I got this because I got a CRT, have a SNES but only 1 physical cart Super Mario World. Talk about instantly expanding my library! Thanks for the video
This video's really helpful because I was planning to buy an SNES. My only issue was that I thought it was impossible to play ROMs on it. SNES games are rare nowadays, thus they aren't cheap. Anyway, thanks for the video mate!
I got this a few weeks ago and I'm loving it! Been playing through the Super Metroid/Link to the Past Randomizer on it lately and I can't get enough of it! Worth the purchase.
I already build an raspberry, but I was very disappointed, it worked so good, and after 1 years, for no reason a lighting mark appears in the corner, but I am using the official electrical adapter, so I think the raspberry wears down, little by little like a normal computer, so now even the snes games has slowdown. Then I hacked my snes mini, it is nice, been able to put the games I want, but there is a lot of limitations, you can put up to 30 games in each folder, and the more games you put inside the longer it takes to load the game list. When you put new games, it automatically puts 30 games in each folder, but I only put like 200 games and took like 10 mins, maybe if you put like 800 games, probably it will freeze and if you turn off like this, it will probably break. So I had a super famicom I usually don’t use that much, so I tried buying this Everdrive x5, this blew my mind away. I can see it is a more updated version than the one in the video, I put 200 games in each file, and the snes can read them super fast, you select any of them and in 3 seconds it loads. I don’t mind don’t having the most expensive version, those games I can just play in the snes mini, like Mario kart, Yoshis island, star fox. Everything else I can just play in the super famicom, and the control is super responsive, even better than the snes mini. Thank you so much for the video.
I got lost early and have one coming in 3 days! I got lost at firm ware. I'll come back when I'm formatted and ready to give it a real go. Fingers crossed because I'm border line computer illiterate
I think Pilotwings has a DSP chip, but doesn’t have the extra prongs on the bottom. So that might be why it didn’t work. Mario Kart has one too, although there were different types (DSP1, DSP2 etc) so it might be to do with that.
Maybe i missed it but i would have made mention of how to dump your own roms rather than just assume we'd all use ones available online, for those really averse to piracy or just wanna make use their own carts. Otherwise good stuff, I recently got myself a SFC from a convention and a bunch of JPN only games including Fire Emblem 3 and 4, while I could play those in their original language and probably still know what I'm doing something like Shin Megami Tensei I definitely need something like Everdrive to patch the rom into English.
Informative video, thank you. I have two questions. Do you have any idea why the games on my super everdrive x6 are not in alphabetical order? Also, do you now how to return to main menu mid game? On my N8 pro it’s down and start. I can’t figure it out on super everdrive. Pain in the ass to keep hitting reset. Thank you 🤘🏿
I used to use the SD2SNES with all the chips in, at the time it didn't mean the whole library was available there was still compatibility issues however I recall it was being worked on updating the firmware to get them none running games running. TBH ive switched to emulation for snes but via the snes classic :) Great Video none the less, love me some flash carts
Can’t remember the site where I saw it, but it said the Super Everdrive has a 95% compatibility and the SD2Snes / FXPak has a 99% compatibility with the whole snes library, so there’s still a few it can’t play.
It turns out that Super Everdrive and SD2Snes is not an emulation, but an original of some kind? What should I give priority to as the Snes mini or higher version?
@@ЕвГрафПеченегин we never said tbe everdrive or flashcarts where emulation, playing on the mini consoles is emulation. The compatability on flash carts comes down to extra chips and security, and on emulation side not every game can run perfectly so its 6 and 2 3s, comes down to what's easier for you.
For the money, hard to beat X5 - 95% compatibility. X6 is unobtainable as of now and if you can find its double the cost of the X5, and FX pro is $220+
Thx a lot for the great video. There is one thing I don't understand though. At 4:33 you say that Mega Man X2 works perfectly fine on the Super Everdrive X5. Doesn't X2 have a CX4 chip? So I thougt it wouldn't work on the Super Everdrive X5.
Playing Fire Emblem 3 and 4 in English I exactly what I wanted to do. Thank you for the explanation. I could never have done this by my self. By the way, for translated games that were only officially released in Japan does the patch account for it or do I need a Japan region Super Famicom?
