Ok Guys, we dont want start into a war or something like that, but i think its good to explain some things from a technical point of view:
First, we would like to state that we don't have any connection with DS cart or with DS itself, we never talked with him about NEOGEO as today.
Seccond, we already had our prototypes working long before he posted his proto photos. You can't design this in 2 months, i would say that DS telling that, proves his konwleage about electronics, in the best case .... We can post photos of our previous prototypes if required, we can also show invoices of our proto devices from the first months of 2016.
DS says we have stolen "his SD reading code" : it seems he is the only one in the world that can read a file from an sd card with an ARM, what can we say about that ? ... get any engeneer arround and ask about that, he dosent needs to know what neosd is or neogeo.
Also, where are we going to steal his code from? Binary cps2 multicart updates as someone said? Come on, that would be inmensely more effort than writting it from scratch, especially when ST provides the library to read SD cards it from its ARM devices
DS says load times on our videos are fake : i dont think any of us knows how to edit a video at all
DS says his product is better : i dont think he has a product righ now to say that, he still dont know if it will work right now.
Based on our development roadmap (we had the first proto running games back in May), we really doubt that he will reaches "problems stage" before the end of the year, it took us 4 months to pass this stage after we had a working prototype running games.
DS says his product is faster : We had King of fighters 2003 running back in May and load times were about 8 minutes, thats what i call slow loading times , its 4:07 right now. I doubt he can know how fast his product "is", cause he dosent has one at all.
Anyways, he says that he will load games such as King Of Fighters 2003 in 12 secconds, but he wont tell that he is going to need 4 minutes to load it into flash before, then he could load it in 12 secconds after that, but he will need 4 minutes to load it again if he writes another game in the place where Kof2003 is. NEOSD takes 0 secconds to load King Of Fighters 2003 on the same scenario. A half lie is not a truth guys ....
DS says that his product has more chips and its better : Just ask any engeener, he dosent need to know what neogeo is or a flash cart is. He will tell you that putting more components allways means more problems, as more complex the design is, as more things you have to deal with, there are things on the pcb pics he showed that make no sense from a design point, such as use different brands of fpgas on the same board, this says a lot of about his design ..
DS says we copied his design : Ask any engenner if our design is similar in any aspect to the pcbs he showed, if you want more details, open a Sega Naomi cart and compare the chips we are using for convert levels with that, we just get ideas from people that knows that they do, i would not put DS on that list. Reading DS it seems he was using latches before Sega
Also, on the pcb that DS showed in August, we can see that he is using flash chips, so dont get fooled thinking his device will load games in 12 secconds, thats not possible with his current design and even with other design, you are allways going to need 30 secconds just to read this game from SD card. With his current design, has to wirte flash chips before and in the best scenario, he is going to need 4.07 minutes to write King Of Fighters 2003 into the flashes.
So why we have built NEOSD ? : Cause we got tired about year after year to hear neo geo flashcart was in the works, not DS´s, just Neo Geo flashcart, and it was pretty clear that years pass and there is only neo geo flash cart right now, NEOSD.
DS is playing a game consisting in tell people that his product is better, to lie to stop people purchasing ours, this type of game always have a end, Raz will have his cart next week, customers will in about 3 weeks. Then you guys can try things such as load times and see if DS is right when he says that lod times in our videos are fake, you can lie, but not forever cause people may be fanboy, but its not stupid at all.
So now, about Neo-Dev Team and others :
No, Neo-Dev team games will not be supported. Last hope conversion is cause the same reason it is on mame. We have designed the cart with that on mind from day one.
We have some nice plan for those, Raz knows the details but we wont disclose those right now, its not the right time for that, you will know about that in the next weeks/months.
So please, keep discussing tech details and let drama alone, we dont really want to move topic of this wonderful thread to what others say. There are two reasons why we are answering questions here and not elsewhere :
1 - people asking reasonable doubts.
2 - this forum is not owned by a guy trying to sell things, so coments are not censored.
You guys wanted a neo ge flashcart as much as we did, we have put our time and money on make it a reality, just enjoy it and let drama alone !
Thanks !