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Analogue NT...Here it is
wiggy:
--- Quote from: Doom on May 07, 2014, 03:56:28 PM ---Should have included flash cart functionality. Everything else is just a small step up from snake oil.
Emulators are better anyway. Then you can get pixel-perfect graphics at any resolution you want.
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Ick.
Dr.Agon:
--- Quote from: sLpFhaWK on May 07, 2014, 02:25:23 PM ---I love Neo Geo i've always dreamed of owning it one day, but now that I can technically afford getting one the price drives me away. I loved Samurai Showdown for it, I mean c'mon who doesn't but 650 just for the system and 200 for a controller is a little out there.
If I Wanted to get into collecting, what would be the cheapest way into it?
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KalessinDB is right on this, NeoCD is the cheapest but the load times and loading in general, ( metal slug 2, for example, loads halfway through some levels! ), kill it really...
CMVS is the way to go, IMHO, you can easily do it yourself too, no need to buy overpriced showpieces! get a 2-slot board with the controller ports built in, that way you can just use regular Neo controllers, they have the socketed BIOS chip so you can easily fit the UNIBIOS if you wanted to, then the only things you need to worry about are video/audio out and a PSU...
plenty of tutorials out there to help too, just try to stay out of neo-geo.com, those guys are arseholes...!
Ozzy_98:
--- Quote from: KalessinDB on May 07, 2014, 05:51:37 PM ---False. NES emulation is definitely not perfect for some of the harder/more obscure mappers.
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Yea, but name a mapper with issues with a modern emulator, and is it an issue you can notice? It's not so much that there's unsupported mappers (I don't think there's any unsupported mappers not counting new ones), but no one emu supports them all. Nestopia (Undead Edition) will handle any commercial cart just fine though.
Better than your average nes with slowdown issues, flicker (ick), and sometimes changing sprites into funny letters cause of a bit of dust.
Not sure how you could get pixel-perfect emulation at any res other than the native. Even if you just doubled it, due to non-square pixels you change the pixel shape. Course, non-perfect 4xHQ is nicer anyways :D
I honestly have a hard time believing people who claim emulators are noticeably worse than consoles have honestly tried good emulators in the last few years. Chances are they downloaded a few roms or just couldn't get some settings right (Or used some crappy phone emulator port; why are android emulators so freaking behind?!)
Problem with neo-geo CD is the drive unit isn't exactly built to last.
sLpFhaWK:
--- Quote from: Dr.Agon on May 07, 2014, 07:48:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: sLpFhaWK on May 07, 2014, 02:25:23 PM ---I love Neo Geo i've always dreamed of owning it one day, but now that I can technically afford getting one the price drives me away. I loved Samurai Showdown for it, I mean c'mon who doesn't but 650 just for the system and 200 for a controller is a little out there.
If I Wanted to get into collecting, what would be the cheapest way into it?
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KalessinDB is right on this, NeoCD is the cheapest but the load times and loading in general, ( metal slug 2, for example, loads halfway through some levels! ), kill it really...
CMVS is the way to go, IMHO, you can easily do it yourself too, no need to buy overpriced showpieces! get a 2-slot board with the controller ports built in, that way you can just use regular Neo controllers, they have the socketed BIOS chip so you can easily fit the UNIBIOS if you wanted to, then the only things you need to worry about are video/audio out and a PSU...
plenty of tutorials out there to help too, just try to stay out of neo-geo.com, those guys are arseholes...!
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Thanks for the reply, i'd be really interested in doing that but ebay doesn't seem to have the boards. hmm
Dr.Agon:
coinopexpress has them;
http://www.coinopexpress.com/products/pcbs/neo_geo/Neo_Geo_MV_2_Slot_225.html
there minimum order is $200, but the board costs $106, im sure you could fill the rest up easily...
Also, back on topic, IMHO the NT looks like overpriced shit!