I bought the super everdrive X5 SPECIALLY to be able to run converted nes games on it ,because on the powerpak,those nes games will crash earlier on due the limited amount of KB ram, the everdrive does have much more kilobytes of ram,so nes games will run before they crash,and since the everdrive saves everything automatically, i can then repatch those nes roms with those corresponding generated srm files sothat they will now run smoother and no longer crash or crash later on sothat in such case i have to predo the nes conversion by mixing 2 generated srm files from that specefic nes ron,and even better after preconverting those nes roms, they can now also run smooth from beginning to end on the powerpak, Now the real cool feature from the everdrive(wich the powerpak lacks) is the superkeu feature to allow each region game running on each region system, so now i can use the super everdrive on my supaboy to play both nes & snes roms portible on it while the powerpak is used on my snes for home play,also since the powerpak does not work on my supaboy , However no matter how interesting the everdrive is,since i already own the powerpak, the wow factor is sadly gone,but still trough.
@@RetroBreak i do own multiple nes systems including the pal nes,nes2 (ntsc),av famicom and a portible famiclone,but i just like to re-experience nes games on the snes,it was a wet dream come true😁
Yup, Pilotwings uses an enhancement chip and F-Zero doesn't. Around a hundred SNES games use one of the many enhancement chips, give or take, so there's gonna be a whole load of games that wouldn't work here.
No mention about how to save games wich size srm file you can use and what not. Btw i managed to run nes games on the powerpak with nested emulator but not all mentioned games do work on it, it has something to do with the amount of srm ram on the cartride or something, For instance i could play metroid on snes9x but on the powerpak all i got is a black screen,supermario 3 runs fine on snes9x but on the powerpak it crashes at certain points in the game,but mariobros just runs fine on both snes9x & powerpack etc,,,
Depends if you want to play games on an actual snes or don’t mind emulating. It will always be better on original hardware if possible so I’d say everdrive. But unless the snes is modded it won’t look as sharp as the mini, depends what you prefer.
Unrelated to this video but I've found that one of my NES games from childhood that I still have is worth a bit of money. The game is "Action in New York" which I have loose, CEX are selling it for £50 loose, £100 boxed, eBay lists it as higher. Any reason why it's so much?
@@RetroBreak Thank you very much, you were right, today I received the cartridge and it supports both types of files. I am really happy with the super everdrive.👌🏻👌🏻
Hey there RetroBreak, did you run into any issues with ROM hacks? I got my Everdrive today and unfortunately only a couple hacks are working, let me know if you get a chance!
Hi, think it depends on what kind of game and cart the hack was made for, like I said in the video, there's some games that use additional chips that won't run on it, I've tried a few rom hacks and most work, but they were for games that I already knew worked on the overdrive.
Hi, at 3:15 you change your settings from ntsc to pal. How Do you Do that? I got an european console but the roomhacks i try to play is based on a ntsc rom, making the games slow.
I got the HD retro vision cables for the SNES but my fucking TV doesn't show an image and only sound is heard. Genesis works fine no problem. you guys have no idea how pissed off i am lol
I've literally tried about 15 cards.. mostly SanDisk, Samsung, blah blah.. 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 512GB. I can't get the thing to run any roms. Constant Fat Error, F7. About to give up.
@@RetroBreak I have the SD2SNES and it's awesome. I wish there were a way to have save state support without resorting to Furious' custom firmware. Excellent video btw 👏😁
Looks interesting, even as someone who doesn't really do much SNES gaming. Fire Emblem peaked my interest though, I'd love to be able to play some of the FE games we never got~
1 - calm down 2 - you need to make sure it’s FAT-32. Some cards are formatted by default as EXFAT, which won’t work, also I was using a Mac which defaults to APFS.
It makes one stuck between a rock and a hard place, it is not a whether you want additional features, I could honestly care less about buggy features like save states, but I want it to play just about every game, problem is not just the price of the thing, which by now is $ 230 ish for the fx pak pro, but the added customs taxes, which take it to around $ 360 ish including shipping and customs taxes, that is not funny, it feels like customs of my country is robbing me, yeah sure it is to entice one to buy in their own country blah blah blah, like anyone here sells these kinds of devices..... As such many people kind of get forced to get inferior chinese clones, as not only is the price much lower, the customs taxes are much lower too if they even get charged in the first place, customs taxes make an already not cheap item much more expensive, I just feel robbed by my countries customs.
