Best Place To Buy a Turbo Everdrive? Thoughts or Suggestions?

[Glokas]

Hey everyone. I Finally got in my Turbo lot from the eBay deal I made almost a month ago. The Seller took forever to ship it out. Everything works, but it needs a really good cleaning and refurbish job, which I'm doing myself. Plus I'm going to attempt to create my own AV cable out of some D Sub Pin Connectors and a standard AV cable. I had spoken to quite a few people during the time I purchased this lot and I definitely agree that the TED is the way to go. I was just wondering, where would be the best place to buy it from in everyone's opinions?
.         I'm looking at Quality and Price. I don't want to save a little money and buy something cheap. After doing a quick search, I found one by Stone Age Gamer. Any thoughts on that one? It looks very well made and has a great presentation. The price isn't bad at all either. Also, what storage size SD card should I get? I know these games don't have alot of size to them, but would 4GB be enough? Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I think that the TED is going to be the best place to start before buying individual games.

[sirhcman]

I have and would recommend buying straight from krikkz (the guy making the everdrive): http://krikzz.com/store/

4GB will be plenty of space for a PCE/TG-16/SGX game library

[Necromancer]

I'd buy straight from krikzz, as I don't need a cover (it wouldn't fit in the LA with one) nor a silly case.  As for the SD card, 4gb is plenty; mine has a complete set of JP and US roms and a bunch of homebrew and translated roms, and it's less than 1gb.

[Glokas]

Thanks Necro. That's kinda what I thought. 4GB seemed like plenty. Does Krikzz have a site or can I buy it from the Forums maybe?

[Glokas]

Thanks for the link Srhcman, ill check that out right away. I'm so excited to dig into the Turbo/PCE library!

[sirhcman]

I'd buy straight from krikzz, as I don't need a cover (it wouldn't fit in the LA with one) nor a silly case. 

krikzz offers a cover for the circuitry now (only a $7.00 add on)

Thanks for the link Srhcman, ill check that out right away. I'm so excited to dig into the Turbo/PCE library!

You are welcome, enjoy it!

[Black Tiger]

Stone Age Gamer is a rip off, don't bother if price is a concern. They also ruin many flashcarts with very tacky custom packaging, but charge you a premium for the service.

[Necromancer]

If you go with just the bare unit (heh), Stone Age Gamer is actually slightly cheaper at $78.99 + $5.73 shipping instead of $79.00 + $6.00 shipping from krikzz.  I'd still buy from him, though, as there's a better chance that I'd get the most up to date revision and no middle man if something goes wrong and I need support.

[esadajr]

Only advantage of getting through a dealer would be time/distance (Ohio vs Ukraine). But overall it is best to just get it from the source, the guy stands by his product.  You could even organize a group purchase and get a discount.

[mickcris]

he will fully support it if you buy it from an authorized dealer.  so no issue there.  So stoneage gamer would be better if you dont need a cover as its cheaper and it wont take a month to get it.

they appear to have the newest rev also (2.5)

[Glokas]

Excellent suggestions everyone. That's actually my dilemma, whether to buy it from Krikzz or SAG. I love buying things direct from people, just to support them, but I also don't want to wait a month as I already waited almost a month for the Lot itself, which blew. I'm trying to make this decision by the end if the week since I have the cash to afford it now. Luckily this lot came with a few of the games I really wanted!

[TR0N]

Excellent suggestions everyone. That's actually my dilemma, whether to buy it from Krikzz or SAG. I love buying things direct from people, just to support them, but I also don't want to wait a month as I already waited almost a month for the Lot itself, which blew. I'm trying to make this decision by the end if the week since I have the cash to afford it now. Luckily this lot came with a few of the games I really wanted!

There's also http://www.retrogate.com i bought my TED from them last year.Mostly because my payment at krikzz website was decline so i went with retrogate since they take paypal.

[xelement5x]

Excellent suggestions everyone. That's actually my dilemma, whether to buy it from Krikzz or SAG. I love buying things direct from people, just to support them, but I also don't want to wait a month as I already waited almost a month for the Lot itself, which blew. I'm trying to make this decision by the end if the week since I have the cash to afford it now. Luckily this lot came with a few of the games I really wanted!

There's also http://www.retrogate.com i bought my TED from them last year.Mostly because my payment at krikzz website was decline so i went with retrogate since they take paypal.

Yeah, I don't think krikzz takes Paypal anymore so you need to use a Visa/MC to buy, where as SAG I think takes other forms of payment.

[Glokas]

Thanks guys. I really appreciate all the feedback on this. I think I'm going to go with SaG just so I don't have to wait forever or be limited to only one form of payment. I really do like the Deluxe version of it also. I'm such a stickler for shit like that, Plus I want something to store it in. But, it's $79 vs $125. So yeah, $45 for packaging essentially, is a big decision for me.
.                                                                      A question though: Are the Roms fairly simple to add, sort and access? What is everyone's opinion on the best place to get Roms from? I've pulled Roms for my Retron 5 from Freeroms, and they're almost always perfect.

[mickcris]

just a reminder that asking that question is against the rules. 

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