Neo Geo MVS Game Storage: Shockboxes by Southtown
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Been collecting NeoGeo MVS arcade game cartridges lately and I've quickly found the desire to grab some nice boxes and artwork for them. Turns out these AES-style shock boxes from Southtown Homebrew are fantastic!
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Those cases seem to be exactly like what the nicer VHS Tapes came in.
Yeah, I was getting some serious nostalgia from the squeak of them opening.
Made on the same machines, different size, though.
Those were a joy to have. Around here we had way more VHS tapes for recording stuff than those.
These are a lot bigger though
LGR Blerbs, more like LGRcade. Love the content.
_pretty much_
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Lgrcade is perfect lmao
@@michaeltamez8818 LG-Rcade
@@cmdraftbrn nice
I'd like to formally request a complete history of the Metal Slug series, LGR style.
I sold off my Neo Geo MVS collection over a decade ago since I was going to study abroad and needed the money. I still cry myself to sleep every night.
Wow, holy heck, all these years, I seriously heard "Bust a move" and assumed it was somekind of dance rythm game. You've just exploded my pitifully small mind, LGR.
What makes it almost more confusing is that it is in Japan. The PSX rhythm game Bust-a-Groove is called Bust-a-Move in Japan. They couldn't call it that here cause of this one. Your mind is big. You knew this shit somehow.
@@kevinf2757 Exactly, I remember playing the japanese Bust a Move in PSX (a game I loved, actually), and when it launched in USA and Europe had to be renamed to Bust a Groove due to the original and not very wise rename of Puzzle Bobble. I remember there was a lot of confussion due to that.
For most of my life I thought “bubble bobble” was bust a move, which seems like a much better name for it, but no it’s an entirely different game. Bust a move was in fact called “puzzle bobble” at some point though adding to the confusion
Don't worry...it gets even _more_ confusing! 😏 Bust-A-Move was actually the original title of the game until very late in development when Taito decided to cram Bub, Bob, and other Bubble Bobble characters into it and change the name to Puzzle Bobble. We know this now because some years ago a collector found a prototype that was basically the finished game, minus the Bubble Bobble IP, and bearing the Bust-A-Move title...which I imagine they kept for the overseas release because they didn't think anybody remembered Bubble Bobble outside of Japan?
@@ar_xiv I'm sure there was a cheap PC release of Puzzle Bubble 4 (early/mid 2000s when you could find shelves of cheap jewel-case PC software) that kept the name. Wouldn't be surprised if it was the same US publisher that gave us Darius Gaiden PC. (I have it and remember that one having an English Windows Help file with same color text and background, with the actually "readable" text file being Japanese instructions.) :P
the sound of the cases is 100% new tape at christmas nostalgia
What I'm realising about your blerbs, is that 2nd to just seeing more content from you in general, is that I love your attention to audio and videography.
Everything you create is so well informed, pleasing, and incredibly relaxing after a stressful day.
Thanks for continuing to be you.
Edit: Also, you've taught me so much more about the tech I grew up with than I could ever have imagined, so thanks for that too.
LGR rules... his video on Morrowind killed me XD
9:55 Fun fact: there actually *was* a dancing game for the PS1 known as Bust-A-Move in Japan that had to change its name to "Bust-A-Groove" in America specifically because of Puzzle Bobble's renaming.
Nice collection. I've always wanted to get into MVS collecting but I wanna get my collections for the consoles I already have to a respectable place first.
Just waiting on the upcoming NeoGeo cartridge restoration blerb
NeoGeo: Disney Clamshell Edition
((in Disney announcer Mark Elliot's voice)) Collect them all and experience the wonderful magical journey of the Neo Geo Masterpiece Collection with the whole family!
thats how the AES did it, so not entirely.. although noted that too.
sender has some good taste for putting in padaru haha. you should definitely pick up magician lord if you have the chance, it's one of my all time favorite neo geo games. great gameplay and awesome soundtrack.
I collect Neo-Geo games. It is such a welcome treat to see one of my favorite content creators cover this subject matter!
love YOUR CHANNEL AND FINALLY SOMETHING i CAN HELP WITH:) I was around the NG community back in the AES days, hung out at Neo Geo.com as garg7, a member there BigBear spearheaded the boxes, then dubbed 'shockboxes', I was an investor and knew theyd be big, I also designed some of the inserts in the beginning:) Once had 22 AES carts, 2 complete in box consoles, but then went to MVS cart collecting and sold my collection, used to purchase new releases from National Console Support, INCLUDING Slug 1, X, and 3, oh those were the days. STILL have my top 20 carts, and my original 4 slot Japanese candy cab. Fun hobby but ADDICTIVE. Happy to help if you wanna write, thank you for the channel!
