Neo Geo Emulator for PSP Alpha 2 Released

Posted Jun 15, 2006 at 10:24AM by QJ Staff Listed in: Homebrew Emulators, News, Emulators Tags: BIOS, NeoGeo, NeoGeo CDZ, NJ, ROMs

Speedy guys, those Japanese devs: Only a few hours after Alpha 1 of the promising emulator was released, here we are again with Alpha 2. Made by NJ, the author of the excellent NeoGeo CDZ Emulator, this one supports the arcade romsets. This also means that due the nature of ROMs, some games will not be playable, as they are too big to fit into the PSP's memory. However, the download includes a handy list saying which games are supported and which aren't. While the readme itself is written in Japanese, the list contains the English game names, so there should be no problems checking out which games to try with this new emulator.

Translated once again by QJ's own Jeff C., here comes the changelog...

Changes in Alpha 2:
- BIOS selection is moved into file browser.
Press Square button to bring up the selection menu in the file browser.
- The help will be displayed only when you start the emulator for the first time (for the change above).
- Auto-frame skip is changed to enabled as the default setup.
- SRAM and memory card are now not saved when a game fails to start.
- Added some fixes that enables some more games that were not supported.
Some very large games still cannot be emulated.
(Please check the list.txt for the list of games. Part1: games that should be supported; Part2: Games that are not supported now but possible in the next beta; Part3: games that are too large to fit in the PSP memory so still cannot be emulated)

* Simplifying the user interface for free up some more memory, some games may become supported this way, but basically this change has little effect.

Download: [NeoGeo Emulator for PSP Alpha 2]

Via NeoCDZ Website

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# link fix? — Guest 2006-06-15 06:04

http://dl.qj.net/index.php?pg=12&fid=8292#

I just dl Alpha 1 like a min a go right before this one came out @_@

Great Job guys!! =]

# FatFury2 — Guest 2006-06-15 06:05

OMG they fixed Fatal Fury 2's sprite problems!

# i am the second — Guest 2006-06-15 06:09

i am ansellee

# Bug report for our brave coders — Guest 2006-06-15 06:13

-Most of the screen is black in Puzzle Bobble

-Spinmaster gives black screen of death and no sound

-Controls not mapped for Irritating Maze

# never had problems with this emu — Guest 2006-06-15 06:19

not even 1 game didn t work on my psp with this emu

games from part 1 2 3 all of them have been working perfectly

thx guyz and keep up the good work

# Its posible run a big rom look this — Guest 2006-06-15 06:28

The gngeo is emulator for gp2x , and support a big roms, create a gfx . With tool dumpgfx . Run a 100 % with 250 mhz

Because this emulator in the future cannot emulate roms great if the gngeo does?

http://m.peponas.free.fr/gngeo/

JC

# Getting this thingy to work. — Guest 2006-06-15 06:28

So, I'm guessing these are for the REAL NEO-GEO games?

Like Blazing Star and other arcade games?

I have the bios in the folder but whenever I go to load up a small file (MS1 = 13 megs) it says could not load NEO GEO BIOS.

So whats the deal? I'm really eager to get this thing working, so help a guy out?

Aim me at BlingyMcFly if you'd like, I'm on right now.

# help — Guest 2006-06-15 07:33

I cant seem to download this can someone confirm that the download link maybe broken......

thanks

# URL — Guest 2006-06-15 07:38

The URL has 2 http://s in it, take 1 out :)

# cool — Guest 2006-06-15 07:57

This is great but I prefer the neocdz emulator because you can leave the music out and zip the game file to save space on the memory stick. It would be great for the games that never came out on neo geo cd.

# 100 Meg Shocker — Guest 2006-06-15 08:04

I like MVS games better b/c the Neo Geo intro screen is nostalgic for me. :)

# Download Link Goes to MicroSoft? — yamabigdog 2006-06-15 08:04

Please fix the download link. Takes you to MicroSofts Homepage.

# Real Deal Link — Guest 2006-06-15 08:11

http://dl.qj.net/index.php?pg=12&fid=8292

# ... — Guest 2006-06-15 09:51

Do we still need to download a .bin file for this????...

Great job by the way... just last night i was looking to see if anyone had made this kind of emu

NeOgEo Ro)(kErs mY SoCks!!!!1!!!!one!!!!!!2?!!

# Errors.... — Guest 2006-06-15 10:08

I get the following 2 errors with ROMS I know work.

sp-sp2.sp1

could not load file NEOGEO BIOS

I have downloaded this bios from over 10 different sites... Any help would be really appreciated.

