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okay the neo geo mvsx multi-video system

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home arcade 50 games i think this is probably the

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biggest item i've unboxed yet so what is a neo geo mvs

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so back in the 90s snk well they made all these games

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i think all of them they also made arcade hardware

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and the neo geo was basically their way of costing down

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the ownership for an arcade in japan when it started to

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show up in hotels in japan people started to ask

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hey how can i get this at home so the idea

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for the neo geo console came to be this

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obviously is not what the console is but the console

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basically took the same cartridges as the arcade machine they are huge

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and very expensive so even to this day

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collecting for the neo geo is extremely expensive i hope the screenshot on the

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front here is an indicative of the scaling quality on the machine that would be uh kind of unfortunate so

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we've got king of fighters 94 through 99 uh and 2000 and 2001 and 2002 and

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2003 okay there's more of those than i thought there would

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be metal slug one through x samurai showdown one and two and three

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and four i thought there were only like three of those no neo turf masters

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that's a little disappointing and this product is not a neo geo mvs

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system this product is not compatible with neo geo mvs cartridges

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so no assembly required i'm going to hold them into that

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some styrofoam

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we've got a power adapter that's 12 volts 3 amps

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it's not that heavy

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yep it is upside down well one thing i can say right now is that this is a lot

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easier than unpacking a uh an actual arcade machine

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uh yeah i really don't see those instructions

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okay uh let's see on the front here we've got

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oh man these are super cute they probably wouldn't even fit a dime

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but these are supposed to be like quarter coin slots we've got two

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speakers on the front or at least i'm assuming there are speakers behind those

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grilles we've got a dial i guess that would be used for

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the golf game oh micro switched joystick eight way

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very nice these don't feel so good

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they kind of stick a little bit if you push them off angle

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and they don't have a click to them they are the north american style like

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concave so that some people would prefer to the japanese style like

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domed like these so we've got left player start

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options select game right player start

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and a couple of little leds two digits

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around back we have what looks to be a power button

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a usb port and our dcn

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that's pretty much it for the outside of it uh hey jono how much would they hate

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us if i took the back panel off

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i guess there's only one thing left to do here and that's to do the peel oh

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this doesn't feel like a very good peel oh it's not good

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oh no oh it's it's terrible

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it's like stuck enough that even if i get a little bit out there to go

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there we go well let's plug it in but first a message from our sponsor one

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up and see what happens nothing terribly special about the power

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adapter but 12 volts 3 amps you don't really need anything big on the other hand this cabinet is

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clearly big enough to have an internal power supply so i don't know why they need a brick

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lights up up top and we've got a little led animation on that

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reasonable resolution screen it doesn't need to be super high resolution ah there's no jingle

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i wonder what emulator it's running probably like mame or final burn alpha

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uh oh that's um

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that could be smoother the good news is

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it's actually responsive so that's not the it's not that it's

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lagging it's just that there's no animation frames i guess they had to pre-bake this let's

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see what's in the settings

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language english i'm guessing japanese korean

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game mode mvs versus aes mvs is the arcade experience where you would have i

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guess um credits in the form of coins

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uh whereas aes is the home uh home video system no credits in that traditional

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sense game image oh cool we have uh scaling

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options so we have pixel scaling pixel scan line which i guess is just the scan line

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filter smooth scaling which i would not recommend unless you really hate chunky

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pixels each scanning line v scanning line 40

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degree scanning line i have no idea what they're talking about here maybe it's like

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horizontal scan lines versus vertical versus

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uh system update i mean 1.0 it's a it's an engineering sample so we're not going

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to see anything other than that uh is that where the manual is oh

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snkmvsx.com i guess that's where the manual is now

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we've got this on the table here but it actually does come with an

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optional well okay it doesn't come with it but you can buy it with an optional stand to use it in the

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upright actual arcade orientation uh let's just throw up king of fighters 94

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i guess i don't see oh is this the volume

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control sure is so where is the coin button then

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well there's player start there's select game okay select game is the coin button

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let's dump our pockets i don't remember

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anything about this game i'm also not

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very good with joysticks yeah i am super used to d-pads

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i can't pull off a dragon punch like to save my life right now and

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that's that okay so let's go to the options game image i want to see what this is all

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about so pixel scan line

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okay so that gives us like a rkd

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scan line effect personally i think i would prefer to have

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a little bit less

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black for the scan line

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i feel like the input is probably

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decent as far as delay goes i didn't really notice much of a delay

