I agree with this video. Most of the regulars I've talked to in the EverSD community are primarily looking for the ability to backup their carts, decide when and if they allow Blaze to update their carts, or are interested in creating their own "fantasy collection" that simulates what a future real cart could be like. People even go as far as to reflash real carts with that fantasy collection and make new cart stickers and boxart to match. I think it's a fun and creative way for fans of Evercade to show their love.
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.
I bought the eversd because of one of your earlier videos just to back up my collection i have every cartridge out so far and started feeling scared just to put some of the carts in just in case they wipe, but now there backed no more worrying.and thanks for showing us.
You are right about protecting my investment. After hearing about carts getting bricked and owning the whole collection up to date it would really suck that any of my legacy carts die. Some of these like Technos red are going for 100's of dollars nowadays. The EverSD community is very nice and helpful. Also, the advantage of having my whole collection on my VS when I turn it on is huge as I don't have to swap cartridges. Best 60 Euros I've ever spent.
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 .
After your first video came out on the subject I went and bought one. I've been very happy with the EverSD. I will say though, that in addition to backing up the carts, the actual emulation quality of your own games is far superior on the Evercade compared to most other platforms. For instance I've tested both the Genesis mini and PC Engine mini and there's no question that the latency of running the same rom on the Evercade is much much lower and better performance and it doesn't have those graphical scrolling glitches that the othe minis have. So I'd have to disagree with you on one point! I'd say there is a point of spending the extra money to get an EvercadeVS along with the EverSD even for emulation purposes since it performs so much better than the mini consoles and best of all, you don't have to use that awful "retroarch" program that most other emulator solutions rely on. In practice I find Blaze's own internal emulators, the way the save states work, far more intuitive and easy to use and higher performance than that awful "retroarch" solutions that nearly every other emulation solution uses. Did I mention how much I hate retroarch? ;-)
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.
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).
theres a new model RS or whatever portable ali express device coming out with a better screen, i was gonna get the r36s but held out and im glad I did..still might get a r36s when it comes down to $20 or cheaper. its the RG 40 XXV coming out soon or might be out by now, imma wait a lil bit and snag that one
@@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. 😏
While i agree with the no piracy thing, my thing is, why not make it more of a dedicated backup device rather than it having the ability to have other games transferred to it? It could allow the device to actually be marketed as an official device which could allow them to have the actual Evercade kern and piracy software on it so it would make the backups official rather than burning its data to a new cartridge. That would atleast make it seem more honest, as lets be honest, if a device allows you to easily pirate games on it you don't own, chances are that is what its marketing towards with the fact you can burn you official Evercade games onto it being more of the mask.
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.
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.
I would recommend the eversd discord and videos from Eric Smith ( just search for EverSD on UA-cam. The discord has tons of helpful people who can point you in the right direction. They seem like a really chill group of people.
@PKInTheUniverse oki 🤔 the only information i.found was on the everSD Website and it says there it isn't compatible With the vs-r in Moment, so i thought i ask you 😋 and Others But its compatible With the 2 new Superpockets 🤔 i guess i'll risk it and Order one, in Case of emergency i'll buy a cheap 2nd Hand vs too 🤣
I know the Exp-r uses a different chipset than the EXP, and there were a ton of complaints about the original EXP. As far as I knew, nothing has changed with the VS, but who knows all the information I got might be wrong. You can’t believe a lot of what you see on the Internet.
I agree with this video. Most of the regulars I've talked to in the EverSD community are primarily looking for the ability to backup their carts, decide when and if they allow Blaze to update their carts, or are interested in creating their own "fantasy collection" that simulates what a future real cart could be like. People even go as far as to reflash real carts with that fantasy collection and make new cart stickers and boxart to match. I think it's a fun and creative way for fans of Evercade to show their love.
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.
I bought the eversd because of one of your earlier videos just to back up my collection i have every cartridge out so far and started feeling scared just to put some of the carts in just in case they wipe, but now there backed no more worrying.and thanks for showing us.
Great to hear it ! And thank you . Backing up the cartridges is everything.
