What is the best flashcart/everdrive for the SNES? - /vr/ (#11826474) [Archived: 838 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/26/2025, 9:18:56 AM No.11826474
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I'm going back to my SNES backlog and wanting to play some RPGS, such as Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Mario RPG, Live A Live (patched with translation), FF6 and others. I'm also trying to play a lot of the games listed on FantasyAnime, as they have good guides and look interesting and were recommended from an RPG friend.
Problem is, I don't know a good everdrive. Unlike the NES, the SNES has a lot of chips to it.
What would be my best option to play most of the SNES games listed on this site on actual hardware? Should I get a flash cart, everdrive x6, etc?
https://fantasyanime.com/index
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 10:20:51 AM No.11826513
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There is pretty much just one right now, the FX Pak Pro (formally called the SD2SNES). There are no other competing flashdrives. There used to be the Everdrive for SNES, but it was so behind the SD2SNES that Krizz stopped even bothering trying to sell/update it and just started to stock SD2SNES carts.

Eventually it was renamed the SD2SNES because of a lawsuit, not from Nintendo mind you, but from the people who run the SD card business sending a C&D for having "SD" in the name. It was later replaced with the FXPak Pro that used a stronger FPGA chip.

Not even the FX Pak Pro can run every SNES game though, it still does not support the SPC7110, ST-011 and ST-018 (Though I highly doubt anyone will care about those last two) and the Sufami Turbo adapter, pretty much every other chip is supported. The only other ones on the market are cheap Chinese clones of the SD2SNES/FXPak which can vary significantly in what chips they support. Many of the cheapest ones don't support a large amount of enhancement chips.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 10:25:41 AM No.11826519
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There is pretty much just one right now, the FX Pak Pro (formally called the SD2SNES). There are no other competing flashdrives. There used to be the Everdrive for SNES, but it was so behind the SD2SNES that Krizz stopped even bothering trying to sell/update it and just started to stock SD2SNES carts.

Eventually it was renamed to the FX Pak because of a lawsuit, not from Nintendo mind you, but from the people who run the SD card business sending a C&D for having "SD" in the name. It was later replaced with the FX Pak Pro that used a stronger FPGA chip, I think a better CPU too but I don't recall. I remember the dev was planning to use the additional hardware in the Pro to add Super Gameboy support but I don't think he ever did.

Not even the FX Pak Pro can run every SNES game though, it still does not support the SPC7110, ST-011 and ST-018 (Though I highly doubt anyone will care about those last two) and the Sufami Turbo adapter, pretty much every other chip is supported. The only other ones on the market are cheap Chinese clones of the SD2SNES/FXPak which can vary significantly in what chips they support. Many of the cheapest ones don't support a large amount of enhancement chips.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 10:40:07 AM No.11826529
>>11826519
Is there anything I can get that's below the $125 price range?
I'd get the FX Pak Pro if it wasn't so damn expensive
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 10:48:26 AM No.11826535
>>11826529
I agree that it's laughably overpriced.

You can try your luck with the bootlegs, but it can be a crapshoot if it's actually the latest version that supports the same chips as a real one does, not like many of them wouldn't lie since you are buying a bootleg product. Generally most bootlegs can't take official firmware updates either if they ever add support for more chips (Though it hasn't had an update since 2023). Even then many of the bootlegs are closer to $150.

I have personally just switched to using a MiSTer with a SNES SNAC adapter because of this, just getting a flashcart for one of my consoles and/or any RGB or HDMI mods costs far too much.

I guess another option would be to try to find bootlegs of the individual games, but again that can also be a crapshoot and some of them are not designed well (The whole 5V/3.3V thing) and with enough games even cheap bootlegs will end up costing more than having just gotten a flashcart.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 11:03:53 AM No.11826547
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Bootlegs notwithstanding, there's 3 main options for a SNES flash cart: Super EverDrive X5, Super EverDrive X6, and the FXPAK Pro. The FXPAK Pro is the best one, but it costs over $200. The Super EverDrive X5 is on krikzz's website for $59 and the X6 for $99. You can find a compatibility list (or rather, an incompatibility list; very few games aren't supported even on the X5) for each cart online. Same for lists of which carts have which features.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 11:09:45 AM No.11826550
>>11826547
>The Super EverDrive X5 is on krikzz's website for $59 and the X6 for $99. You can find a compatibility list (or rather, an incompatibility list; very few games aren't supported even on the X5) for each cart online. Same for lists of which carts have which features.

