SNK history

Back then

These pictures are taken from an SNK corporate video [available on Youtube].

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  Graphics artist using an Art box. Is he drawing with a keyboard ?!

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  Funky shirt programmer

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  Development cartridges using JEIDA cards and a 68k emulator

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  More programming with green-on-black monitors

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  Old Osaka factory with inconspicuous sign

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  Electronics assembly chain, visibly not in the plant shown below. Where was that ?

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  MVS cart boards being populated in a pick and place machine

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  Mechanical assembly of MV4 slots

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  QA testing setup

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  SNK's own private sauna. No homo.

The Neo·Geo Base Unit for Development

The official development system's manual can be downloaded here : File:Neo·Geo Base Unit Manual For Development.pdf

It describes all of the development features, but not the error handling program which allows for direct registry reading and writing.

Screenshots and explanations will be provided.

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Today

SNK's Miki (Hyogo prefecture) factory near Kobe in 2015, which is now a truck rental agency (Aktio).

SNK's Kobe plant and Esaka office seem to be still active mid-2015.

Video showing that the Esaka office is filled with doors, stairs and Coke vending machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EP6s7mDXdU

Satellite view of the same plant in 2013, new buildings were built around since then.