Number 3 ( PC Engine + briefcase CD-Rom or Super Cd-rom 2 system + Arcade Card Pro + TG16 or region mod)
and
Number 6 (Supergrafx + briefcase CD-Rom + RAU-30 + ACD Pro + TG16 or Region Mod OR
Supergrafx + SCD-Rom 2 system+ ACD Duo + TG16 or Region mod) are typically the most expensive combinations actually.
Dean AKA D-Lite at Multimods is awesome, hopefully he'll turn up again someday.
LOL,your joking right?
Dean,while he does good work Im sure,is most likely not coming around here because he pretty much sucked this area dry of money from you guys. He came around and posted as long as it was making him money. Its that simple. Money dried up,he left. He can still be found on Neo-Geo.com. My son says he post often still,esp when it has to do with money.
Keranu had pointed out to me one time Dean had posted this sad story of all these horrible woes affecting his ability to ship peoples stuff off,and finish up jobs he was doing. I read it and laughed my ass off. He was blaming his sick father in law,his bug infested house,and his lame net connections,and lack of money for everything including his misery.
He said his house was a mess and he couldn't keep anything in it because of the bug bombs and garbage. I don't know how much of all this was even remotely true,but I do know this,another friend of mine who collects comics and games showed me Deans ebay id link to stuff he was buying up a couple of days prior. He was spending mad mad money on really crappy Vailiant comic books,I mean $50-80 dollar auctions half the time,and daily and weekly,not just once or twice a month. With money problems,and bug infested house problems,and terrible net connections I fail to see how he could do all this....
Want proof of the buying crappy comics habit???
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=dragsy It seems its still in full force....
As for his honesty,thats another issue also besides the above mettioned.
Last year I had a ebay member (
orius1 I think it was,coulda been someone else) purchase a Time Killers arcade pcb from me. Prior to him buying this from me he had made payment to Dean for a Supergun. Dean had swore up and down to this guy that his normal Supergun would run it great. This was after the fact I had already informed Dean here on one of these threads that his normal Sg kits wouldn't because the game needs -5 volts like most other older american arcade pcbs and fifth button support and a good solid Sony CX based encoder,not a so so AD based Neobitz one.
Its not a big deal if the guy was not planning to buy this game,but he was,and other american pcbs too,and had told Dean of this plan. So,Dean had to upsize the order to his larger unit or some crap. After this Dean tried to stick the guy with a crappy Neobitz encoder,which obviously does not handle american pcbs video signal at all.... The guy told me what Dean was sticking in his Sg and asked me what he should tell Dean to change after I informed him that the AD based encoders have a hard time with most all american arcade jamma pcbs and soem other problems.
He informed Dean he was talking to me and had made a purchase from me for a Time Killers board and I guess this pissed Dean off because hes replies I was shown were kinda snappy and rude. Also to add to this stupid drama of this guys woes was that Dean was knowingly using a Happ power supply type that had obvious problems with Neobitz encoders and Atomaswave pcbs. It was causing horrible video problems. Dean denied it to this guy and was still going to ship the system to this guy anyway until I showed the guy this thread:
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=143249&highlight=Roberts+neobitz and that Dean knew of the problems and all prior to this SG purchase.
Dean did not take into account this person would see a Neo-Geo thread he had posted just days before about how he was having these big problems with the power supplies. LOL Dean didn't think any of his Sg customers would ever had dealings with me for that matter so it ended up causing him a world of grief.
Another problem with this Sg kit he was selling this guy included the placement of a 20mm cpu cooling fan in a case with no airflow venting anywhere expecting it to suck the heat off the arcade size Happ psu and out of the case. All he had for air flow was the tiny hole space cut for the fan itself. A fan can't move air if it cant pull it from no where..... Not only that but a 20mm fan isn't ideal for moving hot air out of a large space anyway. 20mm fans are typically only good for actually blowing air directly onto small heatsinks mounted onto things like Voodoo 4-5 gpu,Pentium 90 and 486DX cpus.
This is about as useless a feature as Segasonicfans Sega Saturn mod where he overclocks the 68000,which has ZERO effect on anything gameplay wise in that system.
You add crap like this to the fact Dean was promising working on a Duo audio fix,then buying up audio troubled Duos for 20-30 bucks after telling people they were un-fixable,stripping them of good cd lasers for himself,and reselling the Duos as non cd playing systems for $50. Necrocheese if you really just have to have s-video or RGB,and if your gonna trow some serious money down,do it by buying a Duo-r or Rx of someone like Toshi or get a cheap deck from Hit-Japan,and have OSG do the mods you desire.
I am sure OSG is more then willing to do it for you for a reasonable fee. I do mod work often,but I only tend to do mods I approve of,and I have never really approved highly of s-video or RGB mods on Turbo Duo/Pc-Engine Duo systems. I never felt the quality gain was as worthwhile on this system,and still do not to this day. I simply do not support that mod at all. In other words,if its a Genesis or NeoGeo AES with crappy composite,or a top loading Nes with only RF, I will mod it for someone more often then not. If the system has great composite like the Nec systems,I won't because I tend to believe in leaving good working somewhat rare vintage hardware alone.
In the end how you spend your money is up to you,but honestly I think you would be extremely happy with a nice Duo-r playing it in composite anyway either way it goes. You should try it in composite first,then if you feel you must have a better signal,then have it modded.
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