Robo Army (Neo Geo) 4/4

[Jac2Mac]

What would have happened if after the final boss of Robo Army was destroyed, the woman at 7:07 did NOT wake up at all? How would things have gone differently in the ending?

[Loader2K1]

@Jac2Mac: From the looks of things, I think Dr. Jeed was planning on transferring his brain into his daughter's body.

[PHILFISH696969]

Looks like Mega Man is all grown up.

[kanodoom]

Tottaly awsome, dude, u r really best game ever.

[ForFurries]

What I've learned from this game:

Robots hate pidgeons.

Robots hate cars.

Robots hate lizards.

Robots hate other robots.

Robots hate dogs.

Robots hate police.

Robots compress into nothing when they die.

[YouFucked2]

Its a motherboard with a 16bit 6800 CPU clcoked up and an 8bit Z80A clocke up magazines at the time called it the 24bit machine but its just 16bit graphics. it had sprite cpus to deal with lots of large characters and more colours and later on extra cpus in the game cartriges to do scaleing.

[WCWite]

So I heard this is 24 bit?

[gavincurtis]

Not really,

It has a 12 MHz 16 bit 68000 for graphics + 3 custom video co processors for scaling.

Then a 4 MHz 8 bit Z80 steering data into the phattest of phat sounding Yamaha YM2610... 15 channel audio synthesizer.

Just a friggin' awesome system despite being older technology.

100 years from now it will be just as fun to play... and listen to that beautiful voice of the 2610. :)

[WCWite]

So in other words a suped up 16 bit machine...

[gavincurtis]

Exactly :) Five processors. They could have kept adding the bits of all the CPUs and went for 72 bit system.

I believe some of the carts had a dedicated processor in them to help manage memory flow.

[gavincurtis]

Each cart (cartridge) aka BRICK has two circuit boards. From careful opening my own:

One circuit board in the cart was audio ROM.

The 2nd cart board was video and more populated. Usually had another custom 16 bit co-processor. This was a distributed processing machine which shot it years ahead of competitors.

Don't know if the 8 bit audio and 16 bit video were ever bridged into a true 24 bit data bus.

I was overly curious, yet paranoid to ruin my system by snooping about too much.

[kirgeez]

I never knew that. So it's a Sega Genesis on steriods. The Genesis also used the 68000 and a Z80 just not as powerful.

[ShadowDancer79]

i love this game, the FIRST STAGE is the BEST ever. ROBO ARMY for every NEO GEO game collection :-)

[TimelordR]

The only thing that sucks about the early games on the NEO-GEO is that whenever you die, all your hard-earned points drop to ZERO when you continue. Do those people at SNK expect us to beat their games on just 1 credit? Still, they were quite memorable. Thanks for sharing!

[ForFurries]

Pretty much, that's what made them hard.

I've only ever seen someone play through DnD on 1 credit. Amassed almost a million xp.

Too bad the xp didn't do much for you in the game, only gave you position on the tally board.

[elchamber]

I can't believe Neo Geo is the most expensive home video game consoled EVER! $625.00 Thank you PS.

[pokebob2001]

Congrats on beating Jeed and his vile monstrosities! Thanks for posting all your Robo Army experiences.

[Toneman]

Thanks dawg. If it wasn't for Phil Moore and Nick Arcade, I would've slept on this

[hiufung]

nice ly

[CraigFoye80]

Before the Final Bossfight between Maximus and the evil Dr. Jeed, his past came back to haunt Maximus: the bosses that Rocky has defeated in the first 5 stages of "Robo-Army" returned to its final stage to make an attempt to destroy Maximus.

[MoriyaMug]

You know, I never noticed before how much that monkey looks like the one from Strider Hiryu...