At 02:00 AM 4/3/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Also, to keep this somewhat related, does anyone know if they ever made
>hucard cases that were like a CD Jewel case? You now, where you can remove
>the inner tray and put an insert on the back? I was thinking about scanning
>in the boxes and resizing them into inserts, so that all the caseless games
>can look like they belong with the rest of the group. Just curious.
OK, the on-topic stuff first :)
There were a number of PCE Hucard releases with inserts: The ones
I've got are Toilet Kids, Parodius, and New Adventure Island. The Arcade
Cards and Tennokoe Bank also came like that.
They are quite nice cases. However, they aren't readily available,
so you couldn't just buy a lot of them and put your extra Hucards in them.
Actually, when I needed a new insert for my Arcade card, I had to get a
whole Parodius Da! from a friend of mine and steal the case from it.
Probably if you spend a bit of time in Photopaint or whataver you
could make up some nice end labels in imitation of real TG16 text and
paste them on to the empty cases.
>It's a supposed MVS to AES convertor, which would allow you to play the
>arcade Neo Carts on your home system. Now, a while back I could have sworn
>that several people said this wasn't possible. The item is apparently mass
>produced (I"ve seen it on Ebay directly from the manufacturer, and also at
>VGD). But man, for $400, I want to make sure that thing works 100%. It's
>either that or I go get a Super Nova with the PC MVS board attachment. Of
>course, I would need the money to buy it but hey, at least I want to know if
>this thing works okay. Anyone tried it? It's called the Phantom-1.
That converter is supposed to work quite well and play every MVS
game to date. Haven't tried one myself but people seem happy with it and
nobody's complained yet.
However, $400 is a lot of money! For that price, you could easily
get an MVS board and the neccessary parts to play it with plus some carts
to boot. Maybe I'm wrong, but there's no way in hell a converter like
that could cost anywhere close to $400 to make, even in small quantities.
The whole thing reeks of profiteering and I'm quite sick of seeing that
kind of attitude in the Neo scene.
Right now I am running arcade boards using my Commodore 1084s, a
PS power supply, and a Jamma harness with the appropriate connectors
attached. The whole thing cost me maybe $30 Canadian, and works
beautifully. Adding an MVS board to that would still be well below the
cost of one of those converters ($600 CND!).
Matthew
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