NEO4ALL/AES alpha released

[chui]

Alpha version of NEO4ALL fork for playing NEOGEO roms under Dreamcast.

First, you need convert your NEOGEO game roms with convert tool included.
Second, toast all files of dreamcast directory and place your converted roms where you want.

At the moment, 10 large games have preliminar prefetch for fine playing:
- Art Of Fighting.
- Blazing Star.
- Captain Tomaday.
- Magical Drop III.
- Metal Slug X.
- Shock Troopers.
- Aero Fighters 3 / Sonic Wings 3.
- SNK vs Capcom - SVC Chaos.
- Tecmo World Soccer '96.
- Zed Blade / Operation Ragnarok.

Games below 16MBytes can be played without problems, i have tested 44 games. Another games of compatibily list can be loaded, but you will have a lot of cdrom read switching.

See README.txt.

Download here.
Problems and comments about your tests here.

[obelisk]

cool beans, Thanks chui, and Fox68k, and Team DCiberia, you WIN top DC coders Team award. if i could, i would buy U guys a round of your fave pints. It would be relaesed when i don't have any cdr's, heh. next week i get paid, so: Bills, Presents, and CDR's.

[dcsteve]

does it still work as a bootdisc for neocd games like beta 4.

[quzar]

no, this is a completely seperate program. also, you do realize that it is illegal to release a program under gpl without releasing the source code at the same time right?

[SlyBeast]

I wasn't sure if this should go under the "tests" topic or not so my apologies in advance if it should have...

Anyway, first I'd like to say thanks for this emulator and the NEO4ALL CD emulator. I've enjoyed the CD emulator thoroughly and I respect all the hard work you guys put into it.

Now, with this one I'm having a bit of trouble. I can't get the .zip files to convert to .aes. The bios files are placed as instructed in the readme, but when I try to convert the .zip I get this error:

"No valid romset found for source rom file"

I'm not sure what it means; can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

My syntax is as follows: convertneo svcplus.zip

[BaldMonk]

I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to use this converter. Any chance someone could create a simple GUI for it please? Whenever I try to access it from the DOS prompt I just get an error message.

Cheers. Can't wait to try this thing.

[chui]

... you do realize that it is illegal to release a program under gpl without releasing the source code at the same time right?

Only it is a alpha preview of a new fork, the main source code is published.
I will release all source code when i will build a new html for NEO4ALL.
But if you want it, you can download sources here:
CONVERTNEO
NEO4ALL/AES

... with this one I'm having a bit of trouble. I can't get the .zip files to convert to .aes. The bios files are placed as instructed in the readme, but when I try to convert the .zip I get this error:

"No valid romset found for source rom file"

I'm not sure what it means; can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

My syntax is as follows: convertneo svcplus.zip

Maybe this 'svcplus.zip' not a valid romset, uncompress it to temporary folder and search 'svcplus' on romrc file (description rom list of gnegeo emulator).

Also, sure that convertneo.exe, svcplus.zip and romrc files are in same directory, convertneo directory with prefetch and bios subdirectories.

I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to use this converter. Any chance someone could create a simple GUI for it please? Whenever I try to access it from the DOS prompt I just get an error message.

Cheers. Can't wait to try this thing.

Sorry and yes, we need a GUI/Front-end of rom converter. Anybody wants build it?

[NixMix]

Are these files:

ng-lo.rom
ng-sfix.rom
sfix.sfx
aes-bios.bin

the same as these ones:

NeoCD.bin
Neo-Geo.rom
Ng-Lo.rom
Ng-Sfix.rom
Ng-Sm1.rom

?
Do I have to rename the files or...what?!?

[M Dash]

chui and Fox68k... YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!! YOU ROX! :-D

[chui]

Are these files:

ng-lo.rom
ng-sfix.rom
sfix.sfx
aes-bios.bin

the same as these ones:

NeoCD.bin
Neo-Geo.rom
Ng-Lo.rom
Ng-Sfix.rom
Ng-Sm1.rom

?
Do I have to rename the files or...what?!?

Please, don't post your problems and comments here, i open a new thread for this:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=14926