Can someone please help me on this MVS question?

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Raptor352

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Im going to get a Neo Geo MVS in 2 days but I keep hearing about this bio chip. I know you do not have to install it but it gives you all the features that the AES games have. What I want to know is it that hard to install one if you never did anything like this before? Also does a US MVS have those memory card slots where you can save the data you did or is that only in Japan. Thanks for the help everyone
 
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Well, depends on the board you're getting.

99% of MVS board have a socketed bios chip. Meaning it's not permanently soldered in.

All you gotta do is carefully pop it out with a flat head screwdriver and pop the new one in.
 
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The MV-1C is the only mobo with a soldered bios. However the problem with that is that it's a SOIC, i.e. a totally different type of chip, meaning that even if you managed to desolder it you couldn't solder the unibios in its place...
 
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Originally posted by MKL:
<strong>The MV-1C is the only mobo with a soldered bios. However the problem with that is that it's a SOIC, i.e. a totally different type of chip, meaning that even if you managed to desolder it you couldn't solder the unibios in its place...</strong><hr></blockquote>

hmmm, are you 100% sure its a different chip? I need to know because I'll need to update my universe bios instructions if it is. I though that on a MV-1C it was the same type chip (same pinout as 27c1024) but simply soldered to the pcb.

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Originally posted by Razoola:
<strong>hmmm, are you 100% sure its a different chip? I need to know because I'll need to update my universe bios instructions if it is. I though that on a MV-1C it was the same type chip (same pinout as 27c1024) but simply soldered to the pcb.
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Yeah, the bios on a 1C is stored in a different type of chip...Tiptonium confirmed this here:
<a href="http://www.neo-geo.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=003569" target="_blank">http://www.neo-geo.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=003569</a>
See also the link inside, where I compared the solder side of a 1C with that of a 1A...
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