They’re selling a bundle that comes with an adapter for the PS4/PS3/Switch
There’s also a rumor floating around that it will include built in memory that allows for up to 2,000 more games to be added.
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This is a Shit for this price i bough X-arcade or made it Wood a Stick I.L. Magnetic o Eurojoystick
Tear down video. The parts remind me of Hori’s parts, which is interesting.
I love the guy’s videos but every time I hear “Sanwa,” I cringe. How anyone could be looking at the interior of this thing and say anything but “Seimitsu” is beyond me.
Not everyone is as cultured as us
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Let us try to be fair here before dismisssing the system entirely folks. These are legal copies of the games. They have at least some value, and based on the prices of the S.N.K. 40th anniversary collection, or the Neo-Geo Mini, I would esstimate that worth to be going at a rate of approximately $2 per game, including the nand flash needed to store them on the nintendo switch or inside the Neo-Geo Mini:
These gamess are also of some special interest:
- Fatal Fury 3
- Samurai Shodown, I, III, V (original)
- King of the Fighters '94, '96, '97, '99 and 2002
- Kizuna Encounter
- World Heroes 2
- World Heroes 2 Jet
That is because I do not think the last three have been released in a western S.N.K. compilation before now, including the Neo Geo Minis, and no matter which version of the Neo Geo Mini you have, some of those games are going to be traded off for others. Indeed, only the Japanese Version has all of the King of the Fighters games, Fatal Fury 3 was only on the Christmas L.E., and only the recent Samurai Shodown character limited editions. have those particular Samurai Shodown games, and they cost mmore because S.N.K. bundled themm with the controllers. The other 10 games are duplicates of what is available on any Neo Geo Mini, which is a dissapointingly large number.
Finally, it seems like there are some better video scaling and filter options on this model. Poor scaling was one of the major commplaints regarding the Neo Geo Mini, so if they have fixed that this might be very nice.
However, now that I have tried to be fair and said something nice, now it is time to be dismissive: If you do not need this exact combination of all of those games, or a particularly hard to obtain set, then the raw value just simply is not there, if we work on the assumption that each Neo-Geo R.O.M. is only worth $2 at the most and are all of interchangable value. The guts needed to run the games also have a practical value of at least $5 based on the cost of a Raspberry Pi Zero. Since the device has 20 games, and costs $130, that means we should compare this to sticks in the $80–$90 price range, or maybe even $120 if your first instinct is to replace all of the controls with Sanwa parts.
In that price range we have:
- The Mayflash F500 ($82, generic parts)
- The Quanba Drone ($80, Generic parts, Licened for Playstation 4)
- The Mayflash F300 Elite (Small basic case, Sanwa Parts, $90 M.S.R.P., $85 on Amazon now)
- The Mayflash F500 Elite (Sanwa parts, more substantial case than the F300), $120
$130 would also gets you something like a Sega Genesis or S.N.E.S. classic (if the S.N.E.S. classic was still available) with a pair of controllers with enough left over to get one of those joysticks.
Unfortunately for S.N.K., each of these joysticks offerings are seem than the this pro stick to me. The Mayflash sticks have Xbox One, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch and even Neo Geo Mini compatibility straight out of the box, and the F300 Elite gets us Sanwa parts for little to no additional cost if we do not care too much about the case, and honestly I do not. If S.N.K was going to rehash something, they should have rehashed the U.S.B. A.E.S. style joysticks instead of a dozen or so games.
Also, if we are willing to use or need adapters for Nintendo Switch or Playstation 4 compatibility, then it seems like Mayflash also has us covered with the Mayflash Magic NS and S respectively, for just about $20 each, compared to the $55 additional cost of the bulkier gamelinq adapter (I am factoring in the H.D.M.I. cable of the cheaper $190 stick/H.D.M.I./Gamelinq bundle at a value of $5, which may already be too generous if you have an excess of them from other free products).
Moreover, if this is just about legal copies of King of the Fighters or Samurai Shodown, then The King of the Fighters Collection: The Orochi collection is available on the playstation store for $15, and The Samurai Shodwon Neo-Geo Collection should also have downloadable copies on a few platforms soon enough for what I pressume to be a similar price, and you can always look for the Orochi Saga or Samurai Showdown Anthology for the Playstation 2 or Wii, or settle for King of the Fighters '94 and the first samurai Shodown on S.N.K. Arcade Classics Collection Vol. 1.
Assuming all of the Neo-Geo games are of interchangable value, dollar for dollar I think at this point in time it is wiser to pick up a Neo Geo Mini and a Mayflash arcade stick or two to go alongside it. You pay more, but you get more games at the about same price, and a 5" L.C.D. to make up for the excess cost.
