The 161-1 cart is very, very picky with power. If it's not given enough, it will freak out and give you random reboots, errors, and sound distortion. Having the cart run solo on an MVS board gives all of the power to the cart and it generally works fine.
From my experience, I had a power supply in my big red that was starting to not perform as it should, and the 161-1 cart did all of the above, especially if there were more carts installed. After I got a fresh, new power supply, the cart worked perfectly, and continues to do so even with my remaining three cart slots being full.
This doesn't necessarily mean that your power supply is faulty, but since it's a CMVS it may not have as robust a PSU as a standard arcade setup might have.
I did. It was too tight before sanding and required effort to insert. After sanding a hair off both sides it fits perfectly.Finally, I saw mentioned somewhere that the edges of the connector on the 161/1 is slightly too large, so some people have been filing like 1mm of the edges. Anyone else here do this?
Interesting, I have had some issues with my 4 slot, might try to adjust the +5 next time I try it.
With that said I don't actuallly play the 161/1 that much, so it's not in my 4 slot, I'm happy cycling through the 4 other games I have on MVS (Tecmo '96, Puzzle Bobble, Slug 2 and Real Bout).
Finally, I saw mentioned somewhere that the edges of the connector on the 161/1 is slightly too large, so some people have been filing like 1mm of the edges. Anyone else here do this?
The multicart Jamma boxes are running really old versions of MAME to emulate the games though. Something to keep in mind if you go that route. They're also a lot cheaper at aliexpress (here's the same board you linked to for $81/shipped).http://www.hollandcomputers.com/store/pc/Jamma-619-in-1-PCB-Classic-Horizontal-Arcade-Multigame-Icade-Game-Board-p10514.htm
Not a multi-cart, but I recently thought about buying the Neo Geo to Jamma adapter and buying a multi-cade PCB (and maybe pick up a couple genuine PCBs of games I really like), and I came across this board that has a lot of great Neo Games that are only on certain multi-carts or not on multi-carts at all, like Sengoku 2, Windjammers, NITD, etc.
The multicart Jamma boxes are running really old versions of MAME to emulate the games though. Something to keep in mind if you go that route. They're also a lot cheaper at aliexpress (here's the same board you linked to for $81/shipped).
I've got a Pandora Box 3 coming in the mail soon and I'm eager to see how it plays. I've been watching a lot of this guy's youtube playthroughs and so far it looks pretty promising. On a related note it looks like JammaBoards.com has switched to carrying the Pandora's and dropped selling of the Blue Elfs, Game King & Happy Fish boards because of poor performance. Oh and SmokeMonster is right, check AliExpress for way better deals. I picked up a 520-1 Pandora Box 3 for $69.00
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-...rsion-Just-Another-Pandora-s/32272577041.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eFWDiitOpI
except for Ganryu, Pulstar, SVC Chaos, and NITD...why does everyone use these crappy bootleg carts? the real mvs carts don't cost much these days.
My Pandora 520-1 arrived today. Testing starts tonight.
OK, i have a 161 in 1 cart. The problem i'm having is i keep getting error messages like illegal instruction or address error. It happens on most games. I typically make it happen on Metal Slug 2 within a minute. Though my son and i played king of monsters for an hour and didn't have a problem. I have 2 MV-1 boards but i only have 1 cab to test them in (i want to consolize one of them eventually). I have unibios 3.1 in both of them, though i had the same basic problem when i had the stock bios in. The stock bios would just reset the cart, but the unibios shows me the error message. When i had MS2 up i tested the voltage and my power supply is giving off over 5v. I guess i'm just wanting to know if my problem is the cart, my power supply, or my boards. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Links to pictures of errors:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/quhlwlbhp3raj4d/AADfB7IvMUK1aKnew-cl6NCpa