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HEY! C'MON C'MON: It's the Giga Powered Neo Geo Appreciation Thread
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What a scumbag.
Dude... he's telling you to go fuck yourself and he's not being subtle about it.
Reply by threatening him.
Ban Puncher
Member
Stop talking to this clown and start opening an eBay dispute case.
Thanks for the offer!
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How reliable are the AES stick and its kidney-shaped brother (the "Pro controller")? Like, can I just blindly buy one on evilbay and expect it to not be a piece of shit, or
DracoBlade
Member
No problem! Really, anytime!
Aside from cracked ball tops on the AES sticks, almost every stick I've bought on fleabay has been pretty close to perfection. Might need some light cleanup with armorall to remove and prevent inevitable scratches to the casing but that's only for looks. Function you should be fine, if anything it would have sticky buttons or at worst another decayed micro switch situation.
Personally I own a kidney bean controller too and find it comfortable but ultimately the controller I use the least. Friends love it however. Function and condition wise I'd say its even more reliable than the AES sticks on account of compact size and more "recent" parts. But I'd say go this route only if you want a cheap but reliable NG controller.
Aside from cracked ball tops on the AES sticks, almost every stick I've bought on fleabay has been pretty close to perfection. Might need some light cleanup with armorall to remove and prevent inevitable scratches to the casing but that's only for looks. Function you should be fine, if anything it would have sticky buttons or at worst another decayed micro switch situation.
Personally I own a kidney bean controller too and find it comfortable but ultimately the controller I use the least. Friends love it however. Function and condition wise I'd say its even more reliable than the AES sticks on account of compact size and more "recent" parts. But I'd say go this route only if you want a cheap but reliable NG controller.
I use the pro stick aka kidney shaped one as a main controller, and it seems pretty reliable. Used it for my NGCD and then onward after I sold it for the MVS. The NGCD pad is pretty good too, but I still want an original AES stick because it looks so good!
EDIT: Guy gave me a refund after I told him what was up. I'll be shipping it back this week. Sucks that you have to get like that with people sometimes, but its all good. Still want a copy, and at least I know what to look for.
EDIT: Guy gave me a refund after I told him what was up. I'll be shipping it back this week. Sucks that you have to get like that with people sometimes, but its all good. Still want a copy, and at least I know what to look for.
Glad to hear. I was looking through the seller's past sales and every now and then there's a bootleg sold. Most of the sales were legit carts though. I can't tell if the seller doesn't know, or doesn't care. Especially when buyers leave positive reviews on bootleg purchases.
cyborgnumberblue
Member
I got an AES stick in yesterday and compared to the Hori, it feels like a cheap toy. The Fighting Stick Neo is the best stick I've used for the console yet.
Good to hear that. I may pick one up.
But, the actual stick (not the buttons or the body) of the AES controller is kinda cool, and feels pretty unique. Definitely, that part of the controller feels good.
moltonasty
Member
The stock AES stick is pretty crappy IMO, but after some modding it's really quite nice.
Have mine modded with a Sanwa JLF and OBSF 24's, and it feels fantastic
Nice haul...they look mint! My copy of MS3 looks like it came out of a dumpster by comparison.
Have mine modded with a Sanwa JLF and OBSF 24's, and it feels fantastic
Nice haul...they look mint! My copy of MS3 looks like it came out of a dumpster by comparison.
DracoBlade
Member
Dammnit Peltz, how much?? I'll uh trade you my NGCD copy of MS1 for em....
Really though beautiful carts.
sixteen-bit
Member
awesome
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I'm jealous. I still only have MS1.
4 remains surprisingly affordable, you can still grab brand new full kits for around $60.
On the stick conversation, I have to say the bean style one is my favorite out of the stock SNK set. Feels really solid and comfortable. Even the buttons are better than you'd expect from pictures! Modded, I can only imagine. I have a JNX octo-gate on mine and absolutely love the thing.
I'd like to leave you with this picture I took of the lovely AES miniature toy. I'm still kind of buzzing on how beautifully detailed it is.
My thoughts exactly.
I got MS1 for like 80 ish bucks about a year ago?
MS2 and X were 80 a piece. MSMS3 was $120, and I just accidentally won a second copy in even better condition for 90.
