Hello mer-curious, I think we are using the same kof95.zip since we dont see the crc error. I am using aes japan bios which may be the reasons. I have also experienced the corruption of save in the following cases: 1. Switching from very old version to recent version. 2. Loading save in neogeo startup screen (the save actually works if I skip the intro first)
(Note: The aes japan bios is in fact not a good choice, just lazy to setup. In kof 2000 char select screen, there is text error when using bios other than the unibios)
About the sound association in kof98, by combining track25 & 06 to get the ‘Here come a new challenger’ music is good in most case, but it do not loop like the arcade version. I wish only the second part of the music is looped.
Besides kof98, I would like yo talk about there are other games with some music which cannot or not so good to use the ngcd track directly. For example, kof95, the terry team music should add the ambient sound at the beginning, and athena team music should add a few second of empty space at the beginning, so that it will sound the same way as arcade. There are many other example, maybe it is better to make a new post to talk if interested.
I am also interested in ngcd game specially the one with little sprite cut and bonus content, like the kof95, 96 with extra ending.
(http://neogeocdworld.info/html/jeux/jeux/differences.htm )
(http://neogeocdworld.info/html/jeux/jeux/bonus.htm )
Therefore, I have tried to do something to modify some cd games to make them more perfect. For example, I modify the cd kof95, 96, 97 a bit, so that only one music is playing non-stop throughout all rounds of battles, just like playing rom. If you are interested, I will open another post to talk about it and share the modified files.