Evercade thread

[famicommander]

Bitmap Brothers Collection 2 announced. Games:
Cadaver (Amiga)
Cadaver: The Payoff (Amiga)
Gods (Amiga)
Magic Pockets (Amiga)
The Chaos Engine 2 (Amiga)
Z (Playstation)

 

[Xavier]

I'm mostly just in it for the indie carts.

I'd like everybody to take note of what a bandwagon/fence jumper this guy is.

Yeah indie carts but I also thought I'd like it to own physical carts of Arcade games that played well but none of them have any kind of dipswitch settings last time I checked and that killed it for me.

There's an SD card cart I'd also suggest for this system.

Not for pirating those indie games, they're cheap as hell but for other other indie titles that people have made or ported for it, there's windows 3.1
& 95 images that seem to work pretty well. It plays most all of the SCUMVM catalog and makes the system a nice little rombox.

The whole system and file structure is kind of convoluted and a pain to use though.
There's newer software versions I haven't tried yet and maybe it's more streamlined now.

You can also dump carts you own so you don't have to take them in and out.
But you bought this to have physical copies of games...then you don't actually plug them in?
Maybe you have another system and a friend or kid and then they can play the game or cartridge too at the same time as you.
Also there's been reports of games breaking from updates or other reasons, or hacks needed for some games to work on different systems.

Has a nice Discord chat for it as well.

Anyways bought it for Christmas for my kids and we played around with it for a few weeks and it's been collecting dust since.
There's a bunch of other games I keep meaning to get for it though, just haven't got around to it.

 

[BeefFieri]

I'd like everybody to take note of what a bandwagon/fence jumper this guy is.

Yeah indie carts but I also thought I'd like it to own physical carts of Arcade games that played well but none of them have any kind of dipswitch settings last time I checked and that killed it for me.

There's an SD card cart I'd also suggest for this system.

Not for pirating those indie games, they're cheap as hell but for other other indie titles that people have made or ported for it, there's windows 3.1
& 95 images that seem to work pretty well. It plays most all of the SCUMVM catalog and makes the system a nice little rombox.

The whole system and file structure is kind of convoluted and a pain to use though.
There's newer software versions I haven't tried yet and maybe it's more streamlined now.

You can also dump carts you own so you don't have to take them in and out.
But you bought this to have physical copies of games...then you don't actually plug them in?
Maybe you have another system and a friend or kid and then they can play the game or cartridge too at the same time as you.
Also there's been reports of games breaking from updates or other reasons, or hacks needed for some games to work on different systems.

Has a nice Discord chat for it as well.

Anyways bought it for Christmas for my kids and we played around with it for a few weeks and it's been collecting dust since.
There's a bunch of other games I keep meaning to get for it though, just haven't got around to it.

 

[famicommander]

I'd like everybody to take note of what a bandwagon/fence jumper this guy is.

Yeah indie carts but I also thought I'd like it to own physical carts of Arcade games that played well but none of them have any kind of dipswitch settings last time I checked and that killed it for me.

There's an SD card cart I'd also suggest for this system.

Not for pirating those indie games, they're cheap as hell but for other other indie titles that people have made or ported for it, there's windows 3.1
& 95 images that seem to work pretty well. It plays most all of the SCUMVM catalog and makes the system a nice little rombox.

The whole system and file structure is kind of convoluted and a pain to use though.
There's newer software versions I haven't tried yet and maybe it's more streamlined now.

You can also dump carts you own so you don't have to take them in and out.
But you bought this to have physical copies of games...then you don't actually plug them in?
Maybe you have another system and a friend or kid and then they can play the game or cartridge too at the same time as you.
Also there's been reports of games breaking from updates or other reasons, or hacks needed for some games to work on different systems.

Has a nice Discord chat for it as well.

Anyways bought it for Christmas for my kids and we played around with it for a few weeks and it's been collecting dust since.
There's a bunch of other games I keep meaning to get for it though, just haven't got around to it.

What?

 

[Xavier]

Even dumber than when they released that Atari Arcade cart with a bunch of analog control games (Centipede, Warlords, Pong, Millipede, Missile Command, Crystal Castles, Breakout, etc) on a device that only supports digital controls.

You know this is basically a Linux computer, if anybody wants to bad enough all then need to do is add a line of code or two and make or adapt controllers. In fact I think I've read somewhere about people getting keyboards, spinners, trackballs and mice to work with some of the different games. Actually I've gotten keyboards and mice to work...

It's not like this is a 80-90's console with a hard coded firmware.

Oh that's another thing I don't like about this system.
I can get Buffalo SNES pads to work plug and play but you need two matching controllers or there can be conflict problems.
So say you have one random arcade stick you're stuck playing single player.
Also I couldn't get the menu button to work on anything else but the stock controllers.
Maybe they did a firmrware fix for this by now I don't know, I doubt it though.

 

[Xavier]

DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[famicommander]

You know this is basically a Linux computer, if anybody wants to bad enough all then need to do is add a line of code or two and make or adapt controllers. In fact I think I've read somewhere about people getting keyboards, spinners, trackballs and mice to work with some of the different games. Actually I've gotten keyboards and mice to work...

