neo rage x is for practice and feel, the games them self I feel are prity much the same excpet for controles, which can be teadous if you don't mod a neogeo joystick for yoru computer. Over all if your not a collector and you have a laptop with TV out there is no reason not to go with neo rage x. It's great if all you want are the games with no collectability.... And as to say if their not the same. ----- I personaly don't know to what extent they are cut for the roms but not so extensivly that someone could tell unless they were a neogeo freak. The roms are smaller than the games on carts, i don't know if that is due to compression or what, it seems if they were direct rips from the carts or cd then they would the same size........
Controle pad mods--- what you need are probably a verry basic 4 button controle pad or side winder. you will need to of course gut the comp pad and the saturn or neogeo pad. After they are both guted take the comp pad and cut it to fit with a very shapr knife, if you have to cut out the buttons ect... it is no problem, just get it so that they are pressing on the sensors. After that sider all the printed cicurts to the places where you severed their connections, the D-pads are usualy the hardest part, you will just have to work with it and see what you can come up with. Once everything is touching and sodered togather it will work just like haveing it factory made.
[This message has been edited by ravenmgs (edited March 22, 2001).]