Interesting new MVS flyer

lithy

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I'd love to have this booklet, anyone have one they could sell me?

Things I notice.

The carts like you mention.

The dimensions for a 19" dedicated 4 slot are given.

The mobo is different looking.

The generic MVS mini is different.

The memory card area is different.

The Right Player/Left Player is painted much smaller as well as it seems the SNK on the side panel.

Also appears that they used the 1 person/2 person buttons for the 1P/2P start buttons.
 
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Crazy, I wonder if the picture of the board is a drawing or model.
 
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lithy said:
I'd love to have this booklet, anyone have one they could sell me?

Things I notice.

The carts like you mention.

The dimensions for a 19" dedicated 4 slot are given.

The mobo is different looking.

The generic MVS mini is different.

The memory card area is different.

The Right Player/Left Player is painted much smaller as well as it seems the SNK on the side panel.

Also appears that they used the 1 person/2 person buttons for the 1P/2P start buttons.
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why do the carts look like AES carts and has anyone seen a black MVS mini before
 
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Cool - thanx for the pix man.

It's an interesting bit of history - looks like a very early version of an MVS flyer, which was maybe passed out to arcade ops to whet their apetites.

The carts in the pic look exactly like AES carts. Maybe they planned to originally use the AES carts in both the arcade and home market?
 
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Man that's cool ..

That cab is super mint to in that pick.. :drool:

I would have love to be able to buy one of these cabs Brand New...

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kernow

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nice pic thanks a bunch

anyone notice how it says it can address 64MB of game ROM?

thats over 330 megabits already.. interesting.
 
ttooddddyy

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kernow said:
nice pic thanks a bunch

anyone notice how it says it can address 64MB of game ROM?

thats over 330 megabits already.. interesting.
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Yes I noticed that Kern, this is a very early flyer (looking at the cart case design, almost just post proto stage) Any title before 1992 is less than 64 Meg. Perhaps SNK only realised the potential after that era ?
 
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I'm thinking they just needed to put a limit on

you think , they had nam / magician lord in < 50mbits or whatever. and then they look at the theoretical limit and go "330mbits? no chance we'll reach that soon, and set a number"


where we all know they knew it could do more even before that 330 was painted on, possibly they didn't who knows.
 
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I think that perhaps SNK suddenly realised that to keep up with, or in front of the competition (mainly on the home system front) they had to re-assess the actual technical specifications, in some cases even exagerate them, like the bullshit 24 bit system claims you see on later flyers.

imho it was just a case of marketing- smoke and mirrors. Also the cost of larger capacity mask roms in 1989 (when the first generation of games for the system were being developed) may have been a contibuting factor ?, as the price came down the meg count went up, and developers had more to play with. No pun intended.
 
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