nope to fit the complete rom set from that super secret website you need a 64GB card. The set is just under 41GB. To put that in perspective, my new computer I got for my sophomore year at UK (the university, not the country) was pretty typical run of the mill for the day, but it did have a HUGE (2x the typical size at the time) 40GB hard drive. not only is 40GB about the size of the n64 rom set, but a mere 33GB is the combined total of the NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, GameBoy B&W+Color, Game Gear, Atari 2600 rom sets! And the sd cards you put them on are about the size of a postage stamp!
In the famous words of Virginia Slims, we've come a long way baby. I wonder if a PS1 Everdrive of some sort would be possible in a few years...
Also if enough people do Everdrives maybe the price of the real cartridges will come down to something a little more reasonable/affordable.
nope to fit the complete rom set from that super secret website you need a 64GB card. The set is just under 41GB. To put that in perspective, my new computer I got for my sophomore year at UK (the university, not the country) was pretty typical run of the mill for the day, but it did have a HUGE (2x the typical size at the time) 40GB hard drive. not only is 40GB about the size of the n64 rom set, but a mere 33GB is the combined total of the NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, GameBoy B&W+Color, Game Gear, Atari 2600 rom sets! And the sd cards you put them on are about the size of a postage stamp!
In the famous words of Virginia Slims, we've come a long way baby. I wonder if a PS1 Everdrive of some sort would be possible in a few years...
Also if enough people do Everdrives maybe the price of the real cartridges will come down to something a little more reasonable/affordable.
You are dealing with TONS of garbage and repeats to end up with 64GB for any ROM set on the classic systems.
If you trim it down to ONLY the good dumps, and ONLY one dump per game, you end up quite a bit smaller than that.
nope to fit the complete rom set from that super secret website you need a 64GB card. The set is just under 41GB. To put that in perspective, my new computer I got for my sophomore year at UK (the university, not the country) was pretty typical run of the mill for the day, but it did have a HUGE (2x the typical size at the time) 40GB hard drive. not only is 40GB about the size of the n64 rom set, but a mere 33GB is the combined total of the NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, GameBoy B&W+Color, Game Gear, Atari 2600 rom sets! And the sd cards you put them on are about the size of a postage stamp!
In the famous words of Virginia Slims, we've come a long way baby. I wonder if a PS1 Everdrive of some sort would be possible in a few years...
Also if enough people do Everdrives maybe the price of the real cartridges will come down to something a little more reasonable/affordable.
My full NTSC N64 set is around 6 GB... Do you just have that many different versions and hacks of that many games? I've set up 2 N64 ED's with full sets that all play great(even added the NES set in there since there's a emulator to play NES on N64), and only needed to buy a 8GB SD card for both.
nope to fit the complete rom set from that super secret website you need a 64GB card. The set is just under 41GB. To put that in perspective, my new computer I got for my sophomore year at UK (the university, not the country) was pretty typical run of the mill for the day, but it did have a HUGE (2x the typical size at the time) 40GB hard drive. not only is 40GB about the size of the n64 rom set, but a mere 33GB is the combined total of the NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, GameBoy B&W+Color, Game Gear, Atari 2600 rom sets! And the sd cards you put them on are about the size of a postage stamp!
In the famous words of Virginia Slims, we've come a long way baby. I wonder if a PS1 Everdrive of some sort would be possible in a few years...
Also if enough people do Everdrives maybe the price of the real cartridges will come down to something a little more reasonable/affordable.
You are dealing with TONS of garbage and repeats to end up with 64GB for any ROM set on the classic systems.
If you trim it down to ONLY the good dumps, and ONLY one dump per game, you end up quite a bit smaller than that.
arch_8ngel has it right. I have the Everdrive 64 v3 and have the entire NTSC set plus hacks, demos, prototypes, etc. all on a 32GB card (which isn't full). There's no way it fills 64GB unless you have tons of bad dumps, European, and Japanese roms to add fluff.
Well if it's all the same to the rest of you I'd rather keep all my options open so to speak. I mean if you can easily have all the roms organized in neat folders (and then organized by letter), why not? And how do you know for sure which ones are the "good dumps"?
Any particular rom hacks I should especially try out? I know there's a ton of say, SMB, SMB3, Metroid, Zelda(?) ones but which ones would be especially worth a look?
Well if it's all the same to the rest of you I'd rather keep all my options open so to speak. I mean if you can easily have all the roms organized in neat folders (and then organized by letter), why not? And how do you know for sure which ones are the "good dumps"?