I see, I was under the impression he had stopped stocking the SNES Everdrives and only sold the FX Pak Pro now. That being said though, the compatibility seems fairly poor. The X5 does not appear to support ANY enhancement chips and the X6 only appears to support the DSP chips. That cuts out a lot of significant games, especially the lack of SA-1 support, including some games that OP mentioned such as Super Mario RPG which uses the SA-1.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 11:35:08 AM No.11826573
>>11826550
I don't disagree. I have an FX Pak Pro. But if Super Mario RPG is the only SA-1 game that OP wants to play, it might not be worth spending an extra $120 to $170 just for compatibility for that one game. Star Ocean is in the website OP linked and that game also requires the FX Pak Pro since its a S-DD1 game, but there's a patch that claims to remove the S-DD1 requirement. I don't know if the patch version works on the X5 and/or X6.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 11:50:13 AM No.11826584
>>11826547
Where can I find this list?
Also, is this the real thing on AliExpress, or is this a clone? Thinking of buying it
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808243635764.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.1.6e56654dXS8mn5&algo_pvid=2ff6f3f1-735b-4966-8426-78485bec1ec1&algo_exp_id=2ff6f3f1-735b-4966-8426-78485bec1ec1-0&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22order%22%3A%22457%22%2C%22eval%22%3A%221%22%2C%22orig_sl_item_id%22%3A%221005008429950516%22%2C%22orig_item_id%22%3A%221005008148742850%22%7D&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21USD%21225.33%21112.46%21%21%211606.06%21801.60%21%402101effb17509313241566729eca0c%2112000045059739447%21sea%21US%210%21ABX&curPageLogUid=WD3bqRoU3LMK&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 11:54:13 AM No.11826589
>>11826573
S-DD1 was used for graphics compression right? I guess technically it would be possible to de-compress the graphics and just use a larger ROM. That was how ZSNES got Star Ocean and a few other SDD-1 games (and even FEOEZ) working, you downloaded a program and some XOR files that would run across the ROM and decompress it's graphics, and spit out like 20MB or so of files containing that decompressed graphics which the emulators could then use instead of actually emulating the special chips on those carts.

This became obsolete rather quickly as eventually they just plain added support for those chips in the emulators themselves.

Thing is:
>This hack for Star Ocean removes the need for the S-DD1 chip consequently expanding the ROM size to 96Mbits (12MB) to allow you to play the ROM on real hardware where itโ€™d otherwise be impossible.

Notice that the X5 and X6 only support a ROM up to 7MB, you would still need the FX Pak Pro to support a 12MB ROM, this also makes the patch pointless since the FX Pak Pro just supports the SDD-1 anyway. I assume this patch was made before the SDD-1 was supported on the SD2SNES. (Also, the FX Pal is apparently technically capable of supporting ROMs up to 128Mbit (16MB) but since no official or even hack has ever gone past 96Mbit the firmware was never updated to support more than that)
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:00:14 PM No.11826592
>>11826573
S-DD1 was used for graphics compression right? I guess technically it would be possible to de-compress the graphics and just use a larger ROM. That was how ZSNES initially got Star Ocean and a few other SDD-1 games (and even FEOEZ) working, you downloaded a program and some XOR files that would then scan through the ROM, decompress it's graphics, and spit out a few MB of files containing the decompressed graphics which the emulators could then use in place of actually emulating the special chips on those carts.

This became obsolete rather quickly as eventually they just plain added support for those chips in the emulators themselves, I think it didn't even take a year, the whole decompressed graphics pack thing was short-lived that many don't seem to remember.

Thing is:
>This hack for Star Ocean removes the need for the S-DD1 chip consequently expanding the ROM size to 96Mbits (12MB) to allow you to play the ROM on real hardware where itโ€™d otherwise be impossible.

Notice that the X5 and X6 only support a ROM up to 7MB, you would still need the FX Pak Pro to support a 12MB ROM, this also makes the patch pointless since the FX Pak Pro just supports the SDD-1 anyway. I assume this patch was made before the SDD-1 was supported on the SD2SNES. (Also, the FX Pal is apparently technically capable of supporting ROMs up to 128Mbit (16MB) but since no official or even hack has ever gone past 96Mbit the firmware was never updated to support more than that)

>>11826584
Like I said, it's a crapshoot. It might be everything they say, it might have issues. It also might not be updatable if a new update that supports more games ever comes out, and even if it works fine it might be of shoddy quality that might cause damage and/or fry itself eventually. You never know.

