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[Darkmakaimura]

I love old retro games and Evercade looks really good with a large selection of games. I was hoping to get Namco Museum Collection 2 (mainly for Splatterhouse 2 and 3) but it's out of print and being sold for outrageous prices.

I'm also looking at the Legacy of Kain collection.

Does anyone have the console and what do you think about it? Is it a decent buy?

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Avoid, the most recent one is a faulty piece of shit. I had to return mine because the battery wouldn't hold a charge. It is a known issue and they have done nothing to address it. The company that makes it is also super shady.

EDIT: Oh you're talking about the actual console, I only bought the handheld

 

[marcincz]

I've got first version and like it.
Finished many titles and recently have bought Activision Collection with River Raid and Pitfall.
Each title allow us save whenever we want, which is great.
Game boxes have cart and coloured manual.

 

[Lone Wolf]

I love old retro games and Evercade looks really good with a large selection of games. I was hoping to get Namco Museum Collection 2 (mainly for Splatterhouse 2 and 3) but it's out of print and being sold for outrageous prices.

I'm also looking at the Legacy of Kain collection.

Does anyone have the console and what do you think about it? Is it a decent buy?

I have the OG Evercade handheld and the console. It's a fun platform to collect for. Some great games too. I have about 3/4 of the entire catalog. Stopped collecting about a year ago. I do have that Namco museum 2 still sealed. Didn't realize some of the cartridges went up in value so much.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I do have that Namco museum 2 still sealed

I'm so jealous of you right now. I just want it for the two Splatterhouse games.

 

[Krathoon]

It is a fun little console. If you can get the first model of the VS, you can use EverSD on it.

One annoying thing about the console is that the carts get rare fast. The Neo Geo cart 2 is a bitch to get in the USA.

You can order on Amazon, but the order just sits there. That might have changed.

It looks like it is not even listed now.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I've only got a Superpocket from the same company, but yeah, wouldn't buy it again. I was planning to use it to play on the toilet, but I got bored of it really quickly (doesn't help you only get a small number of games per cartridge). Not to mention I've read many people complaining about the quality of the cartridges and how they can be dead right out of the box or die on their own after enough time has passed. I assume that manufacturing them is very costly, so they are probably cutting costs on materials. Same with the screens of the handheld models - my device has some minor light bleed, but again in some cases it's already dead when you plug it in.

It's REALLY hard to compete with Anbernic devices and their vast library of free/pirated emulated games and superior performance for less money. I admit I only bought Superpocket out of nostalgia to have some favorite classics (like Team 17 Amiga games) in a boxed version to put on a shelf.

What's also shitty is that some games are "exclusives" because of licensing reasons. So for instance you can only play Capcom games which are pre-installed on certain devices or you can't play Namco games on a stationary model. The company is also limiting production of many collections and it's a huge problem if you're late to the party. For instance it's probably impossible to get a Dizzy collection right now (at least not from the scalpers).

 

[Krathoon]

Yeah. The carts don't seem too reliable. That is why the EverSD is great for a backup.

You can also flash a cart using the EverSD software.

 

[phant0m]

I would recommend getting an arcade1up machine and modding it. You can easily soft mod the simpsons (4 player, 2 button) or SF II (2 player, 6 button) to play anything that works with those controls.

I completely gutted mine and put in a miniPC that runs MAME and FinalBurn Neo with 1200+ games

 

[Krathoon]

I got a TMNT Arcade 1up that I was thinking about modding and getting the Simpsons and X-Men on there.

 

[Krathoon]

Someone needs to make blank flashable carts that can be used as backups.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Yeah. The carts don't seem too reliable. That is why the EverSD is great for a backup.

You can also flash a cart using the EverSD software.

If I may ask, can you elaborate on what you're saying here? What do you mean by saying the carts are not to reliable?

Edit - oh I see what you mean by the post above now.

As someone who is a collector I don't like the sound of that.

 

[Krathoon]

If I may ask, can you elaborate on what you're saying here? What do you mean by saying the carts are not to reliable?

Edit - oh I see what you mean by the post above now.

As someone who is a collector I don't like the sound of that.

It seems like that carts are like SD cards and can wear out or get corrupted.

 

[evanft]

That's just paying for an emulator and ROMs.

 

[tomato shrub]

oh man, I finally looked closer at this thing and I was positively surprised that they have a pretty good library by now. Almost ordered one of the small cheap handheld models for travel, ready to pick a couple of collections.

But this is now already the second or third place where people write about the unreliable "cartridges". What a bummer, this killed my hype quickly.

 

[Deerock71]

Well, after recent events, I might be throwing my voting $$$ behind this little upstart.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Well, after recent events, I might be throwing my voting $$$ behind this little upstart.

Same but what is throwing me off is apparently the bad quality of the cartridges.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Fyi they now got very cheap Hyper Mega Tech Super Micro models, each with 1 pre-installed classic. I was thinking about getting the one with Asteroids, but then I remember I barely use the Capcom Edition Super Pocket.

 

[Calverz]

oh man, I finally looked closer at this thing and I was positively surprised that they have a pretty good library by now. Almost ordered one of the small cheap handheld models for travel, ready to pick a couple of collections.

But this is now already the second or third place where people write about the unreliable "cartridges". What a bummer, this killed my hype quickly.

I was thinking about getting evercade too for similar reasons but as someone above said, availability of carts is a nightmare and not great to hear carts going bad etc.

Il just sit and patiently wait for my neo geo aes+ I pre ordered.

 

[Esca]

Honestly, get a Mister FPGA. It's as close to original hardware we can get currently and the Evercade is emulation at its core. If you're going to go hard into emulation, the Polymega may be another option, the Polymega remix even more so if you have a good PC that can do the emulation

 

[Agent X]

I bought the original Evercade handheld a few years ago, and have amassed a collection of 12 cartridges for it. I've been quite pleased with it. The build quality and the feel of the controls are great.

About 2 weeks ago, Amazon had the Evercade VS-R Solo (their current "home console" style unit) on sale for $80. That was the lowest price I had ever seen on a VS/VS-R, so I pulled the trigger on the purchase. It just arrived on my porch a couple of hours ago. I haven't had a chance to hook it up yet, but I'll give an rundown once I do.

Same but what is throwing me off is apparently the bad quality of the cartridges.

Other than this thread and another one (don't remember if it was here or another forum), I haven't seen any great number complaints of cartridges outright failing.

That said, I did once get a Codemasters Collection 1 cartridge for which Sensible Soccer wouldn't let me get past the title screen without crashing. I quickly exchanged it for another one, and that cartridge has been fine ever since. I have seen at least two other people with the identical complaint about that cartridge, so I assume they had a bad run. Aside from that mishap, everything has worked extremely well in my experience.