The Neo Geo X Portable System - Review - Game Sack 

I don't get it, aes emulation is FLAWLESS on everything from an ancient pc to a smartphone. how could they screw this up?

The animation at the end was pretty cool. Well done guys!

Looking back at those days I don't remember so many wrestling games but seeing videos like these show's they made a ton.

Really digging this channel, guys. I like the attention to detail and quality of the analysis.

Man I love that stop motion animation you did at the end.

A modded PSP is the best way to enjoy these games.

It may be nothing special now, but I looked for Alpha Mission 2 for YEARS after playing it at a place called Hall of Fame Pizza in Menifee, CA back around 1997. The pizza place closed down around the turn of the millennium and I never found the game up until maybe 2015. The music wad so rad!!!

A fantastic full-length video - it's really great to watch a full-length presentation, as opposed to a short clip. I really appreciate how they are well put together (nice footage + skillful narration/delivery makes for a good watch)! I hope you make more as I'm sharing and subscribin'! :-)

I used the included composite cable for when I was talking about composite video. I used the HDMI cable when talking about HDMI video and for the game reviews.

One audio problem we didn't mention in the video is the delay. The audio is delayed from the video by 3 or 4 frames, at least over the HDMI connection. You can catch it in this video if you watch and listen closely. The supposed coming firmware promises better audio quality but doesn't say what is done or what exactly is corrected. Are the channels still swapped? Is there still a delay? We'll find out. And they mentioned nothing about the screen tearing. Hopefully this firmware update is free.

Can't stop watching your videos. Professional and thorough. Great great content boys!

Man, I've been meaning to buy a Neo Geo X for years, a Retron too now that I'm on the subject but now that I've seen your videos about them I no longer have any desire to buy either one. Thanks for saving me some money.

Sooo happy to see a new episode!

I really like those stop-motion shorts you guys do with the consoles. They are funny, cool, and very well done.

Really good episode, guys. The stop frame animation at the end made me smile :)

You guys are amazing at editing. It's seriously perfect.

I'm happy to report that the new game packs (which come in old school looking cases) are going to available June 25th, it also includes the firmware update for the system to help sound issues, visual issues and the aspect ratio issues too! I waited off on buying one of these, but I think I might pick one up now as the gold system (now discontinued) can be picked up on eBay for an easy $140-150. Might as well get one of the new volumes too!

I love videos like this on older consoles, especially those that I missed growing up. Another great videos Game Sack.

I always loved the stop motion stuff you guys do, and that ending was great!

just bought it cant wait to get it watching your video makes me wana get back into buying neo geo games and playing them thanks for the video

His name is Galford and what he keeps on saying is Plasma Blades.

Concisely says what's been known for a long tome. Emulation is no substitute for the real thing. I appreciate the details about the problems such as the audio, and video quality issues. Great job Joe & Dave.

this system was a good idea but poorly executed sadly .. should have done better really

Love the show guys!!! Really impressed with the production of your vids!!! TOP NOTCH STUFF all the way! I like the dry sense of humor bits too!!! Keep up the great work!!! Glad I stumbled across you guys!!!

The Neo Geo X. The only console that plays arcade games he can pull out of his Game Sack.

Nice reviews folks, I just ordered one today. For the price it's just OK. I guess is a good device if you want to have a good time with your friends with some beers. I didn't know about this channel, I subscribed.

Thanks for doing an episode on the Neo Geo X, I do know someone who has it but whenever he talked about it I always felt he was going from his Nostalgia of the original Neo Geo rather than this new system, nice to see a more leveled overview of it. Not sure if I would get it myself due to some of the issues you have mentioned, though I do own many of the games on either game compilations or ports to other systems.

These days, honestly your best bet for legal, perfect neo geo on the go, is a switch with the hamster games of your choice, and the hori d pad for $25 USD which is one of the best D pads i have ever used in my entire life (only works in portable mode, if you are a docker, use the 8bitdo sn30 pro or an arcade joystick). They look great in HDMI docked or in handheld mode, and have an option to add a little extra to the sides (in the correct, original aspect ratio) that was cut out originally to fit 4:3 aspect ratio TV's. It's just an absolutely sublime neo geo experience. Right now almost 70% of the entire released neogeo library is available for 6 or 7 USD a pop depending on title, with more to come. I am sure we will hit over 80% coverage this year! Also, controls are instantly responsive in the switch versions. I LOVE it and have over 20 titles so far and have put many more in my watch list :).

We will when Dave gets it. I don't know if it's actually out yet. But maybe a week or 2 after Dave gets it (hopefully sooner) we will have a quick update video and also showing off the games on the card he got.

Hopefully Dave pics one up. If he does we'll definitely do a really short video updating everyone on what (if anything) as fixed. It wouldn't be a regular episode, but an inbetween episode release.

Excellent review and high production value as always!

Great job on that stop motion part at the end. I bet that took forever... Just wanted to share some appreciation for the details. Keep it up!

