Neo Geo X Gold Review | Ashens 

lol i got it for 110 quid and sold it for 500 quid whos the stupid one now lardo?

CuroeGamer indeed that's what i did what a rip off i can't believe people bought this piece of crap specially when there's people they claim that they don't use emulators EPIC FAIL

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+CuroeGamer All my emulation is on a laptop with a wired 360 controller.

+AgentTasmania you can also get many neo geo games already on other consoles for rather cheap, even the psp.

+AgentTasmania Ew, 360 D-Pad.

***** It's going for about 140 on Amazon right now. Still not worth it.

+Duros asfdgasf Hello fellow CMDR

I'd give $45

***** Not even. Nvidia Shield handheld blows that away. It can run every emulator in existence, and play PC games.

Duros asfdgasf nah, I think I stick with playing Pokémon on my phone

+magmaboarder The giant crater at the end of the first stage is also clearly based on an image in Akira. I hesitate to say 'ripped off' since it's an artful reproduction rather than say, a badly digitized image (not uncommon in the 16-bit days); but it is essentially the same artwork.

true dat

That was pretty much the review in a nutshell.

To be honest if you want to get this so you can play neo geo games, you may as well just get an emulator for the PC, unless you are like me and must have authenticity, in which case get get an original neo geo.

So your telling me that i can pick up a ps3 for the same price?

I think one of the things I hated the most about it was that (I think) you had to buy an external "additional games" card outside of the console you're already paying a ton of money for, just to update it. Honestly, it felt like a rip off when I bought it from a local Disc Replay a few years back, and picking it up again after 3 years, it feels even *more* like a ripoff. The arcade stick was nice tho.

@@faenethlorhalien ain't that the truth

+Pha Q How would Ashens show the console working on his couch? Ha, ha!

+P Ferreira *cough* Wii U *cough* Ouya

automan224 I haven't got that far.

It's got a freaking *sweet* version of Street Fighter II.

On the other hand it has "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties"...

I saw a guy who installed on the console X-Men vs Street Fighters and it run perfectly

Smokey - my 12y/o son. Not swearing is more creative and intelligent

@@annother3350 people who swear and use curse words are generally more intelligent, have a bigger vocabulary and I think also form sentences better, at least that's what I heard. I rarely use swear words myself, so for me it's true, I'm not smart and I'm really bad at forming sentences.

@@c.l.h.bokhorst6687 I know middle-class people who use carefully placed swear words and it can be a great way of emphasising a sentence and getting a point across or delivering a punchline. I've also known certain working class people where there's a f*ck and a c**t in every sentence and it's not clever or intelligent -- it just comes across as lazy when they could be using more creative vocabulary. But unfortunately, in most schools when I was a kid, eloquence and good vocabulary was food for the bullies who were quick to bring you down to their level

@@c.l.h.bokhorst6687 chatting poo lad,swearing shows bad manners,poor social awareness and scummy behavior,if you gotta eff and jeff you are probs the r word.

Gay

PogoBox I was gonna do it, but I'll let you do the honors.

Since neither of you are gonna do it: The Nintendo Switch took heavy inspiration from this empathise on the heavy

Thanks, but I think a couple people beat you too it, judging by the above time markers.

bad

PogoBox Except, the Switch actually works well.

you didnt anon,you was just poor and coping,you wanted that neo geo

@@random_an0n No? I was raised in a poor family as a kid as we were stuck on the PS2 from 2000-2012. My dad granted played it more, but honestly when it was 2005-early 2010's. I honestly genuinely was happy with being on PS2. I didn't care about being on the Wii, PS3, or Xbox 360. I played a bit of spore so I also played on PC. Honestly I didn't care at all about graphics as my love of retro gaming started with a mixture of the ps2 collections like Anniversary Collection for Megaman... He liked his NES as. If he was poor at the time.. He would want high quality games regardless of platform. As this is what makes Classic Megaman games special on 4-6 for their time period. As richer customers would play Megaman X, but younger siblings or poorer folks would still get good games for their platforms. The PS2 was no different for me during the 2010's. As Double A video games like " Destroy All Humans! " on the PS2 weren't for Xbox 360 or PS3 gamers, but for people who were stuck on the PS2. Some people stick to an older platform due to what does a new platform mean? You must wait for new video games instead of enjoying the discount deals for older titles. I was on the PS3 in 2013-2016. I didn't give a rat's @$$ about ps4 as... If you were poor, the PS3 offered more features like free online which gave you an immediate reason to play PS3 over Xbox 360. I refused to switch to PS4 as games still released or I could play on PC. I view PC gaming as a more budget friendly platform the older I get. As consoles have the problem of a locked down ecosystem, you can't really stick to one system or easily return to older games unlike on a PC, but also the advancements for graphics are more dictated on who is developing your platform. If you were a PS3 gamer, you knew full well how that can turn out for you. Being a late life generation player isn't that bad, but I view as good. Because you are in the console's developed library years instead of waiting for more and more crap. The comment you made was just dumb

That's why I'm here too

I so wanted this when it came out until I saw the reviews. Bought a switch and spent about $80 on games and am happy

The switch was a copy of the Psp Go dock

stfu no one asked

Imagine it wasn't completely shit, SNK might have actually been able to use it as a springboard for an actual return rather than being a weird license zombie licensing out to idiots.

