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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, they still haven't acknowledged it! This is IGN's video!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Oh shit! That makes more sense then. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Obviously. Even for April fools I'm surprised they acknowledged the Virtual Boy ever existed.

[–] CameronDev 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I'll admit I showed my wife before realizing what date it is

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In case anyone actually wants one, that headset is real because Mario Odyssey has a VR mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.