I guess we'll have to adjust some infos on our site concerning the unreleased VB 007GoldenEye & VB DKC2 (^_^)
The Donkey Kong experts at Donkey Kong's Jungle Vine website reported further at Rare's responds with some interesting bits which you can read HERE.
Also added 10 new names to the VB Fanlist.

Mario Kart Advance - Awesome & Sorry Ferry - August 10, 2001 @ 1:22 PM GMT+8 ~ OmeBa
First off I would like to send out my deepest thoughts to Ferry. He had an unfortunate "Accident" not so long ago. Don't be worried, he was not harmed himself (Thank god!) But it will put a dent in his wallet. We are all sorry to hear it my man.

To cheer Ferry and everyone else up I have some exciting news AND something to show off. Watch this space closely over the next few months as there is going to be a MAJOR surprise in store for Virtual-Boy.net. We Can't tell you what it is, but it is big enough to make our viewers stand up and take notice. Stay tuned!

On a quick side note, I will be adding my other sections to this site very soon, I have had alot of problems over the last few months and hopefully everything will clear up soon so I can get back to how it was.
Now enough of the sadness and secrets, here is my LATEST arrival. Mario Kart Advance for the GBA! It arrived today and man is it awesome!!! This is a must have game for the Game Boy Advance, Please check out my pictures of it below. 
Mario Kart Advance Title
In game shot
Cart Scan

6^th Birthday - July 21, 2001 @ 11:49 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Today, six years ago, Nintendo's Virtual Boy was launched in Japan, selling 50,000 games the first month, but no more than 180,000 games in whole of 1995, if you're wondering why this is knowing that only 140,000 hardware units were sold in '95/'96? It's because of one of the main reasons the VB failed to meet Nintendo's sales expectations: the software just cost too freakishly much, to show you this I've updated the Games Section with all the JPN sofware release's original price-tags.
Also added the very cool Nintendoid website to the links section as they have a nice Virtual Boy section up now!

Vote for VB2 - July 13, 2001 @ 11:46 AM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
This Friday's our lucky day! *pun intended* We Virtual Boy fans get to vote for a new edition Virtual Boy at Nintendo's website survey!! If you vote Virtual Boy at the following question "What Nintendo system are you most interested in?" they might release the VB2... yeah ok... er... probably not... but we can dream right?... ok it's not really reasonable... and I voted GameCube anyway... so euhm... *runs away*!! If you vote Virtual Boy at the following question "What Nintendo system are you most interested in?" they might release the VB2... yeah ok... er... probably not... but we can dream right?... ok it's not really reasonable... and I voted GameCube anyway... so euhm... *runs away*

AWARDED! - July 09, 2001 @ 08:49 AM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
"Congratulations! Your site was nominated for this year’s Eye Site Award it won!
I stopped by http://www.virtual-boy.net and liked what I saw a lot!
I would like to present a new award to “Virtual-Boy.Net” (http://www.virtual-boy.net) for your continued recognition and support of the classic gamer and computer enthusiast."
We would like to thank IC When for this great honor and have put up the award on the Front page.

Wallpapers - June 24, 2001 @ 01:23 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Added the all-new Wallpaper Section to the site, special thanks to our new graphics designer Peter Rogers!
Updated the Accessories Section with a whole bunch of new pictures, thanks to Neil Schuldenfrei for those.
I believe OmeBa wanted to add some sections to our new server, let's hope he'll be doing that this year ;-)

BACK after beep-beep beep-beep - June 17, 2001 @ 01:11 AM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Happy Birthday OmeBa!!!
Three weeks down the road my computer is fixed again, it's heart gave up just after the last update and started making fire-engine alarm sounds, not very pleasant. 
What else has been going on? Well, I received 2 Virtual Boy packages from Japan, I'm pretty excited about these deals because it was the first time I dealt with people that didn't speak one word English or used a translator, so it was mostly up to me to arrange, I got a Mosaic pattern Japanese VB box and a small Japanese VB counter display unit!! Yes, I'm a happy virtual boy *most obvious pun ever!*
Seeing as my computer had broken down and my N64 is lend out, I didn't have too much to do mid-week, so I decided to make a complete and extensive VB Wario Land guide, so look at the NEW Guides Section if you're stuck in the game somewhere.
Also added new TRICKS for Mario Clash.
I did a HUGE update on the Accessories Section for many new items, I also divided everything there into different pages for faster loading (yes finally!), further on pictures and scans were added to the Games Section & the Articles Section, all this together brings 175 new pictures to the site ^_^

Depressed mood - May 27, 2001 @ 10:45 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
At the moment we are changing servers in order to make this page load faster and to make sure we will not go down for a long long time, the new server comes with unlimited webspace, so expect many new articles to read in the future;
Today I failed to obtain a completely documented Japanese Virtual Boy Development Kit, so do not expect anything from me the coming week if not longer, the loss of this priceless information source saddens me deeply.

HOT news 2, read all about it! - May 20, 2001 @ 11:30 AM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Rare Ware denies ever developing GoldenEye 007 for the Virtual Boy!
The on UK grounds based Rare (a Nintendo second party) videogame company website's Scribes section (send in a letter & you might get a responds from Rare's team themselves) there was a very interesting letter and responds earlier this month, I quote:
QUESTION:
Dear Rare Ware,
It has come to my attention that you developed and produced yet never released a Goldeneye 007 game for the Virtual Boy. I am aware that most companies keep things like that around for such occasions as if maybe the system is rereleased or other such needs. I am also aware that it was a driving game unlike the FPS that you made for the 64. I would like to find out if it is possible for me to acquire one of these games. I know you must get these questions all the time, however I feel that my request differs from all the others in that I don't want to get this game to sit it on a shelf or to sell like so many others would. I would like this for what it was originally intended for, to play and enjoy. I feel that since it was stamped with your company's name on it that it must be a great game. I have Goldeneye for 64 and Banjo Kazooie and other Rare games and have become a great fan of Rare. Especially your depiction of Bond. I am willing to pay you for the game if it is accessible. I don't need anything fancy like the retail package as there probably wasn't one. But if you would be so kind as to grant me this one request I would be appreciative. From one game player to another I don't think that the hard work that went into this game should go to waste, it should be enjoyed by the masses.
Sincerely
Adam Murray

ANSWER:
Rare Ware: Wow! A brand new rumour. I'm almost excited. Out of curiosity, where did you get this information? Sorry to disappoint you, but it's the first we've heard of it - the only 007 racing game that we know of is the recent PlayStation effort, and we've certainly never worked on one ourselves.
As it happens we did have a Virtual Boy game in development at one stage, but I'm not going to tell you what it was - partly because I don't know if I'm allowed to, and partly because it will amuse me to keep you in suspense.

Note: Silly Rare think they have this big mysterious secret, hehe, click here, anyway, I send them a responds asking for VB DKC designer art, it's a long shot, but at least I'm trying.

Game Boy Advance hits "Our" Shelves - May 10, 2001 @ 1:06 PM GMT+8 ~ OmeBa
One of the Virtual Boys closest competition at it's time was the Game Boy, portable, small and sold worldwide the Game Boy has come along way. Now with the recent Japanese release of the Game Boy Advance and US and Europe on their way I couldn't wait to get my hands on one. As a progression from the original Game Boy to the Virtual Boy and Game Boy Color the Game Boy Advance is next in the line up. Although it won't play your Virtual Boy games it will play all your B/W, Pocket, Color and ofcourse GB Advance games.

