Let's talk about your NEO GEO collecting + PRICE GUIDES

[aaron]

looks great dude! i love shocks but i can't really justify the price. maybe someday...

[KalessinDB]

They ARE pretty, but I like the neominibox design too -- the spine's really the important part sitting on a shelf, and in the end MVS is still arcade gear. The way I see it, I'll get the neominibox to spice up my shelving unit, and that way when I get AES games they'll be all the more special with their full wrap art


Ugh... reminds me, I STILL need to find a decent scan of Eight-Man AES to reprint for that one I bought off Mike forever and a day ago.

[Ack]

That is a sexy setup, ninja. Very nice.

[BoneSnapDeez]

A shockingly stupid question perhaps, but I am curious.

MVS games are arcade games, right?

So say I play them on an AES w/ a MVS to AES Converter. How does one pump in the "quarters?"

(Still haven't made the leap to MVS yet... It's tempting but the initial price to get started is intimidating.)

[fastbilly1]

A shockingly stupid question perhaps, but I am curious.

MVS games are arcade games, right?

So say I play them on an AES w/ a MVS to AES Converter. How does one pump in the "quarters?"

(Still haven't made the leap to MVS yet... It's tempting but the initial price to get started is intimidating.)

Many are simply set to free play

[aaron]

free play is set in the hardware, so most CMVS's are set so that all of the games will just be "press start" ready.

[ninjainspandex]

A shockingly stupid question perhaps, but I am curious.

MVS games are arcade games, right?

So say I play them on an AES w/ a MVS to AES Converter. How does one pump in the "quarters?"

(Still haven't made the leap to MVS yet... It's tempting but the initial price to get started is intimidating.)

not a stupid question at all, AES and MVS are the same games, the bios chip on the system your playing on determines how it is played. If you have a Japanese AES and use a converter to play an MVS game on it they will play in japanese in AES mode, so no different than if you were playing the AES cart. and if you put that cart in a CMVS or a MVS cab that same cart would play in MVS mode in what ever language the bios chip region is. You can get a Universal Bios Chip installed in your AES so you can switch between AES and MVS mode and US/EU/JP region. When playing in MVS mode on the AES the select button adds coins, simple as that. Really suggest if you have an AES already just get a converter, it will cost you around $200-$300 but you will be able a ton more games on your AES for a much more affordable price than the AES versions.

[mjmjr25]

Really suggest if you have an AES already just get a converter, it will cost you around $200-$300 but you will be able a ton more games on your AES for a much more affordable price than the AES versions.

I don't disagree - but i'll say again, if you're going to spend $300 on a top-end MVS-->AES converter (that usually look stupid, and put extra strain on your board)...spend $200-600 and get a CMVS.

Also, not many, but there are some AES games that are now cheaper than their MVS counterparts. (Raguy, Magician Lord, Nam 75 and a few others)

[KalessinDB]

A shockingly stupid question perhaps, but I am curious.

MVS games are arcade games, right?

So say I play them on an AES w/ a MVS to AES Converter. How does one pump in the "quarters?"

(Still haven't made the leap to MVS yet... It's tempting but the initial price to get started is intimidating.)

If you play an MVS game on a straight, unmodified AES using a converter, it will play as though you were playing the home (AES) version of the game set to the region that your AES is. The game code is right in the cartridge for both arcade and home version, as well as all regions. That means you won't be pumping in quarters at all, because you'll be playing the home version that doesn't take quarters. It also means if you plug a US cart into a JP system, you'll be playing in Japanese.

If, however, you choose to have your AES modified with any of several aftermarket BIOSes (I, and probably most people, will recommend Razoola's UniBIOS), then you have the option of setting your machine to pretend to be either an MVS or an AES, your choice (as well as choice of region), and if you choose to set it in MVS mode, then the Select button on your controller will work as a credit button to pump in the virtual quarters. This also opens up the ability to manipulate the soft DIPs (because it thinks it's an arcade machine) as well as access a host of cheat codes built in to the BIOS, and some other stuff.

To be honest, I love my AES, but I only have about 3-4 of the cheaper AES games. I got a converter (I actually got the fabled Fusion converter, 6 months after it was supposed to be there) and haven't looked back, I now pick up relatively cheap MVS versions and just pretty them up a little bit with a neominibox.

I may eventually buy an MVS board to go with my supergun, or even a CMVS, but for now between my converter and my buddy's 2slot golden cab, we're covered.

[ninjainspandex]

Really suggest if you have an AES already just get a converter, it will cost you around $200-$300 but you will be able a ton more games on your AES for a much more affordable price than the AES versions.

I don't disagree - but i'll say again, if you're going to spend $300 on a top-end MVS-->AES converter (that usually look stupid, and put extra strain on your board)...spend $200-600 and get a CMVS.

Also, not many, but there are some AES games that are now cheaper than their MVS counterparts. (Raguy, Magician Lord, Nam 75 and a few others)

Right but I think Bonesnapdees has an AES already, and if you want to play both your AES games and the cheaper MVS games the converter would probably make the most sense for him

I heard about the debacle of the Fusion converter, what is the compatibilty on that one? What is currently the very best converter, sans DavidG