How to tell the region of an MVS board without firing it up?
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They are all the same, region depends on the Bios you are running in the mobo. So look at the label I guess?
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They all use the same label format on the chip (sometimes your MVS board has an EPROM with a paper sticker).
Example: SP-S3
SP = Neo Geo BIOS chip (as apposed to the LO ROM or SFIX ROM)
S = Spanish, there's also U for USA
3 = Version of BIOS
Example: SP-S3
SP = Neo Geo BIOS chip (as apposed to the LO ROM or SFIX ROM)
S = Spanish, there's also U for USA
3 = Version of BIOS
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I forget what letter Japan uses but I do know it's not J.
Err, forgot to mention that SNK's "Spanish" BIOS means it's for Europe.
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As stated, the BIOS you are running on your motherboard will dictate what language your game will play. With the unibios, you can switch the language and region settings as you wish. All MVS boards will run the region bios that they dictate, so I can take a Metal Slug cart and play it in two different region motherboards and they will say different languages.
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Japan is most definitely represented with a J. I have an SP-J2 bios sitting in front of me that boots up in Japanese.