Also you didn't need the whole URL, most of it is just tracking information. Pretty much anything past ".html" was unnecessary.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:01:20 PM No.11826593
>>11826584
That's a clone, but that doesn't mean it won't work. Just know that with clones, you shouldn't update the firmware on the cartridge since that's prone to bricking them. I don't own a clone so I can't comment on its build quality or longevity.

Here's the list of games that use each chip. You can reference this with the chart in >>11826547 to check compatibility:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_chips#List_of_Super_NES_games_with_enhancement_chips
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:10:17 PM No.11826603
>>11826593
Also just to add to this, the Everdrives also don't support the BS-X games (though I think some can be hacked to function as a normal SNES cart, with some limitations) nor the MSU-1.

The MSU-1 is also an enhancement chip, but it's not listed among the others because no official game ever used it, it's a homebrew expansion chip that adds the ability for SNES games to access CD-like audio and video. This is obviously only used in romhacks.

E.G. Adding the FMVs from the PS1 version to the SNES version of Chrono Trigger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDyupCHjYDU

Or just adding CD quality music to the games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd-RK6hgg_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsOocVDTnpI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XeXNjv8idM
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:13:32 PM No.11826607
>>11826529
Save up money for the Black Friday sale Krikzz always has on his website.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:19:38 PM No.11826616
>>11826592
You are correct. I thought about the English patch making the game go over the file size limit, but I only checked the normal English patch, saw it was 6MB, and called it there. In hindsight what you said is obvious.

>>11826603
On the topic of compatibility with unofficial hacks, I know some fan translation hacks expand the ROM of the base game, which may cause them to go over the 7MB limit of the X5 and X6. This causes the English patch for Tokimeki Memorial to lose compatibility with the X5 and X6, while the original game does have compatibility. I don't know if this is a problem for any other game.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:38:34 PM No.11826637
>>11826592
Thanks for the info.
>>11826607
Most of the games I need (since this is just due to financial difficulties RN) is on t he Everdrive X6. I think I'll be good
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 1:55:47 PM No.11826697
Is the SD2SNES now being sold as a FXPAK Pro? That's what I always recommend if you don't want to pay premium to the ukrainian jew.
>>11826474 (OP)
>https://fantasyanime.com/index
You can run almost every SNES RPG on a cheap everdrive.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 2:17:32 PM No.11826727
>>11826584
The AliExpress clones are perfectly fine. They have the exact same functionality as (((Krikzz's))) version. His army of shills will make vague claims about "quality" and how you should be supporting the war effort, but there's zero reason to pay more for the exact same product. They're all made of chink parts at the end of the day.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008120843959.html
That's the listing I bought from. It's not priced as low as it has been right now though. During sales and with the coupons you can get it significantly cheaper, so just wait for the next big AE sale to come around.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 3:01:10 PM No.11826790
>>11826727
Ah yes, anyone who gives even the slightest warning that a bootlegged product might have issues MUST be a "shill" even though I said I feel they are excessively overpriced and there have been multiple examples of bootleg carts being made in a shoddy manner.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 3:04:08 PM No.11826794
>>11826474 (OP)
SD2SNES/FXPak Pro is the one you want. The cheaper/older Everdrives aren't compatible with special chip games so you can't play some of the SNES's best games like Yoshi's Island or Mario RPG on them.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 3:21:25 PM No.11826821
>>11826727
>3000 in 1
So does it have the functionality of being able to burn ROMs onto it via SD card in the back or a wire, or is it just "3000 in 1" games?
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 3:23:50 PM No.11826825
>>11826821
That's likely just advertising how many ROMs are included on the SD card. You can load whatever you want onto it. It's not the same kind of "3000 in 1" cartridge you're thinking of.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 3:24:27 PM No.11826826
>>11826825
Ok, so I'm buying this then. Thank you.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 3:33:31 PM No.11826836
>>11826826
No problem. Hopefully, you don't end up with one that has faulty parts or anything like that.
In my opinion, the only Krikzz flashcarts truly worth purchasing are those for the Mega Drive and PC-Engine. The ability to play CD games directly from the cartridge alone makes them worthwhile.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 6:27:08 PM No.11827113
>>11826519
>Not even the FX Pak Pro can run every SNES game though,
It should also be noted that its ability to run SFX and SA1 is not entirely accurate as such. The real chips implemented correctly wouldn't fit on the FPGA, gate limited as it was. The original author of the cores giving up on them entirely. Then someone else came along and said "who cares about doing the core correctly? Just wang the functionality the games actually use into a compiler and debug it until it works." And so the games are playable, sure, but it's more like running them on zsnes or snes9x than it is real hardware.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 6:41:32 PM No.11827138
>>11826529
I literally got some cheapo Amazon one for like ยฃ40, it is perfect. It can't do special chip games so I just bought those and luckily it's literally 4 games worth playing that utilise chips: Yoshi's Island, Starfox/wing, Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG. They are all also incredibly cheap games.
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 6:58:25 PM No.11827181
>>11827113
Does this cause any known bugs in commercial releases, even if they are small, or is this something that only effects test ROMs designed to test for FPGA/emulator accuracy?
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 7:09:58 PM No.11827196
Most comments here on the bootleg SD2SNES are retarded.

