Neo-Geo Awesomeness
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So I sat here today, remembering when I was a kid, playing on the Neo-Geo cabinets in the arcade and now I have the urge to pickup the system here again.
So having no idea how, where and what to acquire, I am looking for suggestions.
What games are good to pickup? Difference between the console and handheld. I definitely will be interested in picking up King of Fighters and probably Baseball stars. Any other recommendations or info?
So having no idea how, where and what to acquire, I am looking for suggestions.
What games are good to pickup? Difference between the console and handheld. I definitely will be interested in picking up King of Fighters and probably Baseball stars. Any other recommendations or info?
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Or get ports. There are a lot of awesome ports and compilations.
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Modding an arcade board to work on tv sounds like it would be a bit of an adventure. How is handheld library compared to the arcade? What is a rough amount for a system? Are the handhelds mostly used that I will be looking at or do they still sell them new?
The handheld library's good, but remember, we're talking a 1990s handheld here. You're not getting PSP-level stuff out of this. You'll be looking at almost all used.
I paid 25 bucks for my handheld, an arcade rig will cost you a few hundred.
Unless you have a television that natively accepts RGB signals, you're going to need some sort of conversion hardware to use an arcade board (MVS, Multi Video System) with your TV. For once, Europe has it lucky, in that most TVs with a SCART socket accept RGB. If yours doesn't, you'll need to convert the signal to NTSC or get a monitor of some sort.
Second, you'll need to wire up controllers, power, video, and sound to the board. The arcade boards use a connector which mostly conforms to the JAMMA standard, for which pinouts are available on the web. It is to be assumed that significant amounts of soldering and other wirework will be involved.
That said, MVS is the cheaper way to go. If you can find yourself a cabinet, then most of the work'll be taken care of for you. MVS boards are cheaper than the home AES system, and for the vast majority of the games you'll be likely to want to buy, much cheaper.
Yeah, if you can go MVS. AES is very expensive for games that while 200+ on AES will run you 40 for some on the arcade board. It depends which games you're looking to get, and the Neo Geo Pocket Color is awesome.
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I recommend:
King of Fighters '98, King of Fighters 2002, King of Fighters 2003
Samurai Shodown II
Garou Mark of the Wolves
Last Blade & Last Blade 2
Magician Lord
Metal Slug 3
Metal Slug X
Twinkle Star Sprites
The Real Bout Fatal Furies are awesome as well. The Magical Drop games are quite fun too.
There's a few other things that various people like that I cannot recall. Some people love, some people hate, World Heroes for example
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I need to work on my Twinkle Star Sprites skills.
Seeking out a game like Twinkle Star Sprites is what led me to Touhou.
I thought WindJammers was also an extremely awesome Neo Geo game for being basically XTREME PONG.
Some other fighters for the Neo one should check out;
Breakers Revenge: A capcom like fighting game that is quite fun to play, the combo system is easy to get into as well. A favorite of mine.
Flip Shot is cool too, though good luck finding it, it's one of the rare ones. It's like windjammers except you have to hit the other person's back row of dealios in order to win.
Kabuki Klash is another fighter that is fun to play, it isn't as serious or deep as say Samurai Shodown or Last Blade, but definitely a fun little title to bust out now and then with some friends.
The King of Monster games are fun too, also neither go for very much due to them being quite common. It's a brawling wrestling styled game where you pick a giant monster guy and duke it out in cities.
Last Blade 1 and 2 are definitely worth checking out too, fluid animation, a solid fighting system, and it's basically the more combo oriented faster paced Samurai Shodown. They need to continue that series. They were going to make a 3 back before SNK closed shop originally, but alas....
Neo Turf Masters is awesome fun. An arcade golf game that is easy to play, and quite fun at that. I still need to obtain this for my cabinet ;_;
Pulstar and Blazing Star are awesome shooters, Pulstar being more of an R-Type clone and very hard. While Blazing Star it's sequel is easier to play, but more focused on score and keeping up high combos etc. I personally only own Blazing Star, and it's fun as hell. They both look exceptional too.
Rage of the Dragons is a personal favorite of mine, a tag team game that was going to use the Double Dragon license but they couldn't secure the rights. So it was retitled Rage of the Dragons, and so on. The game isn't the deepest, but it is a fairly fun and flashy fighter.
If you like Rage of the Dragons, you should check out Matrimelee, where the whole plot is absurd. People are fighting in a tournament in order to win the right to marry this princess, whom you fight at the end! The game has a refined system of Rage of the Dragons, along with added things such as your super bar only really fills if you are taking hits, not dishing them out; also when you fill up a bar an aura burst surrounds you, knocking away the opponent if they are close. It also has 4 characters from ROTD as secret ones.
And finally, Waku Waku 7. A hilariously fun fighter, with a punching bag that makes fun of Ryu. The game plays solid, is fast and very fun. Definitely one worth checking out. But really, if you don't like fighters, you're going to be playing a small number of games. The Baseball Star games are supposed to be super fun, but I have yet to play them.
