Best SNES and Genesis flashcart?

kbf · Mar 22, 2026

tech3475 said:
Considering the price difference alone, I'd assume it's a clone.

It may work as sold but I would be weary of trying official krikzz updates on it due to the alleged risk of bricks I've read about.

Is they're any reason to update the firmware anyway? I don't think I'll be doing anything special with it. And it says it can play pretty much every game?

Armadillo · Mar 22, 2026

Assuming it's as the seller says, a cyclone iv fpga and the rev z pcb by ky technology, then it works fine and can take the official updates, or at least it can for now. IIRC the firmware for the SD2SNES/FXPAK is open source, so you can't really sneak brick code in there.

I have one, works great.

tech3475 · Mar 23, 2026

kbf said:
Is they're any reason to update the firmware anyway? I don't think I'll be doing anything special with it. And it says it can play pretty much every game?

I would look at the changelog for recent versions.

If you do buy it, I would backup the sd card and then also do a checksum comparison between the card and the official website.

SylverReZ · Mar 26, 2026

Armadillo said:
Assuming it's as the seller says, a cyclone iv fpga and the rev z pcb by ky technology, then it works fine and can take the official updates, or at least it can for now. IIRC the firmware for the SD2SNES/FXPAK is open source, so you can't really sneak brick code in there.

I have one, works great.

I've got one of these and I haven't tested it further in the case of official updates but it works alright. It seems to be common place with the Mega EverDrive clones which have been bricked from official updates in the past, and the quality is overall mediocre, with some of these carts not being able to boot games or have backwards compatibility issues with the Genesis 3.

There's a full write-up on how to recover these MD-EverDrive clones particularly the V3 models which were mentioned. https://delta-island.com/index.php/en/tutorials/repair-everdrive-md-v3

The FXPAK Pro is meant to be a successor to the FXPAK (aka SD2SNES) with Rev. Z as mentioned being one of them. Here's some of the photos of my unit to get an idea of what you will be receiving:

It comes with level translators for handling the logic and flash chips at the correct voltage so you shouldn't encounter the cartridge shorting out in the console. However, there's no beveled edges on my cart, and that goes for the Super EverDrive X5 (official) from KRIKzz which can put strain on the slot-just keep that in mind.

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