Hey and welcome back to Retro Tech. I'm Steve and today we're looking at our very new acquisition here at the Retro Tech garage and that's this Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet. I've been looking for one of these for a long time and a great deal came available through a Facebook group I've been in and I just had to jump on it. Some things to note about this. This one's a four slot arcade unit. Unfortunately right now I don't have any games for it. I actually did get to test it with games. It looks great. That's one of the reasons I picked it up. It works so well however all the games that the owner had in it were well over $300 a piece and that was not what I was willing to spend on my first game for the machine. So today I'm going to another arcade that has a couple of cartridges I've set up to pick up that will fit in this machine so that after we go get the cartridges we can fire this bad boy up and take a look and then we'll kind of go over how grungy and what we really need to work on to fix and fully restore this thing as it's part of a planned project for 2018. Thanks for staying tuned and let's go check out that arcade store. Welcome back. I made it back from the arcade unfortunately I was not able to capture any footage there. To make a long story short the guys were happy to sell me the cartridges but that's a little weird when I started to talk to them about coming and shooting some footage I understand but just in case you ever come into a situation where maybe you want to try to find some kind of rare games for your arcade unit locally always try a local arcade and see it's always worth a shot before you have to go and start hunting online. Today I wanted to take a closer look at the machine real quick I did get these three games then I'll be installing here shortly and we'll boot up the arcade and make sure that it comes on again I want to show you what on this machine needs some work for the most part internally it's really great but it still needs to be cleaned. The one thing I've already done to this machine was I already had to take apart the buttons and clean all them because they had about 25 years of gunk built in them and they just weren't weren't working so even before I got to test I will be able to take those I'll have to take those apart again because again I'm taking all these stuff off and we're going to do a full restoration on this thing to try to make it look as great as possible probably a little bit of custom paint work and stenciling some other things that we're just going to try out on this. So let's take a closer look at the unit now. Myself back by the front of the arcade cabinet and like I said I got these buttons that I had to replay or clean out but just to show you this unit actually has this whole arcade the sticks come down like this opens nicely there is some hinges that hold that in place when you want to reinsert it but that's where the games go you can go on there and insert the games let's flip around and take a look at that and here's inside the unit you can kind of see here gives you a little bit of instructions on how to insert the cartridges thankfully this unit came with a very nice original manual that I've got it's got service techniques as well as parts numbers and also schematics for the whole unit in there there's the actual arcade console you can see down there the four slot one two three four the battery on the side I'm playing on you can just see how much dust and grime is built up in this thing so we've got some rust on the metal parts there I want to clean all that off and just take it apart give it some good love and see this is all going to need to be repainted up here and then let's just go down here the front a lot of this stuff is still in there just the locks are gone thankfully the guy did have this installed inside which is a I'm not sure if that's normally there but probably is but that's just so I can do service credits and not have to worry about putting quarters in it so we'll just keep looking around here I want to show some other things that obviously going to need some work the tube is beautiful a major thing is going to be this marquee I'm getting a lot of feedback on one of the speakers I'm going to have to repair but the real problem is this this marquee still had the original key locks in it and those I didn't get any keys for the guy didn't have any he told me I was going to have to basically take it apart by using a drill or a flathead screwdriver I'm going to have to do that to get inside there and just see what's going on and repair up there I want to make I was thinking maybe either to keep this the way it is or might even come up with something special for this marquee I don't believe it's lighting up right now so that's another thing I need to look at going around to the side here you can see some damage to the side of the unit up here and this is going to be something I've never done but I'm going to have to try to figure out some way to try to sand this down a little bit put in some kind of bondo filler paint over it and since we do that I mean the paint's not going to match this old paint I'm sure so I'm going to have to probably try to re stencil paint all this the bottom is the same way need some paint this is probably the worst spot for that is that right there we continue to go around to monitor back here it's just really still got a lot of grime and dirt on it so a lot of it's going to be cleaning the backside of the console again down there there's the power supply you just have to put a regular power cord into it still just oh just so much dirt but we're going to take care of all that that's the easy easy time-consuming repairs the other side of it still looks pretty good not as much damage more cleaning pretty sharp so that's kind of where we're at I'm going to set up now put some games in here let's see how that goes back and open to the sticks area again I've got three games first I'd just like to put in maybe one in the number one slot and just to make sure it fires up and turns on maybe in another video we'll do some more testing but this is just a test to make sure this runs and to see how to hook it up properly so again it says to make sure the arrows match where the cartridge goes so I'm assuming that the arrows on this side like this where my inverted pyramid is there on my game cartridge I'm just this is neoturf masters always put these cartridges in before you power your arcade on that should be pretty much it so now let's just close it up for right now I'm going to go behind there and boot it up and hopefully we'll get to see some game power sound and video oh yes it appears we do have some working maybe I'll need to reseat the cartridge clean it a little bit because I'm getting some artifacts on the screen I just wanted to show that that was just because of the seating of the cartridge is the reason I had all those artifacts see I just reset it and it works great I'm sorry for the glare and also like I said that feedback from that speaker that's going to have to be fixed otherwise this thing looks great and that's pretty much what we're looking at here this is going to be a lengthy project that I will be periodically working on in between jobs that I'll be showing and documenting as I go each step kind of walking through that and my budget let's talk a little bit about numbers because I think that's going to be an important thing I actually was able to get this arcade let's talk about how much $500 for the machine which to me is a good deal where I live and then I had to pay $200 for the three cartridges and that was also a good deal considering I couldn't find them anywhere except for eBay and they would have been more money on eBay I will be asking for some help on this project because there's some things I'm just not 100 percent familiar with and the budget for replacing some small parts and paint and everything I'm going to try to stick to about $300 total but we'll go through that and keep up with that and see if we can hit that mark so at the end of the day we'll have a thousand dollars invested in something that's going to be a showpiece item hopefully I'm glad that you have been following with me so far please continue to do so this is not our only project I've got other projects that are going on right now that I'm going to be announcing soon also please stay tuned to Retro Tech help spread the channel share like and subscribe and have a great day