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NES/Famicom Multicarts
Locke141:
--- Quote from: pbj on July 16, 2019, 01:11:11 pm ---Anyone have any experience with SNES multicarts? It looks like the "good ones" are the 101 in 1 and the 68 in 1. There's a slightly better version that's PAL only and a 70 in 1. Have decent menus with alphabetical lists of games. Both about ~$20 shipped.
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No but I read that Pal games won’t play on NTSC console.
I got a knock off ever drive from China for $44. It works well.
Howard_Casto:
I'm with locke on this one.... just get a super everdrive china version. Mine's been going strong for a while now and they are pretty cheap.
pbj:
This isn't for me. I need something with an attractive menu in alphabetical order that's super simple to use. No walls of text or weird loading screens. No inability to save on games that should support save.
This is going to a dude that's been rocking NES/SNES daily since release - he's burned out 1 toaster, given me his top loader, run through a couple of SNES, and was the source of that Retro Duo that magically still worked occasionally despite ~8 broken wires. I've got a RetroN 2 coming in for him and I'm genuinely curious how long it will make it. It adds an SNES eject button so I'm reasonably hopeful - I'm going to preemptively crack it open and bulk up the PCB support, though.
I already tried emulation with this guy via original Xbox. I did everything I could to strip it down. Nice large font, custom themes. Total dud. He wants cartridges. :lol
I went ahead ordered a "Super 101 in 1". It's mostly the same list at the 68 in 1, but drops Donkey Kong Country 1-3 and Breath of Fire 2 and adds a bunch of other stuff.
I did find an Everdrive knock off called "Super China Version" that's ~$34 shipped. Maybe that's the one for me.
pbj:
And here we are, just 10 days later.
:dizzy:
The bad: The Retron 2 hates this thing. I had to take out the PCB and use a metal nail file to grind down the outside edges of the edge connector to make it fit. The edge connector is also about 2mm shorter than an authentic cart. Moving the pcb to an authentic case alleviates this somewhat, but you still have to jam it in to make it work. I’m contemplating taking the case to a belt sander and knocking some plastic off the bottom.
EDIT - I played with it again this morning and didn't have nearly so many issues. It could be because the Retron 2 is so new that the cartridge connector hasn't quite broken in yet. The PCB is still slightly shallower and the cartridge connector on the Retron 2 is not as deep as the Retro Duo.
The neutral: menu has no music, but it’s clean and mostly alphabetical. You also scroll right to left, which is weird and exotic. There are some Japanese games mixed it, but it’s weird junk like Baseball and Firefight. Nothing anybody cares about.
The good: games load in about 5 seconds. Cartridge remembers what you played last when you turn the system on (has it pre selected in the menu). Lots of awesome games on this. No issues at all with it in my Retro Duo. It has both Mario World and Dinosaur Island. The Sf2 variant is Turbo. MK2 and MK3 play great.
opt2not:
Interesting.
Here's the game list for that Super 101 Cart:
Handy that they list off the games that use the battery for saving.
Also, what's Castlevania DX?
Seems like you got all the bangers here. Only one version of Bomberman though, and no Breath of Fire II. But still, that's a pretty good list of games.
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