I'm happiest when a game doesn't even have a boss, like FEXL. ; ) I don't have fun in boss fights, generally. So if a boss is only roughly as strong as a regular character, that's all right by me!

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Posted by Paleface on February 04, 2021 at 13:28:52 EST in reply to That’s the plan, baby Rugal is too easy. (n/t) from SignOfZeta.

I'm happiest when a game doesn't even have a boss, like FEXL. ; ) I don't have fun in boss fights, generally. So if a boss is only roughly as strong as a regular character, that's all right by me!

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2003 does not support the memory card. Annoying...having to beat the whole game for every ending. I still get the “YOUR MEMORY CARD IS STILL INSERTED” message though, that must be system generated.

(SignOfZeta)

(01:10:13 02/05/21 EST)

I wonder if the lack of memory card support has its origin in the initial release being on the Jamma board.

(Paleface)

(10:58:03 02/05/21 EST)

Yeah, they probably never made the graphics for it. Like I was saying below, the whole “MVS” concept had sorta died out by then. I think for the JP market, before these stand alone JAMMA games, they were mainly only making one slots to go into Sega/Sammy cabs by then and publishing one or two Neo games a year. The Memory Card itself was probably discontinued for several years by then and it wasn’t very popular at any point. If the Memory Card doesn’t work with MS5 then that’s another reason that game isn’t that great. For the AES player that sorta sucks.

(SignOfZeta)

(16:43:16 02/05/21 EST)

Something I read said that 2003 was planned for Atomiswave but they changed their minds and made it for Neo. So that’s how hardcore they were about supporting old MVS gear by this point, not at all!

(SignOfZeta)

(04:15:30 02/06/21 EST)

Oh, ah yeah it says that on its Wikipedia page too: "The game was first revealed in Tokyo Game Show 2003, originally planned to be developed on the Atomiswave hardware before settling on the Neo-Geo MVS hardware." And I managed to find a 2003 GameSpot article about it. Now I wonder why they switched to the MVS.

(Paleface)

(23:06:35 02/06/21 EST)

My guess is that their research said that Atomiswave customers were a much smaller base at that point and they decided to wait another year for the main series and poop out that garbage Neo Wave to get their feet wet...and perhaps AES factored into that also, maybe not. “One more KOF on the Neo!” was exciting at the time. It would have only gotten them an extra fifty grand or so, but fifty grand is fifty grand when you’re SNK. :) I’m glad they did because I have come close to getting a Atomiswave a few times but never have and while 2003 isn’t my favorite KOF I do like it a lot. It’s also cool that there are 10 KOFs on Neo.

(SignOfZeta)

(00:13:34 02/07/21 EST)

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