NeoDS - Neo Geo AES/MVS Emulator

[moo422]

Samurai Showdown IV - Works
Samurai Showdown III - When first fights starts, after about 3-4 seconds (during which movement/attacks work) screen freezes w/ music still playing, but "Load Rom" on bottom screen still functional; same thing happens during demo-attract fight
Mutation Nation - Works
Nam 75 - Works
Super Spy - Works
Crossed Swords - Works
Neo Turf Masters - HUD only, otherwise black-screened after game start. "Load Rom" still functional, but NeoDS freezes after rom selection
Top Players Golf - Freezes after first in-game/demo-attract golf swing (sound keeps playing), "Load Rom" not functional
Super Dodge Ball - Works
Strikers 1945 Plus - Works but Missing HUD

 

[policrat]

Thanks for the news.

http://www.ds-scene.net/?s=viewtopic&nid=5477&p=3

A luddite meaning I wouldn't know where to begin comparing hash sums between various bioses and roms, etc. It's beyond my patience.

 

[housemonkey]

Well, I really dont know much about the problem myself aside from some sketchy details. But I am a biy gun shy after a problem earlier this week...

But here is the thread where it was first reported from what I understand:

http://www.ds-scene.net/?s=viewtopic&nid=5477&p=1


Sorry I dont have more info, and for all I know it could be nothing, but it would really suck if it happens to mess up a nice big 6-8GB card beyond repair. I just figured its better safe than sorry with reloading mine and thought I would give a heads up in case anyone wanted to follow suit.

 

[moo422]

Not to freak anyone out, but I have been hearing scattered reports of microSD cards that have been getting bricked on certain flash cards (R4 and M3 - I assume simply or real) so I am backing all my crap up just in case and running this one off my 1 giger instead of the larger, more expensive ones.

Supposedly it due to the the way the emu streams off the card to function. I juts fried an 8Gb last week with my GP2X and it sucked so I figured I would give a heads up...

ds-scene has more info in a thread.

I am drunk so pardon the brevity and or spelln mistakeness...

Great emu though. I have Wakuwaku running along with Last Blade so I am set with what I need to be playing.

are you serious.. can you give a bit more info on the problem?

Ben Ingram commented on this over at DS-Scene. I remember reading a while back about the design of the M3 Adapter (Slot-2), and how they had designed it to reduce the amount of writes to the microSD card -- they believed that excessive I/O against the microSD would reduce the lifespan of the microSD. Again, this was based on what I had read about the M3 Adapter (Slot-2) design, and -if- this is true, would explain some of the issues described at DS-Scene.

Suggestion - use cheap microSDs or microSDs with lifetime warranties (yay sandisk).

 

[housemonkey]

Off topic, but I dont suppose anyone would know if Kingstons also have decent a warranty?

 

[khan]

All the games I tested were patched with bios2 unless stated otherwise (KOF2k1, KOF2k2)

Here are my findings from yesterday:

Aggressors of Dark Kombat
Art of Fighting
Art of Fighting 2
Art of Fighting 3 - The Path of the Warrior
Blue's Journey
Bust-a-Move Again
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Karnov's Revenge
The King of Fighters '94
The King of Fighters '95
The King of Fighters '96
The King of Fighters '97
The King of Fighters '98 - grid screen
The King of Fighters '99
The King of Fighters '2000
The King of Fighters '2001 - had to re-patch with bios1
The King of Fighters '2002 - had to re-patch with bios1
The King of Fighters '2003
The Last Blade
The Last Blade 2
Power Instinct Matrimelee
Metal Slug - freezes if I throw a grenade
Metal Slug 2 - do not remember whether this worked
Metal Slug X - do not remember whether this worked
Metal Slug 3 - do not remember whether this worked
Metal Slug 4
Metal Slug 5
Neo Turf Masters - freezes before the start of the game
Neo Bomberman
Nightmare in the Dark
Ninja Combat
Real Bout Fatal Fury
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
Shock Troopers
Shock Troopers 2
Snk vs Capcom
Spinmaster - does not even start
Super Sidekicks 2: The World Championship - loads, then freezes
Tecmo World Soccer '96
Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
World Heroes - starts but resets and freezes
World Heroes 2 - same as above
World Heroes 2 Jet - same as above
World Heroes Perfect - same as above
Zed Blade
Zupapa

 

[gov78]

is there a guide or somthing the help with people who got the supercard or doesnt it work on the supercard (SD) when i load the rom i just get black screen anyone else got this problem?

