Neo4All/AES FAQ & Tutorial

[Christuserloeser]

Merry Xmas from Dreamcast-Scene.com (http://www.dreamcast-scene.com) and DCEvolution.net (http://www.dcevolution.net)!

I compiled a full blown Tutorial / FAQ for the great Neo4All/AES (http://chui.dcemu.co.uk/releases/neo4all_aes-alpha.rar) emulator by Chui & Fox68K that should cover all questions that you might have about this godess of an NeoGeo MVS/AES emulator for Dreamcast!
Wait no longer and check out this article in DCS' database:

http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/Neo4All-AES

The info will soon be added the DCEvolution's Emulation Knowledge Base (http://dcevolution.net/cgi-bin/dckbyabb/YaBB.pl?board=) too.

[DARKGATE]

Great tutorial, finally i have made my first CD of games.
INCREDIBLE o_o
However i have converted the rom but "PULSTAR, BLAZINGSTAR, MAGICAL DROP 3, ART OF FIGHTING 3, NEOBOMBERMAN, have problems of graphic are unplayable =\. if someone have this games wich work well can tell me in PM?
Thank you!!
P.S. SNK VS CAPCOM have problems, i can select only KYO, and see always also when play, the write "PLUS" o_O. However not is playable, load in real time.
REAL BOUT FATAL FURY, work well, load in real time, but is very good ^_^.
Thank you for this tutorial, :°| sigh
Ah shock troppers don't work me O_o.

[Christuserloeser]

Thanks :)

Regarding Shock Troppers, NeoBomberman, Pulstar, Blazing Star, Magical Drop3: Remember that there are different ROM sets out there - some of them might not be supported by the AES converter.

Try to find older versions of the ROMs (either MAME or NeoRageX if you got Kairo's ROMRC update) :)

My version of SNK vs Capcom has the same problem as you described. You can't select your character :-/
..but the loading only is annoying during the 1st Round, the following Rounds are perfectly playable :)

[Eric]

I was finally able to use this emu aswell using that tutorial. Here i found the same problems as the others but i found using pause for a few seconds during battles would speed the process a bit. To select other characters hold start and use the dpad and that should work. Other then that the emulator is amazing.

Eric

[RockGod]

Can MAME roms be used to play on this? or specifically neo geo roms?

[Christuserloeser]

Supported are MAME and now even some NeoRageX-ROM sets. The ROM sets need to be converted to a special AES format but it's pretty easy: Head over to the tutorial and download Kairo Hayime's ROMRC update along with DrCacho's converter GUI.

Eric: Thanks for the workaround regarding the SNK vs Capcom bug! I will add that to the FAQ asap :)

[RockGod]

Thanks for the heads-up C.U.L. I did the tutorial of course I messed up a couple of times especially with finding the bioses (and no people I'm not telling. just follow his advice.) the ng-lo.rom bios was somewhat annoying to find but i did it. anyway I noticed that 3 count bout had some graphic issues and slowdown which is funny since i found it to be under 16 megs also could one of the problems of prefetching be attributed to sound? I shut off the sound in metal slug x and the emu ran very fast.

[Christuserloeser]

The graphics bugs are related with a new (encrypted) MAME ROM set. Try to find a older MAME set.

Of course does disabling the sound help with the in-game loading: The emu will avoid loading any of the effects/voices and that reduces the loading (times and length).

@Everyone: If you delete 'aes.mod' and the *.wav files from your discs /NEO4ALL/ folder, it'll definitly help the prefetched games to work properly by freeing some KBytes of valuable DC RAM! Check the section in my tutorial about the needed disc structure.

[DCDayDreamer]

Nice tutorial Chris, many thanks and hope you'll contribute to the DCKB in the same fashion, catch you later at the DreamZone (when I get the chance).

[RockGod]

ok I'm having some problems with svc chaos. it converts fine to aes but when i burn it to disc (using alcohol 120) I'm getting write errors and after that with another disc that was successful I get a message of fatal error no neocd.bin found. any suggestions?

[Christuserloeser]

Note that Neo4All (now Neo4All/CD) and Neo4All/AES are two different emulators - You need to download Neo4All/AES (check the FAQ's links' section for a download).

Edit: Or just download here - http://chui.dcemu.co.uk/releases/neo4all_aes-alpha.rar