THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: bork on January 25, 2012, 10:07:44 AM
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http://andriasang.com/comzr4/neo_geo_pocket_2/ (http://andriasang.com/comzr4/neo_geo_pocket_2/)
Following its first failed attempt with Neo Geo Pocket, SNK is lending its name to a new portable gaming device.
Famicom Plaza has a look at at the new device, which carries official licensing from SNK Playmore. The device, currently going by the placeholder name of "Neo Geo Portable Device," has 4.3 inch screen, two gigabytes of internal storage, and ships with 20 Neo Geo classics built in:
1.WORLD HEROES
2.ULTIMETE 11
3.TOP PLAYER'S GOLF
4.SENGOKU
5.NAM-1975
6.MUTATION NATION
7.LAST RESORT
8.KING OF MONSTERS
9.FRENZY
10.CYBER LIP
11.FATAL FURY SPECIAL
12.ART OF FIGHTING
13.SUPER SIDEKICKS
14.LEAGUE BOWLING
15.METAL SLUG
16.MAGICAL LORD
17.BASEBALL STARS PROFESSIONAL
18.SAMURAI SHODOWN
19.KING OF FIGHTERS '94
20.FATAL FURY
The games are all the North American versions with English.
According to the Famicom Plaza report, the device is 170x72x15mm and is a bit larger than an iPhone-like smartphone. It has a 2200mAh battery.
Controls on the device include four face buttons, a d-pad, four shoulder buttons, a menu button, a start button, and buttons for volume and brightness. Ports include headphones, AV and an SD.
No details yet on pricing or release date. Famicom Plaza's report does not list the maker.
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Kind of cool, but you know it's going to be way too expensive.
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Perfect hardware
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Repackaged Dingoo
First they used the GB Micro
Then they used the PSP
Now they're using iPhone
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Now they're using iPhone
Right down to the antenna grooves.
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ahahaha holy shit
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sell me the back cover. I want an iphone that says snk.
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Fuck 3DS and Vita and smartphones, the true winner of the handheld war :bow2
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:bow iPhone with buttons :bow2
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I had the idea for an Android gaming handheld that was pretty much this. :-\ Although, boneheaded move putting the SD slot on the side. Missed a perfect opportunity to put it where game carts normally go.
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I'd rather have this than a Vita or a 3ds.
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Imagine that as the iPhone 5
Steve Jobs's last business deal was with SNK, he was quite the ardent NINJA MASTER'S player
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Is this Android or Linux-based or something? Not sure what's so amazing about this, unless it has a lot of power to hack, otherwise you might as well just get a Wiz or whatever's popular now. Oh boy, preloaded with a bunch of old-ass Neogeo titles that I've played millions of times now! One of these days SNK will release a set of good games that are from the latter half of the 90s.
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I'd buy it if it had a d-pad :\
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if it's a microswitch stick like on the ngp or neo geo pad, it's actually better than a d-pad (for fighting games at least)
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will buy
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I'm in
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Totally in if I can buy more games conveniently
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SAMURAI SHOWDOWN FUCK YEAH
Who the hell wants the first game though? 2 and 4 would have been much better choices. Every time SNK releases some sort of history pack it's a bunch of old-ass games that are hardly the best that they've put out. I just don't understand why everyone is all excited about this handheld from what we know, other than having a nice design.
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So, is this fake? Because on ncsx that had it filed under hoax.
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It's just a dingoo, go buy a Dingoo. lol
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So, is this fake? Because on ncsx that had it filed under hoax.
It's a photoshopped iPhone, isn't it?
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Does seem pretty suspect. The L and R buttons aren't even labeled symmetrically.
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Nobody seems to have a concrete answer.
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The face buttons seem uncomfortably crammed together.
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The face buttons seem uncomfortably crammed together.
Japanese console, so it's probably the actual design then. (:teehee)
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Fake New Fake Portable Neo-Geo Fake Announced
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:gloomy
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I like everything but the D-pad. It looks like it would be shit for fighting games.
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I like everything but the D-pad. It looks like it would be shit for fighting games.
Spoken like a man who never used the Neo Geo Pocket Color.
Or the Neo-Geo CD controller.
Or the Neo-Geo Pad 2 for the PS2.
Or the Neo-Geo Pad USB for the PS3.
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It's real after all according to Famitsu:
http://andriasang.com/con0b8/neo_geo_x/
Visit neogeox.com and you can register to receive information about a new Neo Geo X portable system.
The system is an actual SNK Playmore sanctioned device. Famitsu.com confirmed with SNK Playmore that the product does have official licensing.