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i just suck at king of fighters a smooth

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image doesn't look very good i'm not sure if this is trying to like

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pull off a scan like a 2xi or super eagle type of thing

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hqx but it's not really doing it

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but yeah this is basically it looks blurry as all

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all heck it's it's basically bilinear filtering

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uh okay so what about that horizontal scan line thing

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oh this is more of the effect i was looking for so this is kind of like a more subtle scan line effect although

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i'm not sure if you can see that but it's uneven so like if you look at the sky and

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especially when the sky moves the scan lines get like thicker and

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thinner depending on you know where it is on the screen which

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is a problem basically that means this game

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is being scaled in a non-integer fashion so it's not

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like a direct one-to-one of what the original game would be also i'm noticing that this

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scanline mode also has

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filtering on so unless that's like actually like a firmware bug

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then this is not the scanning mode for

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scaling mode for me

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okay let's try the vertical see what that looks like uh actually that looks a

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little bit more like an arcade game but it's still doing the scaling thing

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like it's trying to smooth everything out for really no reason there's no reason to do

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that with scan lines on unless you're trying to like mimic like

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crt blur but uh it doesn't look like crt blur

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and let's see the 40 degree

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yeah so it's like diagonal that actually doesn't look too bad though

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but yeah you can you can see that the the scaling is not quite nice

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it's it's not great so i would

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recommend having the uh scaling mode set

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as either pixel scaling or pixel scan line i

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wouldn't use any of the other modes personally unless they fix these to not be smoothed

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if they can fix those to not be smooth those would be my like my preference but

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for now let's just go with pixel scaling yeah that looks way more crisp let's do

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metal slug i'm a little bit better at metal slug let's just play the original

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a lot of slowdown in this game i'm pretty sure this is how it looked on the

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original hardware though yeah metal slug really kind of pushed it

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yeah it looks really good in pixel mode so there's actually letterboxing around

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pixel mode so you can see that the full screen is

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being taken up here but if i go back

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then we have letterboxing that's because it's scaling to an exact

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multiple of the original uh theodore screen size

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as far as uh input lag goes it's actually really good

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so like

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yeah that's probably close on what it originally was

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okay so the emulation is pretty good i'm not sure if it's perfect but it's pretty

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good and oh hey there's a violence setting on here so i guess you can turn on blood

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i think the original japanese release had blood whereas the

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international releases use sweat which is what i'm looking at here

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it's not super intuitive to navigate everything here

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but i'm sure you'd get used to it just like i would get used to having the uh

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the buttons like this instead of having the middle line like the original neo geo did let's take

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it apart you got a screwdriver

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all right let's see what we've got here

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this is a usb

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connection to that display uh up here is where the

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lighting for the upper panel is

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down here we've got the buttons which i'd probably recommend replacing with

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your own definitely a lot of room that they could have put a power supply in there are in

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fact two speakers one down in this corner and one down in that one

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the joysticks themselves yeah that's

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nice now i don't think these are san law sticks or anything

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the buttons certainly don't feel like anything special but they are micro

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switches so very nice there i want to see what's

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under this panel here

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there it is on closer inspection this is actually a fairly common

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CPU in these arcade machines action semi

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atm 705 1h that's a quad core

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so yeah it's nothing particularly special but it doesn't really have to be

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and this is just breaking out for the general purpose i o down here for all

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the uh buttons and whatnot yeah this is the connector for the display obviously

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so power over here and data over here this looks like a usb connector here

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and so does that so i guess optionally

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this board would support two usb ports down here but they don't need it so they

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only have the one and this usb connection actually just goes right up to this usb

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port back here it's just a actually an 8 a cable overall fairly

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modular inside it's kind of neat overall it's a tiny little package

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that at 449 dollars the question you

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really have to ask yourself is do you expect more you're getting a lot of games yes so

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from that perspective if you're a collector of neo geo hardware

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from the past you're getting a lot of value here but at the same time you

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could build a main machine to run your own games if you

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legally own them and get a much higher quality experience

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out of it than this the thing is you'd had to build it

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yourself speaking of which i would recommend if

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you buy one of these swap out these buttons for something

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better because these they're not good if you hit them the

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wrong way they're not going to go down very well if it were priced a little bit

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lower or if it had higher quality buttons i would say that it would be perfectly

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great for anyone who just wants to you know relive these older games and

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play them in a way that i don't know sparks nostalgia it's just

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there are i feel better ways to do that and this just

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leaves some things to be desired unlike ShortCircuit

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