RetroGaming

I got EverDrives/Flash Carts/ODEs for majority of my consoles.

I usually have the games organized in folders alphabetically and by region. You can always either put the games you just want to play or, if you want the whole collection of games, there's a favorites option that can be called up, and you can select the games you really like to play in there.

For the SNES, highly recommend getting the FXPak Pro as it will run a good amount of games as well as MSU modified ones (Search MSU SNES to see what it does).

EverDrive is pretty great. The prices are definitely premium, but you do get a reliable, quality product. Just make sure you're either buying directly from Krikzz or an authorized reseller. There are a lot of clones floating around on certain sites (such as AliExpress) that are of varying quality. Additionally, the clones usually run a hacked firmware and trying to use the official firmware will brick it.

It's worth noting that the N64 and Genesis both have proper EverDrive alternatives. For the N64 there's the SummerCart64, which is an open source project and seems to have some features the ED64X7 doesn't (like 64DD support). As for the Genesis there's the MegaSD from Terraonion. I haven't used either of them, so I don't have much of an opinion on which is best.

annoying trying to find 1 game out of 1000 if it doesn start with "A"

I don't have one, but if I did I would probably just find a "top 100 games" list for a given console and just load those + the 2 or 3 games I really care about in as a start.

A lot of people get into emulation with the attitude of "I can play every game, and they're tiny files, so I want every game!" But realistically the overwhelming majority of people are gonna play fewer than a dozen or so games on a retro consoles, and good odds most of those would find their way onto a top 100 list.

I have a good mix. Everdrives are pricey and not always the best solution. But they can be.

Look into the games you want to play and see if the flash cart works for you. I found EZ Drive is better for GB systems since it’s cheaper and offers more features. Like being able to play larger community roms.

@bridgeenjoyer Not an Everdrive but I have a EZ Flash Omega for the GBA but works largely the same. It’s easy to pick the game you want from a list but don’t put 1000s of games on there- that’ll just make it hard to find what you want and you’re not going to play them all anyway.

For the vast majority of games there is zero functional difference between playing an original cart or a flashcart like an Everdrive. You get the original hardware experience without price gauging.

I've got three. Master system, gameboy and NES. I'll probably get a SNES one eventually.

I bought my first well over 15 years ago, and my most recent last year. They were good then, and have improved since. The ones I have list as many as it fits on a screen. You can skip ahead page by page. You could also just put them in folders on your card to ease navigation.

Buy only original everdrives from krikkz.

I have a Mega Everdrive x7 I bought about 15 years ago or something. It worked great. I’m only not using it because I put the jailbreak firmware on my Mega SG and just pay the games directly from sd card.

I also have the old SD2SNES one that is now called something different. Also have the Master System Everdrive which I didn’t even use because the Mega Everdrive supported master system games :/

Iirc they both have similar menus. You can setup folders, like I have “A - E” with all games starting a through e. It’s just a text list (white text on black) and you scroll through to find the game you want. You could make these folders anything though.

The SNES one only seemed to differ in that it had themes.