I have a Neo Geo single game cabinet. Is it possible to upgrade it to hold multiple cartridges?
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I have a Neo Geo single game cabinet. Is it possible to upgrade it to hold multiple cartridges?
It is, but it's probably easier to buy a multi-game cartridge, which costs around a hundred bucks.
If you want a real multi-slot, you'll need to pick up a new 2- or 4-slot motherboard. They're readily available, and are going to cost around $100-$150. They have slightly different pinouts, and I'm not 100% sure they can swap without rewiring. Another consideration is the select game button — you may need to wire one up if you don't have one on your control panel.
I didnt think about the game select buttons. It might be easier to just hunt down a four slot neo geo cabinet.
The 4 slot boards you sell are they easy to instol?
I investigated the option of a multi slot mvs as well. I am no longer considering that option as that many 4 and 6 slot boards require extensive maintenance, tracking down problems once they occour is said to be a nightmare due to the complexity of the board catering to so many slots. Also its not 100% jamma if you are doing the wiring yourself.
Just look on feebay, you are going to find listing after listing of non working mvs 4 and 6 slots.
Buh. They don't require "extensive maintenance," any more than any other arcade PCB does. There are two preventative maintenance tasks you should do, which is replace the battery and recap the audio amp. That's it. The top PCB is pretty much just the cart connectors and traces to connect them to the other board, hardly complex.
There are numerous listings for dead PCBs of all kinds. Guess that means I should dump my original PCBs and use a 60n1.
I investigated the option of a multi slot mvs as well. I am no longer considering that option as that many 4 and 6 slot boards require extensive maintenance, tracking down problems once they occour is said to be a nightmare due to the complexity of the board catering to so many slots. Also its not 100% jamma if you are doing the wiring yourself.
Just look on feebay, you are going to find listing after listing of non working mvs 4 and 6 slots. I own an mvs-1f myself and the board contains a mono/stereo switch. The switch is a bypass to a 4-pin male connector (for a 3.96mm VH, if im wrong someone please correct me) that is found on the side of the board.
The way this works is if you install the board in a jamma cab with only one speaker then you set the swith to mono and use the jamma connector's speaker connection to the 1 speaker. However if you have a cabinet with two speakers like an mvs cabinet then you terminate the jamma harness leads for the speaker connections instead of hooking them up, switch the pbc's audio switch to stereo, and utilize the 4-pin connector on the board to wire up the speakers. Polarity on the pins is documented as +, -, -, +
I also wanted to note that imoho, I tend to believe that the more complex or intricate something is, or if something just simply has more parts, the margin for failure tends to be higher. Again, a matter of statistics and averages. Of course, there are always exceptions as with anything.
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?13402-Wich-is-the-best-MVS-board-to-get
Robivy64 - "I have always enjoyed (and currently own) the MV-1FZ. It sounds like he has MV-1F boards based on you mentioning the controller ports. I have owned the MV-1F as well and it is a nice board.
I've never been a big fan of the multi-slot boards. They are ungodly huge, finicky, and require more power (something you need to consider if you plan on consolizing).
Each board has pros and cons. You have to consider that the multi-slot boards require MVS-JAMMA as opposed to regular JAMMA, so if you are going to install this in a standard JAMMA cabinet, you will need to make some modifications or buy an adapter. MVS-JAMMA having stereo at the JAMMA connector as opposed to mono."
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?13402-Wich-is-the-best-MVS-board-to-get
tomwaits - "There's a comparison chart of MVS motherboard versions here: http://www.hardmvs.com/html/PCBcompare.htm
I've got a couple single slot MVSs, and I'm using them with both a Vogatek supergun and a cab. The MV-1 is big, but it's full featured with a socketed bios, stereo sound, volume control, joystick ports, and connectors for headphone jacks/memory card reader.
The only problems with the MV-1 are the size and compatibility issues with a couple of the later MVS games (Rage of the dragons, Matrimelee, maybe others?). I also have an MV-1C which is much smaller and works with all MVS game. As GohanX mentioned the NeoBiosMasta lets you add a unibios to the MV-1C and you can also mod a MV-1C for stereo pretty easily. No way to add memory card support though.
I'd also recommend sticking with a 1-slot. Multi-slots are big, heavy, use more power, individual slots may fail, and they have compatibility problems with MVS multicarts.
Also, SvC Chaos Plus is actually 'better' than the original. It has all the extra characters unlocked by default and it's impossible to unlock them on an official MVS cart without a unibios."
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/103803/educate-me-on-neo-geo-arcade-hardware
elliotw2 - "The multicart would be a terrible idea with games that get upwards of 100MB. If you do want to upgrade your motherboard to more than 2-slot, go for a 4-slot. The 6-slot ones weren't very reliable, due to them having 6 heavy carts and having to flip through all of them"
Unfortunately I've been unable to obtain production numbers for how many of each boards shipped. Perhaps its just a matter statistics and averages? Maybe more 4/6 slots were produced for ops than 1 and 2 slot boards because it was such an awesome way for them to save money and space.
Maybe it is just that time of year and broken 4/6 slots are more plentiful? Who knows. My apologies for coming off as "grossly exaggerating" what I had posted. My apologies for utilizing the phrase "extensive maintenance", I should have used, "routine preventative maintenance". As far as "uninformed propaganda", I wasn't aware that people were considering http://wiki.arcadeotaku.com as unreliable now days, my apologies for using dated sources.
The members of AO are not the end all of the arcade world, just as those of us that frequent these forums aren't. Everyone should make their own informed opinon. Hopefully the OP will do his own research and figure out the best option for himself.
Brian.
but since the debate is about the neo well heck i wish there was a site dedicated to it, oh well.