EverSD isn’t for everyone…Protecting Your Evercade Collection 

Exactly, Eric! That’s what it’s all about . I’ve seen some people make those fantasy carts , that’s pretty interesting and a cool idea for a proof of concept.

I'm using the EverSD for cart backup & the convenience of playing a single cart that has my entire collection. I also appreciate the enhancements & features the EverSD software provides.

Thanks, will do!

I appreciate that

Absolutely! It is definitely worth every penny. And I get at the end of that some people just love to put the cartridges in, and as cool as that is for me it’s still always all about the games themselves .

Well, now you tell me 🏴‍☠️

There is no difference between the VS and VS-R as far as I know so it should work.

Nah , I was just wired on coffee. 😊

@@PKInTheUniverse lol oh I understand.

Don’t tempt me 😄

If you toss the cart up in the air and let it land on the ground your see the High's and Low's of EverSD. 🤡

Meow 😸

Yeah, I gotta watch myself for people starting to think I’m working for them 😂. It’s just so important to be able to back up your own cartridges.

Indeed!

Yeah, in a lot of cases, blaze definitely does have some better emulation with the custom emulator they use versus retro arch, it just depends on the games. The other thing too is some of the games that are on Evercade are native ports and couldn’t be emulated anyways. I think nine out of 10 people are probably not too hyper focused on perfect emulation. Because if they really were focused, mostly on accuracy, it makes me wonder. Wouldn’t it be better to go get a MiSTer or something like that. It just all depends what you’re looking for. I definitely think the average person who buys games on Evercade mostly just wants to buy something that you pop in and it just works, which makes a ton of sense since they already could’ve went and bought some other Chinese emulation device , but sometimes those require you to fiddle around with stuff which a lot of people just are not keen to. But I also understand how great it is to have all your games on one single device along with the nostalgia of still being able to put in a cartridge.

@@PKInTheUniverse yes I think the issue with something like the Mister is it's just too difficult for guests to use. Thing I like about the EverSD solution, after backing up all your carts and running collection builder, it makes it super nice and simple for others to use when they come over with no guidance. I like to make those kind of custom collections too, I used Stable Diffusion to make my own custom cover art for my "shmups" virtual cartridge collection that appears with my other carts with games like Musha, Blazing Lasers, Life Force.

That’s pretty awesome! It’s great when you can make the collections more personalized

I would recommend the eversd discord and videos from Eric Smith ( just search for EverSD on RU-vid. The discord has tons of helpful people who can point you in the right direction. They seem like a really chill group of people.

Besides the Ever SD website, I would recommend checking out the EverSD discord . There are so many helpful people on there who are more knowledgeable than I.

On one hand, it’s annoying, on the other hand at least it drives up engagement I guess so I can’t be too mad at them 🤣.

@@PKInTheUniverse that's something I don't care about at all lol I just want to post speedruns in peace

That’s why it’s good that you go on twitch instead and just re-upload on RU-vid

There are so many of these handheld it’s impossible to keep track anymore. They’ve become as collectible as some video games.

@@PKInTheUniverse the screens are like a analogue pocket on some of them, i imagine very close, and price is a fraction of the cost its a no brainer unless your like some people thatll remain nameless that are anti emulation cause itll hurt their clout shelf collecting on youtube LOLOL

@@BanditsBest686 yeah, like the guys who claimed they hate emulation, and real hardware is the only way to go, and then they have an NES classic in the background of all their videos. That’s good stuff right there. 😏

My wife is the real Cubs fan, for me it’s just another hat in my hat collection. I’m more of a fan of the other team across town who is sadly the worst team in history right now. I feel like they’re not a real baseball team They’re like a double A team that accidentally somehow ended up in the majors. I hope next year isn’t like this.

well hopefully they’re lead by Luis Robert Jr since i’ve been sitting on like 15 of his rookie cards waiting for him to pop for a few years now lol oh and tell your wife i said thx a lot for stealing our god dang manager over the offseason haha just kidding Go Brew Crew👍

I’ll say one thing, you guys have a nice stadium, and I prefer it over Wrigley or Comisk…guaranteed rate field . I live almost as far from Milwaukee as I do from Chicago and I really enjoyed going up there this year ( we watched the Cubs play).