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According to Famitsu's report, Neo Geo X will be released in the second quarter of 2012 and will come bundled with 20 Neo Geo classics, including King of Fighters '94, Metal Slug, and Samurai Showdown. Tommo Inc will release the device in America. Blaze will handle release duties in Europe, the Middle East and Australia. A distributor for Japan and Asia will be announced shortly.
This does seem to be the same device that a retailer revealed a few weeks back. See our original story for specifications, more pics, and the full list of included games.
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Glancing at the official site (http://www.neogeox.com/home.html), gotta say, I'm STILL skeptical. :lol
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Apparently it's like $800. (http://www.develop-online.net/news/40208/NeoGeo-X-handheld-months-away-from-release) Wait no it isn't. (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-15-neogeo-handheld-confirmed-500-price-tag-mooted) Wait yes it is. (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/blaze-confirms-500-price-tag-for-neogeo-x/092841)
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$800 sounds right for a Neo Geo. I gues games will also cost about $200 to $300.
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$800 sounds right for a Neo Geo. I gues games will also cost about $200 to $300.
:iceburn-because-its-true
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Fuck that!
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haha for a guy like diun they might as well have announced the price at a jillion gabillion dollars
or twenty bucks, that'd probably be equally out of reach
Since you know your sales, just how well did those $200+ Neo Geo games sell? It always blew my mind that SNK would charge outrageous MSRPs for them.
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haha for a guy like diun they might as well have announced the price at a jillion gabillion dollars
or twenty bucks, that'd probably be equally out of reach
Since you know your sales, just how well did those $200+ Neo Geo games sell? It always blew my mind that SNK would charge outrageous MSRPs for them.
I have no doubt that the majority of these games sold right out since Neo-Geo AES titles became a total collector's market. We had to special order them for retail sales and brick and mortar stores stopped carrying the games very quickly after the system came out. I only saw used games in Japanese stores back then. Games from certain regions also had more value; U.S. games had way lower print runs even though the only difference was the box art and manual. Euro versions were even rarer. Then you had guys making bootlegs (put MVS cart guts into an AES cart and slap on a fake label!) and/or ruining carts by stamping their names all over them (the infamous "Neo-Geo Freak" duo).
I used to buy and sell AES games for a profit when I was done with them. The "worst" I ever did was break even on a game I'd had for a year and the craziest thing I ever did was buying two games at once (Waku Waku 7 and Kizuna Encounter for $300+ each)...I was a teenager and could barely afford one Neo game 1-2 times a year.
As crazy as it sounds, $275-$325 is also pretty cheap for a relatively-new arcade game. The MVS kits new could cost as much as $1,500....THAT was crazy, especially when MVS cart prices would fall to crazy-low prices after the AES releases hit.
The most insane thing I ever saw was a dude who sold the majority of his Neo MVS collection to buy SNK Vs. Capcom: SvC Chaos NEW. That game did not have an MVS cart release and instead was released as a board. It was $1,500-$2,000 and he sold off so much shit to pay for it....then the game was a huge disappointment and nobody cared about it after a week. SNK released the home AES version and a PS2 version only a few months later, too.
I kept on buying Neo games until 2003. By that point I had a modded XBox and was playing new games on an emulator, with filtering and in 480P, before they even came out on cart.
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Thanks for your post, lyte.
I just don't see a 500 GBP Neo Geo handheld doing that well outside of a few thousand people who are hardcore collectors. I suppose they assume that price because of all of the games that are built in but I don't see how anyone outside of crazy collectors would bother. I'd rather just download some illegal ROMs and play them instead.
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Thanks for your post, lyte.
I just don't see a 500 GBP Neo Geo handheld doing that well outside of a few thousand people who are hardcore collectors. I suppose they assume that price because of all of the games that are built in but I don't see how anyone outside of crazy collectors would bother. I'd rather just download some illegal ROMs and play them instead.
Nah, the price makes no sense no matter how you look at it. Neo-Geo collectors are also anti-emulation and wouldn't want this thing anyway.
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This handheld is now coming out for a more...sane...price at $129.99 standalone or $199.99 for the handheld, TV-out dock, and Neo-Geo joystick.
I'd be more interested in this if it can be easily hacked and loaded with all the ROMs, especially when I now have the Neo-Geo emulator running on my PSP Go.
It's also being made by Blaze, who has a bad reputation for putting out shitty hardware/using bad emulation for other similar devices like a portable Genesis emulation handheld.
