NeoRAGEx is the Windows port of NeoRAGE, a DOS command-line based Neo-Geo system emulator (AES and MVS). The original NeoRAGE was the first Neo-Geo emulator available and was capable of running Samurai Showdown at 60fps on a Pentium P133 based system (without sound). NeoRAGEx was a fully 32-bit Windows based application which added an attractive GUI, sound support for games and many more features such as a screen dump tool.

Within just a few releases the developers had created an excellent Neo-Geo emulator which would serve as the foundation upon which many other Neo-Geo emulators would be based and inspired (such as Nebula and Kawaks). A feature unique to NeoRAGEx was that it was able to run most dumps without having the specific support or 'driver' added to do this, as other emulators such as MAME, Nebula and Kawaks require. As development on NeoRAGEx slowed, eventually to the point where the emulator would not run under Windows XP, members of the emulation community started work on hacked versions, firstly adding support for running under Windows XP and then adding more recently released games to the game list.

Without any updates or the original source code being released the emulator was eventually superseded by newer Neo-Geo emulators. The most prolific site hosting fan versions and hacks was neoragex.com, created by Ryan Younger ('wizardchicken') and running from August 2000 to February 2008, tallying up several million visitors each month, this site maintained an archive of hacked versions for some years after work on the official releases halted.

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