Evercade?!

[+jgkspsx]

We gotta get to a new page so that Twitter plugin goes away, haha.

 

EDIT: I did it!

[famicommander]

Pumped about the Duke 1 and 2 remasters and more indie games. Evercade is killing it this year.

 

Now, for the love of god, get us analog stick/track ball/spinner support.

[Video]

Duke nuke 1+2? I assume they mean the two original 2\d side scrollers. Nothing wrong with that, as their good games, but I've seen several people already mention their interest in duke nukem 3d, and that's actually the third game in the series. (I'd love to see that, but don't hold your breath to long)

 

Just cleared my inbox and got a fun stock note saying "special edition atomic purple vs console preorders" cool, if you don't have a vs yet, that would be cool to get. Ill probably skip that as I got the original white and red version. I do collect handheld variants, but usually not console variants.

[Bill Loguidice]

57 minutes ago, Video said:

Duke nuke 1+2? I assume they mean the two original 2\d side scrollers. Nothing wrong with that, as their good games, but I've seen several people already mention their interest in duke nukem 3d, and that's actually the third game in the series. (I'd love to see that, but don't hold your breath to long)

 

Just cleared my inbox and got a fun stock note saying "special edition atomic purple vs console preorders" cool, if you don't have a vs yet, that would be cool to get. Ill probably skip that as I got the original white and red version. I do collect handheld variants, but usually not console variants.

Even though I already have a VS (and two handhelds), I couldn't resist this new bundle for whatever mental reason. I'll just stick it on another set in the house.

[Bill Loguidice]

The only cart number that's missing is 32. I didn't watch the event, but my assumption is that they're saving 32 for something big.

 

I updated my personal list of all of the collections (I have them all except for the 4 new ones that you can't pre-order until July, and of course the mysterious 32...):

 

