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Dragon Hopper is every bit as good as I always imagined it would be, and Zero Racers is great to have too!

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[–] Fwow13@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you're asking, but yes - these are Virtual Boy games (loaded on a couple of flash carts)

[–] MonkeyPanic@nerdculture.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@Fwow13 aaah yes, that was actually what I was asking - Virtual Boy CARTRIDGES? :D cool!

[–] Fwow13@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Virtual Boy was cartridge based, these flash carts are cool because they have e-ink displays in them so that you can load custom label images to see what game you have flashed.

This is what an original cart looks like

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow, I've never heard of a flash cartridge with e-ink display. That's awesome! Is Virtual Boy the only system with them? If not, where can they be found for purchase?

[–] Fwow13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

These specific Virtual Boy carts aren't being made any more, unfortunately. You can still find them for insane prices on eBay though.

At the time, I think these were the only ones that did something like this. Now, if you Google around I believe you can find a couple other projects out there for other systems that have some sort of display built into the cartridge so it can display a game label. Not sure how many are finished products you can buy, or how many are open source projects that you would need to DIY.