Thank YOU, Mr. Eikichi Kawasaki 😁 ACA NEOGEO, please keep these titles available for everyone everywhere forever!

I had that thought a few minutes AFTER I finished the animation, but didn't want to reanimate that scene just to add it. I guess we'll have to assume the AES's digestive track is highly efficient and produces no gas. :)

Very in depth guys! Love your reviews. Keep it up!

Great overview, guys. I did play Neo-Geo on a regular basis in the arcade. Very few of them made it onto the collection. Even so, it feels like this is a system I can skip (for now) and not feel like I'm missing anything.

First, that Stop-Motion bit at the end was awesome! Secondly, the firmware update is going to be part of the upcoming game packs. You can pre-order the game packs individually or the Mega Pack that includes all of them on Amazon now. Not sure how much improvement it'll make, but it's worth looking at.

It's direct feed video. I recorded it in SD. I didn't point the camera at a TV or anything like that.

To add to my last post: Keep up the great work, and making me jealous of the great games you have in your collections to play. I wish to have one day a great collection of game. With some of the games you've mention over the past videos. I hope you guys make an extra video "IF it lands outside of weeks that you do videos." once E3 comes and goes by as it's always good to have more thoughts on gaming on the internet.

With every passing episode, you guys prove why you are among the best reviewers on RU-vid. Your thoroughness, and attention to detail are 2nd to none, and I always look forward to new episodes every other Sunday. I do have a question though, I was wondering what you guys thought of the SNK Collection on the PS2/Wii? I play it on my Sony CRT in 480i component, and it looks great, and the emulation quality is great as well. Anyway, keep it up, looking forward to the next episode!

I don't feel like it, but others have said it would work (even though they were just taking it out of the box when they mentioned this) and it's USB so as long as the emulator supports key/button mapping it shouldn't be an issue.

I've heard a MVS console mod is the way to go. What you'll pay in hardware, you save - and then some - in software. And yes, the stop motion work is great to watch - I can't imagine the time and effort spent on these segments. We definitely appreciate all the extra work, guys!

If Joe and Dave had a TV show, I'd actually have a reason to watch TV. Great stuff as always, guys!

The stop animation was absolutely brilliant! I bet it took quite awhile to get that completed.

Best outro yet, guys .... loved it

People in my age range will remember the television show "Nick Arcade". Contestants played at least two of the games on here....King Of the monsters and Alpha Mission 2. I just now realized they were playing on Neo Geo machines this whole time

just subbed your channel. im very happy i found it because there are so many games i never even knew about and the dynamic between the two hosts is not that bad either.

great episode as always gamesack! i am not much of a gamer anymore, but i really like watching you guys! speaking about handheld consoles, i don't think you 've talked yet about the Nomad(correct me if i'm wrong).

The firmware upgrades are due to be presented on future game cards for the system due out later this year in June or July, but I assume this summer when the Neo Geo X handheld will be sold as a separate machine, probably with some mains adapter for charging instead of the AES docking station. Oh and guys £ pounds are used in the UK ONLY, much of Europe including Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium etc. uses the Euro currency.

Dude I missed these guys!!!

Awesome stuff. Love the ending bit. Very clever.

Thanks for linking the Mini episode, I was going to ask if you had reviewed the update. Guess you already did :)

Awesome review, and great video as always.

I was going to ask why there was a pretty noticeable delay in the game footage. I'd say more than a few frames, but maybe it's made worse on youtube. Great video and total kudos for taking time to do the stop motion at the end. I really love seeing you do those (knowing how long it can take for just a short skit). Thanks guys!

I never liked nor will I ever play 90% of the games that GameSack reviews, but I can't stop watching. I get excited on new episode day, because it's an awesome show. Great job hooking someone out of your target audience.

Firmware update (and games) have now been postponed to early July.

This is, by far, the best review for the Neo Geo X I have seen. I reall like mine and I don't regret getting it, especially since I have never played the original system. That being said I am quite hopeful that the firmware update will fix some of those problems.

21:48 Cal - ford? Really? It's Gal - ford. It's really hard to take you guys serious sometimes.

How were you able to decipher this?

rewatching yalls old vids and man, this just reminds me so bad that i wish i had seen this before i bought mine. I got it delivered from amazon the day vid came out and mine never worked right.

I like the funny lil Skit at the end. I like the stop motion you guys do :3

Awesome video! I especially love the little stop-motion short at the end (Especially Neo Turf Masters, how did you guys get it?!). I'm always looking forward to the latest episode of Game Sack!

You guys have probably already heard the news, but the five Classic Packs are finally up on Amazon. There's a Mega Pack Volume 1 as well, which includes Classic Pack Volumes 1-5. A system update comes along with, to address audio and control issues, and to add a save state feature. They release on June 25th. I'm interested in the system just for the sake of portability, but may wait for feedback on the system update before taking the plunge.

