NEOGEO Mini Review And Unboxing Japanese Version
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Finally Got my hands on the all new Japanese NEO GEO Mini and its time to take a look!
In this video, I unbox, test out and give you my thoughts on the Japanese Version of The NeoGeo Mini.
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Japanese version Game List:
Aggressors of Dark Kombat
Alpha Mission II
Art of Fighting
Blazing Star
Burning Fight
Cyber-Lip
Fatal Fury Special
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
King of Monsters 2
Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle
Metal Slug
Metal Slug 2
Metal Slug 3
Ninja Commando
Ninja Master’s: Haou Ninpou Chou
Puzzled
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers
Real Bout: Fatal Fury
Samurai Shodown II
Samurai Shodown IV: Amakusa’s Revenge
Samurai Shodown V Special
Sengoku 3
Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad
Super Sidekicks
The King of Fighters ’94
The King of Fighters ’95
The King of Fighters ’96
The King of Fighters ’97
The King of Fighters ’98
The King of Fighters ’99
The King of Fighters 2000
The King of Fighters 2001
The King of Fighters 2002
The King of Fighters 2003
The Last Blade
The Last Blade 2
Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
Top Player’s Golf
Twinkle Star Sprites
World Heroes Perfect
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For people saying it looks kiddie or a toy little do they know that 1) there is a alternate color for the international release and 2) it replicates the color and design of NEOGEO Arcade cabinets in japan.
Oh man, don't ever show these people what game centers look like. They'd be horrified if they saw a blast city cab. :D
Ryuujin1078 would have been nice if they went with the red cabinets u.s version as that is more memorable here
Ryuujin1078, plus, as you probably know, we used to have these back in the day. Little arcade replica units, they were so cool, and very popular before home consoles became mainstream.
I'm just glad we live in a world where this is possible. I remember seeing a Neo Geo console back in the early nineties at a computer fair... there was no way I could afford one, never mind the games.. I never knew anyone that owned one either.
Only rich people and athletes had one 🤣
I literally was saving up like $600 for one but couldn’t at such a young age
Some Asian arcades and the console had issues with the shadow but the American version work just fine.
@eta prime - The flickering shadows are output by the real hardware, but on a real CRT arcade monitor, the flickering is not noticeable and is a an old coding 'cheat' to get a semi-transparent shadow (due to phosphor persistence)
John Parker how many other CRT exclusives are out there?
you are not wrong, in theory that was what they tried to achieve, but in reality it doesn't work and you see a blinking shadow.
source: I still have my old CRT TV.
True - though somehow it looks less harsh than on an LCD, perhaps because of phosphor afterglow. Or it could be my nostalgia!
The flickering shadows made the gamers of that generation actually immune to flashing lights.
17:00 yes its the same on the original neogeo, as a KOF fanboy i can tell you everything about it XD
The best mini retro system by far. The screen looks excellent too.
Thanks for the video, Really awesome to see the Neo Geo Mini :D
Awesome vid! It’s great how you explain everything in detail & thanks for calling out the usual slow-downs.
Also I believe the mini cabinet looks better without the joystick sticker.
The slow down was always there for Metal Slug 2 on all platforms it has been released. SNK later released Metal Slug X which is an update of 2 but improved with new gameplay features and no slow down.
Not that I was paying attention to the release date but it came out faster than I thought. Sweet.
Yes, the blinking shadows are accurate. They did this in many old games to get around the fact that they couldn't do transparencies. They would just flicker the shadow sprite on and off quickly.
10:25 Metal Slug 2 was the worst offender in the series when it comes to slowdown. They "fixed" it by releasing Metal Slug X which is sort of a "remix" of Metal Slug 2. X and 3 are my favorite entries in the series.
I purchased both Japanese and International version. I love both of them, but I’m a little more partial to the colorful Japanese one.
That's an awesome little cabinet, kinda reminds me of the old early 80's coleco table top cabinets
Awesome! one of the first video reviews of this system!
ETA you did it again man great vid.
Everyone in Mexico will buy one of these for Kof
Get the Japanese version then.
International Version only has:
King of Fighters 95
King of Fighters 97
King of Fighters 98
King of Fighters 2000
King of Fighters 2002
Japanese Version has:
The King of Fighters 94
The King of Fighters 95
The King of Fighters 96
The King of Fighters 97
The King of Fighters 98
The King of Fighters 99
The King of Fighters 2000
The King of Fighters 2001
The King of Fighters 2002
The King of Fighters 2003
P o o p e r S c o o p e r ' 9 9 i got the Japanese version just because it’s has all the KOF!!! LOL
@@darkmask441 true, the controls are garbage tho
Yup
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Wow I am so darn jealous, it looks awesome, I now have to pick one up. I used to own the Neo Geo CD and I thought that it's controllers where the best thing I have ever used.
