Neo Geo CD New to neo cd

The newer games like "Last Blade" is where you will start to feel the load times. Honestly, if you are a gamer like me where the NGCD is the only way that you can afford the Neo experience, then the load times are over looked and you get used to them. But seeing that you have an AES system they might be more noticeable. I think those gamers that are more of a Neo Geo purest, when it comes to playing the NGCD, has the hardest problem. If you are very into retro 2D gaming then the load times are very comparable to many games of past retro CD systems.

In some of the older games, like Magician Lord, there is no problem when it comes to load time. The older games usually have the one time load when booting. Samurai Spirits 1 & 2 and Fatal Fury Special are probably games with an average load time. Sonic Wings 2, King of the Monsters 2, and Robo Army seem to have shorter load times than those games. I do not remember Magician Lord, Viewpoint, or Last Resort ever loading again after that first boot load. I do not have World Heroes Perfect, but I do have World Heroes 2 Jet and feel that it shouldn't be as long as it is on the load times, IMO.

I had to sit down and play some NGCD games while writting this post with a conscience effort to take note of the load times to give an evaluation. That is how much that I have grown used to the load times. My attention is in the game.

I personally would rather game with carts than Cd's, but my pockets are shallow.

Good deal on that system.

Congrats on your deal! World Heroes Perfect is awesome on cd, isn't it? I would consider the loads on Perfect to be mid-range for CD load times.

To reiterate Retro, older games(1990-1993 or so) especially the non-fighters, can be grouped into the low-end. Generally a one-time load. Check out the first World Heroes on CD for a great example of a one-time loading fighting game with an awesome remixed soundtrack.

Perfect is a good example of mid range, Loads after every match, but I clocked them at about 12 seconds per match, not bad.

Where you get into high end territory is with games like Last Blade, the later King of Fighters, and the other "big" fighters from the late 90's. In these cases, you sit through loads not just to fight, but for post-fight victory screens and such. The upside to these titles is that they generally offer an option to cut down on loads, by offering a bare-bones character select screen, and no pre and post-fight hoopla.

Keep in mind, some games are anomalous; I agree with retro that Jet loads a bit long. What is really bad is that plain World Heroes 2 loads longer than 2 Jet or Perfect. There is a remarkable level of disparity in loading for the Heroes series, with the fastest loading being the first and last installments.

Breakers is a later title with sophisticated graphics. . .I bet it will be on the higher end. Let us know what you think of it!

Welcome to the forums! Nice score on the NGCD, I have yet to see one in the wild here in the states.

Sounds like the NGCD will be a nice secondary system for you. Like you noted, the games are waaaaaay cheaper.

(don't have any load time information on the games you are looking for)

i just ordered pulstar along with a couple of other games yesterday, so i hope to finally enjoy pulstar very soon in light of all the praise it gets. i purposely avoid looking at too many screenshots or videos of the game in action so everything is as new as it can be

yea pulstar is tough, but super fun and it's a beautiful game . i just got my own copy yesterday.

i have a question though. when you're starting a game from new and from the first stage, does it take a while for it to load on a black screen? it seemed like the game was loading, but the monkey wasnt there or the loading screen.

thanks

I've been working on reviewing a few games and for the first time, I noticed that there is a few seconds of black screen before the monkey appears. I include that in my load time. I am thinking that it takes a few seconds for the monkey to load. Some games don't have the monkey. They have other things.

on pulstar, it seems like it loads the whole stage without any background at all, no monkey or anything. i guess i can do more testing, but it seems to be when i start from Stage 1 with or without the Visuals on (an option in the Options menu toggling cutscenes on/off).

the main reason i bring it up is because theres no indication of the loading since it's just a black screen, i thought the game was frozen at first.

just to bump this topic up and mention some new things i've noticed...

when i played pulstar on the cdz, the load screen was totally different, a cdz only if you will.

when i played pulstar on the top loader, the monkey and now loading bar was there.

when i played pulstar on the front loader, there was no monkey and no load bar when it loads the stage 1.