This meme has a double meaning

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this meme would never die

MikeyTaylorGaming hey gbatemp member

Hey hey! I guess you've seen me floating aruond GBATemp recently XD Used to be pretty active there! :)

MikeyTaylorGaming I'm Kelton2 on GBATemp :)

marioandpeefan09 Ahhhhh cool! :)

Hi MikeyTaylorGaming! :)

in the beginning, i thought this was a scam lol

then add 50 dollars per game...

piewackett But add in the better gameplay and quality. You get what you pay for man, and besides I rather have a good quality and gameplay more then cheap price tag.

Nope, it always goves over £100

Aidex Huck or as ashens stated.... get a laptop... or a psp and emulate properly

i shoved a pi3 in mine and its now a monster,i own a AES also and love flexing on the poors with it,got a 161 cart for it too!

It's quite funny to hear Stuart describe the switch in his concept for it

could always build your own arcade stick

The Neo Geo X stick works on PC I've read

+SHARD THE FOX now it would be £232 ;)

Surely using an arcade stick at your desk is ideal, as long as you have somewhere to store it when not in use? A solid flat surface to rest it on is ideal. Also, most X360/X1/PS3/PS4 sticks are PC compatible, and not all cost $300. If you play PC on your living room TV then I understand, I hate using those controllers on my lap personally.

Funnily enough, the PS3 works by emulating the PS1, with it's backward compatibility. It's hilarious to me. :P

ArmoredSoul1 True, but the PS3 does a little more than just play emulated PS1 games. This Neo Geo X only purpose is to play emulated games, and (from what I've heard) it can't even do that very well.

ArmoredSoul1 What backwards compatibility? The only console in which I can play PS1-3 games on my system was with th 600 dollar 80 GB PS3 I got at launch.....the newer versions ditched the PS1 Compatibility completely.

DeeM10123 I have a slim PS3 and I've played PS1 games on it before, but I've tried PS2 games and they don't work. I'm not sure about the new super slim PS3 though. I don't see why it wouldn't though, it just plays them through emulation.

***** Unless you have a PS3 20 or 60gb (from back in the day). my PS3 60gb still plays my Ps2 games.

***** you should reasearch a little bit more if thats what you think

***** Splatoon

***** mmm, i dont know... but the only consoles that have clone games, that last one month and everybody forgets about its ps4 and xbox 1

At least nintendo is good at it. Nintendo: "Hey! You!" Me: "Huh?" Nintendo: "Yes, you! Remember Ocarina of time?" Me: "How could I forget it?!" Nintendo: "Well it's your lucky day! Now you can play it in 3D AND with better graphics!" Me: "OMFG I LOVE YOU NINTENDO"

yeah, it's still better than "here is a game that's half-finished, buggy as hell, and most of it is locked behind a paywall. oh, don't forget to purchase the day 1 DLC."

This is not the first one I watched so stop telling dirty dirty lies.

​@@gilflannigan3910gilf lannigan I like gilfs

***** Oh, so you mean a glass screen that cracks just by dropping it on a pillow is good quality?

*****​ well, as a person who owned an iPhone 4 for 2 years, I've see one survive a 7 foot fall onto hard wood (granted that's the only time I ever dropped it) 

***** Must have been lucky. Many friends have dropped it from small heights and the screen broke.

***** It really depends on how it impacts the ground.

mshesh16 I don't intend to make people mad, but it seems to me like a lot of iPhone owners aren't exactly the type that care about their phone as much as they should. My theory is that the design is actually more durable than a lot of Android phones, but so many iPhone owners are clumsy people who don't respect technology, so they end up breaking it. It probably isn't, but if that's true, I'd hate to see what would happen if all of those people had plastic phones like the Galaxy S4 (I'm not bashing it or anything; I own one and it's great)

It's more difficult than it sounds since I'm sure the Neo Geo uses some custom made chips that are no longer in production. Reproducing it perfectly and without any compatibility problems would be challenging and probably require more than off the shelf parts. Still it should be more than just a glorified emulation box considering their asking price.

SeekerLancer Not really actually. With how much farther tech has come since the day of Neo Geos, they could crank something out that acted JUST like one with nearly no effort. But the problem was, that still required SOME effort, and they went the no effort way. The specific chip type doesn't matter really, it all comes down to how much processor there is, and the bio files to run the roms. This COULD have easily just had some actual coding put in to make it behave properly, but they just didn't.

I think the setup costs for manufacturing custom chips start from somewhere up from $20k+ to $1M+ and at low volumes a single chip would be quite expensive, maybe $100+ for just the chip. (Yes, there's no basis for these costs aside from an interest in exotic parts and electronics, never made an asic)

GRex7777 what you described is exactly what emulating is. It's the same base code, but made to run in different hardware.

Same rom in a new system, I'm aware, but there's no real way to make this device without it being SOME form of emulation, unless they sat around and rebuilt the roms for these games from the ground up. Which....why would they? I'm just saying they could have done this a LOT better with only slightly more effort.

