Thank you for taking the time to review our console. Great to see it put through its paces. 😊

The little retro booklets it comes with in each collection really makes me want it more. These days console gamers get just a thin sheet with warnings printed on them or DLC codes.

The Evercade was quickly dismissed by regular people and KZfaqrs when it was first announced but now Blaze are smashing it out of the park. Great stuff. Also Boogerman is totally underrated.

I can't get enough DF retro! Thank you, John

The ad worked. You've sold another Evercade. Thing looks really good!

I watched a few videos regarding the Evercade, and yours was by far the best one and super informative. You just got another subscriber. Thanks for the helpful video!

They should have added an Evercade logo to the place of the Nintendo one in Earthworm Jim, cuz this looks a bit awkward.

Really cool little handheld, I’d love to get one but I know I’d never use it, so it’s not really worth the investment, but the idea of a cheap, high quality Lynx option is really enticing

Being a collector of physical games, I'm actually intrigued by those cartridges :)

I don't imagine this thing selling very well but God damn do I love the visual design of the console and the packaging of its games.

Hey John, can remember some comments you made in the past about feeling unsure about continuing to make video content because of people making negative comments about your appearance. Just wanted to say you're looking great, don't know if it's the haircut or you've been losing weight or something, but whatever it is is working.

I just don’t understand the lack of button mapping. That is a huge overlook IMO and a deal breaker.

Got an Evercade for Christmas and I own all 14 cartridge collections. I absolutely love it. It does have some minor issues such as the screen viewing angles being limited, and very sensitive shoulder buttons, but honestly for a £60 system it is excellent. I am looking forward to the other collections due this year, and then the announcement of the Evercade VS on 23rd April. Good times :)

I know you did a livestream on the VS, but with the updates and the EXP, I'd love to see a follow up one day. I think it's in a great place, and detailed feedback like this video helped it get there.

Ordered mine... thanks for the review!

Joe from GameSack mentions quite a few emulation issues and problems with custom button layouts. Did you experience the same flaws, did you even test in that depth or did you just forget to mention it?

I'll wait for the Analogue Pocket that is out later this year.

That Midnight Resistance music is an absolute banger

The background music makes me smile. John seems to really really like Cho Aniki :)

The Genesis audio emulation is by far the best I’ve heard on one of these handhelds. Coming from a profession musician who ADORES the original genesis sound engine. I will pick this up if it adds first party SEGA games. I need the Sonics, Toejam and Earl etc. fingers crossed!! I love the design, even the cartridge packaging takes me back. Do the box instruction manuals have that smell?? That new cart smell? That’s what I’m really after 😂

Dude, you sold me when I saw Weapon Lord. That was the game that prepared me for Soul Caliber. Ahead of its time indeed.

These companies need to start using 16:10 ratio as the fullscreen setting. It only puts two tiny bars on each side of the screen and the stretching is minimal.

I remember back in the days when Blaze used to do realistic like light guns.

I actually like the Play choice 10 palette over the more accurate one, it just pops more. Depending on the game of course.

I relate to your game overload paralysis from typical emulation systems.

Never heard of it before but after watching I'm considering ordering one.

I'm going to ask, did you guys have a video on the polymega console? I could have sworn that you guys did a video on that but then immediately pulled it from the channel for some reason

Thanks. Informative without exaggerating the positives or negatives.

Man, Earthworm Jim still looks gorgeous after all these years

When it comes to retro gaming I can't help but think how much better these game would've been had they been remade for the 32 bit systems. It's almost depressing. The Sega Saturn could've been a port powerhouse for alot of games with added frames of animation and higher quality music. Instead, the Playstation dominated the market with early 3d polygonal games. Sure, it was decent back then but nowadays.....damn.

Hey Digital Foundry, have you ever played Earthworm Jim?

Are updates to introduce new settings impossible due to the emulation software being on each cart?

I wonder why it has the snes version of earthworm jim 2 instead of genesis

Informative review.Mine's ordered.Its correctly priced.The possibilities are endless for this handheld

Yo, shoutouts to that first stage theme from Burning Force.

1:15 Skull Fang! What a kickass soundtrack

Would love to see some love for the Master System. Hope they include some Sega Mark III collections in the future.

Excellent review! I've ordered the black version of the Evercade and I'm looking forward to receiving it. :)

I saw these at my local dollar market and didn't realize that they were really good?? Jeez, wow these are really cool.

Great in depth video!

Later iterations of this console fixed many of the issues, you are mentioning, including the video output format. Perhaps it could be worth a re-visit.

