This is a day one purchase. There have been many attempts to upscale the videos from the original, but they are too low quality. Having the original source tapes is a big win.

I'd say it was worth a punt if the controls weren't so bad. It would be nice to have something small for vertical games and Pico 8.

I might have to cancel. I love anything Speccy, but this is too long.

I'm surprised you haven't jumped all over this for using AI (by the author's admission).

There are plenty of competent coders who use AI on retro systems because they can't write in assembler. I wrote the code for a retro project in C#. Designed it, created all the assets and tested it and then converted it to Z80 assembler using AI. If someone takes their time, checks the work, creates something fun and playable and of a high quality I don't see a problem. If you have a problem with the environmental effects, I can agree with you there, but are we going to start criticizing people for using GB Studio, SEUCK, AGD or even modern toolchains?

What a rip off. The Gaime has pretty terrible accuracy when used on TV's. The entire Discord was just people complaining it didn't work on launch day.
It seems to run ok on a small PC monitor, but if you want to run it on your house TV, you need to stand about 4-5 meters away and even then it's not accurate.
They should be fixing the issues with the original, not bringing out a "more accurate" version for another £200

Does that rotational stick work with anything other than Ikari Warriors?

@cyxceven I had to Google your response as I had no idea what you meant.

I'm British and only provided the link for context.

I don't think it's unreasonable for a site about classic games to write an article about a HD 60FPS version of SNES StarFox, since it's one of the holy grails of recompilations.

This used to be the best and most well written retro gaming site. Now 50% of the articles on this or it's sister sites are about AI and how much it sucks.

I don't even disagree that AI can produce terrible results when handled badly , but I don't believe that's what the majority of site users want to read about, especially when the original story was completely ignored because of the AI part.

It seems to me this is just going to become another culture wars thing with nobody discussing it and everybody shouting.

So the real story here is someone has made a PC port of StarFox on the SNES at 60 fps and in widescreen high resolution.

That is a big story, huge.

The AI part is secondary.

This would be acceptable as a follow up, but we didn't even get the story of one of the most anticipated ports ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUJrJ78XjZw

@Cpt_Lee now I feel bad letting my kids play with 2 of them!

@no_donatello Evercade carts fail all the time. I've had a couple go bad. Sometimes it's just a file error and you can restore your cart from a backup if you took one.

You can read and write to a cart like an SD card by wiring up an SD card adapter to a cartridge reader.

I wonder if Alien Breed 3D 2 is as bad as Amiga Power said.

Perhaps a few less articles on the site blaming things on AI coding. We already have people being harassed for buying a specific type of car or wearing a certain brand of sunglasses.
At some point someone is going to get hurt.

Nice to see a native port with multiplayer. I'll be buying this. A bit cheap to put out more versions of the Nexus though. Collectors aren't going to want to shell out for 3 nearly identical versions of the same console.

Cute. The controls are a little off, but that might be GB Studio

Nice GFX and Music. It runs nice and smooth as well. The only issue is it plays a bit wonky, hopefully they can sort out the movement / firing to be a bit more accurate.

A great start though.

I'm pretty sure Evercade can run DOSBox, but I don't think it can go much higher than a 486DX (just about OK for Doom)

If this could be hacked it would be worth a lot more.

It must cost them a lot of money for the 128MB / 1GB sd cards they use.

If the consoles were like PCs, it wouldn't be an issue. PC games have multiple marketplaces, including ones that allow DRM free downloads you can copy and take a backup of. I can still download and play Steam games I bought 20 years ago and when a game is delisted, I can still download it if I bought it.

I own all the Super Pockets but I'm getting a bit tired of these low effort releases.

There seem to be a lot of anti AI articles on here recently.

@h3s There are a few tips on how to do this here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/evercade-cartridge-reader-to-usb.634204/

@h3s It's just a SD card. You can connect a GBA cart slot to an SD card reader with about 6 wires and it will read the cartridges. Alternately if you own a Super Pocket or Evercade VS, you can use those to dump them to SD card.
I backup all my carts in case one fails.

My question is: If someone created a tool that could automatically decompile N64 roms and convert them into an EXE that works on the PC, would people use it if no AI is involved in it's creation?

Considering the GameStation Go plays ZX Spectrum games and is much bigger and the Super Pocket, also from Blaze plays ZX Spectrum games but only costs £50

Lots of the best classic computer games were licenses, list Batman - The Movie or Robocop. I can't see much chance of them getting re-released any time soon.

To be fair, most of us are over 40 and starting to need glasses for close up gaming. A bigger screen is welcome.

I wondered about a handheld console with a dock.

I don't think we'd get a more powerful machine as they said that every cart will always work on every device.

It's not much better after the update. Aiming is still off and unresponsive. My Sinden is much better and has proper recoil.

Looks pretty good, but it's probably just as easy to get a cartridge dumper and extract them from the .SAV file.

I wish they'd included wireless functionality in the VS itself. Having a massive USB dongle sticking out can be a bit of a danger if you have kids.

Hopefully not just dumping another PS1 ISO onto an SD card and playing with RetroArch.

With Duke Nukem 1 (not 3D) they developed a native port and it was great.

I'd hate to have to play the SNES port instead

This was one of my favourite Playdate games. Glad others are going to be able to play it.

Nice to see some real changes to the Evercade firmware for once. Now how about enabling all the Retroarch features you've disabled like rewind, cheats, etc.

I thought this was going to explain how George Costanza's high score managed to stay intact for 15 years.

It's no Cheetah 125+

Well you know what they say, if it ain't Baroque....

@GValiente I stand correct and apologize. That makes it even more of an achievement!

Very smooth. Bit of a cheat putting audio from the original over it but still an amazing technical achievement.

I got the Space Invaders one and was very disappointed. The sound isn't just off, it's completely wrong. It seems they are using very cheap hardware and just putting Atari or NES versions of the games on.

So there are 4 versions of this.

1. The SNES version with mode 7 - The best one.
2. The Genesis / Amiga version with Outrun style tracks.
3. The PC / PS1 / Saturn versions.
4. The Gameboy version.

All 4 play completely differently, however only the SNES is any good.

It's a shame that they left Jungle Hunt out as I grew up with the game. If they can change the music in Rainbow Islands they could change the Tarzan yell.

Activision have so many good games on home computers, it's a shame we get more Atari 2600 games.

Looks like the X-Out remaster. Also, if you've never heard this game's soundtrack, check it out. Chris Hulsbeck is amazing.

Ugh Roguelike....

I love this emulator. I wonder if there might be future iterations for other consoles, or if the technology only works due to the way the NES works.

Some of the RetroArch CRT filters give a massive performance hit. I would assume that doing N64 and CRT filters would reduce the emulation speed

Bomberman please

@swiller True, but the Atari ones replaced the spinner controls which works in a similar way to the mouse. I'm not sure you can replace code for a d-pad with a mouse handling routine. That said you could do lightgun support.

I guess in the end, it's just whatever Retroarch already supports, since that is what they are using to emulate the games. Anything you can do in Retroarch on that hardware should be possible on Evercade as long as they enable the option in their settings file.