N64 Everdrive Uk

[Darnell Rempe]

Imight be the last person on the planet not to own one, but I've decided to finally get an Everdrive-type device for the Genesis. Looking over the features of both the MegaSD (TerraOnion) and the Mega EverDrive Pro (Krikzz), they seem pretty much identical. Both support Sega CD and MD Plus games and even the prices are identical. In fact, the only noticeable difference I see (that might affect my gaming anyways) is that EverDrive has save states for Master System games, but MegaSD does not.

I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts on which one you prefer. Does one have a higher-quality build or a better menu/interface? Of course I'll be looking for reviews on YT over the weekend, but wanted to pick the brains of my fellow AAers.

Maybe it's old history, but I wouldn't trust terraonion, unless you'll get a nice warranty out of stoneagegamer who would cover it themselves for a period. If the only difference is the save states and it comes down to nothing much else other than some cost disparity I'd stick with the everdrive. TO has a very checkered past as far as their kits go for quality control, talking hardware+firmware level failures on their part and the fact they relocated to places where they don't get held liable to deal with product issues isn't exactly confidence boosting, but that's all wrapped up in earlier stories with the PCE side of things and a second neo kit to a lesser degree. Krikzz has never been a crap peddler, quite consistent, very open facing and helpful with stuff in and from what I understand even out of warranty goods.

- Random crashes/black screens when loading images; I thought this might be due to my SD card, but I tried several SD cards and still had the issue occur. It's not frequent, and only seemed to happen if I was resetting to menu somewhat frequently.

- Weird region incompatibilities. This might only be with JPN consoles, as that's all I have. On both my MD1 and MD2, I could not get a handful of US ROMs to run no matter what I did (region set to AUTO or US).

Unless of course you think that things like fleeing to a tax haven and screwing your customers in the process, or accusing a poor guy living in a frigging real life war zone as trying to 'profit' off of it are totally cool.

Another negative for TO ime is that I've had to pay outrageous import fees for whatever reason from the two orders I placed with them. For me, it was another 30-50 USD on top of the price of the product and shipping. I'm sure it's the carrier they use. I order a lot of stuff from overseas, and the only time I've had to pay this is when I order stuff from TO or Analogue, who use the same carrier... either DHL or Fedex, cannot remember which.

Ordered the Mega ED Pro on Saturday and spent most of Sunday curating a 256GB MicroSD card. Setting up and organizing everything is half of the fun! I like the fact that the Mega ED Pro will also play NES ROMs, and after adding everything (all regions of MD, SCD, 32X, NES, MSU-MD, etc) I have over 50GB left on the card. I still have some tweaking to do after the cart arrives, but it's basically ready to go. Looking forward to checking out my first Krikzz product on one of my all-time favorite systems. I plan to pick up the SNES and Turbo carts later this year too.

I think you'll like it, the basic menus it has work keeping it simple and fast to get where you need to be. I've got the current non PRO model and it's such a smooth thing to just get it started and into a game, and if you want to keep going, forget the menu, hit start and last game just goes right on in.

I have an X5 (since I have a real Sega CD and didn't need that option) and I can tell you it is a joy to use. I've been using Igor's (Krikzz) hardware since the very first Everdrive...back in the days when it was board only and you had to supply your own shell

Never had a problem with terraonions stuff, their stuff takes a long time to come out but when it does it feels complete. I've had a couple of krizz's things which were made obsolete because a better cart came out soon after i brought mine. Never had a problem with updates, don't see the big deal with having to sign in.

And SAG does black friday cuts as well which are their biggest of the year. SOme years ago when I had my last go with the PCE, once prices got toxic I waited for that sale and got a nice slice off on a Turbo Everdrive, and it came within a few days, solid product and came with a store warranty of a year or so in case it failed (it didn't.)

I have had no issues. I have the standard set of multi-bin/cue that you find anywhere nowadays. Same set people are using on MiSTer I suppose. And, it works like a champ....no issues I have seen at all.

After an evening playing with this I am quite blown away. One of the best works from Igor no doubt. I can absolutely recommend this if you can drop the money. I ordered mine directly from the Krikzz website since it is always OOS on SAG it seems, and it was a bit cheaper as well. It only took around two weeks to arrive.

I did have a Mega SD even before TerraOnion were duchbags (the owneres comments re krikkz and the war were totally unforgivable) , and whilst it worked fine the actual sd card insertion and ejection is horrible (feels brittle and fragile and its recessed etc) compared to the the everdrive , so I couldn't recomend the Mega SD if you need to swap SD cards all the time.

TO employees/owners were d-bags far before making shade towards krikzz. Just look up what they did to helpful modders/part makers (like Voultar) over the problems with defective hardware on their PCE device. They gas list people, used the trolls of the neo geo forum as a buffer/shield, talked crap, stalked and harassed people, refused to take any friendly criticism let alone fully complete handed to them hardware repair work to fix their defective crap. They instead moved from one country to another to stave off customers and the law so they wouldn't have to pay out for court stuff or simply defective replacement moving operations to cyprus to dodge responsibility. They deserve nothing.

I find myself with the opposite problem from the OP in that I own 2 Mega Drives. I have a (now discontinued) Mega Everdrive x7 and a Mega EverDrive x3. The X3 seems to be much newer than the x7 but I got them both second hand. Here are the comparison pages for both:

Mega EverDrive X3 (krikzz.com)

Now, I'm not really a Mega/Genesis expert, and I haven't used these things very much so understanding all the ins and outs is tough. I am going to get rid of one of these and am having trouble deciding which one to sell. What would be the recommendation of this community?

One thing that is different that I notice from browsing the menus is that "Game RAM to SD" and "SD to Game RAM" seems to be greyed out in the options of the x3. I don't fully understand what those options are, but it seems to only be available on the x7.

Also, I see the build date on the X7 is 2018. IIRC there was some kind of power issue with the X7 that could potentially lead to damaging the console but that was corrected on newer revisions. There may be someone else that has more information and links that can chime in on this, but I remember it being a pretty big thing some years back. I am not sure which revs were affected.

Another thing you didn't mention is that MegaKey feature. It might not be so useful to you if you are on a USA Genesis playing USA games, but it is necessary for me. I have an X3 for example in a Megadrive model 2. It has no hardware megakey so I can't play quite a few region locked USA games. That said, I need to replace that X3 with a variant that does have the Megakey. If you decide to sell the X7 let me know.

I remember that power issue. Some nameless drama queen showed up on social media formats then forums pissing and whining how terrible krikzz was and his design, seemed like just some salty asshole really in how it all came off. He was acting like well the voltage is thus, therefore it will murder your system. IT was more a matter of fact, then the reality of it being while it was possible it was dramatically unlikely, and the odds are using it or not the chance the hardware would fail for yet another reason is about as much of a chance as an old ED blowing it out. People started pushing back, dude got all whiny and upset about not getting the ring kissed, and it just kind of fizzled until hardware stuff aged out, redesigns were done because of the part losses, and the issue either due to his bitching or not resolved itself.

As far as what ED matters, look at your region, look at what you own, look into the features that matter. From there, see which one if you don't care would net you more money for your swap out and go for it.

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