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It's time to take your retro experiences on the Evercade even further, as the EverSD, a cartridge that allows for the loading of emulators and backups has been released for the system. The Evercade launched earlier this year, and is a handheld that uses new cartridges to play retro games, with support for Atari 2600, NES, Sega Genesis, and other platforms. The EverSD allows you to emulate those consoles without the need of multiple carts via the use of a micro SD, has the ability to use savestates, and even lets you use the Evercade as a development kit.

According to the EverSD website, the device is now available to buy for €40.00. A video, linked above, shows the cart being used, emulating Game Boy and Super Nintendo homebrew titles. PlayStation 1 emulation is supported, as well as Nintendo 64, though the latter is noted for having "very slow" performance.

What is EverSD?

EverSD is a homebrew and development kit that lets you play your own games on the Evercade.
Don't have an Evercade? You can find a reseller at 'https://evercade.co.uk'.

Which systems can I emulate?
The following systems are supported:

• NES/Famicom
• SNES
• GameBoy
• GameBoy Color
  
• GameBoy Advance
• Genesis/MegaDrive
• Sega Master System
• Sega Game Gear
• Wonderswan
• Wonderswan Color
• Playstation 1
• PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16
• N64 (VERY SLOW!)

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[wartutor]

So exactly what does this thing do, Play emulators off of an expensive proprietary card? Cant i just use a psp/vita for the same experience. Why didnt they just make a micro sd card slot in the side of the device and skip the stupid card slot?

 

[Deleted User]

So exactly what does this thing do, Play emulators off of an expensive proprietary card? Cant i just use a psp/vita for the same experience. Why didnt they just make a micro sd card slot in the side of the device and skip the stupid card slot?

because on release the only thing available were cartridge games

 

[jamesaa]

I'd be interested in seeing the internals of this cart.

My (limited) understanding of the Evarcade carts is they're basically SD cards with a different pin out, I wonder if this device does anything special or is simply an expensive SD card adapter

 

[Adran_Marit]

I'd be interested in seeing the internals of this cart.

My (limited) understanding of the Evarcade carts is they're basically SD cards with a different pin out, I wonder if this device does anything special or is simply an expensive SD card adapter

It's probably some basic sd card adaptor to the evercade pinout

 

[mugwort]

That $36 shipping for an evercade cart is painful.

 

[HtheB]

It's probably some basic sd card adaptor to the evercade pinout

As long as it works

That $36 shipping for an evercade cart is painful.

It says €20 for me... ?

 

[mugwort]

So exactly what does this thing do, Play emulators off of an expensive proprietary card? Cant i just use a psp/vita for the same experience. Why didnt they just make a micro sd card slot in the side of the device and skip the stupid card slot?

Fancy carts in fancy boxes for $20.
It seems like SD cart slots are avoided for many "solely gaming" products and it seems to be by some exterior arm twisting. Like AtGames could put an SD card on their portables, but had to have a "firmware only" sd card or usb connector you need to solder a usb port to on the Flashback 9 and X, but they released instructions to hack each themselves. Hyperkin, on the other hand, put an SD card purposely for ROMs on the Retron 77, as does android RG350.

 

[Stwert]

this is dumb. if you're going to rely on a retro handheld, just get a cheap bittboy or rg350 if you want performance or a vita.

Totally agree! I did consider getting an Evercade, but ended up with an RG350M. It’s more versatile, has more systems and much better controls.. imo.

 

[JLsoft]

System with '-cade' in the name, hyping cartridge collections of Namco/Data East/etc games that were arcade hits...and they're all the NES/Genesis/SNES versions. :I

 

[mugwort]

System with '-cade' in the name, hyping cartridge collections of Namco/Data East/etc games that were arcade hits...and they're all the NES/Genesis/SNES versions. :I

On the plus side they are better formatted for the screen than the arcade cabinet aspect ratio, though I often wish they could make it still play well with controls with the screen in the long-way-vertical orientation.

 

[wiewiec]

What does the evercade do without a flashcard?

nothing, it only play their game compilation carts, I was thinking about buying this think but I've passed when I watched Game Sack's review showing that lots of games not play properly... And it wasn't just wrong emulation of sound etc... but mostly freezes etc. Now I have no idea if this is fixable since emulators are part of the cart not console.