I agree with the point you made of too many ROMS being paralyzing. I modded my PS Vita and put hundreds of GBA ROMS on retroarch and I barely play any of them because I can’t decide which ones to play. This system could definitely solve that issue plus I like the physical media and collectability.

Another great John Linneman video from DF!

this is a cute little thing. I wonder if they will have Amiga carts, because Amiga is still a bit of a hassle to emulate due to the disk switching and stuff. so an Amiga collection that does all of this in the background so games basically run like on any other 16bit console would be a neat thing. I'm talking Lionheart, Turrican etc.

The everCADE with home console ports instead of the arCADE versions. Ummm. Anyone see the problem here?

John have been training some hand and head gestures from the legend itself

I don't know, if they can't be bothered to put a 4:3 screen in what is supposed to be a retro device, then to me it's a non-starter. Also the A-B-Y setup for Genesis games is terrible - wow, that is terrible. Again, that's a non-starter and such an easy issue they would have fixed.

This device is magnificent!

That d-pad looks awesome! It's the one controller component which has clearly regressed since the 16 bit console era (genesis/japanese saturn the clubhouse leader)

BlAZE are fully smashing it with this one, I just might pull the trigger on one

I'm not a fan of constantly having to switch cartridges but I wouldn't mind having a cartridge for each system I wanted to play. Like a NES cartridge or a SNES cartridge with a large assortment of popular games. What would be really cool is if there was a website where you could custom choose the games you wanted to be on the cartridge and they would put them on it for you and you could purchase a custom-made cartridge with all the specific games you wanted to be on it

“By focussing on a smaller selection of games, it became easier to enjoy each one” - this.

Joe over at gamesack just dumped all over this. Sound issues, high price and wrong button layouts. I'm confused

Nice handheld, didn't know about this one. When do you review the MiSTer? 🙂

The Namco Museum Collection 2 Evercade cartridge will include the cult classic fighting game Weaponlord.

You're definitely right in saying that there'll be an audience for this but for me, the Vita is the way to go for what I'd like to emulate on the go. Lovely direction though!

Excellent video

Yeah I’m definitely picking one of these up now. Hadn’t considered the physical collecting aspect of it before 👍🏻

I wonder how long it will take someone to release an SD cart for it.

to my ear, the audio from the Evercade has less dynamic range/more compression than the real hardware, however the Analogue consoles seem to be in the middle regarding this.

The background music under Jon sounds like my phone alarm and it's giving me flashbacks lol

Absolute blast watching. I’m now definitely interested. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I love how you slipped in Old Towers. That game is pretty sick, short but a solid feeling puzzle game.

Nice camera, man. Very high quality DF Retro. This actually got me interested. Would there be world wide shipping?

Midnight Resistance? Now we're talking. An audible delight on the Genesis.

Midnight Resistance OST Flood Of Power is such a phenomenal Soundtrack. thanks John, now this music is playing on an endless loop in my head :)

I had some concerns about this before but after watching this video I think it looks pretty decent and with a fair price point.

Doom 3 Retro please! Especially curious to see how they were able to get it running on the Xbox. Also its a cool idea for Evercade cartridges having the 'brains' so to speak. Reminds me of the DSP chip on Virtua Racing back on Megadrive/Genesis

"sounds very close" ... so you're saying there's a difference?! I can't hear one.... Also, the editing to sync side by side, back and forth comparison audio like that... with one track dropping off and the next picking up without so much as a perceivable difference in track position... quite impressive. I'm sure that is pretty tedious.

I pre-ordered one with all the available carts. I don't know if i will continue collecting the carts as they release but i think this is a nice way to play old games in a very focused way. With emulators i get easily distracted and never beat any thing. Here i can focus on a few games at a time and beat the games that can be beaten. Its cheap too. $20 per cart, $80 for the device. I can cherry pick future carts if i want.

Out of all the new retro offerings that have come out in recent years this is the one that piques my interest the most. I haven't really felt compelled to buy any of the retro systems as I have a rpi. However this one seems to offer a lil more. An experience thats unique enough to stand out with a gimmick that actually appeals to me with the offering of carts from all sorts of systems and developers. It just feels like it was made by enthusiasts who "get it" and that matters. I'll be picking this one up forsure.

For me: Pros: -Good choice of emulators. - Its aesthetics and design. Cons: -Weird button mapping (For example, in a 3DS always choose the Y, B & A for Genesis emulators A, B, and C) -Its screen but in new versions can be replaced. - Lack of options for scaling and the previously mentioned. - Some hadware and software flaws (Joe from Game Sack exposed more) The price can be good, but having a lot of chinese handheld consoles that can have more options, do more things and sometimes better than the Evercade, maybe it doesn't have a lot of chance. Maybe they will release fixed version in next cartridges, allowing more options. BTW, I'm suspecting they're using the CSNES for SNES emulation, made by Near (formerly Byuu) for commercial use. It aims for speed and performance while maintaining a high level of accuracy

Excellent content as always!