FML. I've been misfiring with my retro purchases all over lately.
cyborgnumberblue
Member
If you get a cMVS, you can get a multicart with all the shitty hacked versions of MS 1-6, too!
sixteen-bit
Member
wow, how does MS6 look on MVS hardware?
cyborgnumberblue
Member
On my multicart, it's just a shitty hack of MS3, but 1-4 + X are all legit. No 5, though, I was mistaken.
The 138-in-1 includes 5 (and all the others).
It's not really MS6.
Anyway, it looks like due to my poor eBay skills, I will soon be the proud owner of two MS3 MVS carts.
I'd love for one of the two carts to go to a fellow Gaffer who is a big Metal Slug fan!
I'd be willing to part with it for less than I paid, but I vastly prefer to trade for it. The trade wouldn't need to be for equal value or anything, I just like the idea of doing business with a fellow enthusiast on this fine forum of ours. The trade also doesn't have to be for Neo Geo items only. I'm super open minded and easy to please.
Anyone interested should send me a PM
Edit:
I'd actually let MS3 go for it, but I don't have a NGCD :-(
Sorry bro.
cyborgnumberblue
Member
I got the 131-in-1, wonder what else I'm missing...
sixteen-bit
Member
isn't MS1 really valuable on NGCD? Maybe I'm thinking of MS2.
No idea.
They're both among the most expensive games for the CD, yes.
Which sucks. I'd like to own them because the "survival mode" where you have to finish the game on one life but get unlimited gun ammo looks really fun!
Congrats on the purchase. I bought my Garou MVS cart about 15 years ago, and it is still one of my most played games. Definitely a classic worth owning.
I did not get an answer from James using the form on his website, but I received a prompt response when I emailed him directly. He said he wasn't surprised Analogue Interactive wasn't being very helpful and agreed to take a look.
I just shipped out the CMVS to him and I'm hopeful he will be able to take care of the issues I'm having. He sounded pretty confident. Fingers crossed.
DracoBlade
Member
It's not really MS6.
Anyway, it looks like due to my poor eBay skills, I will soon be the proud owner of two MS3 MVS carts.
I'd love for one of the two carts to go to a fellow Gaffer who is a big Metal Slug fan!
I'd be willing to part with it for less than I paid, but I vastly prefer to trade for it. The trade wouldn't need to be for equal value or anything, I just like the idea of doing business with a fellow enthusiast on this fine forum of ours. The trade also doesn't have to be for Neo Geo items only. I'm super open minded and easy to please.
Anyone interested should send me a PM
Edit:
I'd actually let MS3 go for it, but I don't have a NGCD :-(
Sorry bro.
(((((I plan on getting a Supergun in the next two months plus a MVS motherboard so I'm starting to look into building a small library of necessary classics, Metal slugs of course on the list.
Yeah Metal Slug one goes for roughly 200$ on ebay but I would take trades for probably two Metal Slug titles or another good title. I love my NGCD but I really want an MVS now that I've more or less got most of the games reasonable for it (and would rather pick up the rest on MVS).
For real if anyone wants to trade in the future, lemme know! (Or if Peltz changes his mind lol)
moltonasty
Member
Day 36, still waiting on my Omega CMVS.
Twice I've been told it would ship "this week"
The first time I was told this was 12 days ago
Lol
Twice I've been told it would ship "this week"
The first time I was told this was 12 days ago
Lol
By the way, how did they port games to NEO GEO CD? Didn't the MVS/AES carts have extra chips in them to increase the capabilities of the system (like other cart based systems of the time)?
Other than waiting for load times, did the games play as well on the NGCD as they did on the cart-based hardware? I have never played a NGCD in my life.
Other than waiting for load times, did the games play as well on the NGCD as they did on the cart-based hardware? I have never played a NGCD in my life.
sixteen-bit
Member
I believe some games have compromises in animation due to memory constraints on the NGCD.
moltonasty
Member
I need to complete some sagas from aes but i'm not sure if I will be able to do it (financially)
One of my beloved games and consoles
U ballin son. Those MS carts alone are worth a few G's at least
cireza
Member
Having additional chips inside the cartridge was not so common. It was used a lot for the SNES, which was designed like this.
