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NEO GEO: Open source development kit

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Does anyone sell an MVS flash card? It would be fun to play with this on my single slot.

No flash carts for the Neo, but this dev kit being open source might cause that to change.

Currently your best bet is pc-2-neo on the Unibios: http://unibios.free.fr/pc2neo.html -- but it's a lot of work to get going and will only support (very) small ROMs.

Another reason to stop dragging my feet and buy Unibios!

Are you even able to get this to build? I sure can't. Don't usually have issues this bad.

I've been reading up about NG development on the wiki lately and have been very interested in doing this. Seeing tools pop up is pretty awesome and it looks like there's a good chunk of other people with the same idea.

I'm having a heck of a time getting this to build in a ubuntu VM, however.

Things installed on updated, fresh trusty32 VM: build-essentials, automake, texinfo, libmpc-dev, dependencies mentioned in repo

Might just give up and install on Mac but I use pkgin instead of brew.

Found an alternate devkit for the Windows-inclined.

sebastianmihai.com/main.php?t=22&n=Neo-Geo-development-Neo-Thunder

Very cool. It would be pretty neat to make a game for the Rolls-Royce of video game consoles.

These guys have made a career out of it: http://ngdevteam.com/

or a scene demo.

Neo Geo's are still sold in Japan right? So this is more than a retro-computing exercise.

Manufacture of new home systems ceased in 1997. Games were still being sold by the system's manufacturer, SNK, up until 2004. There was still new arcade hardware being produced up until that date (with the last games also being released as all-in-one boards in addition to cartridges). Any games released since then have been made by enthusiasts and third party developers - the titles produced by NG:Dev.Team (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NG.DEV.TEAM) being prominent examples.

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