# ROM Set Not Supported.... — yamabigdog 2006-06-15 11:27

Why does this error occur? ROMS are fine play on MAME, WinKawaks, and NEO Rage emulators on PC. I am trying the listed working ROMS.....Anyone please help?

# AHHHHHHH!!!!!! — Guest 2006-06-15 11:54

wats wrong with this thing, i have the bios and everything but when i load up a game, the thing sAys cannot load neo geo bios, help----i need somebody ,help----not jus anybody , help-----u know i need some one-----HEEEEEEEEEEELLL P!!!

# PROGRESSS!!!!! — yamabigdog 2006-06-15 12:12

OK heres what I did to get 1 game working.

Put neogeo bios in ROMS folder, with that name, just "neogeo". The file should be 261kb and zipped. Must put game/ROM in that folder too.

I got NAM 1975 to work only. I have only tested Fatal Fury2 and Samurai Shodown, will test much more later tonight.

From what I can tell at this point this is a very early and buggy build. Alot of games much lower than 32MB are not running, and I know they are good ROMS. I think it may be due to the fact I am running 2.0 firmware, using eLoader 0.97 and eMenu.--01, and they are taking up a few precious MB, causing slightly larget games not to load.

Oh well my 2 cents. Hope I've helped.

# this rocks !!! — Guest 2006-06-15 12:57

I got eightman to work at 58-60 fps! fyi, my neogeo.zip (635kb) is from the MAME v0.103 rom set. If you look hard enough you can find it. ;) Can't wait to try out more! Thanx devs

# Yo — Guest 2006-06-15 13:29

Metal Slug won't work b/c it is > 16 MB unzipped

# O_o — Guest 2006-06-15 13:38

im having problems also but i know there will be another release so ill wait... untill then good job guys keep up the work.

# WuuuuHuuuuu!!! — Morocco Roco 2006-06-15 14:53

What the... what am I reading? NeoGeo... Emulator? Not CDZ? I love my 1.5 PSP!!! Devhook 0.41, Daedalus, SNESTYL, NeoGeo CDZ and this one... This summer is so hot for our PSPs! I just need to buy another 1gig mem stick, but that's just worth it. SONY PLEASE FIX THIS DIRECTIONAL PAD GOD DAMMIT!!!

# .. — Guest 2006-06-15 16:43

OH..

MY...

GOD...

I think i just had an orgasm. Jeez! I've been waiting for this to come out AGES ago! Now I can finally play METAL f&*^ING SLUG! YEAH!

# ... — Guest 2006-06-15 16:53

...Uh.. I mean "GOSH" not god

# gigger roms 2 — Guest 2006-06-15 19:12

i know its a litle different but deadelus n64 emulator has a sort of rom streamer... it load the decripted rom when it need. the psp got only 32mb of ram and generaly the emulators load all the rom in the ram.

but deadelus handle roms like conker bad fur day (64mb) and zelda majora mask (64mb)...

(note: it will speed up the emulation of gba too if it s used on a gba emulator( use only 8mb or ram for the rom)

# More Progress Report — yamabigdog 2006-06-15 19:52

Yes well at least for 2.xx using eLoader I guess we have less RAM to work with, so I tried a few more small games. Anything on the NEOGEO Master List that is around 55 MEG will work. Maybe slightly bigger.

http://www.neo-geo.com/snk/masterlist.htm

ROMS Tested So Far:

Crossed Swords-15-20 FPS

Nam 1975-55-60 FPS

King of the Monsters-55-60 FPS

Magician Lord-55-60 FPS

The Super Spy-55-60 FPS

Riding Hero-Runs, but cannot see track=-(

Thrash Rally-Did Not Load

Fatal Fury 2-Did Not Load

Samurai Shodown-Did Not Load

Will test some more tommorow, no other games really grabbed my attention with that low of MEG count.

This is very promising looking. I hope you guys keep up this excellent project. If you can get the compatibility up with the NGCDZ emu, would truly be an awesome thing!! I will be checking PSPUpdates nonstop now!

# GP2X have 48 MG not 64 — Guest 2006-06-15 20:05

GP2X have 48 MG not 64 because 16 is for Linux.

the GFX read for memorystick by parts . You readme the source code in official web of pepone.

JC

# none of the games work — Guest 2006-06-15 22:57

all games u talking about not working.

its says Rom set not support, and also cannot allocate sound_gfs memory

# Not mentioned — Guest 2006-06-15 23:19

Are these 3 lists supposed to be all games on Neo Geo grouped in Working, Partially & Non-Working? Can't see my favorite "Nightmare In The Dark" anywhere, so I wondered if anyone's tested it? At work right now so I can't check for myself...

http://www.mobygames.com/game/neo-geo/nightmare-in-the-dark

# toilet — Guest 2006-06-16 02:31

wee wee

# "No BIOS Found" — Guest 2006-06-16 04:03

I tried putting the NEO GEO BIOS zipped and unzipped in the roms folder, still getting the same error message.

