The main goal of most people is to produce quickly. They are not cautious enough about product quality and try to cut corners wherever possible to reduce costs. Maybe the technology is not mature enough and there is no better solution. No one is willing to waste time on outdated interactive game consoles.
I have found the supplier for the flash memory of v3. There are several thousand used ones and several hundred brand new ones. What you said is indeed true. I remember that in 2023, the price of a large quantity of brand new v3 models was less than 50 US dollars. But many buyers still negotiated the price down to 40 dollars. Everyone wants both low cost and high quality, and these two are clearly in conflict. Reverse cloning of v3 seems quite simple. I also asked about the injection mold for the shell, and it was very expensive! It's difficult to bear the cost if not for large-scale production. If there is a better design scheme, I can arrange for production. Sales will be limited to forum members.
You can always 3d print an MVS shell if that's the most expensive part https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/3d-printed-neo-geo-mvs-cartridge.32495/
I've seen some people make 3D printed shells, but the surface is too rough.
Do you still have the gerbers? The link is dead.
I bought a few of these a while back as some shells for carts I've picked up have been wrecked over time and tbh, they're decent. Esp for the <£10 or so they're going for now.
Has this ever been done? Was the CPU swap successful?
Thanks for your help @leonk!
Hmm, I wonder if this is the issue with the neosd on my AES 3-6.
In my 2 MV1F boards, when I launch some games (always the same games), the game boots, and then a memory error splash appears. Then, just pressing C, the games boot correctly. I checked with a friend's board, he doesn't have any problems (MV1B), and finally I bought another MV1F and booted all games perfectly, so it looks like somewhere my boards have a problem.
Maybe they mean just the M1 rom.
