It pains me to say it, but the Neo-CD has seen its last title in KOF'99.
As Todd said, they never released Garou for it. Garou has been out quite a while on AES- we'd have seen it on CD a long time ago if it were to come out. We also missed out on some good ones like Blazing Star, Shock Troopers 1 and 2, etc.
Metal Slug 2 did have some serious loading issues- it would load DURING levels sometimes, like the PlayStation version of the first MS. Quite possibly, MS3 would have as much if not more midlevel loading. There's only so much you can do with 7 MegaBytes of RAM. We've apparently seen the limits of the NGCD. ;( I'll bet SNK never expected that they'd have MVS going long enough to have the high meg titles of today when they conceived the Neo-CD around 1994- at that time, their highest ROM cart was KOF'94 (around 200 Megabits).
Jackal
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