Advanced Entertainment System Typical AES packaging with gamesĪES (Advanced Entertainment System) is the term used for describing the home platform of the Neo Geo system, as opposed to the arcade or MVS (Multi Video system) version. The North American cabinets would normally have HAPP brand buttons, and a bat-top joystick. The control panel itself has a red background with white diagonal stripes coming from both corners, meeting in the middle with a Neo Geo logo. These were the official colors of the Neo Geo buttons, and would appear this way when presented in game. The buttons were always colored the same, A being red, B yellow, C green, and D blue. The North American Neo Geo cabinets have a 4 button layout labeled with the first four letters of the alphabet. The North American MVS cabinets supported headphones and a memory card, something that made the MVS unique. Becuse by design the MVS had multiple games running on it at one time, the cabinets would rarely have game artwork featured on the side. In North America Neo Geo games were normally housed in red stand-up cabinets branded with the Neo Geo logo.
Vs play is achieved with either vs cabinets in older machines, or newer networking cabinets. This style of cabinet is normally lined in long uniform rows allowing for each person to have their own screen and controls. These machines are typically smaller and lighter than there American counterparts, some weighing as little as 175 lbs (80 kg). Candy Cabs lined up at a Japanese arcadeĬandy Cabs are Japanese sit down cabinets that SNK used for their MVS machines inside Japanese arcades. The MVS carts from did not come with colorful artwork or plastic boxes like their home counterparts they would often come in plain cardboard boxes with only a marquee slip or flyer. The goal behind this incompatibility was to deter arcade operators from buying the cheaper AES cartridges. A key difference between MVS and AES were the cartridges: a MVS cart will not work in an AES, and vice-versa. The control options were the same as the AES four-button system, the only difference being the controls were mounted to cabinet. The MVS came in two, four, and six slot systems these would allow gamers to pick which game they wanted at the title screen. It allowed arcade operators to save on much-needed space by having a single cabinet have multiple games. The MVS (Multi Video System) was a fantastic innovation for the arcade industry. Multi Video System Bare MVS board with typical MVS carts It is the longest supported home platform, having its first game game released in 1990 and the last game, Samurai Shodown V Special, released in 2004. Another new feature of the Neo Geo was the use of removable memory cards to save data it was the first console to have such a feature. These features made the Neo Geo the most powerful home gaming system at the time of its release in 1990, rivalled only by the Sharp X68000 home computer (which also used custom GPU graphics processors). And while the RAM was not very large, it could access larger ROM data directly from cartridges at high speeds.
The Neo Geo featured up to seven specialized processors, including the two CPU processors and several graphics chips. Much of the Neo Geo's advanced graphical capabilities, however, came from the use of custom GPU graphics processors, both within the system as well as additional chips on individual game cartridges, much like an arcade machine. The difference in bits was that the Neo Geo had a 24-bit GPU chipset, hence the "24-bit" marketing label (much like how the TurboGrafx-16 was labelled "16-bit" because of its 16-bit GPU chipset). The Neo Geo used a Motorola 68000, a hybrid 16/32-bit CPU, along with the Zilog Z80, an 8-bit CPU, much like Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis console. Marketing was heavily geared towards making it a gaming connoisseur's console, and it was even couched as a 24-bit system. It decided to differentiate the Neo Geo from its competitors by bringing arcade-quality graphics into living rooms. The Neo Geo AES was born out of SNK's decision to expand its business beyond arcade games and third-party software, and enter the lucrative 16-bit console market. Overview Marketing as a "true-gamer's" console
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