01	Atari Collection 1	20	Yes	Adventure, Alien Brigade, Aquaventure, Asteroids (2600), Canyon Bomber, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Desert Falcon (2600), Double Dunk, Food Fight, Gravitar, Missile Command, Motor Psycho, Night Driver, Ninja Golf, Steeplechase, SwordQuest: Earthworld, Tempest, Video Pinball, Yar's Return
02	Namco Museum Collection 1	11	No	Battle Cars, Dig Dug, Galaxian, Libble Rabble, Mappy, Mappy Kids, Metal Marines, Pac-Man, Quad Challenge, Star Luster, Xevious
03	Data East Collection 1	10	Yes	Bad Dudes, Burnin' Rubber (Bump 'n' Jump), BurgerTime, Fighter's History, Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics, Karate Champ, Magical Drop 2, Midnight Resistance, Side Pocket, Two Crude Dudes
04	Interplay Collection 1	6	Yes	Battle Chess, Boogerman, Clay Fighters, Earthworm Jim, Incantation, Titan
05	Atari Collection 2	20	Yes	Air Sea Battle, Asteroids (7800), Basketbrawl, Bowling, Centipede (7800), Dark Chambers (2600), Demons to Diamonds, Desert Falcon (7800), Haunted House, Human Cannonball, Planet Smashers, Millipede, Sprintmaster, Radar Lock, Solaris, Submarine Commander, Realsports Tennis, Street Racer, Wizard, Yars' Revenge
06	Namco Museum Collection 2	11	No	Burning Force, Dragon Spirit, Galaga, Pac Attack, Dig Dug II, Phelios, Splatterhouse 2, Splatterhouse 3, Tower of Druaga, Warp Man, Weaponlord
07	Interplay Collection 2	6	Yes	The Adventures of Rad Gravity, Clayfighter 2, Claymates, Earthworm Jim 2, Prehistoric Man, The Brainies
08	Mega Cat Studios Collection 1	10	Yes	Almost Hero, Creepy Brawlers, Coffee Crisis, Justice Duel, Log Jammers, Little Medusa, Multidude, Old Towers, Super Painter, Tanzer
09	Piko Interactive Collection 1	20	Yes	8 Eyes, Brave Battle Saga, Canon - Legends of the New Gods, Drakkhen, Dragon View, Dorke and Ymp, Iron Commando, The Immortal, Jim Power - The Lost Dimension, Magic Girl, Nightshade, Power Piggs of the Dark Agees, Power Punch II, Radical Rex, Switchblade, The Humans, Tinhead, Top Racer, Way of the Exploding Fist, Water Margin
10	Technos Collection 1	8	Yes	Crash 'N' The Boys: Street Challenge, Double Dragon, Double Dragon 2: The Revenge, Renegade, River City Ransom, Super Dodge Ball, Super Double Dragon, Super Spike V'ball
11	Xeno Crisis & Tanglewood Dual Game Cartridge	2	Yes	Tanglewood, Xeno Crisis
12	Oliver Twins Collection 1, The	11	Yes	BMX Simulator, Dizzy the Adventurer, Dreamworld Pogie, The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy, Fire Hawk, Go Dizzy Go, Mystery World Dizzy, Panic Dizzy, Super Robin Hood, Treasure Island Dizzy, Wonderland Dizzy
13	Atari Lynx Collection 1	17	Yes	Scrapyard Dog, Basketbrawl, Super Asteroids/Missile Command, Awesome Golf, Crystal Mines II: Buried Treasure, CyberVirus, Dracula the Undead, Gordo 106, Ishido: The Way of Stones, Jimmy Connors Tennis, Loopz, Malibu Bikini Volleyball, MegaPak, Power Factor, Remnant, Super Sqweek, Xump
14	Atari Lynx Collection 2	8	Yes	California Games, Todd's Adventures in Slimeworld, Electro Cop, Gates of Zendocon, Zarlor Mercenary, Blue Lightning, Chips Challenge, Checkered Flag
15	Jaleco Collection 1	10	Yes	Astyanax (NES), Bases Loaded, Brawl Brothers, City Connection, Earth Defense Force (E.D.F.), Operation Logic Bomb, Rival Turf!, Super Goal! 2, The Ignition Factor, Totally Rad
16	Piko Interactive Collection 2	13	Yes	Best Ball, Eliminator Boat Duel, Football Madness, Full Throttle: All-American Racing, Hoops: Shut Up and Jam (Barkley), Hoops: Shut Up and Jam 2 (Barkley), Power Football (Mike Ditka), Racing Fever, Soccer Kid, Summer Challenge, Top Racer 2, Winter Challenge, World Trophy Soccer
17	Indie Heroes Collection 1	14	Yes	Alien Cat 2, Aguna, Chain Break, Deadeus, Debtor, Doodle World, Flea!, Foxyland, Kubo 3, Ploid, Quest Arrest, Super Homebrew War, Twin Dragons, Uchusen
18	Worms Collection 1	3	Yes	Worms, Worms Armageddon, Worms Blast
19	Codemasters Collection 1	17	Yes	Bee 52, Big Nose Freaks out, Big Nose the Caveman, Boomerang Kid, CJ's Elephant Antics, Cannon Fodder, Cosmic Spacehead, F-16 Renegade, Linus Spacehead, Mega-Lo-Mania, Mig 29: Soviet Fighter, Psycho Pinball, Sensible Soccer, Stunt Buggies, Super Skidmarks, Tennis All Stars, The Ultimate Stuntman
20	Mega Cat Studios Collection 2	8	Yes	Alter Ego Dream Walker, Arkagis Revolution, Dev Will Too, Gluf, Misplaced, Romeow and Julicat, Roniu's Tale, Yazzie
21	Intellivision Collection 1	12	Yes	Astrosmash, Buzz Bombers, Frog Bog, Night Stalker, Pinball, Princess Quest, Shark! Shark!, Slap Shot Super Pro Hockey, Snafu, Thin Ice, Thunder Castle, Word Rockets
22	Bitmap Brothers Collection 1, The	5	Yes	The Chaos Engine, Speedball, Speedball 2, Speedball 2100, Xenon 2: Megablast
