wtf

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>>12348387
Yes. The NSO Virtual Boy trailer is the first time any footage of Zero Racer has been released online, and the only footage of Dragon Hopper we've had before are a few short, blurry clips from the E3 1995 demo.

>>12348409
The trademark for Dragon Hopper got taken by an online casino in the west. The Japanese version is still called ドラゴンホッパー

I'm curious to try Zero Racers on original hardware. Red Alarm has a really unique feel to it and this seems like the closest thing to it, but the footage it shows looks rather barren. I wonder if its mostly just wire frame tunnel raceways or if the tracks do get more detailed.

Wish Retrobit had big enough pull to convince Nintendo to let them produce new carts for these.

>>12346147
Holy shit, this is exactly what I was hoping for when Nintendo announced the VB Switch library

>>12348589
I am personally expecting zero racers to be kind of shitty and boring. Hope I'm wrong! I have high expectations for a quality game out of dragon hopper though.

>>12348589
Vintex will probably produce carts for them. They'll be pricey and won't be "official" but who gives a shit, you can play them on OG hardware

>>12348005
>>12348402
No you sillies, these are indeed brand new releases of Lost Media!! Why else do you think I'm so excited? I could barely keep down my Sőylent I was so overcome with glee.

>>12348642
>I am personally expecting zero racers to be kind of shitty and boring.
Well, duh. They were canceled for a reason.

>>12349357
The reason was the Virtual Boy was such a failure that it was canceled in barely a year. The games weren't cancelled themselves while the console lived on, the games were cancelled because the console itself got cancelled. These games definitely would have released if the Virtual Boy was still on the market.

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If ZERO RACERS and Dragon-Hopper exist, I'm sure that Mario Land game might be in the pipeline.
>>12346354
>And yes, of course you can dump the ROMs, people already have for all the current NSO games.
Even Switch 2?

>>12349525
I'm not getting the VB thing until they release VB mario land

>>12349525
>>12349575
>Mario Land
That game was likely not even in the alpha stage, they aren't going to release something that is likely just a 30 second tech demo of walking around, and they definitely aren't going to put in the work to finish it.
>Even Switch 2?
The Virtual Boy thing is not Switch 2 exclusive, it's coming to Switch 1 as well

They should get that tranny who made Virtual Lab to do a Director's Cut

Is Virtual Boy Wario Land as good as people say?

>>12349525
>>12349575
If it somehow is in a completable state, there's no way they're putting a lost mainline Mario on some subscription service. That shit is getting a physical release.

>>12350990
A physical release of a VIRTUAL BOY game, in 2026? When has Nintendo ever printed or re-printed physical games for their retired hardware?

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>>12351078

>>12349661
That guy died from cancer back in 2016.

>>12351078
Maybe through Limited Run Games.
>>12351145
That was a limited release because of how shoddy it was, it Covid didn't happen we would've had something identical to what Crash and Spryo got (full scale remakes built from the ground up), also Super Mario Galaxy 2 would've been included as well.

>>12349649
Famiboards (EADNinja) said that Virtual Boy Mario Land was finished and localized, just unreleased.

>>12351180
>said that Virtual Boy Mario Land was finished and localized, just unreleased.

Why wasn't it leaked with the GIGA NINTENDO HAXOR stuff?

>>12351181
Same reason ZERO RACERS and IntelligentSystems Hopper weren't, I presume. Gigaleak even didn't cover Virtual Boy, did it?

>>12351181
That too, but these are people who have very close ties to Nintendo.
>>12351189
It did, a color version was made (full RGB due to Blue LEDs existing, also more ram) but went unreleased because people were getting migraines from the original.

The people who ran the Gigaleak just didn't care, to them Pokémon was their main focus.

>>12351181
wack0 is insanely autistic and was mainly looking for pokemon and hardware files, anything else he grabbed was incidental. Please understand.

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>>12351204
We did get some names to unrelease pieces of hardware and it did show Nintendo was interested in Hudson's 16-Bit chip set (Nintendo was going to name it the Neo Famicom/NES) before NEC snatched it, but thats it.

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>be me
>hate anything pokemon beyond gameboy
>my ex wouldn't ever shut the hell up about pokemon
>the biggest nintendo leak of all time was pokefaggotry
>also we hear gamefreak is selfconscious of their monsters resembling fakemons and newer games are worsened on purpose
thanks, my hateboner for pokemon grows ever longer

>>12351227
They learned from Gen 9.

>>12351146
They're alive and well lol

>>12351248
No, (s)he isn't, died of cancer back in 2016.

>>12351252
Literally still active on Xitter @Derekmegumishin
Here's an interview from 2021. It's genuinely an interesting read. The publisher didn't even give her a Virtual Boy devkit until one week before the deadline, and what got released is literally an unfinished prototype. Also the Virtual Lab girl was supposed to be a self-insert.
https://www.badgamehalloffame.com/interview-megu-tan/

>>12351262
Thats a parody account that has since been locked, not real.

