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What's the story behind neogeo games? Help a noob out!
rcdriver434:
I just building my first arcade cab (converting an old one, but anyways), and have downloaded 9.5/11gbs of the complete rom set over the past 2 days, so I am almost set. What I am curious about are neogeo games:
1) What are they? Is neogeo just a company name, or does it designate some special hardware
2) Can MAME emulate the games? I see special versions of MAME just to emulate them (neomame, etc). What's up with that?
3) Do the games come in the standard rom set? I always liked metal slug, so when my d/l finishes, will I be able to play it?
4) Why is there so much controversy surrunding games like metal slug 5 and king of fighters 03/04? Why are people looking for hacked versions? Are these games not included in MAME or do they just not work unless they've been hacked?
5) What NeoGeo games are there other than KOF/MS? Is there a list somewhere?
Thanks for any clarification you can give me.
PLEASE, for God's sake, don't tell me to try to search. I did. I didn't find answers to these questains.
Matt Austin
Veinman:
I can give you some quick answers, but others could surely provide more detail.
1. Don't talk about downloading ROMs on this site. :police:
2. NeoGeo is an arcade system built to run many games within the same cabinet. I'm pretty sure the parent company is SNK.
3. There are a LOT of Neogeo games, and Mame should run most of them with no problems. Some games are newer so Mame won't run them. Not a technical issue, more of a moral one.
As for a master list, I'm sure there is one, but you'd have to...search. ;)
crashwg:
1) Both! Well sorta. It is kinda like a department in a company and special hardware. In the arcade world it's known as MVS and it's like a console inside an arcade machine. The games come on cartridges which plug into the "console".
2) Mame infact does emulate MOST of NeoGeo roms you need nothing more to do so
3) If you mean every game available for mame when you say "rom set", yes they're included
4) The controversy comes from the fact that those games still make alot of money in the eyes of the developers. Whether or not they do is often debated but it doesn't realy matter because it's up to the mame devs to include them if they feel like doing so and they don't!
Yes they can be hacked into mame because the MVS system is already in place it's just a matter of having the roms and knowing what you're doing.
5) I'll leave this one to someone who knows... :P
Some of this information is repeated because while I was typing it Veinman beat me to it!
etumor:
1) What are they?
IntruderAlert:
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6089278/
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