Any particular rom hacks I should especially try out? I know there's a ton of say, SMB, SMB3, Metroid, Zelda(?) ones but which ones would be especially worth a look?
I'd recommend kaizo mario (mario world hack) if you like hard games, or return to Dino land for something more fair. Also the bs Zelda games if you haven't played those
I was thinking more creative (but well done hacks)...it seems those impossibly hard hacks are a dime a dozen.
I do have the cartridge (OCD repro) of BS Zelda...I did see a demo on YouTube on how it's possible to use the SD2SNES to replicate the whole Sattleview experience...I think it would also be fun to somehow replicate the Sega Channel with the Genesis Everdrive, you know be able to go through the Sega Channel menu and have acess to well, all the Genesis games ever released on the 'Channel?
I dunno. I bought a Game Boy Everdrive and it just didn't do it for me. It was cool and all, but I ended up trading it away. I grew up with the cartridges, and owning the real thing is important to me. It isn't super logical, but I don't get the same sense of fun from a Game Boy without the cartridges. The "toy" aspect of the Game Boy Pocket and its tiny cartridges are part of what I like about the system.
I used to have the pc engine (tg-16) and sold it when I sold my system. I just got another pc engine and for the price of like two games CIB I will get another everdrive. It's just kind of funny because there are like literally 7 games I actually want to play on the system haha
I plan on getting the nes, snes, GB, and possibly the n64 one. The n64 is tough though because there is really only like 3 or so games I still want for the system.
I'll get the GEN one (remember it does both GEN and SMS games) and then the GB/GBC one in that order. Jury's still out on the N64 one and while the new GBA one looks really good, it'll probably be awhile before it really becomes easily available.
I have a lot of them, the NES, SD2SNES (which in retrospect I think the Super Everdrive would have been good enough for me, for $110 less), the N64 and Gameboy. I'm not sure if I'll get the GBA Everdrive, I can't say I play a lot of handheld consoles.
I've been very happy with all of them. You will not regret!
Go for it. Worth every penny. And BingoRingo you did the right thing getting the SD2SNES. After all like Gomer Pyle once said in a poker game (after throwing away four kings!), you want the best!
I'm looking to get a SD2SNES later this month. I was going to just get the SNES Everdrive, since it's half the cost, but it just so happens that most of the games I want the Everdrive for, it can't play. I'd hate to buy the thing, and wind up buying a SD2SNES down the road anyway.
Go for it. Worth every penny. And BingoRingo you did the right thing getting the SD2SNES. After all like Gomer Pyle once said in a poker game (after throwing away four kings!), you want the best!
Yes, well I bought it hoping that eventually the SuperFX chip will be emulated, but I make a decent salary so the extra $100 wasn't that big of a deal either.
Go for it. Worth every penny. And BingoRingo you did the right thing getting the SD2SNES. After all like Gomer Pyle once said in a poker game (after throwing away four kings!), you want the best!
Yes, well I bought it hoping that eventually the SuperFX chip will be emulated, but I make a decent salary so the extra $100 wasn't that big of a deal either.
the faster (almost instant) loadtime and, even though I don't play them (yet), getting Mega Man X2 and X3 playable is basically worth the extra $100 by itself!
Yeah...luckily I was able to get X2 and X3 years ago before their prices got TOO crazy.
And back to our regularly scheduled program I was able to order the Mega Everdrive/Genesis It does what Nintendon't...play both 16-bit Genesis and 8-bit Master System games in one!
I'm selling bead sprites(subtle advert) this upcoming weekend, and hoping I make enough to pick up a SD2SNES and Mega Everdrive, after expenses. Already have a cart shell picked for the SD2SNES, lol.
Any particular rom hacks I should especially try out? I know there's a ton of say, SMB, SMB3, Metroid, Zelda(?) ones but which ones would be especially worth a look?
If you're a fan of sports games or sports in general there are a ton of good hacks for Tecmo Super Bowl and RBI Baseball. Unsure why all the hacks I've found are for RBI and not RBI3, but otherwise they're fun. I've been playing one I found called "Arcade - Best of the Rest" which is an RBI Baseball hack with everyone's "All-Time Greatest Teams".
Have not decided if i want legit carts for nes or get an N8.
Hahaha! I remember this commercial. So true! The N8 is too damn useful for playing (most) hacks and translations rather than shelling out for individual repros unless they're big (Final Fantasy 7 Demake/Just Breed) or have some special chip and you want to hear the expansion audio (Gimmick/Lagrange Point).
