/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2437076]

Favorite Neo Geo games?

[Anonymous No.2437082]

>>2437076
blazing star, zed blade, shock troopers

[Anonymous No.2437114]

>>2437076
KOF 98, Metal Slug 2, Crossed Swords, Sengoku, Samurai Shodown IV, Ghost Pilots.

[Anonymous No.2437119]

>>2437114
sengoku 3 really is pretty great
1 and 2 are trippy curiosity

[Anonymous No.2437124]

B-B-B-B-B-BASEBALL STAR 2
Last Blade 2
KOF 98

[Anonymous No.2437132]

>>2437119
I've played all of them and 3 felt different from the other two.
Sengoku 2 is my favorite because of all the typically japanese crazy mythological stuff, and 3 seemed to lack of that.
But I don't know, maybe I'm just biased because I've spent tons of money on the arcade version as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2437136]

>>2437124
>Last Blade 2
Can't argue with that, this and Mark of the Wolves are probably the best games on the platform.

[Anonymous No.2437140]

Magical Drop III

[Anonymous No.2437141]

>>2437132
That's correct, in japan 3 is known as Sengoku Gaiden and it's an unnumbered spin off. The team behind that game are the same guys who made gaia crusaders and it plays a lot closer to that game than the rest of the sengoku series.

[Anonymous No.2437149]

>>2437124
>B-B-B-B-B-BASEBALL STAR 2
Oh shit, thanks for reminding me of this one.
>don't give a fuck about baseball andsports in general
>play BBS2 out of curiosity
>mfw
I remember jumping back off my chair when the ball was coming towards me.

[Anonymous No.2437206]

Aside from fighters,
Pulstar
League Bowling
Twinkle Star Sprites
Dunk Dream (I'm not a sports fan, but it was fun)
Thrash Rally
And their early beat-em-ups: Burning Fight, Robo Army, Mutation Nation. They were glorified SNES games, seemed to lack a certain final polish, but were lots of fun.

[Anonymous No.2437547]

Wind Jammers

[Anonymous No.2437749]

Neo Turf Masters
Baseball stars 2
Neo Drift Out
World Heroes Perfect
Magician Lord

And the usual kof, ff, metal slug, etc

[Anonymous No.2437752]

>>2437206
Burning Fight is one of my favorite "bad" games
As clunky and Final Fight-ripoff as it is, the soundtrack is great and I love the dolph lundgren villian

[Anonymous No.2437761]

Plus for

Birdie

[Anonymous No.2437802]

Best racing game on the system in my opinion. Favorite 2D racing game of all time
controls are tight

[Anonymous No.2437805]

>>2437076
Samurai Shodown 2
Top Hunter
Last Blade
Metal Slug

[Anonymous No.2437808]

Anyone know where I can get the 60 in 1 cart? Nobody seems to sell it anymore

[Anonymous No.2437815]

ZuPaPa! a lot of people don't know it because it was one of the last released titles but this thing had me hooked for a while.

>>2437206
i preffer blazing star over pulstar because you move sloooooow in pulstar. i preffer level design on pulstar tho
>>2437132
i loved all the sengoku games as a kid. great to play with a friend

[Anonymous No.2437821]

>>2437815
Zupapa is easily one of the most fun Neogeo games by far.

Great music too.

[Anonymous No.2437834]

>>2437821
yeah the music is great
i love how the stages are very theme-oriented and have specific enemies in each
the only similar game on the neogeo is Nightmare in the Dark i think but i hated the boss battles on that one

[Anonymous No.2437895]

No Money Idol Exchange? What the fuck is wrong with you, /vr/?

[Anonymous No.2437918]

Last Resort
Samurai Shodown 2
Magician Lord
Metal Slug 3

[Anonymous No.2438694]

[Anonymous No.2438791]

nobody loves Viewpoint?

[Anonymous No.2438805]

>>2438694
awesome!

[Anonymous No.2439280]

>>2438791
now im starting to like it but i never got into diagonal shooters

[Anonymous No.2439284]

>>2439280
they really arent very popular.
Ever checked out slipheed?

[Anonymous No.2439291]

>>2438791
Viewpoint was a sequel to Zaxxon, no?

[Anonymous No.2439298]

>>2437076
metal slug 2
haters gonna hate

[Anonymous No.2439303]

>>2437834
I'd like Nightmare in the dark if it didn't suffer from major slowdown... but maybe that is just the emulator of my computer...