> Should I get it from aliexrepss?
Yes

> Can I update it?
Yes

> Will the latest firmware brick my cart and kill my dog?
No

SD2SNES is an opensource project, the same as summer cart 64. All vendors sell carts manufactured from the same plans using off the shelves component.

Go to aliexpress, check the reviews of any given vendor, and buy it from there. No reason to waste 200 bucks on a "legit" shop.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:46:54 AM No.11827976
>>11827138
>it's literally 4 games worth playing that utilise chips: Yoshi's Island, Starfox/wing, Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG.

pilotwings
top gear 3000
megaman x2 and x3
star ocean
SFA2
jikkyou parodius
DBZ hyper dimension
kirby super star
kirby dreamland 3
far east of eden zero
metal combat falcon revenge
marvelous

not an insignificant list
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:52:42 AM No.11828092
>>11827976
>not an insignificant list

Agreed. The problem with the "It's only a minority of the library" is that said minority of games are rather big ones in the SNES's library. Also some of those games can cost as much as the difference between just getting a FX Pak. By the time you've bought Star Fox, Yoshi's Island, Mario Kart, and Mario RPG you already negated the cost savings, and still don't' have access to many other games., not to mention fan translations of the Japanese-only ones.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:36:56 AM No.11828314
>>11827138
Fyi those are $16 on AliExpress. Works fine just slow when you change games
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 8:12:39 AM No.11828336
>>11827181
Just speed problems really. Put a real cart and the FX pak side by side and SFX games get out of sync, but it's not a huge deal when you're playing it. Especially if you want to play about with the uncapped mode that deliberately makes it run too fast to get turbo starfox.
I've had a couple of non-crash glitch outs in mario rpg and some oddities in kirby, but in both cases it was after hours of play so to answer your question, yes it affects commercial games, but not enough to make you want to buy real carts to avoid.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:55:30 AM No.11828537
>>11828314
>$16 on AliExpress
Yes but you also have to wait for them to come from China, and I got mine next day delivery so there's that. To your point yes, it was slow until I replaced the microsd with a Sandisk one and now it takes less than 30 seconds per game.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:55:44 AM No.11828538
Another thing the SD2SNES / FXPak Pro can do is emulate the Super Game Boy, so it also functions like a Game Boy flash cart for your SNES. And some games have MSU-1 soundtracks available, but IIRC SGB + MSU-1 only works on the FXPak Pro or SD2SNES Pro.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 1:36:44 PM No.11828627
>>11828537
>Yes but you also have to wait for them to come from China
Takes less than 10 days using Choice.
There's also a risk those will start corrupting saves and/or the battery will go bad fast.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 1:38:01 PM No.11828628
>>11828538
It can also use SGB borders. I don't you can get borders using an actual SGB + GB flashcart.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 2:06:29 PM No.11828665
>>11828628
AFAIK you can use all the SGB features on a real SGB with a Game Boy flash cart, though the memory which holds the borders and stuff isn't cleared when you change games, so you end up mixing borders and color palettes etc. It's best to switch the console off an on again when changing games to avoid problems.