Welcome to the darkside! Loved the flashcards, but there is another level to the sickness...
I have what is basically a rombox setup in my NUC. It uses emulation station to launch retroarch cores so I could, in theory, flop down and play every game from every system from the earliest Atari and coleco vision stuff up to PSx era. GameCube works but not great, the computer is built for silent operation instead of speed. I control it all with 8bitdo Bluetooth controllers or a 360 controller. Saturn, Dreamcast, and some of the sux (jaguar, cdi, 3do) aren't great or even functional but the rest are my final solution to retro gaming. Retails, homebrews, hacks, fan translations, all in the same menu system and as easy to swap to as select + start and some scrolling.
Don't get me wrong I love my SNES and still have several carts and the flashcard for it, but with the insane prices that resellers are asking and getting for loose carts, no. I am a gamer first and collector dead, dead last with something crazy like 'nude canoeing enthusiast' taking second. I'm not anti collector and I get the appeal, but the rational adult part of my brain refuses to let my nerdy core pay rediculous prices for good cart games when emulation through retroarch is I distinguishable from the real thing to most people, including myself.
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In the famous words of Virginia Slims, we've come a long way baby. I wonder if a PS1 Everdrive of some sort would be possible in a few years...
Also if enough people do Everdrives maybe the price of the real cartridges will come down to something a little more reasonable/affordable.
nope to fit the complete rom set from that super secret website you need a 64GB card. The set is just under 41GB. To put that in perspective, my new computer I got for my sophomore year at UK (the university, not the country) was pretty typical run of the mill for the day, but it did have a HUGE (2x the typical size at the time) 40GB hard drive. not only is 40GB about the size of the n64 rom set, but a mere 33GB is the combined total of the NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, GameBoy B&W+Color, Game Gear, Atari 2600 rom sets! And the sd cards you put them on are about the size of a postage stamp!
In the famous words of Virginia Slims, we've come a long way baby. I wonder if a PS1 Everdrive of some sort would be possible in a few years...
Also if enough people do Everdrives maybe the price of the real cartridges will come down to something a little more reasonable/affordable.
You are dealing with TONS of garbage and repeats to end up with 64GB for any ROM set on the classic systems.
If you trim it down to ONLY the good dumps, and ONLY one dump per game, you end up quite a bit smaller than that.
nope to fit the complete rom set from that super secret website you need a 64GB card. The set is just under 41GB. To put that in perspective, my new computer I got for my sophomore year at UK (the university, not the country) was pretty typical run of the mill for the day, but it did have a HUGE (2x the typical size at the time) 40GB hard drive. not only is 40GB about the size of the n64 rom set, but a mere 33GB is the combined total of the NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, GameBoy B&W+Color, Game Gear, Atari 2600 rom sets! And the sd cards you put them on are about the size of a postage stamp!
In the famous words of Virginia Slims, we've come a long way baby. I wonder if a PS1 Everdrive of some sort would be possible in a few years...
Also if enough people do Everdrives maybe the price of the real cartridges will come down to something a little more reasonable/affordable.
My full NTSC N64 set is around 6 GB... Do you just have that many different versions and hacks of that many games? I've set up 2 N64 ED's with full sets that all play great(even added the NES set in there since there's a emulator to play NES on N64), and only needed to buy a 8GB SD card for both.
nope to fit the complete rom set from that super secret website you need a 64GB card. The set is just under 41GB. To put that in perspective, my new computer I got for my sophomore year at UK (the university, not the country) was pretty typical run of the mill for the day, but it did have a HUGE (2x the typical size at the time) 40GB hard drive. not only is 40GB about the size of the n64 rom set, but a mere 33GB is the combined total of the NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, GameBoy B&W+Color, Game Gear, Atari 2600 rom sets! And the sd cards you put them on are about the size of a postage stamp!
In the famous words of Virginia Slims, we've come a long way baby. I wonder if a PS1 Everdrive of some sort would be possible in a few years...
Also if enough people do Everdrives maybe the price of the real cartridges will come down to something a little more reasonable/affordable.
You are dealing with TONS of garbage and repeats to end up with 64GB for any ROM set on the classic systems.
If you trim it down to ONLY the good dumps, and ONLY one dump per game, you end up quite a bit smaller than that.
arch_8ngel has it right. I have the Everdrive 64 v3 and have the entire NTSC set plus hacks, demos, prototypes, etc. all on a 32GB card (which isn't full). There's no way it fills 64GB unless you have tons of bad dumps, European, and Japanese roms to add fluff.
