WHATS NEW IN VERSION 2.

3 -----------------------Additions / Changes Hilighting 'Soft Reset' in the ingame menu will now give you new options when moving the 1up joystick left and right. New options are; - Main Memory Viewer - Video RAM Viewer - Menu Color Changer The screen will now blank out if the ingame menu is left alone on its main men u page (after about 1 minute). Simply move or press any 1Up control to restore the screen. This new option helps prevent monitor burnin if you use the ingame menu to pause your games. Removed the trackball cheat from 'The Irritating Maze', instead trackball supp ort is always enabled unless the joystick cheat is used. Fixes Fixed a minor ingame menu color issue with 'Real Bout Fatal Fury'. Fixed music offset so 'GhostLop' music can now be heard in the jukebox. Fixed 'SVC Plus' bootlegs from not allowing character select when in console m ode. Cheats / CRC Database Added crc info for 'Metal Slug 6 hack'. Added crc info for the AES version of 'Metal Slug 4'. Added crc info for 'King of Fighters 2002 Magic Plus (hack)'. Added crc info for 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Super Plus (hack)'. Added cheats to give 1000 credits in 'Jockey GP'. Added cheats to give 1000 credits in 'VLiner'. Added cheats to 'Metal Slug 6 hack'. Added cheats to play as Rugal in 'KOF 94'. Added cheats to play as Amakusa in 'Samurai Shodown'. Added cheats to unlock bosses in 'Art of Fighting'. Added cheats to unlock bosses in 'Bang Bead' plus more. Added cheats to shrink characters in kof96. Added cheats to force single color blocks to drop in 'Gururin'. Fixed the 'KOF 97' red energy cheat to the correct energy level. Updated the 'KOF97' unlock bosscharacters cheat to also allow Orochi. Updated the 'Fatal Fury 2' hidden character cheats, hopefully they wont't caus e a crash now after winning a match. There will still be problems on the continue scre en. Added cheat to allow more than one projectile in 'KOF94' and 'KOF96' though it only works well if used with the action speed up cheat. Added Cheat / CRC support for the following Korean releases. - Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior - Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers - Fighters Swords - The Last Soldier

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WHATS NEW IN VERSION 2.2 -----------------------Additions / Changes / Fixes The splash screen will no longer shown twice or more (on multislots) after the backup memory is reset. The memory card format option will no longer wipe the region stored in the mem ory card on AES hardware. The arcade protect setting can now have either the testmode button pressed or HardDIP 1 on (force test mode) to get access back to the button Codes on the splash sc reen. Made visual improvements to the main memory card manager menu. Cleaned up screens and messages in the memory card manager, test mode and hard ware test. Changed the Cheat database storage slightly. It now takes less space in the Bi os which is good thing as space was beginning to become quite tight. Fixed the AES hardware test code (A+B+D) so it also works after the splash scr een is drawn. Fixed the hardware error message from disapeering on AES hardware as soon as t he hardware test button code (A+B+D) was released. Fixes (game related) Fixed the AES version of 'King of Fighters 2003' from crashing after exiting t he ingame menu (bug introduced in 2.1). Fixed 'Andro Dunos' to start attract mode correctly on AES hardware. Fixed 'Andro Dunos' 1up not being able to continue on the last credit in a two player game in console mode if started with 3 credits each. Fixed Fight Fever to work correctly when freeplay is enabled (start was not re sponding). Fixed garbage in 'Alpha Mission II' bonus rate SOFTDip setting on AES hardware . Stopped SVC level select showing in a two player game when in arcade mode on A ES hardware. Cheats / CRC Database Added B or C for Added 3'. Added Added Added Added Added cheat so that Irtating Maze is playable with 1up joystick (hold buttons different speeds). This cheat has not yet been tested on real hardware. cheat allowing boss characters to show in AES mode with 'Art of Fighting cheat to enable blood in 'Samurai Shodown 5 Special'. cheats to play as bosses in 'Voltage Fighter'. cheats so 1up can play as bosses in 'Fatal Fury 2', (can cause crashes). cheats and crc info for 'Lansquenet 2004' hack. cheats and crc info for 'King of Gladiators' hack.

Added crc info for 'The King of Fighters 2002 Magic Plus II'. Added crc info for 'King of Fighters 10th Unique'. Fixed the 'Sengoku 3' boss unlock cheat to add bosses into the mini character select (happens after continue) if the cheat was enabled after a game had started. Fixed incorrectly labeled 2up autofire cheat in 'Metal Slug 2'. --------------------------------------------------------------------WHATS NEW IN VERSION 2.1 -----------------------Additions Added a new MVS general Bios setting 'Enable 1Up Coin Move'. When enabled this setting will force a coin entered into a cab with only one coin chute to register on the 2Up side as long as the 2Up start button is held down while the coin is entered. The Bios should be set to USA region and Arcade mode or VS-Mode must be enabled and s upported by the game being played for this feature to work. Added a new MVS general Bios setting 'Enable Arcade Protect'. This setting is designed to allow the Universe Bios to be run easier in an arcade environment. It bas ically protects the Universe Bios settings and operator by doing the following; - The Test mode button must also be pressed with the normal button codes to access the Main Universe Bios menu, Memory Card Manager, Test Mode or Controller Test. - If a game was to crash for any reason the system will reset and start ove r instead of stopping and displaying the error on screen. This is how the normal Bi os works. When using this new setting one should also disable Input Crossing and the I n Game Memu to stop other methods of adding credits or cheating. Added the ability to fade out music in the Jukebox Player instead of stopping it dead (nice if you want to record never ending tracks but it does not work with al l games). Added an option to soft reset the system from the crosshatch screen. Added an option to get to the memory viewer from the crosshatch screen, this c an be helpfull in tracking hardware faults if you only get the cross hatch from po wer on. Added the ability to change game SLOT in the memory viewer (use select buttons ). Pressing only button A on the splash screen will make it disappear faster. Speedups Speeded up the way cheats are patched into memory a little (unlooped code). Speeded up coin to select button swapping (code was running twice per frame). Speeded up the ingame menu check by putting some code in place of a waitloop.

Changes Removed the welcome message the first time the bios is run on MVS hardware. In stead it will default to Euro Arcade mode and the BootUp HW Test will also be disable d. The Universe Bios will now force a backup RAM test when its first run in a new system. Removed the option to disable the splash screen (MVS hardware only). Fixes Fixed possible gfx garbage behind the SNK logo at the bottom of screen in test mode. Fixed possible bug that could cause (under certern situation) the buttons not to respond after an exception error on AES hardware only. Fixed a NeoGeo logo curruption issue in the Universe Bios menus if you exited the slot selection screen without choosing a slot first (affected 2SLOT hardware only ). Fixed the kof2003 official MVS cart not changing languages correctly in arcade mode. The problem was caused by SNK/Playmore locking the language to English on Englis h carts. Fixed Matrimelee not changing language when changing region on MVS hardware in arcade mode. Fixed Metal Slug 4 music in the jukebox player as it played distorted if you u sed the jukebox before allowing the game to play. Fixed the SoftDIPs in Samurai Shodown 4 through Samurai Shodown 5 Special so w hen in Japan region the language setting shows 'Japanese' instead of 'English'. Fixed the SoftDIPs in Baseball Stars Pro when in USA region (demo sound DIP pl acement). Fixed a SoftDIP problem that could cause DIP settings to appear wrong in some games after changing regions (affected games that have a different ammount of DIPs per r egion). Fixed a minor ingame menu color problem in King of Fighters 2003 on MVS hardwa re. Fixed the exception error and memory viewer screens so that text is now readab le in King of Fighters 2003 on MVS hardware. Fixed Aero Fighters 3 to stop showing level select when in arcade mode on AES hardware. Fixed King of Fighters 2001 MVS version console mode menu select pointers. Fixed King of Fighters 2001 MVS version console mode menu colors from going wr ong when starting a 2 player game (single all and pratice text). Fixed the SoftDIPs to work when playing the newer (less censored) version of S amurai Shodown 5 Special on AES hardware in arcade mode. Cheats Made AES Samurai Shodown 5 Special Fatal unlock and sound fix one cheat. Added Shrink Mode cheat to Samurai Shodown 5 Special. Added cheats to enable blood in King of Fighters 97, 98 and 99.

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cheats to enable blood in Samurai Shodown 1, 2 and 3. cheats to enable blood in Ganryu. cheats to Samurai Shodown 4 to play as Zankuro. cheats to Samurai Shodown 5 to play as Yumeji or Sankuro. cheats to Kabuki klash to play as bosses. cheats to Rage of Dragons to play as Abobo and Johann. cheats to Sonic Wings 3 to play as Red Rabbit or Diabloon. a secret character cheat to World Heroes Perfect. a secret character cheat to Magical Drop 2 and 3. a secret character cheat to The Last Blade. a secret character cheats to The Last Blade 2. auto fire cheats to all games in the Metal Slug Series. auto fire cheats to Sonic Wings 2 and 3. auto fire cheats to Ghost Pilots. auto fire cheats to Zed Blade. Infinite Time cheats for 2Up, 3Up and 4UP in League bowling. cheats for King of Fighters Special Edition 2004 hack. cheats for King of Fighters 10th Anniversary hack. cheats to show in the korean version of Samurai Shodown 2. boss cheat to work in the korean version of King of Fighters 1999. cheats in the alt version of Magician Lord. AES infinate credit cheats in Sonic Wings 2 and 3. some minor spelling mistakes in the cheat engine.

CRC additions King of King of King of King of King of Samurai Samurai Samurai V Liner Fighters Special Edition 2004 hack. Fighters 10th Anniversary hack. Fighters 2003 Ultra Plus bootleg. Fighters 1999 (korean MVS version). Fighters 2002 Plus (alt bootleg). Shodown 2 (korean MVS version). Shodown 5 Special MVS version. Shodown 5 Special newer AES version. alt set.

--------------------------------------------------------------------WHATS NEW IN VERSION 2.0 -----------------------IMPORTANT. This release will totally reset the MVS backup memory. This means UNIVERSE BIO S settings, SoftDIPs, and game settings will be lost. This will also happen when upgrading from a previous version. You will need to enter initial soft dip settings again. Mult islot users will need to set the 'game select' softDIP to free if you wish to allow game s wapping before entering credits. Regions stored on memory cards (AES users) will also be lost until set up again but saved game data will not be lost. Samurai Shodown 5 Special related stuff. Removed the protection stoping the game from running in Arcade mode on AES har

dware. Added cart. Added cart. Added Added Fixed tered). Fixed Changes

a cheat to unlock fatalities which were censored out of the AES original a cheat to fix the round win sounds that were broke in the AES original some game cheats to the database for the game. CRC info into the CRC database (for the original AES cart only so far). the NeoGeo logo in the splash screen when this game used (it was not cen sound in the Jukebox if accessed from system power on.

Added code to fully reset backup RAM when a MVS system is run for the first ti me with the UNIVERSE BIOS installed. This is to ensure correct SoftDIP compatability is maintained. Added A new Patch Memory option to the In game menu. Exiting the In game menu is now done by pressing button C. Added a reboot option from the exception error screen. Improved the splash screen (this could still be subject to change). Improved the multislot only game selecting screen (shows before jukebox and CR C check). Improved the Jukebox sound initilize routine. This results in the 'error start ing sound' error showing less when entering the jukebox, espicially with some older gam es. Disabling the startup hardware test now also skips the callender test. You will now see a Blue sreen on AES hardware if you power on the unit with no game in. Removed the 'game select' softdip remembering code added in v1.3 because it ne ver worked. Fixes Fixed an Addres Error that only affected SLOT2 hardware happening after the un ibios splash screen if the 'bootup HW test' was disabled from the unibios general setting s. Fixed the force AES option (shows when system has a hardware fault) so it now sets up a default Region of 'Europe', mode of 'Console' and also sets up the default s oft dips. Fixed the rogue green pixel strips that appeared on screen momentarily during the fade in and out of the splash screen (mainly visable on AES hardware only). Fixed the rogue pixel strips that could sometimes appear on screen momentarily during entering and exiting the in game menu (this problem only happened sometimes) . Fixed a small issue that could make some softdips become messed on multislot h ardware for games not in slot1 (mslug3 and kof2001 for example). Fixed a possible language soft dip display issue with Rage of the Dragons. Fixed an issue that affected soft dips in 'Street Hoop' when in Japan region. While its not perfect its still far better than it was (dips are now correctly named). Fixed an issue that affected soft dips in 'Samurai Shodown 4' & 'Samurai Shodo wn 5' when in Japan region (in relation to the blood setting). While not perfect you ca

n now turn on Blood far easier than before. Fixed a issue that caused WindJammers to crash after the bonus bowling level. Fixed the MVS version of kof2001 to romove the small green line that appeared across the screen in console mode, problem produced from the menu color fixes added in v1.3. Fixed the MVS version of kof2003 so that when in the cheat database the ammoun t of cheats is now displayed instead of a blank space. Cheats and CRC Added cheat to enable '4way battle mode' in Kizuna Encounter. Added a cheat to play as Zankuro in samurai shodown 3. Fixed Rage of the Dragons 1up infinite energy cheat from locking up the game a t the end of a round if game timer runs down to zero. Added a cheat to force Japanese language in kof2003 as there is a problem with the game not setting a Japan language on multislot hardware when in Japan region . Added crc for a new found 2020 super baseball version. --------------------------------------------------------------------WHATS NEW IN VERSION 1.3 -----------------------AES support (nuff said). some AES notes..... Region settings are saved to the memory card, however if no card is available on power up the system will default to EURO / CONSOLE operation. To do a hardware check hold buttons A+B+D during power up this will keep the s ystem looping through a hardware check until all buttons are released. When in ARCADE mode devmode is enabled and cannot be disabled. There is no attract mode sound for some games in MVS mode. This is beacuse the y read the demo sound soft dip from backupram (which the aes dosnt have) instead of the adjescent RAM location (this problem exists on the DEBUG bios also). Some early games (nam75 for example) will have currupted 'how to play' screens . This is because the AES does not have the needed character font the MVS has. When in USA mode some games will have a currupted 'winners dont use drugs' scr een. This is because the AES does not have the needed character font the MVS has. The Test Mode menu is not availabe for use. Additions The NeoGeo/ProGear logo now displays only once at the beginning when in consol e mode to match bios on AES.

New entry method to access the in game menu, START+A+B+C. Old access methods a re still usable. Ability to abort the game cart crc check while its calculating. Ability to exit from slot selection screen (multislot hardware only). Enabled the AES controller test, access via holding player 2 A+B+C+D during po wer on or splash screen. 68000 exception handling. Instead of games reseting they will stop and the cur rent 68000 status will be displayed. Simple memory/vram viewer that can be accesses from the hardware error screen. Changes Exiting the jukebox or crc check on multislot HW now restores the initially us ed font. Added a shadow to bring out the NeoGeo logo in the splash screen and main menu . Made the Red color used in the Splash Screen and main menu a little darker. Improved the hardware check so you only see a couple of flashes on screen at p ower on instead of lots of green garbage. Improved the hardware error screens to make them look nicer but I'm sure you w ill never want to see these. Changed the test mode hardware test so that the test memory card section no lo nger looses any data on the card. This problem affected the original BIOS also. Changed some very bad English in the card manager including one point where th e word 'no' should actually be 'yes' when it comes to confirming data delete. This probl em affected the original BIOS also. Fixes Fixed an issue that caused some hardware error messages appear darker or disto rted. Fixed the 'gameselect' option being lost the first time the UNIVERSE BIOS is u sed on multislot hardware. Fixed button (A) not responding when trying to continue from failed HW check w hen using a joypad. Fixed credits from 2nd coin shoot not showing but still registering in VS-MODE when the game dosent support it. Fixed the select buttons not registering in the testmode input test when in co nsole mode. Fixed testmode input test so that the input crossing feature does not take eff ect while testing buttons. Fixed a problem in the memory card manager that stoped the letter 'o' visually showing when selecting a card name. This problem affected the original BIOS also. Fixed a clicking sound that sometimes happened during boot if the hardware che ck was disabled. Fixed a soft dip issue that could cause confusion (because we force softdips t o display in

English). Basically in some games the language softdip setting is different depending on region. For example the kof games default language now reads 'Japanese' inst ead of 'English' when in Japanese mode. There could be issues like this in other games too, i f you find any please let me know. Game Fixes Fixed Sengoku 3 language not changing when swapping region in arcade mode. Fixed many menu problems in the official kof2001 mvs cart when in console mode (there are still problems though). Fixed a Matrimelee font problem in menus on multislot hardware and in the jukebox / crc check on slot1 hardware. Fixed Pochi and Nyaa sound distortion in the jukebox if the game is not allowed to run first. Fixed missing font in crc check, jukebox, and ingame menu for KOF2003. New and Updated Cheats SNK vs Capcom Samurai Shodown 5 Metal Slug 5 King of Fighters 2003 Pochi and Nyaa Zintrick Samurai Shodown 2 New original/hacked game CRC's to database SNK vs Capcom SNK vs Capcom (bootleg cart) Samurai Shodown 5 Metal Slug 5 (MVS and AES) Pochi and Nyaa King of Fighters 1997 Plus King of Fighters 2001 (alternate set) King of Fighters 2002 Plus Metal slug 4 Plus Metal slug 5 Plus SNK Vs Capcom Plus SNK Vs Capcom Super Plus King of Fighters 2003 (MVS and AES) King of Fighters 2003 (bootleg cart) Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy (set 2) --------------------------------------------------------------------WHATS NEW IN VERSION 1.2 -----------------------Additions Added Multislot support to the Jukebox Player and Gamecart CRC check. Added the ability to continue on from a hardware error. Allowed Test Mode button to give access to TEST mode menu while in console mod e.

Cheats for MATRIMELEE added to the cheats database. Test mode improvements Time added to main test mode menu screen (date format changes from euro to usa region). Crosshatch test shrunk to match fullscreen used by most games. Full color fade bars in color test (why the original BIOS never did this is be yond me). Setting up the code number will now be in English even when set to Japan regio n. Soft DIP settings will always be in English even if set to Japan region. (Soft DIPs shown will always be from Euro region, this means some settings will not wor k unless system set to EURO region, like the language soft DIP for example). Changes Disabling the hardware test (general bios settings) now disables the Z80 test also. Visually improved the gamecart crc check screen making it better. Games that use the protected banking system no longer calculate the crc32 for those banks, instead it is indicated that they are custom. Doing a 'WORK RAM TEST' (all hard dips on at power on) no longer clears region settings. Updated CRC32 database although there could still be errors. Fixes Fixed a lockup if entering the Memory Card Manager or Test Mode from the splas h screen when running in console mode with hard DIP 8 (stop) on. Fixed 'unlock Kyo & Iori' kof99 cheat (no longer jumps to character select aft er win). Fixed distorted music in Jukebox Player with games ROTD, KOF2002 and MATRIMELE E. Fixed REALBOUT2, KOF98, NEOCUP98 and BREAKREV reset on the 'winners dont use d rugs' screen on multislot Hardware. --------------------------------------------------------------------WHATS NEW IN VERSION 1.1 -----------------------Additions Added support This allows The ability The ability for the correct USA BIOS coin inputing when in USA arcade mode. for seperate coin input for player 1 and 2. to use 4 coin inputs (turned on via hard dip 1). to start a 1 player game on players 2 side.

Added support for VS-MODE in Euro and Japan region for games that use it (figh ters). This mode is enabled by simply turning on hard dip 2, when enabled games use a coin inserting like USA as mentioned above. I have also patched test mode so the

setting shows in the hard dips menu. VS-MODE may do more also ingame but I am not su re. Program ROM crc checking This option allows you to confirm your program roms are not bad. NOTE, not a ll crc's are yet in the database so many roms may give a '??' or 'NG' error when they are correct. If you get either of these messages please email me with the detail s. In game menu system Access to debug dips (now removed from the main menu). Hardware reset option. The debug dip cursor now wraps from left to right / right to left. MVS hardware type is now displayed in bottom right corner of the main menu. Changed button detection which should make selecting regions on some machines easier. When in Euro or Japan mode I have made coin shoot2 '1coin 1credit' by default. Cheats/Debug DIPs Fixed a possible crash/lockup situation when accessing the cheat engine. Fixed some typos and incorrect cheat descriptions in the cheats engine. Added more cheats to the cheat engine database. Cheats that use debug dips now clear the dip/s they set when that cheat is dis abled. (dips set by cheats show on debug screen by hilighting dip number) (dips are not cleared if it is also set in the debug dip settings) Blazing star no longer resets when exiting from the in game menu in console mo de. (The reset was programmed by game design) Jukebox Fixed an issue that could cause an lockup when entering the jukebox. Added an error message if for some reason the sound dosent initilize. The initial sound used when entering the jukebox will now be a valid one. Fixed all games that played double samples at the beginning of tune. Fixed a issue that caused sound effects not to play in 'Nightmare in the Dark' . Fixed a issue that caused 'Puzzle Bobble 2' music not to play. Visual The splash screen now fades in and out. Changed the effect used when deleting menu screens a little. Made the in game menus background color a little darker. Fixed an issue with font colors when game in slot1 is 'Fatal Fury III'. Fixed small red lines in splash screen and main menu when using certain games. Fixed NeoGeo logo not showing on splash screen and main menus on 4/6slot hardw are. Fixed NeoGeo logo on 2slot hardware if NAM1975 or PBOBBLE2 was the first game. Misc Fixed possible crash on 'Winners Dont use Drugs' if debug dips used on a multi slot.

Fixed possible crash when exiting debug dips settings on a multislot system. Fixed Hard DIP 8 not forcing pause in console mode. --------------------------------------------------------------------WHATS NEW IN VERSION 1.0 -----------------------Initial release