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Should I get a Everdrive-GB X3 or X5 for my Gameboy (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming

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Im looking for a flashcard for my '89 Gameboy and stumbled upon the Everdrive-GB cartridges. The x3 is about 20 bucks cheaper than the x5. What am I missing out on if I get the cheaper one? Only thing I wanna do is to play a few homebrew gameboy games.

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[–] Fenderfreek 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not exactly. Some original carts with SRAM would save automatically. You could shut it off and when you turn it on again, your progress would be saved without doing anything manually(eg. Mario Six Golden Coins). In any case, even those games, you still have to do another manual operation on the cart to save the “virtual save”, so the difference is that saving requires an additional, manual step, beyond whatever the game itself requires

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything other differences besides having to save manually?

[–] Fenderfreek 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

which one would you get?

[–] Fenderfreek 1 points 1 year ago

I have a X7 and a EzFlash Jr because I want my experience to be seamless and compatible with RTC games, but if you’re really after something for homebrew or don’t mind the added step for anything that supports saves, just get the cheaper one.