NeoTurfMasta is correct, a NeoBiosMasta will make your life a lot easier if you plan on installing a replacement BIOS in a NEOCD toploader. It's a very clever design, thanks NeoTurfMasta!
NeoTurfMasta is correct, a NeoBiosMasta will make your life a lot easier if you plan on installing a replacement BIOS in a NEOCD toploader. It's a very clever design, thanks NeoTurfMasta!
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good shit, thanks for sharing
i will never forget you saving the day with sam sho 5 special
after showing us this, hopefully you will not disappear a few months later and then delete your facebook and twitter accounts, never to be heard from again
Does the uploading of the Unibios overwrites the original one in the NGCD?
You bypass the original BIOS with the NeoBiosMasta which can contain a UniBIOS. It would be simple to take off the NeoBiosMasta and revert to the original BIOS.
THE UNIVERSE BIOS ( MVS / AES, and now also for CD )
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THE UNIVERSE BIOS ( MVS / AES, and now also for CD )
www.universebios.com. Also on facebook, please like http://www.facebook.com/UniverseBios.
Yep!
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showth...=1#post3398850
It all came down to shielding the CDROM drive.
This means work on the Neo Geo CD UniBIOS will commence again, right?
It's great that with all the negative words in the drama threads recently, there are positives coming out of the increased activity here such as this and Nightmare Tony's thread
I've heard about this but haven't seen it actually working until this thread. Looks great. Easily the best way to trial homebrew on real hardware right now. I see the original NeoCD chips on the MV1A plus a few extras for cart-only stuff so the potential must be there for an expansion to play bigger games, but the extent of stuff that has to be added/modified makes me doubt it'll happen before a flashcart appears. Definitely possible though but not as simple as the attempt at trying to fill the empty pads on a CDZ.
Very interesting. Can't wait to see the final version. You really take this hobby to the next level, Raz.
First, congratulations for your work, I'm a big fan, with unibios on every neo geo I had (except the NGCD)
Is it really impossible to make a PC free solution? From what I can tell the instructions of which file to get are passed by the computer but this could be implemented on the bios side.
Or at least a bootup CD with the instructions for each individual game and a storage device on the 2p controller port.
Raz can you post pics of the PC2NeoCD cable?
any plans on a kit release for the UB-CD and cable?
I am happy to see the Neo-cd is getting some love at last!
I am just shooting in the dark here but:
Is it possible to bypass the bottleneck by adding a daughter board with increased ram to make some sort of pre buffering with updated instructions from the bios? even a dual bank to switch to a preloaded bank from the one in use? I know NTM can do a great job on that if possible!
Last edited by mastamuzz; 08-17-2012 at 09:33 PM.
Here's a picture of the 1st prototype. This was hand etched in my garage so it's a little rough around the edges:
http://www.epromfoundry.com/usb2neo.jpg
Gives me a reason to start actively looking for a Neo CD again. Awesome work, Raz!
...console emulation has no soul...
great work, keep it up
Great work Raz, good to see modifications are still being dreamt up and created.
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Me and Mike have spend a few days working on this and while we have had some hiccups which need solving we have also made some really good progress.
THE UNIVERSE BIOS ( MVS / AES, and now also for CD )
www.universebios.com. Also on facebook, please like http://www.facebook.com/UniverseBios.
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