Hands On: The EverDrive GBA X5 Mini Solves The Only Real Issue We Had With The Original

still bigger than Ez Flash Omega (wich fits on DS slot if you will to). Still cost more as well.

£129.99? Come again? 🧐🧐

Now it's the perfect combo to go with my gameboy micro.

i started buying gba games because i wanted to play with real hardware. i also like the fact that it keeps me focused on one game at a time (especially cause most of the time i have to play is during downtime at work and in those instances i only have a single cartridge with me). if i wanted something with all the gba games on it i’d much rather spend half as much and get something like a pocketgo or other dedicated emulation system

I dig it. Ordered one when Analogue's handheld was announced

Or maybe buy it from the creator for way cheaper. https://everdrive.me/cartridges/everdrive-gba-x5-mini.html

You can get it direct from everdrive.me for 77 pounds. Every little helps

@foodmetaphors yep. that's why i stick to console gaming despite pc games generally being cheaper and easily accessable. plus if i game on my pc it's too distracting and i'll never get anything productive done.
give me 1 or 2 games and i'll play them til completion. give me all the games and i'll maybe sample a bunch and never give any a real shot. that ol human nature paradox.

@konbinilife uh what

I got one of these last year, great bit of kit paired with a Gameboy SP modded with an IPS V2 screen. It's is very expensive and the EZ Flash is way cheaper but it drains GBAs battery nearly twice as fast.

@1UP_MARIO crazy mark-up by Retro Towers!

@Rohanrocks88 @huyi

But there are clearly Difference in Quality within "Everdrives" .
For Example the SD2SNES for the Super Nintendo is the only one that plays Super FX Games and even MSU1.
The cheap ones for the N64 do not play all Games, especially Games from Rare because of the security Chips.
The X7 ones often provide Save States, Action Replay/Game Genie and auto NTSC/PAL patching.

I use them to be lazy by switching Games and to play the Expansive ones, like Conquers Bad Fur Day, i mean, that Game costs much more than the Everdrive.
Romhacking Stuff on original Hardware is also very nice.

@sleepinglion

You do know you will be able to play all those games for free on Pocket by using the inevitable jailbreak firmware, right?

@nmanifold nearly double 😉

@huyi Ikr?! My EZ-Flash Omega was way less!

@abdias Love my Omega. Even that's smaller than a proper game pak!

What does RTC mean?

@KillerBOB I do. But I love cartridges and keep my Analogue devices on official FW

@DrDaisy real time clock

@abdias

EZ Flash Omega UI is better and it has a RTC. But it eats battery much faster than the EverDrive, and the build quality of the EverDrive is better. I have both and like both of them.

@DrDaisy Real time clock

@The_Trooper49 the case and the screen cover you find easily on Ali Express.

The IPS screen is available everywhere, it is super easy to swap screens on GBA.

The battery kit he used is the clean juice, witch is a waste, as you can assemble a battery kit yourself with more capacity and costing way less

I dont understand why you'd pay 3 times the price. Doesn't the EZ Flash Omega do exactly the same thing as this? I haven't picked either up but i really want to get to get a decent flash cart for my reshelled GBA SP which looks cool in its black an blue dichotomy that its expressing...lol

I have and like the original. No need to upgrade.

@The_Trooper49

Maybe you should get one, good skill to learn, although I cant talk, I need to get one myself,

I just about managed to reshell a gba sp i had, although Id like to learn more skill to do with customizing hardware.

@The_Trooper49 the $10 iron is enough for this extremely easy job. It is really that easy, you should try even if you never done this before.

You don't even need flux, or good alloy for that job (but use those if you can for every soldering job).

A quick ali express search of the term "gba snes shell" will show you a product that feature the same shell and screen from the Damien's GBA.

Ill just keep using my MiSTer FPGA for my GBA needs.

Cool read, I literally just ordered one of these a few days ago. I had no idea it could play GG and MS games, that's good to know. Only just recently got into everdrives and flashcarts, so far they're pretty handy devices. Got the N8 Pro, the Mega SD, and the FXPAK Pro and loved 'em, so thought I'd grab this one and give it a try as well.

Does anybody know the difference in power conaumption with vs. Omega flash?

No save states - forget it.

For me, I find it's easier to use one of the flashable carts from InsideGadgets. I got one with 32MB of storage and an RTC and it's great for playing Pokémon ROM hacks or doing randomisers of games. I got it with a cart dumper/flasher too, so I'm using my own cart backups for the base of the hacks and randomisers, which is a legal way of doing that stuff.

@twadebarcelona how do you find a cart dumper/ flasher? Is there a certain website to look for?

@SnackBox I use the InsideGadgets one. Like I said, I got it with the cart I use. They're based in Australia, so if you live outside Australia, you may need to wait a couple of weeks for it to arrive.

@TrickWallaceYoutube WAIT! Would it really work with that? Love my Micro, well in small doses - it can cramp the hand after a while

Without savestates this is a worse choice than a RG351 device...

@KIRO I would assume it would work fine. Would make a much better pocket handheld than some of the crappy chinese emulator handhelds.

@Damo How are the buttons mapped for SMS and Game Gear games?

Well I may just purchase this on a whim, I don't play ROMs often but last time I tried, with a cart I purchased years ago and used to get on great with, the bloody thing wouldn't work anymore. And these things seemed to be hard to come by when I was looking. So I may just buy this new one to keep for when I want to play some ROMs down the line.

@konbinilife wow Nintendo Life edited my comment! They cut out an entire bit and I didn't curse or say anything bad.

One more website down the drain. too bad, i enjoyed this one.

Think I'll be just fine sticking w/ my Acekard 2i flashcart running on my NDS instead which has the capability of emulating all the aforementioned systems that the Everdrive can do and it been working great for me after all these yrs, but costed significantly less.

@urbanman2004 I always get Everdrives these days, because the cheaper ones are actually much more expensive. Because if you ever want to actually USE the flashcart, you'll need new batteries every 2 hours. It just eats through them like mad. So within only a week or so of using the cheaper flashcarts, you'll already have spent way more than you ever will need to for an everdrive. It's about being smart with your money, being frugal. The ones that are highly optimised and so only use the same amount of power a normal cartridge does, they are more than worth the money. And there's also less chance of them spontaneously exploding and burning down your house. It's like the old thing of how being poor is incredibly expensive. Because poor people can only afford to buy £20 shoes. But £20 wear out and need replacing way way way more than £100 shoes. £100 shoes can last basically forever, if you treat them properly with just a tiny bit of maintenance (regular polishing and leather conditioning, using shoe trees in them when not wearing them, never wearing them for 2 consecutive days in a row, replacing the sole with a new one once every 10 years when the sole finally wears out etc). But £20 shoes, no matter how well you take care of them, will wear out very quickly, and so you need to be constantly buying new pairs. Poor people can't afford the £100 shoes, even though the £100 shoes cost far far far less over the long run, because they don't need constant replacing. They can only afford the £20, which ends up with them spending ludicrous amounts in shoes over the years, because they can't afford to spend less. It sounds like a paradox of sorts, but it's just the truth. And stretch it out to hundreds of things that all people need on a daily basis, and you can see how being poor is WAY more expensive than being middle class. Buying an everdrive is like that pair of £100 shoes. Cost a lot more to buy, but cost much much less to OWN.