MVS to AES Conversions
- Thread starter Xian Xi
- Start date
Dr. Jigglin
Seasoned Expert
20 Year Member
10 Year Member
15 Year Member
1 Year Member
25 Year Member
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2005
- Posts
- 25,451
Xian Xi said:
Swapping the rom chips from the MVS boards to an AES board.
Dr. Jigglin
Seasoned Expert
20 Year Member
10 Year Member
15 Year Member
1 Year Member
25 Year Member
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2005
- Posts
- 25,451
daybona said:It involves killing a home cart
And an MVS cart
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2002
- Posts
- 3,436
lachlan said:
There is a lot more than that involved.
Dr. Jigglin
Seasoned Expert
20 Year Member
10 Year Member
15 Year Member
1 Year Member
25 Year Member
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2005
- Posts
- 25,451
Superfamifreak said:
I know but I'm not the person to tell someone everything on how to do something when I don't know myself.
I was just saying what i've heard so many times before.
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2002
- Posts
- 3,436
daybona said:It involves killing a home cart
That only depends if you know how to convert the sacced AES cart into an MVS cart.
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2002
- Posts
- 3,436
Tron 2.0 said:
1+
Not always a bad thing. I brought 4 Fatal Fury 3, 1 Samurai 3 & 7 Samurai 2 MVS carts into this world as a result of my conversions.
Amano Jacu
Charles Barkley
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2001
- Posts
- 8,594
Superfamifreak said:
Corrected
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2002
- Posts
- 3,436
Amano Jacu said:Corrected
The thing is, without taking the shell off, you can't even tell they used to be AES carts
Personally if there is nothing gone to waste, then I don't see the problem with it. Besides, if you keep all the original boards it's easy to restore them.
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2002
- Posts
- 3,436
kernow said:and then impossible to sell them
no-one wants to buy resoldered games as a result of someones experiments in making rare conversions to make money off
1. All my conversions were for my personal collection.
2. When I went MVS I decided to sell off all my AES carts and didn't make profit on ANY of them.
Gummy Bear
Windjammers Wonder
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2004
- Posts
- 1,387
kernow said:and then impossible to sell them
no-one wants to buy resoldered games as a result of someones experiments in making rare conversions to make money off
I second that. (or third that, or whatever)
Doesn't stop people from selling them though......
El Capitan
Mai's Apprentice
- Joined
- May 19, 2004
- Posts
- 1,811
Well I don't really understand the above comments - a few months back there were loads of conversions on ebay uk - mainly Kizuna, Slug1 and Puzzle Bobble - they were all selling, and all for a profit over the cost of the materials.
p.s. for the record I don't own any converted carts.
p.s. for the record I don't own any converted carts.
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2002
- Posts
- 3,436
El Capitan said:
As long as there is the demand, they will sell.
When I sold all my conversions, I didn't make any profit on them at all. Actually I sold them all at a loss. Not everyone is into the dark arts for the money.
Gummy Bear
Windjammers Wonder
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2004
- Posts
- 1,387
Magnaflux said:
Haha!
RARE METAL SLUG!!!!!*
*Label slightly "damaged"......
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2005
- Posts
- 23,753
Superfamifreak said:
Same here. When I got into MVS, I sold all of my AES carts and conversions. I ended up selling all of the conversions at a loss. It cost me about $110 to make Waku Waku 7, and I sold it for something like $90. Ninja masters cost me about $75 to make and I sold it for $50 or thereabouts. I had no intention of making profit on the conversions, I just wanted to play those games without spending a small fortune.
- Joined
- Dec 1, 2005
- Posts
- 27,762
Reason I ask is because I am getting scared that one day I am gonna demolish my P-1 and cant play my MOTW anymore, I also have 2 Fatal Fury carts so I dont mind hacking one especially since one has no sticker. Can anyone point me to where there is a tutorial on how to do this?
pellucidity
Rugal's Thug
- Joined
- Dec 26, 2005
- Posts
- 94
Xian Xi said:
Those that know don't really approve, so there's never been a "Beginner's Guide to Converting Carts" that I've seen. One thing I can say is that I'm pretty sure you can't use a Fatal Fury board for such a big game. I don't pretend to know the details, but I do know that Fatal Fury 3 is an important tool in making conversions - it's the most common game that can do the larger cards. But once you get to protected games you may need KOF'99. I dunno. Some games need you to destroy two carts, Like !Arcade!'s run of Strikers 1945+ ...
El Capitan
Mai's Apprentice
- Joined
- May 19, 2004
- Posts
- 1,811
tiptonium's website?
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2002
- Posts
- 3,436
pellucidity said:
Fatal Fury can't be used in a conversion.
The 3 most common 'sac' carts are FF3, SS2 & SS3. Although Kof96 & RBFF use the same boards as FF3 & SS3, they are less commonly used as they are not so cheap.
Most encrypted carts can be done with a Sengoku 3, else you have to use a KoF99 AND another cart.
MOTW isn't really economically viable to convert.
Also, Metal Slug 3 is impossible to do as it uses a unique board set. The only reason to convert one would be if a MS3 AES had a corrupted ROM on it.
Murray
Akari's Big Brother
- Joined
- Aug 16, 2005
- Posts
- 2,533
Something I've always wondered about is the way people talk about "losing" a cart in the process. Theoretically, if you had a conversion that only needed 1 AES and 1 MVS cart, couldn't you just put the old AES roms onto the MVS boards and still end up with two working carts?
Is there something different about the AES roms that make them unusable on the MVS boards?
Is there something different about the AES roms that make them unusable on the MVS boards?