[Anonymous No.2439308]

>>2437119
>because a game is weird it can never be good
I never really got this mentality though I have seen it used as an excuse for hating on a game, movie, or album since I was a kid...

[Anonymous No.2439345]

>>2439303
I've never had much on my mvs

[Anonymous No.2439348]

>>2439308
I never said that, the gameplay in sengoku 3 is just better

[Anonymous No.2439349]

>>2439348
I like how sengoku 2 plays like a shooter once you combine the right power up orbs

[Anonymous No.2439502]

>>2437076
KoF '98
KoF '99
KoF 2000
SamSho
SamSho 2
Real Bout Special
Real Bout 2
Garou
Metal Slug
Metal Slug X
Metal Slug 3
Shock Troopers
League Bowling
Neo Turf Masters
NAM-1975

There are some other great ones, but those are the top unless I'm forgetting something.

[Anonymous No.2439605]

>>2439298
>Bought MS2 way back when it came out
>Something in the cart glitches, doesn't work anymore.
>See price of game on eBay. ;_;

[Anonymous No.2439638]

Rage of the Dragons.

so many 10/10 character designs

[Anonymous No.2442248]

bump

[That Ecchi Guy !!SXqkEzxV5p0 No.2442512]

>>2437076
3 Count Bout
Aero Fighters 2
Aero Fighters 3
Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior
Battle Flip Shot
Blazing Star
Breakers Revenge
Captain Tomaday
Crossed Swords
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Ghost Pilots
Kizuna Encounter
Last Resort
Magical Drop III
Metal Slug
Metal Slug X
Metal Slug 3
Musashi Ganryuki
NAM-1975
Neo Bomberman
Neo Drift Out: New Technology
Pochi & Nyaa
Power Instinct Matrimelee
Prehistoric Isle 2
Rage of the Dragons
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers
Samurai Shodown IV: Amakusa's Revenge
Samurai Shodown V Special
Sengoku 3
Shock Troopers
Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad
Strikers 1945 Plus
Super Dodge Ball (Kunio no Nekketsu Tōkyū Densetsu)
The King of Fighters '97
The King of Fighters '98
The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle
The King of Fighters 2000
The King of Fighters 2002: Challenge to Ultimate Battle
The Last Blade
The Last Blade 2
The Super Spy
Twinkle Star Sprites
Viewpoint
Windjammers
World Heroes Perfect
Zed Blade (Operation Ragnarok)
ZuPaPa!

and a ton of soccer games. Neo-Geo had a surprising amount of fun sports titles.
http://pastebin.com/5qNUYYjS

[Anonymous No.2442634]

>>2437076
KOF 98, 2002
Neo Turf Masters
WINDJAMMERS
Magical Drop 3
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special and RBFF2
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Puzzle Bobble
Metal Slug 3
Breakers Revenge

>>2439638
it's so busted and some of my friends know how to do the infinites in it

but god damn, it'd be one of my favorite Neo fighters if it was fixed

[Anonymous No.2442651]

NEO DRIFT OUT

[Anonymous No.2443061]

Out of interest, how do the 2D capabilities of the Neo Geo compare to later systems like the Playstation and Saturn?

[Anonymous No.2443070]

>>2443061
difficult question, the biggest issue is that carts can instantaneously load graphics from any part of the rom while the double speed CD drives on those 32 bit systems had to take literal minutes to fill up the ram
the neo geo ports on the play1 were garbage
saturn fared better but only because of the expansion cart and even then they still missed out on some of the better games like KOF98 and real bout 2 for whatever reason

[Anonymous No.2443074]

>>2443070
the playstation port of metal slug 1 had to stop in mid level to load.
metal slug x didn't have interstitial loadings but they had to completely butcher most of the animation and pixelate the explosions to get it to run
all ps1 neo geo ports had down-sampled music, something to do with limited ram

[Anonymous No.2443078]

This game is criminally underrated, it's fun as fuck.
The sequels are great too, but the first one is my favorite.

>>2443061
I'm not a techy guy, but I believe Neo Geo's capabilities were greater, considering how the PSX ports lacked lots of frames, for example.

[Anonymous No.2443084]

>>2443061
>How does one of the longest-lasting 2D platforms compare against a platform infamous for poor 2D conversions?

