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The plastic on the included CPU fan is brittle, and prone to break in transit. Many people who buy one off Yahoo Auctions Japan end up with it cracked off, so that can definitely be replaced. Some RE2 have 4GB of RAM installed from Sega, but I don't know if it's picky with which RAM it accepts.

Fully agree, especially with the conversions of G-Darius, Raystorm, etc. playable. Lots of fun shmups and puzzle games. I think it gets neglected because it was underpowered at release launching the same year as the Naomi. I think Taito mainly released it to serve as a platform for mahjong and...

My assumption is that it will work for all games. I just haven't personally tested them all yet. There hasn't been any game I wrote that hasn't worked so far. There are some games I have g-cards for that I didn't bother, and some mahjong games I'm not that interested in.

From the TvC manual. 2-6 aren't used. With the Mario Party games I believe they are used to designate which satellite# each RVA is.

Yes, they are pcmcia ATA flash cards and you would need a pcmcia port to write to these. Even if you go with CF cards, you may still need to bust out the old laptop to run the g-net .chd flasher. Though you can also use HDD Raw copy if you get the game files in .raw format. I was worried about...

Nice, I wonder if these small capacity SanDisk cards are SLC, and wonder if the the original g-cards were as well. That was my personal hypothesis since large capacity modern cards never worked which are almost always MLC, nor cheap, newer cards from China which may also be MLC even when small...

I got so fed up with ordering different cheap CF cards that all didn't work for certain games, and went with PCMCIA ATA flash cards for the handful of games I couldn't get successfully imaged otherwise. I think a lot of sellers in China may be recycling old CF cards because they all appeared to...

Nice work! I played what I think is a sequel or at least spiritual successor to Mawasunda when I visited Japan. In addition to rotating, you could also push and pull the handle.

The developer of the dumping program claims conversions are already possible in the comments to his YouTube video, and even running Triforce using a custom build of Nintendont "It is actually possible to convert Mario party units to TvC many have done it already. We actually got Triforce games...

And this is totally unrelated but I found it interesting that the Wii development kits had the same black plastic box to house the WiFi antenna, and next to it a coaxial port to attach wired wiimotes. Then the RVA similarly has a hole labeled RF placed nearby that is plugged. So they likely had...

The only opened TvC I can find online has this unpopulated port that doesn't appear in mine or any other MP medal games I've seen. So that could potentially be a good differentiator if it appears in all the TvC units. The serial number also follows a different format containing a letter in the...

I think only coro coro catcher 2 has been dumped so you may have the undumped one. Or I should say part of it, because the main unit and satellite seem to be distinct images based on the sequel. I am wondering the same thing about converting mine to a TvC once dumped. Crediar is also the dev...

From the sparse readme.txt, "Extract the files onto some SD card The system will then automatically dump the keys and the NAND to the SD card If the system boots normally the SD card is incompatible, non HC cards seem to work best." I'm a little afraid to run it myself without more info. I...

I believe it was three games based on mp8, but yeah you're still right. One of them was dumped, but they haven't figured out the io to get beyond the attract screen What's interesting to me is that at some point they planned to license the hardware to Sega and namco as well, the same two...

The Naomi conversions are rampant now. The serial number prefix is a detail often missed. The BCVE- on this likely doesn't belong to power stone 2. Those four letters are unique to the game. Before buying a Naomi cart, I check to see if it matches other legit carts.