MVS Manuals?

[RumbleBumble]

It is possible to get a consolized MVS, shock boxes for the MVS cartridges and inserts for the shock boxes, does anyone know of anyone having ever produced manuals that could go along with these?

 

[Heinz]

I will assume here that you do not refer to dip sheets or move lists that are included with MVS kits. I think there's plenty of bootleg manuals around though you might be told they're original.

 

[Neodogg]

Could use CD manuals, butwould limit some games

 

[tacoguy]

Couldn't you just print some nice AES manuals and call it good?
There's probably people out there that do that.

 

[Kid Panda]

There's instructions at the beginning of every game. Why do you need a printed manual? Sounds to me like you want AES.

 

[ggallegos1]

Sounds like you want your MVS to look like AES. Just get some repro move strips or mini marquees and call it a day. You have an arcade game system, not a home console.

 

[RumbleBumble]

Sounds like you want your MVS to look like AES. Just get some repro move strips or mini marquees and call it a day. You have an arcade game system, not a home console.

That's kind of what I mean. Does anyone know of anyone who specialises in this sort of thing or is this just something you should head to ebay for?

 

[RumbleBumble]

There's instructions at the beginning of every game. Why do you need a printed manual? Sounds to me like you want AES.

Well, I take your point, but you could kind of say that with regard to shock boxes + inserts too.

 

[RumbleBumble]

Couldn't you just print some nice AES manuals and call it good?
There's probably people out there that do that.

Yeah, I was considering that as well. It's the sort of thing you'd expect to find at southtown but they don't do it... yet.

 

[RumbleBumble]

I will assume here that you do not refer to dip sheets or move lists that are included with MVS kits. I think there's plenty of bootleg manuals around though you might be told they're original.

This would solve the problem. Long as they're cheap

 

[RumbleBumble]

Could use CD manuals, butwould limit some games

Well, there's certainly a load of possibilities come up here. CD manuals, as you say, are a possible solution to an extent. Probably a mixed approach is the answer. I do wonder though whether southtown or someone similar will start offering these as some point in the future.

 

[Niko]

That's kind of what I mean. Does anyone know of anyone who specialises in this sort of thing or is this just something you should head to ebay for?

Well, I take your point, but you could kind of say that with regard to shock boxes + inserts too.

Yeah, I was considering that as well. It's the sort of thing you'd expect to find at southtown but they don't do it... yet.

This would solve the problem. Long as they're cheap

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[RumbleBumble]

Yo, check out that "Quote+" icon in the lower right corner of every post.

Awesome. What will they think of next?

Of course, my individually wrapped approach does demonstrate my undoubtedly thoughtful nature... and the fact that I am technologically backward.

 

[wyndcrosser]

If you look on the archive, you can see that some people started doing MVS manuals.
https://archive.org/details/neogeomanuals

I was going to do some that would fit inside the mvs shockbox, but there wasn't much of a demand for it, so I just did one for Magician Lord for myself. It's fine, but in reality it's not an AES and I made it myself, so who the "f" cares, right?

 

[RumbleBumble]

If you look on the archive, you can see that some people started doing MVS manuals.
https://archive.org/details/neogeomanuals

I was going to do some that would fit inside the mvs shockbox, but there wasn't much of a demand for it, so I just did one for Magician Lord for myself. It's fine, but in reality it's not an AES and I made it myself, so who the "f" cares, right?

I dunno, I think there's going to be a growing demand for it. Increasing numbers of people are going down the consolized MVS route and many of them then want shock boxes with the inserts and then maybe they then want a manual too. It's true it's not AES but I think that this is a consequence of people getting consolized machines - if it looks like a console, plays like a console then in the end maybe people want most of the stuff that comes with it to be the same or similar to what you would normally expect to come with a console. So maybe the demand will increase from what it was originally when you did the Magician Lord for yourself. I know I'd be interested if you were willing to make MVS shockbox sized manuals. In fact, I'm willing to be your first customer. I'm sure there'll be more in time.

 

[JoeAwesome]

Well, I take your point, but you could kind of say that with regard to shock boxes + inserts too.

This. I get manuals take it a step further, but both lead to making an MVS game look more like an AES game, aesthetically.

 

[Mugicha]

from wiki:

To put "lipstick on a pig" is a rhetorical expression, used to convey the message that making superficial or cosmetic changes is a futile attempt to disguise the true nature of a product.

my advice, enjoy it for what it is, an Arcade Game.

