EverDrive - MD/Genny flash cart

[SFC]

Thanks for more detail Greg

l have just wiki the list of DSP-1 games,
not a big loss really, the only games worth playing is pilot wings and mario kart, both carts can be purchased quite cheap.

worth waiting for the Super Everdrive...

[c0ldb33r]

I got my everdrive. Love it.

Two questions:

1. I'm a little sick of my Nomad. Screen sucks and I don't have a battery pack. Does the everdrive work with the Genmobile?

2. If I try to load Super Street Fighter II, all I get is an orange screen. Is there anything special that I have to do other than simply load the game?

Thanks

[StoneAgeGamer]

I got my everdrive. Love it.

Two questions:

1. I'm a little sick of my Nomad. Screen sucks and I don't have a battery pack. Does the everdrive work with the Genmobile?

2. If I try to load Super Street Fighter II, all I get is an orange screen. Is there anything special that I have to do other than simply load the game?

Thanks

Does not work with the GenMobile, this may be fixed in future firmware I am not sure. He ordered a GenMobile from me awhile back to try tog et it to work.

I don't think you need to do anything special. For SSF2, make sure when its flashing it actually displays the ROM type as SSF2. He had to do special coding for this game I believe.

[Tron 2.0]

So tempted at getting a everdrive ever since gamester81 review it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoPZCxylXZyQ

I used to have a genesis for most of the mid&late 90's.Lately i'm starting to miss owning the console and given a used genesis is so cheap these days.The everdrive would,be perfect for me "that device" would save me the trouble of buying all of the games again that i use to own.

[Wraith Storm]

Has anyone else had issues with game saves on their Everdrive?

I had read that you could flash a game like an RPG for example, play it and then save your game like you normally would. In the meantime you could flash some other games and play them and eventually re-flash the RPG that you were playing and your game saves would still be there.

I was excited that I could finally play Barver Battle Saga and Monster World IV on the actual hardware. I got quite a ways into Barver Battle Saga and saved my game. Then decided that I would try out some some shooters like Gleylancer and Twinkle Tale and some various master system games. Finally I flashed Monster world IV and got a couple of hours into it and saved my game.

The other night I wanted to get back to Barver Battle Saga, so I re-flashed it, and when it loaded there were no game saves!!! So I re-flashed Monster World IV and there were no game saves either!

Any ideas? Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to do anything special in the options menu? I even updated my OS from 13 to 15 and while I have noticed a huge improvement in compatibility with Master System games it did nothing to fix my game save issue.

[Greg2600]

Monster World IV uses SRAM, are you sure you have it on? Go to toolbox to check.

[Wraith Storm]

Monster World IV uses SRAM, are you sure you have it on? Go to toolbox to check.

Okay, I just checked my Everdrive options.

For SMD SRAM it lets me choose "OFF" or "Auto". Auto is selected. Further down there is an option for SRAM bank on the same screen. It lets me select 0,1,2,3. It is currently set for 0.

Do I need to manually change the SRAM bank for each game that saves? If this is the case I am assuming that you are limited to only 4 separate save game files.

[TKO]

Okay, I just checked my Everdrive options.

For SMD SRAM it lets me choose "OFF" or "Auto". Auto is selected. Further down there is an option for SRAM bank on the same screen. It lets me select 0,1,2,3. It is currently set for 0.

Do I need to manually change the SRAM bank for each game that saves? If this is the case I am assuming that you are limited to only 4 separate save game files.

You can save each Sram bank to *.sram* files on youryour SD card and load them for use later. So , no , you are not limited to four saves.

[TKO]

The above post may be a bit too short :P

The thing is , each game with save function use one SRAM BANK. So when you are on "SRAM bank 0" , then you save your game , Brave Battle Saga , that particular save would occupied SRAM bank 0.

Now if you want to play another game with save function you have to change to other SRAM bank so your Brave Battle Saga's sram won't be overwriten.

And *IF* you want to use that "SRAM bank 0" for other games but also want to keep Brave Battle Saga save for later. You need to save "SRAM bank 0" into your SD card by using "save/load to SD" function in tool box menu.


Hope that clear some stuffs up.

[Wraith Storm]

The above post may be a bit too short :P

The thing is , each game with save function use one SRAM BANK. So when you are on "SRAM bank 0" , then you save your game , Brave Battle Saga , that particular save would occupied SRAM bank 0.

Now if you want to play another game with save function you have to change to other SRAM bank so your Brave Battle Saga's sram won't be overwriten.

And *IF* you want to use that "SRAM bank 0" for other games but also want to keep Brave Battle Saga save for later. You need to save "SRAM bank 0" into your SD card by using "save/load to SD" function in tool box menu.


Hope that clear some stuffs up.

Thanks a ton! That actually cleared up everything I needed to know... at least for now . I wish the Everdrive had come with an instruction manual because I have little to no experience with these types of things, but thanks to you guys I'm making progress.

I'm gonna restart both games later this weekend and hopefully this will take care of the problem.

[Greg2600]

Krikzz has been making so many changes, it's been tough to keep up with documentation. Plus he's not great with English.

Speaking of updates, Game Genie Codes are now available via OS update #17.
I haven't tried it to describe the menu changes, but you can either load the codes from a text file (probably vertically arranged) or enter them. Text file 512Byte or less.

[StoneAgeGamer]

Master EverDrive now for sale on our site:
http://stoneagegamer.com/master_everdrive.aspx

[megasdkirby]

Nice!

Can it save game save data? Like Phantasy Star, Miracle Warriors, etc?

[Greg2600]

Yes, save data is supported like all other EverDrive's. Plays SG-1000, too.

[c0ldb33r]

What's the benefit over the genesis version?

[klausien]

What's the benefit over the genesis version?

It's for the Master System.

If you have a JVC X'Eye, the Genesis Everdrive will not play SMS games. Also, if you have FM sound on your SMS, the SMS Everdrive is better in that regard. It also allows SG-1000 games to be played on a US SMS. I got one immediately and I love it.

[Greg2600]

Can't use 3D games (if you have the glasses and adapter) on Genesis, and a couple SMS games don't work, and SG-1000.

[c0ldb33r]

I wonder when we can expect an n64 everdrive.

[Purkeynator]

Right after the PC Engine Everdrive

[c0ldb33r]

Right after the PC Engine Everdrive

Oh good call. That'd be awesome.