NGF history and snk buyout details

[TonK]

Gay accusations? Really?

You said it, not me.

[ASSEMbler]

Childish behaviour by Tonk shows poorly upon his character and the weight of his words diminishes.

How can we expect to take you seriously when you make homosexual slurs?

Even if he was gay, it would be inappropriate and insulting to many members here
who have a different lifestyle.

Tonk, I am disappointed and can no longer trust you as a moderator.

[spoonman]

Can someone please verify that Metal Slug was released for the USA AES?

I'm still baffled why the report says "Metal Slug - Never released for home use. Reprint."



So according to SNK every USA AES copy was a reproduction cart. Many of which had sold for $1000-$2000 on eBay.

I know these can be easily made using a sacrifice SS3, FF3, KOF95,96,97 cart + cheap MS MVS cart, but I was under the impression that SNK did release a small amount of US Metal Slug AES carts.

[Christer-swe]

You said it, not me.

You're probably the biggest reason for me to completely trust Dion, whatever he says.

[TonK]

You're probably the biggest reason for me to completely trust Dion, whatever he says.

Good, I hope he fucks you in the ass, faggot.

Kevin, you can remove my account too, you fucking cunt.

[Dion]

Everyone please slow down.

I'm only one man and I'm being asked tons of questions by a lot of different people, all at the same time!!

I will answer all questions
I'm willing and trying my best to answer all questions, but when so many come in all at once, some questions get overlooked, and truthfully, it can be a bit overwhelming. And if I miss a question, people try to accuse me of avoiding it.

Try to put yourself in my shoes and for a moment and you'll see that it's just too many questions to reply to. Even the President of the United States will only answer one question at a time.

So please let me answer one person's questions before anyone else asks another. If people won't follow my request, your question will be skipped till it's asked in the proper sequence.


Propers Q&A = less confusion
This is/was supposed to be a NGF History and SNK Bouy-out thread. I was willing to give exclusive insider information on all the deals that happened. And also provide an interesting Question & Answer thread that could bring out tons of information that people may want to know.

I don't want this to be questions, questions, questions, questions, answer, answer, answer, answer thread. Too many questions in a row, with too many answers in a row, will ruin the thread and make the reading to a specific question too confusing

So any questions previously asked will need to be asked again. But since I'm jusyt announcing my guidelines, I'll answer a few that have already been asked.

Kevin, maybe you can edit or delete some of the redundant questions that were asked in a row, and even delete some of my replies to help this thread's reading be more organized.

Thanks.

[ASSEMbler]

Good, I hope he fucks you in the ass, faggot.

Kevin, you can remove my account too, you fucking cunt.

True colors show.

[metallizer]

I am disappointed and can no longer trust you as a moderator.

You´re the disappointment here, siding with a know scammer, deleting posts from a member that helped the forum funding...

laser printed inserts of unreleased neo geo games is not worth all this trouble.

[TonK]

True colors show.

No, yours do.

You really fucked up big.

I trusted you and tried to help out any way I could, then you treat me like a fucking dog over an assumed gay joke?

lol, let the fucking scammer run free though.

Even the President of the United States will only answer one question at a time.

Grandiose as ever, but without any truth or merit.

Dakis Thief Neo Geo.

Google it.

Read it.

Anyone who listens to the words of a scammer has no more validity than the scammer himself.

[ASSEMbler]

I'm not siding with anyone.

We have rules here, rules of conduct.

1. We have an unmoderated thread for people to rant in.
2. We have rules about flaming. If you disagree, do it once.
3. We have a feedback forum, use it.

How I am siding with someone by upholding our rules of conduct?

You think I don't know how people feel?

We are interviewing him Q/A style. We are trying to get interesting points of view.

If you cannot see the benefit of a forum where each side gets to voice it's side,
you don't need this forum.

You can disagree with people here many ways, however calling someone a "faggot"
or other immature terms causes the educated people here to instantly discard everything you say.

Disagree with dion, yes we can tell by the 40 posts the same three people have made over and over.

Let the Q/A progress as it should, but no, you insist on clogging up the thread with repeated repetitive posts about inserts, money, etc.

[Alchy]

So any questions previously asked will need to be asked again.

What is the court case number for your settlement with SNK?

Kevin, maybe you can edit or delete some of the redundant questions that were asked in a row, and even delete some of my replies to help this thread's reading be more organized.

It feels to me that the various ongoing threads have already been extensively sanitised in your favour, so this seems somewhat unnecessary. Personally, I'd request that no more posts get deleted unless they're directly inflammatory (e.g. TonK - for shame) or otherwise directly break the rules of the forum.

[ASSEMbler]

The title of this topic is "history and buyout" not "where the fuck are my inserts".

[Dion]

Further questions Dion:

Did you visit SNK Japan?
If you did, did you see anything that has never surfaced
(hardware, software)

Yes. Probably about a handful of times.


NeoGeo Dial Up Modem
As for seeing unique hardware/software items, nothing that I haven't mentioned before. One of the coolest things that I never knew existed was a neogeo modem (dial up modem). It plugged into an mvs and/or aes. MVS operators would be able to access their mvs cabinets to see totals, money count, etc... Chris actually has a manual for the neo modem. Totally wild!!

SNK also had some magnificent neogeo themed paintings.

Do you own any of the advertisement art?