Matrimelee and Rage of the Dragons are both notable for being released after SNK died. New games came out right up until 2004, giving the system one of the longest actively supported lifespans of any platform. (I think the Atari 2600 pips it, being 1977-1992 or thereabouts.)
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I was very disappointed reading through this thread until your post.
Also, I'd recommend King of Fighters 99 and 2000, the last two KOF games before Playmore took over. 2000 may be horribly unbalanced thanks to it's broken as hell strikers, but it's chock full of Neo Geo nostalgia. Every character in the game, and there are a lot, has two support (striker) modes. One is the character itself, while the other is another character from Neo Geo history or alternate designs of certain characters. As for 99, I refer to it as the Street Fighter Alpha of KOF games. It's hard to explain why, but if you were a long time fan of both series then I think you'll know what I mean.
Oh. Also Bust-A-Move. Can't go wrong with that.
Shock Troopers 1-2 (isometric beat em up), and Viewpoint (shmup) are also fun titles.
Other Neo Geo favorites have already been mentioned like Waku Waku 7, any of the Samurai Spirits (Shodown) series (I'm partial to II and V Special,) Last Blade 1-2, and Garou.
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Edit: It has Art of Fighting,
Baseball Stars 2,
Burning Fight,
Fatal Fury,
King of Fighters '94,
King of the Monsters,
Last Resort,
Magician Lord,
Metal Slug,
Neo Turf Masters,
Samurai Shodown,
Sengoku,
Shock Troopers,
Super Sidekicks 3,
Top Hunter and World Heroes
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My brother says MD3 is the most japanese game ever, because I usually rape the CPU in 10 seconds or the CPU rapes me as quickly. Also, it has bouncing tits.
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Your definition of Japanese is strange.
Not mine, my bro's. Basically, he's saying it's japanese because it's not a long drawn-out fight, I just decimate the enemy like you'd see some pro do in a Youtube video of any other game, or the computer beats me so fast it looks like a game with incredibly ramped-up difficulty.
I usually play survival mode. It's more of the arcadey style of play, where you keep going until you lose.
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From what I understand there was one released ONLY by SNKPlaymore USA, and it is terrible in terms of control issues, sound problems, and other crap. But if you don't care about all of that, then it probably wouldn't bother you.
Blazing Star
Garou: Mark of the Wolves (a million times this)
Garou: Mark of the Wolves, just to make sure.
And anything Slash recommends.
Thanks for the reminder though.
The first King of Fighters collection (Orochi Saga) is out in October and will contain King of Fighters '94, '95, '96, '97 AND '98. So that's 5 games, including '98, which is generally regarded as the finest in the series. Additionally, in January they'll release King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match, which has the boss team from '96 added into the bunch, and a whole slew of gameplay tweaks and extra stuff. It'll retail for $25, I think. The collection will, for some bizarre reason, apparently cost $15 on PS2, $20 on PSP and $30 on Wii.
The second King of Fighters collection (NESTS) will probably come out next year, and will almost certainly contain '99-2k2, and maybe even Neowave or something.
Now, the Samurai Shodown Anthology, which, as far as I know, will also be out this year, will contain every Samurai Shodown game ever made, except Samurai Shodown RPG, the Neo Geo pocket ones, and the NG64 games. So, in one collection, you'll get Samurai Shodown 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5 Special and 6. Which is an INSANE deal, as I doubt it'll cost more than $30.
Strange that nobody has mentioned them yet... are they badly emulated or somesuch?
I don't think they're badly emulated, I just think most people think they're overpriced since a single Neo Geo VC game is $9 when instead you can either get a GameTap subscription ($60/year for dozens of Neo Geo games + even more cool non-Neo Geo games) or pick up the SNK Arcade Classic compilation for $30 or less (16 Neo Geo games)
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I'd suggest some games, but all the ones I'd pick have already been named. Oh well.
This is terribly vague info. What is wrong with the sound and controls and other crap? Do you have a source?
Ya, But Given that some neogeo AES games are stupid expensive, even 9$ isn't that bad really. I have a hard time finding MVS neogeo games for that price shipped. Its all in perspective really.
The only source I have is the rants and raves of the fanatics on neo-geo.com I'm just restating what they said. I never played it, so I can't tell you if it's 100% true or not.
Hi Five Good sir. I loved Crossed Swords! I'm really hoping it shows up again in one form or another.
Gametap.
Went and browsed through the neo-geo.com forums. Looks like a hardware thing; they tend to think PS2 < PSP < Wii. They have issues with load times and the emulator not being exactly like the neogeo hardware. Some sound issues in Samurai Shodown. Looks like people generally like the new front-end and menus but not the possible resources it's consuming from the emulator.
Also: B-B-B-B-B-BAAAASEBALL STARRRS TWOOOOO
@Cobell, EliteDoomMaster, xWonderboyx- i have the SNK PSP collection, and whilst not perfect, it IS a great compilation of Neo Geo games if you aren't a purist- you're carrying around 16 pieces of arcade history IN YOUR FUCKING POCKET, which i really love. Also, unlockable art, music etc. are great additions to the package!