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Is the Neo Geo worth getting?
segamer:
--- Quote from: TDIRunner on December 01, 2014, 09:50:16 AM ---Very interesting discussion. I'm enjoying sitting in the background quietly reading this. But I'm still not quite following what the supergun is.
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95% of arcade units use a standard connector called Jamma. It's a harness that lets you swap out arcade PCB's. A supergun lets you play arcade PCBs on your TV. It looks like this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperGun-Arcade-JAMMA-PCB-Neo-Geo-PGM-Atomiswave-Capcom-Konami-Sega-Cave-NEW-/390959922545?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5b0706fd71
TDIRunner:
That's helpfull. Thank you.
So it's not some type of Neo Geo light gun. :P
marioxb:
I know a bit about arcades and Neo Geo, so it makes sense to me. But I'm reading this, pretending I don't know what it all is. You guys are throwing out a lot of words that "average Joe" wouldn't know. So here we go for dummies, and of course I mean nothing by that:
MVS (Multi Video System): The board you would find inside of a Neo Geo arcade cabinet. Just bare circuitry, much like a PC motherboard. They come in 1, 2, 4 or six slot variations, meaning how many cartridges can fit in at once, using buttons on the cabinet to switch between them.
AES (Advanced Entertainment System): Home version of the above, basically the pcb in a console shell, though the pinout was changed on these (think NES vs Famicom), so you couldn't play AES on MVS or vice versa. Originality came with joysticks rather than controllers, though controllers were made later.
Jamma: arcade board pinout since about 1987 or so. Meaning arcade boards with these pinouts can be interchangeable, more or less. Jamma supports mono sound and 3 buttons and a joystick and start button per 2 players. If the game requires more than this, they are typically wired directly to the board (4 players, stereo sound, more buttons, etc)
Supergun: a device that connects to a TV and accepts jamma boards so you can play them as you would console games, I think using neo geo controllers/ joysticks. Typically these are "naked" meaning all of the circuitry/pcbs are exposed with no shell over them. You can make your own pladtic/ wood/ whatever shell if you like, or get something pre made.
Neo Geo AES and MVS games are HUGE. About the size of the Wii system or a VHS tape. The home games are rounded, "prettier" for home consumers with boxes and artwork on the labels. The arcade carts are more square, with simply a VHS like label on the spine.
TDIRunner:
Aren't you reversing AES and MVS? Shouldn't AES be the home version and MVS the actual arcade unit?
I'm pretty sure AES stood for Advanced Entertainment System.
marioxb:
Yes. Oopsie. Fixed.