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The '''Neo Geo''' <span style="font-weight: normal">(ネオジオ ''Neo Jio''<sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets <span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #00e; font: bold 80% sans-serif; text-decoration: none; padding: 0 .1em;">?</span>]</sup>)</span> is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_cartridge cartridge]-based [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_system_board arcade system board] and home [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console video game console] released on January 31, 1990 by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan Japanese] game company [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNK_Playmore SNK Playmore]. Being in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_%28fourth_generation%29 fourth generation of video game consoles], it was the first system in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo Neo Geo family], which ran throughout the 1990s before being revived in December 2012 with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_X Neo Geo X] handheld/home system.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kotaku_1-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_%28system%29#cite_note-Kotaku-1 [1]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Eurogamer_2-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_%28system%29#cite_note-Eurogamer-2 [2]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-test_3-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_%28system%29#cite_note-test-3 [3]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GR_4-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_%28system%29#cite_note-GR-4 [4]]</sup> The original system's hardware featured comparatively colourful [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2D_computer_graphics 2D] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_graphics graphics].
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{{Infobox console
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|title = SNK Neo Geo
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|logo = Neo_Geo_full_on.png
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|image = Neo-Geo-AES-Console-Set.png
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|image2 = Neo_Geo_CD.png
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|imagecaption = '''Top:''' The Neo Geo MVS.<br/>'''Middle:''' The Neo Geo AES.<br/>'''Bottom:''' The Neo Geo CD.
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|developer = [[:Category:SNK consoles|SNK]]
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|type = [[:Category:Home consoles|Home video game console]], [[:Category:Arcade|arcade system board]]
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|generation = [[:Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles|Fourth generation]]
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|release = 1990
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|discontinued = 2004
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|emulated = {{✓}}
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}}
  
The '''MVS''' (Multi Video System), as the Neo Geo was known to the coin-operated arcade game industry, offered arcade operators the ability to put up to six different arcade titles into a single cabinet, a key economic consideration for operators with limited floorspace. With its games stored on self-contained cartridges, a game-cabinet could be exchanged for a different game-title by swapping the game's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_Cartridge ROM-cartridge] and cabinet artwork. Several popular franchise-series, including ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Fury_%28series%29 Fatal Fury]'', ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Fighters The King of Fighters]'', ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Slug_%28series%29 Metal Slug]'' and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Shodown_%28series%29 Samurai Shodown]'', were released for the platform.
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The '''[[gametech:Neo-Geo|Neo Geo MVS]]''' (Multi Video System) arcade system was first released by [[wikipedia:SNK|SNK Corporation]] on January 1990 in Japan and on August 22, 1990 in NA. The '''[[wikipedia:Neo_Geo_(system)|Neo Geo AES]]''' (Advanced Entertainment System) home console was released on July 1, 1991. MVS and AES are technically the same systems, but their cartridges are not compatible with each other due to a different layout. The AES was retailed for {{Inflation|USD|649.99|1991}}. It had a Motorola 68000 at 12MHz and a Zilog Z80A at 4MHz with 64KB RAM and 84KB VRAM.
  
The Neo Geo system was also marketed as a very costly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console home console], commonly referred to today as the '''AES''' (Advanced Entertainment System). The Neo Geo was marketed as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-bit 24-bit], though it was technically a parallel processing 16 bit system with an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-bit 8-bit] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog Zilog] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z80 Z80] as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprocessor coprocessor]. The coprocessor was used as a CPU, and for sound processing.
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'''[[wikipedia:Neo_Geo_CD|Neo Geo CD]]''' (NG-CD) was the CD version of the AES (not compatible with the game cartridges) released in January of '96 and <abbr title="$651.32 in 2018 money">$399</abbr>. It had a Motorola 68000 CPU at 12 MHz with another CPU that being a Zilog Z80 at 4 MHz. It had 7MB of RAM.
  
Production of the system was discontinued in 1997, but official production of game cartridges lasted until 2004;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_%28system%29#cite_note-5 [5]]</sup> The Neo Geo was ranked 19th out of the 25 best video game consoles of all time by the video game website [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGN IGN] in 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_%28system%29#cite_note-6 [6]]</sup> There continues to be a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_%28video_games%29 homebrew] market for the system over a decade and a half after its discontinuation.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed]'']</sup>
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'''[[wikipedia:Hyper_Neo_Geo_64|Hyper Neo-Geo 64]]''' (HNG-64) was the successor to the Neo-Geo with 3D graphics, there was no home console release. It was released in September of 1997 and had an NEC VR4300 at 100 MHz with 16MiB of RAM.
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When emulating Neo-Geo games with RetroArch, the Neo-Geo BIOS files need to be in the game directory.
  