Aw, men! I was really interested in one of these but maybe I'll wait for the firmware to improve... Great work as always, guys!

Definitely not worth the 200$ I paid for it. I probably would not be so disappointed with the Neo Geo X if it was cheaper when I got it. I think I'll just sell mine and grab a couple of SNK franchise collections for the PS2.

Got mine on Friday...... ITS GREAT, i love it. Used to own an AES but love this wee unit.

9:37 the muscleman in the background appears to be wiping his ass on a sheep's face. A great episode on a system I'd never heard about until today. I'd love to get a hold of one of these, even though I'd probably just use it for playing Metal Slug and Samurai Showdown on the bus. Excellent show as always.

Great video review! I'm really looking forward to the NeoGeo Classics Mega Pack, especially since it has a firmware update.

The SNES game you're looking for is a Genesis game called Phelios.

I think it's also worth mentioning that they're releasing 5 game packs for NGX on June 6, with 3 games on each, full packaged/retail releases.

love your show guys.keep rolling those awesome reviews out..:) oh i also had a question will you guys do more xbox games besides shenmue2?...(i picked up shenmue after your review and that game is epic, loved it)

I also love how many appearances Vader has made in video games other than WWF and WCW ones

I actually own one of these Bad Boys and I played 'Baseball Stars 2' and found a glitch. The glitch was, if you got the ball in a Home Run, you could pause the game and unpause it, it would then make a copy of the person running and give you an extra point. Unfortunately, since the recent update came out, I was unable to do this glitch. :(

I have seen a bunch of reviews for this thing (all negative reviews) but none of them mentioned the horrendous composite video signal, thanks for the info.

Neo Geo games with codes! Wow, I would have never had thought they'd have them. That's cool. Usually I just rely on the UniBIOS to turn blood red and keep English, etc.

Street Fighter 2 became mega-popular and it endured. SNK wanted a slice of that sweet pie so basically they just kept trying and trying. Funnily enough it's the Metal Slug series that's the true star of the console.

you guys should make short videos between the regular ones (7 minutes maybe?), it will be great to keep the channel always updated, i love this channel i think its the best videogame channel on youtube, the other channels are like a news show or something like that tv shit cnn or whatever, you know what i mean? keep the good work!

The ending skit is the best one yet, haha

I so wanted this to be awesome.

Always a good show guys. It blows my mind how none of these clone systems use good emulation when pc gamers have had proper emulators of almost all older consoles since the 90's

Will look into that, thanks for info.

So the guys at GameSack thinks all of Europe uses Pound Sterling and one of them wanted third party titles on a system which is clearly limited to using SNK''s own games. OK?!

playing that game with the volume maxed out back in the day helped a bit ;)

Outstanding review!

The mega pack volume one is coming out June 26 I believe...it comes with another 20 or so, a portable charger for the hand held and the new firmware which is suppose to improve audio and the video...all that for 80 u.s. dollars

Thank you sir. I'm assuming sir. :) A lot of work goes into it.

Firmware update is supposed to be included with the X Classics Volume 1 Pack. Says on Amazon it's release is June 25th.

I love your show, keep the good work!

Job well done on another great video, MrGameSack. I wanted to ask you something though. What is your opinion of the Neo Geo CD? I've been thinking about getting one but I have some reservations based on the sizes and prices of the different models. Do you think it is a system worth getting? As much as I would love to have an AES or MVS there is no way that I could afford one of those consoles let alone the game cartridges for each system.

Thanks for posting this. I was toying with the idea of getting the x but I think I'll go for the genuine aes system.

I got SNK Arcade Hits Vol. 1 for my PS2 and it's great! Is anyone aware of a Vol. 2 or 3 available? I googled it but only Vol. 1 shows up...

Even with unlimited continues I was never able to beat Last Resort.A game I really like to this day.

FYI, I'm seeing listings on Amazon for 5 "Neo Geo X Classics" game cards, each of which contains an additional 3 games + a firmware update that "includes game save functionality, improved TV aspect ratio compatibility, improved sound quality and more." They're all preorderable and listed as coming out on June 25th, so it looks like next month will be the moment of truth for this thing.

Just started collecting for the Neo Geo MVS. It's great. And Game Sack is the best!

We're glad you like it and thanks for the sub.

Great episode. After the price drop I seriously considered picking one up. I already had SNK Vol 1 for the PSP and even that didn't cut the proverbial cheese. So after letting my AES dream go, I finally caved and got a exposed board broke ass CMVS. Oh lord yes. What does God need with that many MEGS?

loved the ending animation!

Great review , never thought you guys would cover this , it's way too expensive here in the u.k if I could of got one at this price I would of , with the new games and firmware a couple of weeks away let's hope it gets fixed

already the switch is releasing some great neo geo ports! so cool! what do you guys think of the video "filters" options they include? some people scoff saying they arent what a real CRT looks like, but I personally love the option to have dark or light scanlines and the "wave" effects too!

love this show, keep up the good work