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[[File:{{Infobox console|title = SNK Neo Geo|logo = Neo_Geo_full_on.png|image = Neo-Geo-AES-Console-Set.jpgpng|thumb|250pximage2 = Neo_Geo_CD.png|imagecaption = '''Top:''' The Neo Geo AES]]The MVS.<br/>'''[httpsMiddle://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_(system) ''' The Neo Geo AES].<br/>''' (Advanced Entertainment System) home console and the Bottom:'''The Neo Geo CD.|developer = [[gametech:Neo-GeoCategory:SNK consoles|SNK]]|type = [[:Category:Home consoles|Neo Geo MVSHome video game console]]''' (Multi Video System) , [[:Category:Arcade|arcade system was first released by board]]|generation = [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snk SNKCategory:Fourth-generation video game consoles|Fourth generation]] on January |release = 1990 in Japan. MVS and AES are technically the same system, but their cartridges are not compatible with each other due a different layout. |discontinued = 2004|emulated = {{✓}}}}
The '''[[gametech:Neo-Geo|Neo Geo CD MVS]]''' (NG-CDMulti Video System) arcade system was the CD version of the 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 the game cartridges)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.
Hyper '''[[wikipedia:Neo_Geo_CD|Neo-Geo 64 CD]]''' (HNGNG-64CD) was the successor to CD version of the AES (not compatible with the Neo-Geo 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 3D graphics, no home console releaseanother CPU that being a Zilog Z80 at 4 MHz. It had 7MB of RAM.
'''[[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. When emulating Neo-Geo games with RetroArch, the Neo-geo Geo BIOS files need to be in the game directory.
==Emulators==
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! scope="col"|[[libretro]]! scope="col"|Libretro Core<small>Retro<br/>Achievements</small><ref group=N>[https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=56 NG-CD achievements], [https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=27 NG achievements]</ref>! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>! scope="col"|Active! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulatorsEmulators|Recommended]]|-! colspan="11"|PC / x86
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Final Burn AlphaMAME]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|style<abbr title="textLatest development version">git artifacts</abbr><ref group=N>[https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-windows/master CI-alignWindows] [https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-linux/master CI-Linux] [https:center;"|//nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-macos/master CI-Macos]</ref></br>[http://www.fbalphamamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/downloadsnightly/ libretro core]<ref group=N>As 0.2251, 0.97139 (2010), 0.4278 (2003), 0.37b5 (2000)</ref> |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}[[#Emulation_issues|*]]|style="text-align:center;"|{{}} ||style{{✗}}<ref group=N name="text-alignlrRAMAME>[https:center;"//docs.libretro.com/guides/retroachievements/#arcade Support is not likely to ever be possible. The same is true for all MAME variants.]</ref> ||{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[MAMEFinalBurn Neo]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows|Multi-platformmacOS}}|style="text-align[https:center;"|//buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]<br/>[httphttps://wwwgithub.mamedevcom/finalburnneo/FBNeo/releases/tag/latest nightly]<br/>[https://github.orgcom/finalburnneo/release.html FBNeo/releases/latest stable]|{{MAMEVer}}]|style="text-align:center;"|{{}} ||{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} ||style{{✓}}<ref group=N name="textfbnRA>[https://docs.libretro.com/guides/retroachievements/#arcade AES bios is required for many Neo Geo achievements. AES Asia (neo-align:center;"epo.bin) is generally English.]</ref> ||{{NC}} ||{{*}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[RaineRAINE]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, |Linux, OS X|macOS}}|style="text-align:center;"|[http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html 0.64.13{{RAINEVer}}]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}} ||{{}} ||{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} ||{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} ||{{~}}
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|style="text-align[https:center;"|Xe//github.com/libretro/neocd_libretro NeoCD<br/><small>neocd_libretro</small>]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, |Linux|macOS}}|style="text-align[https:center;"|2//buildbot.16libretro.2com/nightly/ libretro core]|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}} ||{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} ||{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{~}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Kawaksares]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://cps2shockgithub.emucom/ares-france.infoemulator/ares/download.html 1.65releases {{aresVer}}]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}} ||{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|style[[FinalBurn Alpha]]|align="textleft|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://www.fbalpha.com/downloads {{FinalBurnAlphaVer}}]|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{NC}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}|-|[https://web.archive.org/web/20141105014113/http://www.xe-emulator.com Xe]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https:center;"//web.archive.org/web/20141022230129/http://www.xe-emulator.com/index.php?m=download {{XeVer}}]|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||GnGeo{{✗}}|style="text-|[[Kawaks]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http:center;"//cps2shock.emu-france.info/download.html {{KawaksVer}}]|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Linux{{✗}}|style="text-|GnGeo|align:center;"=left|{{Icon|Linux}}|[https://github.com/coringaolinuxlinks/gngeo GitHubgit]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{}}|style="text-|NeoRAGEx|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https:center;"//emulator.games/emulators/neo-geo/neoragex-5-4e/ 5.4e]|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{}} ||{{✗}}|style-!colspan="text-align:center;11"|Mobile / ARM|style="text-|[[FinalBurn Neo]]|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS}}|[https:center;"//buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}<nowikiref group=N name=fbnRA>*</nowikiref> ||{{NC}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[[MAME]]|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS}}|[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]<ref group=N>As 0"[https://github.com/libretro/libretro-core-info/blob/master/mamearcade_libretro.info mamearcade_libretro] and mame_libretro_ios.153 (2014)dylib", 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003), 0.37b5 (2000)</ref>|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}[[#Emulation_issues|*]] ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} | class="wikitable"|+Consoles{{~}}! scope="col"|Name-! scope="col"|Operating System[https://github.com/libretro/neocd_libretro NeoCD<br/><small>(sneocd_libretro)</small>]! scope|align="col"left|{{Icon|Android|iOS}}|[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}|Latest Version-! scope|[[FinalBurn Alpha]]|align="col"left|{{Icon|Android|iOS}}|[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{NC}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}|NG-! scopecolspan="col11"|NGConsoles|-CD! scope="col"|HNGNJ-64EMU! scope|align="col"left|{{Icon|PSP}}|[[libretro|Libretro Core]https://github.com/phoe-nix/NJEMU git]! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Recommended]]{{✓}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|UOmvspsp|style="text-align:center;"|[[PlayStation Portable]]|style="text-align:center;"|[http://wwwchui.dcemu.mediafireco.comuk/?2qzaz2089f99cvk 2.3aes4all.1html AES4ALL]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Dreamcast}}{{Icon|Dingoo}}|Beta 4|{{}} ||{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}
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|style="text-align[http:center;"|[[Virtual Console]//chui.dcemu.co.uk/neo4all.html NEO4ALL]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Dreamcast}}{{Icon|[[Wii]]Dingoo}}|style="text-align:center;"RC4|n/a{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}
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===Comparisons===
;[https://github.com/libretro/neocd_libretro NeoCD<small> (neocd_libretro)</small>]:
:[https://github.com/libretro/neocd_libretro NeoCD] is a S(ingle) A(rcade) M(achine) E(mulator) for libretro, just like [https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Philips_CD-i_emulators#Emulators Same CDi <small>(same_cdi_libretro)</small>] forked from MAME libretro, which is in turn a fork of MAME. It includes only the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_CD Neo Geo CD] driver, and simplifies the loading of CD content to provide a 'plug and play' experience.
==Reviews==;[[ares]]::Neo Geo emulation has undergone the most dramatic improvement out of any core [https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/11ltlvu/ares_multisystem_emulator_v132_has_been_released/ with v132 version release]; with a significant portion of the library jumping from "Nothing" state to "Completable".
* Virtual Console is the best official emulator, with stellar compatibility.==???=={|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|- style="font-weight:bold;"! Name! MAME|-|Mahjong|{{✓}}|-|Slots|{{✓}}|}
==Emulation issues==
* Hyper Neo-Geo 64 is poorly mostly emulated. MAME is the only available option and, since 0.240, all games are mostly playable with only bad audio emulation. There was a notable update for the MAME driver by [https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2018-starting-early Haze] in 2018 and in early 2023 The Hyper Neo Geo 64 has had some welcome fixes for both 2D and 3D graphics [https://www.mamedev.org/?p=522 with 0.252 version] and there should be [https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/11ojbde/part_3_of_hyper_neogeo_64_emulation_updates_in/ more coming in the next release]. {{MAMEVer}} version [http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/lista_mame.php?game_sourcefile=hng64.cpp&arcade_only=0&current_version=0 compatibility status] or you can use [https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/1bf4528d15d895d06bb0b5ee6eed372f6da48c6d/src/mame/snk/hng64.cpp#L3104 this link]. 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:Fourth-generation video game consoles]]
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