Random Gaming Thoughts

[Sarge]

Yep. For example, most MMC5 carts don't work on the Everdrive N8. Special-chip games on SNES are the same way, unless you've got an SD2SNES, and that still only supports some of them. It's doubtful SA-1 will ever be supported, and Super FX may not happen either.

[MrPopo]

Also, shelf candy.

[Ziggy]

I can understand if you're intentionally trying to limit the amount of physical carts you have though. For example, if you just don't have the shelf space for dozens of carts for each console.

[mjmjr25]

I bought all the flash carts and swore off buying originals...that lasted all of 3 seconds. They are what they are, but it just isn't the same experience. You bore too quickly and switch games, your playing Zelda and instead of glancing down at that deep gray cart w/gorgeous gold label, you look at a chincy light grey shell with ugly SD2SNES label - it just ruins it...for me. Games flake out and reset - not often, but enough that it's more prevalent than in legit carts. I wanted to like them, but ended up selling them all off and going back to originals for the games I want to have the ability to play.

I've seen more cases where the buying flash carts leads to MORE collecting / buying; not less. Every single library has gone up with the introduction of a flash cart. You could argue that's just the retro game market as a whole, but if you look at something like CPS2, a market that was incredibly stable for years - the introduction of the flashcart saw games go up 25-50% across the board and the most common fighters that used to be had for $60 now almost double to $100-120.

[Ziggy]

Games flake out and reset - not often, but enough that it's more prevalent than in legit carts. I wanted to like them, but ended up selling them all off and going back to originals for the games I want to have the ability to play.

Say what? I've been using flash carts for a while (since before Everdrive) and never had that problem.

[TEKTORO]

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[Sarge]

That almost sounds like a power supply issue or something. Or the caps are getting weak in the system. I know the various flash carts tend to draw a bit more power than a normal cart, and it could be hitting a "brownout" voltage. Pure speculation on my part, though.

[marlowe221]

Does anyone here have any experience with the Harmony Cart (the 2600 flash cart)?

[BoneSnapDeez]

Haven't tried one of those (yet).

There's tons of stuff on the AtariAge store that fascinates me (Gradius on ColecoVision?!) but it's hard for me to justify spending $50 on a new Atari game when I can get like 35 old ones for the same price.

[darsparx]

Ok...I'm officially scared by my backlog. I just finished putting almost everything in backloggery(I think there's a few I may have missed) and yeah it's a little scary how many I have even though it doesn't feel like that much...