I don't know a lot about these, but do you go online to load the micro SD card with games? They seem very convenient. I have the physical of many games that I'm interested in but this would be cool to travel with!
Once things open up again, you'll have to hit up a retro gaming expo...You'd love it. Just to be around all that history and people who dig it as well. You don't have to buy a thing...but just enjoy that it exists.
@@MetalJesusRocks Mr MetalJesusRocks which expo would you recommend to go? I did a Google search and the Portland one pops up. Is that a solid choice once we get back into the swing of things?
I actually didn’t have any old consoles when I started watching and now I have more then I can count and I’m thinking about making a RUclips video on all my stuff
@@learnedeldersofteemo8917 top guy, different times. Was always someone selling them and pirated dvds filmed off a camcorder in the back of a cinema at the pub 😂. Would never happen nowadays, shame
The first GB flash cart I got for my eldest son was called Mr Flash 64M which I must have bought around 2001. We used it so we could trade on Pokémon games without having to buy duplicate copies of each physical cartridge
This is so convenient if you cannot access to a physical library, for example in colombia those cartridges of n64 are so difficult and expensive to get. Thanks for the info!
Thank you, I didn’t know this was a thing! Before reading this I would have put the Mode in the Saturn because the Phoebe/Rhea are so rarely in stock but GDEmu clones are common.
@@Stripestore I was a backer of the project for a while and I've been loving it. They've opened orders to the public in January - so it's pretty new. Still, the early firmware is great and the homebrew save file backup utility already works with it.
@@Stripestore I love my Rhea but honestly I’d get a MODE if I didn’t already have Rhea. Adding games to the Rhea menu system is a pain if you want everything organized. Also there’s no sub folder support. MODE is as good as EverDrives IMO.
👍 Yeah, not to forget some great online experiences for Dreamcast but I'm not sure how a MODE in a Dreamcast compares alongside Dream Pi when considering the connectiom of keyboard, mouse and microphone (not that we don't have other chat options nowadays) ... But performance alongside connectivity of the keyboard and mouse supporting games and while online?🤷♂️
I would go for the Saturn because the Saturn is one of a kind and hard to emulate. The prices for Sega Saturn games have risen drastically. Getting a Dreamcast is much easier than the Saturn.
I have a MODE in a Dreamcast and love it! So many cool aftermarket games and ports. Recently there was many Atomiswave arcade games converted to the Dreamcast.
@@danieljimenez1989 Original GDEMU's are hard to obtain as there's a single guy who makes and sells them. Secondhand authentic GDEMU's are super expensive and will usually run you hundreds of dollars. I've heard working with the original creator to order one is a nightmare as it can take a long time to ship (if you're lucky enough to catch a preorder when it goes up once every blue moon) and he's been known to cancel preorders out of annoyance if you email him to check the status of your purchase. I do not have firsthand experience of this, but reddit would be a good place to research and make up your own mind. Clone GDEMU's are plentiful and a lot cheaper, however, you cannot update it with the official firmware as the chipset is just different enough that flashing it will brick it. Usage and compatibility seem to be about on par with the authentic GDEMU. It's your call if you choose to support the creator or not, so I won't go any further into the morality of it all. GDEMU's only run games from a full size SD card (or a microSD if you have an adapter). There are several games that have compatibility issues with the GDEMU, most notably Resident Evil Code Veronica X and Skies of Arcadia. RE has a game breaking glitch during a puzzle that will halt progress in the game. SoA will freeze during a certain part of the opening cinematic unless your skip it. On the SD card, all games have to be separated into numbered folders (01, 02, 03, etc..) and the GDI or CDI image will be need to renamed to "game.gdi/cdi". This makes it difficult to know what game is on your card unless you use a tool called SD Card Maker for GDEMU. MODE seems to have 100% compatibility. It will allow you to use SD cards as well as USB flash drives and SATA hard drives. Each game will need placed in their own folder, but you can name the folders whatever you want as well as the image itself. Overall, the MODE is a better experience than the GDEMU, but also a lot more expensive.
I've had my flashcart for NeoGeo Pocket Color for years - by the Flashmasta company. I have also installed a frontlight from HandHeld Legends. There is also a replacement screen on AlliExpress. I love my NGP and I have enjoyed your video with Reggie about it a lot!
Just wanted to throw out a little correction so no one gets confused. You showed the Mega Everdrive Pro but then mention the X7 running CD games while showing Sonic CD. The Mega Everdrive X7 does not run CD games (sadly haha because that is what I’ve had for a while), still an awesome flash cart though.
Backlit replacement screens for the Neo Geo Pocket are available and really easy to install. The screens are a bit smaller than the original but the jump in quality is absolutely worth it. They even have touch sensors to control screen brightness. One tip: Get a set that includes a bracket so the screen will sit in the correct position.
Yes absolutely. Everdrives retain all the original functionality of games. Some Everdrives do have save state functionality but in the ones that don't you can still save how you normally would.
@@yjzep9922 Ok cool. Yeah I hear you there man. I think it was the end of 2019 somewhere. All I know is I wanted it for my Japanese RGB, region modded Duo. I also have just about all the Soldier series games, minus a couple of them. One on the PC Engine and the other on the NES.
Amazing video! It was very interesting that you mentioned My Life in Gaming channel because when I saw the title and thumbnail I thought it was a video from their channel, haha.
The nes everdrive is my main in my setup. I love it! I've found so many games I want to add to my physical collection while simultaneously letting me preserve the collection I have. And who doesn't enjoy introducing their friends and family to great games they never played back in the day? The weekend of my brother's wedding, I got to introduce my cousins (who were born past 2000) to some nes classics and their reaction to those games are exactly why I love collecting / preserving all of gaming past and present. And I have you to thank. The first videos of yours I saw were the fps and racing series of forgotten games and that nostalgia bug got me good :P
recent discoverer of your channel... I have almost all the everdrives... apart from the mega cd one (have just mega drive) and love them. For me I had to move my entire collection into storage a few years ago, when my daughter still living with us had a baby... living in the uk in a 2 bedroom appartment, meant my collection had to be boxed away. 3 years later and I have changed my retro focus to everdrives and cd sd cards and a powerful gaming pc with launchbox front end. I also invested in adaptors, so I can plug in real controllers in to the pc. I have to say I am blown away for all the reasons you give in your video. Everdrives is real deal, but Emulation for most part has really impressed me with Dolphin, Duck Station, redream., pcsx2, project 64, tekno parrot and Saturn, all upscaling the graphics if you want...making them look better than they ever did and as you think you remembered it. I still retro collect, although have definitely slowed down, partly like you have many of the main ones I like... Of course one day I hope to have a bigger place and my own game collection on display, as I do miss them... but having my beautiful 3 year old grand daughter in our place and our daughter, bringing joy is something worth infinitely more than me having a game room. Anyway keep up the fab vids, loving them and your hidden gems vids have introduced me to many new games.
