neo geo bartop

Mike26

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Was scouring craigslist while in town and came across this gem:
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Drove 50 miles each way to pick it up. broke my back carrying it down a muddy hill. But I got it into my subaru:
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Has some damage from usual wear and tear, prior owner seemed like he didn't really care for neo or took any pride in maintaining anything.

CPO is damaged:
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Side screws on the left corners were loose and basically fell out. Upon further inspection the wood brace cracked so I am gluing it back together.
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Also the CPO panel had been removed in the past as I found that 1 screw was replaced with a pc screw that didn't fit. I sourced the correct screws. Also the bolts that hold down the joysticks were missing nuts on two of four of each set. They were just resting in the slots due to gravity. I'm assuming it didn't come this way from the factory. Took care of that sourced some metric nuts from the basement and will eventually replace the buttons and joysticks with nicer stuff.

OTher that cosmetic and the aforementioned issues the machine works perfectly and there is no burn in on the small but awesome monitor. I have downloaded the tools posted last year to edit the memory card, and will mess around with that tonight.


All in all really awesome machine, that I am definitely glad to finally say I own one. Although, I might try and rewire the jamma connector with thicker wire, stereo speaker, a legit arcade power supply and purchase a working 1 slot and turn this into a legit non-emulated machine.

Anyways, more to come!

Some more pics:
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cdamm

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a dandy of a little blue you got there.

one of my favorite little mods i have seen in those is pulling out the board and replacing it with a 1 slot with a multicart.

those things are pretty neat!
 

Mike26

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250 im broke as always but it was more than i should have dropped. Oh well I will get enjoyment out of it.
 

SSS

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yeah, 150 seemed to be the going rate for these things on CL. one popped up near me when I was back in VA, but I never heard back. :confused:
 

Mike26

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hey guys i got the card dumped to my computer and am messing with the tools that someone on here made and released called taito-tools and i have dumped the master.img file but do not understand how to edit the app.img inside the master to edit the games shown. anyone know if this is possible? i see the neo geo bios 2slotus file on there, kind of funny.

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I've been futzing around with a spare 2 gb SD card I had lying around and switched the stock 2slotUS bios with Unibios 2.3
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Here's a pic of the original non-rewritable 256 sd:
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I got ahold of a copy of Taito 20 games signed img and loaded that on but when i tried to boot it up the PVG displayed "crc check error" and spit out a number. I didn't recompile the img just tok it from source nd from what i've read it is supposed to work. maybe it has something to do with the revision of the board or maybe not. Next thing I am going to try is to rewrite the various .bin files with similar sized .rom files renamed .bin and try something like 2020baseball and see if it loads in the menu when substituted for top players golf. Anyone know if this sounds like the right idea?
 
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