NeocdPSP v0.5u4 (NeoGeo CD Emulator for PSP)

[wraggster]

Smiths compiled a new version of YoYos NeoGeo CD emulator. Heres whats new:

"[WHATS NEW]
v0.5u4
+ Added separate-key rapid-fire support (read below)
+ Added cute Battery Meter to menus
+ Cleaned up menu browsing minutely
+ Goes without saying: No P$PUpdate$ posting por favor"

Download Here --> <a href="http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/neocdpsp.shtml">http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/neocdpsp.shtml</a>

Thanks to Smiths for a great release.

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[RedKing14CA]

and the blood in metal slug is now red, in the preivious U3, it was blue

[(s)ANIT]

ya i just got it its true! its red blood!

[vidgrip]

This is the best emulator I've played... runs at 222mhz with very little slowdown, it's amazing when you look at some roms on the SNES and even NES needing to be bumped to 333 mhz without giving near the results. If you don't have this emu... Definitely worth the somewhat difficult install.

[dman32]

Is there a save state for this emulator?

[dman32]

anybody?

[Smiths]

not yet. it's in the WIP

[N3oGhozt]

nice work. I hadnt updated mine since the original .5 release so I'll be giving your update a try.

How is dev going with this emu?

[dman32]

will there be anymore updates to this emu? this really needs a state save on it.

[quzar]

The CPU cores that the emulator uses do not support save states, and if support was hacked into the emulator, each save state would take up something like 10mb (uncompressed, with no way of knowing how much it would compress).

[Dj.Extract]

First of all, I must say thank you for this exellent, Lovely Emu!!!! I woldn't bother bying me an import PsP if it wasn't for this!! ;)

It plays a couple of my favorite games almost perfectly with only a few slowdowns when the action heats up with 1 frameskip @333MHz! (f.ex metalslug)
The only thing I'm missing is scanlines.... is that possible? or is it maybe not nessesary? Or if the screen on the PsP is too small to have any effect? I just have this feeling that the gfx will look "better" with it enabeled. The emu is almost perfect if you ask me.. just some speed fixes and sound in more games (Like street Hoop?? :D :D ) Then U'll have the ultimate emu!
I hope I'll see an update from you soon :)


Again, Thanks for the good work, and keep em coming ;)

[dman32]

so does that mean no, you will not be adding save states?..because who has time to play the entire game..and it sucks to have to start over all the time.

[JOE2339]

Who has the time? these games are like 30 minutes long at best. Great emu yoyo.

[titipsx]

Hi, how I can get it work on my PSP 1.0? Thank you for the help

[Smiths]

Most of the games have some form of "stage saving" with the memory card support.
Metal Slug has it, Baseball 2020 has save per inning, etc...

I 99% likely will not be throwing in save states because the games were pretty much designed for an "on the go" mentality with the memory card.
Maybe it was the load times, I dunno...

[dman32]

how do you save in metal slug?

[Smiths]

Metal Slug, from what I played, saved after each stage.

[Lime2K]

I have a bug report for you. On Last Blade 2, go into options, then demo viewer. Play Opening B, and the PSP hardcrashes about 1/3 of the way through.

(PS: for Metal Slug, you have to get Game Over for the game to save.)

[narutosaki]

i need help,
what is the NEOCD.BIN file?

i install neocd but i dont get the neocd.bin

please help me

[shik1]

does this work on it?

[Putin]

And one question from me...I've been searching rom pages but can't findMetal Slug in full...only one or two levels. Can someeone give some direction please ?

[Festizzio]

Narutosaki, I believe NEOCD.BIN is the neo geo cd system's bios. You can't ask for that here.

[feeblemindedenigma]

is anyone out there having problems with the audio files for "King of Fighters '94 '95"

1.) the MP3 file names are correct and in their proper folder
2.) the ISO was uncompressed
3.) Absolutely no audio (BGM or sound effects) for KOF '94 and '95 has effects but lacks BGM

If anyone can help me that would be great... BTW i own all the original Disc and all u rom junkies should too...laterz

[Joey wonder]

Easy rude boys any of u lot know where i can get my grubby lil hands on sum good mario games

[layeibrahim]

is anyone out there having problems with the audio files for "King of Fighters '94 '95"

1.) the MP3 file names are correct and in their proper folder
2.) the ISO was uncompressed
3.) Absolutely no audio (BGM or sound effects) for KOF '94 and '95 has effects but lacks BGM

If anyone can help me that would be great... BTW i own all the original Disc and all u rom junkies should too...laterz

I got the same game feeb, where do i place the ISO and all those mp3. and where do i place the cue file?

[creoleplane]

Will the Neo CD emu play normal neo geo roms as well?

[Coddfish]

Hi, I'm kinda new here...

Anyway, I'm having some trouble with this, can anyone explain in a noob-friendly way how to set up the emu? I have a 1.5 PSP, but when I tried to load a ROM, it said something about a INIT something or other file was missing...?

[vincesecuricor2005]

i can get metal slug 2 workin but wen i zip it up it wont work no more heeeeeelp?

