#Evercade Super Pocket

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dense nest
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https://www.hypermegatech.com/super-pockets/super-pocket-capcom-edition
For those who want to take the el cheapo route, the new EverSD firmware supports Retroarch with a nice frontend for easy access to emulators and games. For those who want to invest in the Evercade ecosystem, there's always the cartridges. Basically it has backwards compatibility with all previous Evercade carts
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dapper birch
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Is evercade the anti piracy, please buy our proprietary carts company? Or am I confusing them with someone else?

heavy agate
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I mean they have to pay licence fees to have the games available to sell

dense nest
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they very much are a legit business, but that also didn't stop people from dumping the cart firmware and making their own sideloader for CFWs

dapper birch
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The design seems decent although I have to question the d-pad. They seem to have went for pocketable with the shoulder buttons at the expense of ergonomics. Looks like a mono speaker but at least it's front-facing. It's a very inoffensive design but it doesn't do anything unique.

heavy agate
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60 quid for non-chinese if that counts as unique

dense nest
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we also missed the limited edition preorder window with the transparent shells

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at least there's the taito shell

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heavy agate
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Pocket friendly not wallet friendly

dense nest
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tbh, it doesn't look bad for a ps1/saturn-and-under machine. not sure how much dreamcast or n64 is playable without an analogue

heavy agate
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They have indie games too tho its a nice touch imo

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And they wanna have them in stores afaik

dense nest
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that would make this a corpo console then, ya?

heavy agate
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Im not telling anyone which one to pick but Volfied

dense nest
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hrm.... i look forward to nabbing one in Best Buy when they launch then.

heavy agate
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Im not a 100% of a fan of this... around 75%

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But want to see it get attention and competition

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And better indie games at least

dense nest
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yeah. the evercade indie ecosystem seems not nearly as active, but similar to pico-8's

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would be ironic to buy this to run pico-8 games

heavy agate
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Id love to do that actually

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I hope to see this grow

dense nest
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same

heavy agate
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Cant wait for build quality reviews

dense nest
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i hope the buttons are comfortable and the shell is decent. that will make/break this product

heavy agate
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The price is aggressive

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I know what else can $60 get you

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But its a corpo thing id assume they actually pay tax or whatever

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😄

dense nest
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taito edition for pico-8 would be nice

heavy agate
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Holy

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Does this have an sd slot?

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Or how do you do the new firmware?

pseudo crater
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most of the indie stuff on it is homebrew for retro consoles i think? so its stuff you can already run on retro handhelds

heavy agate
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True. It emulates

pseudo crater
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i think they have some stuff running native off carts? i think the duke3d port is an actual port iirc

heavy agate
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High Quality Screen - 2.8” IPS Screen 320x240

pseudo crater
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yeah lmao thats the biggest downside over a lot of similarly priced handhelds

heavy agate
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Yepp

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But this you might be able to drop

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They may even have customer service

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Im willing to live with the shite screen for the other perks

dapper birch
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240p bruh, I could count the pixels on Chun Li's thighs

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Definitely not for me but I hope you boys enjoy this

heavy agate
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Its not what it is. Its what it could be

granite light
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Ooof that is a v90 tier screen size and res

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But I am curious about the firmware/retroarch situation

versed flicker
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Wowww

granite light
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But yeah when your modern gameboy can’t even scale gameboy well you lose me a bit

versed flicker
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It reminds me of the my arcade stuff.

granite light
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I accept that integer scaling gbc will give me bezels but I should be able to integer to bigger than OG hardware in 2023

versed flicker
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*myarcade

dense nest
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i'll just take the Bilinear filtering pill like i did on my v90

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it's..... shirt pocket friendly?

granite light
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the trailer shows NES stretched all the way to 4:3, with megaman as just a fat little guy

dense nest
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my main question is whether the super pocket has the same soc as the EXP. if it supports even the Duke Nukem cart, which includes the gba and two ps1 titles, that's a good sign.

chrome linden
dense nest
heavy agate
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Will the duke nukem cart work then?

dense nest
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it should. there's more than enough power to run the two ps1 games and gba port. this soc is strong enough to run dreamcast, weirdly enough.

heavy agate
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EverSD doesnt seem to support the EXP

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Does that mean the vertical ones neither?

dense nest
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hrmm... this is a landmine to jump on at a later time.

heavy agate
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Just watching the EXP review. No sleep function

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Losing hope here so damn fast

dense nest
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EverSD's discord and reddit community are dead/nonexistent too. Looks like they were bitten by Evercade lawyers.

heavy agate
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Yea they are corpo we can establish that

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Im bummed out so bad rn

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Gonna have to wait for india to enter the chat if china and the uk just tossing around 😄

dense nest
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yeah, nothing to see here anymore. if you like the cart ecosystem, i guess go have fun.

heavy agate
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Id only care for the carts so they can feed the devs and expand the library

dense nest
heavy agate
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But way too inconvenient

granite light
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does this really offer anything a 3566 emulation handheld doesn't

heavy agate
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No

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Will be available in store tho

dense nest
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easier to set up, so if you want to get something for a family member, sure

heavy agate
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Kill this thread with fire

dense nest
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3.... 2... 1....

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