Neo Geo Reproductions / Conversions

Hey everyone,

I was wondering for Neo Geo reproductions and conversions, how difficult is it for someone to actually make one? For example, if you wanted a home-brew game added to an existing cart, or a modified game (like Crossed Swords 2) added to a donor cart. Is it very time consuming and hard to do, or is it fairly easy for someone with the right equipment and technical expertise?

 

You need to sacrifice two carts firstly, so it's quite expensive. Plus you need to know which games will work with which carts.

Other than that, it's pretty pointless as MVS is usually far cheaper. As for repros, you'll get flamed to death by the Neo community for destroying valuable carts

 

Repro cart for aes huh, by the laws of neogeo community that will be $4000. Even though you spent $50 on parts. Allow the flameing venomous neo geo community to arrive.

 

Ah, sorry about not being clear (It was probably my language). I don't mean AES cartridges, but MVS cartridges. Like how easy is it to take a crummy game like "Legend of Success Joe" and convert it into something like "Crossed Sword 2", which was English translated and converted from the Neo Geo CD Release to MVS/AES format? Seems like Razoola made an initial release of the game in hardware format, but has since released the ROM so anyone can do it (Because profiteers were charging crazy money for repos?) .

 

Considering the price of Neogeo stuff, it would probably be cheaper to just get some PCBs made, rather than hacking up even crappy carts. I'm not 100% up on Neogeo hardware but I'm assuming the carts are just a big bank of ROMs

 

Sorry I was drunk when I saw that and love to gripe about the neo geo community. Anyhow if you can find a pic of the pcb of a hacked cart, that can give you insight what has been done to it.