[Lomius]

I am having sound problems. I know this is gonna sound weird but I tested it 3 times and produced the exact results. For some reason when I play Aero Fighters 3 i get no sound but I get Music. Then if I try to play another game Last Blade 2 I get no Music but I get sound effects. Then if I load up Crossed Swords 2 I get SE and Music.

So then I go back to playing Last Blade 2 and I get full SE and Music again.

I check my game/emulation/menu options and everything is enabled. I have all the MP3 files correctly sequenced and in an NEOCD.MP3 folder within each game folder (I know how to read instructions LOL) I have gotten most games to work. But since I placed these 3 on the card I have been having these sound problems. (Same thing happens with Aero Fighters 2 except I havent gotten sound or music at all with that one).

Anyone else having similar issues. And yes btw I have reformatted and reinstalled NEOCDPSP 3 times just to check. And I am running V1.5.

Thanks,
JLomius

[HepburnFan]

Will the Neo CD emu play normal neo geo roms as well?

That is my question, too. Anyone knows about this?

[brainpan]

I keep getting and error saying "Cannot locate IPL.txt"
Any help?

[Jdemon]

The "IPL.TXT" must be missing from your games directory.

I'm just starting to use this emu can anyone tell me if the STARTUP.BIN
,loading.bmp and logo.bmp are available in the earlier versions of the emu? Or can I even make my own at least for the bmps?

[starxpy]

To all - This is my first post on the forum and would like to ask for advice if anyone knows a fix.

I'm having problems with music in games in that I don't have any. Everything else works a treat -sound effects etc. Any ideas. The mp3s are in a folder neocd.mp3 as the readme instructs.

I only have these games and there is no music in all.

Metal Slug 1 + 2,
Ghost Pilot

I'm running 2.0 Firmware with fanjita 0.8.5 Eboot loader and Smiths NeoCDPSP 0.5

Any clues??

[starxpy]

sorry posted twice

[indstr]

Will the Neo CD emu play normal neo geo roms as well?

That is my question, too. Anyone knows about this?


i am still wondering this too. does anybody know??

[Festizzio]

i am still wondering this too. does anybody know??
I don't think so. I was reading about the original Neo Geo system, and it said that the system had no ram, but all the ram was built right in to the cartridges themselves, making the system very hard to emulate. Plus, this emulates Neo Geo CD, not Neo Geo.

[chr!s?]

Hi guys, i see there is a lot of questions for this emulator but some people have it working, so i must have somthing wrong. It tells me somthing is wrong with neocd.bin.
Im not sure wahts going on and have been searching and trying to fix this for hours.If any one could help would be great, thanks.
*edit*
fixed the bios problem, now i have the problem the others are having with the .txt :(

[akdmksjeanius]

hey this is my first post, but i am sure this is around here somewhere with the neo cd you have to first make a folder for the game and unzip the game in the folder then inside that folder make another folder called neocd.mp3 then take all the mp3 tracks and cut them in the neocd.mp3 folder and then the game should run.

[jwilds73]

No you cant run normal Neo Geo Cartrige based Roms only the CD ones. I believe this has something to do with the way memory was handled on the cartrige based games. You need to use Google to find out the information on your bios files etc. Also most if not all games respond horribly if they are not uncompressed. Running a compressed zip file of your roms will cause astronomically long load times. Each rom should be uncompressed in its own folder on your PSP. Again do not run zipped roms also if they are zipped they can not be zipped inside of a folder or they will not be recognized (hence the ipx.txt or whichever error). You would have to select all the CD's files and make a single zip file out of them (again not zipped in a folder but all files selected individually then made into one zip file). However as I stated the load times will be horrible and unplayabe in 99.9% of games.

[chr!s?]

About the IPL.TXT error, i found out if u extract the iso, and dont have it zipped either, ther is no longer an error. So instead of having an iso (im my case) in your "metalslug" folder, you have everything the iso contained. So its: psp>game>neocdpsp>roms>, and in there is: "metalslug"-(folder with extracted iso) and "neocd.mp3". I did that and it works great ^^ hope i helped som1 as confused as I was lol

[Festizzio]

No you cant run normal Neo Geo Cartrige based Roms only the CD ones. I believe this has something to do with the way memory was handled on the cartrige based games. You need to use Google to find out the information on your bios files etc. Also most if not all games respond horribly if they are not uncompressed. Running a compressed zip file of your roms will cause astronomically long load times. Each rom should be uncompressed in its own folder on your PSP. Again do not run zipped roms also if they are zipped they can not be zipped inside of a folder or they will not be recognized (hence the ipx.txt or whichever error). You would have to select all the CD's files and make a single zip file out of them (again not zipped in a folder but all files selected individually then made into one zip file). However as I stated the load times will be horrible and unplayabe in 99.9% of games.

I don't know about that. My Metal Slug 2 game is zipped, and it runs great. The loading times are slightly longer than in the arcade; it certainly isn't unplayable.

[jwilds73]

Metal Slug and smaller games like Windjammers, Bubble Bobble or Neo Geo Turf Masters responded reasonably well to being zipped. However other games were truly horrible such as Last Blade 1 and 2 etc. Only a few of the games are playable in zipped format most seem to suffer from to long of load times.