Neo Geo AES to Neo Geo CD Project

karsten · Post by **karsten** » Mon May 16, 2005 12:54 pm

quite in advanced state actually. but it seems not too games works well after, and often sound or grafical pieces are missing

Post by **Quzar** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:42 am

DaRKSLaiN wrote:my dream is seeing Snk Vs Capcom on Dreamcast... just dreaming..

isnt that already on DC?

mankrip · Post by **mankrip** » Tue May 17, 2005 1:24 am

No. Only Capcom Vs. SNK (which was made by Capcom). SNK Vs. Capcom was made by SNK Playmore.

By the way quzar, would it be hard to make NeoDC do the cartridge-to-CD conversion on the fly (byteswapping, trimming, etc. the ROMs), thus eliminating the need for the user to do all this work?

Sweater Fish · Post by **Sweater Fish** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:07 am

Fragger wrote:By the way quzar, would it be hard to make NeoDC do the cartridge-to-CD conversion on the fly (byteswapping, trimming, etc. the ROMs), thus eliminating the need for the user to do all this work?

I think it would be easier to just make NeoDC support MVS ROMs. It would then support all of the possible conversion games and quite a few more.

I think quzar has hinted that NeoDC (or its spiritual successor) will do this eventually as well as CPS emulation. Unless I misinterpretted the hints.

...word is bondage...

Post by **Quzar** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:30 am

spiritual successor is an awsome way to put it. yea, something like that will probably the case.

DARKGATE · Post by **DARKGATE** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:20 am

the idea is great, but the really games by convert are :
SAVAGE REIGN 2
DOUBLE DRAGON (NEW)
MATRIMELEE
all the METAL SLUG (X,3,4,5)
CAPCOM VS SNK CHAOS
SAMURAI SHODOWN 5 AND SPECIAL
BLAZING STAR
SHOCK TROPPERS

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I think wich are too much great =|, can work pheraps without sound PHERAPS.
What your thinked?

iq_132 · Post by **iq_132** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:31 pm

DARKGATE wrote: the idea is great, but the really games by convert are :
SAVAGE REIGN 2
DOUBLE DRAGON (NEW)
MATRIMELEE
all the METAL SLUG (X,3,4,5)
CAPCOM VS SNK CHAOS
SAMURAI SHODOWN 5 AND SPECIAL
BLAZING STAR
SHOCK TROPPERS

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I think wich are too much great =|, can work pheraps without sound PHERAPS.
What your thinked?

Most of those games won't fit into the dreamcast's ram, so that's pretty much not possible.

Post by **Christuserloeser** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:08 pm

Unless they'd work on NGCD as then they'll work on DC =P

Sweater Fish wrote:I think quzar has hinted that NeoDC (or its spiritual successor) will do this eventually as well as CPS emulation. Unless I misinterpretted the hints.

I see.

Tr? · Post by **Tr?** » Tue May 17, 2005 3:56 pm

I have a NeoGeo CDZ if anyone needs to test any conversions.

fox68k · Post by **fox68k** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:23 am

iq_132 wrote:
DARKGATE wrote: the idea is great, but the really games by convert are :
SAVAGE REIGN 2
DOUBLE DRAGON (NEW)
MATRIMELEE
all the METAL SLUG (X,3,4,5)
CAPCOM VS SNK CHAOS
SAMURAI SHODOWN 5 AND SPECIAL
BLAZING STAR
SHOCK TROPPERS

-------------------------------------
I think wich are too much great =|, can work pheraps without sound PHERAPS.
What your thinked?
Most of those games won't fit into the dreamcast's ram, so that's pretty much not possible.

Well, that is true if you load the game at a time, but there is a more advanced way to make the conversion.

Actually some games like Metal Slug (NeoGeo CD version) has loading points. When the game encounters one of them, stops and loads some files from the CD, to play the next mission or whatever.

The point here is we have a one time loading rom (MVS/AES) that will require loading points. Of course, that means program code modification and some research.

Some games are very big so they will require many loading points. This could make these games unplayable, but i think Metal Slug X could be played well, for example.

Ex-Cyber · Post by **Ex-Cyber** » Wed May 18, 2005 3:14 am

The key thing is the size and complexity of the working set for a given "level" or "area" or "round". ROM size is one variable, but the more "natural" sequence points (or arenas+characters in the case of fighting games) there are in the game, the easier it should be to hack CD support into it...

Post by **Quzar** » Wed May 18, 2005 3:38 am

Support for something like that could be fairly easily written into the emulator itself. i'm sure many games would become unplayable at some points, but any that have an organized layout for rom data would most likely run fine.

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Wed May 18, 2005 4:32 pm

Even if some games became unplayable like you say, I'd still be great to implement that, specially because no one would ask "Where can I find the hacked version of X game to run with the emu".

Post by **Quzar** » Wed May 18, 2005 5:55 pm

If I were to do it (i have a fairly well thought out plan on how) it would be on a game by game basis, so it wouldnt really break any games, nor have any uplayable games, some games simply wouldnt be supported =P.

rondc · Post by **rondc** » Tue May 24, 2005 2:08 am

Grimlock wrote:The link is spanish, but basically it says (according to freetranslation.com) that a way to convert AES roms to CD images has been developed. Yes yes i know this is touchy because it suggests warez. But if we can just ignore that aspect of it and focus on the concept of conversion, this topic may remain alive. Do any of you think this is true? And if so...where can we get it? This would make Quzar's (and the other author's) work even more valuable.

Hi, you're right, the article was only focused over the concept of conversion. But I've reading original coder license and you can read that the emulator can't be used in same NeoGeoCD game or Media. The article has been modified in order to keep the rules alive.

Also I would like to say that you will never be able to find any warez at my site, we don't support piracy and there's always a respect for licenses and copyrights.

ethoscapade · Post by **ethoscapade** » Wed May 25, 2005 2:46 pm

no sense in getting too excited about this.. let's not forget that some of the most-loved late neo games (SvC and slug 3) are both >60MB..

Ex-Cyber · Post by **Ex-Cyber** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:03 pm

no sense in getting too excited about this.. let's not forget that some of the most-loved late neo games (SvC and slug 3) are both >60MB..

Oh crap, in my desire to actually think about the nature of the problem, I forgot to embrace the icy bosom of defeatism. Guess I was being careless.

Post by **Quzar** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:21 pm

Ex-Cyber wrote:
no sense in getting too excited about this.. let's not forget that some of the most-loved late neo games (SvC and slug 3) are both >60MB..
Oh crap, in my desire to actually think about the nature of the problem, I forgot to embrace the icy bosom of defeatism. Guess I was being careless.

oh, that was a much needed laugh after the little hit from the first post. kudos to you.

as for huge games, i think that even some random huge games would work, since they use multiple files that are called at individual times.

Post by **Christuserloeser** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:13 pm

quzar wrote:Support for something like that could be fairly easily written into the emulator itself. i'm sure many games would become unplayable at some points, but any that have an organized layout for rom data would most likely run fine.

So that'd be the future of NeoDC, yes?

A MAME like 16bit arcade emu with NeoGeo and CPS1 emulation? Tell me more

Make sure you include Strikers 1945+ and Shock Troopers somewhere on top of your list

drybed · Post by **drybed** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:51 pm

how in the world do u change AES to neo geo CD?
Some games that are on AES aren't even on CD

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