I've been watching your old Best Album videos. You had some great picks I even bought a couple of the Albums. You should do a current top 10 Albums list maybe like the last 20 years or so.
I know nothing about ever drives. Is it exactly as if you had the original gaming running? Or are there noticeable differences, like with most emulators?
It's not an emulator. They basically trick the original hardware into thinking it's a legit cart so it boot roms from an SD card. There is no difference between a game running off the original cart or an everdrive. Except the everdrives (If you get the more expensive models) have some emulator niceties like save states.
There’s no emulation in this, it’s identical to having the real cartridge in the device. As an example, most consoles don’t load the entire ROM into memory at a time - they couldn’t, not enough memory to do so! - and so the console would frequently go back to the ROM cart to grab more instructions. EverDrives mimic this perfectly. This does not mean there haven’t been bugs with particular ROMs, and how a cartridge’s chips intended to be read by the console. However, at this point, EverDrives are 99.99% bug free :) The firmwares are all upgradeable, just in case.
The other 2 comments may know more than me about it, but I use the Snes and GBA Everdrives. I did have to put an emulator on the Everdrive for it to play games at all, so I was assuming that it was running them like an emulator. On the GBA Everdrive you can run GBA, GB, GBC, NES, and Sega Masters System.
@RaniaIsAwesome This.... the most expensive everdrives handle the "extra chips / extra hardware? games very well.. cheaper ones either are very limited or do not support that at all. Some systems, like the game gear, the carts had no enhancements in them. The ROM simply gets dumped into system memory and executed. Some systems, like the genesis, VERY FEW games had any kind of enhancements.... if you could live without support for the one or two titles that need it.. your fine. Some systems had a lot of games with enhancement chips. The EverDrive, at its lowest levels, does two things. It provides the game ROM for the system to run and it can try to emulate any extra chips the original cart may have had through the EverDrives built in FPGA (so it's hardware emulation).
I've been using Everdrives and other flash carts for years and have tried to get as many ODEs installed as I can in recent times. I can now play ROM/ISO files from an SD card on NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Master System, Megadrive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, Gameboy/Color, Gameboy Advance and DS. These days I collect systems rather than games. So nice to be able to play any game you want on any system without having to spend millions and have a house full of stuff. HDMI mods + Everdrive/ODE is the end goal for all of my retro systems.
I have Everdrives for Genesis, Snes, N64 and Terraonion's MODE installed on my Japanese Saturn (I also have a european Saturn and a PAL disc collection). Downloading the entire library of Genesis/SNES/N64 games was easy, but I've been obsessively downloading absolutely everything I possibly can on the Saturn, it runs everything region free and there are so many Japanese games that I missed and it offers an entire world of unexplored games and translation hacks, 4MB ram hacks and so forth. Saturn is my favorite system and getting the Terraonion MODE for my Saturn was the best thing I've done in a long time.
That Genesis Everdrive with the Sega CD emulation sounds great! I bought a secondhand Sega CD but it never worked so maybe this is something I need to finally play those Sega CD games I haven’t gotten to play.
One great thing about the Everdrive N8 is you don't have to worry about the horrible, unreliable cartridge connector on the toaster model NES anymore. Just plug in the Everdrive and you never have to take it out ever again (the SD card can be removed without taking out the flash cart).
These flash carts sound expensive until you think of what some games run on the used market. Like, the FXPAK Pro is only a little more expensive than buying a Chrono Trigger cartridge. If you're a collector, a flash cart won't get you anywhere, but if you just want to play games, there's no other way.
Man, watching this reminds me of when I was a kid and a carried around a bag full of gameboy games, and there was always a chance they would get lost or stolen. I wish I had one of these as a kid.
I still carry it around i was made homeless and still managed to carry my bag of gb gbc gba games around in the same bag iv had since a child lol funny how some things seem so important i got it out a few days ago and it was still charged too i sold my gbc and gb but i have a gba sp now so i can still play all my games also have a pokemon mini and 2 games got it when they were brand new never met anyone else that had one though :) ahh memories
“I still really like having the physical games on the shelf, with the manuals and boxes”. It’s funny, as more time goes on, the more I wish I could bite the bullet and purge all my physical games. If I want cool stuff on the wall, I’ll buy some art or something, haha.
Thank you for making this video. For the mode I would put it in the Sega Saturn since the format conversion involves a lot of work. The mode solves this problem makes dealing with conversions a lot easier.
Been buying flash carts for over 12 years now. First was one was the PowerPak from retroUSB. My first ODE was the GDEMU, almost 6 years ago now. It's great to see these products evolve and get more features and have competing devices.
I love physical games too but financially it's impossible to own an NES, SNES, N64, and Genesis collection. I played those consoles as a kid but wasn't into game collecting back then. It's a great way to keep the history of older gen games alive by sharing it with other gamers and play on the original hardware. We get to play those rare/expensive games too. I really appreciate these Everdrives.
No doubt. This is the best gaming channel out there by a long distance. Just good vibes all along. I feel like I'm just sitting in a friend's basement couch talking about stuff with Alice in Chains playing in the background.
The SD2SNES and FXPak Pro can both play the Super FX, SA1 games and etc. You might want to revise it. The NES N8 Pro comes with more mappers to allow more games to be playable.
I just got a Satiator for my Saturn this week, so all of my consoles now have some SD card system. Anyone that collects home computers from the 80s can also find similar flash-based carts for them to simulate floppy drives.
I’ve just started using the EZFlash 4 Omega for Game Boy Advance, works great with a huge library. You can also throw Game Boy, Game Boy Color and NES roms onto it and they’ll emulate on your GBA device. Thanks for the video!
