the DB15 connectors. These are great because you can hook up controllers to them, the Neo Geo, like CD controllers. I have one. I'll show you that here in a second. And then you have USB ports. So if you want to hook up a USB controller, like an Xbox controller or an Xbox 360, whatever it is, it will work with those too. And then you have a headphone jack here in the front. We're going to look at the back in a second but I want to show you what I mean when I say you can hook up Neo Geo controllers to it. Okay so here is my Neo Geo CD controller you can see that right here people love these because the d-pad has like micro switches that click here I'll put it up to the mic so you can hear it. That's why people love them they're great controllers too and they're great for playing Neo Geo games but the great thing is if you have one of these or you have many of the AES compatible controllers, you can plug those right into this device. So you can see right here, there's the DB15 connector, and you can plug it in right here. The only thing about this that's really interesting is when you plug these in, the way they set the actual port when they, I guess, soldered it onto this main board inside, it kinda like sticks out. So this is in all the way, but it's almost like they should have made this connector go deeper into here so it'd be flush when you connect it so that is kind of weird but hey what do you what do you expect this is an Aliexpress special there's gonna be some problems it's not gonna be perfect but what I think is really interesting about it is the connectivity so right here you have RGB so you have RGB out so we're gonna play with that I want to see what this is gonna look like so I'm gonna do this both on an LCD and on probably a pvm so guys can see that. S-video I probably will not test. And then you have component and you have composite. So it does come with component cables. It comes with a composite cable too. And then you have just your power input right here. The other things are kind of interesting. It's marked on the box. It says JAMMA and MVS. I think this was because maybe they've used this similar case for a super gun or something that was a mixed device, but not this one. So there's no actual button there, but it is on the plastic. I suppose we could open it up, but I don't feel like there's really going to be much interesting about it, but maybe if you want to see how the quality of the work that was put into this device, I'm not sure. Did they recap it? Did they do anything to it? I know a lot of people that are into Neo Geo are going to be interested to see if they have put any updated BIOS on it. I think this does have the 4.0 UniBIOS, but I'm not 100% certain, so when we power it all up, we'll find that out, but we're going to play with it. I guess we'll open it up real quick and then see what it looks like from a component's perspective and then we'll hook it up and try the different connectivity methods we will go through rgb component and maybe if we have time composite as well okay we're going to unscrew this thing real quick now the pads for this did need to come off so there was there was some like protective pads they were kind of a pain in the butt to take off so i just did it off camera uh you didn't really want to see me struggling through that i don't think so after we remove these four screws I should be able to take this cover off and we can take a look at what's inside here. Now, keep in mind, like I told you, they did claim that the BIOS was the 4.0 UniBIOS. So that should be, that's good, actually. So if we have that, that's actually great. We'll see in a minute how it looks inside. Like, is the work good? Is it shoddy? I mean, I've seen a couple of these that I open up from China. Sometimes they're really good and sometimes it's not so good. So we'll find out. Sometimes you just feel like, hey, maybe I just shouldn't have opened it in general. Maybe we should have left well enough alone. But hey, sometimes you just want to see what's inside the shell, right? So let's do that real quick. Okay, I'm going to take off the top now. There's a reset button right here, like I said. So there's a little connector underneath here. So we want to get that off first to make sure that we don't damage anything. So let's see if I can get this out. Okay, we got it. All right we got the reset button off Now we can lift up the top and see what underneath this Okay so what are we working with here So I not an expert at the componentry of the inside of a Neo Geo but that what it looks like right there. I'm assuming this might be something that's common and well-known. I'm assuming this is the Unibios. It does not say anything on there. So I think this is some kind of mod that's probably common and well-known in the Neo Geo world, not something I'm that familiar with. And then I'm not sure actually what this does, this NeoBuff thing right here. I think this might be a replacement for a chip that commonly fails on these things. I think that's what this is. But I think this is just like an open source sort of project or something for those chips. Now, this is kind of interesting where the backup battery is. They have like a capacitor or some kind of super capacitor. And one of the leads is here and the other one is on this chip. Someone that probably knows this better than me might be able to say whether this is like considered a hack or not. So I'm not really sure. It doesn't look great, but yeah, so I don't know. So that's something maybe of concern. And then the capacitors, let's see. The capacitors look like they're new to me. Those look like recaps, but maybe they're not. I don't know. They look recapped to me. So the other thing is, so this is the single slot Neo Geo board. If you look, I think what they do when they design these is they probably grab componentry and mix and match them to make sort of a workable setup. Because this is all, if you want to call it new, it's old stock, but it's probably been used, right? This probably lived in an arcade cabinet at some point. This looks like something they designed, this outside board. This is definitely something that they designed. And I'm assuming these two right here, these chips right here probably responsible for the video output that this thing has. So this thing does have, like I said, RGB out and then component out. So kind of cool. Like the options are good. But I mean, the overall work on the board doesn't look sloppy to me, at least, except for this. Like I'm not sure what this is all about. So someone that might know this architecture better than me, maybe they'll say whether this is like a total hack and probably shouldn't have been done. But anyways, we'll see. We will see exactly what unibios it has on it when we actually boot it up and check it out. But let's put the case back on, I'll screw it back together, and then we'll see how this thing looks with the various different video output options that it has. Okay, so the first connection type we're going to test is component. I have it on this Toshiba. This is actually a new old stock TV that I got from somebody locally. It's pretty cool. And then I'm using a multi-cart. So if you're unfamiliar with these. This is the 161 and 1. It's the latest one that came out. They work pretty good. So they have not the whole catalog, but they have a lot of the common, most desirable Neo Geo games on it. So we're going to put this in, fire it up, and see how it looks on this TV. This TV has literally been used like twice. So it should look pristine, providing they didn't do any shenanigans with the video output of this device. So let's put the cartridge in, fire it up, and see what we get. So I think the TV is, was on. So I'm going to turn that on, fire this thing up. It is running Unibios 4.0, which is cool. So that's good. So they didn't lie about that. All right, so I fired up Sengoku 3 because it's a very colorful game. And you can see, I mean, it looks freaking spectacular.