MegaNeo AES modifications

SuperFunkNinjaYoshiiKun · 06-24-2004

Woooo, finally, after 12 years of wanting one, I'm finally getting a NeoGeo AES for all the shmups and MetalSlugs. :drinkers: :smt033 Hurrah

Anyways, I've been looking at the MegaNeo units at on the NeoStore and they're $600/£350!!!! However, I'm not interested in all the mods they have. I need a unit with a serial number below 90,000, as these have the best RGB output, meaning I don't need the SVHS mod. The Stereo mod would be usefull, as would be a power light (but a little LED, not a whole lit up reset button). And I don't reckon I need the Unibios, as I'll be getting a Japanese unit anyway, and I don't mind playing the games in Japanese.

So, can anyone help with diagrams for the power light/stereo mods, please? I can get a Neo unit for $200/£120 from Hit-Japan on Ebay, and I'd rather save cash and do the only two mods I require myself.

Has anyone done these mods themselves? Recommendations?

Cool. Cheers. And remember kiddies, The Future is Now

**Calpis** · 06-24-2004

It's hard to believe anything on the Neo scene when everyone's trying to pitch their own merch. "Serial: 45,323 (Serials 45320-45325 have best button responce)"

http://nfg.2y.net/games/neorgb/

I've never modded a Neo and I'm not sure where R audio is tapped from but I'm sure it's damn easy. And a light diagram? Find 5v on the board, find ground. Buy a 5v LED, attach...

**ASSEMbler** · 06-24-2004

tapped if you're lazy off the headphone jack connections

**Calpis** · 06-24-2004

Thats what I was thinking but couldn't remember if Neo had headphone jacks.

**Baseley09** · 06-24-2004

Best ask in tech section @ www.neo-geo.com/forums

Codeman1 · 06-24-2004

Originally Posted by SuperFunkNinjaYoshiiKun

Woooo, finally, after 12 years of wanting one, I'm finally getting a NeoGeo AES for all the shmups and MetalSlugs. :drinkers: :smt033 Hurrah

If you really want a Neogeo to play the Metal Slug's and the shooters then you should have chosen a Neogeo MVS instead.
Metal Slug 1,2,X AES carts are very rare and expensive, the remaings Slugs and shooters like Pulstar and Blazing Star are also very expensive.

SuperFunkNinjaYoshiiKun · 06-24-2004

http://www.neogeousa.com/mod-index.html

I found this whilst researching. Stereo seems damn easy, surely even I can't :butthead: that up.....

The Unibios mod is.... scary. Not even attempting that. Quite happy with Japanese language and muchos blood.

Gotta feel sorry for guys in the USA having to mess with the SVHS mod. RGB rules (on the first 90,000 units).

Just need to locate Gnd and +5v for a power light now....

**Calpis** · 06-24-2004

Don't need to feel sorry for us, we generally don't know better. Composite was a luxury here to most until 2002 or so... If we want RGB we can get it, we'll just have to get higher end things like production monitors or transcoding hardware. I feel sorry for everyone having to live with PAL, now *that* is crap :)

Also, now people are using on-board amps to improve the composite/svhs and RGB, if you can do something like that, there really is no need to hunt down a specific console. I'm sure if I sold 90124 and labeled it as "extremely rare, very small production on 90124 units" some fool would pay $20 more.

AntiPasta · 06-25-2004

Originally Posted by Kyuusaku

Don't need to feel sorry for us, we generally don't know better. Composite was a luxury here to most until 2002 or so... If we want RGB we can get it, we'll just have to get higher end things like production monitors or transcoding hardware. I feel sorry for everyone having to live with PAL, now *that* is crap :)

That's why our TVs support 60hz :smt023
(but I agree that a lot of PAL releases are poorly optimized/converted)

**Calpis** · 06-26-2004

You guys still have PAL airwaves :) I don't think having the extra lines of resolution is bad, just the lack of frames and speed. I suppose PAL60 is technically the best, except it has very washed out colors most of the time. Thats where RGB comes into play.

Greatsaintlouis · 06-26-2004

And I'm...... completely lost on all the various types of signal outputs (composite, component, s-video, etc.) and the signals themselves (NTSC, PAL, SECAM, etc.) and all I know is that RF sucks and RGB is the best because it's outputting the straight, uncompressed Red, Green, and Blue pixel information, but beyond that I am so horribly lost. :smt017 :smt022 :toimonster:

**supersonic87** · 06-26-2004

Uk airwaves transmit digital 16:9 RGB images :smt033

shame we don't have high-def yet (apart from euro 1080 crap) :smt011

Rich

**LeGIt** · 06-26-2004

If I remember correctly the HDTV standard was rejected for europe because we are waiting for a superior PAL version :smt023

It took us long enougnh after NTSC was developed for an advanced PAL signal, hopefully the next PAL format will come along swift so we cna laugh once again at how inferior NTSC is :smt033

**Calpis** · 06-26-2004

You get digital TV via free air????

If I know the US, we'll never change transmission methods, probably 20% of the country has a TV from the 1980s.

**Baseley09** · 06-26-2004

Originally Posted by Kyuusaku

You get digital TV via free air????

Yeah a lot of our modern TVs have Digital decoders built in for free to air cable/digital.

**Calpis** · 06-26-2004

I don't know of any other place that has that. You've got something there.

**Paulo** · 06-26-2004

Originally Posted by Kyuusaku

I don't know of any other place that has that. You've got something there.

Do you pay over £120 a year to watch the TV you might of paid as little as £50 or as much as £2000 for.... no? well we do! Its the least they could give us! :smt019