I took the liberty of fixing the thread title.
So, Stefano says that they are making 50 carts, and that they will be $299 a piece, and that with the money he makes from that,
he can buy the next game, possibly warlocks, crossed swords 2, etc.
Let's hypothetically say that this is all 100% true just for the moment.
Putting aside parts costs, labor costs, shipping costs, paypal fees, hidden expenses, etc. (which is completely unrealistic but whatever)
at $299 a piece (times 50 carts sold) Stefano gains $14,950 in a month or so (whenever he sells all 50)
Keep in mind this is not "guess work" or "theories" or "rumors", this is BASIC MATH.
So, this indirectly means that NGF (again assuming they even have one of these other games that Stefano wants) is asking for $15K?
Let me save Stefano and NGF and the community all the aggravation and hassles and headaches and time wasted here on this.
Here are my offers: (which no human being would turn down for any reason other then because they don't have the ability to follow through)
$16K, in cash, in person, right now, in Las Vegas, for the Warlocks game.
(I MUST bring the neogeo system (home or mvs or both) & television if need be to the hotel to plug in & test the cart to verify)
Also, I'm not flying over there and wasting my time, airfare, & hotel expenses without the below "deposit" of the first $1K.
$1K, in cash, through instant paypal gift payment, for an unedited / crystal clear continuous video of the Warlocks game being plugged in by hand & played.
(it MUST show intro, title, how to play, continue, game over, memory card, etc. and MUST be done with a debug bios or unibios whereas because it MUST show the ngh number of the game)
$100, in cash, through instant paypal gift payment, for the first person who gives me back the hour of my life I just wasted putting together this post.
(just being sarcastic here of course)
This is not a prototype, right. This is the mvs version of the are sold by ngf. One years ago me and my friend ask to dion the possibility to make mvs release of their games. This is the first one and if we'll sell all the 50 numbered cartridge we can buy another one and make a new release, maybe one day we can release crossed swords 2 or warlock of the fates. We can't promise it, but we try.
We don't want to make any AES release, too expensive and to bad sacrifice 50 aes games every time (instead we can find here in italy 50 supersidekicks 2 in 2-3 hours).
The game works with a modified p1 rom sent from snk usa to ngf, this is what they say to us, we asked razzola to check the file and correct a bug, but he said to us that can only make the game like works the normal one with unibios.
This is the bug: A button doesn't work. You need it only to make selection and see the maps during the game, not so important but it's always a bug, we know it. For this reason we try to contact some programmer for try to correct it with no result. We'll sell the game in the same way we received, and if we find a solution ( we have another programmer working on it right now) we'll send to every customer the fixed p1 eprom.
The game works with any bios and you can control the speed by pressing b, c or d for diiferent speed.
We have the carton box, my friend Capoz that release the game with me is the person under the www.saveyourgames.it site, he makes mvs carton boxes also for ngdev. We'll print minimarquee on pvc and put every mvs box in a pvc box for better preservation.
The price is 299$, we have paid the game a lot and we want to buy another game from ngf usa.
Now you can say that is bad, that is not a regular release ecc... We know it, we made it for fun, isn't our work and if you don't like it you don't have to buy it, no problem, we release only 50 copies not 5000.
Sorry for my poor english,
best regards Stefano and Capoz
Maybe I'll do all this work for nothing, doesn't matter I can continue to produce Ironclad for the rest of my life, or do what I want of my game, my collection, my money and my life.
I can think of quite a lot of "persons" in an instant that "make something for the neogeo" who don't get "hate" (e.g. NG: Dev, JMKurtz, Xian Xi, shadowkn55, NeoTurfMasta, christoph, ...). I'd say it is because they do good stuff... what does that tell you about your enterprise here?I don't understand everytime this hate against any person that makes something for the neogeo.
So, Stefano says that they are making 50 carts, and that they will be $299 a piece, and that with the money he makes from that,
he can buy the next game, possibly warlocks, crossed swords 2, etc.
Let's hypothetically say that this is all 100% true just for the moment.
Puttin bla bla
Let's hypothetically say that this is all 100% true just for the moment.
This game was always selled in this way, with B C or D you can reduce the speed, not the same of the universe bios. We are triyng to resolve the A button bug, but it's very hard to find someone that can do it (also Razoola say that he can only make the same way as is unibios work, he ask us money for do that but we prefer find a solution for have a correct game). This game work on every neogeo mvs system not only the one that have unibios, this is an important difference.
Billy, visto che hai deciso di scrivere una risposta in italiano, ho pensato prendo la libertà di fare lo stesso.Stefano, io sono dalla tua parte. Io voglio che tu abbia successo, e sono
contento che tu proverai a fare questo business. Ma assicurati che lo vuoi
veramente fare non solo per ottenere il gioco promesso. Non è stato mai
dimostrato che loro hanno uno di questi giochi.
