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Re: Neo Geo vs A1200
« on: January 28, 2014, 09:55:35 AM »
I'll echo the "try an emulator" sentiment. There are some damn fine games for the NeoGeo (Twinkle Star Sprites in particular is just a nutty but awesome concept for a two-player competitive shmup that I've never seen anyone else attempt,) but there's not a lot of variety, and in my case while I enjoy some of the titles it's just not enough to justify the investment it would take to get the real deal. Maybe you'll feel differently, who knows, but given the amount it can cost, I'd do some checking in first.
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Re: Neo Geo vs A1200
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2014, 06:23:03 PM »
Quote from: Kesa;758082
Thanks guys. I use winuae but don't enjoy it as i feel it doesn't really capture the energy of a real Amiga. I think the same would happen with the Neo Geo emulator.
Yeah, I get you there, but it would at least let you know whether you like the game selection. Of course, if you can find someone in your area with a Neo Geo, there's always that option.

Also, NeoRage is much more usable than MAME or MESS.
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Re: Neo Geo vs A1200
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2014, 04:19:54 AM »
Quote from: mikrucio;758140
let me get this right =>
You don't want to get a PS4 (probably an uneducated reason)
BUT
you want to get a 20 year old system like a NeoGeo which is barely more powerful
than my toaster oven.And one which I can emulate and get free games for in about 10 minutes?

wow your smart
You're on a forum dedicated to Amigas and their users. What were you expecting to find here?
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Re: Neo Geo vs A1200
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2014, 07:17:46 PM »
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The NeoGeo in fact ONLY has sprites. From memory, I believe the backgrounds you see are actually sprites of 32 pixels by 200 or whatever the height is. This is why NeoGeo games have parallax and things so easily - it's just lots of really tall sprites (the NG has no height limit on its sprites).
If that's the case, I'm curious what the "simultaneous scroll planes" thing is about...?
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Re: Neo Geo vs A1200
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2014, 08:07:58 PM »
Interesting.
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Re: Neo Geo vs A1200
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2014, 10:26:31 PM »
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And that spells out the current trend that to me seems to be killing the modern video game industry. With the exception of Nintendo, no one is designing video game hardware around the games they'd like to develop, rather (Sony and Microsoft) are trying to churn out something with the most impressive specs, bells, whistles, etc.  and paying mind to little else. As if match the specs of dated PC hardware is going to make good games a given...

...when the matter of the fact is that few games that come out on Sony or Microsoft any more are about gaming and are more about making shooters with more polys, higher res textures, more tits, more ass, more foul language, and more dark, deviant, and psychotic plot lines.
Amen to that. This is basically the entire reason I haven't bothered with current-gen gaming since Oblivion came out. Overblown, undercooked, samey crap that looks like the world's drabbest GPU demo reel (and plays like it, too,) ever drabber and drearier and displaying the same kind of "maturity means saying 'f***' a lot and having every female character dressed like a stripper" attitude that put me off getting into comic books back in the '90s.
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Re: Neo Geo vs A1200
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2014, 05:04:30 AM »
Most of the early CD consoles have no protection at all; it wasn't until the Playstation and Saturn that it started to become common, as CD burners were beginning to move out of the realm of "slightly less expensive than unicorn poop" and into a range that mere mortals could potentially afford.
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