23	Renovation Products Collection 1	12	Yes	Arcus Odyssey, Beast Wrestler, Dino Land, El Viento, Exile, Final Zone, Gaiares, Granada, Sol-Deace, Traysia, Valis, Valis III
24	Gremlin Collection 1	6	Yes	Actua Soccer, Brain Bender, Hardcore 4x4, Premier Manager 97, Utopia: The Creation of a Nation, Zool
25	Morphat Games Collection 1	3	Yes	Micro Mages, Spacegulls, Bobi, Super Bat Puncher Demo, Micro Mages Second Quest
26	Intellivision Collection 2	12	Yes	Auto Racing, Cloudy Mountain, Hover Cross, Motocross, Mountain Madness Super Pro Skiing, Reversi, Sharp Shot, Stadium Mud Buggies, Star Strike, Super Pro Decathalon, Tower of Doom, Vectron
27	Alwa's Awakening/Cathedral	2	Yes	Alwa's Awakening (The 8-Bit Edition), Cathedral
28	Indie Heroes Collection 2	12	Yes	Anguna: Scourge of the Goblin King, Beer Slinger, Eyra: The Crow Maiden, Gelatanous: Humanity Lost, Lunar Journey, Nessy the Robot, Nix: The Paradox Relic, Reknum Souls Adventure, Tapeworm Disco Puzzle, The Cowlitz Gamers' Adventure Trilogy, The Gruniozerca Trilogy, Yeah Yeah Beebiss II
29	Piko Interactive Collection 3	10	Yes	40 Winks, Legend of Wukong, Metal Mech: Man & Machine, Motor City Patrol, Punch King, Radikal Bikers, Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston, Sword of Sodan, Super Bubble Pop. Zero Tolerance
30	Sydney Hunter Collection	4	Yes	Jester, Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death, Sydney Hunter and the Sacred Tribe, Sydney Hunter and The Shrines of Peril
31	Sunsoft Collection 1	6	Yes	Aero the Acro-Bat, Arabian, Blaster Master, Blaster Master Boy, Journey to Silius, Mr. Gimmick!
33	Duke Nukem Collection 1	3	Yes	Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered, Duke Nukem 3D
34	Duke Nukem Collection 2	3	Yes	Duke Nukem Advance,  Duke Nukem Lands of the Babes, Duke Nukem Time To Kill
A01	Technos Arcade 1	8	Yes	Battle Lane Vol. 5, Block Out, The Combatribes, Double Dragon 2: The Revenge, Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone, Mania Challenge, Minky Monkey, Mysterious Stones
A02	Data East Arcade 1	10	Yes	Bad Dudes vs. DragonNinja, Breakthru, BurgerTime, Chain Reaction, Gate of Doom (Dark Seal), Darwin 4078, Lock 'n' Chase, Sly Spy, Tumblepop, Wizard Fire (Dark Seal II)
A03	Gaelco Arcade 1	6	Yes	Alligator Hunt, Biomechanical Toy, Glass, Snowboard Championship, Thunder Hoop, World Rally
A04	Atari Arcade 1	13	Yes	Asteroids Deluxe, Canyon Bomber, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Liberator, Lunar Lander, Millipede, Missile Command, Night Driver, Pong, Skydiver, Super Breakout, Warlords
A05	Jaleco Arcade 1	8	Yes	64th Street: A Detective Story, Avenging Spirit, Cybattler, E.D.F. Earth Defence Force, P-47: The Panthom Fighter, Rod Land, Saint Dragon, The Astyanax
A06	Gaelco Arcade 2	6	Yes	Big Karnak, Maniac Square, Squash, TH Strikes Back: Thunder Hoop 2, Touch and Go, World Rally 2
A07	Toaplan Arcade 1	8	Yes	Alcon, Flying Shark, Guardian, Snow Bros, Teki-Paki, Tiger-Heli, Truxton, Zero Wing
A08	irem Arcade 1	6	Yes	10-Yard Fight, Battle Chopper, In the Hunt, Lightning Swords, Moon Patrol, R-Type
A09	Toaplan Arcade 2	7	Yes	Demon's World, Fireshark, Hellfire, Rally Bike, Twin Cobra, Twin Hawk, Wardner
A10	Piko Arcade 1	9	Yes	Diver Boy, Dragon Master, Master's Fury, Steel Force, The Legend of Silk Road …
C01	THEC64 Collection 1	14	Yes	Alleykat, Battle Valley, Gateway to Apshai, Impossible Mission, Iridis Alpha, Jumpman, Lee (aka, Bruce Lee), Marauder, Stormlord, Street Sports Baseball, Subterranea, Summer Games, The Movie Monster Game, Winter Games
C02	THEC64 Collection 2	14	Yes	California Games, Cybernoid, Firelord, Impossible Mission II, Insects in Space, Mission Impossibubble, Nebulus, Pitstop II, Slayer, Street Sports Basketball, Sword of Fargoal, Uridium, World Games, Zamzara
C03	Team 17 Collection 1	10	Yes	Arcade Pool, Alien Breed, Alien Breed 2, Alien Breed: Tower Assault, ATR: All Terrain Racing, Body Blows, Full Contact, Kingpin: Arcade Sports Series Bowling, Project X: Special Edition '93, Qwak
C04	Delphine Software Cinematique Collection 1	4	Yes	Another World (aka, Out of this World), Flashback, Future Wars, Operation Stealth
EXP	The Capcom Collection	18	No	1942 (Arcade version), 1943 (Arcade version), 1944 : The Loop Master (Arcade version), Bionic Commando™ (Arcade version), Captain Commando™ (Arcade version), Commando™ (Arcade version), Final Fight™ (Arcade version), Forgotten Worlds™ (Arcade version), Ghouls ‘n Ghosts™ (Arcade version), Legendary Wings™ (Arcade version), MERCS (Arcade version), Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting (Arcade version), Strider (Arcade version), Vulgus™ (Arcade version), Mega Man (8-bit), Mega Man 2 (8-bit), Mega Man X (16-bit), Breath of Fire (16-bit)