This was so satisfying to watch. Would love to see more videos on this even if it’s you cleaning the cartridges up, testing and playing. Thanks!
LGR: Hmm...Neo Geo games, or Lamborghini...hmm...
LGR:
I didn't know that Neo-Geo's arcade MVS cartridges looked like giant VHS tape cassettes.
The typical SNES cart was maybe 8Mb, while Neo Geo carts could go up to 716Mb
lol yeah they are beefy for sure.
They didn't originally. This is an aftermarket thing to make them look more like the home system
@@nesnioreh Uh.... what? They have always been that size.
@@theoperator288 i mean the boxes
dis man needs a custom fight stick, love seein this arcade stuff Clint really awesome
Wow these are beautifully made boxes! They’ll look great on the shelf, for sure.
LGR talks about Neo-Geo.
This is truly a glorious day.
I love my Neo Geo MVS cabinet. Getting it completed a wild childhood fantasy 🙂 Also getting MVS cartridges now while they're reasonably priced is a good idea. Consolized MVS systems are becoming more common and the AES cartridge market is ridiculous. I think demand for MVS cartridges is going to rise soon.
Wait, MVS cartridges are "reasonably priced"?! In 2008 they priced somewhere between "Well, why not?" and "Slippery slope" territory (and I fell down that slope, believe it) but last I looked the prices had gone up to where I couldn't justify it anymore. Luckily I've got my MVS-4-25 cab and all but a few of the games I wanted...so I don't have to worry about it. 😬
Bust A Move? I had that for the original NES and it was called 'Bubble Bobble.' It was one of the few games I could get my mom to play. Made for EXCELLENT mother-daughter bonding time!
In case you haven't gotten this in comments yet: It's Bust-a-Move in NA and Puzzle Bobble everywere else in the world and the Dance game is called Bust-a-Groove and for the longest time that did throw me off when the dance rhythm game came out on the Playstation since my local arcade had Bust-a-Move too. And I still play it today through "Bubble Witch Saga 3" one of the highest-grossing mobile games of all times. Probably a case of Mandela effect since Bust-a-Move was also on Gameboy, SNES and N64 under the same exact name.
You gotta get some Windjammers running on this, dude. I absolutely adore that game and all of it's Frisbee tennis goodness.
IMO the best vs game on the MVS. That cart is always installed in my 4 slot cab!
Just watched an 18 minute of a gent putting things in boxes. More please
Fricking love me some Neo-Geo.
The sound of those cases opening took me straight back to my Commodore64 cassette days.
Holy crap! those clamshells look so good
Metal Slug (the king of run n' gun platformers), yes please!
yeah but muh contra.
never mind that something can still be awesome and worth playing, despite being technically superseded by something that comes out a decade later.
XD
The Arabic writing in the background of this game is hilarious, containing such gems as "Food Poison Restaurant"
Got a chill down my spine when he said "greetings"
I love the puzzle bobble games. Probably my one of my favorite games of all time!
Gosh, those cases are so pretty. I absolutely love that Neo Geo logo, super Evangelion.
sweet two uploads in one day!
Just got my order in today and they are glorious
I like that simcity 4 mug you have In the background Never seen one before
If you were wondering for the Samurai Spirits game... the full title on the label is Shin Samurai Spirits... I actually didn't play that one as much but seeing any Samurai Spirits game makes me happy
Simcity mug! Really really really need that Simcity mug! 😍
I admire your ability to still enjoy retro side scrollers. Playing them now just makes me feel sad and old.
Great collection. I too love the southtown boxes I have 8 of them. And 8 aes games. My collections done with what i want though atleast for a while. Good video. Liked and subbed
I also have the exact same mvs case for 2000 nice.
Nice to see Puzzle Bobble getting some love even with so many clones out there.
Cool sleeves. I remember Metal Slug eating a lot of my quarters back in the day.
I got an order this week too, pretty happy with them overall. I got the fatal fury/real bout/garou set.
I played KOF 2000 so much on the arcades here in brazil.. it was surely a trend back in the day.
Love that Puzzle Bobble case! You can tell it's the Japanese artwork right off the bat.
