AES or MVS?

[SuperDeadite]

The problem with a CMVS, is that if you are willing to pay a good chunk of cash, you are far better off buying a nice fully featured supergun, as then you can play other arcade boards.   A dedicated CMVS only plays MVS.  If you have tons of cash to blow go for it, but I feel your typical budget-minded MVS owner can do better.

[synbiosfan]

The problem with a CMVS, is that if you are willing to pay a good chunk of cash, you are far better off buying a nice fully featured supergun, as then you can play other arcade boards.   A dedicated CMVS only plays MVS.  If you have tons of cash to blow go for it, but I feel your typical budget-minded MVS owner can do better.

When I bought my CMVS (MV1B) I was pretty ignorant about superguns and the options available. I don't regret it (and now have a gun) but I should have done more research.

I was just considering the price difference of MVS carts versus home carts. I did save more than enough to cover it's cost.

[BigusSchmuck]

Its a good chunk of cash regardless what route you go. I figure I need at least $1,000 to start off.

[Medic_wheat]

Its a good chunk of cash regardless what route you go. I figure I need at least $1,000 to start off.

That is a good estimate .......


Mind you with that amount you can get a CMVS, controller, and maybe 10 good games.  Alot of the MVS games can be had for 20-30 dollars ...


Hell I just bought Metal Slug 4 (compelte kit) off ebay for $45.  Guy had a huge stock of them and still has a few.  Of course I'll need to crack open that case and verify the chip set is not a bootleg.  If it is I'll demand my money back.......


If it is a legit copy then I'll just be missing Metal Slug 1 & 5 ......

as for complete kit games this will be my 3rd or 4th ...........I sometimes get tempted to go for only complete kit games but don't feel like dishing out the usual $120-$200 per game.........but man that would look sexy on a shelf....all my MVS games as full kits......although maybe a little bland...

[ToyMachine78]

Its a good chunk of cash regardless what route you go. I figure I need at least $1,000 to start off.

That is a good estimate .......


Mind you with that amount you can get a CMVS, controller, and maybe 10 good games.  Alot of the MVS games can be had for 20-30 dollars ...


Hell I just bought Metal Slug 4 (compelte kit) off ebay for $45.  Guy had a huge stock of them and still has a few.  Of course I'll need to crack open that case and verify the chip set is not a bootleg.  If it is I'll demand my money back.......


If it is a legit copy then I'll just be missing Metal Slug 1 & 5 ......

as for complete kit games this will be my 3rd or 4th ...........I sometimes get tempted to go for only complete kit games but don't feel like dishing out the usual $120-$200 per game.........but man that would look sexy on a shelf....all my MVS games as full kits......although maybe a little bland...

I saw that listing for metal slug too. My wife has clamped the purse strings since Christmas is coming though

.... As for MVS kits being sexy on a shelf... ??? I find cardboard boxes rather boring.

[Opethian]

kits are useless unless you have a cab

[Medic_wheat]

kits are useless unless you have a cab

I am lucky enough to say that I have one of those to....

[Medic_wheat]

Its a good chunk of cash regardless what route you go. I figure I need at least $1,000 to start off.

That is a good estimate .......


Mind you with that amount you can get a CMVS, controller, and maybe 10 good games.  Alot of the MVS games can be had for 20-30 dollars ...


Hell I just bought Metal Slug 4 (compelte kit) off ebay for $45.  Guy had a huge stock of them and still has a few.  Of course I'll need to crack open that case and verify the chip set is not a bootleg.  If it is I'll demand my money back.......


If it is a legit copy then I'll just be missing Metal Slug 1 & 5 ......

as for complete kit games this will be my 3rd or 4th ...........I sometimes get tempted to go for only complete kit games but don't feel like dishing out the usual $120-$200 per game.........but man that would look sexy on a shelf....all my MVS games as full kits......although maybe a little bland...

I saw that listing for metal slug too. My wife has clamped the purse strings since Christmas is coming though

.... As for MVS kits being sexy on a shelf... ??? I find cardboard boxes rather boring.

Spice them up with some of this and some side sticky art and it could look less boring.

[Medic_wheat]

Or go the Neo Mini Box route (personal fav)...it saves on space, and looks very uniform on the shelf versus a shock box...

I just have yet to get these.....some for my MVS and PMG

oh yeah

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[Medic_wheat]

Whoes ever father this was he is a boss...

makes me want to have one made for when my own child is older....and defently not still in his/her mother's whomb......


Might have to attempt to contact the guy on the thread who made this .........as all I would need is the cab (in parts) and can slap it together and get it looking good....


It's alwasy the cab that is the hardest part for me..........granted I guess I could just go to a carpenter with the blue prints (which are easy to find) and have a cab made locally....

[CrackTiger]

At some point someone talked about sorting through hacked and original games on multi-carts. I made my own cover and reversible game list for the multi-cart I have.

I figured out which games are hacks, which are original and made alphabetical and genre lists with the menu number beside each game. For the genre categories, the original titles are listed first, then the hacked ones. I printed out each list guide and laminated it. It fits in the manual space inside the shock box.