My little unit arrived the other day and man was I impressed! The screen is much wider than the Game Boy Color, and it seems everything is very compact. Most of the switches are located underneath the GBA such as power switch, headphone jack and volume control with the link port on the top. The carts are VERY small lets say about half the size of original Game Boy carts. As I got the Japanese version the box art is so much cooler! The GBA box and game boxes are long ways instead of the normal style boxes. Now the graphics are awesome, I would say snes quality and even better in some areas. I suggest you use headphones to get full enjoyment from the sound of the machine. With the screen alot of people say it is very reflective, well it is but not any worse than the Game Boy Color, also with the screen you can switch older Game Boy games to wide screen or back to normal but for most games I have seen it just distorts the image and looks better in original smaller mode. Just to let you know there is no country lockout for games!

For all the Australian readers out there the latest news is that the Game Boy advance on release of the 22nd of June 2001 will now be priced at $199AU and Games will be between $69 to $79AU and the "unconfirmed" Aussie only color Smokey Black may make an appearance a little after launch. Well I am awaiting my next game "FZero" which is on it's way in the next few hours but in the meantime check out this picture of my Game Boy Advances 
OmeBa's Game Boy Advances
Game Boy Advance in hand

HOT news, read all about it! - May 08, 2001 @ 12:11 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Nintendo acknowledges Virtual Boy collectors!
In today's site makeover, Nintendo finally adds a Virtual Boy section to their renewed American homepage. Quotes like "a dedicated group of gamers who love Virtual Boy's unique style are always on a quest to complete their collections." bring tears to my eyes since they show Nintendo has finally come to reason and stepped above the marketing failure the VB was and see it as an awesome classic system (in my vision: ahead of it's time) worthy of a place in Nintendo history. To check out the page CLICK HERE.

NEW VB sites & Queens Day - May 01, 2001 @ 23:08 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
An update with a delay, but I haven't been sitting still as I'm a guestwriter at Defunct Games now! An awesome classic & new gamesreviews website, go check them out, they have tons of interesting reviews and articles.
I have some really great news for you all! There are 2 new VB pages in our midst, but first off the welcome return of a classic VB fan-site VirtualBoy2000 by Vidyogamer, let's pray he won't forget his password again ;-P. The first new VB site is one of Jose who is an avid VB collector and who searched for lots of VB information, he found them and has compiled everything including new bits on his Virtual Boy website. The most exiting/biggest VB adjustment project since The HMDVB comes from Pat with his VB Rumble Pack project! That's right, actually make Teleroboxer long lasting fun with the (by yourself added on own risk) rumble pack feature!! Other news: Has anyone else noticed that the new domain-name for The Red Area has been activated recently? This could mean that this old die-hard VB site will make a return soon. 
On a more personal note I have typed out my very awkward experience that was Queens Day:

Yesterday I went to Amsterdam to visit this huge open-air concert (I heard 150.000 people attended) with heaps of international stars like Destiny's Child, Venga Boys, Nelly "I am only 3 inches / 1 meter tall" Fortado, etc., it was really cool and we had a blast, but then when we went home at 8pm (as we thought we'd outsmart the bigger crowd of people going with the train at 9pm) things didn't go as planned...

Here's the scoop on the riots at the Amsterdam Central Station April 30th on Queens day (the queens mother birthday, and the celebration of the queens birthday), I was there all day and 5 metres away from when the M.E.(aka special) police shot the first teargas canister into the 100.000 to 700.000 people crowd in front of the central station, because some rioting groups were trying to push over the police vans that were blocking the bridges leading to the central station, later on when the drunks came out of the bars and wanted to get out of the city and couldn't because the trains and busses didn't drive anymore (the entire central station was closed because it was completely filled and people started pulling emergency brakes and walking on the traintracks followed by them literally tearing the station apart! not 1 sign survived!), me and 3 friends were standing outside since the M.E. police blocked the bridges leading to the central station to prevent people from crushing eachother in there. They said it would take half and hour, but it took 4 hours in total, so people got really irritated, but even more so because the police was ordered to stop anyone new from entering the central station, so they kept on using teargas and when peoples patience snapped, they started barging into the police who hit back with bat charges, rubber bullets shots and even more teargas, and believe me: teargas sucks!!! I almost puked, I ran away along with everyone while screaming "TEARGAS, BACK OFF", but I was too close, and I could see next to nothing as I looked right into a teargas cloud when it landed 16 inches / 5 metres away from me (and we had already backed away from the rioting people when they started throwing rocks and what-not to the M.E. police). Worst of all was that the wind kept blowing the smoke clouds from the new teargas into the large street everyone fled into, result: people around us crying, barfing, fainting and some flipping like they had some muscle spasm disease :-(
I felt really sorry for the old ladies and mothers with young children who could not run away very fast, offering something to drink and water for washing out their eyes is the best we could do, while the police did nothing, the *******s!
To make things worse, entire mobile phone networks went dead, so no calling home, but what do you expect from 1,1 million people visiting Amsterdam at the same time.

