NeoDS - Neo Geo AES/MVS Emulator for Nintendo DS

[RV2006]

wait a little while after that and it should load
Its only the bios loading, its perfectly normal...

So far I have tested these games:
Metal Slug: Works good, but crashes randomly (s)
NEOCUP 98: Menu works, crashes emu before a match starts (s)
KOF97: Works Almost perfectly (a little lag when action gets hectic) (s)
KOF94: Perfect (s)
Puzzle Bobble 2: Perfect (s)
Windjammers: Can't get it to load (s)
Neo Bomberman: Perfect (s)
Samurai Showdown: Perfect (s)
Viewpoint: Perfect (s)
Top Hunter: Perfect (s)

(s)= with sound

I hope he can get save states working, it would make Metal Slug playable and completable

If NEOGEO is working this good, then maybe CPS1/CPS2 emulation is possible too! (as one could use similar techniques to get them working)

This is excellent work so far!

Keep up the good work!

[Sir_Voe]

Works great for me since I switched to using bios1 via the command line. Nam and Samurai Showdown are working great, but as mentioned before, Metal Slug freezes (only when I toss a grenade from my experience). This is amazing, thanks to the dev. for what I'm sure was a lot of hard work and determination.

Edit: Add Magician Lord to the list of games that seem to work well, sound included.

[havoc_012]

****ing epic!

[Tyr]

This emu caught me by suprise , i thought i would only get small games to load and work well but even Blazing Star runs great!

[daknight]

Ok, after a lot of trial an error, finally got the 'green screen' mention earlier. Now I been leaving it like that for awhile but nothing seems to happen, I know patience is a virtue but a minute seems a lot to boot the bios.

I tested the games people mention work and it just stays in the green screen...did I do something wrong? O_o (Yes I am using Bios1)

[RV2006]

odd...
Wait, what card are you using?
Does it have auto DLDI patching?
I'm using a R4DS and it works fine for me
(what I did was manually DLDI patch the NeoDS, then disable auto patching by using DLDI No-Patch.exe. I wouldn't think that would make a difference though...)

EDIT: I've tried a few more games:
Metal Slug X: Works very good, with occasional slowdowns.
I reccomend no scaling as it slows it down even more...
Unlike the first Metal Slug, it hasn't crashed. (S)
2020 Baseball: Perfect (S)

[-evilryu-]

i've just put metal slug 1,2,3,4,5,x with neogeo.zip in the converter dir,run NeoDSconvert (also from command line) but it convert online ms 1,2 and X,it IGNORE 3,4,5 ....why?

edit:maybe i've undertood why

[Mini Moose]

Wow! This is incredible! Simply amazing!

Could this suggest the possibility for a MAME emulator for DS?! (with limitations of course)

[RV2006]

the best way to convert is to make a .txt file
put in the location of NoDsConvert.exe and the
-bios1 e.g:
"C:\Documents and Settings\oem\My Documents\NeoDsConvert.exe -bios1"
then save the text file as a .bat
Then instead of running the command line all the time, all you do is run the .bat

Also a little compat update:

Metal Slug 2: works until you select character, then screen goes black and music repeats (s)

Metal Slug 4: Works good. Suffers from lag mostly during bosses
Perfect settings unsure, changing them around from time to time helps a little (S)

Some advice: Delete your existing non-working .neo files (ones that you didn't make with -bios1) before rebuilding with -bios1
as they will NOT work otherwise!

[ingramb]

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback so far.

I know it's been mentioned, but you need MAME compatible roms for NeoDS. The converter is actually a stripped down version of MAME, which handles all the decrytion/protection crap that newer NeoGeo games have. But it will only load games that are in the format MAME expects (even the file name must be correct).

I know this is kinda a pain, especially if you have a collection of roms for a different emulator, but it would be more or less impossible for me to try to support every type of dump. So I chose MAME as the standard. If MAME can't load it, the converter may ignore it, and it certainly won't work in NeoDS. It's possible that rom organizing programs might be able to fixup non-MAME sets, but I haven't really tried this.

I'll try to get some of the broken games working soon. Metal Slug 1 used to work for me, so I must have broken it shortly before release =)