I just don't get why they don't release them via NeoSD file similar to what the Xeno Crisis team did. Why sell 100 copies at $1-2K and go through all the hassle of printing, cartridges, etc when you could sell let's say 10-20k copies at maybe $50-100 with much less effort. I know I would easily pay that much to play it on my MVS at home. Pretty dumb if you ask me (or just plain stubborn).
I don't think the people who bought them as investments would be affected that much. Most people who would buy a physical copy would not care that there is a NeoSD version the same way they don't care Gunlord is out on Switch, Dreamcast, PS4, PS5, etc.. Prices for an MVS/AES Gunlord are still just as high. The only thing that could affect their price are further MVS/AES carts being made.Because piracy, and they do what they do to some extent with the knowledge that there's a secondary market and some people buy them as investments. They posted something like this to some effect on their Facebook page.
Yes, but they are the ones who asked the Terraonion team to make their carts not be able to run NGDev games so they themselves created that barrier.Their later Neo Geo games also have both an ARM and FPGA coprocessor on the PCB that likely helps the Neo with graphics manipulation, so the game likely can't run off a flash cart alone.
https://www.mvs-scans.com/images/e/e3/Kraut_buster_unofficial1_b1_front.jpg
https://www.mvs-scans.com/index.php/File:Razion_unofficial1_b1_front.jpg
I expect the reason they're not releasing more AES copies is that FPGA parts are difficult to obtain currently but they really ought to write their customers and tell them that.
Yes, but they are the ones who asked the Terraonion team to make their carts not be able to run NGDev games so they themselves created that barrier.
I don't think the people who bought them as investments would be affected that much. Most people who would buy a physical copy would not care that there is a NeoSD version the same way they don't care Gunlord is out on Switch, Dreamcast, PS4, PS5, etc.. Prices for an MVS/AES Gunlord are still just as high. The only thing that could affect their price are further MVS/AES carts being made.
Did you guys ever hear of some guy on Etsy (I think?) who supposedly had the Gunlord Dreamcast version loaded/running off an MVS cart? Sure that was a hoax, but I wonder if something like that could ever be done.I believe what the request entailed was putting hard blocks in the firmware (presumably) somehow to prevent the games from working if anyone ever succeeded in a) dumping them and b) finding a way to make them work. As STC alluded to, it is unlikely they would run regardless because of the extra hardware ngdevteam uses in the carts. I was always under the impression that the FPGA was used for on the fly decryption of the games, but perhaps my understanding is incorrect.
Maybe so, but I'm not here to argue market economics of game collecting, just sharing with you what I've read ngdevteam say themselves about the matter.
I have a clean MVS kit I would sell if the price was right. Send me a PM.Getting a bit tired waiting and would prefer to play it in 2023 so if someone wants to get rid of theirs for a decent price hit me up! Any version is fine.
And it can stay there.
Definitely won’t sell.I am watching it to see if it sells. But, interesting the timing of it going up though we recently started talking about this, lol. But yeah, still not worth 3k.
Well everyone loves gassing up the NGO games. Didn't an AES batch of these games get into the hands of some gamers? or was this MVS only?Definitely won’t sell.
They’ve stuck the marquee in a shock box, which is bizarre, the move strip has been sharply folded, rather than kinda loosely wrapped around the cart to avoid creases as the kit comes, the spare cart label is missing, there’s no CD (not all kits had one, apparently), and it’s still $500 dearer than the other overpriced kit on eBay that hasn’t sold in two years.
Nonsense listing