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Controller extensions....These okay?:

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/15Pin-1-8m-5-9ft-Extension-Cable-Wire-Cord-for-SNK-FC-NEO-GEO-CD-Handle-PVC/332899633864

 

Also--is playing burned discs bad for my Neo Geo CD?

 

Cheers' and thanks Anthony for all your advice and input. loving my Neo Geo CD!!!!

 

ALSO---Any original titles you guys would recommend that won't break the bank? ($50 or less)

Hey Rick,

 

I personally never bought extension cables before. But I heard that they are fine and if you feel that you would like to use them on your controllers they should be good for you bro. Playing burned discs on the NGCD is fine as well. I personally never read anything that could damage the unit from what I seen. :)

 

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This is really great! Stuff like this is super valuable to archive, so I'm glad you're taking this first step.

 

...though I have to admit to a slight ulterior motive here. See, a couple years ago after being a life-long Capcom fan I found out SNK was more than the half of Capcom vs SNK 2 I didn't understand and was actually really cool! I also noticed that their game translations had a really unique flavor, especially for the time. Sometimes weird, sometimes charming, sometimes nonsensical, but clearly trying to sound natural and American more than other Japanese-translated games of the time. I started to write up my own translations of various lines and compare them to the official ones, and eventually got enough together to throw together a site I called The Mad SNK Project (because I'm crazy to do it). If you want a quick look, check out Billy and Axel's Fatal Fury 2/Special pages, because they're both pretty nuts in their own ways.

 

As the project progressed, I realised I wanted to get into manuals, because they was an entire hidden box of weirdness I never knew about. I started translating the character backgrounds out of the Garou Densetsu 3 manual with no knowledge of if they ever got translated into English, and then I dug up an FAQ that has what I think are probably the official English versions (they're a clear match for the Japanese, just with that unique flavor) but I can't verify anything. The FAQ is from almost 20 years ago and the author has long since vanished from the internet. Meanwhile his Art of Fighting 2 Character Background FAQ not only has what appear to be character manual blurbs, but completely different translations of the fighter copy than exist in the arcade flyer! That's also super weird and fascinating to me. If anyone has an English copy of Fatal Fury 3 or Art of Fighting 2, I'd be super grateful if you'd at least glance inside the manual and verify if the old FAQ is accurate.

 

And looking at the Samurai Shodown II scans Gecko1993 already kindly provided, I can already see a few weird things. SamSho2 is already strange for having such broken English, and while I haven't given it an in-depth look yet, I've noticed a few actual mistranslations hanging around in its script. I rarely see what I'd call mistranslations out of SNK. More often there's a connecting thread where I can see that the translator or editor was trying to be funny and went a bit too far, or they just made something up out of whole cloth. SamSho2 has cases where it looks like there was an actual misinterpretation of the Japanese line that didn't get caught. But looking at the manual, that clearly done by a native speaker who wanted to make a lot of jokes - it has a lot of the same hallmarks of a "standard" SNK translation (constant "poke your eye out" jokes, "Wan Thatta Gotaway gem") but runs out of steam around Nakoruru. After that it turns straight and dry. I really wonder what happened there.

 

I know cataloging old fighting game translations in obsessive detail isn't something most people are going to care about, but I've somehow made it my personal project for probably the next decade. These things just happen, I guess.

Hey MarsDragon,

 

Welcome to the Neo-Geo thread on Atariage.com. Glad you enlisted onto the forums and we look forward on seeing more from you here and throughout the Atariage.com site.

 

If you have any questions that you like to ask pertaining to the Neo-Geo and SNK, feel free to do so. Will be glad to answer them. As for yourself, do you collect or have a Neo-Geo library of games or units in your collection? If so we would love to see them since we welcome our members to share it will us to be amazed, and inspire others to buy and play Neo-Geo.

 

Thank you for stopping by MarsDragon, See you soon with future postings thout the forums. :)

 

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Over 10 years ago I won a Yahoo auction for some #NeoGeo Galaxy Fight art. It was all copied so I filed it away not thinking much of it. Found it recently and it actually may contain stuff that hasn’t been published before. (Thread)pic.twitter.com/obtwVgWUnF

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  1. SNK lead artist Mr. Naoto Abe and character designer/illustrator Mr. Eisuke Ogura doing a panel at KBR | GX 2019. They discussed about the new Samurai Shodown, the cancelled Mark of the Wolves 2, and a rarely revealed Middle Eastern character concept for #KOFXIV! 1f631.png#motw2pic.twitter.com/wlul0YUlUx

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  1. Congratulations to DBD Kazuma for 2nd runner up in the #NGWT2 Kuwait Stop #KOFXIV qualifier for the global finals. Grand finals tomorrow 5pm (GMT+3) VersusKSA BusterWolf vs VSlash Zantetsu Followed by #KOF98 at http://twitch.tv/neogeoworldtour pic.twitter.com/8ZjLteeZnm

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In other news...
Who loves Pulstar? WE DO!

Brave Wave just announced they will restore and remaster all tracks from both the AES/MVS and Neo Geo CD version of the game, and release a definitive soundtrack to vinyl and CD this summer! Working with the original composer Harumi Fujita! YES!

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We're pleased to announce GS-009: PULSTAR The Definitive Soundtrack for CD & vinyl this summer!

We're working with @SNKPofficial and PULSTAR composer @HarumiFujita to restore and remaster both the AES and Neo Geo CD tracks in one package.

Details: http://www.bravewave.net/genseries/009

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  1. We're pleased to announce GS-009: PULSTAR The Definitive Soundtrack for CD & vinyl this summer! We're working with @SNKPofficial and PULSTAR composer @HarumiFujita to restore and remaster both the AES and Neo Geo CD tracks in one package. Details: http://www.bravewave.net/genseries/009 pic.twitter.com/4YompzbCcc

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  1. PS4/Nintendo Switch/Xbox One「アケアカNEOGEO サムライスピリッツ零SPECIAL」配信スタート!2004年にSNKから発売された格闘ゲームです。歴代ボスを含めたキャラクターが集結!相手を一撃で倒してしまう究極の必殺技「絶命奥義」は必見です!ぜひお楽しみください! http://hamster.co.jp/arcadearchives/switch/samurai-vsp.htm pic.twitter.com/Z6le4p2P7Q

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  1. ACA NEOGEO SAMURAI SHODOWN V SPECIAL is now available on PS4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One! It's a fighting game released by SNK in 2004. Bringing together 28 of your favorite characters, including past bosses! Please enjoy the master pieces of NEOGEO! http://hamster.co.jp/american_hamster/arcadearchives/switch/samurai-vsp.htm pic.twitter.com/HiCfKvRUCv

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  1. @CodeMystics Will you be releasing more #NeoGeo games for the #vita? I own all the releases on mine and I would love to play Fatal Fury (the SNK compilations (PSP) aren’t available on the UK store), Sengoku 2 and Ragnagard on it!pic.twitter.com/4kKBQpKTut

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  1. 正式Logo公布!日輪の紋が新たな世界のシンボル! 『SNKオールスター』の正式Logoが決定!お気に召されましたか? #SNKオールスター #正式Logo公布 事前登録サイト:https://bit.ly/2KMQUHE pic.twitter.com/VWYFgEMACQ

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  1. 【動画あり】武器飛ばし必殺技、秘奥義、一閃! 超必殺技の一部をまとめた『#SAMURAISPIRITS#サムライスピリッツ)』先行試遊版の動画をお届け #サムスピ https://www.famitsu.com/news/201904/19174962.html pic.twitter.com/caiUM8mIJw

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