Thanks for sharing - this booth had quite the crowd at E3 checking things out :)
What’s a crowd
KOF beats every SF except the Alpha series. Alpha reigns supreme.
Absolutely stoked that both the Last Blades are included. I always thought they were superior to Samurai Showdown.
I am surprised they didn't include any of the more esoteric (but still well known) titles; e.g. 'Nam1975, Magician Lord, Waku Waku 7..
I hope this mini can be modded....If more games can be added and it can be connected to a TV...I will definitely get it. I am from Latin America and King of Fighters franchise is huge here, so the Japanese version is more appealing to me.
Lou Gallegos it connects to TV. Confirmed
Lol I know right? I remember the long lines at the corner store after school to see who was the best.
You gotta door, you gotta gym!
🙂👍 Excellent video. 🙂 I have brought, the Neo Geo Mini today (18/08/2023) and it is the same version as the one you have shown in this video. 🙂 Plus well done for finding the option to change the Japanese language in to English. 👏
My childhood in mini box. Really want one
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Want, need, must have! Great review Sir.
+ETA Prime, The NEOGEO was a sprite- and color powerhouse but didn't support alpha transparency like the SNES. It was very common to disable a sprite every odd frame to give the illusion of 50% transparency, It became somewhat of a visual trademark of the platform. :) During that time artists used a lot of clever techniques to go around limitations, this is one of them. The reason why NEO GEO often stuck with this technique was due to acade cabinets used CRT-monitors and pixels didn't blur like on RF or RCA compatible home televisions. The Mega Drive on the other hand used a lot of raster patterns, both to create transparency (waterfalls in Sonic), as well as adding more colors (backgrounds in Lion King... which looks like stripes during emulation, but on a TV it looked like extra colors). Sonic used both raster, odd/even sprite technique (for the shield powerup), as well as scanline palette swap (to create underwater sections), It's really cool to be honest, they created transparency by shifting the palette of the game after a certain scanline was drawn on-screen). :)
Yeah, the flickering shadows were indeed part of the game. In fact, if you took a component-modded AES to an HDTV, the ones that incorrectly process the 240p image as 480i, the shadows would have either vertical stripes or just be solid/invisible. It would be the same if you tried any of the 240p-supported Neo-Geo fighter compilations for the PS2 and did that over component as well.
By the way, great video. First time I'm seeing one of these machines in detail. Now I really want one.
Definitely go with the joystick and buttons sticker, this unit is made to resemble a special MVS machine only released in Japan.
I usually complain about lack of a digital pad but in this case it's a non issue
Nobody is going to be playing their best on the built in controls regardless because of the position & size, I definitely want one but I'd play with a pad :) to me the in built controls are a nice novelty
I want this for my desk at work.
hey this is your chance to get into KOF, they are incredibly fun games!
Got mine yesterday! Its great.
It look sharp on that mini screen .lots of great games
Nice review. Will try get one when I’m next in Japan or U.K model.
Great video man,👍🏼🎮
Great video, hope to get my hands on the international version
Loved the vid liked and subscribed
You must have had the street fighter machine to yourself at the arcades during the 90s because, where I used to play, everybody would always gather around the 4-game mvs
Love it cant wait to see what you do to this little guy.
Hey ETA, the shadows do appear the same way on the original arcades. The reason why is because the Neo Geo hardware doesn’t support alpha effects (transparency) so the trick here is to have a solid shadow flickering quickly to give the impression of transparency (a very old trick during the 8-16bit era). It’s just more noticeable on non-CRT displays since they work refresh differently. You can briefly see the solid silhouette hanging for longer when you KO the computer :)
Cant wait for the next one!
Bravo great review 👏
Thanks sir ! Great video and definitely want one of these now!
That's so freaking cool!!
At 13:44, the cloud disappearing like that on the left side of the screen got to be an emulation bug. It does not behave like that when I play Blazing Star on the Nintendo Switch. :(
Thanks for the video, cannot wait to get mine. I bought it from amazon JP; but shipping is until August 20-23. One funny thing you mentioned is that you don’t like KOF as much & the Japanese version is focused on “fighter games” while the International version is focused on “shooters” again thanks a lot!
