Official Evercade thread, or: cartridge porn in 2020

[Randorama]

Shameless plug-in: the Wolf Fang/Rohga Armor Force squib is now up. The new Evercade cartridge reprints a few Data East titles, including this one: the squib offers some reasons to re-visit this game, thus.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

The new hardware is just too tiny to hold appeal for me, but the overall Evercade emulation performance has been excellent (as an Evercade VS owner).

The arcade offerings are a little barebones but you get several titles for £18 so it's hard to moan too much about a lack of regional variants or DIP switches. The console selections can be a mixed bag but that's generally a good thing - it's important retro gaming isn't just what the consensus says are the premier titles, but that there are obscurities to discover and also some absolute dreck that still holds memories for many (who hasn't had a mad aunt that's bought something awful that you've had to Stockholm Syndrome some love for). I think it's pretty hard to look at the Evercade lineup and not find several cartridges of interest.

All of the Evercade games are the Western versions so yes, sometimes this means the better version is absent (Kyukyoku Tiger vs. Twin Cobra). However if you have the M2 console ports already, you can just sit back and enjoy the extra titles that M2 haven't done yet. Using both Toaplan carts in the Evercade VS unlocks the Mega Drive port of Twin Hawk, which is nice - I think the new arcade tabletops will have two cartridge slots like the VS.

You gave me the idea for a potentially fun thread:

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