In bocca al lupo.
Saluti,
Billy
Dear community,
this is my last answer. I don't understand everytime this hate against any person that makes something for the neogeo.
The only thing that
you are able to do everytime is to offend, free to offend in a forum where everything is permissed. It's not a problem for me but sometimes I hope to see something interesting in your post.
Someone asked why this game and not Warlocks or others? (this is the only intersting question) Well did you think that Dion sell for some bucks the possibility to make a big quantity of money? you're wrong, you can think that NGF it's the evil or not, but they was very able to sell everything, this is a fact not an opinion. Probably the best neogeo sellers of everytime, then you and me can thing that they have done may wrong things, this is another matter.
When I bought this game, I bought only for make an mvs release, I collect MVS and I want it all, every game, every unreleased.
When you try to make count think that 299$ for 50 = 14950$ but thi is not the gain.... When you do something like this you have to consider the price of the game that we have paid, the price of eprom, the price of printing everything and the hours and hours of work to do it. Are you sure that we gain something?
And it's a problem if it's done with eprom..... instead treasure, bang bang busters and first last hope are done with what?
You can say why you do that? For passion, the same passion the make this forum a special place over internet.
This game was always selled in this way, with B C or D you can reduce the speed, not the same of the universe bios. We are triyng to resolve the A button bug, but it's very hard to find someone that can do it (also Razoola say that he can only make the same way as is unibios work, he ask us money for do that but we prefer find a solution for have a correct game). This game work on every neogeo mvs system not only the one that have unibios, this is an important difference.
When I make the first post I knowing very well what I'm doing, I know you and everything you're doing for me it's normal.
SuperGun, I'm seriously, why don't you ask NGF to sell warlocks for 16.000$? Dion never say to us a price for warlock and never says us that they sell this game after Irritating Maze, we hope but we are not sure, he tell us that the he have the game and that it works. Maybe me and my friend travel to Las Vegas to meet him and see other possible projects.
I know that everyone writing in this post never buy our con-version of this game, but it's not a problem, people all over the world collect neogeo game, if 50 or 60 users spend their time to insult us we think that others 50 people all over the world can take the game (47, 3 are just sold).
Your Hate, your bad words are voids, everytime somebody come out with a news, a game, a mod or something else you think that you have to kill him. And for what? a Game... yes a game.
We are not scamming people, we say first exactly what we are selling, and everyone it's free to spent money in a game or in bitches.
NFG send us the photos of the package received by SNK usa of the modified P1. It's true? it's false? I don't know, but for you it's sure that is false, you know everything.
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https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...67455188_o.jpg
They also send us the art graphics received directly from snk-japan r&d department
It's true? it's false? I don't know, but for you it's sure that is false, you know everything.
we have only 50 art sheet watermarked, we can't and we don't want to do more, everybody can make this game in his house, but we give a complete kit with box, mmq, artsheet and dipswitch
Maybe I'll do all this work for nothing, doesn't matter I can continue to produce Ironclad for the rest of my life, or do what I want of my game, my collection, my money and my life.
Now start again with your Drama.
SuperGun, I'm seriously, why don't you ask NGF to sell warlocks for 16.000$? Dion never say to us a price for warlock and never says us that they sell this game after Irritating Maze, we hope but we are not sure, he tell us that the he have the game and that it works. Maybe me and my friend travel to Las Vegas to meet him and see other possible projects.
I know that everyone writing in this post never buy our con-version of this game, but it's not a problem, people all over the world collect neogeo game, if 50 or 60 users spend their time to insult us we think that others 50 people all over the world can take the game (47, 3 are just sold).
Your Hate, your bad words are voids, everytime somebody come out with a news, a game, a mod or something else you think that you have to kill him. And for what? a Game... yes a game.
We are not scamming people, we say first exactly what we are selling, and everyone it's free to spent money in a game or in bitches.
NFG send us the photos of the package received by SNK usa of the modified P1. It's true? it's false? I don't know, but for you it's sure that is false, you know everything.
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I think you misunderstood the emails between us in the past. I told you that I can fix the A button issue easily. My problem was with the way the other three buttons work and I wanted to change it to the same way the unibios does it because its more game friendly
I'm not a tech guy but if the only difference between this game and the "trackball" version is a single P1 rom chip or something, wouldn't it be cheaper to source original Maze carts and just swap out the one chip than build new carts using eProms? I have no idea what Maze MVS sells for these days given the current MVS mania but it used to be common and cheap...