Thanks for reminding me of what a rabbit hole the arcade machine hobby is. I told my wife "even if we have the room NEVER let me get even a single arcade cabinet"
Bonjour !
These boxes are very cool ! Merci pour cette vidéo ! ;)
I use a 6 button setup with MiSTer's neo geo core, and its really nice for the games that SNK pretty much designed as 6 button fighters, like samurai shodown 1, 2, 5, far east of eden, waku waku 7, etc. much more comfortable than constantly trying to hit button combinations to do stuff.
Nice setup!
Everytime you say BLERRRB , it cracks me up man
Can’t wait for the video of him cleaning these bad boys
I just love this channel
a thing of beauty!
Those cases are awesome
:D - those cases SO remind me of the early big box VHS ones, although they were prone to splitting and falling apart somewhat (inside and out) as they became rather brittle. The ones you have seem much better built, so hopefully those won't have the same issues.
Arcade perfection at it's finest!
Yeah love your Neo Geo Hardware ! 🦾
(5:06) You mean like how things happen in _Organ Trail_ just when you're talking about those particular things in _Organ Trail_ ? *PushingUpRoses* is such a good sport, makes Let's Play fun.
It’s not “original” hardware, but stuff like Retroarch allow you to bump the cpu speed up to 200%, which eliminates all slowdown in all games, in case you wanted to see stuff like Metal Slug 2 running at full speed.
Puzzle Bobble was named Bubble Bobble here in the UK. Used to love that game on my NES. It got bundled with the NES classic mini. Very happy to play it again. 😄😁
Bubble Bobble is a completely different game, actually! Puzzle Bobble is a later spin-off. Same characters though.
@@LGRBlerbs oh wow.. never realised. I only ever see Bubble Bobble in the shops. Thanks for the info :)
Thanks dude! I was looking for someone cool to watch!
I've been collecting NeoGeo MVS now for about a year, ever since I FINALLY found a Metal Slug 3 cart at last year's Midwest Gaming Classic. It didn't take me long to consolize a mvs board, and get a few more titles. I've been using these shockboxes since the start, and really love them.
I would love to hear more about your MVS consolization setup. Mine is definitely more home brew.
Looks fun. I actually looked into the sound chip for the NeoGeo and it's actually quite the little marvel. It's actually the main reason there's so many damn pins on the cartridges, haha. It has 4 OPN channels compatible with the Genesis and other arcade chips, 3 PSG channels that are compatible with an INSANE amount of consoles, computers and arcade machines like the ZX Spectrum and Atari ST, as well as an ADPCM sample player split into two sections. One section runs 6 channels of playback at 18.5 kHz and the other section plays on channel between 18.5-55.5 kHz. The ADPCM section is also why they needed so much capacity in the cartridges. I think it's cable to address like three or four rom chips on its own to play back samples, and that goes up with bank switching. No wonder the games cost so damn much to make back in the day.
Brings back memories :-) awesome :-)
wow for aftermarket cases those are way friggin cool, worth the money forsure
That SimCity mug is awesome.
If they're anything like the VHS squeaky cases I think the latching has a tendency to wear out with repeated closings.
Great selections. I’d recommend picking up Baseball Stars 2 and Art of Fighting 3. AOF3 had rotoscoped character animation that gave the fighting a weightier feel. Last resort was pretty good if you like horizontal shmups.
From what I recall. Metal Slug 2 is a CODING not a Harware problem that shows up on almost anything it runs on, and cant really be fixed cause it will just CHUG when it CHUG. Which is why they made Metal Slug X
well shit
LGR Blerbs There appears to be a “patch” for MS2, but it only does so much to overcome the poor coding.
blog.system11.org/?p=1442
In the Neo Geo Station release of MS2 for PS3 and PSP they included an “Overclock 24Hz” option for the CPU to help reduce the majority of the slowdown, it’s a shame this wasn’t carried over to the ACA Neo Geo release.
I've also got the MV-1FZ like you have there as well as an MV-1. The FZ was tossed in as "broken" but I accidentally fixed it before I even turned it on by burning a diagnostic BIOS and a replacement BIOS, since the only problem was the BIOS. ;)
Omg you are the king
Only king and rich people have access to those fancy pancy NEOGEO Cartridges
5:42 LGR: Making a LGR blurb
Mail Carrier: Lets Bother him
I'd love to own a Neo Geo MVS cabinet someday. It would probably be one of the few arcade cabinets I could justify spending money on, especially if I use a flashcart on it.