I'm not sure how the SGB emulation on the SD2SNES behaves but if it resets to the SD2SNES menu then it should the memory problems?
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 2:07:45 PM No.11828669
>>11828665
*should avoid the memory problems
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 2:13:21 PM No.11828679
At first I bought one of the really cheap basic SNES flash carts. It didn't fit in the console properly and I had an issue where some non-retail ROMs would somehow corrupt the firmware and I had to re-flash it, and it was very slow to load. Overall I wouldn't recommend unless it's very cheap/free. I now have a used Krikzz SD2SNES Pro from eBay. I didn't want to risk buying one of the Ali Express ones, apparently those are very hit and miss.

If you care about your consoles buy good quality accessories.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:54:15 PM No.11828841
>>11828537
>it was slow until I replaced the microsd with a Sandisk one and now it takes less than 30 seconds per game.
Never trust the SD cards that come with those devices, there is a laughably high chance that they are fake and will corrupt your data eventually. The chances of the cards being some utterly ancient miniscule card that was hacked to display a larger capacity than it really is is almost 100%. I was given a 1GB card with a several-hundred dollar 3D printer in 2016 from the US branch of a Chinese company. Even for 2016 you would have a hard time even finding a 1GB card, except, it wasn't even a 1GB card. I found out the hard way during a hours long failed print one day that it was actually a 128MB card hacked to appear as if it's 1GB. Where the hell does one even find a 1GB card in 2016, much less 128MB?
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:56:37 PM No.11829005
>>11828627
>10 days
Thats donkeys years to me anon, here in the UK I even get my drugs next day delivery. The benefit of being a small country is that shipping is incredibly fast, it doesn't take more than 24 hours to drive the length of the entire country. In 10 days I would've got so bored not having any SNES games to play I would've probably killed myself.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:24:47 PM No.11829064
>>11826519
Some hacks are starting to use FX Pak pro like Mario CD, Sonic CD, Starfox CD. They use msu and a special chip at the same time. I'm a bit annoyed because I paid a huge amount for the original Sd2Snes, its feels like they bait you every few years to upgrade your flash cart. I'm wondering if the ali express ones are the pro or just the standard, they have been known to mislable things.

>>11828628
Even on the first sd2snes you get the sgb borders, there is also a utility to hack the sgb rom to add your own borders, its handy on a crt as the standard borders can be way too bright if you play in the dark.

>>11827181
you'll get some minor glitches if you enable the game menu, sometimes its just worth it not to have to get up. It can be significant like a whole heap of lines on the mode 7 levels in contra 3.

>>11826592
I had an old floppy copier with 8mb of ram and it worked with that hack.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:23:04 PM No.11829179
What was the reason to buy the SD2SNES before it supported the special chips? Must have been expensive compared to the Super EverDrive, no?
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:30:30 PM No.11829186
>>11829064
>its feels like they bait you every few years to upgrade your flash cart
I haven't seen a firmware upgrade in over 2 years.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:38:53 PM No.11829201
>>11829179
The very first SD2SNES supported special chips.
Before that it was just called the Super Everdrive.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:45:42 PM No.11829214
>>11829201
Which chips did it support?
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 8:07:52 PM No.11829392
>>11829179
One thing SD2SNES/FXPak Pro has over the older flash cards is that you can just launch any game instantly. With an Everdrive X5 the card had to load one game at a time into its memory which took some time.
It's much more convenient.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:34:35 PM No.11829746
>>11829064
>Some hacks are starting to use FX Pak pro like Mario CD, Sonic CD, Starfox CD. They use msu and a special chip at the same time. I'm a bit annoyed because I paid a huge amount for the original Sd2Snes, its feels like they bait you every few years to upgrade your flash cart. I'm wondering if the ali express ones are the pro or just the standard, they have been known to mislable things.

None of those games would be finished in years if at all, so just emulate on your PC
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:00:46 PM No.11829818
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md5: e9558377a8d119df01903f51faab3fd6๐Ÿ”
wii
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:55:12 PM No.11829930
>>11826535
This.

Just get a MisterPi. It is an incredible deal for like $175 with the triple stack option. The fucking thing can emulate up to N64 and PSX just fine.

I have used it for SNES, Genesis, N64, and PSX and haven't encountered any major issues honestly. It's great with SNAC adapters too.

I got a SNAC adapter for the N64 and using a legit controller is awesome with the right CRT setup.

