neo geo home system - in a cab?

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being offered an AES that was modded back in the day to work in an arcade cab (jamma modification of some sort) - this was back when MVS material was still overly expensive I suppose - why else would arcade operators choose to install them otherwise? talking ninja combat era.
anywayz.. anyone ever see such a thing? I think I'll be picking it up if the price isn't too silly.
lol
 
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yeah I have no clue what this is all about - these where definetly the first neo mods though - I mean, RGB and all that shit. I don't know what I'm saying other than yeah, wicked, can't wait to check it out.
 
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werejag said:
please document how it was done.
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I'll take some pictures of it, talk to the arcade operator who's selling it to me, and that's about all I can really do - I have no clue when it comes to such matters.
 
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NEOFREAK9189 said:
also you get arcade cab Neogeo AES? or just the system
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well he'll probably want to sell me the cab with the neo inside it (the cab is sure to be generic and quite ugly imo - authentic neo cabs are hard to come by here - last one I saw (25", 3 slot) was going for about 600 dollars).
I'll be using it with my own cab if I get to pick it up.
I'm short on cash right now :oh_no: I know if I don't take it now it'llslip through my hands and get sold pretty quick - neo geo for the arcades is still hot property down here - though it being the AES system means the games will have to be AES too and that's not very useful for today's arcade operators.
I'll have to come up with something.
 
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kernow said:
check NGF's site, they have such a thing
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I didn't find anything - but I did find this:
party2001_2.jpg

good old ng(ay)f.


actually I'm lying - this is it right?:
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will have to see if it is infact the same thing. just wondering how they got around the coin issue and whatnot.
 
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DevilRedeemed said:
I didn't find anything - but I did find this:
party2001_2.jpg

good old ng(ay)f.


actually I'm lying - this is it right?:
CandyConverter.jpg


will have to see if it is infact the same thing. just wondering how they got around the coin issue and whatnot.
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I'm sure they simply wired the Select button as Coin In. Everything else looks straight forward.

Kpj
 
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ok but for an arcade operator what would the point of this be unless their cabs are set on freeplay? actually I don't know what I'm being offered looks like so I can't really comment on it. maybe the way they had the thing set up was so rudimentary it didn't even make use of the coin function (therefore this not being an issue)
 
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DevilRedeemed said:
I didn't find anything - but I did find this:
party2001_2.jpg

good old ng(ay)f.


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Doesnt that guy in the white long sleeve look like Andre Agassi


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I've always thought playing AES in a cab would be the most baller shit you could do. Actually getting the arcade experience while still paying top dollar for everything.

These days it seems a bit backward logical, but when Neo geo was still new, it was a good way to get some cheap games in your arcade.

If you get it, please tell us how they got it to be coin-op. If they wired the select button to the coin mechanism, would the game pause every time somebody put a coin in?
 
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neo geo home system - in a cab?
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How come all I can think of is:

Snakes - on a plane?



p.s.

I've always thought playing AES in a cab would be the most baller shit you could do. Actually getting the arcade experience while still paying top dollar for everything.
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lolz!
 
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DevilRedeemed said:
ok but for an arcade operator what would the point of this be unless their cabs are set on freeplay? actually I don't know what I'm being offered looks like so I can't really comment on it. maybe the way they had the thing set up was so rudimentary it didn't even make use of the coin function (therefore this not being an issue)
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You could simply wire up the coin in/insert coin mechanisms to the fingerboard instead of the "Select" buttons from the controllers.

This should work just fine.
 
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A few yrs back on ebay a cab was put up with this setup. Someone posted a link in the forums here. (aes in mvs) Not sure what it sold for though.

Definately unique.
 
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Neo Mike said:
A few yrs back on ebay a cab was put up with this setup. Someone posted a link in the forums here. (aes in mvs) Not sure what it sold for though.

Definately unique.
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Yeah, apparently ops would do this to avoid having to pay top dollar for the MVS versions of the game.
 
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Unfortunately i don't have the cab anymore, but back in the days when i was a coin up operator i had one of these cabs with an modded AES on it, i use to have two games, Super Side Kicks 2 and World Heroes 2 Jet. The modd wasn't very simple and almost destroyed the AES, i sent one for KPJ that was in a cab and it was on a very bad shape, if you still have it K, you can send a picture and i will point the solder marks.

To make it work in the cab the AES has no case and a bunch of wires was soldered into it, basically hooking the RGB, control ports and power to a jamma adapter, that adapter make it possible to count credits and select between P1 and P2, it worked for me many years and the only flaw i have to correct was the way the cart was hold, to say the truth it wasn't hold anywhere and sometimes the game freezes so i made a support for it using a piece of aluminum and hold it to the cab.

The adapter was a prehistoric thing, not nearly as good as the ones people use these days to hook XBOX and PS2 onto cabs.
 
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Somethin' had to be done. :lolz:
 
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Neo Collector said:
Unfortunately i don't have the cab anymore, but back in the days when i was a coin up operator i had one of these cabs with an modded AES on it, i use to have two games, Super Side Kicks 2 and World Heroes 2 Jet. The modd wasn't very simple and almost destroyed the AES, i sent one for KPJ that was in a cab and it was on a very bad shape, if you still have it K, you can send a picture and i will point the solder marks.

To make it work in the cab the AES has no case and a bunch of wires was soldered into it, basically hooking the RGB, control ports and power to a jamma adapter, that adapter make it possible to count credits and select between P1 and P2, it worked for me many years and the only flaw i have to correct was the way the cart was hold, to say the truth it wasn't hold anywhere and sometimes the game freezes so i made a support for it using a piece of aluminum and hold it to the cab.

The adapter was a prehistoric thing, not nearly as good as the ones people use these days to hook XBOX and PS2 onto cabs.
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obrigado!
I'm not sure if I want to pick it up if it's missing the lid..
 
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The Bios could always have been re-Enigineered to accept coins like a MVS board.

But I doubt that is how it was done.

What I have been told:
Back in the day, in Poor Countries [Namely Latin America], It was common practice by ops/Ammusement cos to take old cabs and put current consoles in them....

Coin operation was either done by:

Reverse Enigineering games to accept coins[rumor].

Wireing the coin switch to the coin button (For certain games where you can only start a game by pressing the console's start button)

I'm also told that many games would use a timer system. Put in a quarter and get x minutes of game time. If the time runs out, the controlls become disabled.
 
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