beefcake said:
thanks for the game help but now i'm hearing that there are two different systems.man this confuses me.witch is better and witch does what different.
This isn't an easy question: there are indeed two systems, the Neo Geo CD "standard" and the Neo Geo CD-Z, a faster loading unit. The CD-Z has abigger RAM (and maybe a faster CD drive, but this isn't completely sure), bus is said (again: no proof whatsoever!) that is more likely to blow up.
And there are even two kind of "standard" Neo Geo CD: a front-loader and a top-loader... they're basically the same system, but the front loader is bigger and more "exclusive", while the top-loader is more common and cheaper.
Neo Geo CD: slower but cheaper and really reliable (only had one problem in 10 years!)
Neo Geo CDZ: faster, smaller, but MAYBE a bit unreliable
If you plan to use backups (CD-R), the Neo Geo CDZ is said to have a protection system that prefent newer games to ble played as backups.
The great problem of the CD systems (both CD and CDZ) are the game pads... they break up really, REALLY easily! Try to get a classic Neo Geo stick or an adapter to use Dreamcast or Playstation pads!