I've got some crazy flash carts and RAM carts myself. -Bung MGD³ "Multi Game Doctor" with V64jr512, GB X-Changer, Doctor GB Card 64M, and Multi X-Changer This one literally lets me plug a Game Boy flash cart into the back of a PlayStation and then lets me use the PlayStation to load games from CD-R onto the N64 RAM cart. -UperGrafx UGX-02 Like the Super SD System³, this thing has built-in flash cart and CD-ROM² emulation... but it also works like a plug & play Hi-Def NES/UltraHDMI for PC Engine. That's right: It doesn't convert analog video to digital... it taps into the digital video bus on the back which normally goes to a VCE/DAC (Video Color Encoder/Digital to Analog Converter). It uses the FPGA to replicate the function of the VCE except instead of spitting out analog it spits out DVI/HDMI, much like the Hi-Def NES replicates the PPU (Pixel Processing Unit) of an NES. The original PPU only has composite video so they had to replicate it's internal functions and clone it in FPGA to get digital video. -Datel Max Media Drive Believe it or not, this one was bought at Walmart and can be used to play commercial Nintendo DS games from a Compact Flash card in the GBA slot (Slot-2). ;) You have to patch the games but it really does work. It was supposedly intended for playing music and movies from CF card, but I'm not so sure I believe that since Datel also made the SD Media Launcher for GameCube. ;) Speaking of which, I may be part of the reason that thing exists. Right after the Cobra BIOS was extracted from the ViperGC modchip and released as a DOL called "Anaconda," I went to the #Dextrose IRC channel and suggested that someone could use a Datel Action Replay cheat to bootstrap the code from a memory card. This prompted a discussion about bootloaders, micro-bootloaders, entry points, etc and in a matter of days we had Samson's AR Loader. -Naki Game Saver Plus I also got this at Walmart even though it's secretly Bung hardware in disguise (Professor SF/Game Doctor series, Multi Game Doctor series, etc). Most people think it's just a cheat device with true slo-mo and save states, but you will note that it looks an awful lot like a Doctor V64jr with its horizontal pass-thru cart on the back and battery door above that. Open it up and you will find a big, fat, "Bung" chip. Makes sense because this was something their game copiers could do, like Game Doctor SF7. It even has an unpopulated parallel port connection inside. I believe it's basically a Bung MGD² Super NES backup unit with less RAM and more-restrictive Naki-branded firmware. Even the famous Doctor V64 shipped with firmware that disables backup support (users always had to download/flash the "Backup Enabled" FW themselves). Though there are a lot of talking about this thing I seem to be the only person pointing out that it is from Bung and is basically a piracy device. Fun fact: The scan of the code sheet that everyone shows when they talk about it is actually my copy where my twin brother shared it on ZSNES boards. ;) I still have it in the box with my Walmart receipt from the '90s and it has the exact same stains and creases seen in videos about it today. ;) -RetroActive UltraHDMI Update Cartridge with UltraSave flash linker and 64Drive HW2 programmer/flashcart. Years ago RetroActive was working on a line of low-cost N64 flashcart PCBs with built-in UltraCIC support No, they would not have intruded in 64Drive because these were intended to make dedicated universal-region games (homebrew, hacks, translations, repros, etc), though they could be flashed/reprogrammed with a RetroActive UltraSave. That's an interface device originally intended for backing up save games and dumping original N64 games (RetroActive UltraSave). The 64Drive is needed as the FPGA "brain" and the USB interface, since the UltraSave itself just has power and two cartridge slots (no USB). The flashcart boards were finished but the RetroActive UltraHDMI really took off and focus obviously shifted. Eventually many other flashcart solutions appeared and production of the 64Drive HW2 had fallen behind (still is), so RetroActive dropped all ambitions of making cheap flashcart PCBs. I received the PCBs back in 2017 pre-loaded with UltraHDMI 1.07 update ROM only days before 1.07A was released (DOH!). Since I didn't have what I needed to reprogram them I ended up making my own UltraHDMI 1.07A Update loaner cartridge out of a RetroStage N64 Blaster board and updated it again when FW1.08 came out, but I needed to modify both updater ROMs to support a different CIC security chip. Marshall at RetroActive actually reverse engineered the CIC/PIF chips with some friends (look up Mike Ryan's RE:Con 2015 presentation upload) and released the design for everyone to make their own clone CICs but kept the universal CIC they developed for things like 64Drive, and these UltraHDMI Update Cartridges. When you look at the board there is no clone CIC because they implemented it in the same FPGA that controls the ROM addressing. I figured an FPGA would be more expensive than a PIC chip CIC clone but these were only $7.50 each. Anyway, an UltraHDMI competitor was just announced with WiFi updating, so UltraHDMI customers without a flash cart need to know that they will be able to update even without WiFi. UltraHDMI HW2 shipped literally 2 days before the announcement with FW that was never intended to be shipping FW. That means new FW is on the way and I need to update my updater boards and make several loaner carts. I mentioned this to Marshall/RetroActive and he threw his personal 64Drive and UltraSave into a box with 150 UltraHDMI HW2 kits and shipped them on the first of this month. :) I ended up getting the earlier package with 80 UltraHDMI HW2 on the same day (5th). Yes, I have a lot of mainstream flashcarts and ODEs too, like Everdrives and SD2SNES/FX Pak Pro and even more obscure ones like a Wii ODE that connects to a PC instead of a HDD/USB/SD/flash (I built a Pico-ITX PC into the Wii's horizontal stand and now the stand itself is considered rare/valuable ;)). I'd love to show all of this someday. ;)
Great Vid MJ, Flash carts are brilliant since you don;t need to pay scalper prices to play "rare" games on real hardware now. The Flash Carts i've got is the Master Everdrive, Everdrive MD, N8 for Famicom, Terraonion NeoSD AES, SD2SNES pro, PSIO, the 1541 Ultimate2+ for the commodore 64 and the DivMMC future for the ZX Spectrum
One correction here. the old sd2snes everdrive cart supports and run superfx chip games and sa1 games, dsp games and cx games. Making basically 99% of the catalog work. only. some. obscure japanese. games. dont work
@@Hoytehablode Well to be fair, he also called pretty much all of them everdrives which they are not. Lol. The Neo Geo GD and the Lynx GD are made by RetroHQ. I checked Stone Age Gamer and according to their site, the Super Everdrive does not support the MSU or any enhancement chips. The original SD2SNES i know does support almost all enhancement chips now. That's what I currently own.
The Super Everdrive and SD2SNES (which was renamed due to "SD" being trademarked) are made by different people which makes it a bit more confusing. Krikkz makes the Super Everdrive, and the other one is by Ikari.
Love the Everdrives, i have the following: Everdrive 64 V2 (Nintendo 64) Super Everdrive V2 (Super Nintnedo) EverDrive-GBA X5 (NIntendo GameBoy Advanced) Mega EverDrive X5 (SEGA MegaDrive)
I would love to upgrade my stock Game Cube with the GC loader or Terra Onion mode for and get a Dream Cast and swap out the disc reader for SD card reader. I have Ever Drives for N64,NES,SNES, and Genesis. All are different generation models. I currently don't own any of the newest models of Ever Drives but might get the Genesis Ever Drive X7 for the save feature. I know you are into metal so have you heard the 20th Anniversary of Pantera's Reinventing the Steel? I have and the remixed tracks sound very clear and good. I have yet to hear the straight remastered tracks i bet those sound great too. The b-sides off the album are killer too, a shame they didn't give us a live disc. Great video dude!
Put it in the Saturn, no brainer. You can get a gdemu for cheap and plug it right into the Dreamcast easy (no soldering). I learned that from a man named Riggs, you may have heard of him.
MetalJesusRocks WOW!!! Just WOW!!! I'm just now discovered the everdrive carts through this video. Don't ask me where Ive been because I don't know! Lol!! 😂 but seriously I'm going to invest in some of these!
Everdrives were tempting for a while, but I'm glad I waited for the classic systems to come out. I have hacked NES, SNES, GEN, and PSX classics with my favorite games on them that suit me just fine.
I have a few of these everdrives, and the biggest things I like about these is that I can backup saves from games with save files without needing the special tools (like GB game carts) and use them on a different machine, but also because I can use them in lieu of the actual carts themselves*, so they don't suffer wear and tear. Having all games in one place is also a huge bonus. *I love collecting physical copies, I absolutely hate them when actually using them however, and would absolutely prefer digital medium.
i'm waiting for the flash cart that will allow you to sort roms by various categories like genre and year and region. you can have that info in the rom title but they need to be able to make a sortable list of that info.
