Evercade

[Swami]

1 hour ago, gilsaluki said:

 

AND, if they make it another color, Charcoal Gray, or black.  Man, I don't like the Evercade's White color at all.  And that racing stripe.  Nope. 

The black ones were for founders or something like that. Well, black face plate, at least. Back was still white.

 

[+davidcalgary29]

8 hours ago, LordKraken said:

Maybe he meant the lynx "adapter"?

Yes, exactly. I wasn't trying to suggest that the base unit itself wasn't going to be produced.

[8th lutz]

On 11/13/2020 at 2:42 PM, davidcalgary29 said:

Keep in mind that the Analogue Pocket is nearly as expensive as a McWill'd Lynx and, as of today, unproven (with some fear by the community that it'll be vapourware). The Evercade, despite its design flaws, is comparatively cheap and available. It'll never be my favourite handheld, but it's appealing on several levels. It'd be a much better deal, though, if they lowered the purchase price of the base unit by a third to a half.

I like Evercade having Indie titles. The system able to emulate systems up to 32 bit is a big deal also. Blaze able to get some big titles like having 3 Worms Titles on Worms Collection 1 does make people consider buying the system.

 

There is a concern with Evercade though. The HDMI issues were fixed by firmware, but the big concern right now should the gap between cartridge releases. The one thing saving Evercade right now is the amount of games in most game cartridges. 

 

After the Lynx Collections, there are no game cartridge released before April at this point. Piko Interactive Collection 2 and Jaleco Collection 1 are supposed to be released on April 1st.  I don't know the date for Indie Heroes Collection 1 yet, but the date will matter from a gap standpoint. Worms Collection is supposed to be released in May according Blaze based on today's announcement. 

 

Evercade already has a big gap between cartridge releases because the Launch happened in May, but Xeno Crisis/Tanglewood cartridge came out in October. Oliver Twins Collection 1 cartridge also was released in October. The big question coming up is the gap between cartridges from November of this year to April 1st will be the last multiple month gap between cartridge releases for a while. 

Edited November 18, 2020 by 8th lutz

[+davidcalgary29]

2 hours ago, 8th lutz said:

I like Evercade having Indie titles. The system able to emulate systems up to 32 bit is a big deal also. Blaze able to get some big titles like having 3 Worms Titles on Worms Collection 1 does make people consider buying the system.

 

There is a concern with Evercade though. The HDMI issues were fixed by firmware, but the big concern right now should the gap between cartridge releases. The one thing saving Evercade right now is the amount of games in most game cartridges. 

 

After the Lynx Collections, there are no game cartridge released before April at this point. Piko Interactive Collection 2 and Jaleco Collection 1 are supposed to be released on April 1st.  I don't know the date for Indie Heroes Collection 1 yet, but the date will matter from a gap standpoint. Worms Collection is supposed to be released in May according Blaze based on today's announcement. 

 

Evercade already has a big gap between cartridge releases because the Launch happened in May, but Xeno Crisis/Tanglewood cartridge came out in October. Oliver Twins Collection 1 cartridge also was released in October. The big question coming up is the gap between cartridges from November of this year to April 1st will be the last multiple month gap between cartridge releases for a while. 

It'll certainly be interesting to see if the Evercade's stratagem of relying on cheap IP will pan out in the long run: they're like the K-Tel of retrogaming! I personally think that the Lynx titles are a wonderful idea -- and I wouldn't have bought the system at all without them -- but it's a niche market for a niche system. It's certainly somewhat strange that the Lynx, which was never all that popular, is getting all of this attention and interest now -- first with the all the new homebrews, and then Evercade, and then the Pocket Analogue. There certainly was little enough going on until Alpine Games was released.

[roots.genoa]

To be honest I'm not concerned with the gap between cartridge releases, because I don't have much time to play anyway, and I doubt many Evercade owners use it as their primary, let alone only game system. I recently beat both Tanglewood and Xeno Crisis for a review, but I still have three compilations with most games left untouched, so I would have plenty to play until spring releases.

[thefred]

Evercade VS Founder edition is out for preorder now.  Up to 4 player home edition of the handheld. https://funstock.co.uk/products/evercade-vs-founder-edition

Just ordered mine.

[+jgkspsx]

 

I do like the standard design better, but this looks nice. You can also order these controllers separately.

[Songbird]

Pre-orders for the VS will go live on Songbird tomorrow. Sorry, we aren't getting any allocation for the Founders edition though.

[RREDDWARFF]

I just ordered the Founder's Edition. I was about to order the standard edition from Songbird when I found out about it. I really like the look of the white and red console, but I prefer the black so it doesn't stand out so much. I'm impressed with what I see with either edition. It seems like a great value.