I am convinced that Digital Eclipse cannot make quality collections for the life of them. Between this, MMLC1, and Street Fighter 30th Anniversary collection they seem to always mess it up. In fact, this collection shows that the team at digital eclipse seemingly learned NOTHING from their mistakes in the SF30th collection, like- I get it's called the "NEOGEO" collection, but no SSVI? No cool features like arranged music (which, ftr, the PS2 collection had)? Nope, here's 6 arcade roms for 40 bucks. That's LESS games than the last collection for 10 dollars more. For games you could also just play on fightcade for fr-
The menus are really slow and annoying to navigate (like the last collection lmao), and there seems to be some weird emulation issues??? For clarification I've only played thru SSII on here but not only were there some odd visual bugs for the victory screen but I also somehow got a game breaking bug on the final boss that completely froze her in place while none of my buttons worked except while dashing. If this is present in the original, let me know, but I couldn't find anything about it online.
I find absolutely no reason to buy this collection unless you want to ""own"" these games in some form and maybe hunt trophies on PS4 or whatever. It's almost equally as shallow as SF30th and that's saying a lot for a collection released years after. The sheer quality of Capcom Fighting Collection (which was developed in house by Capcom) has basically confirmed that I don't think Digital Eclipse needs to make fighting game collections anymore. Code Mystics has been pumping out much better ports such as the Steam versions of SSV, KOF98UM, and KOF02UM. Use your well earned cash on those instead.
This was not the review I was referring to last time that I was gonna make. I just needed to ramble for a moment.