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Neo-Geo Mini - limited edition Christmas comes with more games
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If you are looking for a nice retro gift for a happy party, SNK has something fancy for you: The Neo-Geo Mini will soon be releasing a limited edition Christmas edition, which will be available again from Worldwide Distribution in Germany - for price and availability we do not have any detailed information yet, but there you will certainly be helped.

 

In the festively designed pack, two red pads, power and HDMI cables, stickers, privacy shield and an "anti-slip pillow" are placed next to the device shown above. The most exciting for collectors, however, is the information that this time stuck 48 games in the mini consoles!

The overall list you see below, in fact, it is a somewhat curious mixture of the assortment of the previous Japanese and international version combined with 9 as "correct" new entries declared titles. Meaning, who should not already have both original devices, must in return on a few abstain therefrom.

  • Aggressors of Dark Kombat
  • Alpha Mission II
  • Art of fighting
  • Blazing Star
  • Blue's Journey
  • Burning Fight
  • Cyber-Lip
  • Fatal Fury - NEW
  • Fatal Fury 2 - NEW
  • Fatal Fury 3 - NEW
  • Garou: Mark of the Wolves
  • King of the Monsters
  • King of the Monsters 2
  • Kizuna Encounter
  • League Bowling - NEW
  • Magician Lord
  • Metal slug
  • Metal slug 2
  • Metal Slug 3
  • Metal slug X
  • Metal Slug 4
  • Metal Slug 5
  • Ninja Combat - NEW
  • Ninja Commando
  • Ninja Master's
  • Puzzled
  • Real Bout Fatal Fury 2
  • Real Bout Fatal Fury Special - NEW
  • Robo Army
  • Samurai Shodown II
  • Samurai Shodown IV
  • Samurai Shodown V Special
  • Savage Reign - NEW
  • Sengoku 3
  • Shock troopers
  • Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad
  • Soccer Brawl - NEW
  • Super Sidekicks
  • The King of Fighters '97
  • The King of Fighters '98
  • The King of Fighters '99
  • The King of Fighters 2001
  • The King of Fighters 2002
  • The Last Blade 2
  • The Super Spy - NEW
  • Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
  • Top Player's Golf
  • Twinkle Star Sprites
  • World Heroes Perfect

 

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  1. The Christmas Neo Geo Mini Leak! LOL!

 

From the description off his YouTube channel.

"Wow.. so information comes out quickly! Christmas Neo Geo Mini! 2 Red pads, HDMI cable, screen protector and a pillow included? lol"

 

 

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Going by this list (bolded games are not in the other version) it appears that they like 90% mixed the line-ups of the JP and INTL version for this one since the game list grew by like 9.

https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2018/jun/10/neogeo-mini-and-neogeo-mini-international-game-lineups-announced/

 

Lost are Ghost Pilots, FF Special, Mutation Nation and the first Last Blade as far as things of interest really goes along with 5 of the 10 KOF bloated lineup of the JP release.

 

As a bonus it's red, and has red controllers packed in which means the price is really going to suck on it probably closer to $200. The stickers are pretty ugly as it's a holiday thing, but it also looks like a ghetto big red wannabe in the JP cab style, so I could see some smart people start producing laminate sticker replacements to match the US cabinet. I could be on board for this but I think the price will push me away in the end as it's a bit much as I don't care about the controllers.

 

I knew about it when it broke yesterday but didn't see a game list until now.

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More regarding Kraut Buster for the MVS and AES. The MVS version gets released at the end of 2018. But it looks like the AES version will be in 2019.

 

 

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NG Dev Team We ship this year Kraut Buster MVS.
After that we must wait a few months (at least 3) to be sure all software updates are final. Then we can start to produce the AES version.