Maybe they saw this review? Silly I know but I've heard of odder situations.

Oda Swifteye Fez 2?

***** Ahh yes. Fez 2.

+Deuterium, the Sentient Mattress And on the PSP, if you want.

I swore I saw one of these sitting around as well somewhere last year, but I can't remember where....either FYE or Retrospct Games (a local handler of old arcade systems)

Haha cool

You mean 5:24?

+IRISH LAD You mean 34:65?!

+lucianrocks hisssssss

elijah hilfiker lmao

yeah I know right

Oh god!

Good catch

Welcome to Ashens.

+Maunderingcabal X and now i'm too drunk.. thanks a lot

1chi TheKilr To be fair, the screen tearing could be simply because they were too stupid to turn v-sync on in FB Alpha's settings/config file. Not entirely sure if it's fixable, so it's still worth complaining about. But It's at least something to blame on the people making the device, and not the emulation itself. Most emulators have an option somewhere to turn v-sync on or off, that fixes the tearing. But since they were nice enough to not give you any kind of settings menu, there's not much you can do about it aside from taking it apart and modifying it with your own emulators and settings.

X2! Been trying to figure this out now for a while. I need to to do diagonals (like in Metal Slug) and my psp just won't do them.

There was a large Dpad and a tiny anolog stick

+aspie182 Well, SNK didn't actually make it, Tommo did. SNK just licensed it. SNK was actually so disappointed with what they made that they ordered Tommo to cease manufacturing it and pull all existing stock off shelves, but Tommo resisted and will continue to sell it until the contract ends sometime in late 2016.

+the7kSRK Yeah I read about this. Blaze will continue to keep selling them until their contract ends this year if it hasn't already.

Because, Ashens

Yagami Celco UMM AND THE NX WAS TURNED INTO THE SWITCH!!!!!!! WHICH IS BASICALLY THIS!!!!!!!

Funny thing is, there are a bunch of Neo Geo games on the Switch's eShop already.

@Rye Sher Yes, IMO they play very well, I believe 'Hamster' is in charge of the ACA Neo-Geo title emulations on switch, and I can confirm that at the very least, from what I've played+compared, Metal Slug+Metal Slug 2 play very well on the system and transfer MUCH better to the big screen than the 'Neo Geo X' even thought of, it goes without saying that the Switch plays the games in portable mode far better as well, but it's also a 'double edged sword' as each ACA title is around $7.00 USD on the shop, so the price adds up quick if you're not paying attention, lol.

@Rye Sher No problem, I'd say that...yeah, given that the original hardware is VERY expensive, with the games being even more expensive+rare, with even the MVS titles starting to skyrocket in price, that yeah it's way above most gamers pay grades, haha...pretty sure SNK knows this as well, hence their 'business decisions in regards to their games,lol. But, If you're interested in looking into the Switch, I can say that the Switch is definitely worth it in my book, and already it has an AMAZING catalogue of games outside of just the SNK ACA titles on offer, BOTW alone is worth the price of admission IMO, and I wasn't on a Nintendo console since the N64, lol. Although many of those "other" titles I mentioned, are far and above the $7 price point of course, but well worth it. My 'backlog' is absolutely ludicrous at this point (Over 67 physical games and counting, not including 'digital only' indie titles), lol, and the good thing is they're actual PHYSICAL GAMES, meaning no DRM or 'Required Download to Hardrive' nonsense where you're merely 'renting a license' to play a game via EULA's, so you actually OWN the games for the system! The super fast boot up times with cartridges+HDD are an added bonus alongside the non-proprietary SD cards for memory options, lol. (this was the biggest selling point to me for the system, OWNING your games! and is the reason for me in opting to just get the Switch over other systems, as the competition ONLY have 'DRM disc Keys' now so it was a 'nonstarter' for me at that point, which sucks, as I loved my PS3+360, lol.) Really, It all just comes down to your situation+preferences in gaming. I have a Switch, but I am also picking up the 'Neo Geo Mini' to go alongside my SNES classic, as a standalone system to play on the Big screen with friends, as the 40 titles are a very appealing"value" prospect to me, and I haven't picked up too many ACA titles on the Switch yet, due to there being FAR TOO MANY other games on offer that were of greater scale+importance to me as a gamer, so I think a stand alone system will work well for the SNK title lineup on offer with the 'Mini', and it'll look cool under the TV next to the SNES classic. Like I said everyone's situation will vary in such instances, but there are at least a number of different options available for everyone, SNK is trying at least haha, so I'll probably also end up getting the '40th anniversary' physical cart when it releases as well, just because it will be a different selection of SNK titles and is a great way to pick up a number of different titles for the system all at once, as opposed to just buying the ACA titles one at a time (Which adds up quickly! lol.), and I already know the Emulation quality will be good and fits the portable aspect the switch offers well.

*slaps cheeks home alone style* TAKE MAH RUPEES!!!

+GamingDude800 with local and online co-op!

Yep, the port is really good. Metal Slug, Metal Slug 2, Metal Slug 3 and Metal Slug X.