You sound like Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec, and I mean that in the absolute best way possible. Your videos are crisp and your narrations are superb! Keep up the good work!
NGPC is awesome but I love Wonderswan crystal. WC is super light , has many games and great battery life (especially using a Lithium AA). That said NGPC stick control is the best part.
Someone was selling an R-Zone at a local game store with everything. The plastic reflective piece, the headset, the controller, the cable, and I think a game or two. It was in a bin of stuff that said "3 dollars". I did not get it. I am glad I did not get it. lmao
When you consider the cost of retro games $100 for a flash cart really isn't much. You get a few games for that price these days and with a flash cart, unless you're a collector, you essentially get every game that's been released for the system. I wish the flash cart for the NeoGeo MVS was that cheap, but I will probably get it when I have the time to get into NeoGeo stuff again and finish my consolization of one.
It depends on what type of gamer/collector you are... I like to own things so most of the good and/or common games I'd probably buy anyway, which means for me a flash cart is just to pick up either the impossible to find games or the crappy games I wouldn't otherwise buy. (Also, the NGPC has a very small library overall.) It could still be worth it just to play those rare games on real hardware, but often rare games aren't the greatest, they're just rare. I will say I'm having fun playing Densha de Go, which I didn't even realize was available on this system before!
Also, there's been more flashcarts than the Neo Geo Pocket SD. Like, way more, and way before. For example, the Flash Masta which has been around for yonks.
I’ve been using the Flash Masta for years. I love that cart. Flavor did an amazing job at getting that figured out and I have purchased 2 different versions of it from him.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I love it! In 2002 I had the silver B&W NGP. I only had one game and it was Samurai Shodown 2. It was such a bad ass cute game. It got me through my first morning class in high school. In my first year of collage I bought a NGPC with Fatal Fury. It was great. It was a little bigger then the NGP B&W. I had more great memories with the NGP B&W. Thank you for this video. It made me happy just to see the Metal Slug game play. If you can find one, you should play a GamePark 32. It was the second handheld that I had. It played Doom 1 & 2 at full speed and had great emulators. The GP2X was awesome as well.
this flash cart is something anyone with a little patience and basic programming knowledge can make. did you notice the cart is 3D printed? it's so easy these days to print something plastic in whatever shape you need. for this cart you basically just need to take any existing game for the system , desolder the cart's ROM and replace it with an EEPROM, solder in a card reader, and then write a small routine that runs from the EEPROM and brings up the text menu when you boot the system. the routine will fetch the file you tell it to get and flash it onto part of the EEPROM's remaining space. put it in a 3D printed cart (made from scanning an existing cart's dimensions), laser color print a label and done
Anyone can do anything if they know how to do it and have the right equipment. The trick is knowing how to do it and having the right equipment. And then actually doing it.
Not a good option for one of these. The new screens are smaller and I have not seen a yellow surround available for any of them. But even if one were available, the screen on this thing is small enough as it is. I'll give up the backlight for a few more mm.
@@ModernClassic I do understand your concern but when you see the difference you stop caring about the millimeters lost. The only problem would be the screen color, I agree... The difference is stunning: photos.app.goo.gl/Gr5Z9KjC8z2QVori7
I truly love playing on original hardware when possible, but the older I get, and the worse my one good eye gets the more I need a backlit screen so on this case emulating on my Android phone with a MOGA Gamepad is the way to go for me, but none the less great video. :-)
The lack of backlight is not as easy to deal with as I remember, but I just could never give up these controls as long as I have a choice. I'd play blindfolded. I'd play with the system off and just make up the game in my own head :)
The flash cart itself has held up fine. What hasn't held up quite as well is just the NGPC's library, which is smaller than I think even I realized, and maybe not quite as good as I had remembered. I played through a bunch of games for a while after buying the cart, then put it away and haven't touched it since then. So it just depends on how big a fan of the NGPC you really are. But the flash cart itself does what it's supposed to do really well.
I like original hardware as well, it's prone to less bugs and the bugs that are there have better workarounds. I dislike the emulation especially for this system, all the sound and speed are messed up.
It strikes me that it doesn't automatically save and delete games from flash to sd the way the everdrives do. I wonder if that was by choice or because of some system limitation.
Well, at the time I believe I preordered it and just got it in the first batch. At the moment, I don't even know if he's making this card anymore, although I believe there is another, similar option you can get from various online stores.
I guess they use 16MB flash and 1MB is reserved for file menu overhead. It is a shame they did not use 512MB flash as that would have more than held every game ever made.
I love Flash carts, but this one seems a lil sketchy I really dont like how much the sd card pokes out of the cartridge, seems like asking for trouble taking it in and out of your pocket
All are smaller than the original screen and don't include the yellow surround that mine has. So not even really possible unless I want to ruin the look of it. I'd do it if I could preserve the same look and screen size.
To some degree I disagree with your price analyses. I feel that, while a flash cart is a lot of money up front, the savings in versus buying each game on its own makes it a valuable resource for someone simply looking to play games on original hardware. Someone could easily buy a Gameboy Colour with an everdrive for less than $200 and never have to spend a dime more while playing every game for the console.
