The Ultimate Famicom Game Cartridge – N8 Everdrive – Installed on BBG Famiclone

The N8 Everdrive is the ultimate game cartridge for 8-bit famicom (60pin) or NES (72pin, Nintendo Entertainment System). N8 stands for Nintendo 8-bit. The cartridge supports a micro SD card (on the right hand side of the front cartridge) and has an optional micro USB interface for development. I spent 135 USD and it took 2 weeks to delivery to UK.

The features and hardware specs of this cartridge:

You can order a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) without the shell, which is $10. You can customize the color of the shell.

Well protected so won’t get damaged via delivery, it says ‘static sensitive device’ so a shell is highly recommended.

It looks so beautiful with a blue transparent shell.

I plug this baby into the 8-bit BBG famiclone.

Without SD card, you won’t have any lucks.

SD card should be prepared, the solution is to download the latest system files from the official website.

Drag some *.nes files to the folder and browse like file explore. It doesn’t support Asian characters, so just English file names. The SD card supports up to 32GB so in theory, you can put all 8-bit famicom games in one SD card. The joystick direction right goes for page down, the left goes like page up. The B is for enter and A is for ESC.

Let’s play some game (Chip and dale2 rocks by the way),  (sound seems improved, maybe I am wrong, but that is what is said on official page).

By the way, goodnes (v3.14) is a good stuff, it is a collection of all *.nes files (nearly) and the file names are well organized. The unzip size is 3.85 GB (downloadable 7zip is around 220MB). As on N8, each folder supports no more than 250 files/folders, therefore, it is recommended to re-organize the folders into sub-folders, for example, alphabetically.

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