And that 2021 interview originally came from Hard-Drive.net, the video game version to The Onion which is a parody site, it's not real.

Also that link you posted is 404'ed.

>it's a schizo is passionate that the developer of an extremely niche and irrelevant vb game is dead despite overwhelming evidence episode

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>>12351283
Not the case what so ever.

Plus it's legal and encouraged in Japan to beat up trans people (which pays extremely well) as Japanese normies hate LGBTQ+ content.

>>12351307
Cool well I'll just let you get on with your very interesting thing. In the meantime zero racers and dragon hopper are coming out so good times are right around the corner

>>12351283
It’s the same schizo who tried claiming Chibi-Tech from M2 is actually some gravure model and not a troon. Must be a terminally online tranny to go on this crusade trying to prevent trannies in the games industry from being exposed.

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>>12351319
That is the case you delulu retard, we been through this before.

In Japan beating up trannies is legal and encouraged as it pays very well.

>>12351319
>>12351371
Also not the same person but >>12351371 is right on Chibi-Tech.

>>12351145
That was a port of the games to the Switch, I'm talking about printing the actual original disks/carts they were on.

>>12351161
If you seriously think it's cheap nature was due to covid and not Nintendo just doing a quick FOMO cash grab then I have a bridge to sell you.

>>12351180
Sure you're not thinking of a different Mario game on Virtual Boy that ended up becoming Mario Clash?

>>12351203
Color protos were made but the leds at the time were far too slow to produce a good moving image, it was just a blurry mess. Also Pokemon was the 2024 Teraleak, not the 2020 Gigaleak.

>>12351449
Nintendo doesn't do FOMO cash grabs, thats a Sony thing.

3D All Stars was shoddily made and was far below Nintendo's quality standards, thats why it had a limited release.

>Sure you're not thinking of a different Mario game on Virtual Boy that ended up becoming Mario Clash?
EADNinja already said that it was Virtual Boy Mario Land, not Clash.

The Gigaleak had a bunch of Pokémon stuff too, there were reports of Pokemon Pink (said to be Jigglypuff because of the anime and Smash) and Pokemon Picross.

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>>12351468
>Nintendo doesn't do FOMO cash grabs
Have you been living under a rock?

>>12351473
Shoddy release and was Nintendo of America's doing, it was so bad that Nintendo Co.,Ltd didn't bother releasing it in Japan.

Sony does FOMO, not Nintendo, get that through your think skull.

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>>12351449
>I'm talking about printing the actual original

>>12351485
You're clearly trolling at this point, that or hopelessly retarded

>>12351501
Show me the Star Fox 2 SNES cart Nintendo Printed

>>12351501
Needed a special chip. plus homebrew already made repros.
>>12351557
No, you're the troll in this thread.

>>12351567
>Needed a special chip
A FX chip, dozens of SNES games already had that
>plus homebrew already made repros
By harvesting existing carts with FX chips inside
>>12351567
>No, you're the troll in this thread.
I accept your concession

>>12351761
>By harvesting existing carts with FX chips inside
Thats what I said.

>>12346170
>So Nintendo was just sitting on these roms from 3rd party developers for all this time...
well every licensed game had to be tested by nintendo before release, so they probably have backups of every cartridge game sent to them

>>12351307
hammer the troon that sticks out

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>>12350603
I beat it and a couple other VB games when the VB 3DS emulator released, It's not amazing or anything but it's a fun little game. Personally I think Jack Bros is the best game on the system, had a lot of fun with that one.

Very excited to play Dragon Hopper when the rom for that gets dumped. Funny how much people cry that Nintendo is the ultimate enemy of game preservation when these roms would've never seen the light of day without them. Sure fucking wish other Japanese companies were as autistic as Nintendo when it comes to hoarding data.

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>>12351181
>>12351204
>>12351209
Speaking of the Gigaleak, we do know of a few finished-but-unreleased Nintendo published games thanks to a master spreadsheet of them.
Do any of these look or sound interesting to any of you?

>>12346147
I didn't expect Nintendo was so serious in reviving Virtual Boy of all things that their Online catelog might deadass offer more than their physical releases.
>>12352929
>emulated in Zelda Collector Edition's N64 emu and Wii VC emulator
nani?

>>12346170
Nintendo I probably the best publisher when it comes to keeping stuff archived. Too bad they rarely use it

>>12354010
VRR allowed it to happen since the Virtual Boy runs at 50Hz and everything else Nintendo is roughly 60Hz.

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>>12352929
>Heli-Fighter
Oh shit, I made a thread about this game a few weeks back.
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12286924/
I guess it's nice to know that a finished ROM is out there, but if Nintendo lost it then there's no way in hell anyone else has it either...

>>12355179
Nintendo keeps their stuff in order, they're not like Sega.