Maybe add shortcut files linking to the rom files? That way you could have multiple presorted batches ordered in any manner you like and it would only require kilobytes of spaces instead of megabytes.
i use the nes one myself it’s a blast playing games i grew up with my 8 year old nephew :) i want to get a snes one that was the system i played the most
Isn't there the Xstation for that without modding the shell? Though, I recall coming across a product where the modification gave you a vertical-loading card holder underneath the PS1 lid.... Is that the MODE ?
@@That_Handle Yeah, Xstation is probably a better choice, but I was just mentioning that the mode could be installed in the PS1. The whole appeal of the MODE is that it can be used in multiple systems and can swap back and forth depending on what the user wants. It will also probably get more systems supposed later on down the road.
Great video! I don't know if this is weird but I find when I use a pc emulator or everdrive I'm like less inclined to complete the games I have on there. Like when I actually go and purchase a game I think I value it much more if that makes sense, like the only rpg I've ever completed on an emulator is Shin Megami Tensei if.
My GameCube looks exactly like yours. I went for the GCLoader as games like Paper Mario, Mario Kart etc. cost the price of a kidney now, unfortunately. Have you heard of the Laser Bear mount for the GCLoader?
To awnser your question, I use ODE for my GameCube (GC Loader) and Dreamcast (GD Emu Clone) and use Hard Drive Backup mod for my PS2 fat (with Free HD Boot), Xbox (Rocky Softmod) and Wii U. I wait my Everdrive 64, Super Sd System for my PC Engine and a Møde for my Saturn 🤘
This is an interesting overview of these items, I may consider getting one of these in the future. I mean, I got one of those Satisfye game grips because of you, and it made playing on the Nintendo Switch easier, and less likely to give hand cramps. You could even sell a can of Mountain Dew that you farted on, an chances are, I'd still buy it.
Hey MetalJesus! Great vid. I wanted to say two things: 1- What is the name of the SNES game at the 8:45 mark? Looks great! 2-- For SEGA Saturn, I recently got a Satiator. It slots right into the back and lets you read off an SD. I SUPER recommend it! I'm getting an Everdrive N64 X7 soon and I'm so hype to revive that console!!
So how is this footage all captured in HD, if it's on original hardware? Or will these work on something like a Retron 5? Great vid... Man, I want that Sega CD one.
I have an everdrive in my sega megadrive (your sega genesis), a 150 games in 1 for my NES, and de GDEMU installed in the dreamcast with a 128Gb SD that is AMAZING.
I would say to put the MODE into the Dreamcast. It's easy to burn most Saturn games to CD-Rs. Dreamcast games are much larger though and often have to have data removed or compressed in able for them to fit on a CD-R. CD compatible rips of some games like Shenmue II have a lot of missing audio files because of this. The MODE would allow you to play games fully uncompressed.
So pretty sure your original sd2snes is able to run those FX games as well. Sd2snes is open source and the FX chip is simulated within a chip on the cart, and firmware updates allow for older sd2snes to have full compatibility.
I'm going to do a GIVEAWAY of all my previous generation Everdrives/Flash carts soon, so follow me on social media for the details.
mode in the staturn gdemu in the dreamcast
OMG!
Very generous! Cool man
I don't know a lot about these, but do you go online to load the micro SD card with games? They seem very convenient. I have the physical of many games that I'm interested in but this would be cool to travel with!
live stream u putting the MODE in- then u can get help from chat when u get stuck we got your back
I have literally no retro games or systems but I friggin love this channel.
Once things open up again, you'll have to hit up a retro gaming expo...You'd love it. Just to be around all that history and people who dig it as well. You don't have to buy a thing...but just enjoy that it exists.
@@MetalJesusRocks Mr MetalJesusRocks which expo would you recommend to go? I did a Google search and the Portland one pops up. Is that a solid choice once we get back into the swing of things?
I actually didn’t have any old consoles when I started watching and now I have more then I can count and I’m thinking about making a RUclips video on all my stuff
Johhny, over one year later, are you now a retro gamer? Please give us an update.
@@georginaK21 I’m not I can’t afford the majority of anything available lol can’t even find a mini Nintendo here without paying out the butt for it
Every kid in the UK during the mid 2000’s Dad would bring back a DS R4 cart full of games back lol. Good times
I did this for like 30-40 family's they were so pleased.
@@learnedeldersofteemo8917 top guy, different times. Was always someone selling them and pirated dvds filmed off a camcorder in the back of a cinema at the pub 😂. Would never happen nowadays, shame
The first GB flash cart I got for my eldest son was called Mr Flash 64M which I must have bought around 2001. We used it so we could trade on Pokémon games without having to buy duplicate copies of each physical cartridge
This is so convenient if you cannot access to a physical library, for example in colombia those cartridges of n64 are so difficult and expensive to get. Thanks for the info!
Lo sé bro, hace años quería comprar varios pero el envío (México) estaba carísimo, luego en Mercadolibre los venden de uso más barato
This is all you need. You don't need to spend $100k for every cartridge in existence.
Put the MODE in the dreamcast and use a Satiator on your saturn (it lets you still use discs!)
Thank you, I didn’t know this was a thing! Before reading this I would have put the Mode in the Saturn because the Phoebe/Rhea are so rarely in stock but GDEmu clones are common.
@@Stripestore I was a backer of the project for a while and I've been loving it. They've opened orders to the public in January - so it's pretty new. Still, the early firmware is great and the homebrew save file backup utility already works with it.
@Kyle Reese Incel From The Future pretty easy, just google "xxx" + reddit
+1 for Satiator. Mine has been awesome thus far.
@@Stripestore I love my Rhea but honestly I’d get a MODE if I didn’t already have Rhea. Adding games to the Rhea menu system is a pain if you want everything organized. Also there’s no sub folder support. MODE is as good as EverDrives IMO.
Wonderful video! You’re the grand daddy of retro gaming for sure! I’ve been following your channel for years. Lots of respect for you. Love from India
man I'm obsessed with flash carts for some reason, this video makes me so happy.
I would Install the Mode in the Dreamcast! So many hidden Gems!
seconded!
👍 Yeah, not to forget some great online experiences for Dreamcast but I'm not sure how a MODE in a Dreamcast compares alongside Dream Pi when considering the connectiom of keyboard, mouse and microphone (not that we don't have other chat options nowadays) ... But performance alongside connectivity of the keyboard and mouse supporting games and while online?🤷♂️
Both, but putting the MODE in your Saturn will save you more money on all the unsung titles.
Did you say, “hidden gems?”
I would go for the Saturn because the Saturn is one of a kind and hard to emulate. The prices for Sega Saturn games have risen drastically. Getting a Dreamcast is much easier than the Saturn.
