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SNK Neo Geo CD Teardown

Device	SNK Neo Geo CD
Difficulty	Moderate
Time	No estimate
Steps	15

This guide is by Everton Nascimento on iFixit and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. ByteRot mirrors it for non-commercial preservation: formatting changed and photos resized for old browsers; full-size photos and the text are on the FTP in /DOCS/REPAIR. Original guide >>

The Neo Geo CD was first unveiled at the 1994 Tokyo Toy Show.[6] The console uses the same CPU set-up as the arcade and cartridge-based Neo Geo systems, facilitating conversions, and SNK stated that they planned to release Neo Geo CD versions of every Neo Geo game still in the arcades.[7]

Three versions of the Neo Geo CD were released:

A front-loading version, only distributed in Japan, with 25,000 total units built.

A top-loading version, marketed worldwide, as the most common model.

The Neo Geo CDZ, an upgraded, faster-loading version, released in Japan only.

Step 1 :: SNK Neo Geo CD