>>12346147
No Bound High? Why not?

>>12356162
It already leaked so Nintendo is probably seriously considering not releasing it themselves out of spite.
I don't think you realize how lucky we are that the SNES Classic devs convinced them to finally normalize Star Fox 2 when they did.

>g-zero / zero racers
Probably soft-confirmation that F-Zero's dead forever, like with Star Fox 2 coming after the trainwreck SFZ was.

>>12356202
>I don't think you realize how lucky we are that the SNES Classic devs convinced them to finally normalize Star Fox 2 when they did.
Even if they didn't include it there the final build(+source) would've leaked anyways with the 2020 leaks.

>>12356479
It would've been completely ghosted and there never would've been any official releases. You underestimate how much more reach games get when they actually come out through official channels.

>>12356202
I don't think Nintendo lets what people do or don't do with pirated/unofficial media have any sway on their plans. They are pretty stubborn about doing what they want and not listening to feedback.

>>12356740
They do listen to feedback, but only Japanese feedback.

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>>12356740
Nintendo probably wanted some extra persuasion to get people to check out their Virtual Boy subscription service with paid accessory, hence releasing two previously unreleased games.

They don't have that incentive to put unreleased games on the other NSO services, say like Sutte Hakkun GB or Pokémon Picross.
The existence of Sutte Hakkun GB was completely unknown prior to it leaking, whereas Pokémon Picross at least had some coverage.

>>12356803
>Nintendo probably wanted some extra persuasion to get people to check out their Virtual Boy subscription service with paid accessory, hence releasing two previously unreleased games.
This desu. I have not seen a single person who has been excited for Virtual Boy online, especially with the $100 barrier of entry. Plus the library is so small they knew that throwing a couple 99% finished projects on there would only entice the 17 people who will be playing it.

>>12356803
>>12356812
I have news for you, some unreleased games isn't going to persuade them. Majority of people could not care less that these games were unreleased, in fact, the biggest thing they were talking about was how you could change the color from red, as if emulators have not already been able to do that for years.

This is the kind of average person Nintendo is marketing this to, people who don't even know about Virtual Boy emulation and think being able to change the color is a big deal, while not giving a shit about the unreleased games. This isn't some elaborate plan they have to make people more attracted to it by intentionally omitting Bound High to focus on other unreleased games.

>>12356825
They know about the emulation, too well in fact, the only reason why this is getting traction is for the 2 unreleased games, which will get extracted and get repros of them so they can be sold on E-Bay because the app is getting a Switch 1 release (Switch 2 is the main focus because of VRR support) and Switch 1 games/apps can be extracted and dumped.

Changing the colors was not the biggest thing they were talking about.

>>12356847
I just realized that the virtual boy runs at 50fps, and the switch 1 doesnt have VRR, so the games are all going to run jerky and the 3DS emulator will continue to be the best way to play virtual boy games.

>>12356862
3DS is also locked at 60Hz.
Switch 2 is your best bet besides real hardware because of VRR.

>>12356825
I'm not saying it would work, but I'm assuming that was at least a little of their thought process because they could've just left them in the vault for eternity.

>>12356889
Read >>12356847

>>12356869
The 3DS can be made to run at 50 Hz, several emulators do it. It was never done in oficial software, though. https://github.com/skyfloogle/red-viper/issues/46

>>12356847
>They know about the emulation, too well in fact
I'm talking about the people this is being advertised to, not Nintendo. Of course Nintendo knows about emulation.

>which will get extracted and get repros
There was a already a guy on the Planet Virtual Boy forums who claimed he had the ROMs for these two games and was going to produce carts a year ago, that's not even a surprise that bootleg repros will happen from someone.
https://www.virtual-boy.com/forums/t/dragon-hopper-has-been-found/

>Changing the colors was not the biggest thing they were talking about.
I said for people talking about the news, again, not Nintendo themselves. People talking about this trailer were mostly interested in being able to change colors and did not even seem to care at all about the unreleased games.

>>12351227
they never learned

>>12356935
>The people this is being advertised to do know about emulation.
>That guy could've been lying about the D-Hopper prototype since everyone was questioning him if he really had said proto.
>People talking about the news were talking about getting repros from said 2 unreleased games.

>>12356992
Debunked.

>>12357094
google debunked

>>12357447
No.

Are there any homebrew VB games worth playing?

>>12358460
There is a Mario Kart homebrew and a pretty good homebrew port of Street Fighter 2

>>12358460
Blox 2 and test chamber

>>12357498
Says you

>>12356812
>I have not seen a single person who has been excited for Virtual Boy online
Pre-orders are closed for now, stock ran out faster than expected

>>12358460
Go look for yourself.

Glad I got a flashcart for this thing.

>>12360917
They're back now BTW!
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/virtual-boy-for-nintendo-switch-2-120829/

>>12360917
Wife is excited even though she already owns a real one. Never underestimate tendie excitement