WTB: Neo Geo AES or MVS System

[xelement5x]

There's one called Magic Key that plays pretty much everything, even the multi carts. It's about £200 and to my knowledge it doesn't require it's own Psu and has a variant of the unibios installed.

I think there may be issues with AES systems that use the 5v PSU but I may be confusing it with the Phantom convertor.

It's about £200

about £200

£200!


Jesus Christ, that is a hell of an investment.  I could buy a 1slot MVS and a shitty supergun from a reseller for less than than and still have enough to pay for a visit to nullilty's favorite asian massage parlor.

[geise]

Just get a supergun.  Then you can buy pcb's as well.  Shit, you can probably get a Neo cab locally for less than what people want for an AES console and a few super common games now a days.

[Black Tiger]

You can buy a decent cmvs for $300 with unibios and better video output than any unmodified AES.

[SignOfZeta]

I paid less than $200 (dollars, not pounds) for my CMVS. It came with the UniBIOS, a Neo CD pad, and an AES stick. I have Rage of Dragons, KOF 2003, Metal Slug 3, and many other games, none of which cost me more than $45 except Pulstar which was over a hundred.

To do that AES style I'd need thousands...PER GAME in many instances. If you can actually source one of those £200 converters you'd have...nothing...since all it does is let you play MVS carts...and an MVS can already play MVS carts natively, you still be at step 1 before you even talk about a system.

The AES is probably the most clear cut example of a more expensive alternative that is worse in every single way. If you're more interested in hype than game play, that is, if you are a poseur, then AES is great. Me, I like flying spaceships and shooting fireballs and shit.

[Caseh]

It's about £200

about £200

£200!

Lol! Yeah I guess it is pricey. It all comes down to what someone is willing to spend, their technical knowledge and the functionality/setup they want.

If money is tight then a PCB supergun with an ATX PSU and MVS 1 slot will give you access to the entire MVS and JAMMA library for peanuts. I've toyed with the idea myself for one of those Pandora 50,000 in 1 carts but Ive got consoles coming out of my arse these days and probably wouldn't use it.

In the UK, the availability of many things is limited and when you do find somewhere that supplies niche items, your wallet often gets raped.

[Black Tiger]

It's about £200

about £200

£200!

Lol! Yeah I guess it is pricey. It all comes down to what someone is willing to spend, their technical knowledge and the functionality/setup they want.

If money is tight then a PCB supergun with an ATX PSU and MVS 1 slot will give you access to the entire MVS and JAMMA library for peanuts. I've toyed with the idea myself for one of those Pandora 50,000 in 1 carts but Ive got consoles coming out of my arse these days and probably wouldn't use it.

In the UK, the availability of many things is limited and when you do find somewhere that supplies niche items, your wallet often gets raped.

That's just emulation. A cmvs or supergun + mvs board plsying mvs carts is completely different.

[SignOfZeta]

Why does this f*ckhead equate MVS with emulation? That's the second time he's done it. We're talking about ways to play actual Neo games. Just because MVS is thousands of dollars cheaper than AES doesn't mean it's some hanky bootleg horseshit. These are real arcade boards that play real Neo Geo games. The exact same code on the exact same chips manufactured in the same factory on the same day.

The AES was created as a cheap way to play MVS, but things flip flopped when all the arcades went out of business. The only *real* work done to make the AES was a DRM scheme to lock out MVS carts and vice versa, the very same scheme those stupid converters defeat. MVS is the way most people played Samurai Showdown, Magician Lord, all that. It's as legit as anything that ever was.

[Caseh]

Why does this f*ckhead equate MVS with emulation? That's the second time he's done it. We're talking about ways to play actual Neo games. Just because MVS is thousands of dollars cheaper than AES doesn't mean it's some hanky bootleg horseshit. These are real arcade boards that play real Neo Geo games. The exact same code on the exact same chips manufactured in the same factory on the same day.

The AES was created as a cheap way to play MVS, but things flip flopped when all the arcades went out of business. The only *real* work done to make the AES was a DRM scheme to lock out MVS carts and vice versa, the very same scheme those stupid converters defeat. MVS is the way most people played Samurai Showdown, Magician Lord, all that. It's as legit as anything that ever was.

The Pandora would have been for the CPS games rather than Neo Geo you tool. That's the whole reason I own a f*cking AES.

[Necromancer]

Why is it that an MVS is great if you 'just want to play the games', but if you want to play the same exact games via emulation you're a retard piece of shit?  You can't have fun if it's not legit, bruh! 

[SignOfZeta]

MVS is for impoverished scumbags who need to play Neo games so bad that they can't maintain the stoic maturity of a collectard with an AES who rarely plays anything because he has to pay $2000 a game, and is too chicken to even authenticate the games he has because he knows several are probably boots, and too scared to play them because the carts might get scuffed.

I can still smell the tiajuanan arcade my $15 Real Bout 2 cart came from. There is no more pure Neo experience than that and if you think I'm joking please go take a flying f*ck at the moon.

[toymachine78]

Ive been playing the hell out of my CMVS since getting it last year and loving every minute of it!

Now you tell me I haven't been getting the legit Neo experience? My non art labled MVS carts are just a cheap knock off? f*ck my life!!! Its all been a sham!!!

That's it. I'm joining Nullity's gay Craigslist prostitution ring. I'll have money for an AES and a full set of games in no time! Nothing will keep me from having a true neo geo home experience! To make matters better, I'm gonna hold out for a US Themed AES too, and have it region modded, and RGB modded to match my RGB modded US Themed Genesis. I surely do NOT want to buy a separate cord!

Nully.... Call me!

[Black Tiger]

Ive been playing the hell out of my CMVS since getting it last year and loving every minute of it!

Now you tell me I haven't been getting the legit Neo experience? My non art labled MVS carts are just a cheap knock off? f*ck my life!!! Its all been a sham!!!

That's it. I'm joining Nullity's gay Craigslist prostitution ring. I'll have money for an AES and a full set of games in no time! Nothing will keep me from having a true neo geo home experience! To make matters better, I'm gonna hold out for a US Themed AES too, and have it region modded, and RGB modded to match my RGB modded US Themed Genesis. I surely do NOT want to buy a separate cord!

Nully.... Call me!

I made my own cart labels.








I'm also working on a set of matching shock box inserts.

[BigusSchmuck]

Ive been playing the hell out of my CMVS since getting it last year and loving every minute of it!

Now you tell me I haven't been getting the legit Neo experience? My non art labled MVS carts are just a cheap knock off? f*ck my life!!! Its all been a sham!!!

That's it. I'm joining Nullity's gay Craigslist prostitution ring. I'll have money for an AES and a full set of games in no time! Nothing will keep me from having a true neo geo home experience! To make matters better, I'm gonna hold out for a US Themed AES too, and have it region modded, and RGB modded to match my RGB modded US Themed Genesis. I surely do NOT want to buy a separate cord!

Nully.... Call me!

I made my own cart labels.








I'm also working on a set of matching shock box inserts.

That's good to know.. Let me know if you plan to ever sell any of them, might be pming you in the future if you are..

[EvilEvoIX]

You can buy a decent cmvs for $300 with unibios and better video output than any unmodified AES.

I don't get this, I run an unmodified AES save for Unibios and use an off the shelf SCART lead and it looks AMAZING.  I've run my MVS cab back to back at the same time (SAME GAME!) and I'll be darned if I've noticed a difference.

[SignOfZeta]

The guy I bought my first batch of games from had full color cases and whatever for every game. I told him to keep them. They had a plain white lable for the first 10-20 years of their life, I don't see any reason to change that.