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  1. NEO GEO MINI NEW EDITION FOR CHRISTMAS The Mini will have a limited Christmas ver.,with new visual and + games:FF1,FF2,FF3,League Bowling,Ninja Combat,RBFFS,Savage Reign,Soccer Brawl & The Super Spy. Video with info: https://youtu.be/A0TeDiHqvpU #NEOGEOMINI #SNK #NEOGEO #SNK40THpic.twitter.com/mAkK59Jijc

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I love the fact that SNK are bringing these things to us in 2018 but personally I prefer the look of the non Christmas version! :P Still a cool device and one I'd love to own but not one that's so overly festive haha :P

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  1. NEO GEO MINI NEW EDITION FOR CHRISTMAS The Mini will have a limited Christmas ver.,with new visual and + games:FF1,FF2,FF3,League Bowling,Ninja Combat,RBFFS,Savage Reign,Soccer Brawl & The Super Spy. Video with info: https://youtu.be/A0TeDiHqvpU #NEOGEOMINI #SNK #NEOGEO #SNK40THpic.twitter.com/mAkK59Jijc

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Hey thanks for sharing the leak for the Christmas edition NeoGeo mini cabinet. I like how this is actually a closer look to the old red style cabinets.

 

Purely a thing of beauty. More games added, two red controllers, power and hdmi hook ups! SNK read my post. ;)

 

I am sure the Christmas decorations are just stickers like the ones that came with the original. Hopefully this will be available for the US, I want one!

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本日から博多マルイ『THE KING OF FIGHTERS Limited SHOP in Hakata MARUI』スタート！SNKの大人気グッズやNEOGEO miniなどを販売しております！NEOGEO miniの試遊もあります♪ #SNK #KOF #NEOGEO http://buff.ly/2zeOTuR pic.twitter.com/BNQ2C7A3N7 Translate Tweet

 

 

 

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Hakata Marui [The KING of Fighters Limited SHOP in Hakata MARUI] start from today! We sell SNK's most popular goods and NeoGeo Mini! There is also a trial play of NEOGEO Mini. ♪ #SNK #KOF #NEOGEO http://buff.ly/2zeOTuR

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Hakata is in Fukuoka City. About 1.5 hours drive from where I live. If I find myself down there in the next week or two I'll grab some photos for you guys.
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  1. Review: SNK 40th Anniversary Collection - A Lovingly-Assembled Retro Anthology That Hits The Right Notes http://bit.ly/2D7ex8r #Reviews #NintendoSwitch #SNK #SNK40thAnniversaryCollectionpic.twitter.com/NHs5QecVJk

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Version Reviewed: North American

Retro gold from a pre-Neo Geo era

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Although SNK is best known these days for its fantastic Neo Geo console and arcade systems – of which approximately a bajillion games are already available individually on the Switch – it's easy to forget that the Osaka-based company enjoyed 12 years developing games before the Neo Geo arrived in 1990.

The SNK 40th Anniversary Collection pays tribute to those early days by offering up 13 games released between 1981 and 1990. What’s more, it promises to add another 11 games as free DLC a month after release. It quickly becomes clear upon starting, however, that SNK is underselling its compilation a little here: there's actually far more on offer.

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In reality, there aren't 13 games available on day one: there are 21. That's because many of the titles available – including the Ikari Warriors trilogy, action platformer Athena and beat 'em up gem P.O.W. – come in both arcade and ‘console’ (i.e. NES) versions.

Since the NES ports of SNK's games were often tweaked heavily to adapt to (and often take advantage of) the home system's capabilities, they generally feel like different games entirely. Play through the arcade version of Guerrilla War, for example, and you'll be able to make the most of its twin-stick control system, letting you run in one direction and shoot in the other. The NES version ditches these controls, giving the game a different feel.

What games are on offer, then? Well, most of the big genres of the era are accounted for here. The aforementioned Ikari Warriors games and Guerrilla War ensure the run ‘n’ gun genre is well represented, as does tank game TNK III and its NES equivalent Iron Tank. Athena and Psycho Soldier cover the oddly anime-style platformer bases, while Alpha Mission, Prehistoric Isle and Vanguard make sure shoot ‘em up fans are catered for (although Vanguard, being the oldest game here, feels pretty primitive).