I was cleaning my glasses while John ran the side by side comparison and I was thinking "How on earth doesn't he see that the emulated image is WAY brighter?" before I put them back on and realized it was just to make it clear which was playing. I thought John's eyesight was failing him.

0:55 Wow, which version of Magical Chase is this John?

Finally a hand held that lets me play inferior versions of arcade games. My dream has come true.

stumbled upon this system just today and it seems very intriguing (especially with the new firmware update for button mapping)

My Sega Master System has been retro for decades and uses cartridges. Whoop Dee doo.

And you still haven't addressed the #1 issue with this entire machine: lack of 2-player mode. I'd think that would have been the very first thing you'd talk about, and at least mention it in the intro as the primary drawback to the system. Do the carts themselves have 2-player mode built in, leaving open the possibility of an Evercade 2 supporting multiplayer? I wish that were addressed.

Nice review which I originally watched back in April 2020.... a couple of firmware updates have fixed a few bugs, and added button mapping to certain games. However, I think that certain issues you brought up such as changeable scaling options are more for the companies behind the cartridges to sort out if they feel it necessary, as that's the medium where the emulator for the particular collection of games lies..... The cartridge needs to set the resolution/scaling as it's surely emulator bound, whereby the Evercade console is just the medium for those emulators/games to play within...? Maybe as more games get released these things will improve.... I got my Evercade Premium pack a few days ago, and I must say that so far, I'm very impressed - just using the built-in screen - and have a couple of extra cartridges bought seperately, and should have the new Xeno Crisis/Tanglewood tomorrow. It's a great 'retro' system, at a good price, and with a great tangible way to collect both old and new games. :-)

Ah Burning Force, one of my favorite Mega Drive games. It's a great arcade port and have a soundtrack that fits the console sound hardware perfectly. No way in hell that could be ported to the SNES and sound as good.

I'm only 5 minutes 53 seconds in, and don't need to watch the rest. They may have sold me on Atari 8bit and Lynx games.

Finally some Lynx love. Such an underrated console. (Albeit a little googling reveals their first Lynx collection is super-random and doesn’t contain any of the system’s most iconic or launch titles. We need Electrocop, Gates of Zendocon, Chip’s Challenge et al.)

wait how is that possible concerning the legal issues with copyright infringement by most of the company like Sega, Nintendo and Sony? do megacat evercade company make a deal with them first or just doing it illegally??

Am I correct in understanding that all of these releases, including the Namco Museums are the home console ports and not the Arcade ports?

I'm sorry if this has already been done but would you mind doing a room tour? That setup of the tv's look cool

We've made a video on our channel if you're experiencing issues when using HDMI mini cable on the Evercade. So audio and video issues are resolved , hope it helps anyone

God. The Genesis was something special. Basically the console that made me a gamer. Nothing like it.

The lines running up next to the side of the screen was a bad decision.

On what evercade cartridge is titan overdrive please ?

It's an interesting handheld for sure. It would be good if they released a more powerful one in the future that was compatible with those cartridges so that it would have better graphical effects and also have a better screen as well with a button remapping option included. Also putting the ability to play more powerful consoles on it as well, such as Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS1, PS2, Xbox, Saturn, 32X, Jaguar etc.

Cool. Kinda reminds me of a Tiger Electronics Handheld. I am grateful for this channel and all of the content you guys give us. Thanks. Actually, I'm getting Famicom vibes. Game and Watch too. I like it.

I have mine preordered and am really hoping more old school license holders jump in! I'd love some NeoGeo (hopefully it can handle them) and CPS2 titles here. However, the micro USB charging port is disappointing. They really should have gone with USB-C. It's 2020!

This is awesome! Will you be reviewing the upcoming Analogue Pocket also?

That death in Dig Dug though.

something I wonder is the fullscreen mode, how would the scaling hold up if I used my tv to force it back into 4:3 or whatever the proper term was?

I don't get the problem with the button layouts...the handheld has shoulder buttons, right? Are they not used in every emulator? Having A and B and right shoulder button as C should work for Mega Drive stuff like Tänzer or Splatterhouse 2 even better than on real hardware. Am I missing something?

For the Nintendo games, do the buttons correspond to their original layout, or do they go with the button labels? In other words, are the buttons reversed relative to the original layout?

JUST ...

John have you ever done a room tour, would be cool to see your setup, tv, reciever speakers etc