But the MegaDrive only has one single game with an additional chip (Virtua Racing). Otherwise, everything runs on stock hardware. Same for Master System, Game Gear.
I don't think that N64 used chips to enhance its games either. NES had a few ones, like Castlevania 3 for the sound.
No.
Some of the larger fighting games have background details cut or mirrored to help with loading times. Some fightans have missing frames of animation. Other games have different or missing voice clips and sound effects. A few games may sound different because of the difference in storage quality (Cyber-Lip is one game whose CD version has better-sounding music despite not being rearranged, because the CD version doesn't bother with the original version's dopey implementation of 3D surround sound, so the soundtrack is a lot more audible). This French page shows the games with noticeable differences
Overal though, NGCD games play identically to their catridge counterparts and look and sound identically took like 95% of the time. Beside the storage medium and increased RAM, the CD is the exact same hardware as the MVS and AES. Art of Fighting 3 and Last Bade 2 are the only games seriously compromised on CD.
IrishNinja
Member
ive heard issues with them on that end...god id still kill for an Omega. as it is, id love to somehow toss kevtris' FPGA thing (whenever it's done) into a similar shell somehow haha
DracoBlade
Member
Team NGCD represent. Though I'm planning on getting an MVS soon so idk if you'll let me stay in the club Glowsquid.
Last Blade 2 is still a fun game on the system and the only port that has the arranged traxs (Ps4 has arcade OST, ps2 compilation is just too janky in general, do not buy ever) these games are SNK's sound teams height of music so unless you have the CD version as well as a cart (for those loadtimes) I honestly don't think its a complete experience.
Depending on where, all of those combined can fetch 10K easily.
The value of the AES slugs have skyrocketed in the last few years and even 4 which is the least valuable of slugs still command higher prices than the majority of other AES titles.
Just insane really.
moltonasty
Member
So I decided to cancel my online Omega order and picked it up at Videogames New York..last one in stock so guess I lucked out. The shipping time was just too much to handle.
It's so good.
I seriously regret not buying AES games back in the day. I could've been a millionaire right now selling them off.
It's so good.
I seriously regret not buying AES games back in the day. I could've been a millionaire right now selling them off.
cyborgnumberblue
Member
Did the one at VGNY come with the SCART cable?
I don't think people at that store have ever even heard of SCART.
moltonasty
Member
Lol yeah..i asked about the scart cable, and he said something about this being the US and no one outside of Europe uses it..i tried explaining how it's preferable but he said it just doesn't make sense for them to carry it. I've become so accostumed to using scart I forgot most Americans have never even seen one.
Not only have most Americans not heard of SCART, a significant portion of retro-gamers haven't heard of it either in the US. It's pretty crazy when you think about it.
DracoBlade
Member
So I decided to cancel my online Omega order and picked it up at Videogames New York..last one in stock so guess I lucked out. The shipping time was just too much to handle.
It's so good.
I seriously regret not buying AES games back in the day. I could've been a millionaire right now selling them off.
That looks gorgeous ugh, so tempted to get a Omega, but now I'm more into the idea of a supergun setup. Even if aesthetically its not very pretty to have an exposed motherboard nor economic space wise, its cheaper initially (and a helluva lot more temperamental apparently)
Also loving that spicy gamecube.
cyborgnumberblue
Member
YES, indeed I do!
Southtown Homebrew.
I used them for all my MVS games. They cut the inserts and provide the shockboxes (in a variety of color combinations, I may add).
They do all sorts of other stuff, too. Excited to have a reason to pimp them out, finally!
Southtown Homebrew.
I used them for all my MVS games. They cut the inserts and provide the shockboxes (in a variety of color combinations, I may add).
They do all sorts of other stuff, too. Excited to have a reason to pimp them out, finally!
moltonasty
Member
If you plan on playing arcade formats besides MVS then supergun is the way to go of course, but since I mainly want to play MVS carts I thought Omega would be a solid choice. And so far I have nothing but praise for it, love this thing!
Oh and the spicy cube is just a shell I got off ebay to replace my busted up black shell
always loved that color, I don't get why they never released it in the US..