Anyone purchase from RetroUSB before?

[meka]

One big downside of the SNES Powerpak is that you have to manually save games by holding the reset button and then saving it, with all the RPG's on the SNES it would be a hassle.

[DejahThoris]

So basically the Super Everdrive uses cheaper flash cards and can't play Pilotwings, Super Mario Kart and Star Ocean.

Why is the SD2SNES so hard to come by?

There's a ton of games that the NES Powerpak can't run, right?

SD2SNES is hard to come by because it's being made in really low production numbers, and if I'm not mistaken the next batch is already pre-sold.  It's far costlier despite only playing what, a half dozen more games than the PowerPak?

And my understanding is yes, there are a ton of games the NES one can't play due to the large number of mappers across the NES/Famicom library.  I've yet to find a good compatibility list though.

[sirhcman]

Dejah, if you find a compatibility list please post it here

[mcarnage]

Here's a Compatibility List I think the key to the NES Powerpak is that you have to install loopy's mappers over the latest beta mappers (both found at the link above) and that helps out.

Speaking of support I noticed over a year ago when I got my SNES Powerpak that game genie codes didn't work on HiROM games and emailed support and I never heard back. I started a thread on NintendoAge and was told that they got my email and were going to look at it, so yes if you find a bug good luck on getting it fixed as I don't believe either Powerpak have been updated since I got them .

Krikzz mentioned working with mappers on twitter a week or two ago and then he did answer someone that the mappers he was referring to was working with 8-bit mappers so maybe he means NES? It's the only other 8-bit system I can think of that he doesn't support and uses mappers but I could be wrong!

[KnightWarrior]

I ordered a USB NES RetroPort for the PC came in 2 days

also I live near in California, Near San Francisco..that's why it was fast

[Joe Redifer]

NES/Famicom Everdrive was announced 2 days ago.  Definitely gonna wait to see how that turns out.

[Frank_fjs]

Krikzz is working on a Famicom flash cart:

[DragonmasterDan]

There's a ton of games that the NES Powerpak can't run, right?

There's a lot of mappers that aren't supported. It becomes more apparent if you're trying to play strange unlicensed stuff that used custom mappers. It's worth owning one if you're interested in experimenting with odd games on real hardware but it's far from perfect.

[GohanX]

I mainly want them to play FDS FM sound games and translated NES/SNES games.

It's worth noting that the FDS sound emulation on the Powerpak isn't that good. I mean, it plays the sound, but it doesn't sound like a real FDS. That being said, most of the extra FDS sounds aren't that much of a departure from what you're used to hearing anyway, that it doesn't matter. On the Zelda games, I actually prefer the sounds of the US versions.

[SNKNostalgia]

I mainly want them to play FDS FM sound games and translated NES/SNES games.

It's worth noting that the FDS sound emulation on the Powerpak isn't that good. I mean, it plays the sound, but it doesn't sound like a real FDS. That being said, most of the extra FDS sounds aren't that much of a departure from what you're used to hearing anyway, that it doesn't matter. On the Zelda games, I actually prefer the sounds of the US versions.

I did not know that the FDS sound is of lower quality. I really only want it for games like the JP version of Castlevania 3 actually. I did play quite a few FDS games on the emulators to test out the sound. It doesn't seem to be much of a big deal for most games, but those few that does it right is what I want it for.

Maybe the Everdrive version will be better for FDS sound I hope.

[KnightWarrior]

If I had extra money I would get Stuff from Krikzz

[Drakon]

I bought both the nes and snes powerpaks.  Getting the nes one went fine.  The snes one showed up with a borked ram chip.  I mailed it back, in a box with my name and address on it.  Somehow they weren't able to link it to my account so it sat at their place for months not getting fixed.  I didn't get it fixed and sent back until I kicked up a huge storm on nintendoage about it.

I bought krikzz's mega everdrive and turbo everdrive both from retrogate and both showed up in record time with zero issues.  I must say retrogate rules.