Well, it wasn't really an "analysis", it's just that $100 is not a small amount of money for an older handheld. If I really did want to do an analysis, I'd look at the games that are really good for the system - it has a pretty small library - and add up the cost of buying them, assuming you'd really do that. You can get most of them for $5-$10. But again, that jibes with what I said about these things being for really hardcore fans - most people don't buy every good game for any system, they buy a few and are content with that. So it's still only worth the money to people who are really into it.
Not this particular one; you may have to just scour Ebay. There is also the Flash Masta cart; I don't know how it compares but it seems like it does the same thing and might still be available.
"In contrast to almost all the other GameBoy competitors of the era, the NGPC's small and cute [...] and it's got almost 40 hours of battery life." Yeah, so? The Wonderswan is too and has a pretty nice battery life as well... :P
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I can't stand playing emulators on a cell phone... Nothing beats real hardware and nice physical controls.
touch controls are cancer and external bluetooth controllers are a pain; not to mention so many emulators have a fixed touch control overlay :X
You sound like Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec, and I mean that in the absolute best way possible.
Your videos are crisp and your narrations are superb! Keep up the good work!
NGPC is awesome but I love Wonderswan crystal. WC is super light , has many games and great battery life (especially using a Lithium AA). That said NGPC stick control is the best part.
Now we just need a flash cart for the R-Zone!
Thats impossible I think.
Lol
Imposibble
Someone was selling an R-Zone at a local game store with everything. The plastic reflective piece, the headset, the controller, the cable, and I think a game or two. It was in a bin of stuff that said "3 dollars".
I did not get it. I am glad I did not get it. lmao
When you consider the cost of retro games $100 for a flash cart really isn't much. You get a few games for that price these days and with a flash cart, unless you're a collector, you essentially get every game that's been released for the system. I wish the flash cart for the NeoGeo MVS was that cheap, but I will probably get it when I have the time to get into NeoGeo stuff again and finish my consolization of one.
It depends on what type of gamer/collector you are... I like to own things so most of the good and/or common games I'd probably buy anyway, which means for me a flash cart is just to pick up either the impossible to find games or the crappy games I wouldn't otherwise buy. (Also, the NGPC has a very small library overall.) It could still be worth it just to play those rare games on real hardware, but often rare games aren't the greatest, they're just rare. I will say I'm having fun playing Densha de Go, which I didn't even realize was available on this system before!
Hello Laughing Man.
Also, there's been more flashcarts than the Neo Geo Pocket SD. Like, way more, and way before. For example, the Flash Masta which has been around for yonks.
Thumbs up for yonks.
I’ve been using the Flash Masta for years. I love that cart. Flavor did an amazing job at getting that figured out and I have purchased 2 different versions of it from him.
That clickstick is just brilliant
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I love it! In 2002 I had the silver B&W NGP. I only had one game and it was Samurai Shodown 2. It was such a bad ass cute game. It got me through my first morning class in high school. In my first year of collage I bought a NGPC with Fatal Fury. It was great. It was a little bigger then the NGP B&W. I had more great memories with the NGP B&W. Thank you for this video. It made me happy just to see the Metal Slug game play. If you can find one, you should play a GamePark 32. It was the second handheld that I had. It played Doom 1 & 2 at full speed and had great emulators. The GP2X was awesome as well.
Credit where credit is due: Flash Masta (not Neo Geo Pocket SD) was the first flash-cart for NGPC.
How do you get it because I can’t order it. All I’m seeing is posts.
this flash cart is something anyone with a little patience and basic programming knowledge can make. did you notice the cart is 3D printed? it's so easy these days to print something plastic in whatever shape you need. for this cart you basically just need to take any existing game for the system , desolder the cart's ROM and replace it with an EEPROM, solder in a card reader, and then write a small routine that runs from the EEPROM and brings up the text menu when you boot the system. the routine will fetch the file you tell it to get and flash it onto part of the EEPROM's remaining space. put it in a 3D printed cart (made from scanning an existing cart's dimensions), laser color print a label and done
Anyone can do anything if they know how to do it and have the right equipment. The trick is knowing how to do it and having the right equipment. And then actually doing it.
Another major bonus to using this is it stops wear on the neo geo's socket
I had never seen one of these or heard of one. NeogeoPocket looks awesome
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"HAVING A SEIZURE"
"P I N E A P P L E"
Back when they released I wanted a NeoGeo Pocket Color so bad. About the time I was ready to grab one they went tits up.
Time to get an LCD mod! It looks simply awesome.
Not a good option for one of these. The new screens are smaller and I have not seen a yellow surround available for any of them. But even if one were available, the screen on this thing is small enough as it is. I'll give up the backlight for a few more mm.
@@ModernClassic
I do understand your concern but when you see the difference you stop caring about the millimeters lost.
The only problem would be the screen color, I agree...