All in all a pretty exiting yet painful experience (my face -mostly eyes- were swollen up bad 12 hours later! teargas is a nightmare!). At midnight we decided to head back to the central station once again (for the fifth time), and you guessed it! we were gassed again!! we ran past it to the left side and we were barely away or the police started using the high pressure water cannon to spread out the crowd (rebelling groups had totally wrecked the environment around the station, starting with the sign "possible traindelay" hehe). At 1am we found a small bridge leading into the back of the trainstation and we got in and caught a train that took 4 hours to take us to Rotterdam and had half the seats torn out, well no train home for me, but it was always better than having to spend the night on the streets in Amsterdam, luckily I could stay over at a friends friends house, I didn't get back home until evening dinner the day after, even the trip back took hours longer, pffff.
The above story took 2 days instead of the planned 8 hours.
As for me... I can't feel my legs, I need my bed.... ZZZZZzzzzzzzz...

April Fools Day! - April 6, 2001 @ 07:22 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Our apology for our nasty April 1st joke, ofcourse we will not shut down! Anyway the April 1st page can now be found HERE. You got to admit that it looks pretty smooth for our first combined project (maybe we should make it our front-page?) But to make it up to all you Virtual Boy fans I've scanned the only existing James Bond "GoldenEye 007" screenshot, increased the size by factor 10 and edited it into a nice background file for you to view HERE (right click the picture with your mouse & select Set as Wallpaper) or download it HERE :-)

The HUGE box - March 23, 2001 @ 11:45 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
*doorbell rings at noon* Before even opening the front-door I could hear the postman's back sight and scream under some pressure, upon opening the door he had this thing... this huge... this gigantic shipment box in his hands and set it down on the ground, I tried to remember what this could be and remembered when I signed the customs form which read "from Canada", I had to hold my feelings of over-enjoyment after almost 2 months of waiting to myself for a little longer as the box almost didn't fit through our front-door!! I had to hold the box vertically to not scrape my fingers off! As quickly as I could I grabbed a kitchen-knife and rushed to open the package unveiling a "Small" Display Unit! It now stands proudly in my room practically as good as new:

In all the excitement (well... my excitement, hehe) I'd almost forget that I have added some storylines to & also brightened up all the pictures in The Games Section!

Ben's HMD VB - March 11, 2001 @ 05:55 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Last week was a sad week as Ben from The HMD VB (The Head-Mounted Display Virtual Boy) announced that he will stop updating his page. But have no fear as he promised to keep the site and with it all the VB manuals and HMD guide online; Better news is that we will soon have a new Virtual Boy page in our middle, more on that later when it is unveiled; We've added an easy to fill out and send form on the Readers Tribute Section, so there's no need to send emails anymore, just fill it out & send it in and we'll have your fond memories a few seconds later. And since we're now Virtual-Boy.Net (and since the former guestbook was deleted) there's a new Guestbook in place *hint hint* ;-D