[Recycled]

My EXP just bit the dust amongst all this excitement.  Going back and forth with Evercade support.  We'll see what happens.

[+jgkspsx]

13 hours ago, Video said:

Duke nuke 1+2? I assume they mean the two original 2\d side scrollers. Nothing wrong with that, as their good games, but I've seen several people already mention their interest in duke nukem 3d, and that's actually the third game in the series. (I'd love to see that, but don't hold your breath to long)

Duke Nukem Collection 1 is brand new native ports of the platformers plus Duke Nukem 3D. Duke Nukem Collection 2 is the two PlayStation Tomb Raider-like games Time to Kill and Land of the Babes, plus  Duke Nukem Advance.
 

They don’t know yet if they are using the PlayStation or PC version of Duke 3D or if they are building a native one. Guess they’d better hurry up and figure it out  

 

I would really like to see the solid GBC game included and I hope it’s not just an unlockable.

[Songbird]

Pre-orders are open for Piko Arcade #1 and Sydney Hunter! Plus Team 17 and Piko Collection #3 are both in stock and shipping now.

 

Piko Arcade #1: https://songbird-productions.com/product/evercade-piko-arcade-collection-1/

 

Sydney Hunter: https://songbird-productions.com/product/evercade-sydney-hunter/

[+jgkspsx]

If you don’t have a VS yet the Duke Nukem bundled Atomic Edition is a really cool looking version.

 

 

Funstock still has some as of now, 2000 units total.

 

EDIT: just sold out. D’oh!

[+jgkspsx]

27 minutes ago, Songbird said:

Pre-orders are open for Piko Arcade #1 and Sydney Hunter! Plus Team 17 and Piko Collection #3 are both in stock and shipping now.

Orders in! Really excited for these!

[+jgkspsx]

Oh, the special edition only sold out at funstock.eu. Still 99 left from the UK: https://funstock.co.uk/collections/featured-evercade/products/evercade-vs-atomic-edition

 

EDIT: aaaaand gone, in 22 hours. Wow.

[Video]

Wow, I'd have totally gotten the duke nukem console, that's pretty slick looking, even if I'm not usually s console collector.

[jerseystyle]

On 6/1/2023 at 5:16 AM, jgkspsx said:

If you don’t have a VS yet the Duke Nukem bundled Atomic Edition is a really cool looking version.

 

 

Funstock still has some as of now, 2000 units total.

 

EDIT: just sold out. D’oh!

Holy crap that’s awesome. I’ve been looking to upgrade to a VS (still have original portable) and that might’ve hooked me.

[+jgkspsx]

@Video @jerseystyle they have often had a little extra stock pop up from cancelled preorders or backup copies in case of lost shipments so keep your eyes out!

[jerseystyle]

2 minutes ago, jgkspsx said:

@Video @jerseystyle they have often had a little extra stock pop up from cancelled preorders or backup copies in case of lost shipments so keep your eyes out!

That’s good to know. I only buy through Songbird, and wanna pick up some new cartridges anyway… I gotta say I’ve been so pleased with Evercade- their execution, their vision… all these retro console folks should look to them as a gold standard.

