Hello All

[shikyohjubei]

Greetings,

My name is Eric and I simply wished to post a little bit of info about myself and my interests in the only gaming system that matters...The Neo-Geo!!

I have been playing the MVS and AES systems since the mid to late 90's while I was attending trade school for electronics(thats right...if you have a busted PCB I can probably fix it) The local subshop/arcade had an MVS system with 4 games that I fell in love with. Bust-a-Move, Samurai Shodown, The Last Blade, and Waku Waku 7. While my other classmates dropped quarters into Mortal Kombat I was playing Neo-Geo mostly for,in my opinion, absolutely superior gameplay. While in school, I acquired an AES system and played Samurai Shodown until my wrists would start hurting. Due to circumstances beyond my control however, I was forced to sell my AES system...A decision I will ALWAYS regret due to the price of games now being on the decline.

I am currently into the emulation side of things(discovered it was WAY cheaper ;D )and using both Mame and NeoRagex as my Emu's of choice. If anyone new to emulation has setup questions for either MAME or NeoRagex please feel free to ask.

ShukyohJubei

[Candycab]

Welcome to the Forums !

I too had an AES and loved it but with the game prices being what they were back in 1993 [ let alone what they cost nowdays ] and having an arcade/route operator in the familly I sold it and went MVS all the way

Nowdays the Emus are darn near if not as good as the real thing gameplay wise and work great for trying out games before you buy, personally for me its all in the presentation that makes games special...There is nothing like that feel you get from an arcade cab

Pretty hard to beat Emu prices though

[shikyohjubei]

I always loved the MVS cabinets as well as the controls. Unfortunately finding any atrcade that has a Neo-Geo system(or even an arcade for that matter) is a difficult task. I do plan on either building my own cabinet or refurbishing a Neo-Geo cabinet(Have seen the cabinets complete for as low as $200.00)

Emulation has certainly come a long way over the last several years
The first Neo-Geo emu that I used was the first version of Neoragex...ran it on a Windows 98 machine..Thats when I first became impressed with that emu. The machine specs were:
233 MMX
64 MB of RAM
Voodoo 3dfx add on card hooked to an nvidia PCI card
SB awe 32 soundcard

Aside from the initial load times....the games all ran flawlessly.....and the differences between the emu and the real arcade machine were minimal.

Anyways I appreciate the welcome.

Eric