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Author Topic: Thinking about buying a Neo Geo AES.  (Read 1486 times)
orsty3001
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« on: October 12, 2009, 11:46:05 AM »

I found a good deal locally on a Neo Geo AES and am thinking about getting it. Always wanted one when I was a kid but the cost was just too high.

Does anyone know if there is a reprogrammable cart for this unit? All I can find online is older posts where people are saying it's impossible due to copy protection and all that jazz. If I get it I'll probably end up buying most of the games anyway, but I was just curious if someone has developed something of that nature.
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2009, 05:58:07 PM »

I found a good deal locally on a Neo Geo AES and am thinking about getting it. Always wanted one when I was a kid but the cost was just too high.

Does anyone know if there is a reprogrammable cart for this unit? All I can find online is older posts where people are saying it's impossible due to copy protection and all that jazz. If I get it I'll probably end up buying most of the games anyway, but I was just curious if someone has developed something of that nature.

I don't know of one, but nothing in technology is impossible given the right knowledge and ingenuity.  I remember posting an idea about a cartridge just like the RetroZone PowerPAK (the NES flash cart) on a forum many years ago, and everyone scoffed and said it was impossible due to the different mapper chips involved.  Well, thanks to FPGA, Brian overcame that and did it anyway.  Amazing, incredible technical work on his part.
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2009, 10:00:29 AM »

I did a lot of extensive research and found a considerable number of people wanting a reprogrammable flash cart of some type for it but no one has seem to of built one. I agree nothing is technically impossible. They have them for the SNES and NES which both had serious hurtles to jump. I was thinking of getting one of those PowerPaks as a birthday slash Christmas present for myself. Might order it today, who knows...

Anyway, I think the reason might be difficulty verses possible profit. There might not be enough AES's left in use that would warrant someone spending the time and money developing such a device. When I first heard of a Neo Geo was in a gamers mag from back in the day. I couldn't believe the price they were asking but later understood it was a serious system for serious collectors that wanted the closet thing they could get to an arcade machine at home. I think low production number and high prices kept most of your average gamers away from this unit.

In January I start back school on my way to becoming an electrical engineer. This might make a good project down the road when building stuff like that isn't so far over my head. Or at least better explain why I couldn't do it. Smiley

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