Golden Axe - Neo Geo Port
A downloadable game
Ported from the Sega System 16 arcade using a combination of reverse engineering and new development to ensure gameplay and visuals match the original to near perfection.
Features
- Support for MVS / AES and Neo Geo CD systems
- Original arcade difficulty settings
- Game region selectable (World / JP and selectable FBI warnings)
- Special Neo Geo CD soundtrack supplied by Richard Douglas ( https://www.richdouglas.net/ )
- Full MVS support including multi-slot game switching and credits
- SoftDIP settings available on AES and NeoGeo CD from title menu
- Files supplied to support most flash cart solutions, real hardware and emulators.
Conversion Notes
Went a little above and beyond for this one. During the port I found a youtube video which found a few of the sample sources for Golden Axe came from a selection of 80s movies, Conan, American Werewolf in London and Rambo. To get the best quailty possible I did a deep dive in these films and managed to replace 6 voice samples with new higher quality versions.
For the MVS / AES, the soundtrack is taken from the original System16 arcade PCB. High quality recordings were supplied by Artemio and then converted to run through the ADPCM-B. Neo Geo CD users get that classic 90s bonus of a full CD soundtrack of ultimate epicness from composer Richard Douglas.
A lot of effort went into getting this even more visually accurate than my previous port, requiring a huge reworking of my graphics converstion tools.. again!. There are a few minor differences and some edge case glitches which I decided to leave as the amount of work to iron them out really outweight the results they would bring. After all, we wanna play it right?
Thanks to the testers
.. Mpatou / Trifle and Lara / Gillaxian / Mr Kola / Old Style Gaming ..
Special thanks to..
Furrtek - that CDDA bug was making me cry!
Artemio - awesome recordings
Darksoft - thanks for the continued support
Neo Geo Dev Wiki - where I've learnt everything about the hardware
Arcade-Projects - a lovely little forum
FAQ
Q: Will you please consider porting [insert game here]
A: Like all good DJs, I don't take requests
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Well done! If anyone wants the NEOCD version in CHD, I've converted here (plays nice on Mister)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n7RSjQHfGvFWU898gTwy9wEF0dwsbWEZ/view?usp=share...
Hi Guys !
For those interested, you can download this PDF with an MVS label template for golden axe.
ENjoy !
Direct link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kxZg5jT7oxx8uHF3MNFxvgFlkqOsAE7b?usp=sha...
The .neo version works great on MiSTer! Though I can't seem to get the CD version running on it.
I've posted a link above to a CHD of the CD version. That works great.
Congratulations for this great creation!. Thanks for giving us more games to play on Neo-Geo! :)
Do you have a suggestion to which emulator to try this on? really want to review it for you :)
I just wanted to report a small bug I encountered while playing on AES with the
.neofile. At the start of the game, the life bar does not appear until the character takes the first hit. It’s nothing major, but I figured you’d like to know.Thanks again for this fantastic port! I look forward to future updates and projects.
Best regards,
Sandro
You rule buddy, thanks alot!
Fantastic :)
2 major games in a few weeks that's great! I don't have a NeoGeo but NeoGeo users are sure spoiled with 1:1 (even more) arcade port
Hi there! First of all, thanks a lot for the amazing job. I've been playing the game on a CRT and I'm so enamoured of the crisp visuals and sounds... Shinobi was great but this one shines even brighter.
Also, I'm not sure if this is the place to report bugs but I downloaded the game, burned a cd and started playing on a toploader. The game works fine but the music does not. It is as if it lost track of what music it should play. By the time you arrive at the 3rd stage, it continues playing the campfire song and after that the map theme so it's as if they went out of sync or something. When you reach the end boss it plays the correct theme but when you beat him and reach the campfire the issue repeats again. Just for you to know. My console is JAP moded to USA and has no problem reading burned CD's.
Also, it happens that, when you start the game and cut the intro, you can't see your life bar until you receive the first hit. No big deal really.
Again, thank you very much for the effort. I hope you don't find the post intrusive and apologies if that's the case. You're a heaven sent for the NEOGEO community : )
Edit: Finished game with the three characters. Editing comments for the sake of accuracy.
in the goldenaxe mame folder the Romset says mslug2.zip 😁
Thanks for this works great.
Hi. The DarkSoft ROM works great on the Analogue Pocket. Thank you! For anyone wondering, I used 2020 Super Baseball.json as a donor for this port.
The included readme is still geared towards the Shinobi release and contains info for that port.
Cheers!
I am SCREAMING
Awesome! Thank you!
Oh yeah!
You beat me to it ! . . . jejeje
Great game, epic port :)