I got this because I got a CRT, have a SNES but only 1 physical cart Super Mario World. Talk about instantly expanding my library! Thanks for the video
This video's really helpful because I was planning to buy an SNES. My only issue was that I thought it was impossible to play ROMs on it. SNES games are rare nowadays, thus they aren't cheap. Anyway, thanks for the video mate!
I got this a few weeks ago and I'm loving it! Been playing through the Super Metroid/Link to the Past Randomizer on it lately and I can't get enough of it! Worth the purchase.
I already build an raspberry, but I was very disappointed, it worked so good, and after 1 years, for no reason a lighting mark appears in the corner, but I am using the official electrical adapter, so I think the raspberry wears down, little by little like a normal computer, so now even the snes games has slowdown.
Then I hacked my snes mini, it is nice, been able to put the games I want, but there is a lot of limitations, you can put up to 30 games in each folder, and the more games you put inside the longer it takes to load the game list. When you put new games, it automatically puts 30 games in each folder, but I only put like 200 games and took like 10 mins, maybe if you put like 800 games, probably it will freeze and if you turn off like this, it will probably break.
So I had a super famicom I usually don’t use that much, so I tried buying this Everdrive x5, this blew my mind away. I can see it is a more updated version than the one in the video, I put 200 games in each file, and the snes can read them super fast, you select any of them and in 3 seconds it loads.
I don’t mind don’t having the most expensive version, those games I can just play in the snes mini, like Mario kart, Yoshis island, star fox. Everything else I can just play in the super famicom, and the control is super responsive, even better than the snes mini.
Thank you so much for the video.
Cheers for including my questions from over on Twitter man! Really appreciate the answers, covers everything we'd ever need really thoroughly!
The SNES is the best console ever made. NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE.
Agree!
Amen to that
More of a sega fan. But yes
Hell yeah
Agreed…I too love my Genesis but the SNES is the tops.
There's all those bot comments i see everywhere that say
You are a GOD
but really, thank you so much
I bought one to test my childhood Snes! Exciting ❤
I got lost early and have one coming in 3 days! I got lost at firm ware. I'll come back when I'm formatted and ready to give it a real go. Fingers crossed because I'm border line computer illiterate
I think Pilotwings has a DSP chip, but doesn’t have the extra prongs on the bottom. So that might be why it didn’t work. Mario Kart has one too, although there were different types (DSP1, DSP2 etc) so it might be to do with that.
Maybe i missed it but i would have made mention of how to dump your own roms rather than just assume we'd all use ones available online, for those really averse to piracy or just wanna make use their own carts. Otherwise good stuff, I recently got myself a SFC from a convention and a bunch of JPN only games including Fire Emblem 3 and 4, while I could play those in their original language and probably still know what I'm doing something like Shin Megami Tensei I definitely need something like Everdrive to patch the rom into English.
I got the sd2snes 2.5 which is the same. Finally got a ps5 bundle!! You should try out the neo pocket game gear, love mine.
Informative video, thank you. I have two questions. Do you have any idea why the games on my super everdrive x6 are not in alphabetical order? Also, do you now how to return to main menu mid game? On my N8 pro it’s down and start. I can’t figure it out on super everdrive. Pain in the ass to keep hitting reset. Thank you 🤘🏿
I used to use the SD2SNES with all the chips in, at the time it didn't mean the whole library was available there was still compatibility issues however I recall it was being worked on updating the firmware to get them none running games running. TBH ive switched to emulation for snes but via the snes classic :) Great Video none the less, love me some flash carts
Can’t remember the site where I saw it, but it said the Super Everdrive has a 95% compatibility and the SD2Snes / FXPak has a 99% compatibility with the whole snes library, so there’s still a few it can’t play.
It turns out that Super Everdrive and SD2Snes is not an emulation, but an original of some kind? What should I give priority to as the Snes mini or higher version?
@@ЕвГрафПеченегин we never said tbe everdrive or flashcarts where emulation, playing on the mini consoles is emulation. The compatability on flash carts comes down to extra chips and security, and on emulation side not every game can run perfectly so its 6 and 2 3s, comes down to what's easier for you.
For the money, hard to beat X5 - 95% compatibility. X6 is unobtainable as of now and if you can find its double the cost of the X5, and FX pro is $220+
I had this but it died within 1 use.
Ordered a clone last night to see if that holds up better.