Any particular rom hacks I should especially try out? I know there's a ton of say, SMB, SMB3, Metroid, Zelda(?) ones but which ones would be especially worth a look?
Well if it's all the same to the rest of you I'd rather keep all my options open so to speak. I mean if you can easily have all the roms organized in neat folders (and then organized by letter), why not? And how do you know for sure which ones are the "good dumps"?
Any particular rom hacks I should especially try out? I know there's a ton of say, SMB, SMB3, Metroid, Zelda(?) ones but which ones would be especially worth a look?
I'd recommend kaizo mario (mario world hack) if you like hard games, or return to Dino land for something more fair. Also the bs Zelda games if you haven't played those
I do have the cartridge (OCD repro) of BS Zelda...I did see a demo on YouTube on how it's possible to use the SD2SNES to replicate the whole Sattleview experience...I think it would also be fun to somehow replicate the Sega Channel with the Genesis Everdrive, you know be able to go through the Sega Channel menu and have acess to well, all the Genesis games ever released on the 'Channel?
I used to have the pc engine (tg-16) and sold it when I sold my system. I just got another pc engine and for the price of like two games CIB I will get another everdrive. It's just kind of funny because there are like literally 7 games I actually want to play on the system haha
I plan on getting the nes, snes, GB, and possibly the n64 one. The n64 is tough though because there is really only like 3 or so games I still want for the system.
I've been very happy with all of them. You will not regret!
Go for it. Worth every penny. And BingoRingo you did the right thing getting the SD2SNES. After all like Gomer Pyle once said in a poker game (after throwing away four kings!), you want the best!
Yes, well I bought it hoping that eventually the SuperFX chip will be emulated, but I make a decent salary so the extra $100 wasn't that big of a deal either.
Originally posted by: BingoRingo
Originally posted by: Estil
Go for it. Worth every penny. And BingoRingo you did the right thing getting the SD2SNES. After all like Gomer Pyle once said in a poker game (after throwing away four kings!), you want the best!
Yes, well I bought it hoping that eventually the SuperFX chip will be emulated, but I make a decent salary so the extra $100 wasn't that big of a deal either.
the faster (almost instant) loadtime and, even though I don't play them (yet), getting Mega Man X2 and X3 playable is basically worth the extra $100 by itself!
And back to our regularly scheduled program I was able to order the Mega Everdrive/Genesis It does what Nintendon't...play both 16-bit Genesis and 8-bit Master System games in one!
Definitely the sd2snes and maybe a couple others.
Have not decided if i want legit carts for nes or get an N8.
And i already have most of what i need for gb and n64 so i might just continue with carts on those.
Have not decided if i want legit carts for nes or get an N8.
Any particular rom hacks I should especially try out? I know there's a ton of say, SMB, SMB3, Metroid, Zelda(?) ones but which ones would be especially worth a look?
If you're a fan of sports games or sports in general there are a ton of good hacks for Tecmo Super Bowl and RBI Baseball. Unsure why all the hacks I've found are for RBI and not RBI3, but otherwise they're fun. I've been playing one I found called "Arcade - Best of the Rest" which is an RBI Baseball hack with everyone's "All-Time Greatest Teams".
Have not decided if i want legit carts for nes or get an N8.
Hahaha! I remember this commercial. So true! The N8 is too damn useful for playing (most) hacks and translations rather than shelling out for individual repros unless they're big (Final Fantasy 7 Demake/Just Breed) or have some special chip and you want to hear the expansion audio (Gimmick/Lagrange Point).
I have what is basically a rombox setup in my NUC. It uses emulation station to launch retroarch cores so I could, in theory, flop down and play every game from every system from the earliest Atari and coleco vision stuff up to PSx era. GameCube works but not great, the computer is built for silent operation instead of speed. I control it all with 8bitdo Bluetooth controllers or a 360 controller. Saturn, Dreamcast, and some of the sux (jaguar, cdi, 3do) aren't great or even functional but the rest are my final solution to retro gaming. Retails, homebrews, hacks, fan translations, all in the same menu system and as easy to swap to as select + start and some scrolling.
Don't get me wrong I love my SNES and still have several carts and the flashcard for it, but with the insane prices that resellers are asking and getting for loose carts, no. I am a gamer first and collector dead, dead last with something crazy like 'nude canoeing enthusiast' taking second. I'm not anti collector and I get the appeal, but the rational adult part of my brain refuses to let my nerdy core pay rediculous prices for good cart games when emulation through retroarch is I distinguishable from the real thing to most people, including myself.