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Guide on Everdrives



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EverDrive GB (V1)

The Everdrive GB allows you to run games from Game Boy, Game Boy Color on these and other supported consoles. This also applies to accessories like Super Game Boy for the SNES and Game Boy Player for the Nintendo GameCube. Game Boy Advance is not supported by this flash cart! (There is another one for them).

Installation

Initially there was no firmware file to copy onto the SD card, but the developer added a couple of updates, which can by installed by copying them on the SD card. In order to use ROMs, just copy them on the micro SD.

Controls:

Reset

Pressing A+B+start+select in the game makes a reset.

File menu:

Main menu:

Compatibility

The only one drawback of this flash cart, and an important one, is the absence of the RTC (Real Time Clock) support. Some games won’t work correctly without this function (e.g., Pokemon). You need to search for ROMs, where this function is patched.

Also, the cartridge is not supported by the game Pokemon Stadium for Nintendo 64.

Following games are not supported:

Some games will only work after a reset.

Hardware compatibility

This flash card need healthy batteries. I have experienced multiple restarts or very weak image on Game Boys with weak batteries. Other normal games play fine, but the everdrive needs a good and full battery.

I had no issues using it with the Super Game Boy (only Game Boy games are supported!) or Game Boy Player.

There is a second version of this flashcard, Everdrive-GB X3, X5, X7.

Features of X7:



EverDrive-GBA (Firmware Ver. 1.11)

Official technical specifications:

Using the cartrige:

This cartridge allows you to run roms of GBA games on the original hardware and accessories, which support original hardware (like GameBoy Player for the GameCube).

Installation

Put your roms onto the SD-card and don’t forget to copy the system folder. All updates can be found on this page.

Controls:

Main menu:

File menu:

In the game list only 25 first letters are shown and the site of the rom. The full name is shown in the bottom.

This cart also supports emulation of the following platforms: NES, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear and Game Boy Color. Put the emulators into the folder GBASYS and games will be automatically started with the corresponding emulator. For SMS and SGG google for SMSAdvance, for GB(C): goomba, for NES: pocketnes (http://www.dwedit.org/gba/)

The flash card work with the Nintendo DS as well. This also applies to the emulators.

Everdrive N8 / Everdrive N8 Famicom (Firmware Ver 14)

Everdrive N8 and Everdrive N8 Famicom allow to run ROMs on original NES and Famicom consoles, but also on multiple clones. You can also run translations, patched games, hacks and homebrew games.

Everdrive N8 has the same form as a normal PAL gamepak. The normal SD card is used, which is inserted into a slot on the top of the cartridge and almost completely goes inside it.

Everdrive N8 Famicom has a form of a japan cartridge and is using a Micro SD card. The card is inserted on the side of the Everdrive and completely disappears inside it.

Installation

The installation is exactly the same for both versions: download the latest firmware from the developer’s site (the same for both consoles), unpack it and put it into the root folder of your SD-card. Only NES and FDS rom types are supported. The console will automatically change the disks, if needed.

During the first start a reconfiguration may be necessary (the Everdrive will determine the region of your console). Press RESET a couple of times, until the correct image appears. The cartridge may also run another reconfiguration after the first start.

The SD-card should be formatted in FAT, FAT16 or FAT32.

Update

Very easy. Download the newest firmware and copy it to the root folder.

Controls

Main Menu

File menu

Capabilities

Both Everdrives support snapshot saves and loading. First set the button combinations for this (e.g. Down+Start to save and Up+Start to load). You can save anytime and return to the save point any time later. The colours may be corrupted after loading a saved point, but it’s ok.

Normal saves are also supported (like battery based).

This flash cart supports cheat codes in Game Genie format. Please note, that the cheat codes for games from different regions may be different!

Compatibility

Only about 25 games are not supported at all at the moment, and there are also a couple of dozens, where the saving is not supported. These games below are not supported (applies to the firmware version 15):

Most recent compatibility list can be found on this page.

Supported mappers can be seen on this site.

