okay the neo geo mvsx multi-video system
home arcade 50 games i think this is probably the
biggest item i've unboxed yet so what is a neo geo mvs
so back in the 90s snk well they made all these games
i think all of them they also made arcade hardware
and the neo geo was basically their way of costing down
the ownership for an arcade in japan when it started to
show up in hotels in japan people started to ask
hey how can i get this at home so the idea
for the neo geo console came to be this
obviously is not what the console is but the console
basically took the same cartridges as the arcade machine they are huge
and very expensive so even to this day
collecting for the neo geo is extremely expensive i hope the screenshot on the
front here is an indicative of the scaling quality on the machine that would be uh kind of unfortunate so
we've got king of fighters 94 through 99 uh and 2000 and 2001 and 2002 and
2003 okay there's more of those than i thought there would
be metal slug one through x samurai showdown one and two and three
and four i thought there were only like three of those no neo turf masters
that's a little disappointing and this product is not a neo geo mvs
system this product is not compatible with neo geo mvs cartridges
so no assembly required i'm going to hold them into that
some styrofoam
we've got a power adapter that's 12 volts 3 amps
it's not that heavy
yep it is upside down well one thing i can say right now is that this is a lot
easier than unpacking a uh an actual arcade machine
uh yeah i really don't see those instructions
okay uh let's see on the front here we've got
oh man these are super cute they probably wouldn't even fit a dime
but these are supposed to be like quarter coin slots we've got two
speakers on the front or at least i'm assuming there are speakers behind those
grilles we've got a dial i guess that would be used for
the golf game oh micro switched joystick eight way
very nice these don't feel so good
they kind of stick a little bit if you push them off angle
and they don't have a click to them they are the north american style like
concave so that some people would prefer to the japanese style like
domed like these so we've got left player start
options select game right player start
and a couple of little leds two digits
around back we have what looks to be a power button
a usb port and our dcn
that's pretty much it for the outside of it uh hey jono how much would they hate
us if i took the back panel off
i guess there's only one thing left to do here and that's to do the peel oh
this doesn't feel like a very good peel oh it's not good
oh no oh it's it's terrible
it's like stuck enough that even if i get a little bit out there to go
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up and see what happens nothing terribly special about the power
adapter but 12 volts 3 amps you don't really need anything big on the other hand this cabinet is
clearly big enough to have an internal power supply so i don't know why they need a brick
lights up up top and we've got a little led animation on that
reasonable resolution screen it doesn't need to be super high resolution ah there's no jingle
i wonder what emulator it's running probably like mame or final burn alpha
uh oh that's um
that could be smoother the good news is
it's actually responsive so that's not the it's not that it's
lagging it's just that there's no animation frames i guess they had to pre-bake this let's
see what's in the settings
language english i'm guessing japanese korean
game mode mvs versus aes mvs is the arcade experience where you would have i
guess um credits in the form of coins
uh whereas aes is the home uh home video system no credits in that traditional
sense game image oh cool we have uh scaling
options so we have pixel scaling pixel scan line which i guess is just the scan line
filter smooth scaling which i would not recommend unless you really hate chunky
pixels each scanning line v scanning line 40
degree scanning line i have no idea what they're talking about here maybe it's like
horizontal scan lines versus vertical versus
uh system update i mean 1.0 it's a it's an engineering sample so we're not going
to see anything other than that uh is that where the manual is oh
snkmvsx.com i guess that's where the manual is now
we've got this on the table here but it actually does come with an
optional well okay it doesn't come with it but you can buy it with an optional stand to use it in the
upright actual arcade orientation uh let's just throw up king of fighters 94
i guess i don't see oh is this the volume
control sure is so where is the coin button then
well there's player start there's select game okay select game is the coin button
let's dump our pockets i don't remember
anything about this game i'm also not
very good with joysticks yeah i am super used to d-pads
i can't pull off a dragon punch like to save my life right now and
that's that okay so let's go to the options game image i want to see what this is all
about so pixel scan line
okay so that gives us like a rkd
scan line effect personally i think i would prefer to have
a little bit less
black for the scan line
i feel like the input is probably
decent as far as delay goes i didn't really notice much of a delay
i just suck at king of fighters a smooth
image doesn't look very good i'm not sure if this is trying to like
