It has a built in battery that will give you 4 to 5 hours of gameplay on a full charge. I forgot to mention that most games will have save state support, which will definitely be helpful for us.

I am going to pick this thing up if I can find the games I am interested on getting.

I sespect that blaze entertainment wants to avoid allowing people to put their games onto a cart so that they don't get into legal trouble in the future. They are trying to give people who want it an alternative to piracy, and I respect that. Some of the reasons people pirate games are either because games are too expensive,, they are not available in the region, or they are no longer available for purchase. Evercade addresses all of those issues, and all parties benefit from the transaction. Allowing people to put their own games which they may have gotten from questionable sources would defeat the purpose of the platform.

I think you're kinda right about a cart not being worth it if their's just 1 or 2 playable games on it, but like I said in the article, having save states opens up the opportunity for us to explore and possibly finish more games. We can use them to undo pitfalls and instant deaths in platformers and run and gun games, as wells as learn the layout of levels. I keep thinking back to one of the posts of a forum member who played a game so much and died so often that they learned what to expect within some levels, which gave them the ability to make it through a few levels before the game over screen. How much less frustrating would that experience have been if they had the ability to use save states? This gives me the courage to try games that I would otherwise not play, such as earthworm Jim, midnight resistance, or bugar man. I would have loved save states for tackling life force on the nes, or UN squadron on the snes, and remember that a blind guy used save states to beat the legend of zelda ocarina of time on YouTube. In conclusion, my counter argument to there only being 1 or 2 fighting games per cart is save states. Sighted gamers love having them, and they are just as, if not more useful to blind gamers.

Having cps1 and cps2 games would be great! The evercade has just the right number of buttons, I think most if not all of those games are 2d so I bet it could run them easily. Besides, there was a very limited English release of cyberbots that I bet people would love to habe, as the protagonist of that game has been featured in capcom's future titles and it would be cool to see where he came from.

Congrats! Technos is next on my list. Hope you enjoy your evercade.

Looks like there was an firmware update last month that added features, fixed bugs and made bigger games like the 32-bit stuff run better. I can't get the program to work on my ancient pc but I'll update either here or the article with the features and how to update if I can use it elsewhere. Stock firmware should still be fine though for the most part. The only issue I found was that the music for one of the atari game's title screen played too fast, but thats it.

The menus for stock firmware are in the article. The out of game one also have sound. I will update the menus when I get the update unless someone sends them to me first, then I can get them up sooner. It's also worth mentioning that this has hdmi out so you can plug it into a monitor. People have been using this method to capture video footage. Maybe ocr can be used to read this as well.

I got the megacat studios and Technos collections coming in on Sunday, so super excited for those. It looks like the official evercade discord is very active too.

If the game has stereo sounds, they will be in stereo. THis is usually just music though, most games back in the day didn't pan sounds much.

My evercade and its extra games will be here on monday. Think I may do an audio unboxing recording.

@21 I would check out the recording for your reaction. Oddly enough, I've been checking out early evercade reactions for the last few days now. Seems this thing has gone through quite a few early fixes from When reviewers got it and when it was released to the public, so I'm glad blaze is listening to feedback and improving the experience for people.

One of the thing I love doing now that I was never able to do as a kid is use my phone to pour over the text of the manuals. It also introduced me to what it feels like to need light to read. I wish I had taken better care of the boxes for my brand new gba games so that I could check those out too, but then again, I was buying and selling games like crazy back then, so probably wouldn't have made a difference either way. These days I'm more prone to buy only what I like and keep what I buy, and that has been true since near the end of the ps2's life cycle, so we've got over 15 years of games across generations and platforms between my baby brother and me.