Dreamcast Betas - February 26, 2001 @ 01:01 & 40 seconds PM GMT+8 ~ OmeBa
I guess your thinking what has the Dreamcast got to do with the Virtual Boy? Well if you know me I like to report about other gaming systems from time to time. But the Dreamcast is going the way of the Virtual Boy fast, Sega have already dropped out of the console market and are moving on to software. As I see it the Dreamcast like the Virtual Boy was ahead of it's time in terms of the public being ready for such a machine and it just isn't selling as it should. I love the damn thing and can't see why it would have failed. Anyway I managed to get hold of some Dreamcast Beta Games 

Ready 2 Rumble Round 2 Boxing Beta GD Rom

Ah the memories - February 23, 2001 @ 01:03 AM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Added a new section to the site: Reader Tributes (I hope you will send in your fond memories of the VB)
Found site updates by: PlanetVB & Virtual-E!! (awesome updates)
Oh and happy birthday David Tucker! (may things look up for you very soon)

Real VB demo unit frenzy - February 22, 2001 @ 12:05 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Clearly support for Virtual Boy is at an all time low (did it ever peak?), no Virtual Boy related websites are updated or hardly anymore; I guess this is where the Die Hards come through! ^_-
You see, just when I thought my luck had run out, I find a small Virtual Boy Demo Unit for sale! So guess what's coming my way very soon? A DEMO UNIT!!! This is one of those VB Display Units American consumers got to use back in 1995 to playtest VB games in stores such as Wal*Mart, here's a snapshot, ain't she a beauty?

Birthday update - February 10, 2001 @ 04:17 & 20 seconds AM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Guess what? 20 years and 20 seconds ago I was born, now that's a weird feeling! especially since I feel so old, while I'm really not, and even if I would be old, I'd soon get a head-mounted Virtual Boy unit to make me appear old and crazy, there! that sounds a lot better! 

*hmmm I wonder how I'd look wearing this on my head while walking around on the streets... ;-)*

No VB demo unit :-( - February 08, 2001 @ 01:10 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Well it was worth the risk, but the Demo Unit mentioned in January 14th update, turned out to be nothing more than a white delivery box with a normal loose VB unit in, so I more or less traded it in for a complete Game.Com handheld collection! (3 systems+all 20(?) games, all brand new sealed!) Not a bad trade if I say so myself, especially seeing as the system died 2 or 4 years ago, then again, maybe I'm just saying that to make me feel less guilty about not having this:

Weird Shit Zone Link - January 29, 2001 @ 03:13 AM GMT+8 ~ OmeBa
Hi, I'm OmeBa from The Weird Shit Zone, now in together with Ferry at Virtual-Boy.Net. As my first update I'm re-linking my old site, so soon you will be able to view the previous sites before the merger (because soon my old page will be redirected to this address). Also I am selling my Brand New Space Squash which is complete and unopened. Small creases in box but otherwise excellent. Email OmeBa with offers.

Multi-language site coming up! - January 28, 2001 @ 01:34 AM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Chinese language versions of Virtual-Boy.Net will be added this year!! ...ok ok... will be added SOON!! ^_^
Ben's HMD VB Page has a changed link, so be sure to update your bookmark & check out the Links section for the most 'recent' updated online VB resources.

VB Demo Unit frenzy - January 14, 2001 @ 16:30 PM GMT+1 ~ FerryG
It's just not fair! I have to turn the heat in the house up high to stay warm because it's freezing here all day long in Holland, but OmeBa is relaxing on a beach in Australia because he's in the middle of a heat-wave!
Apparently the http://ww.virtual-boy.net link goes down from time to time, so maybe it's best for me to mention in between lines that http://home.wish.net/~ferryg will work just fine if the first mentioned does not.
This week I bought a Japanese Virtual Boy which I will inspect upon arrival very carefully indeed, seeing as the box isn't quite your average VB unit box:

Looks like I found myself a VB Demo Unit with box, but it's nothing fancy like the two on the accessories section, just a common VB unit, but I wonder what the stand will look like, serial number is vn100014044.

01 January 2001: I wish everyone a happy & prosperous New Year! Here are 7 new unreleased Dragon Hopper pictures; VIRTUAL BOY LIVES ON!!