13th August 2026, 12:42 PM
Jack Bros is pretty good, but ridiculously rare.
In any case, I prefer to play my VB games on my VB. Note that if you are starting to see weird lines in one or both of the two viewing ports, it likely means the glue holding the metal signal contacts to the board inside is starting to degrade and some of the pins aren't making contact.
In the past, this involved a VERY tedious bit of soldering work. It's annoying that Nintendo opted for GLUE instead of actual solder to hold it together. It's a sad fact that the original model Game Boy also used glue, as well as the Sega Nomad, and similar very tedious solder work needs to be done there too.
I said that was in the past, but now there is a much better solution. https://stoneagegamer.com/virtual-ribbon...l-boy.html
This is FAR easier to install. You'll still need a soldering iron, but attaching the pins on a solid board to another board (complete with a "release" to remove it later) is far easier than melting some plastic, ending up with endless loose metal pins, and veeeery carefully soldering each one while hoping none of them "drift" too much. My main strategy when I did the old method on my VB was... pay very close attention to my frustration like I had a meter showing "irritation level", recognizing when it got too high, and just PAUSE for the whole day. It took me a week because of that, but that's how I got it done.
In any case, I prefer to play my VB games on my VB. Note that if you are starting to see weird lines in one or both of the two viewing ports, it likely means the glue holding the metal signal contacts to the board inside is starting to degrade and some of the pins aren't making contact.
In the past, this involved a VERY tedious bit of soldering work. It's annoying that Nintendo opted for GLUE instead of actual solder to hold it together. It's a sad fact that the original model Game Boy also used glue, as well as the Sega Nomad, and similar very tedious solder work needs to be done there too.
I said that was in the past, but now there is a much better solution. https://stoneagegamer.com/virtual-ribbon...l-boy.html
This is FAR easier to install. You'll still need a soldering iron, but attaching the pins on a solid board to another board (complete with a "release" to remove it later) is far easier than melting some plastic, ending up with endless loose metal pins, and veeeery carefully soldering each one while hoping none of them "drift" too much. My main strategy when I did the old method on my VB was... pay very close attention to my frustration like I had a meter showing "irritation level", recognizing when it got too high, and just PAUSE for the whole day. It took me a week because of that, but that's how I got it done.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)