So about two years or so ago, when Nintendo was running rampant shutting down all the 3DS services including the 3DS store, I started looking into rooting my 3DS. It wasn’t that I necessarily wanted to play a bunch of NES/SNES games that I own on the system (though that was part of it), it was that I heard about a Virtual Boy emulator.

For those of you not in the know, the Virtual Boy is the biggest failure that Nintendo has had, it was a 3D unit that was all in red/black, and you’d put your face into. It was all sorts of ridiculous that failed about 2 months after it launched.

I remember because it was on an Orchestra trip down to the cities that I picked one up for $25 and a couple games (WarioLand and Panic Bomber). It’s been fun on occasion taking it out of storage to play it, but about 6 years ago, the ribbon cable was no longer connected as well as it needed to be. The system became unplayable, sadly.

But then I heard about the 3DS port (and, you’ll be happy to know, I did get the emulator that will play the Virtual Boy in my HTC Vive Pro, which is totally sweet and awesome too), and so I rooted my 3DSXL, and found out shortly that it didn’t have the oomph necessary to run it. I needed the New 3DS XL, and luckily was able to get my brother’s system.

Well, today the Red VIper 3DS emulator came out in version 1.0, and it is swawesome (that’s sweet plus awesome). It utilizes the 3DS 3-D settings perfectly, and I had a bit of a memory lane jaunt on break today playing some Panic Bomber.

It’s fun. The system was largely trash, but the games were really fun. Warioland was a full on game, like 10-15 hours long if I remember correctly. So, it’s good times!