Evercade is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by UK company Blaze Entertainment.
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Evercade is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by UK company Blaze Entertainment.
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Evercade was developed by the UK-based Blaze Entertainment, which had previously produced Atari-related products and the Game Gadget.
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The Evercade was announced in April 2019, as a portable retrogaming console with the ability to be connected to a television screen.
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Evercade was initially scheduled to release in the fourth quarter of 2019, before being delayed to 20 March 2020.
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The Evercade offers a television output of 720p, and supports high-definition upscaling on all games when the console is connected to a television.
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Two-player games converted for the Evercade retain the multiplayer function, with the intention that future hardware will allow two players.
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Evercade games are distributed on multi-game ROM cartridges, each one usually containing between 5 and 20 games, although 2 of the cartridges contain only 2 or 3 games.
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Unlike other retro consoles, the goal for the Evercade was to provide retrogamers a chance to build a collection of physical games.
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Evercade cartridges are white in color, and are similar in size to Game Boy and Game Gear cartridges.
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Cartridges contain recreations of existing games through emulation, and Evercade developers worked with the original software developers to ensure accurate game recreations.
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Each Evercade cartridge contains games unique to their respective publishing company.
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The Evercade is capable of running Neo Geo games, although such games have not been emulated for the console, and developers would need to reach a compromise between accuracy and performance.
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Evercade had 10 game cartridges available at launch, providing a total of 122 games.
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