August of Wind and they appeared...
In a mere 5 days, the smoke that has settled in the valley where I live for the past few weeks has cleared making my mailbox visible from the street once more. It might seem like just a coincidence but in my mind deliveries during this time have been non-existent. No sooner had the air quality and visibility improved than the mailman began paying regular visits to our doorstep again.
On Monday I got a package from Games Connection out of the UK. In the envelope was the Everdrive-N8. The Everdrive is essentially a flashcart on a chip with the appropriate pin connector to merge with your specific region of Nintendo. It has a bulit-in SD card reader that you can load with games. it supports most mappers that the Nintendo library is built on and it allows you to play roms on your original NES hardware. Unlike emulation, the Nintendo reads the games into memory it as if it were the original cartridge. This gives you as true-to-original experience as plugging in the real game. For a collector such as myself, it is just so handy to be able to have your library on one convenient game pack. This saves the wear and tear on both the machine and the games (especially those that are more rare and/or expensive). In addition to the original games the Everdrive is also compatible with many homebrews and game hacks and includes a cheat menu that allows you to enter Game Genie codes to give you a virtually endless supply of ways to change how the games play.
Today I received a second package, this one from a Facebook group, with 4 manuals in it: Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy, Baseball Stars, Slalom, and Strider. Adding this quartet of booklets to my collection has allowed me to reach a milestone for my game manual collection. These 4 make my total 300 instruction booklets.
Nintendo Power Magazines: 10