Very informative video mate, really enjoyed it
Another Great Video !!!! Very Informative !!!!
I really want the fxpack but 200$ is way too much. I settled for the ever drive.
cat was very necessary thank you
Thx a lot for the great video. There is one thing I don't understand though. At 4:33 you say that Mega Man X2 works perfectly fine on the Super Everdrive X5. Doesn't X2 have a CX4 chip? So I thougt it wouldn't work on the Super Everdrive X5.
Playing Fire Emblem 3 and 4 in English I exactly what I wanted to do. Thank you for the explanation. I could never have done this by my self.
By the way, for translated games that were only officially released in Japan does the patch account for it or do I need a Japan region Super Famicom?
I bought the super everdrive X5 SPECIALLY to be able to run converted nes games on it ,because on the powerpak,those nes games will crash earlier on due the limited amount of KB ram, the everdrive does have much more kilobytes of ram,so nes games will run before they crash,and since the everdrive saves everything automatically, i can then repatch those nes roms with those corresponding generated srm files sothat they will now run smoother and no longer crash or crash later on sothat in such case i have to predo the nes conversion by mixing 2 generated srm files from that specefic nes ron,and even better after preconverting those nes roms, they can now also run smooth from beginning to end on the powerpak,
Now the real cool feature from the everdrive(wich the powerpak lacks) is the superkeu feature to allow each region game running on each region system, so now i can use the super everdrive on my supaboy to play both nes & snes roms portible on it while the powerpak is used on my snes for home play,also since the powerpak does not work on my supaboy ,
However no matter how interesting the everdrive is,since i already own the powerpak, the wow factor is sadly gone,but still trough.
Why not just get a nes?
@@RetroBreak i do own multiple nes systems including the pal nes,nes2 (ntsc),av famicom and a portible famiclone,but i just like to re-experience nes games on the snes,it was a wet dream come true😁
How do you save your game?
Can you play an SFC cart on the SFC but in English?
I wanna play the og Clock Tower on the aesthetic SFC.
i just bought a fx pak pro i thought it had save states wtf or am i missing something ?
Yup, Pilotwings uses an enhancement chip and F-Zero doesn't. Around a hundred SNES games use one of the many enhancement chips, give or take, so there's gonna be a whole load of games that wouldn't work here.
if I have a Super Famicom can it only run NTSC roms with the everdrive x5?
Excellent ! 9/10 fantastic cat ! Could do with more bird ! And a darker cat 😂 xx
No mention about how to save games wich size srm file you can use and what not.
Btw i managed to run nes games on the powerpak with nested emulator but not all mentioned games do work on it, it has something to do with the amount of srm ram on the cartride or something,
For instance i could play metroid on snes9x but on the powerpak all i got is a black screen,supermario 3 runs fine on snes9x but on the powerpak it crashes at certain points in the game,but mariobros just runs fine on both snes9x & powerpack etc,,,
I’ve have spent 4 hours trying to get mine to work with no success
But what about save games? You mentioned it briefly but never got to it or did I miss it? But anyway thanks for all the other tips 🙌🏻
They work as they do on the original cartridges
I'm sure if if you livestream game you can gain a lot of .
Which is better than Super Everdrive or SNES MINI and why?
Depends if you want to play games on an actual snes or don’t mind emulating. It will always be better on original hardware if possible so I’d say everdrive. But unless the snes is modded it won’t look as sharp as the mini, depends what you prefer.
Can you apply multiple cheats at once?
Can you play Super Famicom games through it? I assume you can...
Unrelated to this video but I've found that one of my NES games from childhood that I still have is worth a bit of money. The game is "Action in New York" which I have loose, CEX are selling it for £50 loose, £100 boxed, eBay lists it as higher. Any reason why it's so much?
Usually the price is because of a low print run when it came out .
What is SuperKEY? I don't think it's related to supercic.
Great vid! Isn’t there a jailbreak for the super nt that lets you play roms off an sd card? Would seem to do the same thing as the everdrive
No idea haven’t looked into hacking the super Nt, but if there is that would be very convenient!
Hey mate what is the background music for the first minute :)
You should trade up to the FXPAK Pro anyways. Great video!
They just released an upgraded Everdrive X6 for $79
What extras does the X6 have?
@@RetroBreak it allows you to play DSP 1-4 chip games.
@@RetroSho Nice upgrade then!
