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pbj:
Yeah, so that’s Sharon Stone’s face shopped onto someone else’s body. And nobody has ever proven that ad is real.
:dunno
I spent some of Nephasth’s money on Samurai Shodown 2. That will let me compare a real cart to my bootleg and will settle the question of where the issue lies.
Also picked up Art of Fighting 2 pretty cheap. I’m treating it as a conversion candidate.
:cheers:
pbj:
Some of that sweet, sweet Genesis bootleg money well spent arrived today from Japan.
Samurai Shodown 2 on the legit cart has none of the graphical glitches present on my 161 in 1, so at least I know now that the console is good. It hilariously came with some neo geo cd version manual. I can’t read it anyway so whatever.
I did try my hand at a bootleg manual for Art of Fighting 2. Result was quaffable but far from transcendent.
KenToad:
I've often wondered what it would be like to invest in a Neo Geo system, as I've never seen one outside of a convention. This has been a great read. Thanks so much for sharing.
Are you going to get a replacement multicart?
pbj:
Nah, I'll just hang onto the one I have. Seller won't give me a return shipping label and spending $50 to return a $100 multicart feels like throwing good money after bad. Frankly, once you start facing the realities of AES cartridge costs, you'll be damn thankful that more than one game works correctly. As it stands, everything is playable but a good portion of the games have vertical lines in the graphics. In Crossed Swords, it's minor, and in the King of Fighters games it's really bad. Plus it works with the Unibios PickNMix so meh.
Before I bought one, I had only ever seen an AES in the wild twice. Once at Incredible Universe where I got to play Art of Fighting. They literally had the console and controllers bolted down to the shelf, and directly on the side of the TV. So you had to stand a foot away from the screen and twist sideways to play. It was the worst setup I've ever played.
Other time was at the Houston arcade show.
It's been hilarious to play through some of these games with the Unibios cheats. Legend of Success Joe may be the worst game I've ever played. The second to last boss is extremely difficult to beat even with infinite health and time. Samurai Shodown 2 has a cheat that lets you play as the final boss. I don't think it's possible otherwise.
:cheers:
Malenko:
--- Quote from: pbj on October 01, 2022, 09:39:08 am ---And nobody has ever proven that ad is real.
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The only neogeo ads I remember were one with a hotdog and one with a big dog barking at you or something.
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