Evercade

if you love hand held gaming but prefer carts. just like the game boy, game gear, and others. then the evercade is for you.

I got my first evercade when it came out . it was the premium pack with 10 game carts.

these carts come in a hard case with a full colour glossy manual that tells you all about the games on that cartridge, hints and tips.

im a bit behind on my collection right now im on cart 23.

My favourite games so far

romeow and juliecat

which is sort of colums type game where you have to use up all the puzzle pieces to collect points while keeping juliecat happy with music and protecting her . it is a very hard game. because you cant change the puzzle pieces direction. it really addictive.

other games you will recognise are

Worms, Dizzy, Zool , sensible soccer , the list is long but there something for everyone. you can get the games for £18. which isnt bad considering that normally you pay about £60 for 1 game. There anything from 2 to 10 games per cart for the evercade hand hald which isnt bad as your collection soon grows.

the handheld i have is the white and red collectible edition , there is a black and red collectible edition these both came with a limited edition coin signed certificate. then later on Evercade brought out the purple and grey version this came with a certificate and a keyring. i don’t own this one yet . my partner calls it the evercade minion. as i love minions.

Evercade vs console

Evercade then brought out the evercade vs founders edition i don’t own that either. but its black and red and connects to your tv via hdmi. It come with a poster , keyring, hard case, and depending on your pack you can get 4 games with it . it also had your name on the certificate so your a founder and 2 black controllers. Ive seen the controllers on ebay for £ 20 – £50 and the console for £ 400.

There is a white and red version. which i seen for £80. this just comes with one game and one controller.

the best is you can plug in your evercade handheld into the evercade vs. also the evercade vs has 2 cart slots so you can play a 12 and a 12 cart. but it gets better when you have two carts in the vs you can unlock a secret game, not all carts combos do this. i don’t think. but as i don’t have a evercade vs for this review i cant tell you. and i don’t no if it specifically to do with if you use the white/red , back/red or purple and grey hand held or not. The evercade vs has wifi built in so it updates for you.

More Evercade goodies

The coolest thing then happened Evercade Fans brought out a magazine called Evercade Evolution currently £7.99 in printed format and £ 6.99 in Kindle format. ( price change so there only a rough guide) I’m unsure if the magazine is available in other ebook formats because i get mine from amazon.co.uk . currently a waiting the next issue . its full of goodies reviews, q and a letters ect in the same style as the booklet you get with your game carts.

My only problem ( not read anyone else had it happen)

you can plug in your handheld to the tv hdmi socket via the recommended cable but i don’t no what happened but when i did that i lost all my game saves. I used the official evercade hdmi cable for my handheld linked it to my tv. played happily for several hours . Save my progress regularly, turn off my handheld correctly , un plugged the hdmi correct, charged up my evercade and go ready to play romeo and juliecat in hand held mode, all my saves were gone. i cried this game is hard for me to play so i was really upset to discover that all the progress i had made ( got to level 4) on a really difficult game had some how been lost.

yeah ok its level 4 but this game is very difficult. ive not dare plug in my handheld to the hdmi cable since. Not sure if its my unit or what but just wanted let you no.

System update

with my evercade hand held i had to do a systems update, which i was nervous about, it went ok , you download the update and run it plug in the evercade turn it on making sure there no cart in the handheld and follow the instructions which are really easy .

i was only nervous because the first time it couldn’t find my evercade also i think my experience with the hdmi and loosing my game saves didn’t help, but i shouldn’t have worried.

since the update there are more saving slots and a new interface. the interface matches the evercade vs interface which took some getting use to as i don’t own a evercade vs.

It just been announced that the red/white , the black/red/ and the purple/grey handheld evercade have been retired.

but don’t panic. the new evercade hand held is out at end of the year ( 2022) it call the Evercade Exp. Pre orders have sold out.

i will write more on the Evercade EXP when i know more but for now. all I can say is the pre order units are white, and the non pre order units are black . it has wifi built in , plays all 300 + games from both the original Evercade handheld and the Evercade vs.