This is super cute! Hope it is released for a reasonable price in the UK!
Hey ETA, great review! I am a huge neo geo fan but Those retropie options have an annoying input lag sensation. Did you feel any input lag using neo geo mini’s HDMI output ?
I am considering modding this for my car. The 3.5" screen is very high quality and worth the $100. If I can separate the screen and fit it in my console and run the HDMI to the dual screens in the back and have access to the USB controller input it would be a great and affordable travel syatem.
I seen your video about how you got one and how you where going to do a review later and I was like screw that I'm looking for reviews now! Lol but I'm back to watch your review which is probably a better vid anyway
I wish there was nearest neighbor interpolation and integer scaling. It looks incredibly blurry to me on the HDMI output.
Yes it looks like shit. Mine came last week. I do not want to play it with HDMI. It's absolutely awful!
Ok after watching your video I am definitely getting one!!!! :)
I love it, been playing it all day.
The controllers are up for preorder in Taiwan, about 28usd each.
Shadows in KOF looked just the same on the arcade. Many thanks for the review by the way still waitin' for the international version in France :-)
I can imagine my self raging on the last blade 2 and snapping that tiny little joy stick in half.
Awesome ETA Prime. I wonder if there will be a controller port mod to allow us to connect a full size arcade stick.
Well it uses USB type C connectors so it SEEMS possible. You can certainly get adapters. I buy packs of 5 on Wish for super cheap all the time. Sometimes I give them out as stocking stuffers just because everyone who has a modern Android phone is so pissed about having to buy new cables and peripherals.
Carl Couture looks like some one has already tried...
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I really hope they make plenty of these when they come to the west. Non of that NES classic nonsense.
Analog stick was a deal breaker for me. But I get it. People will buy it anyway so it really doesn't matter at all. Thanks for the review.
Dbn Poldermans I know! Their 8 way, clicky, micro switch joy stick is one of the brand's definitive features. It blows my mind they went with analog.
Way to subtly insinuate that anyone else who does get it is beneath your personal taste. That wasn't assholish at all or anything.
I loved when you were saying the KOF game titles, it sounded like a rap. LOL. Also Metal Slug 2 lags alot regardless of anything, Metal Slug X fixed majority of the slow downs.
Yes the shadows do that in the actual arcade units.
Very rapidly to look see through.
The shadows on KOF do blink on my MVS. It may be bc of the refresh on CRT compared to LCD.
Ok awesome, I wasn’t sure but you are probably correct about the CRT aspect
Just tested on AES; shadows blink exactly the same in KOF 2001 but not in some other version (i.e. 99). Think its just a feature of the game.
month or two and i bet all china gonna be filled with bunches of neogeo mini controllers about 15$ per unit (quality not included)
sai blades It's actually made in china #LOL
You’re absolutely right, they are everywhere now.
Thank you for the review.
awesome video!!
Dude, you are a video beast lately. Awesome work.
It looks nice, though smaller than expected. I like how they have the controller/expansion ports on the side where they don't interfere with the 'clean' look of the front. Of the 2 marquee stickers, the 4-slot style matches the old arcade look more, though maybe if the other one didn't have the white face, if it just had the logo in the center I'd probably go with it.
All those KFs, surprised that waku waku 7 is missing I like that game. But king of monsters is cool.
They definitely should have added Waku to the mix.
My favorite game I have on my raspberry pi because nobody has heard of it and it freaks people out
Waku Waku 7 is from Sunsoft, and no third party party games are in the mini.
Also, too many Metal Slugs, a little less would have left some space for less known games.
Jason Thorpe, I would have liked a baseball game. Just my nostalgia from arcades growing up. Baseball Stars.
Nice review, so a type C to USB, plus a regular USB control does not work in it??
Something I thought would be cool is having a gutted mvs machine and using an adapter conntect the controls and video to it
Instead of drilling holes in that Neo Geo try induction charging then it could charge while playing if left on the induction pad.
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ETA PRIME..
Yeah baby
Do you by chance have the Neo-Geo X Gold? If so have you tried the joysticks from that?
Love the Neo Geo mini. Is there a way to add more games to it yet???
Do you have to have the neo geo connected with the charger to use it or after you charge it for a while you can use it without the charger
Can you try to run and test the international version of this unit for he next video soon?
Is this coming to the US? I haven’t seen a release date
Great review. I cant wait to see if u can and how easily it is to add games... regardless my getting one of these neogeo is one of my favorite systems ever. Thanks for sharing.
Will the us controllers work for the Japanese ver.??