Here’s the thing they don’t advertise it as a piracy device, or even as an Everdrive . They advertise it as a 3rd party development kit. This will never be an official device. Blaze does not like that it exists. In fact in the past ,a little birdie told me , they tried to kill it altogether. I think a good example of why I think it’s good that this thing exists is because of the Morphcat Collection. The number one reason people buy that collection is because of micro mages . Sure if you want to buy the game micro mages individually on the NES complete inbox it’s like $60. But that game also goes on sale all the time. I bought it for four dollars on Steam and they include the ROM for free. And check this out, the other games on the Morphcat collection are all games you can basically get for free legally on itch dot io included in that collection. So what I like is the fact that I can put my EverSD in my Evercade VS And play a game that technically is on evercade and not have to go to the trouble of buying the cart since I technically already owned the only game I wanted to play to begin with. That is a type of freedom blaze does not want its users to have . And another thing I will say is it is not as “easy” to put games on this as it would be a $30 Chinese emulation device. You have to jump through a few more hoops. It’s not like you just put it on the cartridge and put it in the system. You have to patch the system. You have to download another program to put the stuff on the system. If you wanna back up your collections, you can back them up on your patched system, but you also have to download collection builder. For a lot of people that is so much more trouble than it’s worth.

@PKInTheUniverse well my mistake, it's good if it's more difficult, but the allur of piracy is usually the actual selling point for a lot of these kind of devices because, while yeah it's a bitch in a half to do, it's vastly cheaper than buying a crap ton of Evercade games and the backing them up. It really does make a device like this only really worth it to the ones that own a large collection of games. It almost pointless to people just getting into the Evercade, which is usually why the piracy aspect is so prevalent, as it means that if I wanted to get into the Evercade and I had a good understanding on how to homebrew the cart, I can effectively get a bunch of games for free rather than blindly buying games, not being certain which ones I'd like and being out that money. To some the work it would take to pirate games on the EverSD and other devices like it, are usually worth it as it's an overall cheaper alternative to play Evercade games than to have to buy a bunch of games to justify owning the console. I can say, from my own perspective, I've been iffy on getting an Evercade as a lot of the titles I've seen far it I've either never played nor had much interest in them back when they were new, so I wouldn't really know where to begin. So I can personally see how piracy would be a big selling point to people that don't know much about the Evercade games as well as just don't have the money to drop on a lot of the games, especially ones that can jack up in price once they become rare due to being discontinued. Also I'm aware Blaze and many other companies hate devices like these due to piracy, that's why I feel I'd the could make it where it's just not possible to transfer anything on the cart that isn't an official licensed Evercade game, than it could be more marketable as an modern take to the old memory cards of the NES, Gamecube, Ps1 and 2 era, giving a full backup of your games and save data, just with the added bonus of playing said games through that cart

@@LordDiscord exactly, unless you have a big collection that you want to back up, there is very little point. The thing too is most of the handheld’s have pretty crappy screens compared to any other Chinese emulation device , that goes for significantly less. Blaze does not want anyone with them having control of backing up the memory of any games. Even a separate memory card would be unacceptable to them. If it was really a piracy device, blaze would have a strong case to file a lawsuit to have it removed the way Nintendo got that switch emulator removed and made the people who are doing a pay a bunch of money because they had monetized piracy. The thing about emulators is they are not illegal at all, and blaze doesn’t own any of the games they publish on these carts . Though they do own the intellectual rights to Cadey the Evercade who is in thier version of Glover64 on Piko 4. It’s a really interesting situation to say the least.

@PKInTheUniverse Well I would presume that if the company that makes the EverSD wants to maximize their profits they would try to go for the larger audience over the more neesh crowd, though that's just me. I'll admit I don't have much experience with many Chinese handhelds so I can't really say anything about their screen quality vs handhelds like the Ds or 3ds, though the prospect of getting free games with still be favorable regardless the console.

You could say the same thing about Blaze. For as many big titles as Blaze has gotten recently they still haven’t exactly blown up or anything and had a breakout moment that transcends the niche they’re in. I don’t think the makers of EverSD are trying to get rich. They give the software away for free. This comes off as a side business or a hobby business, not quite like what even Blaze is doing who are still very much a small company. I think they’re just people who are incredibly passionate about Evercade and would like to push Blaze to be better.

Great to hear it ! And thank you . Backing up the cartridges is everything.