Cheap "EverDrive" for Genesis

[vmorr]

Not sure if anyone would be interested in this, but I picked one of these up off AliExpress for $29.94 last night. Bought it off of a different seller but it was a 6h special or something. Someone else has one discounted again for a few cents cheaper:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Arrive-Sega-Everdrive-MD-flash-Cartridge-for-Sega-MegaDrive-Genesis-Game-Card-System-USA-EUR/32345355128.html

I figure for under $30 it sounds like a decent buy, from what some have told me. Anyone here have experience with the clones?

[Black Tiger]

By buying knock-offs like this, you're screwing over Krikkz, encouraging bootleggers to continue to clone his products and discouraging him from developing new products or refining existing ones.

[Lost Monkey]

The description is kinda vague  - it could be just a case...

EDIT - nevermind  - I see the rest of the description finally.../

[xelement5x]

By buying knock-offs like this, you're screwing over Krikkz, encouraging bootleggers to continue to clone his products and discouraging him from developing new products or refining existing ones.

Yup, this is pretty much the case.  Plus, a lot of times these things are super glitchy too, and you get 0 support from sellers, whereas Krikkz is willing to help you out if anything is faulty.

[glazball]

Really? I have nothing for or against Krikkz but how is his everdrive any more legit than any other knockoff?

[Jibbajaba]

Really? I have nothing for or against Krikkz but how is his everdrive any more legit than any other knockoff?

Krikzz Everdrives are not "knockoffs" of anything.  He puts a lot of work into designing them.  Then other people steal the design and sell knockoffs on sites like AliExpress.  What's not to understand?

[DragonmasterDan]

I bought a Genesis everdrive fairly recently. I looked into some of the cheap knockoffs but in the end felt it was best to spend the extra money and buy the real deal. I'm happy with my decision.

[Black Tiger]

Really? I have nothing for or against Krikkz but how is his everdrive any more legit than any other knockoff?

EverDrive isn't a technical term for flashcarts, it's Krikkz's trademarked name for his line of flashcarts which he designs and manufactures himself. Would you buy a "Golden Sun King Playstation 4" console and ask what makes Sony's Playstation 4 system more legit?

[vmorr]

By buying knock-offs like this, you're screwing over Krikkz, encouraging bootleggers to continue to clone his products and discouraging him from developing new products or refining existing ones.

Yup, this is pretty much the case.  Plus, a lot of times these things are super glitchy too, and you get 0 support from sellers, whereas Krikkz is willing to help you out if anything is faulty.

I'm sorry that's the case, but I don't plan on getting much use out of this thing. I'm picking it up to try a few games I'm interested in finding physical copies of to see if they're worthwhile. At $30 its basically a little more than the cost of a basic controller or adapter for my PC to use with an emulator; I figure why not. Everyone says good things about Kirkkz's products and support which I don't doubt but for the time I'll spend actually using it, it's not worth $78+ to me. On the Sega at least.

I would like to pick up an official Turbo EverDrive at some point since the games are seemingly few and far between for me and I'd definitely make more use of it.

[SephirothTNH]

I'm not sure how the clone genesis everdrives are but the clone n8s are known to be complete garbage.  They are incompatible with many, most?, games.  For your sake hopefully the genesis ones aren't as bad.  But you certainly aren't supporting further everdrive development.

[wilykat]

You have been had.  Anything sold on Ali is a piss poor imitation, it will not properly play all the games, will be very glitchy, can't use newer OS Krikzz released so no updates, and it will fail very quickly.  I've seen posts on his site where the junk only lasted a few games.

No support from him since it's a fake. Your best bet is to return it for full refund (hope shipping isn't high) and buy only from vendor list on Krikzz's site.

[vmorr]

You have been had.  Anything sold on Ali is a piss poor imitation, it will not properly play all the games, will be very glitchy, can't use newer OS Krikzz released so no updates, and it will fail very quickly.  I've seen posts on his site where the junk only lasted a few games.

No support from him since it's a fake. Your best bet is to return it for full refund (hope shipping isn't high) and buy only from vendor list on Krikzz's site.

I'll review the clone when it arrives.

[MotherGunner]

whereas Krikkz is willing to help you out if anything is faulty.

Kind of like when he helped properly ship some V2 TEDs recently?  :-"

[cjameslv]

whereas Krikkz is willing to help you out if anything is faulty.

Kind of like when he helped properly ship some V2 TEDs recently?  :-"

Ya we dropped alot of money with that order and they didn't give a sh!t about us and how they messed up the shipping... Not happy with krikkz at all. His support was non existent.

[SephirothTNH]

whereas Krikkz is willing to help you out if anything is faulty.

Kind of like when he helped properly ship some V2 TEDs recently?  :-"

I'm not saying he handled the situation right but asking him to ship a bulk order to 3 separate addresses in different countries was probably asking too much to begin with. 

Part of the justification for discounted bulk orders is no doubt the ease of shipping many units to one location. 

I'm not defending krikzz.  I think the right thing to do would have been to at least offer some of those shipping charges back to the those involved.  Or to have said "no I'm not shipping a bulk order to separate addresses" to begin with.  But I'm not going to chastise the guy for it either.  If this had been some normal order I would probably feel differently.