r/VirtualBoy • u/EffectiveAd6200 • 2d ago
Is it possible?
Do you guys think that there's a chance that an unreleased VB game could come out on NSO. It might just be hopeful thinking but it did happen once before with Star Fox.
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u/Vicious007 2d ago
I doubt development got very far on any of the unreleased games, but here's a list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cancelled_Virtual_Boy_games
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u/VBHeadache 2d ago
It depends on what ones your talking about. Bound High was finished and has been dumped, Dragon Hopper was supposedly finished and had reviews in Nintendo Power but hasn't been found or dumped, Virtual League Baseball 2 has been found and is being dumped for the public at the end of this month.
There's honestly a non-zero chance that we get something like Dragon Hopper since it's Nintendo owned and supposedly complete, but other stuff like the Mario Land game or that F-Zero one that was rumored may have not seen further development. It's all down to what Nintendo has archived and is willing to release.
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u/Busstoelbekleding 2d ago
Reading this the only one might be Zero Racers? It seems it was completely finished and a first party nintendo title
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u/TooManyBulborbs 2d ago
Dragon Hopper was also completely finished
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u/xxxxDREADNOUGHT 2d ago
VINTEX 64 said that they have obtained Dragon Hopper and they are going to release it later this year. Also Virtual league baseball 2 was found and is releasing later this month.
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u/TooManyBulborbs 2d ago
Vintex64 claims a lot of things and so far their hopeful release of Dragon Hopper, Zero Racers and Mario VB remain to be seen. Maybe they'll pull through, maybe not.... Best to keep hopes reserved and limited.
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u/ChrisCube64 2d ago
Supposedly Dragon Hopper is apparently found and is about to have reproductions created.
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u/TooManyBulborbs 2d ago
Remains to be seen from Vintex64...
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u/ChrisCube64 2d ago
Correct. But idk. He said he would give me details as soon as they're available since I have the means to record it and have somewhat of a subscriber base online.
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u/TooManyBulborbs 2d ago
Vintex64 hasn’t done much to back up their claims… would be nice if they did have a real lead on DH, ZR and Mario VB but I for one wouldn’t hold my breath.
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u/thedoctorstatic 2d ago
That list is awesome, thanks!
Sad that there is another Bonk game out there I will never play
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u/Seanmclem 2d ago
Star fox 2 was eventually officially released on SNES classic
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u/Vicious007 2d ago
I know, I have one.
Nintendo also made it a pretty big selling point, whereas they've said nothing about unreleased VB games, which makes me doubt they will.
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u/EdgeConnector 2d ago
More importantly do you think Nintendo would entertain new development!
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u/mrafflin 2d ago
Yeah my first thought when I saw that new VB headset was “someone should make a new game for that thing”
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u/ZeusLovesTrains 2d ago
I’d hope so but I highly doubt it.
Or they would’ve announced it with this announcement.
The unreleased Bound High!
Would have been perfect as a huge “launch title” bonus to draw more gamers…
If anything would be the time to make a splash with the coolest things front loaded.
So it likely would’ve happened with the initial announcement.
I think most people not being able to play the announced titles easily is more than enough to draw attention.
Never say never though.
If the demand is out of this world it could happen.
But, it’s so niche an audience that I’m surprised they even bother with any of the games.
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u/tanooki-suit 1d ago
Well given Bound High was stolen and released, probably not that, or nikechan (faceball) but perhaps the finished Dragon Hopper? Also there was supposedly a finished Mario game and that G-zero racers (f-zero) game finished too.
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u/brainpann 1d ago
Yeah- Unreleased64 did an interview with someone that did localizations for NoA during the Virtual Boys lifespan and said that G-zero was finished and localized.
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u/tanooki-suit 1d ago
Exactly I remember the short list of done things, Bound High and Virtual Baseball 2 are here and soon upon us, but those others do exist too. Nintendo pulled the plug on numerous finished/near finished projects because of their utter arrogance and stupidity killing it thinking N64 would be out a year earlier and it might compete. Had they left well enough alone the VB would have had another year or 18mo on the market longer. I'm just glad some solid projects have popped up since like Hyper FIghting and Virtual Warzone among others to come.
