And the Neogeo system lived quite happily into the mid 2000's, alongside the Gameboy Advance (which had ports of a lot of Neo Geo games or had sequels on the system), which was what everyone wanted from a Gameboy 2. (I mean if you actually were back then... and not just making stufff up)
@masterLEON You are the exact revisionist of videogame history that is ruining the internet. Thankfully there are more popular channels coming out with facts rather than fague memories or just legit created ones.
"The Z80 processor, while being a workhorse for a almost a decade of arcade games before the NEOGEO debuted was not good for multimedia or general purpose processing like the x86 and 68xxx in home computers, due to their limited functionality and memory bandwidth. Those few seconds of low framerate Double Dragon movie clips in the DD fighting game? Tiles, and a bunch of ROMs. Probably the most expensive, inefficient, and only way to get video running on the NEOGEO."
The Neogeo's main Processor was the 68000, (wow) and was used in most computers including the Commodore Amiga, FM Towns, the Sharp X68K (that was the dev platform for the Capcom CPS1/2), the Capcom CPS1/CPS2 as the CPU [Look up Motorola 68000), and unfortunately the Z80 (Zilog Z80, an 8 Bit micro) you mention was never relegated to the main CPU, it was an Audio DSP/Soundcard for your expert ears.... (All NeoGeo systems use the z80 to handle sound and music playback. It runs at 4MHz and only has access to the YM2610, M1 ROM or Z80 files, and its own RAM. It communicates with the 68k CPU via a single-byte channel.)
Also you realise the Neo Geo operated on ROM carts, so they had instant access to 'memory' on the cart, 'Memory Bandwidth' wasn't a thing, they could just add more to the cart, money permitting.
And I lived in Japan for 8 months starting in xmas 1998, and the Neo Geo pocket (monochrome version) absolutely decimated the Nintendo Gameboy Color, the runner up to the Neo Geo Pocket was the Gameboy Light which was a Gameboy pocket with a backlit screen. I bought a Neo Geo Pocket (mono) on Launch and it is today still one of the best handhelds ever, 2nd only the the Neo Geo Pocket Color or the Wonderswan Crystal.
Also the Game Boy Color isn't 16bit, just like the Nintendo 64 isn't 64bit.
The point of this post was to show the absolute parroted narrative that people like @masterLEON falsey spread into the internet, making, YOU!, the reader dumber and less informed because of the importance of their 'view' of how a time they never lived in happened and what they want you to parrot out, basically like a Trump supporter.
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Re: The Neo Geo Pocket Color's First RPG, Biomotor Unitron, Launches On Switch Tomorrow
And the Neogeo system lived quite happily into the mid 2000's, alongside the Gameboy Advance (which had ports of a lot of Neo Geo games or had sequels on the system), which was what everyone wanted from a Gameboy 2. (I mean if you actually were back then... and not just making stufff up)
Re: The Neo Geo Pocket Color's First RPG, Biomotor Unitron, Launches On Switch Tomorrow
@masterLEON You are the exact revisionist of videogame history that is ruining the internet. Thankfully there are more popular channels coming out with facts rather than fague memories or just legit created ones.
"The Z80 processor, while being a workhorse for a almost a decade of arcade games before the NEOGEO debuted was not good for multimedia or general purpose processing like the x86 and 68xxx in home computers, due to their limited functionality and memory bandwidth. Those few seconds of low framerate Double Dragon movie clips in the DD fighting game? Tiles, and a bunch of ROMs. Probably the most expensive, inefficient, and only way to get video running on the NEOGEO."
The Neogeo's main Processor was the 68000, (wow) and was used in most computers including the Commodore Amiga, FM Towns, the Sharp X68K (that was the dev platform for the Capcom CPS1/2), the Capcom CPS1/CPS2 as the CPU [Look up Motorola 68000), and unfortunately the Z80 (Zilog Z80, an 8 Bit micro) you mention was never relegated to the main CPU, it was an Audio DSP/Soundcard for your expert ears.... (All NeoGeo systems use the z80 to handle sound and music playback. It runs at 4MHz and only has access to the YM2610, M1 ROM or Z80 files, and its own RAM. It communicates with the 68k CPU via a single-byte channel.)
Also you realise the Neo Geo operated on ROM carts, so they had instant access to 'memory' on the cart, 'Memory Bandwidth' wasn't a thing, they could just add more to the cart, money permitting.
And I lived in Japan for 8 months starting in xmas 1998, and the Neo Geo pocket (monochrome version) absolutely decimated the Nintendo Gameboy Color, the runner up to the Neo Geo Pocket was the Gameboy Light which was a Gameboy pocket with a backlit screen. I bought a Neo Geo Pocket (mono) on Launch and it is today still one of the best handhelds ever, 2nd only the the Neo Geo Pocket Color or the Wonderswan Crystal.
Also the Game Boy Color isn't 16bit, just like the Nintendo 64 isn't 64bit.
The point of this post was to show the absolute parroted narrative that people like @masterLEON falsey spread into the internet, making, YOU!, the reader dumber and less informed because of the importance of their 'view' of how a time they never lived in happened and what they want you to parrot out, basically like a Trump supporter.
Peace,
Shane.