Virtual Boy has been, without a doubt, The biggest fiasco in Nintendo history. Appearing in the mid-90s with a revolutionary commitment to 3D gaming, it ended up not being sold in many markets around the world and went completely unnoticed, almost like a myth that everyone has heard of but that few have tried.
The first true 3D in video games
There are many emulators and surely you have already played one of their games but in 2D, which doesn’t let you see first hand how much you miss him of his visual spectacle. Despite this strange appearance, like a monster of War of the Worldsbelow hid the best three-dimensional console of that time and, surely, of all time.
Now, thanks to the proliferation of virtual reality glasses, we can relive the former glory of this great unknown to which only the passage of years and professions like the one we are going to present to you, could restore a little prestige. After all, it was the conceptual precursor to a Nintendo 3DS that forgot the glasses to avoid another disappointment like this Virtual Boy.
Come on, you want to enjoy Virtual Boy on your Meta Quest 2 or Oculus GO? Well, we are going to tell you how you need to do it to install the emulator and start the magic of Nintendo before your eyes.
Grab your Meta Quest 2 now
The good thing about this emulator is that works with the glasses in wireless mode, so it will not be necessary to connect them at the computer. Yes, you will have to perform certain steps via the PC, such as downloading the software under Windows 1 or 11. Once this is done (from the link below) you connect the VR glasses having previously met several conditions, such as:
- Enable the ability to run applications of unknown origin – in developer mode.
- Have installed the driver AfDB.
Once done, you will be able to access the library of Meta Quest 2 applications but, yes, specifying in the category those that are “of unknown origin”, otherwise you will not see it first. click on VirtualBoyGO to make it work although at that time, when you first start it, you will see that no games appear.
To get the game files, we have already told you that we cannot tell you where to find them. Even if sources like Archives.org they usually work very well to find the “ROM set full”. In any case, remember that the titles that work with this VirtualBoy GO
Then, with those cartridges already down, just tyou have to copy them to a specific folder which is that of “VB” and which must be placed in the following path at the root level of the glasses storage:
This will allow you, when starting the emulator, The list appears with all the games available for Virtual Boy which, it must be said, were not many because apart from the initial frenzy in 1995 after its launch in Japan – mainly – and now a little less in the United States, production practically stopped dead in 1996 when the Japanese confirmed their failure and they stopped manufacturing it, leaving only 22 rounds.
In the catalog there are several small wonders, such as Mario’s tennis game, or a truly spectacular pinball machine –for the time– as well as a kind of revision of the mythical Mario Brothers with 3D plumbing that looked really awesome in the mid 90s. Give it a try!