Hardware compatibility

The cart is pretty picky concerning the hardware. Best option is of course the original hardware. It will probably not working in newer cheap clones (it didn’t work on mine New Game Dendy clone), and also Retron 5 and Retro Freak. Other clones, like Retron 2, Super Retro Duo or Trio (I can confirm this one) will work.

On Retro Freak it doesn’t recognize the cart at all.

Apparently, it also doesn’t work with the about to be released Retron 1 HD. Lame (Retron)!


Super Everdrive 2 (Firmware Ver.5)

The cartridge uses the same format as usual Super Nintendo cartridges from Europe or Japan. The SD-slots are located on the top of the cartridge.

You can buy a version with or without a DSP-chip or solder it yourself. This chip will enable support for games, which were using this chip for advanced graphical capabilities. E.g. Super Mario Kart will only work, if your Everdrive has a DSP-chip installed.

Super Everdrive Version 1 works a bit different and has another menu. Fewer games are supported and the loading time is much longer.

Controls

Main Menu

File Menu

Cheat files

You can also put txt-Files with Game Genie codes and load them. Navigate to such txt-file, press B and the following menu will appear:

Save files

All save files are stored in the folder SPED/SAVE and have the extension .srm

The following menu will appear after clicking on an srm-file:

Self test

Start the cartridge without the SD card and the OS will say, that the SD card is not found. Now press select+start, to run a self test. Following modules will be tested:

Compatibility

Without any special chips a number of supported games will be limited.

These games can be made compatible, if you install the corresponding chip. For the moment only the DSP1 chip is supported.

Following games are not supported at all:



Mega Everdrive (V2)

The cartridge has the same format as a normal mega drive cartridge. The SD slot is on the top side. There is also a Pause button for Sega Master System games. The cartridge supports snapshot saving and loading, multiple regions and cheats.

Installation

Download the firmware and unzip it to the root folder (the firmware is in the folder MEGAOS).

Update

Nothing difficult, just update the contents of the MEGAOS with current files.

Controls

Main Menu

File Menu

In-Game Menu

You can open the in-game menu by pressing Down+Start (press and hold). In this menu following options are available:

Compatibility

The cartridge allows you to play games for Sega Master System (the console supports it on hardware base).

New revisions:

There is a new revision, X3 and X5 (X7 is the renamed Mega Everdrive V2). These are more affordable versions with fewer features. This is the official comparison chart.

Everdrive N64 (V.3, Firmware Ver. 2.12)

This Everdrive has a form of an ordinary N64 cartridge and the SD card is inserted into the slot on the top side. The cartridge also allows to run NES games, support saves, cheats, different resolutions.

Installation

Create a folder named ED64 and copy firmware files from this site into it.

Update

Replace the firmware file with actual files.

Controls

Main Menu

Compatibility

Following games are not supported:



Turbo Everdrive (V2, Firmware Ver1)

This Everdrive is a bit different. The normal games for this console are thin cards, but here you have a bare board, which is inserted into the card slot of the console. There is a reset button near the Micro SD slot, in case you do not want to turn the console off and on. Some versions have a protecting cover. Do not touch the board anywhere with dirty fingers and avoid any direct sun, water or dirt contact.

Games and the firmware are loaded on the micro-SD. Both TurboGrafx16 and PC Engine roms are supported, but a small fraction of games may use an advanced region protection and won’t run.

Installation

Download the firmware file, create a folder named “TBED” in the root folder of your SD card and copy the file “os.pce” into this folder.

Update

As far as I know, there is only one update for the actual version of the cartridge (namely version 2), and it’s OS V1, which can be found here. Just copy the updated “os.pce” into the folder TBED.

Controls

Main Menu

Press select to open the main menu. It has no options, only information. Apart from credits and controls, it also lists:

Start Menu

Compatibility

There is only a small number of games, which are not supported. Also, some games may use an advanced region protection. Both TurboGrafx and PCEngine roms can be loaded from the same console, it will automatically patch games to adapt them for the console’s region.

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