Beat Chrono, now play some Secret of Mana. It is a really fun game. Secret of Evermore at the time it came out just disappointed me a lot. It seemed like a not so great version of Mana without the classic fantasy world feel and you use a bone as your first weapon. I may give it another try just for the hell of it though.
Anyways, I am playing Samurai Shodown RPG on my Neo Geo CDZ right now. Yes, Japanese only and horrible loading times, but it is more bearable on the CDZ system. Great game, there is a translation patch coming out hopefully this fall. Over the years of owning it I beat it with 3 characters on the shorter Amukusa chapter and now I am half-way through playing it on the much longer Mizuki chapter. There are Neo CD emus out there that will run this game with the patch pretty well. This gets rid of the long loading completely.