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DF Retro Hardware - Evercade Review: The Cartridge-Based Retro Handheld That Works
- Thread starter Bullet Club
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D.Final
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diffusionx
Gold Member
The fact that it is using the PSP resolution is pretty weird.
KingdomHeartsFan
Member
This looks pretty cool.
Lone Wolf
Member
It’s obviously not for you.
-Arcadia-
Banned
Is it possible to play your own roms? DF didn’t mention it, but I figured that could be down to courtesy, given that the manufacturer is trying to legally sell the same games.
In any case, it’s kind of nice to see a different approach. The cartridges and full color mini-manuals with artwork are wicked as well.
I’d argue this is a bit more friendly and appealing to your average consumer too, as dealing with emulation and finding roms isn’t something everyone necessarily wants to mess with. Maybe it could see some niche success? They need to find their way to bigger names than Namco and Interplay, tho.
In any case, it’s kind of nice to see a different approach. The cartridges and full color mini-manuals with artwork are wicked as well.
I’d argue this is a bit more friendly and appealing to your average consumer too, as dealing with emulation and finding roms isn’t something everyone necessarily wants to mess with. Maybe it could see some niche success? They need to find their way to bigger names than Namco and Interplay, tho.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Gold Member
Saw the vid earlier, it looks pretty interesting and seems to run very well to boot. I'd like to see if new games could be made for it in some way.
kingbean
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-Arcadia-
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Looks like they’re fully licensed and official. Which is kind of cool.
Kazza
Member
You mean what's the point of buying games when you can just pirate them?
angelic
Banned
Yes, im really harming the sales of Williams Defender, Sega Outrunners, Atari Tempest and so on, quit your virtue signalling.
Bullet Club
Member
ETA Prime has done a review of the Evercade as well.
nkarafo
Member
Homebrew emulation exists. That's the reality. Official/legit solutions like this console have to compete with that. Making you feel virtuous for buying it is a good selling point but it's not enough. It needs to offer good value. So if someone feels like there isn't enough value, that's fine.
Plus, there are some of us who already bought most of these games and have them in our collections. Some of these we also bought multiple times already in various forms over the years. So yeah, we did our part and i don't feel guilty in the slightest for not buying a certain title for the 5th time.
McCheese
Member
collectors will also have zero interest in this thing. These carts will never increase in value compared to the original games, quite the opposite, the price will just keep falling on this similar to the other mini consoles. It's just creating more electronic waste for the novelty factor of it. You can't even pull the ROMs off the thing which would be neat from a preservation perspective as they've modified them to avoid copyright/trademark infringements.
Kazza
Member
Not virtue signalling, just calling a spade a spade.
How can you compete with free?
So, what was the selling point the first 4 times you bought these titles - to feel virtuous?
angelic
Banned
People like you, trawling message boards looking to be offended, there is another forum for you.
nkarafo
Member
Bought OOT 3 times, first time it was the OG N64 cart. No other options. Second time was as a Wind Waker bonus. It was just an extra selling point for me to get the game before this deal was over. Plus it had the master mode. Third time was on the Wii VC. I thought the emulation was going to be better than the homebrew emulators at the time. So i thought the value was good to get it once more.
Bullet Club
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Lone Wolf
Member
Joe had a ton of problems with sound and brought up the button issues a lot. This is why I like Gamesack, always the most honest. He never kisses a companies ass like so many other channels.
TLZ
Banned
Dude's not as impressed as DF.
Harlock
Member
And seems that Evercade was not much compreensive with the review. Bad PR tactic.
radewagon
Member
Okay, I'll bite.
These days, it's incredibly easy to emulate just about anything from the 8bit to 16bit era along with most Arcade games. With a little bit more effort, it becomes possible to emulate all the way up to the Wii. Emulating past that is a bit annoying. For the purposes of my examples, I will focus on the 8-16bit eras and Arcade games. Presumably, anything that is released that targets that wide breadth of gaming has to compete with easy access to free. This is not as hard as it sounds. Value, quality of experience, and convenience can EASILY make competing with free not as large a problem as it seems.
Products (in no particular order) that have succeeded despite having to compete with free:
* Classic game compilations
* Mini-Consoles
* Arcade 1up Cabinets
* Wii Virtual Console
* Arcade Archives Series
* Sega Ages Releases
* Analogue Consoles
All of these products have had to compete with the easy access of both roms and robust emulation. They have done quite well regardless.
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Bullet Club
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Edit: posted already.
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kingbean
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Supposedly a firmware update for the release date is fixing the button issue.
D.Final
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Kazza
Member
I'm starting to warm to this device a little. $20 for a case, cartridge and nice colour manual is pretty good value. For older games they seem to pack in around six games, but it was the Xenocrisis/Tanglwood double pack that caught my eye. The are both fairly recent, high quality homebrew games, and $20 for both in a nice physical copy is pretty good.
Mihos
Gold Member
Kazza
Member
The joke's on both of them as retro games is obviously where his heart is. He doesn't seem too stoked about either next gen console.
Agent X
Member
I'm also interested in this system now, especially since they now have actual officially licensed compilations of Atari Lynx games! This is the first time that emulated Lynx games have been represented in any compilation packs since the system went off the market in the mid 1990s.
I honestly thought this would never happen, since Atari rarely licenses out any of their home video games that were on systems other than the Atari 2600. Although, now that we're on this subject, each of the two earlier Atari compilations for the Evercade do have a few Atari 7800 games on them.
AtGames (who produces many Atari-licensed self-contained retro game machines) has done a few portable systems with 2600 games, but apparently has no interest in offering a portable with Lynx games on it. Fans on AtariAge have asked about the possibility of at least tossing in a few Lynx games along with their usual mix of 2600 games, but one of the users there (who does some consulting for AtGames) shot down that idea.
In retrospect, maybe it's OK that it turned out like this. While AtGames has dropped the ball, another company has picked it up. Judging from online reviews, this seems to be a superior product to AtGames' typical fare. If Lynx games are going to reenter the market for the first time in 25 years, then it's better off in the hands of a company that (hopefully) will put in the quality effort that these games deserve.
Agent X
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Codemasters Collection 1 has been announced for Evercade.
Here's the list of games, again courtesy of Evercade Info Central:
Megadrive / Genesis Games
NES Games
Here's the list of games, again courtesy of Evercade Info Central:
Megadrive / Genesis Games
- Sensible Soccer – International Edition
- Cannon Fodder
- Tennis All-Stars
- Mega-Lo-Mania
- Cosmic Spacehead
- Psycho Pinball
- Super Skidmarks
NES Games
- Big Nose Freaks Out
- Big Nose the Caveman
- Bee 52
- MiG 29 – Soviet Fighter
- The Ultimate Stuntman
- Boomerang Kid
- Linus Spacehead
- CJ’s Elephant Antics
- F-16 Renegade
- Stunt Buggies