Hacker Ben Heck is back to fix the flawed Neo-Geo Mini

Good news if you like it: "Maybe a PCB kit could be made," Heck tells Ars.

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[Aurich]

It's a mystery to me why SNK didn't do something in this form factor from the start.

As wildly impractical as it is to play on in this form factor, as a collector item paying homage to the original full-sized mini Neo-Geo cabs is pretty cool. More of a sit on a shelf than hold and play thing though.

One cool little thing is if you have an arcade stick with a Brook Universal board in it, they've updated the firmware to support the mini, so if you use it as a console hooked up to a screen you can use your stick with it.

 

[Aurich]

Ben really should consider doing a few of these videos a year and offering conversion kits for sale to compliment each video. He could do well financially while giving the fans something great.

When I asked him about doing a kit this morning he said "I'm still behind in making the Raspberry pi portable kit. Been quite busy since semi retiring ", so it's probably one of those things that might happen, but is just sitting on a list of other projects. I certainly know how that goes.

Still, I passed your comment along.

 

[Aurich]

Neo-Geo has it all really. I have a Neo Candy 29 and keep a variety of games rotating on it.

Obviously some classic fighting games, notable examples being King of Fighters 98, Samurai Shodown II, Garou Mark of the Wolves, and Last Blade 2, but the list goes on and on. Breakers Revenge!

One of the most classic run and gun series of all time in the Metal Slug games, as well as other platformers like Magician Lord.

Puzzle games like Puzzle Bobble and Magical Drop.

Hybrid action vs games like Windjammers and Twinkle Star Sprites.

Sports games, Neo Turf Masters is a favorite. Really there isn't much in the way of filler in the whole library.