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FlashBoy, loadable flash cart for the Nintendo Virtual Boy. Contact me if you would like one. I have a couple for sale.

I have known about Good Deal Games (http://www.gooddealgames.com/) and Michael for years. The site and the team are top notch! Michael T. is definitely one of the better people to support gaming. No just on the web either. In person at gaming events Michael has invested many hours bringing books, games, accessories, and other items to market. I'll vouch for Michael's quality, taste, and integrity any day of the week! BTW, anyone who has not heard of Good Deal Games probably has too narrow of a focus, or is simply too new to gaming to be commenting on the site and about Michael. Chris

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ME:B:SS:US:1123 no relation to the seller.

The marquee did not light up as I remember. Any changes to improve it would be deviant, but welcome. The Minicade I borrowed for CGE2K2 had a different inset for the marquee. The insert for that Minicade showed the Minestorm instructions instead of the name. No other instruction panels for the marquee came with the one at the show. I am fairly certain the one at the show had everything available at the time of that last sale because that Minicade came shipped direct from the last owner before it was shipped onto the new owner J.S. after the end of CGE. If you are going to improve the Minicade ti light it up, then how about a marquee display that can flip between "MINI*CADE" and the game instructions? A small display pannel woudl take care of the backlighting at the same time. Of course that implies replication of other instruction marquees. BTW,,did your Minicade(s) come with the Minestorm marquee instructions behind the main Minicade marquee logo? If you get to the point of getting components finished I would love to know about it. Chris

Nice so far. Has this progressed further?

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(aka: CGE2K8 FlashBoy's for available!) If you have been following the Nintendo Virtual Boy scene over the last couple of years you will have noticed development of a flash RAM cartridge for the Nintendo Virtual Boy. Better known to the community as the "FlashBoy", this Virtual Boy flash cartridge provides both homebrew developer and fan alike the ease of loading games into a flash RAM cart via USB connection to your computer. This is a was a cool project brought to fruition by the Virtual Boy community. I am a slight fan of the Virtual Boy, and also and exhibitor at Classic Gaming Expo (big Vectrex museum display). So I was going to offer a few FlashBoy's for sale at CGE2K8. The three musketeers heading up the show have decided they to sit it out this year and swill beer at home. So I am left with a few FlashBoy's to offer the classic gamers out there. (not that the Virtual Boy is all that classic yet) Head on over to Planet Virtual Boy (PVB) site forums ( http://www.vr32.de/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=7 ) and private message me, Vectrexer, if you would like to take delivery of a FlashBoy. Otherwise you will be stuck in the queue until the next batch of FlashBoy's are ready. Cheers, Chris Note to the other Classic Gaming show promoters and operators out there: I would love to support your charity auction activities. If you would like to reserve a Flashboy for your on-site show auction let me know. All I ask is that you cover my cost for the FlashBoy. In return you get a very unique Virtual Boy item. Any profit beyond my cost is your's to distribute to your favorite charity.

Question aout the loader. Is there a way to cache the last load, examine the currently loaded game, and then use the infomation to reduce the write time for the large games? The comparision being a tool to determin what need to be padded. Or has that topic been finsihed enough to not need improment?

More Good Deal Games Release Info: On saturday at 2PM ten (10) Copies of the VecFlash USB CGE2K7 version will be sold. What is so special about this version? The first this is a CGE2K7 customized tag. The other detail is this version is the second generation of the USB version with super fast load times! Price for the package is $80.00 and will be sold only at the show. If you miss out on the packages for sale then you will have one another chance to bid on a VecFlash USB CGE2K7 Special Edition Package at the CGE2K7 Auction (see announcement http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103548) The VecFlash USB is a user loadable Vectrex Multicart made by Richard Hutchinson, over at http://www.Vectrex.BIZ. __________________ Chris cromero at romero dot org cromero at vectrex dot com

Classic Gaming Expo 2007 Auction update: A serious amount of really nice Vectrex nice items will be on the block at the Classic Gaming Expo 2007 Auction. All of the Auction items proceeds will be donated to the shows designated charity, The Salvation Army. Here are some details of what I can tell you now: Boxed Vectrex system with boxed US Games. In great shape of course! VecFlash USB CGE2K7 Special Edition. This set has a customized tag and a special modification just for the show! In addition to the "Special Mod", this VecFlash USB is also the second generation of the USB line with super fast load times. The VecFlash USB is a user loadable Vectrex Multicart and is being provided courtesy of its creator Richard Hutchinson, over at http://www.Vectrex.BIZ. (also, See related CGE2K7 VecFlash USB news here: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103249) More news to come.... stay tuned!

I will be there once more with the Vectrex Museum items. Been comming with Vectrex gear since 1999. Can't quit now can I? And this year I will be helping quite a bit more behind the scenes as well. Look for me Tuesday night. IMHO, I am glad CGE moved back to Vegas. It's a semi-long drive but I like the area better than Cali for playing after all. Now if the ST tranporter would be invented in the real world things would be perfect!

Another funnny parody of the familir "all your base belong to us"" theme. All your snakes belong to us.

Mr. Boston Status - Closed and Final 15:00 PST 7/6/2006 (GMT - Winning offer: $3400.00 cash plus a boxed Bandai Vectrex Boxed Bandai images: http://www.vectrex.com/Images/MRB-BandaiIn...iInclusion.html Here are some quick pictures of the winners' Mr. Boston package: Mr. Boston Images: http://www.vectrex.com/Images/MrB/MrBoston.html Congratulations to the winner! I will allow the winner to self acknowledge their ownership of the Mr. Boston Package when they desire. A special thank you to everyone who made offers for the Vectrex Mr. Boston package. We definitely have tenacious Vectrex bidders who don't go donw without a fight! Thanks to all who participated and who were watching in the wings. I appreciate everyone of you who are a part of our fine Vectrex community! Here are some quick pictures of the winners' VectrexMr. Boston package: Mr. Boston Images: http://www.vectrex.com/Images/MrB/MrBoston.html Alternate threads on this topic can be found at the locations below: R.G.V via Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.v...20cd0acf7f6f851 R.G.V via Vectrex Forum: http://www.vectrexforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=142 Digital Press posting about the Mr. Boston offering: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88129 Vectrex Forum posting about the Mr. Boston offering: http://www.vectrexforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=149 Sincerely, Chris cromero at romero dot org (P.S.: In the very unlikely chance this deal does not complete the next highest offer will be accepted.)

