New Neo Geo And Activision Collections Announced For Evercade

Happy baseball stars 2 is present. And blazing star should be great on my alpha. (And kof 2002 is one of the better years if i remember correctly. )
Oh king of monsters is nice to have too. This cart really makes the evercade neo goe series far kore representative of the console

Would love to see a classic Lucasarts collection featuring Ballblazer, The Eidelon and the mighty Rescue on Fractalus amongst others.

Am i the only one who prefered when Metal Slug art looked like caricatures and not like anime?

I want an evercade cart dumper like the ones for other systems often advertised here. (I know there is a custom firmware related hack).

These Neo Geo collections are outstanding value for money I’ve got my preorder in I have 1,2 and 3 already they are great on the Evercade alpha some good games on there too blazing star is awesome also I really like robo army don’t think it gets much love but it’s great

@Gs69 I wish the emulation was good as Hamsters and ot was possible to plsy the games on the pocket in aes mode.

Fantastic news! I’ll get the Activision cart eventually, pre-ordered Neo Geo as soon as the announcement went out this morning 🔥

@h3s can’t say I’ve noticed any bad emulation I think they run pretty well the hamster versions on switch definitely have an input lag and sometimes the music is off but I agree about the AES mode are you using a super pocket cos I think you can change the mode on the exp-r I just use the street fighter Evercade alpha so I’m not sure what settings can be applied on the handhelds but on the alpha you definitely can change the mode and they seem to run great

I picked up NeoGeo 1 for my Evercade VS-R (had to have Magician Lord!), and I'd buy more, but I already have all 10 volumes of Hamster's ACA NeoGeo Selections on the shelf, and an AES+ console and some games coming hopefully later this year. That's enough NeoGeo for me! Still, it looks like Blaze is continuing to put together some good collections.

I may be tempted to add Activision 3 to my collection, as I've got fond memories of playing Barnstorming, Laser Blast, and Kaboom! from (yikes!) 40+ years ago. Kaboom won't be the same without a paddle controller, though.

@Teksette Jealous on the AES+! I wish Blaze would get a simple usb paddle controller out, it surprises me that they haven’t. I’m sure plenty of VS and Alpha owners would grab one at £20. I know I’d take two!

@h3s It's just a SD card. You can connect a GBA cart slot to an SD card reader with about 6 wires and it will read the cartridges. Alternately if you own a Super Pocket or Evercade VS, you can use those to dump them to SD card.
I backup all my carts in case one fails.

@kirby2000 I know about those methods. Just thinking it might be an easy one to start an open source project. (Potentially extending it to do what those gu operator and such devices do,) I don’t want to deal with Microsoft Driver Signing (Or forcing people to disable driver signature verification) but I don’t think even doing a device that does all of the carts using a pico or pico 2 would be beyond me. (I would expect a £15-£20 version on AliExpress quickly.) I might just order all the cart connectors from AliExpress and give it a shot on a breadboard. I think I would have to use a serial connection (Genuine chip though) but I think that’s a project within my capabilities. (Even supporting the rest of the real retro carts). I know there will be a few with weird copy protection stuff I probably have no chance with but I do properly believe in open source since about 1996 but it’s only recently that cheap micro controllers with good docs have made these sort of projects possible. I think I might look into it. (I don’t expect the circuit part of it to be much good. But the joys of open source I expect someone will help bet that bit really is a joke for suitably qualified people.) Thanks for the idea I will have a look at the price of the bare cart connectors on AliExpress might as well make it suppose everything.

@h3s There are a few tips on how to do this here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/evercade-cartridge-reader-to-usb.634204/

@kirby2000 Thanks.

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