Neo Geo (Ports)

[Cold Meat Platter]

I thought the home cartridges were priced more cheaply than the arcade ones, and they had different pin arrangements to prevent the consumer home carts being used in the MVS?

(With the understanding that the games were nonetheless technically the same, whether experienced at home or in the arcade.)

Yeah, this is the case, you can get adapters to play MVS carts on AES consoles though, and MVS carts also contain the home version code.

[buzby]

Yeah, this is the case, you can get adapters to play MVS carts on AES consoles though, and MVS carts also contain the home version code.

Yes the code is almost always the same for AES & MVS versions, so much so that you can usually transplant the ROMs from an MVS cart onto the PCB from an AES cart or vice versa. It also didn't take long before plug-in adapters became available to do the job (they are basically the two styles of edge connectors with a programmable logic array to replicate the extra signals on the MVS slot).

Ironically, the AES cartridges are now a lot rarer and worth more than most MVS cartridges (complete boxed MVS cartridge kits with the marquee insert and flyers are still worth a lot of money). For example, a mint-condition US-release AES copy of Metal Slug will set you back around £3000