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Meanwhile, P.O.W. is a fun little side-scrolling brawler (the NES version has the most powerful jump-kick in the history of gaming), Crystalis is an NES adventure RPG in the Zelda vein, and fighting game Street Smart – easily the weakest in the collection – makes it clear why everyone associates SNK with the likes of Fatal Fury and The King Of Fighters instead. This is the rare stinker in the pack, though: all the others, even the extremely basic Vanguard, have enough quality in them to keep you entertained for a while.

As previously mentioned, SNK will also be adding a further 11 games, free of charge, on 11 December. Oddly, two of them (Beast Busters and Search and Rescue) will be available as free DLC on the eShop, while the other nine – including quirky hungry car game Munch Mobile, brilliant run ‘n’ gunner Time Soldiers and the practically prehistoric 1980 shooter Sasuke vs Commander – will be added automatically as part of a ‘v1.02’ patch. When all’s said and done, you’re going to end up with a healthy selection of 24 titles (not counting those with both arcade and NES versions available), which amounts to around $1.66 per game.

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The emulation isn’t bad, but it’s far from perfect. This compilation has been handled by Digital Eclipse – previously responsible for the likes of Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, Mega Man Legacy Collection and The Disney Afternoon Collection – and its ever-flexible Eclipse Engine handles most of these ‘80s games with no real issues. Some of the arcade titles, though, suffer some occasional screen warping and stuttering, which can be a little distracting. Meanwhile, the usual options are available in terms of scanlines (none, TV or monitor), scaling (none, full screen or stretch) and border art, and the main menu lets you rotate the screen vertically: though this isn’t available on a per-game basis, meaning you need to change it back any time you want to play a non-vertical game.

This one-size-fits-all approach also has a negative impact on multiplayer options. Because some of these games are twin-stick shooters, you’re going to need both analogue sticks to play: as a result, there’s no option to play two-player games with a single Joy-Con. The problem is, there are plenty of games in here – most notably the NES ones – that it would be perfectly possible to play with a single Joy-Con, but because it’s not possible with some it isn’t an option for any: you’re going to need two pairs of Joy-Con, or one pair and a Pro Controller, regardless of what game you’re playing. [EDIT: The day-one patch is confirmed to resolve the single Joy-Con issue - hurrah!]

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One very cool feature it does have, though, we’d like to see in more retro compilations is the ‘watch’ option, which is available for most of the games here. Select this and the game will start playing itself, via an expert playthrough previously recorded (no doubt by some SNK boffin somewhere). Not only does let you study strategies for each game and see how to beat them without even losing a life, here’s the clever thing: at any point you can hit the + button, choose ‘start playing’ and you’ll take over from that moment. This means that, yes, you can fast forward the game right up to the final boss then essentially say “thanks chief, I think I can handle it from here”. Consider it an ‘older brother’ mode, if you will.

Digital Eclipse usually does a great job of not only making these games available to play, but also supporting them with oodles of archive material: the fantastic museum mode in Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is proof of this. SNK 40th Anniversary Collection could potentially be the most impressive example yet, thanks to its section entitled ‘SNK Complete Works: 1978-1990’. All 74 games released by the company during this period are given their own section here, each filled with character art, promotional materials, a hefty helping of screenshots and loads of useful annotations explaining each game and giving some genuinely interesting trivia.

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For example, arcade shooter Mechanised Attack ends with a fat cat businessman saying: “Perfect! Well done. Nothing more to say. Just relax.” Head to the entry for that game and you’ll be shown this ending – along with no fewer than 35 other screens and pieces of art for the game – with a note explaining that the businessman in question was actually the chairman of SNK at the time. Oh, and that the character art, which was a clear rip-off of The Terminator, was “influenced by a popular action horror film in which a robot wears human skin”.

On top of this 74-chapter history lesson, the museum mode also includes a bunch of other SNK flyers and magazine ads, and a bunch of fantastically illustrated Japanese player’s guides for some of the games in the compilation. The whole thing essentially raises the bar and defines how retro game collections should be handled in an ideal world: if you have any interest in game history you could potentially spend hours here reading up on each game and scrolling around the hi-res art.

