Phantom-1 Convertor...should I?

[Ebs]

Hello again,

Well, I'm loving my AES and I'm considering getting a Phantom-1 (there's also a Unibios on it's way from Raz as we speak). I've done a bit of reading up on the Phantom and I believe there are some issues people are having with it. I understand most of the SNK Playmore games won't work with it (SVC and MS5 etc) and the earlier your AES model the better (mine is 56058).

What I'm basically asking is, could the people who use a Phantom please post their experiences with it? I'd love to take advantage of the mega low cost MVS carts, but if the Phantom's a bit hit-and-miss then I'll think again...

Cheers!.
Ebs.

[Kazuya_UK]

As I mentined to you on IRC, I've never tried one... Raiken has though, so I'm sure he can give you some info

Kaz

[Raiken]

Mine works just fine really. While it's too bad the newer games won't work, their too expensive for me anyway. The only real issue I've had with mine was it had problems with Rage of the Dragons but that is because the phantom basically makes your machine a 1-slot mvs board and ROTD is incompatible with some 1-slot models. Oddly enough when I plug the AES directly into the wall rather then through a power strip ROTD is much less likely to crash. On many occasions I have been able to play for my typical 2 hour gaming session without the game having any problems. I would get one if you're taking the AES route since it can obviously save you a lot of money and if you're adament about getting the new stuff then save up or wait for the price to go down and just grab the AES carts. When you first get it it will be a little tough to insert into the carts but it gets easier with use. One final thing is I strongly recommend getting some kind of protective casing for the phantom which will also make it incredibly easy to put in the AES. I myself bought a sawed off lower half of an AES cart which works perfectly but atm ebay doesn't seem to have any for sale.

[tel668]

I had no problems at all with my phantom, the newest game i played on it was mark of the wolves which worked fine, a friend had rage of the dragons which worked on his. Definitely recommend the protective casing as Raiken says, it will make it much easier to put it in the AES. I didn't have the casing on mine and you did have to fiddle around to fit it correctly, and you do feel more nervous handling it without a case since it does feel fragile when putting a lot of pressure on it trying to get a game on and off. I don't think it's too much of a problem that the newest games won't work since the MVS versions are still expensive anyway, what the phantom is good for is buying the really expensive older AES games that you can only normally afford on conversion, like metal slug 1/2/X, blazing star, turf masters, pulstar, drift out, kizuna encounter etc.

Hope that helps,

Terry