It can even emulate classic computers easily too so if you're into that, it's a no brainer. Literally no reason to buy an Amiga, ZX Spectrum, MSX, or Amstrad as a result.

Thing is a fucking beast. I am glad I exist in this timeline with this option.

t. Millennial who grew up with ZSNES and even GBA / N64 emulators which were okay but nothing compared to what we have now.

I also like how another Anon said to just buy the 4 or 5 FX chip heavy games and use a Chinese bootleg SNES cart for everything else. Not a bad option.

At least there are options.

Biggest thing OP, make sure you have fun :)
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:02:03 AM No.11829940
>>11826836
Kinda neat, didn't know about the CD ROM reading ability.

To be fair though, every time I have ever been on the Stoneage gamer site or anything similar, I have always noted how retarded their pricing is.

Such is the case for every fucking PCB product these days. So many greedy bitches that could easily make two or three units sold but chose to overprice a single unit.

Fuckers have the gall to do this and still outsource manufacturing to China.

I say, fuck em. I'm looking at you, Amiga PCB creator bootlicking fuckers.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:06:44 AM No.11829948
>>11828092
>>11827976
Man, who fucking cares at that point.

Some have better ports elsewhere --> Street Fighter Alpha 2

Everything else, I flat out would emulate on something like a Batocera setup.

The only 3 games I would agree that would be worth it include Pilotwings, Kirby Super Star, and Kirby Dreamland.

The others are so obscure to the average person aka don't revolve your decision over less than 1% of the SNES library lmao.
Replies: >>11829964
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:10:19 AM No.11829950
>>11828679
Fuck off back to ((Ukraine))
Replies: >>11830805
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:11:51 AM No.11829956
>>11829005
Bro doesn't know about Chinese Christmas.

Idk the wait is kind of fun. I bought a few of those Anbernic handhelds and fuck, it was kind of fun getting excited to see if that shit would make it past customs.

To each their own though, you be you, an impatient retard that doesn't want to save money lmao
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:14:05 AM No.11829958
>>11829392
This.

I've seen the wait times and they are horr ndous for the older carts.

If you're the type of guy that wants to load one game and pretend like that's the only cart you have for a few days while you beat a game, that ain't a bad way to approach it.

But in a multiplayer scenario with people waiting, nah, fuck that dude. Just get a MisterPi at that point.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:17:28 AM No.11829964
>>11829948
>obscure to the average person
The average person isn't buying a flash cart for a 35 year old video game console. Its an item for enthusiasts โ€” the type of person who likes to play lesser known games.
Replies: >>11830109
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:21:27 AM No.11829972
>>11829818
Cant do N64 and PS1 LOL
Replies: >>11829995 >>11830113
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:37:04 AM No.11829995
>>11829972
neither can an snes flashcart, which is the topic of the thread
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:39:01 AM No.11830098
>>11829179
I think it was cheaper at first, and from the start it supported more chips than the Everdrive did.

>>11829201
The SD2SNES/FXPak is not an upgraded Everdrive, they are separate products made by separate people. That's like saying the Everdrive64 became the Summercart.

>>11829930
>I also like how another Anon said to just buy the 4 or 5 FX chip heavy games and use a Chinese bootleg SNES cart for everything else. Not a bad option.
It's a very bad option, with the bootleg cart and several official carts you end up paying about the same as you would have for an FXPak, except you are still straddled with a crappy flashcart that can't run other special chip games or any fan translations of those special chip games. That's single handedly the worst possible option out of anything suggested here.
Replies: >>11830114 >>11830115
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:44:48 AM No.11830109
>>11829964
I beg to disagree. I bought one for just the classics on my old SNES. Not everyone is a completionist faggot.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:46:58 AM No.11830113
>>11829972
Wii can do most major N64 games via Virtual Console rips. Shut up faggot. Wii is great for SNES via SNES-GX plus a Wii Pro controller.
Replies: >>11833267 >>11834007
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:47:59 AM No.11830114
>>11830098
Sure but you can just emulate those 10 games and be done with it. Who the fuck cares at that point.
Replies: >>11830152 >>11830170
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:49:06 AM No.11830115
>>11830098
>translations
Implying everyone is some kind of faggot who likes Japanese games.