Conclusion

This is how retro compilations should be done. Although the emulation has a few little hiccups along the way, the overall package here is wonderfully presented. Rather than just slapping a rudimentary menu over a bunch of old ROMs, it’s clear there’s been a lot of effort made here to catalogue an often forgotten period in one of Japan’s most important game developers. As with all compilations, there are a few misses, but the quality is generally high, and the supporting museum mode is an absolute treasure trove for retro enthusiasts.

Great 8/10

 

 

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  • Fatal Fury - NEW
  • Fatal Fury 2 - NEW
  • Fatal Fury 3 - NEW
  • Real Bout Fatal Fury Special - NEW

Maybe SNK finally figured out that Fatal Fury series sells and is as popular as King of Fighter series which is a "SPINOFF" .....

 

I agree enoofu. I think they finally did. :)

 

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I love the fact that SNK are bringing these things to us in 2018 but personally I prefer the look of the non Christmas version! :P Still a cool device and one I'd love to own but not one that's so overly festive haha :P

I really would love to get this for the collection Mark. :)

 

I want it badly. Even those red controllers. :)

 

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Hey thanks for sharing the leak for the Christmas edition NeoGeo mini cabinet. I like how this is actually a closer look to the old red style cabinets.

 

Purely a thing of beauty. More games added, two red controllers, power and hdmi hook ups! SNK read my post. ;)

 

I am sure the Christmas decorations are just stickers like the ones that came with the original. Hopefully this will be available for the US, I want one!

Hey Dan,

 

Yeah, it looks closer to the big reds that we grew up with. Tob bad we didn't get that design for the Mini. But at least it's close to it. :)

 

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Hakata is in Fukuoka City. About 1.5 hours drive from where I live. If I find myself down there in the next week or two I'll grab some photos for you guys.

WOW :-o Really Mark? That's great to know.

 

If you do decide to go, we would love to see pics for sure. Thank you for stopping by and mentioning this to us bro. :)

 

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Hi everyone,

 

my new video displaying my KOF collection. I hope you enjoy it!

 

Hey NGCD,

 

Thank you for stopping by to post your excellent Neo-Geo collection you have kind sir. I got to say, I'm jealous on what you got bro. Seeing your goodies is way we're glad to have you on with us on the Neo-Geo thread. Keep up the great work as always bro. We look forward on seeing more from you. :)

 

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  1. 안내 : SNK e-Sports Support Program에서 본 토너먼트를 지원하고 있습니다. 많은 참가 부탁 드립니다! #SNK #KOF http://www.yesdungeon.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=1377 …pic.twitter.com/T7UZV0noIz

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    Note: This tournament is supported by the SNK e-sports support program. Thank you very much for your participation! #SNK #KOF http://www. yesdungeon.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=1377 …

     

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  1. [sNK X 홍대던전] 콜라보 기획전 및 게임대회 개최 2018년 11월 14일(수) ~ 12월 13일(목) 자세한 내용은 아래 URL을 참고해주세요. http://www.yesdungeon.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=1377 … #SNK #홍대던전 #콜라보카페 #KOF98pic.twitter.com/tQ70piPqfH

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    [sNK X Hongdae Dungeon] Collaboration Exhibition and game competition held from Wednesday, November 14, 2018 to Thursday, December 13 please refer to the URL below for more details. http://www. yesdungeon.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=1377 … #SNK #홍대던전 #콜라보카페 #KOF98

     

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  1. Мы открыли магазин на ZENMARKETPLACE! Теперь Вы можете приобрести наши товары из России! Отправка также возможна в Украину, США, Китай, Францию, Испанию и другие страны. https://zenmarket.jp/ru/s/snkonlineshop …pic.twitter.com/9KzqW2jnop

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    We have opened a shop on Zenmarketplace! Now you can buy our products from Russia! Dispatch is also possible to Ukraine, USA, China, France, Spain and other countries. https://zenmarket.jp/ru/s/snkonlineshop …

     

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