Place your Bets! Guess what the next Everdrive will be....

LOL! I was kinda aiming for that.

Regardless, I think all the PC Engine/TG-16 and ED fans are rejoicing as much as I am with this announcement.

 

Time to get a PCE

 

Yeah! It's time to get a pce =))

 

Are you using Nios II to do SD card access?

 

no, all my carts uses console cpu for controll all, and acces to sd also. inside of fpga/cpld implemented shift register for SPI to parallel interface, that is all. in ed64 and mega ed case, i implemented dma controller also, for direct copy from sd to sdram, but cpu also has acces to SD in pio mode

 

Oh right, no flashing protocol, just straight linear transfer to SDRAM as fast as the SD card can go :nod: DMA controller registers accessed via cart port by console CPU?

PS: I'm getting ready to buy a DE1

 

yes, dma registers controlled my n64 cpu. actually flash programming also can be accelerated a lot if hardware flasher will be implemented in fpga, but small cpld, which is was used for snes and edmd does not have enough resources for such implementation

 

Hmm can you deal with FAT and file fragmentation in Verilog alone? I guess it wouldn't be to hard to reserve some register space to build a cluster map in the FPGA and implement a hardware skip list or TLB to flash clusters out of order.

 

it is possible, but such kind of work better to leave for cpu

 

Wow! This is fantastic news!

Just for curiosity only... Do you plan in the future to also upgrade the rest of the Everdrives into "ultra-deluxe" versions?

I already have SNES, MD and N64 Everdrives, but if upgrade versions are coming with more features, I'll buy them without any doubt (and I think more people could do the same, too)

Meanwhile, I think it's time to get a PCE too

PS: This "Deluxe" MD version will fit into a regular cart too?

 

mega everdrive (aka ultimate md) will fit in regular shell. i have no plans to make something like mega ed for other systems

 

Fantastic news Krikzz with PCE everdrive

 

any ETA for Turbo EverDrive?

 

probably in 2-3 months after mega ed

 

is mega ed really arriving winter 2012 (next year), or did stoneagegamer mean this coming winter? :/

 

Sorry my bad, I should have said Quarter 1 2012, I will fix.

*EDIT - Fixed. I was thinking early next year is Winter here, but it could confuse people thanks for pointing out.

 

ok yeah that makes alot more sense, I definitely equate 'winter 2012' with 'a year from now+'

 

So will this pc engine flash card have arcade system card support? I don't own a pc engine myself but I hear these os carts are becoming harder to find and it be interesting if they did support the different bios carts that included extra ram to run later cd games.

 

Sigh there goes my hopes for a Stratix based SNES cart with 64 MB SDRAM and SFX, CX4, SA1, and SDD1 support. :lol: (or 128MB without SDD1)

PS not really, only kidding. I'm more about the technological accomplishment than really needing that in a flash cart. Not only do I have most special chip games, I've still bought a dozen complete in box non special chip games since having my Super Everdrive ;-)