@@RetroBreak Right!? And the price is VERY comparable.
Thank you jesus my friend. Chip dsp not found.
Can I use this still in 2021?
Will this work on the RetroDuo?
What's up bro, the everdrive x5 only accepts .sfc files or also .smc?
hey, it can use both :)
@@RetroBreak Thank you very much, you were right, today I received the cartridge and it supports both types of files. I am really happy with the super everdrive.👌🏻👌🏻
Hey there RetroBreak, did you run into any issues with ROM hacks? I got my Everdrive today and unfortunately only a couple hacks are working, let me know if you get a chance!
Hi, think it depends on what kind of game and cart the hack was made for, like I said in the video, there's some games that use additional chips that won't run on it, I've tried a few rom hacks and most work, but they were for games that I already knew worked on the overdrive.
If I buy it I can't just put it in and play?
No but it’s pretty easy to set up. I was scared I wouldn’t be able to do it at first
i wish you'd finish a game so that I'll watch it
Is there a SNES adapter cart out there that can run GBC games?
The Super Gameboy has you covered. You can snag one on ebay for around 15 to 25 bucks these days. Sometimes cheaper if you get lucky!
@@hungrybartender6388 Thanks, but I'm looking for an adapter that can run GBC. The Super Game Boy can only run GB games.
@@jonathonearl482 oh snap! My bad.
There isn't one for the snes. Best bet is to get a gamecube and gameboy player for GBC games!
Hi, at 3:15 you change your settings from ntsc to pal. How Do you Do that? I got an european console but the roomhacks i try to play is based on a ntsc rom, making the games slow.
I used the settings on the Super NT. You won't be able to do that on a European console unless it's modded with a PAL / NTSC switch
@@RetroBreak thanks, nothing to do then
@@fredrikwannman7268 Sadly not, unless there's a way of converting an NTSC rom to run at PAL speeds but I don't know if there is sorry..
I wished they kept the name "Super Everdrive."
Hi, does Killer Instinct game work on this Everdrive x5?
yes
i can play the games on the GBA ?
please try mame and mobile games next
does she read the nes rom?
why games stuttering in movement?
Do you have a Neo Geo Pocket collection? Can you do a vid on it?
I don’t have a very big collection, but I love the system! Maybe I’ll do a video on it :)
I got the HD retro vision cables for the SNES but my fucking TV doesn't show an image and only sound is heard. Genesis works fine no problem. you guys have no idea how pissed off i am lol
Sd card not found error.... love how theres like 0 fixes for it.
I've literally tried about 15 cards.. mostly SanDisk, Samsung, blah blah.. 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 512GB. I can't get the thing to run any roms. Constant Fat Error, F7. About to give up.
Why not just buy the FX pak pro instead?
Because it’s 3x the price, like I said I might sell this one and get the FX instead at some point.
@@RetroBreak I have the SD2SNES and it's awesome. I wish there were a way to have save state support without resorting to Furious' custom firmware. Excellent video btw
👏😁
Sweet
Looks interesting, even as someone who doesn't really do much SNES gaming. Fire Emblem peaked my interest though, I'd love to be able to play some of the FE games we never got~
We have the same speakers
How can you save the game?
How you’d save a normal snes game
So do save games function like you expect?
Yes. I have an earlier version of Super Everdrive, but saves normally work well.
Translated FE4
What the fuck you mean format the SD card just put the card in there and put roms in there and then put in back in the damn cartridge
1 - calm down
2 - you need to make sure it’s FAT-32. Some cards are formatted by default as EXFAT, which won’t work, also I was using a Mac which defaults to APFS.
KITTEH!
It makes one stuck between a rock and a hard place, it is not a whether you want additional features, I could honestly care less about buggy features like save states, but I want it to play just about every game, problem is not just the price of the thing, which by now is $ 230 ish for the fx pak pro, but the added customs taxes, which take it to around $ 360 ish including shipping and customs taxes, that is not funny, it feels like customs of my country is robbing me, yeah sure it is to entice one to buy in their own country blah blah blah, like anyone here sells these kinds of devices.....
As such many people kind of get forced to get inferior chinese clones, as not only is the price much lower, the customs taxes are much lower too if they even get charged in the first place, customs taxes make an already not cheap item much more expensive, I just feel robbed by my countries customs.
please try mame and mobile games next