If it's got moon runes, into da bin it goes.
Replies: >>11830170
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:07:03 AM No.11830152
>>11830114
Moving the goalposts. It's okay that you don't want to pay for a good flash cart, but you don't have to be such a faggot about it.
Replies: >>11830208
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:16:59 AM No.11830170
>>11830114
If you want to emulate them fine, I'm just saying that buying a crappy cart then buying the actual games it can't support is a stupid idea. Emulating those would be a far less stupider idea than trying to save money by cheaping out on the flashcart and then buying the games it doesn't support.

In terms of the OP's question though he wanted to play on real hardware.

>>11830115
>Implying everyone is some kind of faggot who likes Japanese games.
Where do you think we are right now?
Replies: >>11830209
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:39:15 AM No.11830208
>>11830152
Bro stop shilling the expensive cart. We both know the cheaper one is just fine for 99.9% of people you stupid tryhard bitch
Replies: >>11830218
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:40:17 AM No.11830209
>>11830170
Not every board is for anime, retard
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:46:24 AM No.11830218
>>11830208
The only try hard bitch here is you. It's fine if you want to emulate, but not everybody agrees. Stop crying.
Replies: >>11830223
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:49:33 AM No.11830223
>>11830218
I ain't crying. I am spitting some goddamn truth.
Replies: >>11830225 >>11830270
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:53:20 AM No.11830225
>>11830223
The problem is you aren't being truthful. Buying the enhancement chip games you want and a cheap flash cart is more expensive than buying the expensive flash cart and not everybody likes emulation.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 3:15:53 AM No.11830270
>>11830223
You're spitting something, but it's not truth
Replies: >>11830327
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 3:52:04 AM No.11830327
>>11830270
Your mother spits on my cock you fucking fuck
Replies: >>11830427
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 5:11:10 AM No.11830427
>>11830327
You sound emotional enough to have already cut it off years ago
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 9:56:33 AM No.11830805
>>11829950
neck yourself, retard
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:09:53 AM No.11832836
g
Replies: >>11832857
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:18:30 AM No.11832857
>>11832836
Why bump a thread that had nothing more to say?
Replies: >>11832862
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:21:25 AM No.11832862
>>11832857
I wanted time to say:
Fuck all krikkkz shills.
Replies: >>11832898
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:36:38 AM No.11832898
>>11832862
>"I'm a poorfag"
Message received, you can go away now
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 7:48:34 AM No.11833052
lol krikk Shill who is too poor to own actual games is mad and wants the thread to die
Replies: >>11833239
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 10:11:52 AM No.11833239
>>11833052
doesn't even make sense
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 10:35:29 AM No.11833267
>>11830113
VC doesn't count, N64 emulation outside of it it's shit.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 10:50:40 AM No.11833291
I have three Krikzz flash carts and I'm happy with all three. People who refuse to pay for quality are the reason there is hardly any manufacturing industry in the west, which is the reason why everything has gone to shit.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 8:33:33 PM No.11833982
>i paid 200 dollars for each everdrive so I must ensure you do too! I will shill krikkkz for the rest of my life so I feel better about my purchase and his popularity stays high so he never lowers prices! sure it only costs him 5 dollars to make each cartridge, but come on! He needs a new mansion bros! BUY KRIKKZ!!!! dont pay 20 dollars on aliexpress for something that does the exact same thing except not play 2 certain special chip games!

FRICK KRICK
Replies: >>11834028
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 8:47:18 PM No.11834007
>>11830113
>Virtual Console rips
Lol
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 8:54:48 PM No.11834026
I have an SD2SNES and it can run most games except for DSP-1 chip games, so no Pilotwings etc.
Replies: >>11834154 >>11834554
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 8:56:25 PM No.11834028
>>11833982
Unhinged post considering they are all copying krikkz's designs... of course the person who invented this stuff and makes them first and keeps them updated should be paid for his work so we can keep having cheap Chinese knockoffs.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 9:42:50 PM No.11834154
>>11834026
I think you have to add some files to the SD card to get DSP games to work.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 9:47:08 PM No.11834167
I heard that the Summer Cart creator is also irritated by the Chinese makers flooding the market with poor quality. Wouldn't surprise me if the hardware source was closed at some point, just like happened with the SD2SNES.
Replies: >>11834557
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:52:29 AM No.11834554
>>11834026
You need the bin files for DSP and CX4 games anon...
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:53:55 AM No.11834557
>>11834167
Any trustworthy sellers from aliexpress?