System ROM

Toshiba EP0 BIOS ROM found on an AES board

BIOSes are ROMs containing the initial program executed by NeoGeo systems. They are present in all hardware types.

Toshiba SP-S2 BIOS ROM on a 1FZS MVS slot.

AES BIOS

128kB. NEO-EP0.

MVS BIOS

128kB. SP-S2. Different names according to nationality.

CD/CDZ BIOS

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SP1 BIOS ROM on a CDM3-2 board.

512kB (1MB ?). One chip that contains Z80 and 68k programs, PCM sound, and graphics data which are copied to the corresponding DRAMs at boot time.

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SPJ Japanese BIOS on a ROM-only arcade board. Picture courtesy of [MVS-Scans].