                                     NEO
                       (R)eal (A)rcade (G)ame (E)mulator
			
                               Version 0.01

                 (C) 1998 Anders Nilsson & Janne Korpela

Legal Disclaimer:
-----------------

YOU USE THIS PROGRAM AT YOUR OWN RISK, WE CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY 
LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED.

THIS PROGRAM REQUIRES THE ORIGINAL ARCADE MACHINE ROMS. THESE ROMS ARE 
OWNED BY AND COPYRIGHTED BY SNK. UNLESS YOU OWN THE ORIGINAL GAME BOARDS,
YOU ARE NOT LEGALLY ENTITLED TO USE THEM. WE CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE 
RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY REACH OF COPYRIGHT.

THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT SHIP WITH ROM IMAGES. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE THIS
PROGRAM WITH ROM IMAGES.

PLEASE DO NOT ASK US TO SUPPLY YOU WITH ROM IMAGES OR ASK US WHERE TO FIND 
THEM. WE CANNOT HELP YOU.


Please DO NOT send us any roms. 
        

Introduction:
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DO NOT EMAIL US ABOUT MEMORY PROBLEM!!!! You can easily calculate how much memory 
you will need to run the games. Take all _c?.rom and dont double it then add all 
_p?.rom and add about 3 meg for our code and ram areas that NeoRAGE is using.
And Dos4gw can handle memory spaces up to 4gig it has no 64mb limit even in pure dos.


Whats New:
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- Much lower memory requirements.
- Full background animations.
- Zoomed object clipping bug-fix.
- Language/System selection.
- Native Sidewinder & Gravis Gamepad Pro (not tested) support.
- Vesa bug-fix. More compatible.
- Faded scanlines. Choose between 25%, 50% and 100% (same as double). This is a very
  slow operation so its not recomended on slow machines.


Installation:
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Unzip the NeoRAGE.zip and make sure that you have dos4gw in the path or same
directory as NeoRAGE. And put you roms in any subdirectory as you like.
You will also need the Neo Geo system bios installed in the same directory
as NeoRAGE.exe.
Syntax: neorage 'dirname of game' [options] 
This version supports both the home console and arcade system. There is no
need to convert any roms, they will work as they are.

EX1. neorage cyberlip
EX2. neorage 3countb -v -s

Command-line options:
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-v         - Enable vsync(dissabled by default), dont use this if you have slow framerate.
-f?        - Frameskip ?=1-4 (you can toggle between frameskip settings with numpad +/-)
-vga       - VGA resoloution
-noanalyse - Skip the code analyse
-s         - Scanlines(Vesa)
-s25	   - 25% thinner scanlines, very slow! (Vesa)
-s50	   - 50% thinner scanlines, very slow! (Vesa)
-s100      - No scanlines, doubles every pixel which makes it possible to run 
             without scanlines in res 640x480, very slow! (Vesa)
-j         - Joystick(Not required anymore)
-modex     - Modex 320X240


Supported gameslist (memory requirements inside () are with sound, not supported yet):
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Game name                            |GENRE          |MEMORY REQUIREMENTS |
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2020 Super Baseball                  |Sport          | 06 (07) MB         |
3 Count Bout                         |Fighting       | 12 (17) MB         |
Aero Fighters 2 (Sonic Wings 2)      |Shooter        | 13 (16) MB         |
Aero Fighters 3 (Sonic Wings 3)      |Shooter        | 17 (23) MB         |
Aggressors of Dark Kombat            |Fighting       | 21 (26) MB         |
Alpha Mission 2 (ASO 2)              |Shooter        | 08 (13) MB         |
Andro Dunos                          |Shooter        | 12 (13) MB         |
Art of Fighting                      |Fighting       | 12 (16) MB         |
Art of Fighting 2                    |Fighting       | 21 (27) MB         |
Baseball Stars 2                     |Sport          | 08 (10) MB         |
Blues Journey                        |Platform       | 07 (09) MB         |
Burning Fight                        |Arcade         | 08 (10) MB         |
Crossed Swords                       |3D             | 08 (09) MB         |
Cyber Lip                            |Platform       | 07 (09) MB         |
Eightman                             |Arcade         | 07 (09) MB         |
Far East of Eden (Kabuki Klash)      |Fighting       | 21 (29) MB         |
Fatal Fury                           |Fighting       | 08 (10) MB         |
Fatal Fury 2                         |Fighting       | 12 (16) MB         |
Fatal Fury Special                   |Fighting       | 17 (22) MB         |
Football Frenzy                      |Sport          | 07 (09) MB         |
Galaxy Fight                         |Fighting       | 21 (27) MB         |
Ghost Pilots                         |Shooter        | 09 (10) MB         |
Goal! Goal! Goal!                    |Sport          | 21 (23) MB         |
Joy Joy Kid (Puzzled)                |Puzzle         | 05 (06) MB         |
Karnov's Revenge                     |Fighting       | 16 (18) MB         |
King of Fighters '94                 |Fighting       | 21 (27) MB         |
King of Fighters '95                 |Fighting       | 31 (37) MB         |
King of Monsters                     |Fighting       | 08 (10) MB         |
Last Resort                          |Shooter        | 07 (09) MB         |
League Bowling                       |Sport          | 05 (06) MB         |
Magician Lord                        |Platform       | 07 (09) MB         |
Metal Slug                           |Platform       | 21 (29) MB         |
Mutation Nation                      |Arcade         | 08 (10) MB         |
Nam 1975                             |Shooter        | 07 (09) MB         |
Neo Drift Out                        |Racing         | 13 (17) MB         |
Neo Turf Masters                     |Sport          | 13 (21) MB         |
Ninja Combat                         |Arcade         | 07 (09) MB         |
Ninja Commando                       |Shooter        | 08 (11) MB         |
Power Spikes 2                       |Sport          | 10 (13) MB         |
Pulstar                              |Shooter        | 37 (41) MB         |
Puzzle Bobble (Bust-A-Move)          |Puzzle         | 09 (12)? MB        |
Robo Army                            |Arcade         | 07 (09) MB         |
Samurai Showdown                     |Fighting       | 14 (18) MB         |
Samurai Showdown 2                   |Fighting       | 21 (28) MB         |
Savage Reign                         |Fighting       | 21 (27) MB         |
Sengoku                              |Arcade         | 08 (10) MB         |
Sengoku 2                            |Arcade         | 12 (15) MB         |
Soccer Brawl                         |Sport          | 07 (09) MB         |
Super Sidekicks                      |Sport          | 08 (11) MB         |
Super Spy                            |3D             | 13 (17) MB         |
Trash Rally                          |Racing         | 07 (09) MB         |
Top Players Golf                     |Sport          | 08 (11) MB         |
View Point                           |Shooter        | 08 (12) MB         |
Windjammers                          |Sport          | 08 (12) MB         |
World Heroes                         |Fighting       | 12 (15) MB         |
World Heroes 2                       |Fighting       | 17 (21) MB         |
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Known problems/todo list:
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Some games are not supported yet.
Sound support.

