Kizuna Japan AES - Conversion or not

andsuchisdeath

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I posted a little bit about this cart in the tech section. I didn't get much info, so I opened the cart. Is this a conversion, boot, or is this cart legit?













 

HeavyMachineGoob

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Looks pretty legit to me. The solder joints on the chips all share a similar consistency, with a few errors typical of SNK boards.
 

evil wasabi

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the damage to the cart sticker is disheartening, but I don't see anything suspicious with the board.

What made you think this could be a fake?
 

GohanX

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I'm no expert, but that looks like factory soldering to me.
 

andsuchisdeath

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the damage to the cart sticker is disheartening, but I don't see anything suspicious with the board.

What made you think this could be a fake?

Damage to the cart sticker? Where are you seeing this? There isn't any damage.

My suspicion about the cart's authenticity can be found in a thread that I had previously posted in the general tech section.
 
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evil wasabi

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looked like there was damage on the left side of the sticker from that pic.
 

andsuchisdeath

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looked like there was damage on the left side of the sticker from that pic.

Yeah, that's a shadow and from a different camera that I had used before I had opened the cart. The label is flawless, both then and now.
 
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Xian Xi

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Looks fine to me. Factory wave soldering. Good to go.

The glitches you asked about can happen to any Neo game real or fake. It time all Neo games will have some kind of glitch from something failing in the cart.
 
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