Mr. Boston auction status posted on http://www.Vectrex.com Phase: Last call 3 of 3, Round 3 Attention! This sale will complete at 15:00 AM 7/6/2006 (GMT - unless anothe bid is recevied! This auction was extended to 03:00 PM 7/6/2006 (GMT - due to a higher bid being offered. New close time in 12 hours barring any higher offers.

Mr. Boston auction status posted on http://www.Vectrex.com Phase: Last call 1 of 3, Round 3 This auction was extended to 03:00 PM 7/6/2006 (GMT - due to a higher bid being offered. New close time in 12 hours barring any higher offers.

Mr. Boston auction status posted on http://www.Vectrex.com. Phase: Last call 2 of 3, Round 2 This auction was extended 03:00 AM 7/6/2006 (GMT - due to a higher cash only bid being offered. New close time in 12 hours barring any higher offers.

Mr. Boston auction status posted on http://www.Vectrex.com. Phase: Last call 1 of 3, Round 2 This auction was extended 03:00 AM 7/6/2006 (GMT - due to a higher cash only bid being offered. New close time in 12 hours barring any higher offers. -- Sincerely, Chris cromero at romero dot org

Mr. Boston auction status posted on http://www.Vectrex.com. Phase: Last call 2 of 3 -- Sincerely, Chris cromero at romero dot org

Mr. Boston auction status posted on http://www.Vectrex.com. Phase: Last call 1 of 3 -- Sincerely, Chris cromero at romero dot org

People interested: 13 End Date: July 5, 2006 (* see auction close note) End: Time: 0700 PST, USA, GMT-8 (* see auction close note) High offer: $3000.00 (**) (Last high cash offer shown. A Previous offer with hardware item included also offered) Backup offer: $1000.00 with a possibility of another special cart (**) The backup offer is classified as a 100% confirmed offer of last resort if everything else falls through. However this offer is several levels down from other bids before having to be considered. The backup offer itself was made early on and is so impressive (and nice) I thought it deserved a mention and a "Thank You!" in this thread. * Close time note: In the traditional end of the auction style, then end of the auction will be followed by final call for offers three times. These calls will be placed 4 hours apart to allow other time zones the chance to respond. At the end of the final call (#3) with no other responses then the final offer will be considered as the winning offer. Please people, do not drag this thing out for days after the actual close time. **As noted earlier in this thread I am willing to consider other special Vectrex or Vertibird offered as part of the deal. Sincerely, Chris cromero at romero dot org

Here are some quck pictures of the package: Mr. Boston Images: http://www.vectrex.com/Images/MrB/MrBoston.html

Will be posting pics tonight. Even though I have small amount of posts here I have been around in Vectrex land for a while. I run www.Vectrex.com as well as providing the meat of the Vectrex and Virtual Boy displays in the museum exhibit area, plus the Vectrex and Virtual Boy machines on the game tables at the past past Classic Gaming Expo (CGExpo) shows. If you want to look up some other history then consult this link on eBay. eBay Member Profile: vectrexed You can look for me just about any other R.G.V. post with "cromero" in it. I stopped lurking on the newsgroups in general an started posting around 1994 under one email address or another. And on BBS networks before that. Enjoy these other links in the meantime: Mr. Boston Offer info in R.G.V. via Google Groups Mr. Boston Offer info in R.G.V. via VectrexForum.com Digital Press site posting about the Mr. Boston offering (similar to the Atari Age thread) Vectrex Forum site posting about the Mr. Boston offering (Similar to the Atari Age thread) If you dont want to wait then have a look here as these pics are the same item a few years back. The Mr. Boston pack is in basically the same shape as it was then. Enjoy

This information below represents reliable people with confirmed offers. People interested: 13 End Date: July 5, 2006 (* see auction close note) End: Time: 0700 PST, USA, GMT-8 (* see auction close note) High offer: $2200.00 (**) (Last high cash offer shown. A Previous offer with hardware item included also offered) Backup offer: $1000.00 with a possibility of another special cart (**) The backup offer is classified as a 100% confirmed offer of last resort if everything else falls through. However this offer is several levels down from other bids before having to be considered. The backup offer itself was made early on and is so impressive (and nice) I thought it deserved a mention and a "Thank You!" in this thread. * Close time note: In the traditional end of the auction style, then end of the auction will be followed by final call for offers three times. These calls will be placed 4 hours apart to allow other time zones the chance to respond. At the end of the final call (#3) with no other responses then the final offer will be considered as the winning offer. Please people, do not drag this thing out for days after the actual close time. **As noted earlier in this thread I am willing to consider other special Vectrex or Vertibird offered as part of the deal. Sincerely, Chris cromero at romero dot org

Little update here for you folks keeping records. High offer: $2000.00 (with a possibility to throw in another item into the mix to greatly sweeten the deal.) Backup offer: $1000.00 The backup offer is classified as a 100% confirmed offer of last resort if everything else falls through. However this offer is several levels down from the other high bids before having to be considered. The backup offer itself is so impressive I thought it deserved a mention and a thanks. Still taking offers for the Vectrex Mr. Boston package at this time