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OK, here you go then. My weekly challenge for week 14 - Blazing Star. Generally I'm good at this game, but as you'll see in my video if you're out of practice it really shows! LOL I said I would not practice before, and that this would be my only take and I've stuck to that as you'll see. Enjoy!

Thanks for posting this Anthony! It was great to meet Ash, we had a cool time working on the Neo Geo and then later on playing some games once the work was done. Ash will be posting a video on his own channel of the gameplay, which I'm sure he'll be happy to post on here too. Hope you enjoy the battery mod!

Really great meeting you too Ash, thanks so much for the kinds words! I look forward to playing more Neo Geo with you at some point soon

Hi If you remember a little while back Anthony linked to my Neo Geo MVS Restore video. I talked about reproduction EL Panels for the mini marquees which I'd had made by a company called Surelight here in the UK. I've continued to work with Surelight and we've got even better panels now, which can be purchased from their site which I've linked below. There is also a guide showing how to fit them which I provided the pictures for. Enjoy! Rich Neo Geo EL Panels http://www.surelight.com/el_panels/el-panel-neo-geo-marquee/neo-geo-el-panel-marquee.htm In case you missed it, here is the link to my restore video again

Hey guys I have been talking to a guy who is also from the UK called Ash who runs RetroGamingBlog (link below). He made a cool documentary style review of the Analogue Interactive CMVS which you hopefully will enjoy! Twitter https://twitter.com/RGB_RetroBlog

Thanks Jarrod! What a nice surprise for you getting a donation! I've not seen one of those. The Game Elf is not the best, although I've not made comparisons with other multicade boxes myself personally. The Elf is more quantity over quality. I own both the 412-in-1 vertical and the 619-in-1 horizontal cards. I actually only bought one board (module) and then got a guy on a UK forum to program me another SD card for about 20 quid as they are linked to the serial number. That way I didn't need to buy another Game Elf, I can just swap the SD cards and rotate my Dell monitor inside the cab :-) Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Qix and stuff work just fine. Asteroids does not, I guess it really doesn't like not having a vector monitor. On the horizontal board, all the Street Fighters are a little rubbish, but other games like Progear run just fine. On and vertical Don Pachi and Do Don Pachi are fine. There you go a random selection. However, I guess you're interested in the Neo Geo games really, and some are OK, others are not. I don't play them, they're not a patch on the original hardware which I guess is the bottom line here. MAME is the way forward with these I think. I've heard Pandora's boxes are good, but not tried myself. I guess maybe I'm a bit of an arcade snob now being spoiled with the actual hardware LOL If I were going to go down the emulation route I'd set up a PC and MAME with Hyperspin or something, and get an actual Arcade monitor for the cab. Look forward to you testing out that thing on your Supergun Rich

Greetings Neo Geo lovers My friend Glen is a photographer, and he was kind enough to photograph my Neo Geo 6-slot MVS Electrocoin Arcade and the rest of my collection. I've uploaded them for your viewing pleasure. The MVS is a restoration project. If you're interested in the work I've done so far, and what I intend to do next please feel free to watch the video linked at the bottom of this post. The most recent work I've done is to have custom made reproduction EL Panels made by a company in the UK called Surelight Matt Heald there was extremely helpful as he's a keen arcade collector and gamer himself. I've put a link to his Twitter below too for your info. I worked with Matt to design the panels and they sent me a prototype. Once we'd finalised the design I got the other 5 made, and I'm extremely pleased with the results! So without further ado, please see my Neo Geo and the rest of my collection. The JAMMA Multicade has two 1-slot Neo Geo's, a JAMMA Game Elf and... A Hyper Neo Geo 64 which currently has Samurai Spirits 64 playing in it! I own all 4 of the fighting games for this system and will be doing a video about it soon. I built the cab from a kit and made many custom parts for it myself. Again, I intend to do an in depth on this cab at some point. I hope you enjoy these! Please let me know what you think, and feel free to ask questions. Rich Neo Geo MVS 6-slot MVS Electrocoin Arcade Collection including JAMMA Multicade with Hyper Neo Geo 64 Matt Heald - Retro Review https://twitter.com/ReviewRetroGame

Thanks Anthony, nice of you to mention me it's good to be here. I'll check this video out later! By the way, I'm from the UK. It's great to have friends all over the world, and I'm particularly pleased to be good friends with Alex from AusRetroGamer in Australia. We've been chatting for around a year now, and both have a love for Retro Gaming, and in particular Neo Geo! Just to further plug his sites and social media (which are excellent) here is his Twitter https://twitter.com/ausretrogamer/ And his main E-Zine site; http://www.ausretrogamer.com/ Enjoy! Rich

OK guys, here is my video on the Neo Geo X Jailbreak by OMG-SNK. It's a long one I'm afraid (oooohhhh Matron!) I don't edit my vids having only just started out on YouTube, and it's all done in the first take. I think this is probably good enough reason for me to start editing them! But, I did want to credit all who suggested games for the video, which I've done and listed them in the description. Remember, I'm not reviewing the Neo Geo X itself, and please be gentle, I know this system gets a LOT of hate :-) But I like it, especially with the Jailbreak. It's helped me decide which games to buy for my MVS too. https://youtu.be/2uTN4Xb8FWg

Hi Aaron Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it! Zed Blade is really cool. As you've seen Anthony and I discussing, the music is fairly awesome as well a the gameplay. It's a manic game. I'm going to play viewpoint some more. I would like to try and get good at it. I've checked some high score sites and some of the scores are immense! Happy gaming to you too! Rich

