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Re: Review: Neo Geo Arcade 2 (Evercade) - Garou Alone Makes This A Near-Essential Buy

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:44:27 GMT

I am just glad I bought all the ACA Neo Geo games back when they released on the Switch, I would much rather just have them all and organized A-Z as opposed to buying this slow trickle down of randomized titles.

By JayJ

Re: Review: Neo Geo Arcade 2 (Evercade) - Garou Alone Makes This A Near-Essential Buy

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:49:31 GMT

@romanista I would love a sports cart. Alas, it seems Evercade is set on a mix of genres in these collections.

By swiller

Re: Review: Neo Geo Arcade 2 (Evercade) - Garou Alone Makes This A Near-Essential Buy

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:10:07 GMT

I always thought metal slug would be the logical 'hidden' game, if you would enter both nr 1. and nr 2. and they have the rights anyway (it being on the pocket).. but i guess that was just a dream

garou is certainlyu my favourite classic fighting game, so having that game on my alpha is really on of the reasons to get it in the first place...

Still, enough fighters now after nr 3... time for some other neo geo classics on nr 4... maybe a sports edition with neo turf and baseball superstars

By romanista

Re: Review: Neo Geo Arcade 2 (Evercade) - Garou Alone Makes This A Near-Essential Buy

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:59:55 GMT

@h3s I understand. It’s nice to have some options for some of these games at least.

A while ago I bought an 8-card changer that clips on to the dock. I play docked only, so it’s perfect for my setup. It holds 8 games and you can switch between them with a simple push button. It’s kind of ridiculous but it allows me to enjoy my physical copies and if I wanted I could make a little switch arcade cab even with my carts some day. It was inexpensive but I’ve only seen the 4-cart changer for sale in the last several months.

By Blast16

Re: Review: Neo Geo Arcade 2 (Evercade) - Garou Alone Makes This A Near-Essential Buy

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:15:58 GMT

@Blast16 Problem with that for me as I wouldn’t end up playing it then. (I have cotton reboot on cartridge but end up just playing the Arcade Archives version. Same thing applied to the Streetfighter games in that case I gave away the carts and rebought digital. It takes me ages to find anything- all my carts are just in a bag. Maybe I should get a cart holder like I used to use on 3ds but I am not sure whether I even want to be switching games all the time.)

By h3s

Re: Review: Neo Geo Arcade 2 (Evercade) - Garou Alone Makes This A Near-Essential Buy

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:52:27 GMT

@h3s Ninja Commando is awesome! If you’re looking, it did get a switch physical copy as part of a collection, ACA NEOGEO Archives Volume 4, including:
Art of Fighting 3
The King of Fighters 2000
The Last Blade
Metal Slug
Neo Geo Cup ’98: The Road to the Victory
Ninja Commando
Pulstar
Puzzled
Ragnagard
The Super Spy

By Blast16

Re: Review: Neo Geo Arcade 2 (Evercade) - Garou Alone Makes This A Near-Essential Buy

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:56:35 GMT

I really like Ninja Commando I was a bit disappointed I couldn’t get it recently on the UK Switch eshop (Arcade Archives).

I think overclocking the emulator should be an option for Metal Slug 2 (In some ways I think it is more balanced than Metal Slug X).

By h3s

Re: Review: Neo Geo Arcade 2 (Evercade) - Garou Alone Makes This A Near-Essential Buy

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:36:42 GMT

I have the Japanese Dreamcast version of Garou, it's where I first played it. For me with Evercade it's the more weird and UK centric collections that have interested me, Dizzy, Codemasters, Bitmap Brothers, Gremlin. I do like the NeoGeo and first had the chance to play SNK games when I imported various ports back on the Saturn, but probably not something I'll buy for Evercade.

By Ristar24

Re: Review: Neo Geo Arcade 2 (Evercade) - Garou Alone Makes This A Near-Essential Buy

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:42:40 GMT

I have this preordered. I’ll be using this with my NeoGeo super pocket, giving me 20 games on the handheld. Metal Slug X is 1 of the 14 pre-installed games. The only other cart I’ll get this year will be Rare collection. Thanks for the reviews on both.

By gb_nes_gamer