Specific game related problems:
Pulstar - Only first level is playable.
Super Sidekicks - Controls stop working after a few minutes.
World Heroes - Only deathmatch is working correctly.
World Heroes 2 - Trashed gfx.


Frequently Asked Questions/Troubleshooting:
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I get a message 'Unable to initialize VESA'. Whats wrong?
Your graphic card doesnt support 320x240 vesa res or 640x480 if you use -s, try 
to download scitech display doctor.

My screen just get black when i try to start the games?
Try -n (noscanlines) if your display just gets black.
Try -vga if you have trouble with the modex resoloutions

I have no sound?
It is not implemented yet.

The colors are wrong in some moments in vga or modex?
Try to hit Space it will rearrange all colors, we must do some complex palette
mapping to get it to work as good as possible because we have only 256 colors
available in our supported resoloutions and sometimes it would help to rearrange
all colors. We are updating the colors all the time but if the game has
locked up a big scale with colors it could help.


Common Keys:
-----
'1'	- start 1 player game
'3'     - start 2 player game
'2'     - Selectbutton player one
'4'     - Selectbutton player two
'TAB'	- To enter system menu (Key redefenition etc)
'PGD'   - To scroll the visible area in vga mode
'PGUP'  - To scroll the visible area in vga mode
'F10'   - To Toggle between full throttle and not.
'F8'    - Take a screen dump.
'SPACE' - To Rearrange the whole palette.
'ESC'	- Hmmmm... what might this key do?
'+'	- Increase frameskip
'-'	- Decrease frameskip


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KEYSETTINGS:
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Keys:
UP      - pl1 up
DOWN    - pl1 down
LEFT    - pl1 left
RIGHT   - pl1 right
,       - pl1 Button1
.       - pl1 Button2
/       - pl1 Button3
RSHIFT  - pl1 Button4

T       - pl2 up
G       - pl2 down
F       - pl2 left
H       - pl2 right
LSHIFT  - pl2 Button1
<       - pl2 Button2
Z       - pl2 Button3
X       - pl2 Button4

You can change the key layout in the menu pressing 'TAB'.

We will not respond on any questions about NeoGeo roms or bios.

e-mail:
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Anders Nilsson
anders.nilsson@mbox8.swipnet.se
Janne Korpela
janne@mbox370.swipnet.se

World Wide Web
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The NeoRage emulator will be available from the following sites:-

http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-50884 (Home Page)
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/dodge/ (The PC arcade)			
http://www.classicgaming.com/freeplay (FreePlay)
http://www.davesclassics.com (Daves Classics)
http://www.emuviews.com (Emu Views)
http://www.myspace.co.uk/dodge/ragemirror/rage.htm (Rage Mirror)


-SPECIAL THANKS TO:
-araCORN for his work with dumps. Without him this emu propably wouldnt exist.
-Peter and Chris at PC Arcade for their superb work with our homepage and keeping a mirror for us.
-Niell Corlett for his StarScream cpu core(68000k). 
-Shin Seiki for his great spec on the Neo Geo hardware.
-Marius Fodor & Robert William Grubbs for their Sidewinder drivers.