Close-ups of the guide:




It was a lot of work, but so is trying to navigate the random list of roms on the cart without a guide. Now it's incredibly easy to find or figure out what I want to play off the cart.

As you can see on the back of the box, there's still 65 unaltered games, which is a hell of a lot.

[BigusSchmuck]

Curious, are the AES consoles region free?

[Opethian]

yes but get a Unibios you wont regret it

[CrackTiger]

Curious, are the AES consoles region free?

This was answered in detail earlier, but basically a game will run, but you are stuck with a particular version (potentially censored).

Unibios is a must for game players.

[Joe Redifer]

Neo Geo was bigger badder better! And more censored. Because the people who would buy something like a Neo Geo needed games to be censored. Maybe Neo Geo was just for big babies? I think maybe so.

[NecroPhile]

Maybe Neo Geo was just for big babies? I think maybe so.

You might be onto something..... that would explain why fun is a strong word.

[Samuray]

Back in  '92 or '93 when I got my AES (yes, as a kid...it was amazing, though!) I quickly had a console mod done as soon as I heard about the censorship in upcoming games ("Samurai Shodown" and "The King of Fighters '94"). I had a US system and read in magazines about the white blood and the.....alteration to Mai Shiranui, and something had to be done.

So I sent the system to a store that seemingly installed an additional BIOS. From that point on I could flick a little metal switch on the back of the console to choose between USA or JPN....very handy to this day and the reason why I have no UniBIOS.

Just wanted to mention that there are other ways to circumvent censorship.

[EvilEvoIX]

Back in  '92 or '93 when I got my AES (yes, as a kid...it was amazing, though!) I quickly had a console mod done as soon as I heard about the censorship in upcoming games ("Samurai Shodown" and "The King of Fighters '94"). I had a US system and read in magazines about the white blood and the.....alteration to Mai Shiranui, and something had to be done.

So I sent the system to a store that seemingly installed an additional BIOS. From that point on I could flick a little metal switch on the back of the console to choose between USA or JPN....very handy to this day and the reason why I have no UniBIOS.

Just wanted to mention that there are other ways to circumvent censorship.

You sir were a cool kid, having a Neo in the day is a helluva accomplishment.

[Samuray]

You sir were a cool kid, having a Neo in the day is a helluva accomplishment. 

Well, it's not like I delivered tons of newspapers to finally buy a Neo after months of hard work, or anything like that. My parents were just kind of "pro videogames" so I had pretty much every system, even exotic ones like 3DO or PC Engine/ Turbo Duo which had to be imported. They didn't play themselves but appreciated my fondness for that stuff.
So in the end I was just lucky, I guess.

[PukeSter]

You sir were a cool kid, having a Neo in the day is a helluva accomplishment. 

Well, it's not like I delivered tons of newspapers to finally buy a Neo after months of hard work, or anything like that. My parents were just kind of "pro videogames" so I had pretty much every system, even exotic ones like 3DO or PC Engine/ Turbo Duo which had to be imported. They didn't play themselves but appreciated my fondness for that stuff.
So in the end I was just lucky, I guess.

Or you just had really rich parents.

Game systems and games were much more expensive back then.

[SuperGrafx]

Well, it's not like I delivered tons of newspapers to finally buy a Neo after months of hard work, or anything like that. My parents were just kind of "pro videogames" so I had pretty much every system, even exotic ones like 3DO or PC Engine/ Turbo Duo which had to be imported. They didn't play themselves but appreciated my fondness for that stuff.
So in the end I was just lucky, I guess.

I wish my parents were like that.
Mine were of the "you can only have 1 system at a time" persuasion.

Every time I wanted to upgrade to a new system, I had to sell my existing console + games.  Not easy back in those days considering the used game market was kind of limited to mainly a few small mail order outfits like BRE games and Funcoland.

[cr8zykuban0]

shit, I would have loved growing up with the neo but the prices were crazy. I didnt even know about the existence of the neo geo aes until like 7 years ago and when I found out kof 94 was avaliable for the system (one of the first arcade games ive ever played and loved) I had to get it and was able to buy one in 2009. 5 years later and im still loving it!

[Otaking]

You sir were a cool kid, having a Neo in the day is a helluva accomplishment. 

Well, it's not like I delivered tons of newspapers to finally buy a Neo after months of hard work, or anything like that. My parents were just kind of "pro videogames" so I had pretty much every system, even exotic ones like 3DO or PC Engine/ Turbo Duo which had to be imported. They didn't play themselves but appreciated my fondness for that stuff.
So in the end I was just lucky, I guess.

Or you just had really rich parents.

Game systems and games were much more expensive back then.

I owned a Neo Geo AES back when it was released (in the UK). I was around 14 years old, I didn't have rich parents we were actually quite poor, but I was completely obsessed with video games so I worked all I could at weekends and after school to fund my hobby.
Back then I didn't know of anyone else in my area or school that had a Neo Geo so I had to travel and meet up with other hardcore gamers and I would trade AES games with them.
For the first few years I think I only had around 3-5 AES games at a time but I would always trade them for new ones so I got to play most of the AES library of games.

