NEO GEO AES+

[Diggerman]

Plaion lost a sale of the Ultimate because they don’t ship to my country.

Hopefully that changes. Are you in Brazil? FWIW, I saw an SNK rep say they would talk to Plaion about shipping to Brazil.

EDIT: ah, Malta. No idea then. Sorry you can't order, that sucks.

 

[Diggerman]

I was posting about Rot

wouldn’t look too deep into that

No expectations, it's just fun to speculate. Samsho 1 would be a good choice for wave 2 though.

 

[Nostromo]

No expectations, it's just fun to speculate. Samsho 1 would be a good choice for wave 2 though.

I don’t think they will mention wave two until 2027. Also I think it will be 3 games at a time then.

 

[Takumaji]

No expectations, it's just fun to speculate. Samsho 1 would be a good choice for wave 2 though.

The first Samsho is always a great choice and of course should be reissued but IMO they should start with Samsho 2. It's still up there in terms of gameplay, graphics, sound, awesome overall package and simply the best Samsho for many people.

Really looking forward to a possible reissue of Samsho 3 and the bitching and whining that will inevitably ensue... whaaa, one strike and I'm dead, CPU is unfair, hit boxes, hit boxes, yadda yadda yadda

 

[Moob Butter]

Does it even need to be said? Aren't there cheats/unibios like features? What is this guy even saying? The gooblevels are too damn high

He might as well say

”Warning video games used to be difficult“

LinkedIn post says they’ve sold more preorders already than they’d planned to sell all year

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lars...content&utm_medium=g_mb_web&utm_campaign=copy

Awesome, he also reconfirms more Wave 2 games to follow

 

[Diggerman]

The first Samsho is always a great choice and of course should be reissued but IMO they should start with Samsho 2. It's still up there in terms of gameplay, graphics, sound, awesome overall package and simply the best Samsho for many people.

Really looking forward to a possible reissue of Samsho 3 and the bitching and whining that will inevitably ensue... whaaa, one strike and I'm dead, CPU is unfair, hit boxes, hit boxes, yadda yadda yadda

Oh for sure. Samsho 2 is the fan favorite and I would absoluetly welcome it. Altho Samsho 1 is the game I played the most back in the day personally.

 

[Diggerman]

I don’t think they will mention wave two until 2027. Also I think it will be 3 games at a time then.

If that Plaion Japan post is real (?), they said Wave 2 titles will start being announced in September. But maybe that was fake.

EDIT: did a little snooping and unfortunately I think it is fake, sadly. But I also think a wave 2 will definitely happen based on the strong initial sales.

 

[Takumaji]

Two things to take heed of for the whiners:

1 - Neo games are late 80s and 90s-style arcade games so they walk the thin fine line between fun and frustration in order to give the player an incentive to keep coming back and pumping coins into the cab. No tutorials, it does not take you by the hand and guide you through the big bad world but bites you in the ass and sucks you dry of money, just with style, and you gonna love it. Ah, uhm, that is, we learned to love it back in the day, not sure about the current gen, tho. Let's see.

2 - Neo fighters, as any other 2D fighters of back in the day, are predominantly meant to be played in 2P. Versus fighting, etc. Sure, they all have a 1P mode and specially the later ones are quite good but the meat is in 2P, that is what the dev'ers have worked for the hardest and this is what the games first and foremost should be judged and rated for. I know it can be tricky to get some ppl off their arses and make them play the games with you but trust me, it's worth it. Sitting in the same room, on the same sofa and playing the good shit with good ppl will always beat online gaming in my world.

This was brought to you by one snobby dbag from ng.com.

 

[spacecaddie]

SNK should dig out that 70 percent complete Garou 2 and finish it … and launch that as a pack in only title on a limited edition coloured console in yellow/black. Then everyone will buy the console for a 3rd time

 

[Diggerman]

SNK should dig out that 70 percent complete Garou 2 and finish it … and launch that as a pack in only title on a limited edition coloured console in yellow/black. Then everyone will buy the console for a 3rd time

Well, you ain't wrong. :-P

 

[SnowxSakura]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2047256415471800784

"Another morning text that I posted about NEOGEO AES+. Be careful with the nostalgia trap; many of you who blasted through Metal Slug did it on MAME and you're in for a very unpleasant surprise. On AES there's no free play. Either you're good, or you won't have any fun."

That's some little bitch shit. It takes time to get good at any arcade game. Do they need to add a "playstation" difficulty where the game plays itself for them?

 

[Azathoth]

Do they need to add a "playstation" difficulty where the game plays itself for them?

Assuming they will play them is a leap to start with.

 

[Moob Butter]

If that Plaion Japan post is real (?), they said Wave 2 titles will start being announced in September. But maybe that was fake.

EDIT: did a little snooping and unfortunately I think it is fake, sadly. But I also think a wave 2 will definitely happen based on the strong initial sales.

The LinkedIn post says this:

”The continued journey of Neo Geo AES+ particularly the ongoing conversations around which additional titles may follow the first ten releases is something I follow with great anticipation. This truly feels like the beginning of something new. “

 

[Burning Fight!!]

