All the information gathered so far from the original NGX thread.
Hopefully I didn't miss any of the relevant posts so far.
All the information gathered so far from the original NGX thread.
Hopefully I didn't miss any of the relevant posts so far.
looks like if we use boot select 2 we could boot a bios from SD...assuming we had one handy.
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Native hardware or bust.
I imagine getting inside the Ninja Master's SD would be the easiest method. Seems to be a 64MB card, RAW? Tried a few recovery programs and supposedly it has 4 files on it but none can get them out.
I will be following this thread closely. Really hope someone is able to hack the Neo Geo X or at least crack the SD card. If Ninja Master's is only a 64MB card, it would theoretically be possible to load up a much bigger card with multiple games and never need to swap cards. Also hoping someone can come out with a few UI tweaks, the standard one is so basic it hurts.
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This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally regarded as a bad move.
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Took my NGX fully apart, pictures incoming... and a nice surprise
Hmm.. a nice surprise?
1. You figured out how to output scanlines in perfect 1080p
2. You were able to switch the country code to JPN for blood in Metal Slug
3. Secret debug menu with work memory card saves enabled
4. You were able to get every ROM to work from an SDcard?
OK.. just guessing. :P
PLEASE NOTE! Many of the posts prior to 2005 ARE NOT FROM ME!...They are from the member who now goes by the name "spoon".
SpooNMan's NEO-GEO Website (1996-2016)
Video Game Obsession Website
First one is under the battery, nothing much to see there. But on the screen facing side...
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So of course I have to pull the microSD card out and see what's on it. My mac and PC both showed nothing (PC wanted to format it). But I found that testdisk program someone mentioned and found this..
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There's an internal SD card?! Hahaha, holy fucking awesome. I've got one on the way from best buy
Now I didn't really mess around much as I didn't want to potentially mess up my card. But I put the NGX back together and it's working fine. My "MENU" button seems a little more flush, but I can live with that.
When these systems are available at wal-mart on the shelf, maybe I'll be willing to mess around more since I can go buy a new one and take the broke one back. But hopefully it won't come to that.
I plugged in the NGX via USB to my computer and just found a 1Gig FAT32 partition. I made an image of it using that testscan. Maybe I'll pull the 2gig internal one back out and make an image so I can look around. But I know there are far smarter people than me out there who can make more sense of all this.
I noticed that the circuit board for the thumb stick has "SNK" stamped on it. Is SNKP actually lending a hand in manufacture?
That is fantastic! It's only a matter of time, now.
The bios along with the preloaded games must be stored on that internal micro sd making it easily removable, just shows us that tommo wanted us to hack the fuck out of this thing
Fucking A , and nice find man !
Last edited by streetsofrage; 12-20-2012 at 09:51 PM.
That CPU is already in use in other handhelds running Open Dingux. Long story short, there's already a nice Linux based OS and set of emulators ready to go, someone would just need to recompile the code to suit the LCD driver in the Neo X.
...and OpenDingux has a Neo Geo Pocket emulator.
Buwahahahahahahaha.
Can't believe how easy this is going to be to hack. Someone will have to come up with the boot code and work out the LCD driver, but after that all one would need to do is replace the internal SD card with one that has OpenDingux installed. Heck you could probably come up with a dual boot system and get it to boot from the external SD and keep the original OS intact.
Curious if it would boot up without the Micro sd card or if everything is on thy card.
Crap I would have tried that too. I think I put it together wrong because my thumbstick won't seat as far down as it supposed to. Guess I'll try that tomorrow. By the way, they glued the crap out of the microSD card, it wasn't easy getting it out. It sits in there pretty good, but I could see how a few drops my make it come loose, I don't think the glue was a deterrent.
Wow this is fucking hilarious.
If I can dig up a microSD card, I'll try putting that opendingux on it and see what happens.
Last edited by SlickDizzy; 12-20-2012 at 11:39 PM.
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It's probably too late for a revision now. It would cost money to change that and go through the testing when this product already works. Not saying it can't happen. Honestly I have no idea what I'm doing. I am no threat to their business model. And if I'm the only one doing this stuff, then we likely won't have a hacked portable.
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