The difference is stunning:
photos.app.goo.gl/Gr5Z9KjC8z2QVori7
I truly love playing on original hardware when possible, but the older I get, and the worse my one good eye gets the more I need a backlit screen so on this case emulating on my Android phone with a MOGA Gamepad is the way to go for me, but none the less great video. :-)
The lack of backlight is not as easy to deal with as I remember, but I just could never give up these controls as long as I have a choice. I'd play blindfolded. I'd play with the system off and just make up the game in my own head :)
Plenty of modded neo geo exist with great Backlot screens
How has the flashcart held up for you? I'm real interested in it and wondering how you feel after a few months with it.
The flash cart itself has held up fine. What hasn't held up quite as well is just the NGPC's library, which is smaller than I think even I realized, and maybe not quite as good as I had remembered. I played through a bunch of games for a while after buying the cart, then put it away and haven't touched it since then. So it just depends on how big a fan of the NGPC you really are. But the flash cart itself does what it's supposed to do really well.
我也挺喜欢这款机器的，事实上不同颜色的一共购买了六台，最喜欢就是这款透明的黄色。摇杆的手感一流~！ 😄😄😄
Great video I need me a snk handheld
Wow did not know that was out!!!
Considering the price of real carts now $100 isn’t bad.
I like original hardware as well, it's prone to less bugs and the bugs that are there have better workarounds. I dislike the emulation especially for this system, all the sound and speed are messed up.
An SD flash cart for this? FINALLY. sheesh, how many years did it take lol
Not much, the first Flashcard was avalible in 1998.
the bung pocket linker was the first but he asked about an sd based card, i believe this is the first
That card uses zx spectrum system font, crazy
Can you still get those today? I wish the Bandai Wonderswan had a Micro SD flash card to it. Someone needs to invent that.
It strikes me that it doesn't automatically save and delete games from flash to sd the way the everdrives do. I wonder if that was by choice or because of some system limitation.
Great review! How long did you have to wait after ordering?
Well, at the time I believe I preordered it and just got it in the first batch. At the moment, I don't even know if he's making this card anymore, although I believe there is another, similar option you can get from various online stores.
This is great for SNK VS Capcom Card Fighters 2 and Bio Motor Unitron 2. I wonder how it compares to the Flash Masta from years ago.
I recently got a ngpc blue design with pacman just for 50 dollars
francisco lisboa pinto from eBay?
That is a steal.
I guess they use 16MB flash and 1MB is reserved for file menu overhead. It is a shame they did not use 512MB flash as that would have more than held every game ever made.
Phone emulation is clunky id like to get some sort of clip on controller to maybe make it semi better but real handhelds are best
Agree, I myself have one NGP and it’s awesome, its actually my dedicated handheld, l really love it, real handhelds are the beat
How can i find this console and sonic pocket adventure? (I am living on Turkey btw)
I love Flash carts, but this one seems a lil sketchy I really dont like how much the sd card pokes out of the cartridge, seems like asking for trouble taking it in and out of your pocket
I love it.
Back lit your neo bro they have some good ones out now
All are smaller than the original screen and don't include the yellow surround that mine has. So not even really possible unless I want to ruin the look of it. I'd do it if I could preserve the same look and screen size.
Buy a second one a preserve the original
@@edwardp4038 i still have the original screen
It's an awesome console. Too bad it costs basically the same as a 3ds :T
Nice!
Mine had scratches but I buffed them off
To some degree I disagree with your price analyses. I feel that, while a flash cart is a lot of money up front, the savings in versus buying each game on its own makes it a valuable resource for someone simply looking to play games on original hardware. Someone could easily buy a Gameboy Colour with an everdrive for less than $200 and never have to spend a dime more while playing every game for the console.
Well, it wasn't really an "analysis", it's just that $100 is not a small amount of money for an older handheld. If I really did want to do an analysis, I'd look at the games that are really good for the system - it has a pretty small library - and add up the cost of buying them, assuming you'd really do that. You can get most of them for $5-$10. But again, that jibes with what I said about these things being for really hardcore fans - most people don't buy every good game for any system, they buy a few and are content with that. So it's still only worth the money to people who are really into it.
googles amazing spying algorithms brought me here !!
3:53 That's what she said.
Hi, I went to the link: www.retrohq.co.uk but seems like they don't have it anymore :-(. Do u know where I can get it from?
Not this particular one; you may have to just scour Ebay. There is also the Flash Masta cart; I don't know how it compares but it seems like it does the same thing and might still be available.
Nice old handheld tis is staff this teenagers need to understand tech :-)
可惜1999年SNK的策略出现了失误，本来这款机器发展下去会有更好的进化。
Awesome!!! Now ALL the games are ours! Muhahahaha
neo geo pocket games look more like 10 bit to me
"In contrast to almost all the other GameBoy competitors of the era, the NGPC's small and cute [...] and it's got almost 40 hours
of battery life."
Yeah, so? The Wonderswan is too and has a pretty nice battery life as well... :P
I did say "almost".
Bruh