Furrtek has just posted a Neo Geo FPGA progress update on his Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/progress-january-24218461 The post is subscriber-only, so I don’t want to share the whole story…but it looks like Furrtek has games running!!! At the moment, it’s video only, but he thinks he’ll be able to integrate Jotego’s YM core pretty easily. Please consider supporting […]
Pre-orders are now open for Darksoft’s Neo Geo AES ROM / Flash cart! After shipping, mine came in at around $635, which is far less than many original AES games, but still not what you’d call “cheap”. Overall, if your goal is to play Neo Geo games on original hardware, a ROM cart like this […]
Pre-orders are have opened for the the NeoSD Pro Flash Cart for the Neo Geo AES. The NeoSD Pro AES brings all of the great features of the NeoSD Pro MVS to the Neo Geo AES home console. The price is €549.00 ($624 USD) and orders are expected to start shipping in about 3 weeks. […]
UPDATE: Pre-orders now open: https://www.retrorgb.com/darksoft-multiaes-pre-orders-now-open.html Darksoft announced that a batch of 100 of their much anticipated Neo Geo AES multi-carts will be available for pre-order soon. The AES Multi will have all the features of their MVS kit, with ultra-fast loading and all of the bells and whistles. The Darksoft MVS & AES carts will be […]
Furrtek has just posted a progress update to his MiSTer FPGA core for the Neo Geo. While it’s not quite in a usable state, it’s an exciting advancement from his Patreon post a few months ago. There’s some speculation that this core will require a larger RAM upgrade than is currently used on the MiSTer, […]
Bitmap Bureau has just opened pre-orders for Neo Geo AES, MVS and NGCD versions of their upcoming game Xeno Crisis: https://shop.bitmapbureau.com/collections/neo-geo Due in Q2 2019, the game is being released on a surprisingly wide variety of platforms ranging from the Nintendo Switch to the Sega Genesis. I think the biggest struggle I’m having is deciding if I […]
A hardware modder that goes by the handle of Gameboy_station on Instagram & Gameboystation on Etsy has shown off pictures of his backlit Neo Geo Pocket Color mod and it looks fantastic. According to his instagram posts, the screen ratio is slightly smaller than the original. The mod requires a custom ribbon created by his […]
The much anticipated Darksoft Neo Geo AES Multi flash-cart is in the testing phase. It will offer many of the same features of the MVS Multi: ultra fast game loading, multi-slot functionality (transforming the AES into a multi-slot AES/MVS hybrid), graphic or text-based menu, etc. And it will have a new molded cartridge shell. A […]
Ijor released the source code for FX68K a cycle-accurate Motorola 68000 soft-core (soft cores are components, rather than whole platforms) that was first hinted at in the release of his Atari ST core FXCAST. The 68000 was a common processor used in a wide range of consoles, home PCs, and arcade games. Having a perfect […]
