Red Dragon - first Virtual Boy emulator for the PSP

Posted Oct 21, 2007 at 11:25PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Homebrew Emulators Tags: SofiyaCat
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The developer of PSPTube, SofiyaCat, has just released the world's first ever PlayStation Portable-compatible emulator for Nintendo's Virtual Boy. For our younger readers, the Virtual Boy was released first back in 1995 and is the first portable game console capable of providing 3D graphics.

The emulator, anyway, is called Red Dragon and was loosely based on PC-emulator Reality Boy from coder David Tucker. Aside from various debug options, save states, cheats, and sound emulation, Red Dragon also sports a very high compatibility features. Just take a look at this list:
  • Fully Playable:
    • Red Dragon - first Virtual Boy emulator for the PSP - Image 1 Galactic Pinball
    • Insmouse no Yakata
    • Jack Bros.
    • Jack Bros.
    • Mario Clash
    • Mario's Tennis
    • Nester's Funky Bowling
    • Panic Bomber
    • SD Gundam Dimension War
    • Space Invaders Virtual Collection
    • Space Squash
    • Teleroboxer
    • V-Tetris
    • Vertical Force
    • Virtual Bowling
    • Virtual Boy Wario Land
    • Virtual Fishing (J)
    • Virtual League Baseball
    • Virtual Pro Yakyuu '95
    • Waterworld
  • Partially Playable:
    • 3D Tetris
    • Golf
    • Red Alarm
    • T&E Virtual Golf
Since this is just an experimental version, SofiyaCat mentioned that users should take all the necessary precautions before installing red Dragon on their Sony handheld to avoid any problems.

Download: Red Dragon (experimental version)

 
 
 

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by JaXeRiR - 2007-10-21 19:41
» .

Wow wait... This is scary... I just read an article about Virtual Boy on Wikipedia some days ago and thought "Why aren't there any Virtual Boy emulators for PSP?"



Scary...



"FIRST!"

by Exophase - 2007-10-21 20:05
» Link doesn't work

Found it on SofiyaCat's wiki. Readme is of course in Japanese. Source is not provided (I'm not sure the original author requires more than acknowledgement .. uh which I didn't see either ;P) so I don't know exactly how "loosely" it's based off of Reality Boy. I'm most interested in how it performs, but not enough to try it right now so I'll wait for someone else's comments on this.

by LordSturm - 2007-10-21 20:20
» Spec

If you wanted to create the "device" that allowed you to see the game play in 3d, how would one go about it, or is it made to be presented on 2 screens? ( Maybe you can use the ac!d 2 eye viewer. xD

by akadewboy - 2007-10-22 00:28
» Anyone figure out how to change the controls?

The input options are mapped for a keyboard. Anyone figure out how to change it so you can actually play the games?! This is useless.

by s*****man - 2007-10-22 06:43
» very cool. Any unported console emulators are always welcome!

Sweet. Can you use 3D red/blue glasses with this?

by Missa - 2007-10-22 09:39
» 3D

The virtual boy is one of my conversation pieces. I keep it in the entry hall of my apt and people come with all sorts of ideas as to what it is when they first see it. The most common question I get is, can it browse the web in 3d? doh.



I love vertial force, warioland, red alarm, the boxing game and the tennis game is actually pretty cool too.



Ty for making this emulator run on the PSP. Now we just need red alarm working.

by rubixcube6 - 2007-10-22 10:25
» :|

I cant figure that out either. anyone know what to do about this?

by rubixcube6 - 2007-10-22 11:11
» how to change controlls

1. run it on your psp, go to options ans select save options.



2. now on your computer, open the reddragon folder and find a file labled "OPTIONS.DAT"



3. open that in notepad. It will show somthing like this:

platform=0003

frmskip=0000

dspmode=0000

dspswap=0000

dsp2x=0000

palmode=0000

scrx=0480

scry=0272

sound=0001

scrmode=0000

lu=0005

ld=0003

ll=0019

lr=0006

ru=0009

rd=0072

rl=0010

rr=0012

ba=0013

bb=0014

st=0002

sl=0022

tl=0007

tr=0008

bl=0023



4. the last few are the controll settings:



lu - left pad up

ld - left paddown

ll - left pad left

lr - left pad right

ru - right pad up

rd - right pad down

rl - right pad left

rr - right pad right

ba - button A

bb - button B

st - start

sl - select

tl - trigger left

tr - trigger right

bl - battery level



the number out beside the letters is the button code. the problem is, I have no clue what the button codes for the psp are.



If you downloaded red dragon for windows and saved its settings. you can fuigureout what the keyboard key codes are by seting them in the emulator.

by Sr_Moska - 2007-10-22 13:57
» :/

sucky, no mapping :'(



I wanted to play teleroboxer again :'(

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