maxtherabbit wrote:the only current productions ones I don't consider safe personally would be the game gear and master system
That's perfectly fine. I don't have a Game Gear or Master System anyway, yet.
maxtherabbit wrote:as for updates, we can only speculate, but the SD2SNES is supposedly "final" and the mega everdrive x3/x5 will probably not be updated - I'd imagine the game boy variants are also final
Good to know. The GBA EverDrive could really use savestates though. Would that just be a firmware update or would it require new hardware altogether?
maxtherabbit wrote:EDIT krikzz just tweeted out a minute ago the super ever drive was just updated - and I can see level translators on the cart
Yeah, I saw that. Apparently he's using new higher quality plastic mold casings on everything now. The SD2SNES now uses a Super Famicom shell instead of an SNES shell.
Lawfer wrote:But we don't know when or if he will ever release Everdrives for the N64, PC Engine, Game Gear and Famicom/NES using the technology from the X series.
You mean all those EverDrives use flash instead of PSRAM?
Lawfer wrote:Alot actually, many Everdrives got upgraded from Flash to PSRAM Technology (the X line), the issue with the 3.3v and 5v was fixed on newer models, quite a few Everdrives had hardware revisions etc
Nice. I wonder if we're starting to reach a territory of diminishing returns at this point.
Lawfer wrote:Not likely to get an update? Nobody knows that, there might always have newer models or newer revisions in the future.
True. Even if I were to wait until next Black Friday, there's always the possibility of an upgrade the year after that. At some point you just gotta hop on the train, or else you'll never get anywhere in life.
Lawfer wrote:You should be good getting the following now:
SD2SNES
GBA X5
Master Everdrive X7
Mega Everdrive X3 and X5
GB X3, X5 and X7
That's it.
I'm still wary of getting the GBA X5. It's obviously going to get an X7 in the future, otherwise Krikzz would've called it an X7 from the start.
Everdrives for the Nintendo 64, Game Gear, PC Engine, Famicom/NES are older designs who haven't gotten a new model in a while, these COULD get a newer model later as krikzz expressed that he would like to upgrade all Everdrive to the current technology, however nobody knows when or if though.
I don't see how the EverDrive 64 can be improved any further. Same with the Famicom EverDrive.
Lawfer wrote:Master Everdrive X7 got released recently.
I might pick one of these up next Black Friday when I get a Master System next year. I can still play MS games on the genesis in the meantime.