The limited Neo-Geo Mini Nakaruru Edition is $92.25 on Amazon right now, which is only a little over a couple of bucks over the normal variant’s usual price of $90 and comes with a couple of extra controllers. There is also a limited deal on a japanese colored version of the International version at the normal price of $90
However, the price of this is not so outrageous as to be entirely unconsiderable. This is only somewhat overvalued, so by the time discounts stat rolling out this might be worthwhile.
Well, first of all, each of those only has four buttons when most people aiming to use this on their P.C. are probably going to want at least six, and possibly 8. Second of all U.S.B. versions of the A.E.S. sticks were released in U.S.B. format a few years ago for the Neo Geo X Gold, and I do not think those sold very well because you can still find them at decent prices on Amazon. I would also suggest it is too early to rehash that design, but I am not so sure that S.N.K. cares about rehashing things too soon since most of the games here are repeats of the various versions of the Neo Geo Mini.
As for “Big Red”, I also think the remnents of S.N.K. are largely members of the Japanese division and just forgot about the western machines, which is very disappointing. I was hoping the Neo Geo Mini would be a bartop version of Big Red when I first saw the covered cloth promotions that S.N.K. were showing to promote it. Imagine my disappointment when I saw a little plastic toy that isn’t even quite a to scale replica of the cabinet which it was modeled after? I really do wish S.N.K. would capitalize on the Noth American M.V.S. cabinet designs, they had a stately look to them in my opinion.
Oh well, at least this is not the Capcom logo.
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All that… and only two peeps dismissed anything.
Well, even if nobody mentioned it, a fair and detailed cost/benefit analysis might help other people like Freedom Gundam decide what the thing is actually worth to them, and open up discussion with some counterpoints. It would be nice to know, for instance, just how valuable the three unique games are, just how some of the individual games on the list differ in value compared to the averaged estimate of $2 and how much sharper the video output might be. Some people really invest quite a bunch of money into optimizing video output, and maybe buying some of the older S.N.K. compilations is more trouble than it’s worth, for physical copies of the various Playstation 2 and Wii releases.
I probably would have written most of that anyway. My posts re usually long. I just opened up with a complaint of unfairness because I figured the comparisons made so far were unfair in my estimation, and even one person seems to be enough to warrant such a response, especially since my posts tend to be longer than other people’s posts in general.
Anyway, I need to issue a correction. The product description for Mayflash’s joysticks indicate that are not compatible with Playstation or Xbox consoles “out of the box”. You need to plug a licensed controller into a U.S.B. port. Most of us should have another controller for our consoles and it does seem to have innate switch compatibility though, which puts it somewhat ahead of the curve. I am sorry for the mistake, although in my defense, Mayflash’s advertising is a little misleading.
That is true
That sours me on anything Mayflash makes.
This thing looks dumb and bland as all hell! It’s just a doofy looking, nigh-feature less, white shape w/stick & buttons on it. Whomever designed the looks of this device needs to be fired. WTF.
Say what you will about the Capcom stick but, at least it’s TRYING to be stylish. SNK’s stick is like Negative(-) style. I’ll take the “Capcom logo” over this stupid white thing anyday.
Ofcourse both this and that Capcom stick pale in compartison to the glorious Pandora Box 6, or Pandora Box 9S+.
Unfortunately, I grew up in the 90s as a Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat kid, so none of the included games have any nostalgic attachment to me.
And while the round marshmallow shape is bizarre, it’s weird enough to be eye-catching, kind of in the “it’s so bad, it’s good” category. Sadly, since the innards don’t have very much value to me, this thing is only really useful to me as a blank slate for a casing/stick mod.
I do find it cute that the UI/menu for the unit is a replica of the Switch’s OS/menu, though.
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According to people’s impressions, the arcade stick moves a lot, you’ll have to put something underneath. The buttons are really loud. You can replace the joystick with a Sanwa JLF, but it doesn’t seem to fit in perfectly.
You have the option to change the controls, but you’ll have to do it for each game.
Yeah, I saw that too.
Not the biggest deal, I guess. Can always put in some self-adhesive rubber feet or something.
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That is what I seen reviewers do.
You can unlock 20 more games, some of them are not fighters
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This POS has been hacked anyways, and surprise surprise, it lags emulating CPS3 games apparently.
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They can hack it all they want. A Pandora Box 6 or 9S+(PB6 Clone) is still superior, and CPS3 titles play great too.