Arts
Yes, quite a lot. Hundreds and hundreds. For posters, flyers, magazines, etc...
Both Chris and myself own BRAND NEW/NEVER USED "NeoGeo Rental sign" with the "Bigger Baddee Better" logo.
I'll add photos. That sign is almost 20 years old and still pristine!! Super valuable and an extreme collectors item.

PHOTO ADDED:
Rent NeoGeo Window Display

What was the deal with the combo MVS / CD system (neo star or something of that name)

A concept for their NeoCD. Originally planned as an expansion module to the AES, then later there was talk of the all in one unit, and then both projects were scrapped in favor of the self standing NeoCD unit.

What a was the last contact you had with SNK before their transformation to Playmore SNK.

It was with snk-japan. Mr. Miyajima. He was their big boss (not the owner, but the man in charge). He would always be at all the trade shows, even the ones in Vegas. We hung out together gambling, drinking, girl chasing many times. After playmore took over, he went to capcom.

SNK Big Wig gives sworn testimony in favor of NeoGeoFreak
Playmore used him as a witness for their frivolous case, and he testified in favor of NGF. He also gave a sworn deposition/testimony stating when he was in charge of snk-japan, they were full aware that we repackaged games and that snk-japan would provide us the digital art files. THANK GOD Japanese people have a sense of truth, honor, and loyalty.

Do you have any high resolution source art (from cd or whatever media SNK used) that you can share with the site? I'm not asking for inserts, just any characters or backgrounds. Almost no high resolution SNK art is on the internet.

MO, Zip, Jazz ARTS
Yes, Yes, Yes, and I am willing to share!!
Only problems is most are on MO discs (you can see some MO discs on the zupapa faq). Neither Chris nor myself have an MO reader anymore. I also have files on Zip and Jazz cartridges (talk about obsolete, MO, zip, jazz) but I do have tons of negatives and positives. I'll post photos later tonight.

[metallizer]

How I am siding with someone by upholding our rules of conduct?

He dodges all the interesting questions and you´re helping him doing it.

[Core]

I never new snk had an office in jersey. When was this? Was it probably some distributor using the name after snk office in the usa closed down??

Yeah, the last office for the U.S. branch was in NJ. I spoke to Ben (Herman) when he was over there (he left SNKP when the decision was made to return to Cali). It definitely was not a distributer but the office in NJ was relatively small scale and set up just to get the job done here in the states cause lets be honest, not much was going on at that time (mid 2000's). Someone vistied them and posted pics a few years back.

[TonK]

No gay slur was made until after you humiliated me by saying you couldn't trust me - you were really reaching there.

Then your over sensitive gay member got offended by NOTHING.

This is your last chance to make this right.

I'm not siding with anyone.

We have rules here, rules of conduct.

1. We have an unmoderated thread for people to rant in.
2. We have rules about flaming. If you disagree, do it once.
3. We have a feedback forum, use it.

How I am siding with someone by upholding our rules of conduct?

You think I don't know how people feel?

We are interviewing him Q/A style. We are trying to get interesting points of view.

If you cannot see the benefit of a forum where each side gets to voice it's side,
you don't need this forum.

You can disagree with people here many ways, however calling someone a "faggot"
or other immature terms causes the educated people here to instantly discard everything you say.

Disagree with dion, yes we can tell by the 40 posts the same three people have made over and over.

Let the Q/A progress as it should, but no, you insist on clogging up the thread with repeated repetitive posts about inserts, money, etc.

[bearkilla]

Dion for president!

[Alchy]

Your obsession over thread views and reposting your pictures repeatedly is slightly disturbing. We're here to discuss things, not inflate our egos.

[ASSEMbler]

I think we're reaching the end of any productive questions as typical neo geo
fanboy behaviour has set in.

[Dion]

http://ngfusa.com/ninjamaster.htm
My question is: how did you manage to find stuff like this ? Did you meet personnally the artists ? Or the society that used the arts for their publication ? Or bought from other collectors ?
Also, why does Chris says "I know with almost 100% certainty, that if Dion or I do not have an original art for this mook, the art is probably been thrown away, destroyed, or with the original artist never to be seen again." ?

We have TONS of original arts, hand drawings, rough and finished sketches, paintings, that were used in the original flyers, cover art, manuals, mooks, and neogeo freak magazines.

The reason chris says that is because it was all being thrown away when snk was closing down and also when neogeo freak magazine/guiben mooks was closing. But we left a lot behind.

We have so many. Check my arts album on this site. I already uploaded some. I have Metal Slug, Ninja Master's Real Bout, QP, Magical Drop, TSS, Samurai Shodown 3 and 4, Hyper SS, Beast Busters, and many more.

We even have the full size, original hand drawings, full color of Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad characters. All 4 characters. Chris has one team, I have the other. We both had them professionally framed. We also have the Gowcaizer secret characters original, fully colored hand drawn art (we have one each/professionally framed).
As always, I'll upload photos.

Also, did you ever meet people from gamest magazine, neogeofreak magazine or pony canyon ?

Yes, neogeo freak (they went by NF). We met the staff when we cleared out the remaining stock of nf magazines.

Have you ever seen, or even better, have pictures of a neo geo (and neo geo cd) store display unit ?

Yes, I have photos. I'll add next week (I'm on my laptop)(all my photos are one my desktop)

Last question for today: did you ever meet the Guillemot brothers (or people from their company) at the time they were distributing neo geo ?

I met most of the neo aes and mvs arcade distributors over the course of 10 years. EEI, Apple, Neo South, all of them. Most trade shows were in chicago and las vegas, and I live in both of those cities. I've been in Vegas since 1999.