 

[khan]

is there a guide or somthing the help with people who got the supercard or doesnt it work on the supercard (SD) when i load the rom i just get black screen anyone else got this problem?

AFAIK, somebody correct me if I am wrong but NeoDS is not working on most, if not all of slot-2 cards.

 

[Keitaro Urashima]

is there a guide or somthing the help with people who got the supercard or doesnt it work on the supercard (SD) when i load the rom i just get black screen anyone else got this problem?

Guide here

 

[ocarson]

Thats doesn't mention anything about this problem.

It doesn't work on my slot 2 supercard sd ether. Maybe something to do with the patched libfat used by neods.

 

[Bob Evil]

That so-called 'guide' is just the readme from the app ...

 

[gov78]

i guess il wait for an updat or something

 

[captaincold]

This is by far the best emulator i've seen in a LONG time! Can't wait to see the next updated versions...

All of the games listed below "in my opinion" play perfectly, except the games bolded.

FINAL UPDATED LIST:


3 count bout aka Fire suplex
Aggressors of Dark Kombat
Alpha Mission II
Andro Dunos
Art of Fighting
Art of Fighting 2
Art of Fighting 3
Baseball Stars 2
Big Tournament Golf aka Neo turf masters (freezes at title screen)
Blazing Star
Blue's Journey
Breakers
Burning Fight
Chibi Maruko-Chan: Maruko Deluxe Quiz
Crossed Swords
Cyberlip
Double Dragon
Eightman
Fatal Fury 2 aka Garou Densetsu - shukumei no tatakai 2
Fatal Fury 3 aka Garou Densetsu - shukumei no tatakai 3 (Music works but everything else is buggy/glitchy)
Fatal Fury aka Garou Densetsu - shukumei no tatakai
Fatal Fury Special aka Garou Densetsu - shukumei no tatakai special
Football frenzy (seems a little slow to me but it may be normal. Some players cannot be seen on screen due to scaling.)
Galaxy Fight (freezes after character selection screen)
Garou - Mark of the Wolves
Ghost Pilots
Kabuki Klash
Karnov's Revenge aka Fighters History Dynamite (freezes after character selection screen)
King of Fighters 2000
King of Fighters 2001 (won't load)
King of Fighters 2002 (won't load)
King of Fighters 2003 (seems a little slow to me but it may be normal)
King of Fighters 94
King of Fighters 95
King of Fighters 96
King of Fighters 97
King of Fighters 98
King of Fighters 99 (No Healthbar visible,otherwise playable)
King of the Monsters
King of the Monsters 2
Kizuna Encounter - Super Tag Battle aka Fu'un Super Tag Battle
Last Blade 2 aka Bakumatsu Roman - Dai Ni Maku Gekka no Kenshi (Freezes at startup)
Last Blade aka Bakumatsu Roman - Gekka no Kenshi
Last Resort
League Bowling
Legend of Success Joe aka Ashitano Joe Densetsu
Magical Drop 2
Magical Drop 3
Mahjong Kyoretsuden
Metal Slug 1 (freezes when you throw a grenade)
Metal Slug 2 (freezes after character selection screen)
Metal Slug 3
Metal Slug 4 (Won't load)
Metal Slug 5 (Really slowed framerate in some parts. No icons visible on screen. Still playable though)
Metal Slug X (Won't load)
Minasan No Okagesamadesu!
Mutation Nation
Nam 1975
Neo-Geo Cup '98: The Road to Victory (Freezes after all selections are made in menu screens)
Ninja Combat
Ninja Commando
Ninja Masters
Overtop
Pulstar (freezes right before the start of the 2nd level)
Puzzled aka Joy Joy Kid
Quiz Daisousa Sen 2: Quiz Meintantei Neo Geo
Quiz Daisousa Sen: The Last Count Down
Quiz King of Fighters
Rage of the Dragons (won't load)
Ragnagard aka Shin-Oh-Ken
Real Bout Fatal Fury aka Real Bout Garou Densetsu
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 aka Real Bout Garou Densetsu 2
Real Bout Fatal Fury special aka Real Bout Garou Densetsu special
Riding Hero (freezes after motorcycle selection screen)
Robo Army
Samurai Showdown
Samurai Showdown 2
Samurai Showdown 3 (freezes at beginning of 1st fight)
Samurai Showdown 4
Samurai Showdown 5
Savage Reign aka Fu'un Mokushiroku
Sengoku
Sengoku 2 (won't load)
Sengoku 3 (power bar,score,etc... not visible on screen. Otherwise, it's playable.)
Shock Troopers 2 (some slowdown but playable)
Shogi no Tatsujin
SNK vs. CAPCOM SVC (freezes at title screen)
Soccer Brawl
Sonic Wings 2 aka aero fighters 2 (No sound/music,otherwise plays perfect)
Sonic Wings 3 aka aero fighters 3 (No sound/music,otherwise plays perfect)
Spin Master aka Miracle Adventure (freezes at title screen)
Stakes Winner
Stakes Winner 2
Street Hoop aka Dunk dream / Street Slam (freezes at startup screen)
Super Baseball 2020
Super Sidekicks
Super Sidekicks 2 (freezes after all menu's are selected)
Super Sidekicks 3 (freezes after all menu's are selected)
Super Sidekicks 4 aka Ultimate 11 (freezes after all menu's are selected)
Super Spy
Thrash Rally (freezes at title screen)
Top Player's Golf (freezes when you hit the ball)
Twinkle Star Sprites
Viewpoint
Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer aka Choujin Gakuen Gowcaizer
Waku Waku 7
WindJammers
World Heroes (freezes after character select screen)
World Heroes 2 (glitchy at title screen & won't load)
World Heroes 2 jet (freezes after character select screen)
World Heroes perfect (freezes at beginning of the 1st match and resets)





