MegaNeo AES modifications

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

 

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...

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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....

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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:

 

Uk airwaves transmit digital 16:9 RGB images :smt033

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

Rich

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

For digital cable my friend's dad pays $147 a month. (But with many PPV)

 

And that my friends...

And that my friends, is why people have hacked DirectTV and Bell Expressview...