WTB: bootleg Neo Geo MVS carts

Please post what you've got and what price you're looking for. I will need PCB pictures before I buy something though to be sure it's what I need! Thanks

I would also be willing to trade a legit Metal Slug JPN MVS or a Mahjong game, maybe even a newish complete Sam Spirits 3 AES depending on the bootleg.

 

Check them out here:
http://www.arcademvs.com/mvs.htm

They're in the special section, and he will send picture if you ask.

The only thing I've seen is that they will be dirty. I've heard they are occasionally shipped in a cereal box (or something).

 

Cool, thanks!

 

May I ask why you want fake cartridges? For the price difference? Or becouse of some obscure reason?

 

Right, I'm looking for a NEO-ZMC circuit in discrete logic for an easy RE. It wouldn't hurt to get some 32/64M flashroms in DIP adapters either. I would also love a bootleg AES cart if they exist!

 

If a cart doesn't have a holographic label on it, as well as no serial numbers, does that mean it is a bootleg for sure?

 

Those probably aren't what he's looking for though. All of the bootleg Slug 1 AES carts are converted by people using original AES and MVS parts. They take a donor AES cart, remove the ROMs, and replace them with the roms for Slug 1...or any other AES game. So, no fancy Chinese bootlegger parts.

They do it for a few of the top dollar AES games that people want but can't afford.

 

Nope, often official boards are put into unofficial cases or have unofficial labels. AFAIK not every game has the holographic label either and the serial number sticker may peel off.

Most of the boots out there are either very small games like Puzzle Bobble because the games are very cheap to copy and are very profitable games for operators, or newer very expensive games which just cost a lot. I'm looking for only older original bootleg PCBs which do not have any original SNK parts and hopefully no CPLDs or ASICs which makes it just as difficult to understand as the original SNK board.

Metal Slug for MVS is very cheap and common so it's not likely to be bootlegged. (I have a legit Metal Slug MVS that I would trade for what I'm after)

 

I bought two bootleg carts that have 16bit flash chips in them. These are very difficult to find normally.

 

Can anyone venture to tell me whether this is legit or bootlegged? If you guys need a non-camera phone picture, I can do that. I know it says SNK on it, but I figure they probably dont just write 'bootleg' on it. It is from Aerofighters 2 fyi...

 

Nahh thats a legit PCB. A good clean silkscreened board with uniform Mask ROM's. Don't worry about the small discrete soldered to the right hand IC, its only a tantalum capacitor used to smooth out any glitches in what looks like the chips #OE line.

SNK used to add these at the factory as a small bug fix.

 

Puzzle Bobble was bootlegged to the hilt for some strange reason....

 

Looks like a boot to me but its hard to tell. Most chips used in MVS (and AES) should have the game serial number on them....

 

Ah I knew I should have grabbed that box of Neo*Geo prototype carts. SNK just tossed them, doh!

 

A bit OT but check out this AP Nintendo site with pics of counterfits.

http://ap.nintendo.com/

 

http://www.jamma.nl/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=768

Pictures of various bootleg MVS carts.

Off to Hong Kong for a few months next week, I'll let you know if I find anything.

Just as a question what is the Mahjong game you have?

 

The Mahjong game is Janshin Densetsu

Don't look for boots for my sake, I need PCB pics so it's most convenient if people already own the games and want to trade them away.

Ideally someone will have a game from 1993 onwards entirely in 74XXX series chips, PAL/GAL/PALCE/PEEL are OK too. Just no custom SNK parts or CPLDs (Altera/Xilinx chips)! It's no surprise that I like others are looking for ASIC workarounds but don't have access to good logic analyzers.

 

Are you trying to create your own cartridge?