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Playing Game Backups

There are multiple ways to play backups of your game cartridges or homebrew games. The USB Tengu is capable of dumping and playing back games via a PCB it came with.

1 min readUpdated Oct 9, 2026

There are multiple ways to play backups of your game cartridges or homebrew games.

USB Tengu Flash Cart and Dumper

The USB Tengu is capable of dumping and playing back games via a PCB it came with.

To flash games, simply:

  1. Plug your game cartridge into the USB Tengu, and the USB cable into your Windows or Mac computer.
  2. Run the Neo Geo Pocket Driver software (Neogeo+pocket+160914-3.rar / Neogeo+pocket+160915en.dmg).
  3. Click the "Flash" button and select the file you wish to flash.

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