OK guys, here is my Viewpoint video as promised. Watching it back I make some amusing noises when things aren't going well LOL It's the first time of trying my new mic too, as I've recently got into youtube and want to start improving things little by little. Still not editing my video's yet, all done in one take so please be kind :-) Hope you enjoy the video! https://youtu.be/geWGN8kbeOM

We became friends after I joined Twin Galaxies by beating his Pulstar world record. He was very friendly and we've been competing ever since. We founded the Blazing Star and ZuPaPa! scoring tracks on Twin Galaxies together and we're likely to do more. He isn't on Twitter, but he does stream on Twitch. He has many arcade games including a Neo Geo MVS and an Asteroids Deluxe in his game room which he calls "The Shed" http://www.twitch.tv/the_shed_arcade

Feel free Anthony. I'm quite proud of that Pulstar video since it's the current Twin Galaxies world record for the game To be fair though, I've only beaten one other guy to get it, even though it is a high score. The guy I beat is called Michael Trier from Denmark, and he's now a friend of mine. Incidentally, he's just beaten my previous Blazing Star world record today. However, I have a higher score going through adjudication right now so in about a week I should reclaim my title... for now... until Michael or someone else beats it again. That is what records are for though, it's a lot of fun. When Michael submitted his latest score I though I would never beat it. A week later I did :-)

Ha ha, you like some old school raving then? :-) I love the Zed Blade soundtrack, it reminds me a lot of The Prodigy's earlier stuff. Viewpoint video is uploading now to youtube... I did OK considering I've not played it in months and have never really spend much time playing it. I have left it in the MVS now so I can give it some proper time. Who knows, maybe I will found the scoring track on Twin Galaxies for this game as it's not currently featured and I have enough submission points... Better get good at it first though eh?

Hey Aaron Viewpoint is a great game but extremely hard! I am lucky enough to own a copy so I will pick up your gauntlet and record a vid now not played in ages. Yes, Blazing Star is one of my favorites and also Pulstar. I have Zed Blade too, have you checked that one out? Great soundtrack. Anyway back soon with vid... Rich

I own Art Of Fighting 3 and love it. Like you say great graphics and plays really well. I'm not bothered by the music as I've not played the first two at any length so perhaps I'm spared hearing familiar tunes ruined but I do agree, not the best music in a fighting game. Overall though I've had this in my MVS quite a bit!

Yes, there are only converters for the other way around right? I personally didn't like the sound of his plans for the Neo Geo. Replacing the CRT with an LCD and the buttons with light up ones, yuk :-) Still, it's his system and he can do what he likes, each to their own. So long as he's happy with it and he enjoys playing the games that's the main thing. But... his wife is very cool for getting him the Neo Geo in the first place and I do like that 4-slot Big Red model!

I will be doing that video hopefully this weekend. I've been a little preoccupied with regaining my Blazing Star top score, and although it's not verified and accepted into the Twin Galaxies database just yet, it's looking good at the moment. I have a list of games suggested by friends on Twitter that they would like to see featured in the video on the jailbreak, so I will be crediting those people. I won't be playing each for long as I'm not reviewing the games themselves, just talking about the jailbreak but if you're interested the list so far is; Magician Lord Nightmare In The Dark Samurai Shodown 2 Metal Slug King Of Fighters '98 Windjammers King Of Fighters '95 Garou Mark Of The Wolves Neo Turf Masters Twinkle Star Sprites (from you Anthony!) Blazing Star Shock Troopers Mutation Nation Most of these are actual official releases on the Neo Geo X, but since I wanted to make it interactive I'm going to feature them anyway. I also intend to show a numbers of games which are not official releases and only available with the jailbreak. I've yet to decide on these, but would be happy if anyone wanted to suggest some on here maybe? For info, the list of official games is available here so these can be avoided ideally; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_X Not all games work on the jailbreak. I know for example that Aero Fighters and Viewpoint do not work, but I think all the other Neo Geo titles do. The Neo Geo X got a lot of hate which I don't think it deserves. With the jailbreak it's a fantastic emulation system for Neo Geo and may other systems. It's allowed me to play all the games and decide which ones I want to buy for my MVS and the focus of my video will be on these positive points rather than an in depth review of hardware that's been done many times on youtube. I hope you guys enjoy it once I've done it and published! :-)

Ha ha, he mentioned me again (I'm Retro Rich on Twitter) and I did indeed recommend this to Andrew. Love Shock Troopers. Have this and and Shock Troopers 2nd Squad on MVS. I think if I had to choose, the first one is the best but I enjoy both. Enioy!

Thanks Anthony! I appreciate you sharing this and hope people like the video. I need to keep working on this game as I died in a very silly way near the end. I'm sure I can do much better :-) I need to get working on Pulstar again too, as although I hold the Twin Galaxies record I'm sure I can better this score too. I know it's not a comparable scoring track, but I'd personally like to beat the MAME record for this game too as I have with Blazing Star.

Hi Anthony I'm very pleased you enjoyed reading it! I loved doing the interview. Alex at AusRetroGamer is a true gentleman and great to talk to on Twitter. Thanks! Rich

Wasssssupppp! :-) Hey guys, happy to be joining you on here! Really appreciate Anthony posting my YouTube videos and promoting my new channel. Look forward to sharing and contributing to this thread. Rich