Turbo Everdrive PC Engine / Turbografx 16 Flash Card Nearing Release

[Duo_R]

Pretty long wait for something so simple. Glad I did my own

Here is mine

[NightWolve]

But it's not as cool looking and it doesn't come in black...

[Joe Redifer]

Always buy from Retrogate. Stone Age Gamer is pretty useless. He probably doesn't want to sell the board only versions because he can't profit as much from it. He's all about the crappy "deluxe" versions which are all pretty useless. How hard is it to find a normal cartridge shell at a thrift store and use that if you really need it? The Turbo Everdrive certainly doesn't need a "deluxe" edition, especially something emblazoned with Stone Age Gamer's logo on it.

[sirhcman]

Always buy from Retrogate. Stone Age Gamer is pretty useless. He probably doesn't want to sell the board only versions because he can't profit as much from it. He's all about the crappy "deluxe" versions which are all pretty useless. How hard is it to find a normal cartridge shell at a thrift store and use that if you really need it? The Turbo Everdrive certainly doesn't need a "deluxe" edition, especially something emblazoned with Stone Age Gamer's logo on it.

Thanks Joe, I was wondering where the best place to get one of these was.. A tad off topic but do you or anyone else here have any experience with the SMS Everdrive?

PS: Love your show!

[ConHuevos]

Ya, stone age gamer just adds a bunch of useless fluff (like a plastic case, paints the cartridge) and adds $50-$70 to the price.  If you buy PCB only you still pay $5-$10 more at stone age.  Avoid that place for flashcarts.  They do occasionally get good deals on console clones however, if you're into that sort of thing.

But yes, avoid for flashcarts.

Pretty long wait for something so simple. Glad I did my own

Ya, I love how stoneagegamer used terms like "prototyping" a small piece of plastic that isn't even an odd shape with 2 half circles cut out, held in by screws...lol

Probably just took it to a local fabricator.

[turbokon]

Pretty long wait for something so simple. Glad I did my own

Here is mine

That's pretty good Duo_r, if you can print on it would perfect!!

[ConHuevos]

It'd be pretty sweet if you could actually replicate an actual hucard shell and place it in that.  I bought a crap keith courage hucard just to see if I could and realized it wasn't possible =/

[KnightWarrior]

How much will the deluxe version be??

[ConHuevos]

Add $50-$70 to the bare board.  Or you could just order here like a sane person:

http://shop.retrogate.com/Turbo-EverDrive-TURBO-ED.htm

[Duo_R]

Haven't messed with it for a while but wouldn't be hard to add a logo on the plastic.

 

Pretty long wait for something so simple. Glad I did my own

Here is mine


Haven't messed with it for a while but wouldn't be hard to add a logo on the plastic.

That's pretty good Duo_r, if you can print on it would perfect!!

[NightWolve]

Add $50-$70 to the bare board.  Or you could just order here like a sane person:

http://shop.retrogate.com/Turbo-EverDrive-TURBO-ED.htm

Yeah, $79 with shipping included is a damn good deal for this thing! It does look very cool what StoneAgeGamer is doing with the vinyl coating and the top plastic piece, but the jacking up of an already good price is the issue. For $89 I'd maybe consider it, but not for another $20-$30+ as they'll probably be able to justify with the fancy case and manual. If they're going as high as $50+, pffft, f*ck that...

[Jibbajaba]

I bought my original Everdrive and my Turbo Everdrive board-only from the developer.  For some reason I bought my Super Everdrive from Stone Age Gamer.  They put it in a shell, added a label, but that into a universal game case, and included a couple of free firmware upgrade coupons.  The thing that pissed me off is that the firmware update coupons both have expiration dates.  So my Super Everdrive coupons are already void.  So basically I paid maybe $40 extra for a shell, label, and universal game case.  Whoop-f*cking-pee.  Then when the TurboEverdrive got released, I didn't know about it, so I missed out on the first wave of them.  I asked SAG why they didn't send out an e-mail to previous Everdrive customers, and their response was that if I wanted updates about products, I would have to "like" them on Facebook.

They also won't sell people the game cases that they had made for the TE.  So if I wanted one, I would have to send them my Everdrive so that they could "upgrade" it to the deluxe version.  All I want is the f*cking case.  These people remind me of Neo Geo Freaks.  "Send us your Turbo Everdrive and we'll freak it for you."

Chris

[KnightWarrior]

You could always find a better Case and Insert for the TurboEverDrive

[NightWolve]

I bought my original Everdrive and my Turbo Everdrive board-only from the developer.  For some reason I bought my Super Everdrive from Stone Age Gamer.

I had made contact with Krizz on Youtube, exchanged a few PMs and pointed out that there might be problems given placement of the USB port and what not with the SuperGrafx given SamIam's concerns, etc. Anyway, that was about 4-5 PMs going back'n'forth, bringing that to his attention, praising the work, etc., but then I guess I pushed my luck with the last PM where I asked if I could buy it directly from him hoping I could save a couple of bucks versus his retailers... Well, he never responded back to me after that. We call that one a polite "no..." Hehe. Ah well, I tried. I assume when you did it his site http://krikzz.com/ had an integrated shopping cart to order direct from him and not a bunch of links to all the retailers that he's made a deal with for his products.

[Jibbajaba]

I bought my original Everdrive and my Turbo Everdrive board-only from the developer.  For some reason I bought my Super Everdrive from Stone Age Gamer.

I had made contact with Krizz on Youtube, exchanged a few PMs and pointed out that there might be problems given placement of the USB port and what not with the SuperGrafx, etc. That was about 4-5 PMs going back'n'forth, but then I guess I pushed my luck with the last PM where I asked if I could buy it directly from him hoping I could save a couple of bucks from his retailers... Well, he never responded back to me after that. We call that one a polite "no..." Hehe. Ah well, I tried. I assume when you did it his site http://krikzz.com/ had an integrated shopping cart to order direct from him and not a bunch of links to all the retailers that he's made a deal with for his products.

Retrogate.com is his storefront.  Buy from there, and you're buying from him.

Chris