NGF's New Neo Release Revealed!

Loopz

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Here it is...I'm sure Dion and Chris are hard at work with their soldering irons, whippin' us Neo fans up a chunk of love.

<a href="http://www.retrogames.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showpost.pl?Board=retroneogeo&Number=23339&page=0&view=expanded&mode=threaded&sb=5#Post23339" target="_blank">Neo Paneldepon</a>

Too bad though...Tetris Attack is a hell of a fun game. ;)

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I bet the going rate for that game will be $1000 US dollars for a bootleg cart with NGF stickers running loose all over. I better start saving up for this quality made title. :D

I could just picture them releasing some home made game and claiming it as a long lost Neo game.
 

Gamefan

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Do you know if someone programed that game on actually NEO GEO hardware. Reason I ask is I would love to find someone or something to help me make "real" NEO GEO games. Like a development kit or something.

GAMEFAN
 

Loopz

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Gamefan,

I guess I'd drop an email to the author of that game...perhaps he has development hardware?
 

Bluevoodu

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that would be sweet to make and produce your own release :) I have a couple great ideas for some new shooter games... Iwish I could dev. them. Gamefan... if you find anything out.... could you email me the info?

How would you even start making them?
SAy.. something like pulstar?

thanks,
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chimpmeister

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That game was probably programmed on a PC, not a Neo. Neo dev kits are very hard to come by . . . I'm not aware of anyone who actually has one (except maybe Jeff at Vektorlogic, and possibly !Arcade!). Even if the ambiguous duo had a dev kit, they couldn't begin to figure out how to use it!!
 

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Originally posted by Gamefan:
<strong>Do you know if someone programed that game on actually NEO GEO hardware. Reason I ask is I would love to find someone or something to help me make "real" NEO GEO games. Like a development kit or something.

GAMEFAN</strong><hr></blockquote>

Just ask blaster@gmx.net. If you have M68k ASM knowledge it should be no problem for you to do a NeoGeo game :)
 

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Hehe...

The guy who made this "Neo Tetris" is a German, and member of the Daddelkingz BBS. He announced the release there.

If you can read German (or know how to use Babelfish), here's the post:

<a href="http://www.daddelkingz.de/board/index.php?action=show_thread&thread=01.1026051077.dat&file=01" target="_blank">Daddelkingz BBS - Freeware Neo game</a>

:D
 

Bluevoodu

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that would be sweet to make and produce your own release :) I have a couple great ideas for some new shooter games... Iwish I could dev. them. Gamefan... if you find anything out.... could you email me the info?

How would you even start making them?
SAy.. something like pulstar?

thanks,
†B†V†
 

Takumaji

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For those of you wondering about how this guy made the game, he said (in the German post on Daddelkingz) that he programmed it in pure M68K assembler. He plans to release the game on Neo CD first, then maybe an MVS.

AFAIK, he did not use an official DevKit. These kits are almost impossible to get, even more in these days.

On a side note, NeoDev (who also started to develop games) got into legal trouble with Playmore. Playmore sent their lawyers, and that's why NeoDev (who never were connected with the emu in general scene, btw.) had to be taken down.

So - good luck to Blastar and his new game...

IMO, Playmore should stand up against all the rom whores and dumpers, not against Neo enthusiasts.
 

Bluevoodu

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how much do these kits run if found?

I really want to try making a couple games :D
 

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I guess you won't find a complete Neo DevKit on the public market, say eBay or something. Most of this stuff is heavily copyrighted, and you would have to get in biz contact with Playmore if you would want to go the legal way.

I think it's better to start off of a M68K dev kit, which should be readily available, since the M68K is an old workhorse which not only did his job in the Neo. You wouldn't be able to use the Neo's custom chips that way, tho.

Disassemble Neorage, that's what I say... :) ;)
 

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IMO, Playmore should stand up against all the rom whores and dumpers, not against Neo enthusiasts.

<hr></blockquote>

Hell yeah. Homebrew game enthusiasts definitely aren't any kind of negative to Playmore's operation. Bootleggers on the other hand... :rolleyes:
 

Bluevoodu

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how do I go about getting this stuff? I am a noob on this subject :)


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Takumaji

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Originally posted by Bluevoodu:
<strong>takamaji... you have some PM :)

†B†V†</strong><hr></blockquote>

...and rrright back to ya!
 

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Well, even programming in assembly you need heavy tech documentation about the neo. Chaos released a demo with source code, but even this source is undocumented.

Bios call at 0x4c2 ? Yeah, sure... <img src="graemlins/spock.gif" border="0" alt="[Spock]" />
 

Tarma

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Originally posted by Alkanan:
<strong>Regardless, that game looks like unentertaining crap.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yeah, you took the words right off my keyboard... in England we call this sort of game - bollocks :)
 

Loopz

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I guess you guys never played Panel De Pon, aka Tetris Attack on the SNES. I don't know how exact this homebrew Neo port is, but the original game is one of the best, most addictive puzzlers ever...right up your alley if you dig anything like Money Puzzle Exchanger or Magical Drop2/3...if you aren't into puzzle games you would be bored off your arse. :D
 

Bluevoodu

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I want to make a home brewed Pulstar type game...... and distribute it lol

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I want a Mutation Nation 2 or a Magician Lord 2. Now that would be Kool. <img src="graemlins/drool.gif" border="0" alt="[Drool]" />
 

Bluevoodu

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yea it would :)

man...... I hope I can figure out how to make these games.... I am dying to do this.

<img src="graemlins/drool.gif" border="0" alt="[Drool]" /> <img src="graemlins/drool2.gif" border="0" alt="[Drool 2]" />
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Gamefan

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I know assembly language. Maybe I will hunt around for more info on a dev kit. If I do find anything I will post it here.

GAMEFAN
 
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