It's not like this is a 80-90's console with a hard coded firmware.

Oh that's another thing I don't like about this system.
I can get Buffalo SNES pads to work plug and play but you need two matching controllers or there can be conflict problems.
So say you have one random arcade stick you're stuck playing single player.
Also I couldn't get the menu button to work on anything else but the stock controllers.
Maybe they did a firmrware fix for this by now I don't know, I doubt it though.

What?

 

[BeefFieri]

How dare @famicommander trick us into buying Evercades.

 

[famicommander]

It was all part of my master scheme

to....

....buy Evercade carts sometimes, I guess?

 

[famicommander]

Legacy of Kain collection

 

[pixeljunkie]

Legacy of Kain collection

Not a bad set - especially for people that don't wanna emulate PSX. That Toaplan Collection coming up is all I care about.

 

[famicommander]

The new EXP-R handheld has been delayed from the end of this month to November. Apparently they found a faulty part in their final QA check and they have to replace said part in the whole first batch.

But at least they found it before they started shipping them.

 

[famicommander]

Major new firmware update launched today. Mostly it's bugfixes and feature additions for the arcade carts (high scores are now saved, system level turbo fire function added, etc).

They have also added beta analog control support for many games that originally supported it. They have no plans to release a first party analog controller but if you plug in an 8bitdo or some other analog controller, it should now work with most of the games that supported it originally including the PS1 Duke Nukems and Glover.

Finally, they have also added another free secret game. It's a fan made Evercade native game this time. To unlock it, just install the newest update then go to the secret menu and type in juggle

 

[pixeljunkie]

Hahahah oh God, this juggling game

Ran updates, and they friggin destroyed my save state's for Goodboy Galaxy

 

[pixeljunkie]

Toaplan 3 was supposed to be up for preorder today, but I am not seeing it anywhere. Paging resident Evercade expert @famicommander

Edit: NM

Evercade Toaplan Arcade Collection #3

7 classic games Includes cartridge, manual, and case Release date: Nov 28, 2024

songbird-productions.com

 

[pixeljunkie]

If they keep making these, I'll keep buying 'em

 

[pixeljunkie]

I'll be picking this up. Cheaper than buying both carts for Gen

x.com

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[max 330 megafartz]

I'll be picking this up. Cheaper than buying both carts for Gen

x.com

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It sucks that this has life on mars instead of life on earth reimagined. Maybe the next cart they do will have that and secret of the four winds once it releases.

 

[pixeljunkie]

It sucks that this has life on mars instead of life on earth reimagined. Maybe the next cart they do will have that and secret of the four winds once it releases.

Yeah, I'm hoping this is the beginning of their licensing deal.

 

[pixeljunkie]

Didn't think I'd be buying THREE evercade carts this year....but here we are.

Just preordered:

Toaplan Vol. 3
Toaplan Vol. 4
Metal Dragon/Life on Mars

 

[Yoshi]

The Toaplan carts are funny. If they grouped the games differently, I'd be the one guy buying the cart full of non-STGs. I already have the shooters on Steam and some again on Switch, but stuff like Ghox and Knuckle Bash are not available anywhere else.

 

[pixeljunkie]

So not exclusively Evercade related, but I've been playing Brave Battle Saga on the Piko Interactive Collection 1...newish translation of a Gen/MD RPG. Pleasantly surprised! I'm about 2.5 hrs in and loving it. Reminds me of Startling Odyssey 2 on PCE. Great story so far and not too grindy. Highly recommend. Great music too.

 

[pixeljunkie]

Picked up Metal Dragon/Life on Mars. (Toaplan 4 is stuck in the mail somewhere).

They're both pretty good - Kai Magazine could use a slight coat of polish on their games though. Everything has a wash of amateur to it. The pixel art just looks like unoptimized scans of assets. Life on Mars looks to be the better of the two. I played Metal Dragon briefly on Genesis when it came out and thought it was very "meh"....still the case.

But for the last month or so, I've had my Evercade exclusively hooked up to the TV for 5-10 minute sessions and have been enjoying it. Brave Battle Saga being the main game that I've been playing - about 9 hours in at this point and still very much enjoying it.

 

[max 330 megafartz]

Picked up Metal Dragon/Life on Mars. (Toaplan 4 is stuck in the mail somewhere).

They're both pretty good - Kai Magazine could use a slight coat of polish on their games though. Everything has a wash of amateur to it. The pixel art just looks like unoptimized scans of assets. Life on Mars looks to be the better of the two. I played Metal Dragon briefly on Genesis when it came out and thought it was very "meh"....still the case.

But for the last month or so, I've had my Evercade exclusively hooked up to the TV for 5-10 minute sessions and have been enjoying it. Brave Battle Saga being the main game that I've been playing - about 9 hours in at this point and still very much enjoying it.

They really upped the fuck out of their quality with life on earth: reimagined. Its leagues above the other 2 previous releases.

 

[pixeljunkie]

They really upped the fuck out of their quality with life on earth: reimagined. Its leagues above the other 2 previous releases.

Hoping they dump more of these onto Evercade carts. But I will def check that one out!