Two things to take heed of for the whiners:

1 - Neo games are late 80s and 90s-style arcade games so they walk the thin fine line between fun and frustration in order to give the player an incentive to keep coming back and pumping coins into the cab. No tutorials, it does not take you by the hand and guide you through the big bad world but bites you in the ass and sucks you dry of money, just with style, and you gonna love it. Ah, uhm, that is, we learned to love it back in the day, not sure about the current gen, tho. Let's see.

This is something modern gamers too used to forced walking sections and adaptive difficulty have trouble coming to terms with, because for them gaming simply means something else and skill based gameplay takes a backseat to on rails set pieces and padding (open world, crafting, etc). Those are the people that will parrot “quarter muncher” because they don’t get the dynamics of a good coin op game.

I guarantee you some people like that will walk into the AES+ then get predictably upset lol, it’s statistically inevitable.

That being said though, SNK was never the greatest at fine tuning difficulty and optimizing that balance I feel. Even on the Neo a couple of games are ruined by greed and lack of balance, I always think of 3 Count Bout forcing you to lose grapples all the time even with a turbo fire PCB…

 

[awbacon]

@awbacon does that 16 times a day
You can't even understand what he's saying either because of his ultra camp spergvoice

 

[KGRAMR]

According to a Plaion staffer, the Neo Geo AES+ has been so well received that Plaion increased the number of units being produced. There also going to be more games released aside from the first wave announced.

"Humbling And Deeply Inspiring" - Neo Geo AES+ Production Forecasts Increased After "Overwhelming" Response

"This truly feels like the beginning of something new"

www.timeextension.com

 

[Gentlegamer]

Two things to take heed of for the whiners:

1 - Neo games are late 80s and 90s-style arcade games so they walk the thin fine line between fun and frustration in order to give the player an incentive to keep coming back and pumping coins into the cab. No tutorials, it does not take you by the hand and guide you through the big bad world but bites you in the ass and sucks you dry of money, just with style, and you gonna love it. Ah, uhm, that is, we learned to love it back in the day, not sure about the current gen, tho. Let's see.

 

[Nostromo]

According to a Plaion staffer, the Neo Geo AES+ has been so well received that Plaion increased the number of units being produced. There also going to be more games released aside from the first wave announced.

"Humbling And Deeply Inspiring" - Neo Geo AES+ Production Forecasts Increased After "Overwhelming" Response

"This truly feels like the beginning of something new"

www.timeextension.com

That's the CEO of Embracer Group, and Plaion is one of their companies.

 

[BlackaneseNiNjA]

I guarantee you some people like that will walk into the AES+ then get predictably upset lol, it’s statistically inevitable.

100%
The outcry was real when the recent Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection released and a large number of players encountered the difficulty of the arcade cpu for the first time in an extended gameplay session as opposed to the console ports they truly grew up with. The demands for lower difficulty, etc didn’t let up until the patches came

 

[prof]

This is really surprising to read as someone that's never used an AES stick. Is your issue mostly down to the buttons? Or do you legitimately find the whole package worse?

I had a Super Advantage, and honest to god it may have been the worst stick I've ever used. Maybe the Advantage is leagues better, I don't know, but the Super Advantage had the absolute fucking worst gummy feeling membrane for the stick. The buttons were membrane too, but their badness went beyond that. Aside from the shape and material of the button itself not feeling great (completely flat with a 90° drop off, grainy texture) they had a fair amount of tilt in the case. The tilting felt like shit, but it would also cause the button to get stuck under the casing.

The super advantage is garbage. Nintendo blew it with that thing. I was comparing the quality of the original nes advantage stick to the neo stick since it was so common at that time, and an example of a major game company mass producing a stick for home use. In that case, the materials just felt more substantial and sturdier than the neo stick.

But the standard neo stick is fine. It's just that the materials feel cheap to me. The plastic used feels of a lesser quality. But that said, it controls perfectly fine, so there are no issues. And like I mentioned in that post, Hori made a contemporary neo stick with higher quality materials. But no one is going to hate the stock neo stick or anything. And it seems like a lot of guys here love it, and think I'm an idiot (and they're not wrong, haha).

Again, I don't dislike it, I think it's fine. I just feel that they could improve the tactile feels of the buttons in particular with this new version since arcade quality buttons are so cheap and easily available now compared to the 90s. That was my main point.

 

[HellioN]

OMG that has to be click bait.

 

[Moob Butter]

@kernow even posts the videos for @awbacon

must be a subscriber

 

[BlackaneseNiNjA]

According to a Plaion staffer, the Neo Geo AES+ has been so well received that Plaion increased the number of units being produced. There also going to be more games released aside from the first wave announced.

"Humbling And Deeply Inspiring" - Neo Geo AES+ Production Forecasts Increased After "Overwhelming" Response

"This truly feels like the beginning of something new"

www.timeextension.com

Metal Slug has been comfortably sitting in the top 3 on amazon.jp for a while now which is wild to see in 2026



Maybe we will see a new Metal Slug on this thing after all

 

[uiengineer]

I would buy Slug 2, X, and 4 to fill in my gaps (I pre-ordered 1 in the new batch. I def don't have the OG version).

 

[Moob Butter]

I would buy Slug 2, X, and 4 to fill in my gaps

lol gay