I have a MODE in a Dreamcast and love it! So many cool aftermarket games and ports. Recently there was many Atomiswave arcade games converted to the Dreamcast.
What's the difference between a mode and a gdemu for the dreamcast?
@@danieljimenez1989 Original GDEMU's are hard to obtain as there's a single guy who makes and sells them. Secondhand authentic GDEMU's are super expensive and will usually run you hundreds of dollars. I've heard working with the original creator to order one is a nightmare as it can take a long time to ship (if you're lucky enough to catch a preorder when it goes up once every blue moon) and he's been known to cancel preorders out of annoyance if you email him to check the status of your purchase. I do not have firsthand experience of this, but reddit would be a good place to research and make up your own mind.
Clone GDEMU's are plentiful and a lot cheaper, however, you cannot update it with the official firmware as the chipset is just different enough that flashing it will brick it. Usage and compatibility seem to be about on par with the authentic GDEMU. It's your call if you choose to support the creator or not, so I won't go any further into the morality of it all.
GDEMU's only run games from a full size SD card (or a microSD if you have an adapter). There are several games that have compatibility issues with the GDEMU, most notably Resident Evil Code Veronica X and Skies of Arcadia. RE has a game breaking glitch during a puzzle that will halt progress in the game. SoA will freeze during a certain part of the opening cinematic unless your skip it. On the SD card, all games have to be separated into numbered folders (01, 02, 03, etc..) and the GDI or CDI image will be need to renamed to "game.gdi/cdi". This makes it difficult to know what game is on your card unless you use a tool called SD Card Maker for GDEMU.
MODE seems to have 100% compatibility. It will allow you to use SD cards as well as USB flash drives and SATA hard drives. Each game will need placed in their own folder, but you can name the folders whatever you want as well as the image itself. Overall, the MODE is a better experience than the GDEMU, but also a lot more expensive.
There you go.... put it in your Saturn and MJ and John can just trade occasionally. Lol
the atomiswave conversion are awesome, totally worth having to play on dreamcast.. :D
@@retr0type thank you for your detailed explanation of this.
They collect Everdrives now? They collect Everdrives now.
I think you should install the MODE in your Saturn, The Saturn doesn't get enough love.
I've had my flashcart for NeoGeo Pocket Color for years - by the Flashmasta company. I have also installed a frontlight from HandHeld Legends. There is also a replacement screen on AlliExpress. I love my NGP and I have enjoyed your video with Reggie about it a lot!
Just wanted to throw out a little correction so no one gets confused. You showed the Mega Everdrive Pro but then mention the X7 running CD games while showing Sonic CD. The Mega Everdrive X7 does not run CD games (sadly haha because that is what I’ve had for a while), still an awesome flash cart though.
MJ, love this video! The Dreamcast please!
Backlit replacement screens for the Neo Geo Pocket are available and really easy to install. The screens are a bit smaller than the original but the jump in quality is absolutely worth it. They even have touch sensors to control screen brightness. One tip: Get a set that includes a bracket so the screen will sit in the correct position.
I heard there is a new screen for the Pocket that is slightly LARGER. I'm gonna be all over that!
@@MetalJesusRocks Uhh, that would be awesome - if you manage to get one please make a video about it! :)
It took him so long to get around to the MegaSD that it became a hidden gem.
When you say no save states, if the game has a save feature itself, like an rpg, is that still useable?
Yes absolutely. Everdrives retain all the original functionality of games. Some Everdrives do have save state functionality but in the ones that don't you can still save how you normally would.
@@zes793 awesome, thanks!
I bought an everdrive for my pc engine to attempt to stop buying expensive hucards. Still buy expensive hucards lol.
hucards are pretty fun to collect because I so rarely see them anymore.
@@MetalJesusRocks translation....I just paid $230 for soldier blade lol.
@@yjzep9922 Which one? The Japanese or American version? I paid less than $200 complete for the Japanese version a year or two ago.
@@atranfanatic japanese. A year or two ago might have been 20 with the way the prices have skyrocketed during covid.
@@yjzep9922 Ok cool. Yeah I hear you there man. I think it was the end of 2019 somewhere. All I know is I wanted it for my Japanese RGB, region modded Duo. I also have just about all the Soldier series games, minus a couple of them. One on the PC Engine and the other on the NES.
Amazing video! It was very interesting that you mentioned My Life in Gaming channel because when I saw the title and thumbnail I thought it was a video from their channel, haha.
Love that channel. I learn a lot!
@@MetalJesusRocks Thanks MetalJesus for such an interesting video! This is by far my favorite way to start the day with the morning coffee :)
The nes everdrive is my main in my setup. I love it! I've found so many games I want to add to my physical collection while simultaneously letting me preserve the collection I have. And who doesn't enjoy introducing their friends and family to great games they never played back in the day? The weekend of my brother's wedding, I got to introduce my cousins (who were born past 2000) to some nes classics and their reaction to those games are exactly why I love collecting / preserving all of gaming past and present. And I have you to thank. The first videos of yours I saw were the fps and racing series of forgotten games and that nostalgia bug got me good :P
I have the Everdrive 64 X7. With MAME and Neon64, its turned my N64 into my universal retro console
recent discoverer of your channel...
I have almost all the everdrives... apart from the mega cd one (have just mega drive) and love them. For me I had to move my entire collection into storage a few years ago, when my daughter still living with us had a baby... living in the uk in a 2 bedroom appartment, meant my collection had to be boxed away. 3 years later and I have changed my retro focus to everdrives and cd sd cards and a powerful gaming pc with launchbox front end. I also invested in adaptors, so I can plug in real controllers in to the pc.
I have to say I am blown away for all the reasons you give in your video. Everdrives is real deal, but Emulation for most part has really impressed me with Dolphin, Duck Station, redream., pcsx2, project 64, tekno parrot and Saturn, all upscaling the graphics if you want...making them look better than they ever did and as you think you remembered it.
I still retro collect, although have definitely slowed down, partly like you have many of the main ones I like... Of course one day I hope to have a bigger place and my own game collection on display, as I do miss them... but having my beautiful 3 year old grand daughter in our place and our daughter, bringing joy is something worth infinitely more than me having a game room.
Anyway keep up the fab vids, loving them and your hidden gems vids have introduced me to many new games.
It’s awesome that there’s an Everdrive for the NeoGeo Pocket Color because that’s one I definitely wouldn’t buy all the games for.
I've been watching your old Best Album videos. You had some great picks I even bought a couple of the Albums. You should do a current top 10 Albums list maybe like the last 20 years or so.
That's a good idea!
Buying a busted dmg at goodwill has sparked an excitement in me that I haven’t felt for a game in years and this channel keeps that excitement going!
I know nothing about ever drives. Is it exactly as if you had the original gaming running? Or are there noticeable differences, like with most emulators?
It's not an emulator. They basically trick the original hardware into thinking it's a legit cart so it boot roms from an SD card. There is no difference between a game running off the original cart or an everdrive. Except the everdrives (If you get the more expensive models) have some emulator niceties like save states.
