Neo Geo CD - MVS Conversions

[daytonausa]

I have seen a few conversions have been done (like Eightman for example), though I haven't been able to get any of these to run yet as I was busy troubleshooting the 0003 IO Error I was encountering (that's been since solved). That said, is this something that can hypothetically be done for any of the missing games, or are there restrictions to what can be ported to the NGCD? Say, Nightmare in the Dark for example, which hasn't been ported, or Waku Waku 7.

Wasn't sure if it's a finding someone to invest the time to do it thing vs a what is physically possible due to how the game is coded sort of thing.

 

[Neo Alec]

You can search this forum by going to Google and typing site:neo-geo.com followed by the search terms. This has been asked many times.

 

[the.bet]

I have Ironclad, DIggerman and Ghostlop on MVS and all Run great. Nice not having CD load times.

 

[city41]

I have Ironclad, DIggerman and Ghostlop on MVS and all Run great. Nice not having CD load times.

He was asking for the opposite, cart to cd.

The Neo CD has 7mb of RAM, so how easy it is to port a game mostly depends on how big it is.

 

[HeavyMachineGoob]

He was asking for the opposite, cart to cd.

The Neo CD has 7mb of RAM, so how easy it is to port a game mostly depends on how big it is.

Because bigger than 7MB means having to do reprogramming to account for CD loads. Very difficult job.

 

[Burning Fight!!]

We had this talk a billion times already, no one's going to put in the work to reverse engineer a game to run off CD loads for the Neo-Geo CD so any discussion is pointless (unless you're doing it yourself, highly unlikely). Even the low hanging fruit like making Eightman not crap itself with audio and hangs hasn't been done yet.

 

[the.bet]

He was asking for the opposite, cart to cd.

The Neo CD has 7mb of RAM, so how easy it is to port a game mostly depends on how big it is.

Oh interesting, I have not seen that done. very Cool. I have a Modded USA Neo CD unit so it can play Japanese games. I wonder if that feature is enough for it to play CDR games too.

Very interesting.

 

[city41]

. I wonder if that feature is enough for it to play CDR games too

It has no copy protection so can play cdrs out of the box. Although it can be picky so a nice clean burn onto a good quality disc is usually needed.

 

[wyo]

I have a Modded USA Neo CD unit so it can play Japanese games.

Neo Geo CDs are region free.

 

[city41]

Neo Geo CDs are region free.

You can install a language switch, I'm guessing that is what they meant