Evercade

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Anyone here an Evercade fan? I picked up the EXP a few years ago and it is pretty fun. Mostly gave up on buying physical games a long time ago, but I did end up collecting a few of these carts once they started including arcade games.

The latest model, Evercade Alpha, resembles the Arcade 1up Countercade (or the Picade for the retroarch crowd) and even includes similar games, but it still has Evercade cartridge slots so you can play any of the 500+ available games. In fact the dual slot models have hidden games that are only available with certain cartridge pairs which is kind of cool, or kind of annoying if you picked up the single cartridge model like I did

The same company also released the HyperMegaTech! handheld in the Game Boy/portrait format. There are Capcom and Taito variants and both play Evercade carts in addition to the built in games.

Anyway, I think the Alpha model looks pretty cool and is hopefully sturdy; the special edition models have upgraded Sanwa arcade parts. The only annoying thing is so far the Capcom and Taito collections are only available as built-in and not cartridge for some reason. This brings it back to the Arcade 1up style where they will probably release multiple variants with exclusive games, definitely do not have space for that so I hope they eventually release these arcade games on a standard Evercade cartridge.