Neo Geo Fighters Topic

[SNKNostalgia]

Real Bout Special is my personal favorite Fatal Fury for fighting engine, characters, special moves, background graphics, music and stages. Real Bout 2 comes very close but some of the subtle changes to characters moves and slightly lesser liked backgrounds graphics keep it from beating RBS. I kind of like the line sway system in RB2 better just for not having the going back and forth all the time.

Last Blade 1 and 2 are mandatory must owns, but man do they suffer greatly on the NGCD compared to the cart versions. Still, very playable if using a CDZ console.

No experience on a CDZ, but on a Top Loader with all options on, it's something like 7 mins to actually get in a match.

In the end the thing AoF3 has going for it are the graphics, and the CD version pretty much ruins it.  The screen zooming was completely removed.

7 minutes is a bit of an exaggeration for the toploader running AOF 3, but it does take a while (40 seconds for the first match and a bunch of 12-15 second loads for the cutscenes/intro/win screens). The screen zooming is there in the NGCD, just confirmed it on my CDZ. They just made the characters 20% smaller and took out a few frames of animation. Other than that, AOF 3 on NGCD is still great, especially with the AST and playing it on a CDZ.