+Yurkie Posted October 27, 2011 Author Share Posted October 27, 2011 I will hopefully find out first hand in a couple more days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Yurkie Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 Got the EverDrive from mute electronics.com good dude over in Ireland I believe. No issues at all, but I have only played a few titles... Been caught up playing my Dreamcast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Potthead Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) Is it possible to go back to the Everdrive Menu after playing a game like pressing Start & A + B + C or something like that? Would be a nice feature Edited November 18, 2011 by Harry Potthead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Is it possible to go back to the Everdrive Menu after playing a game like pressing Start & A + B + C or something like that? Would be a nice feature If there is, I would like to know, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Potthead Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Got a email from Igor (krikzz). He told me that it is impossible to do for the Mega Everdrive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 (edited) Moved my post to here http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/188347-everdrive-md-everdrive-sms-questions/page__st__50 Edited November 25, 2011 by Torr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 The pause button is mapped to a button on the Everdrive itself, just like a SMS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Sonic 3 & Knuckles saving doesn't work. Has anyone hacked the rom yet to make the header identify that it has a save function? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Sonic 3 & Knuckles saving doesn't work. Has anyone hacked the rom yet to make the header identify that it has a save function? EDIT: since I am a member on sonicretro.org, I inquired about this issue on there and someone instructed me to download a hex editor and change some specific values to match those from a normal Sonic 3 rom. The result is a hacked S3&K rom that saves properly on the Everdrive as it should! Anyone who wants this fixed version just ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Been happy with mine except its inability to play my personal backup of Pier Solar. Doesn't bode well for other large homebrew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Willy Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 (edited) Been happy with mine except its inability to play my personal backup of Pier Solar. Doesn't bode well for other large homebrew. The ED is not meant to play anything more than 5MB, and that only for SSF2. Pier Solar also uses extra hardware in the cart to keep "backups" from being usable, so don't ever think a backup will run on a flash cart, even if it could hold 8MB. So even when the MegaEverdrive comes out, it STILL won't run your backup of PS. Edited February 25, 2012 by Chilly Willy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maiki Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 But what if Everdrive emulates that hardware... Anyway Pier Solar is a mediocre game of a very boring RPG gerne. So no harm done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 I just ordered an Everdrive MD and a Famicom version from Retrogate. I sure hope I don't have any problems playing roms with these carts. I don't have the brainpower or patients to get the recommended GoodGen roms for the MD. All I want to do is download a few dozen of my favorites and store them on each cart... and play them. Anybody know off hand what kind of files names the roms need to be for both systems? ... file names that will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 The Everdrive MD has really good compatibility, you won't have many problems. I don't have the Famicom one, so I can't say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 ok... So I discovered that I can download torrent files and from there open them up, organize them, etc. The funny thing is, I know I will never even scratch the surface of these extensive rom files, but it's amazing knowing that one little SD card is capable of holding all these games. I opened up the Genesis/Megadrive roms and they are all .MD files. From what I am hearing, the files need to be .BIN files for the Everdrive to read them. Is there a way I can change multiple file names at once without having to change them one by one? I can use either a mac or PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Dart Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 What you have might already be BIN files, just having been renamed to .MD for no good reason. If they're still internally BIN files, the cart will load 'em just fine. There are some tools to convert between the formats here at Zophar.net, but you might want to just delete what you've got & re-download a compatible set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 ok... So I discovered that I can download torrent files and from there open them up, organize them, etc. The funny thing is, I know I will never even scratch the surface of these extensive rom files, but it's amazing knowing that one little SD card is capable of holding all these games. I opened up the Genesis/Megadrive roms and they are all .MD files. From what I am hearing, the files need to be .BIN files for the Everdrive to read them. Is there a way I can change multiple file names at once without having to change them one by one? I can use either a mac or PC. Fire up a command prompt and in the directory with the ROMs use the rename command C:\ren *.md *.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 What you have might already be BIN files, just having been renamed to .MD for no good reason. If they're still internally BIN files, the cart will load 'em just fine. There are some tools to convert between the formats here at Zophar.net, but you might want to just delete what you've got & re-download a compatible set. Yeah, I hope so. I'm assuming the .MD is (Megadrive). Each file icon is a Megadrive cartridge... So, I guess we'll see once I get the Everdrive MD and load 'em up. Not sure if this matters but I will be using the Everdrive MD on an actual Megadrive system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 (edited) Fire up a command prompt and in the directory with the ROMs use the rename command C:\ren *.md *.bin Cool, this is good to know. Thanks. Edited November 19, 2013 by 7800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 (edited) You will not need to rename them if you are using a modern EverdriveMD v3 and the latest (actually only..v1) OS. The .md files will detect and load fine. I can personally confirm this, as I use the No-Intro set which are all .md format. They just need to be unzipped of course, and it is always nice to organize them into folders. I usually do not surpass 200 files per folder. I know you can do more (1024 I believe) but 200 a folder seems to list them instantly. Might as well also add that SMS games for the most part work great too (if using a model 1 or model 2 genesis or megadrive only) with the exception of a few (Wonderboy does not work, Wonderboy in monster land and Alien Syndrome require an SMS joystick or connector mod, 3d games of course due to no 3D glasses). But, again, most work great As for the Famicom one...it should be the same as the N8 (NES) one. That works with .nes files just fine...unzipped again...organized in folder for faster access. Some games don't work due to missing mappers. Cheetah Men comes to mind. No loss there. Last thing. If you use a Mac to do this the Mac will create those stupid hidden folders (unless you turned that off in finder) and you will see them when you access the card in the game system. I would just use a Windows machine to do this to avoid that. Edited November 28, 2013 by eightbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 (edited) That's great news, one less thing to worry about. I'm still waiting for both Everdrives, they shipped about 10 days ago and are now in NY customs. I was wondering. I have a 16gb SD card and was thinking about putting the Mega Drive roms AND NES roms onto it. You think I could use 1 card for both Everdrives? Edited November 28, 2013 by 7800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 That's great news, one less thing to worry about. I'm still waiting for both Everdrives, they shipped about 10 days ago and are now in NY customs. I was wondering. I have a 16gb SD card and was thinking about putting the Mega Drive roms AND NES roms onto it. You think I could use 1 card for both Everdrives? Of course! Even with variants and whatnot, the MD library is around 2GB at the extreme, NES is much less. 16GB would probably house every major cart-based rom library together at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Hm...Wondering if this will work with the Retron 5? Does it work on other multi-systems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Of course! Even with variants and whatnot, the MD library is around 2GB at the extreme, NES is much less. 16GB would probably house every major cart-based rom library together at once. Nice... So using one SD card for multiple Everdrive carts wont be an issue... You can't beat that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperboy Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 You can't beat that. Like a sore dick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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