Report: New portable Neo-Geo incoming
SNK Playmore has reportedly licensed a new Neo-Geo portable device. It includes a 4.3" screen, two GB of internal storage, an SD card slot, and 20 Neo-Geo games.
SNK Playmore seems to be giving gamers another chance at taking Neo-Geo games on the go. A device with the placeholder name "Neo-Geo Portable Device" has been detailed on a Japanese game blog, along with some images of the portable device. It will reportedly include North American versions of 20 Neo-Geo games including King of Monsters, Samurai Shodown, and Metal Slug.
The news comes from Japanese blog Famicom Plaza (via Andriasang). The device's profile looks similar to the iPhone, right down to the black-on-steel casing, but it's a bit larger than Apple's wunderkind. It includes an analog stick, four face and four shoulder buttons, a 4.3" screen, two GB of internal storage, and an SD card slot.
The full line-up of games includes World Heroes, Ultimate 11, Top Player's Golf, Sengoku, Nam-1975, Mutation Nation, Last Resort, King of Monsters, Frenzy, Cyber Lip, Fatal Fury Special, Art of Fighting, Super Sidekicks, League Bowling, Metal Slug, Magical Lord, Baseball Stars Professional, Samurai Shodown, King of Fighters '94, and Fatal Fury.
So far, the price, launch plans, and even manufacturer haven't been disclosed. Shacknews has contacted SNK for official details and will update as more information becomes available.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Report: New portable Neo-Geo incoming.
SNK Playmore has reportedly licensed a new Neo-Geo portable device. It includes a 4.3" screen, two GB of internal storage, an SD card slot, and 20 Neo-Geo games.-
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is it going to cost like 5 times the price of a game-boy, because I remember back in the day the neo geo was like $600 bucks and like $100 bucks a game or some shit back in the early 90s
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I remember as a kid reading an article about Don Johnson's kids and how he bought them a Neo Geo and games, and me being so jealous that they could afford that.
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But weren't they exact replicas of the arcade games?
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I think that only worked for the saves and the game cartridges themselves had a different slot or a different pin order.
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Oh, I think you meant this: http://funnycrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/didgeridoo.jpg
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So long as the price is sane, I think I'm sold.
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Neo Geo is still badass, its why I built this.
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4059/4716000248_1c519e08ee.jpg-
very nice, did you follow a plan? how much did it cost?
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Not that much. The joysticks were rather pricey to make, those metal and wood cases were like $56 each and buttons and joysticks add up.
I think the system itself was maybe about $250 total plus about $150 or so for the joysticks, including getting it powder coated and stuff. Its not really that expensive to buy a Neo Geo motherboard and make it run on a normal TV with gamepads, its mostly the fact that I bought a video converter board instead of making my own, and paid another $30 for a custom BIOS chip, insisted on putting it in a fancy case and all that. In hours spend working on the damn thing its priceless, it took me forever, a lot of this I'd never done before.
For those of you who haven't seen the other pics, here they are.
System
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4029/4715357609_94525b9007.jpg
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4022/4716000194_5028ca5627.jpg
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4032/4715357563_f7d9958ac5.jpg
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4019/4716000120_22e2963441.jpg
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4068/4715357517_f80b8e765a.jpg
Joysticks
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2788/4406617451_cc18822c2e.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2707/4406617549_25f5ae6f8d.jpg
The crazy shit I had to do to get a custom BIOS chip in there
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2703/4476291937_0a6b3fcf55.jpg
Someone has since made a little custom socket that plugs on top of the larger CPU chip....so you solder one tiny wire, don't have to remove the old bios, and it takes like 5 min instead of a fucking tedious hour of soldering.-
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Allows you to play games in "home" mode. Neo Geo cartridges, whether the "home" version or the "arcade" version only differ in physical shape, both versions of each game are on there and if you have a custom BIOS you can change your region, Home/Arcade mode and do memory hacks and other weird stuff. Fighting games in "home" mode have options for VS and practice mode, in arcade mode your stuck with regular insert coin fight whomever jumps in sort of gameplay.
The custom BIOS also allows you to pause at any time, do cheats, patch memory and enter the service and setup menu on an arcade machine without needing to wire up a physical button for it.
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For 0 dollars you can get MAME
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I really hope more games will come for this - I loved Magical Drop in the arcade. Will buy.
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Neo-Ge-Go. Bam. (lol)
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Heh, kinda neat. The general design reminds me of the iPhone 4/4s with the black glass front and silver band. Something with that kind of build quality with buttons and such for gaming would be really nice! Hopefully it has a resonable price.
And no, before anyone says it, I'm not saying they stole anyone's design, just that it sort of reminds me of it.-
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Action games with touch controls usually suck anyway
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Yeah, I want that.
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