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kazmat · Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 122

Recently I got NEOGEO I/O for MGD2.

But I can't understand to write MULTI-GD file for NEOGEO.

I will try to load fatal fury MGD2 dump.

524,288 n058001a.038
524,288 n058001a.03c
524,288 n058001a.1f8
524,288 n058001a.1fc
131,072 n058001a.378
131,072 n058001a.4f8
524,288 n058001a.538
524,288 n058001a.53c
524,288 n058001a.638
524,288 n058001a.63c
524,288 n058001b.1f8
524,288 n058001b.1fc
524,288 n058001b.538
524,288 n058001b.53c
524,288 n058001b.638
524,288 n058001b.63c

Please help !

Thall · Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 79

Where did you get the roms in MGD2 format, i can't find em anywhere?

kazmat · Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 122

I got them from Mame roms for GP2X.

kyuusaku · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 941 Location: .ma.us

I would help you if I had a Neo I/O *ahem* :P

Henning · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 32

any new infos about running neo-geo games on the mgd2? same problem here, cant get it to work Sad

kyuusaku · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 941 Location: .ma.us

I'm sure I can get it to work. Don't buy what you can't use Twisted Evil

Henning · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 32

the strange thing is that there seems to be no manual for that thing. did bung really sold it without it???

madman · Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 598

There's manuals, but they aren't specific to adapters. You would basically go to a shop, buy your Neo Geo game on floppies and put them in in order. No downloading ROMs off the net and hoping they're in the proper format.

Trenton_net · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 233

I agree with what has been said. You’re looking at it from a modern North-America end user perspective. Back in the day (At least in China, HK, Taiwan), you didn’t get extensive manuals outlining how file formats were hacked, or how to create your own images. All you got was a general use document and your games ether came from:

Direct dump of a cart via in-system menu.
Purchased from a game catalog via serial number.

In practical terms, you never needed to do any of the work. It was all pre-done for you. Thats partially why copiers started format "wars" trying to make competitors copiers unable to read your disks, while making your copier able to read everyone elses. At the root level, consumers never needed to care about native formats, as it just "had to work". But from a company side, they try hard to make it seem like their product works better than another. I think eventually people just gave up and stared supporting the major three or so formats.

RGB_Gamer · Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 879

anyone in this thread know where to get a neo geo mgd2 adaptor with the necessary max memory?

rbudrick · Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 373

Better yet, can anyone clone this adapter? It's rare as hell.

-Rob

kyuusaku · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 941 Location: .ma.us

No way, it's apparently got 9 custom chips by Bung. I have yet to see PCB scans though (and I would really like to since with them I think I can positively determine which games it can play.)

I have been back to studying Neo cartridges and I've got a lot of the standard cartridges worked out. I know how to clone the very first MVS games, almost how to convert MVS to AES (I'm doing testing right now), and almost know how to make all standard games until ~1998 (need to do testing on 2 chips, but I know 90% of how they work). After 1998 many games have encryption and/or custom bankswitching and/or copy protection schemes which can be dealt with once normal games are playable.

RGB_Gamer · Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 879