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I can attest to this. To make it worse, the powerpak didn't work with the ancient 4mb Compact Flash I had laying around. If you buy a PowerPak, make sure to buy a new-ish CompactFlash card to go with it.

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So then, there is no reason for don't buy the everdrive...

For what I read, I understand they both are more or less the same, so I guess I will take the easier/chraper one.

For the everdrive there is versions for around 60£, but they are not official...should I avoid it and pay de 100£ one?

Aside the possibility of compatibity issues, from what i've heard, the really early CF:s were terribly unreliable.

New CF:s are used as silent, easily swappable and energy saving HDD replacements in old computers, so there's that.

CF:s are supposed to load quicker, but i don't think it should matter here.

My main gripe is the flimsy build quality of the few available CF capable multireader dongles in stores around here.


The unofficial ones is a bit of a russian roulette regarding whether they're healthy for your console. Check out this article before you buy. https://db-electronics.ca/2017/07/05/th ... -consoles/

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The smallest CF cards (4 MB and smaller) are likely formatted in FAT12, which is a somewhat more problematic file system to support than FAT16 or FAT32.

These four subtypes of FAT can be found:

FAT12: Smaller than 16 MiB
FAT16 subtype $04, one sector per cluster: 16-32 MiB
FAT16 subtype $06, multiple sectors per cluster: 64 MiB to just under 2 GiB
FAT32: 2 GiB to (officially) just under 32 GiB

I conjecture that the firmware is designed to look for FAT16 subtype $06 or FAT32, not FAT12 or FAT16 subtype $04. Can someone back this up?

FAT12 is a pain to support (individual FAT entries can be stored across sectors!) so I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if its support is lacking.

Certainly the powerpak source has an error message that specifically says FORMAT: .db " Bad Format - Use FAT16/FAT32"

If the PowerPak only uses compactflash, I'd say that's more than enough reason to go with Everdrive.

How are these on the 3.3v issue btw? Has anyone looked into it?
I've been using them for a while, and I'm very happy with it. Would suck if it uses 3.3v components.

They're fine. I kind of knew this from him voicing the issue himself, but i had a bare UNROM board laying around so i double checked and it's all 5v compliant.

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I will, thanks!

I knew I could trust INL Nothing but good experiences from this guy.