Can’t wait to get my hand on the US version.
Nice vid ETA !
Awesome I got to get one now..
Does this have bilinear filtration on the games? Kind of looked like it when you went from the menu to the in game. Bummer if so
Do you think people on sites like Etsy will sell custom stickers for the marquee and button pad?
KoF '98 & KoF '02 are some of the best, stick with playing those!
ETA Prime, would you PLEASE do a tutorial video on how to add more Neo Geo ROMs to the International version of the Neo Geo Mini? I think there is a video on how to do this on UA-cam but it is in a foreign language and I was hoping you'd make a video most anyone can understand, like you always do?! Thanks!
I am so surprised that you don't like KOF, it has more elaborate combos and moving parts vs the SF series.
I used the play KOF 2002 competitively back in mexico and let me tell you that SF was not even considered a "skill" fighting game.
MVC 1 and MVC 2 were considered just because of the button combinations and character assists
SF is too slow especially modern SF. Alpha series were fast especially 3.
I know you say you love Metal Slug 4, but I've always thought it was the weakest of the series on MVS. I am most disappointed by the lack of Neo Turf Masters.
Yeah NTM is great, shame that is missing.
The stickers are random btw. You can buy a sticker pack for 1000 yen that contains 4 stickers, which are also RANDOM. I got mine with King of Fighters 96 Kyo.
Shadows blink on real hardware. It's because SNK was trying to fake transparencies like the infamous Saturn checkerboard transparency. I used to notice it in arcade cabinets but it wasn't as glaring. There are probably shaders these days that can help it.
Would it be possible to link the machines together or it’s not?
Would you recommend this over the international version if so why?
Also is it hard to understand the individual game options on the Japanese version? Please respond as soon as possible, im literally on Amazon about to order one or the other.
As marquee use the one that you prefer! This tiny machine seems realy good, i will buy it when will be available in Europe definitively!
Btw, super excited for teardown, I wanna see the guts of that little stick and see if there's a way to throw a gate in there, though I'm guessing not. If you get the pad I wanna see inside that too.
I’m trying to find one now, got a few people helping out but it looks like they made less pads then consoles LOL.
ETA PRIME I'm mostly curious if the pad has the same switches as the originals.
Same here. Going to check for your channel this weekend. I can’t wait to see the battery mod.
A bit pricey but it's pretty cool looking. I knew that this would be more expensive because of the build, I hope they make a legit mini version for like $100 in the future.
Tidal Yacht That would be RIDICULOUS! I second that.
Hence why I mainly collect for the 360, PS3 era and back. A time in which you got to keep your games and not have to be online or download to your hard drive before being able to play, shout it from the rooftops LMAO.
Is not difficult to rest the hands and press the buttons? The hardware did not shake when you move the stick? Is heavy enough?
The shadows in KOF should flicker very quickly to give them a translucent effect. I don't think it's ever properly emulated.
What is this, a Neo Geo for ants??
Michael Frost its a neogeo for suckers
Have you ever seen an ant in your life?
I'm pretty sure that ants are not to the scale of this. If you were TRYING to go for "clever", the least you could have done is said "mouse" or "rat" or "pet Iguana". But I don't think you would have had the mental capacity to come up with that.
And no, it's a Neo Geo for people who want all those games in a tiny, adorable form they can put on a shelf and display. Some people WANT that, you know. And they're NOT fucking "suckers" for having their own tastes. Get fucked.
ᵗʰᵉNight★Star jeez, it's just a joke
Controller is under $80 eff this
This looks awesome! Was wondering do you know of any free frontends for android?
I would prefer the Japan version because of the colours of buttons
Do you realize you are getting $10000 worth of games! The reason I say this is back in the 90"s when I wanted to buy a neo Geo the games were around $250 each! Amazing deal! Lol
Ray Padilla nah these are emulation and not the real deals. Stop fooling yourself.
Manhwa Fan
You can play most of these games on PS4
Manhwa Fan Who cares? A rom is the essence of a game...that's what it's all about. I'd rather have a Pi than original hardware that can die at any time now.
CB W I'm not saying it's the same thing or equally valuable. I can copy my rom as often as I want so it has zero $$$ value. But a rom is more valuable to me, because(!) I can copy it (preservation).
A painting and a picture is not thesame entirely. The rom is what makes the game, so a cartridge and a loose rom are a lot closer alike...it's the same thing, but without the physical form. With the right filter it looks and plays exactly the same on a modern tv as it did on now ancient hardware.
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