CD emulators are getting more popular as we are seeing them for Saturn, Dreamcast and Sega CD, to name a few. Why not one for the Neo-Geo CD? The Neo-Geo CD top loader is known for being notoriously SLOW when loading data off of the CD due to its 1X read speeds. This is a shame since there are some decent games that never made it on the AES/MVS platform. The Neo SD Loader was exactly what I needed to solve this problem. It has a slick interface/frontend to choose what ISO to start and speeds up the read times to 4X, a HUGE difference. This was a pretty straight forward mod, but there was a pin of a SMD IC that needed to be unsoldered and pulled away from the board. So this might not be for the unexperienced with SDM soldering.
NeoGeo
NeoGeo Pocket SD
I have been following SainT’s projects over at AtariAge forums and here is another perfect solution for playing your NeoGeo Pocket roms on original hardware.
Here is his forum post on it over at AtariAge
Great build quality and glad to have it in my collection. I look forward to SainT’s other flash carts in the near future.
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