THE FUTURE OF SNK RELEASED & THE END OF PIRACY AND ROMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

December 10th, 2001 - The MadMan's Café has posted a translation of an article from overseas site Game Chosun, stating that SNK will be revived under the name "SNK NEOGEO" and that an "SNK NEOGEO KOREA" collaboration with Mega Enterprises is forming. We have no confirmation, so take this as it is.

Taken from www.eventgaming.com

[ December 10, 2001: Message edited by: Mike ]

Taken from MMcafe:

According to Korean Game news site Game Chosun's article from 12/4, SNK is scheduled to revive under the name of "SNK NEOGEO", with a new company structure.

Game Chosun reports that a Japanese Pachinko company "Playmore"(roughly translated name) had acquired all of SNK's Intellectual properties in 11/30. Playmore schedules to continue succeeding SNK from 2002, under under the new company name of "SNK NEOGEO".

Game Chousun also reports that Playmore has announced its contract with Mega Enterprise on 12/4 to collaborate on creating SNK NEOGEO KOREA. SNK NeoGeo Korea is scheduled to operate as the international base for Neo Geo related business and manufacture lines. SNK NeoGeo Korea's representative seat will temporarily be taken by Mega Enterprise's president, Sang Min Lee. Currently underway to securing copyrights, SNK NeoGeo Korea is scheduled to release its business plans in January.

Due to the flood of illegal products and companies illigitimately claiming to hold SNK product rights while SNK was under their temporary seizure, control over piracy will be taken. With the new Structure of SNK, PC emulator games/ROMs and game boards not released with permission through SNK NeoGeo Korea will be determined as illegal. Illegal products/boards can be easily be determined in the future, as legitimate products in the (Korean?) market will now hold the logo of "SNK NEOGEO KOREA".

For the full article in Hangeul, check Game Chosun.

Special thanks to SpekSNK, Toxico, Rune Kazama for notifying on the article.


Short Comment- It's always safe to be on the precautious side when reading news that's hard to confirm, but I posted this news since Game Chosun is know to be the first to report on KOF2002 to be developed by Eolith before any Japanese magazine realized, and they were the media who posted the last bosses' image from KOF2001 before the game was released. Also, please notice that "Playmore" is probably not be the correct spelling. I'm trying to find info on the company, but without much success. In any case, if this news holds true, I'm assuming that "SNK NeoGeo" will be a subsidiary of Playmore. -H. Moriarty

Here's hoping for the best.

[ December 10, 2001: Message edited by: SNK4EVER ]

wowzers!

wow.

Unexpected.

I am very happy. <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

If what you said is right, it's the new of the millenium.

This was my favorite part!

Due to the flood of illegal products and companies illigitimately claiming to hold SNK product rights while SNK was under their temporary seizure, control over piracy will be taken. With the new Structure of SNK, PC emulator games/ROMs and game boards not released with permission through SNK NeoGeo Korea will be determined as illegal. Illegal products/boards can be easily be determined in the future, as legitimate products in the (Korean?) market will now hold the logo of "SNK NEOGEO KOREA".

WOW great news... hope this holds true! <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

SHIT HAPPENS
if this is true......oh man absolutely
GREAT!!!

please be true,please be true,please be true,please be true,please be true,please be true.........

So we'll see lots people in trouble, especially Dion <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">

Is that why they flight to Japan to "aquire" rights ? <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[ December 10, 2001: Message edited by: Liquid Snake ]

I was hoping this would have been said:

"The American team of Dion Dakis and Chris Ray will subsequently be dragged from their cars and beaten in front of a live tv crew"

Indeed.

What can it mean for NGF?

Originally posted by Bobak:
<STRONG>This was my favorite part!

Due to the flood of illegal products and companies illigitimately claiming to hold SNK product rights while SNK was under their temporary seizure, control over piracy will be taken. With the new Structure of SNK, PC emulator games/ROMs and game boards not released with permission through SNK NeoGeo Korea will be determined as illegal. Illegal products/boards can be easily be determined in the future, as legitimate products in the (Korean?) market will now hold the logo of "SNK NEOGEO KOREA".</STRONG>

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I hope this is true Too (SNK+ Piracy).
What would be interesting is to know where all the SNK'sprogrammers are nowadays!!!
Because if this Compagny is totaly Different from SNK then only the name would be nearly the same...without what is magic...
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Originally posted by Rade Kuruc:
<STRONG>I was hoping this would have been said:

"The American team of Dion Dakis and Chris Ray will subsequently be dragged from their cars and beaten in front of a live tv crew"</STRONG>

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lol! <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

Scalpeur: yeah thats true... hope at least a few of SNK's programmers are going to be working there <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">

I hate to say this because I love !Arcade! and the things that they have done for the community but....

I think that this statement might be directed towards them and others:

"Illegal products/boards can be easily be determined in the future, as legitimate products in the (Korean?) market will now hold the logo of 'SNK NEOGEO KOREA'."

Not the logo of !Arcade! Solutions... <IMG SRC="smilies/ohno.gif" border="0">

[ December 10, 2001: Message edited by: Mike ]

"Due to the flood of illegal products and companies illigitimately claiming to hold SNK product rights while SNK was under their temporary seizure, control over piracy will be taken."

Oooh!

Now that has Sig potential!

Forgive me lack of tact, but fuck NGF. Fuck it! I hate Dion and Chris, and it's about time they get what the deserve.

Yippee! Today is just a good news sort of day.

Spike

great

great

just great

but scalpeur,
im with yer about what you said

BUT

brezzasoft IS involved somehow

and

BREZZASOFT = SNK

so............

Originally posted by Fran:
<STRONG>great

great

just great

but scalpeur,
im with yer about what you said

BUT

brezzasoft IS involved somehow

and

BREZZASOFT = SNK

so............</STRONG>

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Hope yer right <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

Hmmmm ... is this really that great news? SNK under control of a pachinko company ... does this sound familiar to anyone? And everyone knows what happened the first time. <IMG SRC="smilies/spock.gif" border="0">

Well, hopefully they aren't devil spawn like Aruze <IMG SRC="smilies/makeface.gif" border="0">

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this time they will focus on neogeo hard and software!
i've read on a news side the old snk programmers
are allready employes of snk neo geo now

when this all mean there will be new releases like
last blade 3 this will truely be a new age...

Originally posted by Kyokugen Star:
<STRONG>Hmmmm ... is this really that great news? SNK under control of a pachinko company ... does this sound familiar to anyone? And everyone knows what happened the first time. <IMG SRC="smilies/spock.gif" border="0"></STRONG>

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Would you happen to be talking about SEGA? Sega started out as a pachinko or pinball company... can't remember which...

Hmm. I read that yesterday on speksnk (Spain's #1 *emulation* site) and I didn't believe it either...

this is all good news indeed

Tis a good day...

*imagines the newly revived SNK setting up market back in the states and elimintating the threat of NGF*

Tis a good day indeed...