NeoGeo CD SD Loader

Pretty Amy

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Yes, I explained what I did to fix the issue in my post that you quoted. I.E. Try putting fewer games on your card to see if it fixes the issue. You can even try 1 game to see what happens.
 

codetvirus

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Thanks a lot. Yesterday ill try to remove the majongs games as you subject but nothing change. The weird thing is that already have more games but when i update to patch some games the problem begins. Ill try to reformat and include less games. I let ypu know if that works.
 

Cowabunga

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Hit an issue with it? Holy shit!!!
Seen your other post, so you tested the games and everything works? Righteous! That makes at least one of us.

Used firmware wiper, updated to latest firmware. The audio is still problematic. I suppose I wound up with a faulty Loader
 

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Sorry I am lazy and haven’t read all 12 pages of this thread yet, but I have recently purchased a NGCD Front Loader and I plan to get one of these SD Loader chips installed when it arrives.

I read that the SD Loader is incompatible with the Unibios as it does patch work directly to the NGCD Bios.

Does the SD Loader offer some Unibios like features on its own? Region select, cheats, that sorta thing?
 

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Sorry I am lazy and haven’t read all 12 pages of this thread yet, but I have recently purchased a NGCD Front Loader and I plan to get one of these SD Loader chips installed when it arrives.

I read that the SD Loader is incompatible with the Unibios as it does patch work directly to the NGCD Bios.

Does the SD Loader offer some Unibios like features on its own? Region select, cheats, that sorta thing?
Yea it offers cheats blood in metal slug everything unibios 4.0 offers pretty much the sd loader is great only issue is neo geo cd does not have all the AES MVS games so your missing a few great games other then that is a really nice improvement to the neo geo cd
 

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Sorry I am lazy and haven’t read all 12 pages of this thread yet, but I have recently purchased a NGCD Front Loader and I plan to get one of these SD Loader chips installed when it arrives.
Since you're getting a frontloader, please check if you're having a similar video issue to the one here (look to the right of objects on solid colors). Both front loaders I had have this issue. Both toploaders and the CDZ were fine.


I wonder if it's an issue with the board design, or just the age of the system and caps.

@daytonausa you said you re-capped yours. How does the video look?
 

Cowabunga

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Can't speak to the ghosting issue. All of my NeoCDs are tops with zero ghosting

I bought a 2nd and 3rd premodded NeoCD and they're working so I guess I'll sell the broken one. Some things just can't be fixed.

Sorry I am lazy and haven’t read all 12 pages of this thread yet, but I have recently purchased a NGCD Front Loader and I plan to get one of these SD Loader chips installed when it arrives.

I read that the SD Loader is incompatible with the Unibios as it does patch work directly to the NGCD Bios.

Does the SD Loader offer some Unibios like features on its own? Region select, cheats, that sorta thing?
That's right the SD Loader and Unibios do not mix. You can only have one or the other.

I don't know if the SDL has ALL of the same cheats (that would be ideal) however I tried some SDL cheats with Art of Fighting and they worked. Can anyone confirm if the Loader offers all cheats like Unibios 4.0 does?
 

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This was not a hard install, but certainly a fiddly one. If anyone has no digital/redbook audio, double check your CDDA cable. Once I realized mine was not connected correctly the music worked just fine.

And also cue/bin dumps where the audio tracks are also bins work just fine. No need to convert them to wav.

Basically just throwing into the googles what I wish I found yesterday.
 

Neo Alec

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I couldn't figure out how the card slot is meant to fit in the top loader vents. As it is, if I remove the card it's going to fall back into the system. Moving it to the next vent slot isn't going to work either because I've already maxed out the angle I can bend the hinge while keeping the PCB flat.
 
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Hi NEO-G's,

This thread is old af but I needed to ask if anyone's been having issues getting past stage 1 in Sonic Wings 3 ~ Aero Fighters 3.

I already experimented with three different rip versions and two different microSD cards as well.

I can trigged the "PAUSE" on-screen using the SELECT button on the frozen background after the monologue appears when defeating the boss at the end of stage one.

All other games work fine, and I even completed a full play-through of Ironclad ~ Super Iron Brikinger just now FYI


Cheers,
 
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