 
==Emulators==
 
==Emulators==
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Operating System(s)
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! scope="col"|Platform(s)
 
! scope="col"|Latest Version
 
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col" style="text-align: center;"|# of systems emulated
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! scope="col"|NG
! scope="col"|Recommended
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! scope="col"|NG-CD
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! scope="col"|HNG-64
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! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
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! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
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! scope="col"|Active
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! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
|-
 
|-
|[http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/MAME MAME]
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! colspan="10"|PC / x86
|Windows, Linux, OS X
 
|0.149
 
| style="text-align: center;"|?
 
| style="text-align: center;"|✓
 
 
|-
 
|-
|[http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Burn_Alpha Final Burn Alpha]
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|[[MAME]]
|Windows
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|0.2.97.29
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|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
| style="text-align: center;"|?
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}} ||{{✓}}<ref group=N>As 0.153 (2014), 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003)</ref> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{}}
| style="text-align: center;"|✓
 
 
|-
 
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|[http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/RetroArch RetroArch] (Final Burn Alpha)
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|[[FinalBurn Neo]]
|Multi-platform
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|macOS}}
|0.2.97.28
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|[https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo/releases/latest stable] [https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo/releases/tag/latest nightly build]
| style="text-align: center;"|?
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
| style="text-align: center;"|✓
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|-
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|[[RAINE]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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|[http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html {{RAINEVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|-
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|NeoCD
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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|[https://github.com/libretro/neocd_libretro git]
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|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|-
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|[[FinalBurn Alpha]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|[http://www.fbalpha.com/downloads {{FinalBurnAlphaVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|-
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20141105014113/http://www.xe-emulator.com Xe]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20141022230129/http://www.xe-emulator.com/index.php?m=download {{XeVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|-
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|[[ares]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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|[https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases {{aresVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}||{{✗}}||{{✓}}||{{✓}}||{{✗}}
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|-
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|[[Kawaks]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|[http://cps2shock.emu-france.info/download.html {{KawaksVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|-
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|GnGeo
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|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
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|[https://github.com/linuxlinks/gngeo git]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|-
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|NeoRAGEx
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|[https://emulator.games/emulators/neo-geo/neoragex-5-4e/ 5.4e]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|-
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! colspan="10"|Consoles
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|-
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|[https://code.google.com/archive/p/gxgeo GxGeo]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Wii}}
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|[https://code.google.com/archive/p/gxgeo/downloads {{GxGeoVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|-
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|UOmvspsp
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|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
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|[http://www.mediafire.com/?2qzaz2089f99cvk {{UOmvspspVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|-
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|UOncdzpsp
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|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
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|[http://www.mediafire.com/?883tfd76v4qckz2 {{UOncdzpspVer}}]
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|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|-
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|[[Virtual Console]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Wii}}
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|n/a
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|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{}}
 
|}
 
|}
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==Emulation issues==
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* Hyper Neo-Geo 64 is mostly emulated. MAME is the only available option and, since 0.240, all games are mostly playable with only bad audio emulation. There only was a notable update for the MAME driver by [https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2018-starting-early Haze] in 2018. Hyper Neo-Geo 64 is one of the last pre-2000 Arcade platforms not playable on emulators by a "big" arcade company.
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[[Category:Home consoles]]
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[[Category:SNK consoles]]

Revision as of 16:29, 16 May 2022

SNK Neo Geo
Neo Geo full on.png
Neo-Geo-AES-Console-Set.png
Neo Geo CD.png
Top: The Neo Geo MVS.
Middle: The Neo Geo AES.
Bottom: The Neo Geo CD.
Developer SNK
Type Home video game console, arcade system board
Generation Fourth generation
Release date 1990
Discontinued 2004
Emulated

The Neo Geo MVS (Multi Video System) arcade system was first released by SNK Corporation on January 1990 in Japan and on August 22, 1990 in NA. The Neo Geo AES (Advanced Entertainment System) home console was released on July 1, 1991. MVS and AES are technically the same systems, but their cartridges are not compatible with each other due to a different layout. The AES was retailed for $649.99. It had a Motorola 68000 at 12MHz and a Zilog Z80A at 4MHz with 64KB RAM and 84KB VRAM.

Neo Geo CD (NG-CD) was the CD version of the AES (not compatible with the game cartridges) released in January of '96 and $399. It had a Motorola 68000 CPU at 12 MHz with another CPU that being a Zilog Z80 at 4 MHz. It had 7MB of RAM.

Hyper Neo-Geo 64 (HNG-64) was the successor to the Neo-Geo with 3D graphics, there was no home console release. It was released in September of 1997 and had an NEC VR4300 at 100 MHz with 16MiB of RAM.

When emulating Neo-Geo games with RetroArch, the Neo-Geo BIOS files need to be in the game directory.

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest Version NG NG-CD HNG-64 Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.264 ~ [N 1]
FinalBurn Neo Windows macOS stable nightly build
RAINE Windows Linux macOS 0.96.7
NeoCD Windows Linux macOS git ~
FinalBurn Alpha Windows 0.2.97.43
Xe Windows Linux 2.16.2
ares Windows Linux macOS v137
Kawaks Windows 1.65
GnGeo Linux git
NeoRAGEx Windows 5.4e
Consoles
GxGeo Wii r23
UOmvspsp PSP 2.3.1
UOncdzpsp PSP 2.3.1
Virtual Console Wii n/a
  1. As 0.153 (2014), 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003)

Emulation issues

  • Hyper Neo-Geo 64 is mostly emulated. MAME is the only available option and, since 0.240, all games are mostly playable with only bad audio emulation. There only was a notable update for the MAME driver by Haze in 2018. Hyper Neo-Geo 64 is one of the last pre-2000 Arcade platforms not playable on emulators by a "big" arcade company.