Could somebody explain a little how they have their BIOS and rom sets set up?

Thank you

# YEAH!!! — infraBLUEkid 2006-06-16 05:52

neo cdz is great but this has newer games, i hope he figures out how to stream the roms

# Try getting arcade ROMS — yamabigdog 2006-06-16 08:35

Ive noticed on a few ROM sites that they have the home clones separated from the arcade originals. If you have one of the home clones it probably won't work. When you go to these sites try checking under ARCADE/MAME sections for NEO GEO roms. I also got a couple more working.

Eightman-55-60 FPS

Crossed Swords- 45-60 FPS;Had to lower sound to 22000khz.

Will test more later.

# Metal Slug 3, 4 & Blazing Star Does not work — RSX46 2006-06-16 08:57

Well I tried Metal Slug 3 and 4,5, X and Blazing Star and they do not work. i get a error about ROM Set not Supported?

Man! i was hoping to play these games. All the good game are in Cart format.

Is there a PSP Emu that plays Metal slug 3,4,5,X and Blazing Star?

Thanks

# Excellent! — Guest 2006-06-17 10:01

Great release.. Now you can have far more Neo-Geo roms on your MS than with the Neo-Geo CD emu. Most of the classics play at full speed. I suggest playing Nam 1975, Baseball Stars 1&2, Cyber-Lip, League Bowling, Top Player's Golf... also check out my NEO-GEO fan site while you're at it

-- videogameobsess ion.com > click on NEO-GEO site link at bottom... I can't wait for more updates on this emu... A++

# rom set not support.... — Guest 2006-06-17 15:09

is the message i keep getting. i am using a neogeo.zip i found somewhere which is 261 kB so probably the one that yamabigdog mentioned using. i've tried league bowling which is a really small rom (only about 1.1 MB) and i tried art of fighting which is about 69 MB and both gave me the same message: rom set not support. these were both on the first list of roms released with this version which is the list of roms predicted to work with this release. i guess the bios must be working otherwise it would be giving me a can't load bios error surely. it doesn't show up with the roms though. i tried a previous pspemu, an earlier edition in this series and the bios actually could be seen and executed. what am i doing right and wrong and does anyone know when an english readme is coming out. thanks for the help.

# more trial and error — Guest 2006-06-18 00:33

i've now also tried Aero Fighters 2 and Power Spikes 2 and both didn't work. i tried all the different bios versions within my 260kB bios and none of them resulted in anything different.

I then tried two other bios files i found, one a genie bios at about 390something kB and another which was only 67kB. both named them correctly and put them in the right place but said couldn't find bios.

is there a place where i can find out which rom needs which bios version, europe v.1 or 2, us v.1 or 2, asian v.1 or japan v.1, 2 or 3. i don't know which i'm supposed to be using.

cheers everyone

# nearly 40 Verified WORKING games to play — Guest 2006-06-18 07:06

I went ahead and tested most of the classic (smaller) roms. I'm sure there are many more that work that I missed....please add ones that I missed!

Most of these run nearly perfect (55-60FPS) 22Khz sound +333Mhz:

2020 Super Baseball

Aero Fighters 2

Alpha Mission II

Andro Dunos

Blues Journey (no sound in game)

Baseball Stars

Baseball Stars 2

Battle Flipshot

Burning FIght

Cross Swords

Cyber-Lip

Eightman

Fatal Fury

Ghostlop

Ghost Pilots

The Irritating Maze (no controls mapped yet)

Puzzled

King of the Monsters

King of the Monsters 2

League Bowling

Last Resort

Magician Lord (SET1)

Mutation Nation

Nam 1975

Ninja Combat

Neo Mr. Do! (no sound in game)

Panic Bomberman

Puzzle De Pon

Robo Army

Sengoku

Sengoku 2

Street Hoop

Top Player's Golf

Viewpoint

Windjammers

Zintrick (bootleg)

-----------------------------------------------------

Games that should be working very soon!

-----------------------------------------------------

Pop N Bounce (a tad slow)

Puzzle Bobble (no in-game gfx)

Riding Hero (gfx missing) problem with most emus!Ninja Commando (too slow)

Spinmaster (crashes on start)

Thunder & Lightning (cannot load)

Thrash Rally (could not open)

Games I personally tested that don't load:

Metal Slug 1

Sonic Wings 1

I will update this when I try more. I ran out of memory on my stick

in the meantime check out

http://s*****man.roarvgm.com/neogeo/neo-screens for more games

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