There’s no emulation in this, it’s identical to having the real cartridge in the device. As an example, most consoles don’t load the entire ROM into memory at a time - they couldn’t, not enough memory to do so! - and so the console would frequently go back to the ROM cart to grab more instructions. EverDrives mimic this perfectly.
This does not mean there haven’t been bugs with particular ROMs, and how a cartridge’s chips intended to be read by the console. However, at this point, EverDrives are 99.99% bug free :) The firmwares are all upgradeable, just in case.
The other 2 comments may know more than me about it, but I use the Snes and GBA Everdrives. I did have to put an emulator on the Everdrive for it to play games at all, so I was assuming that it was running them like an emulator. On the GBA Everdrive you can run GBA, GB, GBC, NES, and Sega Masters System.
@RaniaIsAwesome This.... the most expensive everdrives handle the "extra chips / extra hardware? games very well.. cheaper ones either are very limited or do not support that at all.
Some systems, like the game gear, the carts had no enhancements in them. The ROM simply gets dumped into system memory and executed.
Some systems, like the genesis, VERY FEW games had any kind of enhancements.... if you could live without support for the one or two titles that need it.. your fine.
Some systems had a lot of games with enhancement chips.
The EverDrive, at its lowest levels, does two things. It provides the game ROM for the system to run and it can try to emulate any extra chips the original cart may have had through the EverDrives built in FPGA (so it's hardware emulation).
Awesome, guys. Thanks for the info.
Hello Metaljesus I love ur vids
I've been using Everdrives and other flash carts for years and have tried to get as many ODEs installed as I can in recent times. I can now play ROM/ISO files from an SD card on NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Master System, Megadrive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, Gameboy/Color, Gameboy Advance and DS. These days I collect systems rather than games. So nice to be able to play any game you want on any system without having to spend millions and have a house full of stuff. HDMI mods + Everdrive/ODE is the end goal for all of my retro systems.
I have Everdrives for Genesis, Snes, N64 and Terraonion's MODE installed on my Japanese Saturn (I also have a european Saturn and a PAL disc collection).
Downloading the entire library of Genesis/SNES/N64 games was easy, but I've been obsessively downloading absolutely everything I possibly can on the Saturn, it runs everything region free and there are so many Japanese games that I missed and it offers an entire world of unexplored games and translation hacks, 4MB ram hacks and so forth. Saturn is my favorite system and getting the Terraonion MODE for my Saturn was the best thing I've done in a long time.
Thanks dude i was waiting for this update video.
Good video! Good info, on all the ever drives available for all the systems! Interesting to see them running!
That Genesis Everdrive with the Sega CD emulation sounds great! I bought a secondhand Sega CD but it never worked so maybe this is something I need to finally play those Sega CD games I haven’t gotten to play.
Wow, this is my first I heard of these devices. I was poking around to see if anything like this existed. It just popped into my head and here I am.
I have the MegaSD with my Mega Sg and couldn’t be happier. The perfect way to enjoy Sega Genesis / Mega Drive / Mega CD.
One great thing about the Everdrive N8 is you don't have to worry about the horrible, unreliable cartridge connector on the toaster model NES anymore. Just plug in the Everdrive and you never have to take it out ever again (the SD card can be removed without taking out the flash cart).
I've got a SD2SNES and an Everdrive N8 that I use with my RetroUSB AVS and Super NT.
Same here
I have ever drives with full libraries on them. I watch your hidden gems videos to quickly get at those solid choices ☺️
Glad you like them!
My Life In Gaming's intro music is just the best
These flash carts sound expensive until you think of what some games run on the used market. Like, the FXPAK Pro is only a little more expensive than buying a Chrono Trigger cartridge. If you're a collector, a flash cart won't get you anywhere, but if you just want to play games, there's no other way.
Dude this is super sick!
Man, watching this reminds me of when I was a kid and a carried around a bag full of gameboy games, and there was always a chance they would get lost or stolen. I wish I had one of these as a kid.
I still carry it around i was made homeless and still managed to carry my bag of gb gbc gba games around in the same bag iv had since a child lol funny how some things seem so important i got it out a few days ago and it was still charged too i sold my gbc and gb but i have a gba sp now so i can still play all my games also have a pokemon mini and 2 games got it when they were brand new never met anyone else that had one though :) ahh memories
“I still really like having the physical games on the shelf, with the manuals and boxes”. It’s funny, as more time goes on, the more I wish I could bite the bullet and purge all my physical games. If I want cool stuff on the wall, I’ll buy some art or something, haha.
Someone get this man a backlit Neo Geo Pocket Color. Heck, I’d even install one of my own full sized IPS kits pro bono.
RetroRGB was talking about a new mod that has a slightly LARGER screen! I'd be all over that.
Thank you for making this video. For the mode I would put it in the Sega Saturn since the format conversion involves a lot of work. The mode solves this problem makes dealing with conversions a lot easier.
Been buying flash carts for over 12 years now. First was one was the PowerPak from retroUSB. My first ODE was the GDEMU, almost 6 years ago now. It's great to see these products evolve and get more features and have competing devices.
I love physical games too but financially it's impossible to own an NES, SNES, N64, and Genesis collection. I played those consoles as a kid but wasn't into game collecting back then. It's a great way to keep the history of older gen games alive by sharing it with other gamers and play on the original hardware. We get to play those rare/expensive games too. I really appreciate these Everdrives.
Love my Everdrive cartridges! So convenient!
No doubt. This is the best gaming channel out there by a long distance. Just good vibes all along. I feel like I'm just sitting in a friend's basement couch talking about stuff with Alice in Chains playing in the background.
Do you know which of these devices has a “random game” feature - I really like that idea
The N64 Everdrive X7 does, pretty sure some other ones do too but that one does for sure! Fun feature
Everdrive GBA and Everdrive GB have it
I need one of these. I really do.
I’d love one for NES, SNES, or N64. Maybe even GBA.
Man these carts are so cool. Def great since some games cost a pretty penny to get. Thx for the vid MJR!
Happy Friday! Hope you have a nice weekend!
You too!! We're supposed to get snow this weekend, so I probably won't be going anywhere...which is ok with me 😎
The SD2SNES and FXPak Pro can both play the Super FX, SA1 games and etc. You might want to revise it. The NES N8 Pro comes with more mappers to allow more games to be playable.
+1
I have the everdrive for the n64. Me and my friends does retro night often and have a blast with it . Bit expensive but worth it
Would LOVE a Dreamcast DIY on this install .
I just got a Satiator for my Saturn this week, so all of my consoles now have some SD card system. Anyone that collects home computers from the 80s can also find similar flash-based carts for them to simulate floppy drives.
I’ve just started using the EZFlash 4 Omega for Game Boy Advance, works great with a huge library. You can also throw Game Boy, Game Boy Color and NES roms onto it and they’ll emulate on your GBA device. Thanks for the video!
Love this video Metal!