 

[esmith13]

I ordered one. $75.72 with shipping from the Netherlands to the US. Pretty steep for a flash adapter but we'll see if it's worth it...
As for "why bother" - well, the evercade is a nostalgia machine. Us older folk (44 here) not only want to replay our past but like the feel of a cart based system and the notion of paying money that actually goes to the game developers. Now, while I also own an unhealthy number of chinese handheld emulation devices and numerous SBCs dedicated to gaming - I do carry my evercade around a lot and it would be nice to get to play a selection of games I use other handhelds for on the same device instead of carrying another. And YES I also have a powerful android phone I always carry but I can't stand the distraction of popups, notifications, phone calls, etc on the same screen. I also dislike and never remember to grab an android controller device regularly.
At the end of the day it's all personal preference.
I guess I'll find out soon if my preferences wasted me $75.72 of my hard earned cashola...

 

[Rahkeesh]

Game sack's sound issues were due to incompatibility with his specific capture card. The HDMI output is basically a little non-standard. You would never run into that playing handheld though.

Any other complaints hold up though, including lack of remapping and the baffling decision not to use 1:1 scaling when the screen was so close but just a little off. Fortunately custom emulators on this flashcard should be able to fix those.

 

[wiewiec]

Game sack's sound issues were due to incompatibility with his specific capture card. The HDMI output is basically a little non-standard. You would never run into that playing handheld though.

Any other complaints hold up though, including lack of remapping and the baffling decision not to use 1:1 scaling when the screen was so close but just a little off. Fortunately custom emulators on this flashcard should be able to fix those.

I do not think so that it was capture card problem by his side. He showed that have hangs with sound problems.

 

[FreePlayFlorida]

Just got my cart, and kinda disappointed so far, throw some roms on it ,various systems ,and they play but without using the windows prog to setup the art work, they appear blank on the screen, once you hit A they start and seem to play fine, only tested a TG16, Game Gear and SNES, just kinda bummed your can naviagate thru a text list, needs to find the art work, has potential and hopefully they continue to support it, improve it, but still for 50 euros ish to door im happy to have one in hope gets better

 

[HtheB]

Just got my cart, and kinda disappointed so far, throw some roms on it ,various systems ,and they play but without using the windows prog to setup the art work, they appear blank on the screen, once you hit A they start and seem to play fine, only tested a TG16, Game Gear and SNES, just kinda bummed your can naviagate thru a text list, needs to find the art work, has potential and hopefully they continue to support it, improve it, but still for 50 euros ish to door im happy to have one in hope gets better

They provide a boxart loader on their website, have you tried it out?

Edit: you can also add the arts manually without the boxart loader

 

[KiiWii]

Does anyone have even a remote idea or a clue how to run Retroarch on this?

 

[esmith13]

Does anyone have even a remote idea or a clue how to run Retroarch on this?

It already IS running retroarch. (at least the EverSD is, not sure about the Evercade itself)

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Just got my cart, and kinda disappointed so far, throw some roms on it ,various systems ,and they play but without using the windows prog to setup the art work, they appear blank on the screen, once you hit A they start and seem to play fine, only tested a TG16, Game Gear and SNES, just kinda bummed your can naviagate thru a text list, needs to find the art work, has potential and hopefully they continue to support it, improve it, but still for 50 euros ish to door im happy to have one in hope gets better

My cart just cleared customs so I should have it in a few days but I already prepped my SD card. I tried to use their software and found it easier to just do it manually using my roms that I already scraped on my PC for art and two tools - Fuzzy Rename and Bulk Rename Utility. I prepped about 250 roms across all the supported systems with art in about 30min by hand (like I mentioned, I already had complete romsets and scraped art to start with).

Someone with the skills and an EverSD should write a program that starts with scraped roms and art (like meant for retropie and the like) and you just pick the individual roms you want and it pulls and renames everything. THAT would be sweet...

 

[Hekel]

Better to forget about the everSD as its not working very well btw. long.. Evercade will not support it.

 

[HtheB]

Better to forget about the everSD as its not working very well btw. long.. Evercade will not support it.

Seems like it's working fine I guess