chupon wrote:Interesting update. Seems as though most MVS prices have gone down!?
I think the only 2 that went down were Stakes Winner 1 and Jockey Grand Prix, everything else went up or stayed where it was from a year ago.
JoeAwesome - SVC Chaos PCB is about $45. It is plentiful in the JP shops (along w/PCB KoF 2003). They get around $75 on ebay for them, but that is very inflated over what you can get them for on arcade forums or JP shops.
Kalessin - I need to open my BBB up and check. There is a different history with this one - slightly different than the NGDev stuff and diff than the other "finished" protos like Diggerman, etc.
Yeah I wasn't sure. James has a listing for US, JP, and Homebrew... But mvs-scans doesn't have it listed and neither does neogeosoft so that's why I'm pretty sure it's homebrew/"proto" only
Mine was made by the team that released the AES version, or at least a guy who worked on that project. Since that time others have been making their own just like Ghostlops and Ironclads, but mine (thus some) may be different...i'm interested to see what the boards look like now...
My copy of Shanghai Mini for the NGPC arrived last night. I'm a big fan of Mahjong Solitaire and have been wanting to pick this up for a while but was surprisingly having trouble finding a cart-only version. When I finally spotted one for cheap, I swooped it up as quickly as it could. It took forever to ship across the US, but I'm happy to report it's now in my collection.
Maybe better suited in Technical Help, but let's try it here:
I just bought an AES with a MVS Fusion converter (shout out to KalessinDB), but I'm not satisfied with the converter having no plastic case. It's too bare-bones, an annoyance to line up with the cart slot and scary remove the MVS cart with its kung-fu grip.
My solution? Make an enclosure for it, but how? I'm thinking, as "expensive" and head-shaking as it is, to gut an AES game (preferably broken) for its cart shell and attach it to the converter. Thought?
Well I'll add my thoughts, since I was similarly annoyed by the lack of any enclosure on the Fusion:
Nooooooooooooooo!!!!
If you're looking at this seriously... the gutted/cut (because that thing isn't as tall as a full AES game by any means) AES case won't have any sort of point of contact with the circuit boards of the Fusion, so it's just gonna flop around in there. It'd help it look a little nicer (if you really took your time cutting it down) and less bare-bonesy in the system, but it wouldn't really do ANYTHING for helping you grip it to remove it from the cart. Plus I'm not entirely certain that the thick "slot" part of the fusion would even fit inside an AES cart shell, which would necessitate cutting it down even further.
My best suggestion would be trying to 3d print something, and even that's gonna be a pain since it'll be fairly large.
If you're dead set on saccing an existing cart for its case, I strongly recommend you poke around and find an empty MVS cart -- there's repros of those out there to be found (usually around 10-15 bucks so cheaper than any AES cart you'd ever find), and sometimes you can find a ratty original one from someone who's upgraded to a repro case. wyo_v4 from Neo-Geo.com might have some, he just sold a bunch of cleaned up carts in repro shells that he saved from yaton.
KalessinDB wrote:Well I'll add my thoughts, since I was similarly annoyed by the lack of any enclosure on the Fusion:
Nooooooooooooooo!!!!
If you're looking at this seriously... the gutted/cut (because that thing isn't as tall as a full AES game by any means) AES case won't have any sort of point of contact with the circuit boards of the Fusion, so it's just gonna flop around in there. It'd help it look a little nicer (if you really took your time cutting it down) and less bare-bonesy in the system, but it wouldn't really do ANYTHING for helping you grip it to remove it from the cart. Plus I'm not entirely certain that the thick "slot" part of the fusion would even fit inside an AES cart shell, which would necessitate cutting it down even further.
My best suggestion would be trying to 3d print something, and even that's gonna be a pain since it'll be fairly large.
If you're dead set on saccing an existing cart for its case, I strongly recommend you poke around and find an empty MVS cart -- there's repros of those out there to be found (usually around 10-15 bucks so cheaper than any AES cart you'd ever find), and sometimes you can find a ratty original one from someone who's upgraded to a repro case. wyo_v4 from Neo-Geo.com might have some, he just sold a bunch of cleaned up carts in repro shells that he saved from yaton.
I've just signed up for an account on the Neo forums, but it might take awhile for BST rights. The problem with MVS carts is that it doesn't fit in an AES slot without some modification. Ideally, I'd get a cart shell like those used for the other converters:
