MySoberCompanion
Formerly the Drunk, known as Tyrandom.,
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Probably my homecarts will survive me: at least I hope to last more than my floppies :P
SNK put the Neo Geo logo stickers on all of the fixed carts.
I dunno if there is a reason but I notice that there has been very little AES games for sales lately. Is there any reason or?
I dunno if there is a reason but I notice that there has been very little AES games for sales lately. Is there any reason or?
Don't fucking listen to them people, they're just winding you up. Think about it, Nam '75 is 39 years old now and still works perfectly.
P.s. 75 > 76
Haha, I'll flip this around completely non-sarcastic this time: For everyone worrying about these games dying, yeah... They will, but who knows when it will be. Could be tomorrow, could be in forty years. Play the fucking things and don't worry about it so much. Yes, there is a chip in Metal Slug X that honest to goodness dies a little every time you play it. There's also a fix you can do on dead Metal Slug X carts to completely remove the stupid chip, burn one EEPROM and basically fix the things good as new. So... Who cares.
I think over time the carts are going to be a bit more spaghetti or EPROM laden, but that's the same thing that's happened to many of our older games, or Phoenixed CPS2 carts, or whatever. Who cares? It's the game that's important and those, thanks to MAME and the other ROM dumps, will be around forever and ready to put on whatever ROM chip, flash cart, or splurg-cube of the future.
So don't worry about it so much. These things were meant to be played and enjoyed. Play 'em, kill 'em, revive 'em, whatever. I really hope people aren't just building vaults to store these games in, hoping they'll live forever... Because the sad irony is... They are just as likely to die on the shelf as components dry out and rot. At least play the fucking things
Can you tell me more about Metal slug X chip? It's my first time to hear something like this..................
MVS or AES cart?
Thanks, Shadowkn55!!!
Guess I'll not buy Metal Slug X cart (either AES or MVS) at all.....................
If you have a Slug X for AES, chances are blowing $30 on a loose KOF 95 for its PROGBK1 board isn't going to break the bank.
The chip is badly designed, could also be from low quality power or weakening DC filtering on MVS boards where most Metal Slug X failures are reported too. All Metal Slug X carts will eventually suffer Altera chip failure at some point or another. All it takes to save Slug X is an EPROM and a PROGBK1.
Is it also possible to just swap in a new Altera chip from a working MVS cart? (And save the MVS cart with a PROGBK1 and EPROM of course).
MSX on a multicart doesn't need an Altera chip.