Turbo Everdrive v2

[elmer]

It just went on sale in krikzz's online store a few hours ago.

Looks like he's still doing his 20% off for wholsesale orders ($800 or more).

Wasn't there a group buy of the previous model? If so, how did it work out?

Does anyone think that would that be a good idea for the new one?

[Flare65]

Link?

[Jibbajaba]

http://shop.krikzz.com/Turbo-EverDrive-v2-TBEDV2.htm

Edit: Not really seeing a reason to upgrade from a v1, there.

[NightWolve]

Ah, it's here finally. Hm, does the 4MB of RAM allow for Arcade game support like he pondered doing ??  Doesn't say outright but I take it RAM will be useful to homebrew/hacks, etc.

[elmer]

Boo... I see no mention of backup ram. Are my dreams of pulling savegames to my computer as files going to remain dreams?

If so, I feel bad for everyone who sold off their everdrive. Instant loading is not enough to make it worth replacing my v1 everdrive, imo.

From his forum, it sounds like it may support saving cart RAM contents to SD card when you hit the reset button.

That could allow a Tennokoe Bank HuCard image to do your saving for you.

The "instant loading" is the least interesting part of it for me.

It's supposed to have 4MB of CPU-writable RAM, and be able to run a System Card 3.0 image ... all together with a built-in USB port.

That makes it a rather nice target for fan translations and developers.

BTW ... there's no technical reason that I can see why some friendly developer couldn't actually just write a ROM that would work on either the old or new TED to do your backup saving.

[EvilEvoIX]

can it emulate a Version 2 card so I can play altered beast?

[elmer]

Ah, it's here finally. Hm, does the 4MB of RAM allow for Arcade game support like he pondered doing ??  Doesn't say outright but I take it RAM will be useful to homebrew/hacks, etc.

Arcade Support is highly unlikely. It was requested a number of times on his forum, but it was never in his original design plans for the TED2, so it's very unlikely that it made it in.

But he did confirm that homebrew developers will be able to access the whole 4MB of writable RAM after a HuCard image is loaded.

[elmer]

can it emulate a Version 2 card so I can play altered beast?

Isn't a System Card 2.0 (and a System Card 1.0) just ROM? I thought that the 64KB of new RAM was in the CD interface itself?

If so, then I'd have thought that you could run a System Card 2.0 image on either the old TED or the new TED.

Perhaps someone can correct me on that if I'm wrong.

[NightWolve]

Ah, bummer. Looks like he was "right there" if he had learned how to implement the Arcade memory mapping. Anyway, still good to have 4MB of working RAM - what Bonknuts wanted and I guess it eliminates the need of the Stupid Card someone here was working on. Now for me to rebuy this. Dunno if jtucci is up to manage another group buy, but I'm in.

[elmer]

BTW ... there's no technical reason that I can see why some friendly developer couldn't actually just write a ROM that would work on either the old or new TED to do your backup saving.

As things are, megatronuk started work on such a project but has been MIA for many moons.

I was following his work and he seemed to get busy with something else.

There's already fully tested and working open-source 'C' code for full FAT32 file access on low-memory embedded systems ... like the PCE.

http://ultra-embedded.com/fat_filelib

I never got around to asking if he'd tried to use that.

Perhaps it gets back to the whole discussion of whether the PCE could use a better C compiler ... like one that can actually compile modern code.

[SamIAm]

can it emulate a Version 2 card so I can play altered beast?

Isn't a System Card 2.0 (and a System Card 1.0) just ROM? I thought that the 64KB of new RAM was in the CD interface itself?

If so, then I'd have thought that you could run a System Card 2.0 image on either the old TED or the new TED.

Perhaps someone can correct me on that if I'm wrong.

That works, though I haven't tried it personally. Even a Duo, with its built-in 3.0 system, will defer to any system card you put in the hucard slot.

[Black Tiger]

can it emulate a Version 2 card so I can play altered beast?

Altered Beast only runs properly using a 1.0 card rom, which requires no additional ram.

[DragonmasterDan]

http://shop.krikzz.com/Turbo-EverDrive-v2-TBEDV2.htm

Edit: Not really seeing a reason to upgrade from a v1, there.

Agreed, if it had arcade card support it would be a whole nother ball game.

[EvilEvoIX]

can it emulate a Version 2 card so I can play altered beast?

Altered Beast only runs properly using a 1.0 card rom, which requires no additional ram.

Yeah I need one to play Altered beast on my DUO-R

[Necromancer]

Any flashcart can emulate 1.0 or 2.0 system cards on a Duo; I've done it many times with my neoflash to play Altered Beast and to check out some error screens.

As for the new ED, I'd only want it for homebrew / translation stuff that uses the 4mb.  It's not like Arcade Cards are hard to find or particularly expensive (not the Duo ones anyway), so I don't give much of a shit about that feature one way or the other.