Golden Axe - Neo Geo Port

Great job, a big golden axe fan. 

I definitely want to play now as this is the biggest gift to Neo Geo fans.

Per your notes there are some minor bugs, the only thing I noticed is  the death blow axe rotation animation frames when killing Death Adder. Some other issues on my aging Neo Geo AES(i did not see in long plays of the Neo Geo CD port on YouTube), layer priority issue with the pen and red writing on the map, black line tile seem near back of animated eagle eye. this may help with other owners of aging hardware.

your https://h0ffman.itch.io/ links to an old X account @djh0ffman must have been a bad boy, with no Elon pardon ;)

was looking for your donation info.

Awesome job!

Thatbwas an amazingly short time after the release of the Shinobi port.

Wow, the new soundtrack and samples really do seem to make the Neo Geo CD version the definitiv version of Golden Axe. Hats off for the amazing work and thank you so much for the effort you put into this and your other conversions!

very good

Just for funsies, made covers for the MVSX and Arcade Stick Pro

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  :)

First of all, I want to say that I absolutely love your Neo Geo conversion of Golden Axe! You did an incredible job bringing this classic to the system, and I truly appreciate the effort and attention to detail.

I just wanted to report a small bug I encountered while playing on AES with the .neo file. 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!

Great game, epic port :)