 

[Fritz]

If you are spending more time fussing with shockboxes, inserts, manuals and arranging your mvs collection next to your NES and Super Nintendo collections on your shelf than playing the games, you are doing it wrong.

And people here wonder why neo games are shooting up in price.

 

[RumbleBumble]

This. I get manuals take it a step further, but both lead to making an MVS game look more like an AES game, aesthetically.

I definitely wouldn't argue with that. I think though that the same impulse that's leading to people getting shock boxes plus inserts is going to lead many of them towards manuals as well.

from wiki:



my advice, enjoy it for what it is, an Arcade Game.

Well, I take your point but, once you've consolized it, how much more of an Arcade Game is it than an AES? If you have a cabinet that's one thing, but once you consolize it's easy to end up heading down this road - not trying to make it into an AES but rather carrying through the consolized MVS thing all the way.

 

[lions3]

If you look on the archive, you can see that some people started doing MVS manuals.
https://archive.org/details/neogeomanuals

I was going to do some that would fit inside the mvs shockbox, but there wasn't much of a demand for it, so I just did one for Magician Lord for myself. It's fine, but in reality it's not an AES and I made it myself, so who the "f" cares, right?

those are just the AES manuals scanned.

Just looked at the JP Samurai Spirit 2 manual they list... it's actually the manual for the first AES game.

 

[Mugicha]

Well, I take your point but, once you've consolized it, how much more of an Arcade Game is it than an AES? If you have a cabinet that's one thing, but once you consolize it's easy to end up heading down this road - not trying to make it into an AES but rather carrying through the consolized MVS thing all the way.

It's always an arcade game, in that it was never meant for home consumerism hence the lack of art, manual and whatnot. Whether you play it on a tv, or a cab MVS will always be an arcade format.

 

[mastamuzz]

People don't share manuals or artwork for neo geo, everyone haves their reasons, I guess you don't have many options and not to many people interested cause as many have stated already is all about the game and all you need to know the game already haves a built in how to before you start playing, unless you skip it all the time that's all you need to know to enjoy the game, special moves and powers were supposed to be on the move strip some of them and the rest you find them yourself, but in this day and age you have the power of the Internet so be creative and if you are decided make your own don't leech from other people.

 

[BanishingFlatsAC]

Instructions for mvs games. This fucking hobby...

 

[RumbleBumble]

If you are spending more time fussing with shockboxes, inserts, manuals and arranging your mvs collection next to your NES and Super Nintendo collections on your shelf than playing the games, you are doing it wrong.

And people here wonder why neo games are shooting up in price.

Wow, I can't believe you're forcing me to lower the tone of the forum by quoting Emily Dickinson - "the heart wants what it wants - or else it doesn't care". I think that's what it's all about. I mean I take your point but if it really was just about playing the games, no-one would care about the condition of the labels, whether the box was cracked, whether they've managed to collect every single game no matter how obscure and unplayable it might be. And it is this type of madness, I agree, that is why neo games are shooting up in price.

It's always an arcade game, in that it was never meant for home consumerism hence the lack of art, manual and whatnot. Whether you play it on a tv, or a cab MVS will always be an arcade format.

I wouldn't argue with you there. You're completely right. I just think when we get into consolizing these things then a whole new set of interests and products are likely to grow up around more or less consolizing everything t do with them.

People don't share manuals or artwork for neo geo, everyone haves their reasons, I guess you don't have many options and not to many people interested cause as many have stated already is all about the game and all you need to know the game already haves a built in how to before you start playing, unless you skip it all the time that's all you need to know to enjoy the game, special moves and powers were supposed to be on the move strip some of them and the rest you find them yourself, but in this day and age you have the power of the Internet so be creative and if you are decided make your own don't leech from other people.

Yeah, I guess that's an option. Still, if someone was willing to make MVS manuals, I'd be willing to buy them. So would, I suspect, most of the people going to southtown to buy shock boxes and inserts.

Instructions for mvs games. This fucking hobby...

I don't think anyone could put it better.

 

[JoeAwesome]

I definitely wouldn't argue with that. I think though that the same impulse that's leading to people getting shock boxes plus inserts is going to lead many of them towards manuals as well.

Don't get me wrong, though. Shock boxes I can appreciate because it's doing something else besides displaying the cart (protecting it), but manuals I put on equal footing as MVS games in AES style shells- missing the point.