Wait! You love the Neo-Geo too? My fellow Neo-Geo brother!!! I own a consolized MVS as well. And I agree - SouthTown Homebrew’s MVS Shockboxes and inserts are da’ bomb! I buy them every time I purchase new MVS cartridges!
BTW - When did you start this channel????
I'm now randomly inspired to record a video on game cases. This reminded me, somehow, about how you could watch Microsoft and game publishers cheapen their case designs with thinner, more translucent plastic and thinner and cheaper manuals going from original Xbox to 360 to late 360 to One eras. Same with PS2 cases getting rid of memory card holders.
Those cases look pretty nice.
MVS carts are the patrician choice, glad to see them being taken care of.
Seriously these look like they did on release. Really, really, impressive pieces. Stoked to see Clint stoked on pickups like this.
Oh man, first getting an Asteroids Cabinet and now NeoGeo MVS cartridge collecting. The arcade collecting bug is definitely hard to resist, I currently own a 2-Slot MVS Cabinet and I already want to own more arcade cabinets that I don't have the room to store them nor the time to restore them. Also Puzzle Bobble is the best! On a side note, with Metal Slug 2 there is a fan turbo patch of the game that helps with the slow down that you can use on the original cart if you have an Eprom writer (blog.system11.org/?p=1442), however I have not tried this myself since I don't have a writer, so your mileage may vary.
This reminds me: I need to buy Shockboxes and inserts for Real Bout Fatal Fury and Real Bout Fatal Fury Special. ☺️
I just got them, really happy with them overall, but just FYI I got the set where all the spines line up to make a big image and some of the box art was lower quality. Still worth it tho IMO
1:49 I was not expecting Nero "Padoru" Claudius wearing Terry's hat in this video, but I'm not complaining
KOF2000 and 2003 are definitely my favorites in the series.
Ooh, those cases are beauts.
wasn't expecting HASHIRE SORE YO, KAZE NO YOU NI when watching LGR Blerbs today
Neat!!
You should do more vids about neo geo stuff, lots of people like me would love that.
I’ve watched this video about 50 times waiting for the consolized mvs I bought back in March to arrive from China.
It’s funny you call ‘bust a move’ a dancing game. There was a ps1 game called bust a move in Japan that was a dancing game and had to be renamed to bust a groove when it came to America to not clash with the puzzle bobble’s bust a move title.
Shinkiro artwork is amazing.
I like these videos.
metal slug X looks SO cool!
Would watch an entire LGR Plays NeoGeo Games series.
1:50 cute Seiba
even in February, even on a LGR blerb. Padoru is inescapable!
I have a $1,300 oversized printer that can print those SouthTown Homebrew ShockBox inserts (Epson Style Pro 3880). Got it from Goodwill for $10 and fixed it up. :) Though I have a couple MVS games I haven't done any ShockBoxes. I've been adapting the inserts to AES softboxes for my AES collection instead, which also requires an oversized printer. :)
Guess I forgot to say: Want I should print you some alternate inserts? ;)
You should do a follow-up video on your current collection, btw is puzzle bobble in arcade/Europe mode, you can get the turbo hack version of slug 2, it's a eeprom change on 1 chip to make it run faster.
I admire your dedication to boxed games and software, and it's original hardware. A lesser man would get a Pi or FPGA and some roms and call it a day. These things are a piece of history and a noble venture to preserve. Good stuff.
Regarding Metal Slug 2, someone decompiled the ROM a few years ago and made a patch that fixes the slowdown. You can modify an original cart with the updated ROM and then enjoy the game with the original enemy placements but without the slowdown. Best way to play it now IMO.
Why don't you trace the font of the 2s, and cut it out in like silver sticker or something bright so you don't have to reorder the whole artwork?
I forgot they actually provide free downloads of the art, so I'll likely print it myself!
Once I finish my Atari Lynx collection, I'm going to get back to buying MVS carts.
Good job
You know dude it's been a while since ya did a tour of your collections around your house and storage. Might think about that man now that you're getting into the arcade stuff.
Something tells me an unboxing is coming on the main channel
You should definitely go for the grey spine on Metal Slug 2 so that it matches your Metal Slug 1. That said, I saw they have spines for Metal Slug 1 through 5 that has continuous artwork across them, and that is very, very nice. But then you'd need to buy Metal Slug 3, 4 and 5 :D