pull off a scan like a 2xi or super eagle type of thing
hqx but it's not really doing it
but yeah this is basically it looks blurry as all
all heck it's it's basically bilinear filtering
uh okay so what about that horizontal scan line thing
oh this is more of the effect i was looking for so this is kind of like a more subtle scan line effect although
i'm not sure if you can see that but it's uneven so like if you look at the sky and
especially when the sky moves the scan lines get like thicker and
thinner depending on you know where it is on the screen which
is a problem basically that means this game
is being scaled in a non-integer fashion so it's not
like a direct one-to-one of what the original game would be also i'm noticing that this
scanline mode also has
filtering on so unless that's like actually like a firmware bug
then this is not the scanning mode for
scaling mode for me
okay let's try the vertical see what that looks like uh actually that looks a
little bit more like an arcade game but it's still doing the scaling thing
like it's trying to smooth everything out for really no reason there's no reason to do
that with scan lines on unless you're trying to like mimic like
crt blur but uh it doesn't look like crt blur
and let's see the 40 degree
yeah so it's like diagonal that actually doesn't look too bad though
but yeah you can you can see that the the scaling is not quite nice
it's it's not great so i would
recommend having the uh scaling mode set
as either pixel scaling or pixel scan line i
wouldn't use any of the other modes personally unless they fix these to not be smoothed
if they can fix those to not be smooth those would be my like my preference but
for now let's just go with pixel scaling yeah that looks way more crisp let's do
metal slug i'm a little bit better at metal slug let's just play the original
a lot of slowdown in this game i'm pretty sure this is how it looked on the
original hardware though yeah metal slug really kind of pushed it
yeah it looks really good in pixel mode so there's actually letterboxing around
pixel mode so you can see that the full screen is
being taken up here but if i go back
then we have letterboxing that's because it's scaling to an exact
multiple of the original uh theodore screen size
as far as uh input lag goes it's actually really good
so like
yeah that's probably close on what it originally was
okay so the emulation is pretty good i'm not sure if it's perfect but it's pretty
good and oh hey there's a violence setting on here so i guess you can turn on blood
i think the original japanese release had blood whereas the
international releases use sweat which is what i'm looking at here
it's not super intuitive to navigate everything here
but i'm sure you'd get used to it just like i would get used to having the uh
the buttons like this instead of having the middle line like the original neo geo did let's take
it apart you got a screwdriver
all right let's see what we've got here
this is a usb
connection to that display uh up here is where the
lighting for the upper panel is
down here we've got the buttons which i'd probably recommend replacing with
your own definitely a lot of room that they could have put a power supply in there are in
fact two speakers one down in this corner and one down in that one
the joysticks themselves yeah that's
nice now i don't think these are san law sticks or anything
the buttons certainly don't feel like anything special but they are micro
switches so very nice there i want to see what's
under this panel here
there it is on closer inspection this is actually a fairly common
CPU in these arcade machines action semi
atm 705 1h that's a quad core
so yeah it's nothing particularly special but it doesn't really have to be
and this is just breaking out for the general purpose i o down here for all
the uh buttons and whatnot yeah this is the connector for the display obviously
so power over here and data over here this looks like a usb connector here
and so does that so i guess optionally
this board would support two usb ports down here but they don't need it so they
only have the one and this usb connection actually just goes right up to this usb
port back here it's just a actually an 8 a cable overall fairly
modular inside it's kind of neat overall it's a tiny little package
that at 449 dollars the question you
really have to ask yourself is do you expect more you're getting a lot of games yes so
from that perspective if you're a collector of neo geo hardware
from the past you're getting a lot of value here but at the same time you
could build a main machine to run your own games if you
legally own them and get a much higher quality experience
out of it than this the thing is you'd had to build it
yourself speaking of which i would recommend if
you buy one of these swap out these buttons for something
better because these they're not good if you hit them the
wrong way they're not going to go down very well if it were priced a little bit
lower or if it had higher quality buttons i would say that it would be perfectly
great for anyone who just wants to you know relive these older games and
play them in a way that i don't know sparks nostalgia it's just
there are i feel better ways to do that and this just
leaves some things to be desired unlike ShortCircuit
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