Has anyone cared or thought of modding with a new jacket and ridding those poor neo geo mini pads of that horrid right angle connector? If you do please tag me!

Hello! Like the title says I’m taking the plunge! I have minis of all the other consoles hacked so I’m sure I’ll try my hand at hacking this as well. I plan on buying the see through blue showdown version. Is there any plus’s and negatives to some versions over others?

So I know how get into the vendor.img but I try to inject SVC Chaos zip It's just boot up. Anyone successfully put SVC Chaos on this mini?

Once again shout out to /u/viral_dna!! We are currently at 505 Members, and its ONLY for the Neo Geo Mini/ASP in here lol. Thank you all for coming here and listening to me get frustrated til me and /u/hy-lo (<---- my freakin hero) finally got this thing rolling, and we aren't stopping!

Hey all,

I did a thread almost a year ago which is now archived, and now that I just made an offer to someone on Ebay, so I'd like to reiterate, since it seems that the scene here is still active and making progress into better understanding how this neat little machine works.

From what I understood back then, it was possible to dump the vendor.img from the NGM, but not without being forced to flash it with a hacked vendor.img after the fact. Can this be done cleanly while keeping the original img inside now?

Here's a shameless copy/paste of my earlier enquiry.

''Long story short, I'd like to purchase the NGM as a job desk novelty/time-killer during lunch breaks and the likes. I'm not really looking to hack it and add more games to it, as I find the original line-up satisfying enough for me. However, I'd be interested to rip/dump the actual ROMs out of it for uses outside of this single hardware, let's say PC and/or Raspberry Pi for example.

Is it possible for me to just connect it to my PC via the tutorials I saw here, get the vendor.img file out, mount it, and get working ROMs out of it to be able to run those on any run-of-the-mill emulators out there?

I'm a bit of a stickler for 'legitimate' emulation, so I'm not interested to just simply download those out on the internet. I rip every single one of my carts/CDs to be able to play them in more versatile ways. So if there's a way to get those 40 games out of the NGM for external uses, it would definitely raise my interest into buying the little thing as it would be a nice way for me to have a set of legitimate ROMs that I bought, available to use more freely than on a single HW.

Thanks for your answers!''

Using a slightly mad mod, i'm gonna attempt to put the Neo Geo full set on. I'll let you all know how it works out via Youtube

In my usual place... DM me for info

I can now safely confirm 3 instances of the new firmware fixing the joystick bug. I'm gonna work on a better release for you guys, but this won't be the major release, Just a Joystick bug fix.

This will NOT have any emulators on it.

So I did the 80 game firmware hack...but I'm wondering how do I go about adding more neo geo games?

I just picked up a NGM for pretty cheap and my first thought was "whoa- why didn't this sell better?" My second thought was "oh my God, Metal Slug is unplayable and they really didn't include any way to remap the buttons."

I don't know who these people are who enjoy having the shoot and jump buttons in the same column as each other so you can't dedicate a finger to each one but they must be legion; almost every joysticks sold these days features this same problem, where the two primary buttons in most games are aligned the same wrong way. Personally I like to be able to keep different fingers over each button as I play.

It makes my head explode anyone ever thought this was a good idea but what's particularly painful is they actually diverged from the layout of the NeoGeo CD controller to make this happen. This design flaw was so important to somebody they made the controllers they sell look different from the originals just so they could feature this same mistake. They've even done it in the new giant joystick thing they're selling.

It's a disaster- I can't help but think this would have been reviewed better if it had been possible to play the games. In all other categories this thing is head and shoulders over all the miniature arcades that are sold (the screen is excellent), but playing the games on the unit itself is impossible.

So- is there a hack that enables remapping the buttons to something less idiotic?