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forper
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Post subject: Re: NEO GEO (Owners Only) Posted: 08 Jan 2017, 02:42 |
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Joined: 01 May 2016, 06:38 Posts: 2040 Location: Australia Has thanked: 334 times Been thanked: 222 times
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kingpin wrote: arrived today. beautiful! Good luck Samaron! I wish I could procure more Neo stuff but so many other priorities..
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Post subject: Re: NEO GEO (Owners Only) Posted: 19 Jan 2017, 11:18 |
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I am working on it. KOF 2000 & KOF 2001 are already on the way. Then I only need KOF 2002 & KOF 2003.
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samaron
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Post subject: Re: NEO GEO (Owners Only) Posted: 21 Jan 2017, 02:16 |
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The cart holds the entire game library plus a bunch of other stuff like hacks, bootlegs, prototypes and such. It uses flash, so changing games can be a bit slow. The largest games, like KOF2002 I think it was, can take up to 4 minutes to load. Most games take like a minute or so, if not less. Once it is flashed, it does act like a legit cart. Instant boot into the flashed game everytime you fire up the console. If you also have a hacked BIOS and run the checksum, the games will show up as OK. A couple will show up bad, but still run, because the actual protection circuit hasn't been reverse-engineered and implemented. A very handy device for sure. I'm also intrigued that it makes homebrews to be much more easily made and run on the system. I'm sure this is a very exciting time in the Neo Geo community for many people.
I already figured out the "dropout" glitch issue. It turned out the updated firmware did get released public very recently. After running the update, the issue went away. The cropping seems to be more of bad luck with the TVs I own. Some are more picky than others, as the signals from the Neo Geo isn't broadcast standard. The CRT doesn't crop as much as the plasma. The plasma also have a little bit of wavy edges on the graphics, almost like dot crawl. As far as I understood, the cropping issue is because the sync signal is a little bit offset in comparison to the actual center of the image. Thus making it offset and cropped by the overscan. I did read about someone making a circuit with a potentiometer to manually adjust the position of the image. Haven't found anyone that sell it, nor any circuit diagrams. If I connect the MVS through my XRGB Framemeister that I bought in Japan, the image is centered correctly and not cropped.
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samaron
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Post subject: Re: NEO GEO (Owners Only) Posted: 21 Jan 2017, 14:23 |
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There was announced an AES version of the cart as well, that will ship this month. When I bought this MVS cart in November, it was said that no AES version were planned at the moment. They're a bit expensive, cost around 400 euro and can be bought here. Considering how expensive MVS and especially AES games are, it isn't that bad of a deal. The Neo Geo platform is also very complicated, which is why any proper flash carts have been unavailable for so long. The company said that if you flash 10 games a day, it will last for about 30 years before it reaches the estimated amount of reflashes it is designed for. So the flash memory should last a while. If you just want to play games, this is definitely the way to go. I'm not going to get rid of the games I already own, but I'm sure some people dump their collection. Edit: Yes, the MVS is wired up to use AES joysticks.
Last edited by samaron on 22 Jan 2017, 03:27, edited 2 times in total.
_________________ Player: Pioneer HLD-X9 and CLD-2950 My LD collection Recently started collecting some anime on LD
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