You are right about protecting my investment. After hearing about carts getting bricked and owning the whole collection up to date it would really suck that any of my legacy carts die. Some of these like Technos red are going for 100's of dollars nowadays. The EverSD community is very nice and helpful. Also, the advantage of having my whole collection on my VS when I turn it on is huge as I don't have to swap cartridges. Best 60 Euros I've ever spent.
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 .
Glad that's cleared up :-) Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks, will do!
Don't even know what all this is but I like your videos so I watch. Now I know more than I did before 👍 thank you
I appreciate that
After your first video came out on the subject I went and bought one. I've been very happy with the EverSD. I will say though, that in addition to backing up the carts, the actual emulation quality of your own games is far superior on the Evercade compared to most other platforms. For instance I've tested both the Genesis mini and PC Engine mini and there's no question that the latency of running the same rom on the Evercade is much much lower and better performance and it doesn't have those graphical scrolling glitches that the othe minis have. So I'd have to disagree with you on one point! I'd say there is a point of spending the extra money to get an EvercadeVS along with the EverSD even for emulation purposes since it performs so much better than the mini consoles and best of all, you don't have to use that awful "retroarch" program that most other emulator solutions rely on. In practice I find Blaze's own internal emulators, the way the save states work, far more intuitive and easy to use and higher performance than that awful "retroarch" solutions that nearly every other emulation solution uses. Did I mention how much I hate retroarch? ;-)
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 love the sales pitch PK! Ever SD, put the power back in the gamer.
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.
oh no worries heck my biggest concern is that Cubbies hat lol
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).
So it's a backup. That's cool.
Indeed!
You should have uploaded this tomorrow for Talk Like a Pirate Day because you talk about piracy in this video.
Well, now you tell me 🏴☠️
Hmm, I might need another follow-up video...just to be clearer 😂
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. 🤡
theres a new model RS or whatever portable ali express device coming out with a better screen, i was gonna get the r36s but held out and im glad I did..still might get a r36s when it comes down to $20 or cheaper. its the RG 40 XXV coming out soon or might be out by now, imma wait a lil bit and snag that one
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. 😏
"I just like reading the title of videos, making my own assumptions of what's being said and leaving annoying comments."
Literally half of UA-cam 😆
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 UA-cam
I'll get one once it supports the VS-R
There is no difference between the VS and VS-R as far as I know so it should work.
While i agree with the no piracy thing, my thing is, why not make it more of a dedicated backup device rather than it having the ability to have other games transferred to it? It could allow the device to actually be marketed as an official device which could allow them to have the actual Evercade kern and piracy software on it so it would make the backups official rather than burning its data to a new cartridge. That would atleast make it seem more honest, as lets be honest, if a device allows you to easily pirate games on it you don't own, chances are that is what its marketing towards with the fact you can burn you official Evercade games onto it being more of the mask.
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.
I protect my Evercade collection by letting the cats guard the perimiter.
Meow 😸
Just got one to back up mine...is the a idiot guide to backing up.. bit worried about messing up lol
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.
If i were wanting to back up my cartridges can you recommend a site to visit to watch or follow a walkthrough?
I would recommend the eversd discord and videos from Eric Smith ( just search for EverSD on UA-cam. The discord has tons of helpful people who can point you in the right direction. They seem like a really chill group of people.
Should i hope for a everSD patch for the vs-r or should i buy a vs? 🤔
The regular VS patch will work with a VS-R because it’s the same chipset as far as I know.
@PKInTheUniverse oki 🤔 the only information i.found was on the everSD Website and it says there it isn't compatible With the vs-r in Moment, so i thought i ask you 😋 and Others But its compatible With the 2 new Superpockets 🤔 i guess i'll risk it and Order one, in Case of emergency i'll buy a cheap 2nd Hand vs too 🤣
I know the Exp-r uses a different chipset than the EXP, and there were a ton of complaints about the original EXP. As far as I knew, nothing has changed with the VS, but who knows all the information I got might be wrong. You can’t believe a lot of what you see on the Internet.
@PKInTheUniverse or the informations you got are correct 🤔 could be possible too😋 im optimistic about it, it could Work.
Where can I buy an everSD?
The Internet
Lol I swear you sounded proper agitated throughout this video.
Nah , I was just wired on coffee. 😊
@@PKInTheUniverse lol oh I understand.