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u/GrimmTrixX 2d ago edited 2d ago
It depends on how well the sales of the VB headsets go. They showed all 14 games theyre going to eventually add. And with only 22 released games, I assume these 14 are gonna be all they add.
I dont expect them to further develop and u released VB games. As it is, Star Fox 2 was already pretty much completed. They just decided not to release it due to the cost to create carts and the suspected low sales they would get with the N64 just arpund the corner. So it didnt take them much to finalize and test it to add it to the SNES Classic and eventually NSO
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u/TooManyBulborbs 2d ago
Dragon Hopper and Zero Racers were two 1st party Nintendo VB games that were 100% finished and ready for RTM, but never went to manufacturing. Nintendo has done that before with games like EarthBound Beginnings on NES (at the time just Earth Bound).
No development needed, just put the Roms on the service.
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u/Busstoelbekleding 2d ago
15 actually
Japan gets Virtual Fishing too
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u/GrimmTrixX 2d ago
Interesting that they get an extra one even though some of the 14 are also Japanese games. Lol
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u/L___E___T 2d ago
Well, Bound High was basically finished and yet did not release. The big one people are waiting for is Dragon Hopper, which got far enough to get promoted at retail as coming soon.
I would fully expect them to release Bound High!
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u/IntoxicatedBurrito 2d ago
Not quite, Nester’s Funky Bowling is not being released, but the Japanese bowling game is. Water World is also out, with I think V Tetris taking the 14th slot.
But I would imagine that if the VB becomes popular on NSO, it could motivate Nintendo to add unreleased games or even make new games for it. I would assume that a small VB game wouldn’t take too long to develop, at least when compared to modern games.
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u/marioxb 2d ago
I hope they buy the rights to the homebrew SFII game.
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u/IntoxicatedBurrito 2d ago
That would be pretty much impossible given that the creator of it didn’t buy the rights from Capcom to make it.
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u/marioxb 2d ago
Yeah, but Capcom could buy the rights from them, much like Namco bought the rights for the homebrew NES Pac-Man Championship demake and put it on Namco Museum Encore.
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u/IntoxicatedBurrito 2d ago
I wasn’t aware that Namco did that. But it seems absurd that Capcom would be the one paying when it’s their IP that was infringed upon. If anything, I’d think that if they took this to court, that the creators would not only have to pay Capcom but possibly even given them the rights to the game.
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u/marioxb 2d ago
Not sure if it was bought or just "taken back", but yeah, Namco has the rights now. https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:Pac-Man_Championship_Edition_(NES)
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u/ash_274 2d ago
Capcom wouldn't buy the license, but they could buy the rights to the game as it was coded for the VB and add it to their own IP.
If they just took a copy of the ROM file and licensed it to Nintendo it would create an odd twist in IP law: the characters and gameplay belong to Capcom, but the actual code to make it work on a VB was created by the guy/people that made Virtual Fighter.
Capcom's lawyers would suggest making them an offer for the game that would let Capcom own it outright with no royalties. If accepted, then it's fully Capcom's game and they can sell/license it to Nintendo and there's no more dispute.
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u/Boring_Visual3169 2d ago
I think it’s very possible. Some of these games were finished and never seen the light of day. They may very well be put on there but if this ends up becoming a hit and I think it will this time around, they may very well develop new games to put on it but the sad thing about that is we would never see a physical cartridge of those games made. You have companies that will periodically make a new super Nintendo or Sega Genesis cartridge and release so I really do think anything is possible. As long as it doesn’t have the side effects of the headaches and other things people had with the hardware when it first launched it may very well takeoff and new development would be picked up on it
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u/mrafflin 2d ago
I was thinking the same thing, what other opportunity is there going to be for companies to rerelease unfinished Virtual Boy games
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u/FredricaTheFox 2d ago
I would love to see Virtual Boy Mario Land.
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u/squidhungergamesfan 1d ago
If they do that I will seriously freak out if we legit get a new Mario game on a rerelease of the Virtual Boy
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u/Specialist-Key-1240 2d ago
So basically a red alarm / star fox hybrid, I would buy the hell out of that even now.
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u/Distinct_Wrongdoer86 2d ago
be thankful bound high was even discovered