Did any Neo-Geo game ever have close to 4096 onscreen colors?

[Joe Redifer]

The Neo Geo CD and the Neo Geo have the same tech specs.

Are you referring to the CD loading? Well, the Neo Geo CD has A LOT more data to load than your average Sega CD game. The Sega CD has 6 megabits of RAM. The Neo Geo CD has 58 megabits of RAM. Both have a single speed CD drive. The second model of the Neo Geo CD added a 2X drive I believe, though that's still not fast enough.

[Grounder]

Yay! My first post.

Anyway, I would wager that Neo Geo games were on average more colorful than comparable SNES games. I am saying this based on color counts done on Neo Geo games and their SNES ports. See this website for more detail.

http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/16bitArcadeComp.htm

Look at the section on Neo Geo ports.

I used to go there.

[0x15e]

Unlike Nintendo's Seal of Quality which actually stands for heavily tested games and high restrictions on the maximum amount of games per year that a publisher could release

Do you actually believe that? Sure, that may have been a side effect, but it was more because Nintendo wanted to be paid every time a cart was made to run on their system. There were some quality standards but it was originally so they didn't get screwed on royalties like Atari did.

I am referring to the Neo Geo CD, not the cartridge system...

The cart Metal Slug 2 slows down every bit as much as the CD as far as I know. They revamped the engine for X and 3 so it got much smoother then.