Sega Mega Drive Gopher Released - With an SD Slot for expansion

**Bleepbloop** · October 29th, 2009, 01:51

Oh hey! i just remembered, a while ago Dealextreme launched a controller that hooked up to the TV that accepted normal SD cards for ROMs! the roms had to be loaded on to the built-in 64? megabytes but it emulated them fine. This could just be one of those with a screen and a rechargeable battery! I hope so. BTW: The thing was called the E-Time.

**indaman** · October 30th, 2009, 17:47

Originally Posted by Bleepbloop

Oh hey! i just remembered, a while ago Dealextreme launched a controller that hooked up to the TV that accepted normal SD cards for ROMs! the roms had to be loaded on to the built-in 64? megabytes but it emulated them fine. This could just be one of those with a screen and a rechargeable battery! I hope so. BTW: The thing was called the E-Time.

I received my Gopher today...

First I loaded a .bin game on my freshly formatted SD...

"Failed to load game..."

But then I placed again my SD on my PC, and I discovered a "GAME" folder...

Placed again my .bin games...

IT WORKED! :thumbup:

So I can confirm you, this thing (I bought mine from play-asia), play regular .bin megadrive games!

So far I tried MJ's Moonwalker and "Sonic crackers".

Both works fine, but the sound is strange, not bad... but just different.

Anyway, this thing is a real bargain, and I actually don't know at all how atgames could leave such an amazing functionality on an official licenced sega handheld (A global license???).
Fell free to ask others question (if you want me to try a game...).

***wraggster*** · October 30th, 2009, 17:54

i havent had any spare cash for a while (just been on holiday) but i do intend to get one of these babies before they get pulled.

for the price its an amazing bargain

**Bleepbloop** · October 31st, 2009, 23:01

Some brazilians figured out how to run roms, just get a low memory SD card, (500~ mb) put a folder on it called GAME, put roms in, put SD in, and play!!

***wraggster*** · October 31st, 2009, 23:24

awesome, any links to where this has been posted ?

**indaman** · November 1st, 2009, 10:37

For now, from my testings...

I'll say: 95% rom compatibility.

Panorama cotton for example is completely glitched...

Also some rom hack freeze or hang (I tried sonic 2 delta, some levels works, others not).

But 95% compatibility is already awesome for a device supposed to only have 20 games at start.

**Bleepbloop** · November 1st, 2009, 15:36

Is there any limit to how many games you can put on the SD card? I mean, does the menu on it expand according to how many games are on it? Just a thought, mind you.

**indaman** · November 1st, 2009, 15:55

I only tried placing a few games...

But so far, game menu expanded itself up to 4 pages.

**Bleepbloop** · November 1st, 2009, 22:07

Yay! Also, how's the resolution? On the older version (no SD slot), people complained that the screen was dark and had a poor resolution.

**AW72** · November 2nd, 2009, 16:13

Originally Posted by indaman

I received my Gopher today...

But then I placed again my SD on my PC, and I discovered a "GAME" folder...

Placed again my .bin games...

IT WORKED! :thumbup:

So I can confirm you, this thing (I bought mine from play-asia), play regular .bin megadrive games!

Fell free to ask others question (if you want me to try a game...).

hy INDAMAN, i ordered 3 mdgopher and get them last friday. i did exactly what you said, made a folder GAME, put .bin files inside, but it dont worked.

then i tried it with other games, but also dont work. where is the mistake?????

so please, how exactly you formatted your sd-card and what sd-card you use.