NEOGEO X GOLD ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM Announced for Worldwide Distribution
Tommo Inc. sets release date and price for revolutionary gaming "system within a system"
Los Angeles, Calif. - August 13, 2012 - Tommo, Inc., in partnership with SNK PLAYMORE, today confirmed that the NEOGEO X GOLD entertainment system is scheduled for a worldwide release this December. Following the 20th anniversary of the ground breaking NEOGEO AES console, the NEOGEO X GOLD entertainment system provides players with all of the features of a home arcade and the convenience of a handheld gaming device. The NEOGEO X GOLD entertainment system is set for a worldwide release on December 6, 2012 for a suggested retail price of $199.99 (USD).
The NEOGEO X GOLD entertainment system comes complete with the NEOGEO X Station, the NEOGEO X Handheld with 20 pre-loaded NEOGEO classic titles, and the NEOGEO X Joystick. In addition to coming pre-loaded with 20 NEOGEO classic titles, the NEOGEO X Handheld device features a crisp 4.3" LCD display, an expandable game card slot, internal stereo speakers, and a 3.5mm headphone jack for a personal gaming experience you can take anywhere. The NEOGEO X Handheld device works with the NEOGEO X Joystick and NEOGEO X Station to charge the handheld device and transfer the action directly to a television set or monitor, via HDMI or A/V out, for a true arcade experience right at home.
The full list of NEOGEO X Handheld pre-installed games is as follows:
3 COUNT BOUT
LEAGUE BOWLING
ART OF FIGHTING II
MAGICIAN LORD
ALPHA MISSION II
METAL SLUG
BASEBALL STARS II
MUTATION NATION
CYBER LIP
NAM 1975
FATAL FURY
PUZZLED
FATAL FURY SPECIAL
REAL BOUT - FATAL FURY SPECIAL
THE KING OF FIGHTERS '95
SAMURAI SHODOWN II
KING OF THE MONSTERS
SUPER SIDEKICKS
LAST RESORT
WORLD HEROES PERFECT
"Great game consoles don't die; they're just reborn in much more affordable and convenient packages," said Tommo CEO Jonathan Wan. "The NEOGEO X GOLD is a love letter to one of my favorite consoles of all time, and working with SNK PLAYMORE to acquire the NEOGEO license, Tommo Inc. looks to provide gaming and entertainment enthusiasts with a classic arcade experience both at home and on the go."
Distribution of the NEOGEO X GOLD entertainment system for European and Asian territories will be handled exclusively by BLAZE and Success Company. North American distribution of the NEOGEO X GOLD entertainment system will be handled exclusively by Tommo, Inc..
For the latest news as it is released, and for additional information regarding the NEOGEO X GOLD entertainment system, please visit: www.NEOGEOX.com.
About SNK PLAYMORE CORPORATION:
Headquartered in Osaka, Japan, SNK PLAYMORE CORPORATION (SNK) develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software in Japan, North America, Europe and Asia. Founded in 1978, SNK is one of the largest privately held interactive entertainment content providers in the world.
Known for such franchises as THE KING OF FIGHTERS, METAL SLUG, and SAMURAI SHODOWN SNK continues to be an industry leader by focusing on their rich arcade history. More information on SNK PLAYMORE CORPORATION can be found at www.snkplaymore.co.jp SNK PLAYMORE USA is a wholly owned subsidiary of SNK PLAYMORE CORPORATION.
About Tommo, Inc.:
With over 20 years of experience in logistics and sales, a knowledgeable staff and sales representatives available nationwide, Tommo Inc. is one of North America's largest distributors of video gaming merchandises. Founded in 1989, Tommo has grown from a wholesaler of imported video games to becoming one of the nation's main suppliers of video gaming content to national retail chain stores as well as independent retailers.
About BLAZE:
Founded by Jason Cooper over 20 years ago, BLAZE now specializes in the creation and distribution of retro gaming devices. BLAZE currently distribute SEGA and ATARI branded consoles and, in Q1 2012, are set to release the "Gamegadget" games console, billed as the "iPod for games"
About Success Company:
Based in Hong Kong, Success Company are specialists in the distribution of all video games formats throughout the Asian region.
© SNK PLAYMORE "NEOGEO" is a registered trademark of SNK PLAYMORE CORPORATION. Used under license from SNK PLAYMORE USA CORPORATION.
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Can't you buy all those games on the PSP/Vita? Most of them anyway. If this thing's not easily hackable, then it seems worthless.
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Can't you buy all those games on the PSP/Vita? Most of them anyway. If this thing's not easily hackable, then it seems worthless.
The only reason that would be worthwhile to be hacked is if that's a microswitch dpad like in the ngpc. The perfect way to emulate motm if true.