[Anonymous No.2443093]

>>2437076
also galaxy fight, kof 96,98, samurai IV, slug 3, sengoku 3 and garou mark

[Anonymous No.2443094]

>>2443093
>galaxy fight,
Waku Waku 7 was superior

[Anonymous No.2443121]

>>2443094
maybe but I never knew about waku before emulators, galaxy on the other hand is the game I played in arcades.

[Anonymous No.2443179]

The Samurai Shodown series. It reminds me of Smash Bros in a few ways, like the defensive play, huge range of weapons and characters, and lack of an emphasis on combos. It's the first "real" fighting game I really enjoyed.

[Anonymous No.2443308]

>>2437076
Blazing star
Though I want to try a King of Fighters game.

[Anonymous No.2443339]

I've never really been interested in the Neo Geo until recently.
I've since put Magician Lord on my PSP and that's pretty fun.

[P No.2443348]

Spinmaster is underrated

[Anonymous No.2443354]

>>2443339
That's not an action game, it's a racer. If you don't memorize your way through the dungeon you'll die over and over from the time over flame things.

[Anonymous No.2443782]

>>2442248
are these that good. really want a p2 for my consolised mvs and everything is so fucking expensive.

[Anonymous No.2445378]

>>2443061
Neo wins because it could just load whatever from ROM whenever it wanted. The Saturn and PS1 needed to load shit into RAM (which was very limited) off of the slow CD.

otherwise, the PS1 and Saturn would actually destroy the Neo in terms of 2D ability (faster CPU, able to blit more shit to the screen, more color, blending effects, hardware rotation, etc), they're completely bottlenecked by loading

[Anonymous No.2445394]

>>2445378

Interesting. Is that the case even when the Saturn has RAM expansions like the 4MB cart?
I'm surprised when the Saturn has the ability to load things into memory in the background, too. Is the load time that critical a bottleneck?

[Anonymous No.2445598]

>>2445394
Saturn gets a big boost from those extra RAM expansions because it can at least fit most if not all of a character's frames into memory now.

Load time takes forever. It's a 2x drive in both machines, 300kB/s peak rate, extremely high latency (seeking around the disc). Background loading helps the Saturn a bit, but that's up to the programmer to deal with.

[Anonymous No.2445605]

>>2445598

Uh-huh.
Just how fast is the cartridge port on the Neo Geo, anyway?
What does this infographic mean when 4th gen consoles would use the cartridge "like RAM"?

[Anonymous No.2446006]

>>2443078
i had this on neoCD
>dat ending theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIZhPHIs_K0#t=26m00s

[Anonymous No.2446016]

>>2445605
>What does this infographic mean when 4th gen consoles would use the cartridge "like RAM"?
if the cartridge <-> console interface has comparable bandwidth to the interface between the console's CPU and RAM, then you can map ROM on the cartridge into the CPU's memory map and read data from it directly rather than loading into RAM, and if the cartridge has SRAM of its own then you can use it the same way

[Anonymous No.2446172]

Garou
KOF 98
KOF2k2
Garou
Metal Slug(s)
WakuWaku 7
Super Dodgeball
Did I mention Garou

Seriously, I spend most of my late teens through mid 20s playing a shit load of Garou. Dat fuckin' B. Jenet

[Anonymous No.2446173]

>>2445605
That's a really nice picture, anon, can I save it?

[Anonymous No.2446179]

>>2438694
So piccolo can not only destroy the moon, but make one too?

[Anonymous No.2446183]

What's the best controller for playing with Neo Geo emulators?

[Anonymous No.2446195]

>>2446183

I would say any arcade stick that follows the 8-button layout so you can properly mimic the ABCD button layout it has on the original hardware. I've found that some things like Striker/T.O.P and other moves in their fighters feel a little more intuitive with the original layout.

[Anonymous No.2446205]

>>2446183
arcade stick obviously

[Anonymous No.2446207]

>>2446179
I see what you did there.

Thanks doc.

[Anonymous No.2446493]

>>2446016

> then you can map ROM on the cartridge into the CPU's memory map and read data from it directly rather than loading into RAM
So you don't even have to load program data into memory before executing it, it can just be directly executed from the ROM? Does it work for graphics data or is that different?

[Anonymous No.2446510]

>>2446493
Yes, any data can be streamed.

[Anonymous No.2446517]

>>2446510

Huh, that's very interesting. I understand why consoles could get away with very little RAM prior to CDs if you didn't need it to hold data from the ROM.