Flash Cart Losing power
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Flash Cart Losing power
My flash cart (Everdrive N8 for my famicom) looses power whenever I change a menu or try to load a game, and gives me varying error codes, typically related to I/O problems (when I google search them, the results are typically pertaining to a bad SD card). It has been doing this since I got it, but I have kind of ignored the issue, as I can get it to load a game if I spam the button. The key thing I notice, is this problem goes away after the famicom is powered on for a while, leading me to believe it is a bad capacitor inside the famicom. Does anyone know offhand where the everdrive is drawing power?
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Just to get something out of the way: is this a real Everdrive bought from official sources or is it a pirate clone?
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Your console's power supply is going bad. Get a new one.
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If your console is only a $20 bucks famiclone, you can't expect a low power design of using 8050 transistor as voltage dropout regulator to support the flashcart.
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The power supply is a third party to circumvent the power difference in America. It is definitely old, but I can tell it was designed for Famicom imports in the 90s. The power rating is the same, do you have any recommendations for a third party american to japanese famicom converter? all I find are cheap chinese ones and I don't wanna fry my famicom
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I have ordered many from retrogamesupply.com and recommend them.