Kevin Mellott has just opened pre-orders on a new batch of Mr Cart’s – A new ROM cart for the Virtual Boy made by developer Mr. Flower. This batch will only be offered with high quality aluminum shells, in your choice of red or black (pictured above). The price for this batch is $235 and its due to ship to customers before the end of this year. More info after the links:
Pre-Order Here: https://www.retroonyx.com/product-page/mrcart-virtual-boy-mulitcart
Mr Cart Main Site: https://www.mrcart.info/
The Mr Cart a more traditional style ROM cart, that allows you to select your game via an on-screen menu. It’s compatible with all ROMs (including Hyper Fighting) and load times range from about ten seconds to a minute depending on game size; Like with other ROM carts, re-loading the last game you loaded to flash is instant.
I haven’t personally used one, but there’s a few things to note, like the MicroSD should be formatted FAT32, the maximum file length is 34 characters, it can only handle up to a 16GB MicroSD (more than enough for all VB games) and there’s a maximum of 100 files per folder (that’s more than there are VB games). One other thing to note, is the Mr Cart will create a savegame file for each ROM, even if it doesn’t support saves, to err on the side of caution; These are all stored in the “save” folder in the root of the MicroSD. You’ll also need to put the system files in the “_SYSTEM_” folder and all games in the “GAMES” folder or subdirectories.
As always, I’m just happy to see more love for the Virtual Boy! If you’d like to see a bunch of other awesome accessories, as well as some homebrew demo’d, please check out this livestream I did with Kevin awhile back:
