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[konrad]

The neo geo system is a bit strange in some things in the pulsar you can't pause I don't know why in art of fighting 3 it doesn't let me unless it has 3.1 unibios.

 

[Neo Alec]

Hi. Let me try to get clarification:

Your system gas Unibios 3.1? How are you trying to pause the game?

You have two options:
1. Press select to pause in most games (the bios must be in Home/AES mode)
2. Press start and select together to open the in-game Unibios menu (can be done regardoess of the bios mode)

 

[HellioN]

If your MVS board has physical dip switchs #7 will pause IIRC.

 

[konrad]

In aes mode in the game press the word pause does not appear.

 

[city41]

On my AES system using a NeoSD, AOF3 pauses just fine no matter what home mode I try or how I get there (using unibios 3.0). In MAME it will only pause in AES mode if I start the session in AES mode. Switching from MVS->AES and soft rebooting, I can't pause. In MAME I have unibios 3.1 and 3.2.

I don't have a real AOF3 cart to test with.

 

[city41]

This is an old thread, but I just saw this on the unibios's known issues page and it might be relevant.

These known issues apply to version 4.0.

There are problems in console mode with some games when trying to use the coin switches as select buttons (pressing a coin switch won't pause a game). This is due to games accessing the ports directly and not via the BIOS. Games affected include;

3 Count Bout	Metal Slug 3	Strikers 1945 Plus
Andro Dunos	Metal Slug 4	Super Dodge Ball
Art of Fighting 2	Metal Slug 5	Temco World Soccer
Art of Fighting 3	Money Puzz Exchngr	The Last Blade
Ganryu	Rage of the Dragons	The Last Blade 2
Magical Drop 3	Sengoku	The Super Spy
Matrimelee	Sengoku 2	Voltage Fighter
Metal Slug 2	Sengoku 3
Metal Slug X	Spin Master

As a work around you can use JAMMA pins '26' and 'd' as player 1 & 2 select buttons. You can also link JAMMA pins '26' to '16' by soldering a wire from one to the other. Doing this will make 'coin 1' also 'select' when used (link pins 'd' to 'T' for player 2). *** DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK ***

The unibios website is down right now, I pulled this out of the wayback machine.

 

[Neo Alec]

@konrad the select button is used to pause in almost all Neo Geo games. Did you check your select button?

@city41 I know you mentioned AOF3 before, but he said he's playing Pulstar, which isn't on the list at all.

 

[city41]

I know you mentioned AOF3 before

I was mostly responding to this: "I don't know why in art of fighting 3 it doesn't let me unless it has 3.1 unibios".

Not sure what is going on with pulstar. But for aof3, it might be the unibios 4 that is getting in the way.

 

[konrad]

@konrad the select button is used to pause in almost all Neo Geo games. Did you check your select button?

@city41 I know you mentioned AOF3 before, but he said he's playing Pulstar, which isn't on the list at all.

The select button is fine but games like pulsar cannot be paused.

 

[Neo Alec]

Pressing select to pause the game will only work when the bios is set to Home (AES) mode.

If it's not working I think your select button is not wired correctly.