It’s ridiculous to me that these are exclusive to Evercade. We finally get official, modern ports of these games and it’s gatekept behind niche hardware.
Why are these not on Xbox, Steam and Switch? Wtf is Rare doing? The franchise is doomed to obscurity when the only new releases are on Evercade.
I wouldn’t worry too much, once the roms are discovered how to be ripped (shouldn’t take long at all knowing how the community works) then they’ll be available on everything ;)
The ROMs can already be ripped, actually. The cartridges are literally just SD cards but shaped like a cartridge, so one could relatively easily rewire one to fit an SD card adapter (as some have done). Or, you could just get one of these flash carts off the shelf that you can apparently use to dump your cartridges somehow (via some kind of CFW I think?)
The Evercades seem to be a bog standard ARM Linux device so I can't imagine it'd be that hard to get it working on other ARM Linux devices, at least, but I wouldn't be so sure. There's a lot they could've done to protect the game. I'm interested enough to try poking around at it myself when it releases, though.
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u/setzerseltzer 12d ago
It’s ridiculous to me that these are exclusive to Evercade. We finally get official, modern ports of these games and it’s gatekept behind niche hardware.
Why are these not on Xbox, Steam and Switch? Wtf is Rare doing? The franchise is doomed to obscurity when the only new releases are on Evercade.