My non NEC stuff

[Bernie]

Yeah, I knew it wasnt exactly analog..  But its what I called it.    Its pretty accurate for what it is.  I like it.  I cannot complain about the system, even the lack of back lighting isnt really a deal breaker. 

[DragonmasterDan]

Performance wise the unit sits between GBC and GBA. Its kinda comparible with Wonderswan Color. The WS can put a lot more color down, has bigger ROMs, higher resoltion, better sound, etc but for some reason rarely manages to actually entertain anywhere near as well as an NGP.

It was a f*cking great system that was killed off early because of financial difficulties at SNK at the time and the political BS of Aruze basically trying to destroy the company at the time. Even though, considering how short lived the thing was the number of games that are still super fun is amazing.

The Wonderswan color has a horrible horrible screen that's much much worse than the Neo-Geo Pocket Color screen. While it is more powerful, it's less usable. (I can't comment on how much better the screen on the SwanCrystal is as I've not tried it).

And yeah, I agree it was a fun system. We should probably mention that Aruze basically just bought SNK for their distribution network so they could sell more Pachinko and Pachislo machines and had no intention of keeping SNK products coming for any extended period of time.

[GohanX]

What games do I recommend? All of them! Seriously, there are very few bad games for the system. If you aren't hung up about having complete games, there are tons of cheap new loose games available on ebay. I think I got 1/3 of the system's library for like $30 in one auction a while back.

Also, to give you a little background on what you got, I bet your system and games come from one of those blister packs that they used to sell at Electronics Boutique after the NGPC went south. Basically, the boxes and documentation were dumped, loose (but new) systems and games were  put in blister packs and sold for a discount, it was an awesome deal.

I really, really love the NGPC. I never play mine since it's too dark in my living room, and when I attempted to front light mod the system I messed up the GBA frontlight, so it's all kinds of fugly.

[SignOfZeta]

The Swan Color screen is pretty bad. Very blury. The Swan Crystal screen is a non-backlit active matrix TFT screen very much like the NGPC's. It's actually a much better screen than the NGPC's, since its larger, wide, has more resolution, and more color. Final Fantasy 1 looks like a SNES FF game on the WS, no joke.

The Swan still lacks big-time compared to the NGP though. The Swan is pretty much only useful to people like me who are big fans of Bandai stuff.

Performance wise the unit sits between GBC and GBA. Its kinda comparible with Wonderswan Color. The WS can put a lot more color down, has bigger ROMs, higher resoltion, better sound, etc but for some reason rarely manages to actually entertain anywhere near as well as an NGP.

It was a f*cking great system that was killed off early because of financial difficulties at SNK at the time and the political BS of Aruze basically trying to destroy the company at the time. Even though, considering how short lived the thing was the number of games that are still super fun is amazing.

The Wonderswan color has a horrible horrible screen that's much much worse than the Neo-Geo Pocket Color screen. While it is more powerful, it's less usable. (I can't comment on how much better the screen on the SwanCrystal is as I've not tried it).

And yeah, I agree it was a fun system. We should probably mention that Aruze basically just bought SNK for their distribution network so they could sell more Pachinko and Pachislo machines and had no intention of keeping SNK products coming for any extended period of time.

[PunkicCyborg]

So where are the ginormous pics of your other non PCE stuff??

[Bernie]

lol.  You know you like my big pics!!

[Lilgrafx]

Ugh, this thing brings back terrible memories. I had high hopes for it and picked one up with 15 games for $100. What a piece of shit. No backlight makes it impossible to see and the blur was worse than OG gameboy. I threw the whole lot out in the garbage and the trash man wouldnt even take it

Another thing: the stick is not analog. I'm not sure how anyone could think it is since it clearly goes "click" with every micro switch actuation. It's a four switch, eight direction joystick just like a real Neo Geo. It's also by far the best f*cking stick to be built into anything. I can tick FAB with Zangief all day and all night on this bitch.

Do you have a 3DS? because I find the thumb pad on that to be fantastic.

[Bernie]

My son has one, and I just cannot get into it.  The thumb pad is nice on it, but I am just not sold on the system itself. 

[DragonmasterDan]

The Swan Color screen is pretty bad. Very blury. The Swan Crystal screen is a non-backlit active matrix TFT screen very much like the NGPC's. It's actually a much better screen than the NGPC's, since its larger, wide, has more resolution, and more color. Final Fantasy 1 looks like a SNES FF game on the WS, no joke.

The Swan still lacks big-time compared to the NGP though. The Swan is pretty much only useful to people like me who are big fans of Bandai stuff.

I need to pick up a SwanCrystal at some point so I can actually see what's going on in Makaimura. Both the B&W and Color model are just too hard to see with to fully enjoy that game.