Some of my favourites aren't the commonly popular titles, I just have fond memories of playing them when they were released.
Here's a few:
Super Baseball 2020
Alpha Mission 2/ASO II - loved this shooter, surprised it never gets talked about.
Fatal Fury - amazing graphics at the time
Fatal Fury 2
Last Resort - one of my favourite games of all time.
Magician Lord
Ninja Commando

[esteban]

You sir were a cool kid, having a Neo in the day is a helluva accomplishment. 

Well, it's not like I delivered tons of newspapers to finally buy a Neo after months of hard work, or anything like that. My parents were just kind of "pro videogames" so I had pretty much every system, even exotic ones like 3DO or PC Engine/ Turbo Duo which had to be imported. They didn't play themselves but appreciated my fondness for that stuff.
So in the end I was just lucky, I guess.

Or you just had really rich parents.

Game systems and games were much more expensive back then.

I owned a Neo Geo AES back when it was released (in the UK). I was around 14 years old, I didn't have rich parents we were actually quite poor, but I was completely obsessed with video games so I worked all I could at weekends and after school to fund my hobby.
Back then I didn't know of anyone else in my area or school that had a Neo Geo so I had to travel and meet up with other hardcore gamers and I would trade AES games with them.
For the first few years I think I only had around 3-5 AES games at a time but I would always trade them for new ones so I got to play most of the AES library of games.

Some of my favourites aren't the commonly popular titles, I just have fond memories of playing them when they were released.
Here's a few:
Super Baseball 2020
Alpha Mission 2/ASO II - loved this shooter, surprised it never gets talked about.
Fatal Fury - amazing graphics at the time
Fatal Fury 2
Last Resort - one of my favourite games of all time.
Magician Lord
Ninja Commando

I loved those non-fighting NEO games, too. I was never infatuated with the fighting genre, so I would always play the games that had no crowd around them.

8Man, Nam '75, and Magician Lord got a lot of love.

[BigusSchmuck]

You sir were a cool kid, having a Neo in the day is a helluva accomplishment. 

Well, it's not like I delivered tons of newspapers to finally buy a Neo after months of hard work, or anything like that. My parents were just kind of "pro videogames" so I had pretty much every system, even exotic ones like 3DO or PC Engine/ Turbo Duo which had to be imported. They didn't play themselves but appreciated my fondness for that stuff.
So in the end I was just lucky, I guess.

Or you just had really rich parents.

Game systems and games were much more expensive back then.

I owned a Neo Geo AES back when it was released (in the UK). I was around 14 years old, I didn't have rich parents we were actually quite poor, but I was completely obsessed with video games so I worked all I could at weekends and after school to fund my hobby.
Back then I didn't know of anyone else in my area or school that had a Neo Geo so I had to travel and meet up with other hardcore gamers and I would trade AES games with them.
For the first few years I think I only had around 3-5 AES games at a time but I would always trade them for new ones so I got to play most of the AES library of games.

Some of my favourites aren't the commonly popular titles, I just have fond memories of playing them when they were released.
Here's a few:
Super Baseball 2020
Alpha Mission 2/ASO II - loved this shooter, surprised it never gets talked about.
Fatal Fury - amazing graphics at the time
Fatal Fury 2
Last Resort - one of my favourite games of all time.
Magician Lord
Ninja Commando

I may sound a little bit off, but I love Fatal Fury's 1 music the best out of the series.

[EvilEvoIX]

You sir were a cool kid, having a Neo in the day is a helluva accomplishment. 

Well, it's not like I delivered tons of newspapers to finally buy a Neo after months of hard work, or anything like that. My parents were just kind of "pro videogames" so I had pretty much every system, even exotic ones like 3DO or PC Engine/ Turbo Duo which had to be imported. They didn't play themselves but appreciated my fondness for that stuff.
So in the end I was just lucky, I guess.

Or you just had really rich parents.

Game systems and games were much more expensive back then.

I owned a Neo Geo AES back when it was released (in the UK). I was around 14 years old, I didn't have rich parents we were actually quite poor, but I was completely obsessed with video games so I worked all I could at weekends and after school to fund my hobby.
Back then I didn't know of anyone else in my area or school that had a Neo Geo so I had to travel and meet up with other hardcore gamers and I would trade AES games with them.
For the first few years I think I only had around 3-5 AES games at a time but I would always trade them for new ones so I got to play most of the AES library of games.

Some of my favourites aren't the commonly popular titles, I just have fond memories of playing them when they were released.
Here's a few:
Super Baseball 2020
Alpha Mission 2/ASO II - loved this shooter, surprised it never gets talked about.
Fatal Fury - amazing graphics at the time
Fatal Fury 2
Last Resort - one of my favourite games of all time.
Magician Lord
Ninja Commando

I may sound a little bit off, but I love Fatal Fury's 1 music the best out of the series.

I am quite Partial to MOTW's music but 1's is classic for sure.

[jeffhlewis]

We had Fatal Fury 1 on the MVS 2-slot at my neighborhood pool growing up. Game holds a special place deep in my psyche even though I know it's a flawed game. The audio was so impressive when it came out.