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Out of curiosity, I've got a Neo Geo Pocket Color, with 'Metal Slug 1st Mission', is there any remote similarities in the hardware between the arcade machines and the pocket console out of interest.

Like I'm wondering if they could possibly use some of the code from the arcade machines, but maybe not?

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Both 16-bit machines, but vastly different CPUS. Motorola 68K vs a Toshiba of some sort. They bot have Zilogs for sound though, so maybe SNK used some code sharing there?

End of the day, SNK wisely chose to create unique experiences based on their arcade games for the system, but it was ultimately crushed by the Gameboy Color and Pokemon.

Cheers for the reply. That's interesting about them both using Zilogs for sound.

It's been a while since I played with it, I'll have to dig it out again.

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