AES or MVS?

[Black Tiger]

NM. Looks like its region free

I believe that a regular unmodded AES system will only play one region's version, even though the full game is in the rom. So if you buy a cheap Japanese version of a game and play it on a North American system you'd wind up with the censored version of the game. Kinda like early Genesis games.

Installing multibios will let you customize the game however you like though.

[toymachine78]

Well looking at getting a system, and about all on eBay are Japanese. I read on a neo geo Faq that they are region Free. Any aes cart will play on any aes. What about MVS to aes? That needs a converter right?

[Medic_wheat]

Well looking at getting a system, and about all on eBay are Japanese. I read on a neo geo Faq that they are region Free. Any aes cart will play on any aes. What about MVS to aes? That needs a converter right?

Yes they need a converter


And double yes on the region locking early posted

[toymachine78]

Well looking at getting a system, and about all on eBay are Japanese. I read on a neo geo Faq that they are region Free. Any aes cart will play on any aes. What about MVS to aes? That needs a converter right?

Yes they need a converter


And double yes on the region locking early posted

OK so Aes JP cant play on AES US?

[Ninja16608]

Your all wrong, AES will play any cart JP or US. I own both a JP and a US system, Yes both roms are on the cart and the language it plays in is determined by the system (IE. US system English text) the only thing you need a converter for is to play MVS on an AES.

[pulstar]

As said above, AES and MVS are completely region free, they will default to the language of the BIOS (so if you buy a JP machine and buy a US cart, the game will still be in Japanese). With the MVS converter the same principle applies.

[Necromancer]

Your all wrong, AES will play any cart JP or US. I own both a JP and a US system, Yes both roms are on the cart and the language it plays in is determined by the system (IE. US system English text)...

Isn't that exactly what Black Tiger stated?

[EvilEvoIX]

How is this so hard to understand?

[ccovell]

Because long sentences and paragraphs confuse certain people.  :-P

Short: "No region lockout; language is a hardware setting."

[toymachine78]

Does the UniBios allow the AES to play MVS carts?

[Medic_wheat]

Does the UniBios allow the AES to play MVS carts?

I thinkbthat is covered by the coverter.

[toymachine78]

Does the UniBios allow the AES to play MVS carts?

I thinkbthat is covered by the coverter.

Yeah I know the converter allows that on any AES, but on the modded AES units with the unibios it wasn't clear to me. The descriptions of the units say you can switch them from home to arcade mode. That's why I'm asking. I thought maybe arcade mode allowed MVS.

[EvilEvoIX]

The games on AES or Mvs carts are identical save for the pinout.  So placing an Mvs game via converter in a USA AES will simply get AES USA settings.  The bios settings allows you to choose Arcade or US/Japanese settings.  Some of my games have Spanish or even Portuguese settings as well.  The point is that all games, AES or MVS, have all the bios information within the games.  The bios simply chooses what to show.  This determines blood, bounce, nudity, language, and region.  For example a copy of SSII On a USA AES will be in English, green blood, and no fatalities.  When you beat someone they just put a kneel down and give up.  Put that same cart in a Japanese system, you get blood, bounce, fatalities, and all in Japanese.  Get it? 

[toymachine78]

Got it. Thanks for breaking it down. I'm a complete noob to the neo, so I can learn a lot from you guys.

[toymachine78]

Well I took the plunge. I bought an Omega MVS system with the 161 multicart and a copy of Nam 1975.

Walking Is a lot easier now since my wallet is soooo much lighter. Lol