What are the differences between the Neo cart and CD consoles?
While the homecart or MVS system is able to directly address the cart memory and therefore can display graphics and effects immediately, the CD system has to load the data first. Initial load times range from 15 to 120 seconds, some games also load between levels, like the King of Fighters games after King of Fighters 94. That’s why some of the later (and much “bigger” in terms of MBits) games have cuts in the CD version, objects or animations are missing, etc. This is due to the amount of data (sprites, backgrounds, etc.) a game displays at the same time; if it exceeds a total of 7 MB of data which is the size of the Neo CD’s RAM, the CD either has to reload certain data or the excess data has to be cut in order to fit into the CD RAM. However, the CD console offers CD-quality audio tracks and has a more consistent picture quality because unlike the homecart-system, there were less hardware revisions on the main boards. The picture output, specially via RGB/Scart, is crystal clear and