I've got some crazy flash carts and RAM carts myself.
-Bung MGD³ "Multi Game Doctor" with V64jr512, GB X-Changer, Doctor GB Card 64M, and Multi X-Changer
This one literally lets me plug a Game Boy flash cart into the back of a PlayStation and then lets me use the PlayStation to load games from CD-R onto the N64 RAM cart.
-UperGrafx UGX-02
Like the Super SD System³, this thing has built-in flash cart and CD-ROM² emulation... but it also works like a plug & play Hi-Def NES/UltraHDMI for PC Engine. That's right: It doesn't convert analog video to digital... it taps into the digital video bus on the back which normally goes to a VCE/DAC (Video Color Encoder/Digital to Analog Converter). It uses the FPGA to replicate the function of the VCE except instead of spitting out analog it spits out DVI/HDMI, much like the Hi-Def NES replicates the PPU (Pixel Processing Unit) of an NES. The original PPU only has composite video so they had to replicate it's internal functions and clone it in FPGA to get digital video.
-Datel Max Media Drive
Believe it or not, this one was bought at Walmart and can be used to play commercial Nintendo DS games from a Compact Flash card in the GBA slot (Slot-2). ;) You have to patch the games but it really does work. It was supposedly intended for playing music and movies from CF card, but I'm not so sure I believe that since Datel also made the SD Media Launcher for GameCube. ;) Speaking of which, I may be part of the reason that thing exists. Right after the Cobra BIOS was extracted from the ViperGC modchip and released as a DOL called "Anaconda," I went to the #Dextrose IRC channel and suggested that someone could use a Datel Action Replay cheat to bootstrap the code from a memory card. This prompted a discussion about bootloaders, micro-bootloaders, entry points, etc and in a matter of days we had Samson's AR Loader.
-Naki Game Saver Plus
I also got this at Walmart even though it's secretly Bung hardware in disguise (Professor SF/Game Doctor series, Multi Game Doctor series, etc). Most people think it's just a cheat device with true slo-mo and save states, but you will note that it looks an awful lot like a Doctor V64jr with its horizontal pass-thru cart on the back and battery door above that. Open it up and you will find a big, fat, "Bung" chip. Makes sense because this was something their game copiers could do, like Game Doctor SF7. It even has an unpopulated parallel port connection inside. I believe it's basically a Bung MGD² Super NES backup unit with less RAM and more-restrictive Naki-branded firmware. Even the famous Doctor V64 shipped with firmware that disables backup support (users always had to download/flash the "Backup Enabled" FW themselves). Though there are a lot of talking about this thing I seem to be the only person pointing out that it is from Bung and is basically a piracy device. Fun fact: The scan of the code sheet that everyone shows when they talk about it is actually my copy where my twin brother shared it on ZSNES boards. ;) I still have it in the box with my Walmart receipt from the '90s and it has the exact same stains and creases seen in videos about it today. ;)
-RetroActive UltraHDMI Update Cartridge with UltraSave flash linker and 64Drive HW2 programmer/flashcart.
Years ago RetroActive was working on a line of low-cost N64 flashcart PCBs with built-in UltraCIC support No, they would not have intruded in 64Drive because these were intended to make dedicated universal-region games (homebrew, hacks, translations, repros, etc), though they could be flashed/reprogrammed with a RetroActive UltraSave. That's an interface device originally intended for backing up save games and dumping original N64 games (RetroActive UltraSave). The 64Drive is needed as the FPGA "brain" and the USB interface, since the UltraSave itself just has power and two cartridge slots (no USB). The flashcart boards were finished but the RetroActive UltraHDMI really took off and focus obviously shifted. Eventually many other flashcart solutions appeared and production of the 64Drive HW2 had fallen behind (still is), so RetroActive dropped all ambitions of making cheap flashcart PCBs. I received the PCBs back in 2017 pre-loaded with UltraHDMI 1.07 update ROM only days before 1.07A was released (DOH!). Since I didn't have what I needed to reprogram them I ended up making my own UltraHDMI 1.07A Update loaner cartridge out of a RetroStage N64 Blaster board and updated it again when FW1.08 came out, but I needed to modify both updater ROMs to support a different CIC security chip. Marshall at RetroActive actually reverse engineered the CIC/PIF chips with some friends (look up Mike Ryan's RE:Con 2015 presentation upload) and released the design for everyone to make their own clone CICs but kept the universal CIC they developed for things like 64Drive, and these UltraHDMI Update Cartridges. When you look at the board there is no clone CIC because they implemented it in the same FPGA that controls the ROM addressing. I figured an FPGA would be more expensive than a PIC chip CIC clone but these were only $7.50 each. Anyway, an UltraHDMI competitor was just announced with WiFi updating, so UltraHDMI customers without a flash cart need to know that they will be able to update even without WiFi. UltraHDMI HW2 shipped literally 2 days before the announcement with FW that was never intended to be shipping FW. That means new FW is on the way and I need to update my updater boards and make several loaner carts. I mentioned this to Marshall/RetroActive and he threw his personal 64Drive and UltraSave into a box with 150 UltraHDMI HW2 kits and shipped them on the first of this month. :) I ended up getting the earlier package with 80 UltraHDMI HW2 on the same day (5th).
Yes, I have a lot of mainstream flashcarts and ODEs too, like Everdrives and SD2SNES/FX Pak Pro and even more obscure ones like a Wii ODE that connects to a PC instead of a HDD/USB/SD/flash (I built a Pico-ITX PC into the Wii's horizontal stand and now the stand itself is considered rare/valuable ;)).
I'd love to show all of this someday. ;)
Great Vid MJ, Flash carts are brilliant since you don;t need to pay scalper prices to play "rare" games on real hardware now.
The Flash Carts i've got is the Master Everdrive, Everdrive MD, N8 for Famicom, Terraonion NeoSD AES, SD2SNES pro, PSIO, the 1541 Ultimate2+ for the commodore 64 and the DivMMC future for the ZX Spectrum
Harmony for Atari 2600! Very affordable. Also really practical because it super common to change games often during a 2600 session.
One correction here. the old sd2snes everdrive cart supports and run superfx chip games and sa1 games, dsp games and cx games.
Making basically 99% of the catalog work. only. some. obscure japanese. games. dont work
I think he was referring to the Super Everdrive, which is much cheaper but doesn't play a lot of the special chip games.
@@toaks2804 he saidd the sd2snes, the super everdrive does, check the website it was update by a fan and incorporated officialy
@@Hoytehablode Well to be fair, he also called pretty much all of them everdrives which they are not. Lol. The Neo Geo GD and the Lynx GD are made by RetroHQ. I checked Stone Age Gamer and according to their site, the Super Everdrive does not support the MSU or any enhancement chips. The original SD2SNES i know does support almost all enhancement chips now. That's what I currently own.
The Super Everdrive and SD2SNES (which was renamed due to "SD" being trademarked) are made by different people which makes it a bit more confusing. Krikkz makes the Super Everdrive, and the other one is by Ikari.
