Some Neogeo games has long loading time, that's absolutly normal. Games who have been released after 1999 have nasty encryption sheme, as we have 64mo of RAM to process them it's slow. The positive point is i speed the decryption, it's 30% faster than previous FBA-XXX / FBA-XXX Pro. So
even with optimization, it would be slow in all case The only alternative is using decryted sets when they're available, check it in dats file.
Concerning your CPS2 issue, don't being worried by that. If you're motivated you can compile your own build and put the latest CPS1 - 2 code i posted here:
http://neosource.1em...56.msg10278#newNo known issues (whatever the video mode you use), it will be the code of FBA-XXX Pro 1.30

which is 100% MAME accurate (latest MAME is 0.133u3 right?).
Being the purist of noobs, do I take all the files I unrared and just drop them in the Fba folder, or how do I compile? I know the new build is coming out soon but, I want to learn. I have all the builds of Fbaxxx, the a,b,c and all the c updates do I just ftp all the files to the folder? Now you go me motivated.