[roots.genoa]

Unfortunately, it seems a lot of Atomic Editions were bought by scalpers... 😔

[+madman]

1 hour ago, roots.genoa said:

Unfortunately, it seems a lot of Atomic Editions were bought by scalpers... 😔

I think that's pretty much to be expected these days. Something limited comes out, people will see it as a way to make a few extra bucks. Kind of sad that's how some people have to make money. Fortunately I was able to grab one of these, it looks just crazy enough for me to want to have it. 

[+Intellivision Master]

According to the Evercade website, the EXP handheld has 4GB internal memory.  How much of that is available out of the box?  Because those built-in games use some of it.  

[Bill Loguidice]

51 minutes ago, Intellivision Master said:

According to the Evercade website, the EXP handheld has 4GB internal memory.  How much of that is available out of the box?  Because those built-in games use some of it.  

I'm curious why this matters? This platform is not centered around digital downloads other than the monthly games, updates, and save states, so it shouldn't really matter. You figure it's the space for the emulator and the miniscule ROM sizes, so I'd be shocked if everything all-in (including OS and all the other stuff mentioned) wasn't under 1GB of space.

[+Intellivision Master]

6 minutes ago, Bill Loguidice said:

I'm curious why this matters? This platform is not centered around digital downloads other than the monthly games, updates, and save states, so it shouldn't really matter. You figure it's the space for the emulator and the miniscule ROM sizes, so I'd be shocked if everything all-in (including OS and all the other stuff mentioned) wasn't under 1GB of space.

I was just wondering.  That's all.

[+jgkspsx]

11 hours ago, Bill Loguidice said:

I'm curious why this matters? This platform is not centered around digital downloads other than the monthly games, updates, and save states, so it shouldn't really matter. You figure it's the space for the emulator and the miniscule ROM sizes, so I'd be shocked if everything all-in (including OS and all the other stuff mentioned) wasn't under 1GB of space.

Since the unlockable and GOTM games are stored in system memory, it guarantees that we will never see an unlockable or GOTM PlayStation game. Not that it was likely but it’s confirmation.

[Bill Loguidice]

11 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

Since the unlockable and GOTM games are stored in system memory, it guarantees that we will never see an unlockable or GOTM PlayStation game. Not that it was likely but it’s confirmation.

I'm OK with that. I always assumed the monthlies would be smaller, simpler games anyway. Anything more advanced and they're better off for a variety of reasons putting it on a cartridge. I was frankly surprised by Donut Dodo as a monthly, which I assume will be coming to a future cartridge of some type featuring non-emulated games.

 

The bottom line to me is that the platform was never sold as digital, but as cartridge-based. Anything digital is a bonus. They've done a reasonable job of keeping the platform as simple and straightforward as possible and I think any deviation they'll want to think long and hard on. That's probably why they're being non-committal on the possibility of releasing controller add-ons, which are clearly needed for certain types of games (mouse/keyboard; trackball; spinner; arcade stick (although there are already solutions for that)), but may cause user base splintering the platform can't really afford at this stage. We also don't know how well the VS sold versus the handhelds. I suspect the VS sold far worse than the handhelds, although it's arguably the superior experience and is really what makes the most sense for a controller add-on. 

[Video]

I don't know, I'd love track balls and spinners, many Atari games (both consoles AND arcade) were designed to use alternative controls. And while I can muddle through, I'd like a keyboard for computer games, using virtual keyboards to select options on Commodore games isn't very intuitive.

 

Alternate controllers doesn't mean dropping straight 8 direction digital controller support, just adding a more usable option for games that (if properly emulated) can use if the user (me, or you) is willing to pay for it (I certainly would be)

 

Besides, these systems can emulate up to playstation, we already know this, to grab more future games from that era, they will eventually have to at minimum add dual analog stick controls, and they already added additional shoulder buttons anyways.

[famicommander]

Even just analog stick support would at least make some of the trackball/spinner games playable. It's downright shameful how awful some of the stuff on Atari Arcade 1 is to play on a d-pad.

[roots.genoa]

16 hours ago, Bill Loguidice said:

it's arguably the superior experience

very arguable indeed, especially since the handhelds can be connected to a TV as well.