Love the Everdrives, i have the following:
Everdrive 64 V2 (Nintendo 64)
Super Everdrive V2 (Super Nintnedo)
EverDrive-GBA X5 (NIntendo GameBoy Advanced)
Mega EverDrive X5 (SEGA MegaDrive)
Very nice!
@@MetalJesusRocks Thank you :)
METAL JESUS VIDEO!!! Day is made!! Hoping for another switch video soon! Thoughts on Streets of Rage 4? =]
Great video loved it would be cool to see you stream all the games you have on twitch
I've never scene the Neo Geo Pocket Color drive! Amazing collection bruh
I keep saying we living in awesome time for gaming.
Wow... the prices of some of the flash carts. Ouch.
Man they sent you a ton of stuff thats hard for someone like me to find the spare cash for
I would love to upgrade my stock Game Cube with the GC loader or Terra Onion mode for and get a Dream Cast and swap out the disc reader for SD card reader. I have Ever Drives for N64,NES,SNES, and Genesis. All are different generation models. I currently don't own any of the newest models of Ever Drives but might get the Genesis Ever Drive X7 for the save feature. I know you are into metal so have you heard the 20th Anniversary of Pantera's Reinventing the Steel? I have and the remixed tracks sound very clear and good. I have yet to hear the straight remastered tracks i bet those sound great too. The b-sides off the album are killer too, a shame they didn't give us a live disc. Great video dude!
Put it in the Saturn, no brainer. You can get a gdemu for cheap and plug it right into the Dreamcast easy (no soldering). I learned that from a man named Riggs, you may have heard of him.
MetalJesusRocks WOW!!! Just WOW!!! I'm just now discovered the everdrive carts through this video. Don't ask me where Ive been because I don't know! Lol!! 😂 but seriously I'm going to invest in some of these!
Everdrives were tempting for a while, but I'm glad I waited for the classic systems to come out. I have hacked NES, SNES, GEN, and PSX classics with my favorite games on them that suit me just fine.
Same here dude, I can't wait for the Dreamcast Mini!
Wow your collection keeps growing if you have kids they will inherit a gold mine.
Still have my original Lynx my parents ordered from FAO Schwarz when I was a young kid. Still works great.
Woah, haven't thought of Schwarz in a long time! 🤯
No TerraOnion Super SD System 3 CD-ROM emulator? That's the the best one!
100%! Shout out to the SSDS3 community!
That blue NES cartridge is a thing of beauty!
I have a few of these everdrives, and the biggest things I like about these is that I can backup saves from games with save files without needing the special tools (like GB game carts) and use them on a different machine, but also because I can use them in lieu of the actual carts themselves*, so they don't suffer wear and tear. Having all games in one place is also a huge bonus.
*I love collecting physical copies, I absolutely hate them when actually using them however, and would absolutely prefer digital medium.
NGPC getting some love recently. I used to find them all the time in the junk bins at Hard Off, now I rarely see them in the wild
have you seen the virtual boy flashcart? it even has a e ink screen on it
i'm waiting for the flash cart that will allow you to sort roms by various categories like genre and year and region. you can have that info in the rom title but they need to be able to make a sortable list of that info.
Maybe add shortcut files linking to the rom files? That way you could have multiple presorted batches ordered in any manner you like and it would only require kilobytes of spaces instead of megabytes.
i use the nes one myself it’s a blast playing games i grew up with my 8 year old nephew :) i want to get a snes one that was the system i played the most
Just a heads up, there definitely are backlit screens available for Neo Geo Pocket Color.
He needs to get a back light installed on his Neo Geo pocket color.
The MODE can also be installed in a PS1 with some modifications to the shell.
Isn't there the Xstation for that without modding the shell? Though, I recall coming across a product where the modification gave you a vertical-loading card holder underneath the PS1 lid.... Is that the MODE ?
@@That_Handle Yeah, Xstation is probably a better choice, but I was just mentioning that the mode could be installed in the PS1.
The whole appeal of the MODE is that it can be used in multiple systems and can swap back and forth depending on what the user wants. It will also probably get more systems supposed later on down the road.
Great video! I don't know if this is weird but I find when I use a pc emulator or everdrive I'm like less inclined to complete the games I have on there. Like when I actually go and purchase a game I think I value it much more if that makes sense, like the only rpg I've ever completed on an emulator is Shin Megami Tensei if.
It feels a lot more natural to play it on actual hardware.
My GameCube looks exactly like yours. I went for the GCLoader as games like Paper Mario, Mario Kart etc. cost the price of a kidney now, unfortunately.
Have you heard of the Laser Bear mount for the GCLoader?
Well the N8 Pro have just recently changed my life forever haha. Hold my beer while I get the snes one
To awnser your question, I use ODE for my GameCube (GC Loader) and Dreamcast (GD Emu Clone) and use Hard Drive Backup mod for my PS2 fat (with Free HD Boot), Xbox (Rocky Softmod) and Wii U.
I wait my Everdrive 64, Super Sd System for my PC Engine and a Møde for my Saturn 🤘
This is an interesting overview of these items, I may consider getting one of these in the future. I mean, I got one of those Satisfye game grips because of you, and it made playing on the Nintendo Switch easier, and less likely to give hand cramps. You could even sell a can of Mountain Dew that you farted on, an chances are, I'd still buy it.
Hey MetalJesus! Great vid. I wanted to say two things: 1- What is the name of the SNES game at the 8:45 mark? Looks great!
2-- For SEGA Saturn, I recently got a Satiator. It slots right into the back and lets you read off an SD. I SUPER recommend it!
I'm getting an Everdrive N64 X7 soon and I'm so hype to revive that console!!
THX
So how is this footage all captured in HD, if it's on original hardware? Or will these work on something like a Retron 5? Great vid... Man, I want that Sega CD one.
I am a big fan of the the Everdrive flash carts I love playing on real hardware but having a large selection of games to choose from.
I looove my life in gaming. Learned so much from try and cory
Yep. Those guys know their stuff.
I love flash carts and ODEs
I have an everdrive in my sega megadrive (your sega genesis), a 150 games in 1 for my NES, and de GDEMU installed in the dreamcast with a 128Gb SD that is AMAZING.
Zombies Ate My Neighbour! Wow! Loved that game. Went through some days with that game. Helped a lot. - Toronto, Canada.
I would say to put the MODE into the Dreamcast. It's easy to burn most Saturn games to CD-Rs. Dreamcast games are much larger though and often have to have data removed or compressed in able for them to fit on a CD-R. CD compatible rips of some games like Shenmue II have a lot of missing audio files because of this. The MODE would allow you to play games fully uncompressed.
I own a MegaDrive/Genesis Everdrive. Very handy. Got some homebrew on there which are amazing.
So pretty sure your original sd2snes is able to run those FX games as well. Sd2snes is open source and the FX chip is simulated within a chip on the cart, and firmware updates allow for older sd2snes to have full compatibility.