For those with newsgroup access (and an xbox)

[Kazuya_UK]

Just thought I'd mention this for anyone interested - if you have newsgroup access and a modded xbox, it might be worth taking a peek at alt.binaries.games.xbox. Some kind soul has posted a bunch of emulator discs that include many games, and vol 3 disc 2 of these (labelled imaginitively as "big ass emulator disc" has pretty much all the Capcom CPS1/2 and Neo Geo stuff you could possibly want. This is the one I am talking about:

www.newzbin.com/browse/post/1675907/

The other ones are worth checking out too if you can, as theres one for MAME games, one for other consoles like the SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis and one for handhelds. Remember you will need decent newsgroup access to download these, and I can't help you to get them so you are on your own . I can however send you the nzb file to load up in your news client to make it a bit easier for you to download it. Reply here and I'll send it!

Just mentioning this as many people have asked how to get Kawa-X/Final burn etc working, so this would be a nice easy to have a fully working disc, provided your xbox is already modded or whatever.

Kaz

[werD]

I think we can now safely say that no one on this board has newsgroup access.

(Thanks anyway Kaz)

[sepiasongs]

please do not post rom links

ahem. if i had the gear (although i'm not a fan of playing fighting games with an xbox pad, especially capcom ones), i would, but for some wierd reason i actually prefer playing neo and cps 1/2 stuff on my computer's tft monitor than on the telly back home. especially in stuff like garou and the metal slug series where the animation is too good not to admire properly. also, on relatively new neo games like the kofs and last blade where the colouring and shading is more subtle, the graphics seem to me much richer without the scan lines from the tv. plus in games where the areas of high contrast (usually with reds) produces that horrible distortion around the edges is annoying at times. anyone who's played tekken 3 and rival schools on the psone and cvs2 and mvc2 on the ps2 will know what i mean.

although that's just a personal preference.

[werD]

I know what you mean. I find that the game becomes really pixelly (if thats a word) on a monitor, though. Do you have a way to fix this (Scanlines help, but only moderately)?

As for the Xbox controller, yeah its only decent for fighting games. I got a micro controller, which helped but it broke (Yeah, thats it. I didn't hammer it against the floor). But soon it will go direct to arcade controls, which will be nice.

-Drew

[sepiasongs]

i don't know what emulator you're using but i play neo stuff on mame with a resolution of 600 x 800 and that seems to run fine. there's probably some other settings you can fiddle with but it beats the over-softness of a telly, which i've been told runs at something like 240x320 by a very geeky friend. not a fan of scan lines myself, espciecially when you're sat close to a 14" tft monitor. zsens has some rendering thing, but i personally think it goes a bit too far.

[Kazuya_UK]

Yeah it's very much a personal preference thing when it comes to your screen setup. With 2D games though, especially Neo stuff etc, I like to play on a standard TV through RGB scart, which I find better than a monitor. I must admit though, playing any emulated games on an Xbox, you do get a slightly "filtered" or blurred look, although not so much as you do on a PC monitor when you have a smoothing turned on. It does look a bit crisper when you run them any games on the real deal - in fact I've ran Neo stuff on the Xbox side by side with my MVS and you can easily see the difference. Again though, some people prefer the way the Xbox looks over the clearer but slightly more pixellated picture from the real thing.

Kaz