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cjameslv

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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2015, 04:23:55 AM »
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.

I'm in as well. If jtucci gets this going great or if he doesn't have the time, i will get this ball rolling. I'll send him a pm today.

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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2015, 04:38:21 AM »
What I'm most interested to know about the new model, is if current TE shells will snap onto it.
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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2015, 04:46:31 AM »
Nice, i have been waiting for v2 to come out. I hope there are some left when i get home from work today.


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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2015, 04:46:34 AM »
I'm in as well. If jtucci gets this going great or if he doesn't have the time, i will get this ball rolling. I'll send him a pm today.

I'm up for 1 with USB, and probably 2 (will know in a day or so).

What I'm most interested to know about the new model, is if current TE shells will snap onto it.

It definitely won't if you go for the USB option ... he's moved it to the center of the card so that you can use it on a SuperGrafx.

I suspect that that means that the reset button got bumped over, too.

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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2015, 04:58:04 AM »
Interesting. I guessential the only difference with this one is the 4mb ram? Which is used for what exactly? Could someone explain that for me please.

With that being said I have no interest in busing the new version for myself. But I guess I wouldn't mind doing another group buy if enough people are interested. I got your PM cjames. It's the beginning of summer and I hardly have anything to do anyway.

I guess I'd have to just wait to see just how many people are interested, since the minimum is 10 for the discount to happen. I'd say my cutoff would be around 15 or 16 this time. I managed 20 but doing a few less thing time would make it easier for my side of things.

I'm in as well. If jtucci gets this going great or if he doesn't have the time, i will get this ball rolling. I'll send him a pm today.

I'm up for 1 with USB, and probably 2 (will know in a day or so).

If we do a group buy, last time I ordered all the same which was without the usb thing. I could look into having only 1 or a few of the orders being the usb, I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem, just a heads up.

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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2015, 05:30:47 AM »
Interesting. I guessential the only difference with this one is the 4mb ram? Which is used for what exactly? Could someone explain that for me please.

The 4MB (megabyte) RAM completely replaces the 8MB (megabyte) flash on the TurboEd V1.

The theoretical advantage is that starting a new game is almost instant in comparison to the V1's delay to write the flash.

You also won't have to worry about the flash wearing out (which is pretty unlikely, anyway).

That's the big change ... it means that the TED2 can now run Populous, and probably also Tennokoe Bank.

Not a major improvement for current game players ... but it's a pretty big thing for homebrew and translation developers. It wouldn't surprise me to see either the TED2 or the Stupid Card begin to be required for some future SuperCD translations.

Moving the USB port to the center of the card is great for anyone wanting to do SuperGrafx homebrew.

It krikzz's first card to use a new modern low-power 3.3 volt FPGA architecture.

He's already warned that the "Cart may not work properly with region modded systems".

That's probably because of the same signal delay issue that TailChao has reported during his Stupid Card development.

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If we do a group buy, last time I ordered all the same which was without the usb thing. I could look into having only 1 or a few of the orders being the usb, I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem, just a heads up.

It looks like he doesn't care exactly which combination of products you order ... just as long as you get over the dollar amount.

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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2015, 06:04:42 AM »
It also loads the roms instantly now.  So you dont have to wait for it to write it like the V1.

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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2015, 06:21:11 AM »
What I'm most interested to know about the new model, is if current TE shells will snap onto it.

If not we can design one and i'll print them out. I got in a bunch filament in pla & abs with alot of colors now too.

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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2015, 12:04:52 PM »
I waited for this! :D Too bad about the Arcade Card. Now I have to buy Arcade Card Duo AND an Everdrive.

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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2015, 01:16:43 PM »
For those of you who already have a V1, how big of a microSD card do you have?
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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #25 on: May 21, 2015, 01:22:47 PM »
1 GB is plenty for this system. Every version of every rom ever dumped fits with hundreds of megabytes to spare, IIRC.

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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #26 on: May 21, 2015, 09:09:50 PM »
For those of you who already have a V1, how big of a microSD card do you have?

For the Turbo Everdrive I'm using a 4GB which was about the cheapest possible one I could find.
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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #27 on: May 22, 2015, 01:46:52 AM »
I didn't have an everdrive yet... this might be a nice chance to get one.

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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #28 on: May 22, 2015, 04:16:08 AM »
Thanks guys. I found a 4GB in the US for less than five bucks.
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Re: Turbo Everdrive v2
« Reply #29 on: May 22, 2015, 04:56:13 AM »
Something to watch out for with Everdrive and other flash carts is the memory card size limit.
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