HOW I GOT IT TO WORK
NOTE: I'm running Windows XP & use a CycloDS cart w/ firmware 1.3!!


Below is how i did it so hopefully someone will find it helpful:


#1
You will need the following items in addition to the NeoDS program:

Neo Geo Bios zipped file.

 

[c2ironfist]

This is by far the best emulator i've seen in a LONG time! Can't wait to see the next updated versions...

All of the games listed below "in my opinion" play perfectly, except the games bolded.
NOTE: I will try to test every Neo Geo game & i'll be updating this list:

Aggressors of Dark Kombat
Alpha Mission II
Andro Dunos
Art of Fighting
Art of Fighting 2
Art of Fighting 3
Baseball Stars 2
Blazing Star
Blue's Journey
Breakers
Burning Fight
Samurai Showdown
Samurai Showdown 2
Samurai Showdown 3 (freezes at beginning of 1st fight,unplayable)




HOW I GOT IT TO WORK
NOTE: I'm running Windows XP & use a CycloDS cart w/ firmware 1.3!!


Below is how i did it so hopefully someone will find it helpful:


#1
You will need the following items in addition to the NeoDS program:

Neo Geo Bios zipped file.

 

[tmola]

Ah I was using the wrong bios >_>
I'll try again tonight.

Btw, my microSD did not get corrupted, using a R4 and a 1GB Kingston memory.

 

[DivineZeus]

Hi all, i'm using a Kingston Micro SD too (with R4 flash card) and no problem at all with it! i think they are fast enough for the emulator needs...

PS: thanks to the author of this fantastic emulator...

 

[Mr Slug]

i cant seem to get kof 98 or metal slug 2 to work? anyone got them running and how.

metal slug x works if you use bios8.

also you dont need to copy the neogeo.neo file onto the sd card, games all work without that.

bios 6 works nice for the other metal slugs if you want red blood instead of white blood.

sengoku2 freezes.

bios2 works great for virtually all of the games except for a few whichneed other bios.

 

[Rayder]

Just tried this using captaincold's instructions.....


HOT DAMN! IT WORKS!

Tested and working on R4 with 2gig Kingston Japan:
Samurai Shodown 1
Metal Slug 1
Blazing Star
Shock Troopers 1 and 2

Scaling works amazingly well! There is some slowdown, but nothing terrible that I saw. A few sounds are missing, but enough is there so I don't care. Freakin' AMAZING!

And they said it couldn't be done.....

 

[Squall2k5]

please someone upload the roms of king of fighter and garou for R4

 

[Bob Evil]

You are not allowed to ask for roms ... besides, it is easy enough to find them, especially in full sets ...