Btw, it's officially licensed, they are legally charging for the ROMs.
I don't really think Tommo is too happy with this news. I think they were planning on making the "real money" with the game releases and not relying on the hardware, but that being said,
they really should have done things more proper.
"Nothing speeds up hacking than devices that are lacking"
Had they included a way to turn on blood, switch from MVS/AES, or utilize the full potential of the CPU to eliminate video tearing I wouldn't even bother with any of this.
That's all many of us want from it.
Also, you can't copy protect a game console in 2012 with glue, Linux, and wishes...
Well, this site does not allow linking to rom images directly, especially not on an OFFICIALLY LICENSED SNK PRODUCT DAYS AFTER RELEASE.
You and your shit attitude can come back and complain about it in 5 days.
This is the last warning. There is NO ROM LINKING ALLOWED. IS THIS FUCKING CLEAR?!?!?!
(I'm fine with the hacking, in fact, I will be participating actively in a few days when I pick up my unit and get it apart.)
fucking pirates.......
YEA! Direct links to the images on the sd cards is sooooooo legal !!!! brb getting more romz
Has anyone had any luck getting a copy of the Ninja Masters SD card to load? I've tried backing it up multiple ways to a 2 GB SD card but it's never recognized correctly.
A random (but probably not all that useful) thing I've found through Googling different files: https://github.com/carlos-wong/auto_build_python/blob/master/app_rule.txt
Looks like it's part of a python tool that a developer for the Neo Geo X used to make his builds easier.
On the topic of tinkering with the Neo, I took mine apart a few minutes ago only to see that, to my disappointment, there was NO SD card slot inside. I checked the circuit board thoroughly, front and back, but only found a samsung chip where the images dictated the memory card should be. I noticed in the first page of images the date under SU-SNK-70-KEY is 2012-09-29 and mine was 2012-11-06, so perhaps they wised up (hard to believe?) and decided to remove it in later models. Alas, It seems like for people like me the external SD would be the only way to go, unless a way is found to fully access the SD card from the USB drive. I'm hoping one of you nice guys lets me borrow a full SD card image so I can have a look around and see what I can find to aid you fellows lucky enough to have an internal SD card.
I really admire and appreciate all the work you guys are putting into this, an amazing group effort!
Wow, really? Maybe my hunch was correct! Out of curiosity, what is your firmware version? Maybe there is a link between SD or non-SD and the firmware version.
Mine's 337 with the microSD card, for the record. If 370 is a 'revised' model without SD, I wonder what of 357?
Maybe they didn't use glue for 357?
there go any real progress on getting this system to be fully useful.
How so? By enforcing a "no ROM rule"?
How hard is it to request that you don't post SNK IP here on the forum?
Very happy the unibios inject trick works. Although pausing with R/R2 doesn't seem to work in MVS mode, Menu still works.
A (very crudely made) example on the kinds of custom art you can make:
Spoiler:
I'd also like to make custom GUI images (mainly for the Volume Slider) but I'll need to touch up on my editing tools first. Even the boot jingle is a raw WAV file..although I'm having trouble playing it on PC. Everything is laid out nicely for a customized menu.
I'd upload a backup of the folder but Windows doesn't seem to be able to access it, guess it's Linux only until uploaded. It's in the main_themes folder.
Very happy the unibios inject trick works. Although pausing with R/R2 doesn't seem to work in MVS mode, Menu still works.
A (very crudely made) example on the kinds of custom art you can make:
Spoiler:
I'd also like to make custom GUI images (mainly for the Volume Slider) but I'll need to touch up on my editing tools first. Even the boot jingle is a raw WAV file..although I'm having trouble playing it on PC. Everything is laid out nicely for a customized menu.
I'd upload a backup of the folder but Windows doesn't seem to be able to access it, guess it's Linux only until uploaded. It's in the main_themes folder.
That is awesome. Are those additional games or are we still at the stage where some must be replaced? And is the unibios required for what you've done?
Either way, you're a genius (p.s. what version do you have? 337?)
It's also very interesting that there are units from three different firmwares and the early ones are literally glues together, it's like they shipped out the prototypes!
Replaced. Adding additional games is impossible until the 1Gig partition is utilized, someone posted a theory before about linking them together to allow game modification through a standard USB connection. That, or by formatting and partitioning a higher-capacity drive to clone the 2Gig but with more space. The partition that the games are held in has a max size of exactly the original data, so all you can do for now is replace the game with same or smaller games. I suppose a third possibility would be expanding the size of that partition and shrinking the 1Gig, but that seems too risky to me. The images are all stored right in the main_themes folder, you don't need to modify the games to change them. Although you do need to swap out the bios to either AES or unibios for them to be playable, MVS isn't.
The credit belongs to burningtoys. I have version 337, yes.
Perhaps the 337(357?) units are their original batch and the 370s are the additional units needed that resulted in the 2 week delay? Just a guess.
Exactly what I was thinking. Which sadly means I'll probably be getting one of the non-SD ones I was on the fence for so long...should have just pulled the trigger when I originally wanted to.Perhaps the 337(357?) units are their original batch and the 370s are the additional units needed that resulted in the 2 week delay? Just a guess.