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I'm glad to announce (with 6+ months delay ...) that Gamer's Cartridge are available for sale !

According to an informal survey on my relatives, Gamer's Cartridge is the best cartridge for Saturn.

It features in-game access of backup memory cartridge on SD card as well as (still according to an informal survey on my relatives) the world's best save data manager utility for Saturn, which allows basic operation of the saves on each backup memory devices as well as import or export of saves on SD card.
And on the top of that, both hardware and software are hand-made with love from your humble servant 

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海外ユーザー様向けのGamer's Cartridge注文ページを一時的に停止していましたが、再開を…半年遅れてご報告しています^^;

国内ユーザー様はメルカリにて出品していますのでご興味ありましたらぜひご確認ください♪

Last month, the results of Saturn 29th Game Competition Contest were published ... I'm a bit late to share the good news here but on the other hand it's the perfect moment to do that

So, after more than a decade without participating into a coding contest, I'm happy to announce that my entry ranked with the highest score in the "Original Games" category !!! It's a double surprise for me : first to get a so high score and second to see that the judges of the contest evaluated my masterpiece to its real value

Also, it's cool to see that my friends vbt and privateye received pretty high scores too ! You both made a brilliant performance and I sincerely hope it will be outperformed on next contest

Folks interested in my entry can find it on SegaXtreme forums and may also be interested in "VTT" a.k.a. "VBT Touring Truck" made by vbt as the name suggest. Before playing, please beware that these games may disturb the ones who forgot the good old times when retro games were made with 5 different colors, mentally designed during three months, coded during two days, tested during one night and finished at 3 A.M. just before the deadline

Why such kind of poll ? Because privateye (in charge of Pseudo Saturn Kai beta testing) and me (in charge of adding bugs in Pseudo Saturn Kai) have different opinions regarding this default display method.

And as Pseudo Saturn Kai is here to please their users, I thought it would be cool to directly ask about that.

Both methods have their own pro and cons : "left-justified" is same as other disc image selection menus (and consequently users are more likely to be familiar with it) and "centered" may be felt as a more natural way to display menu items.

However, that's unfair for the supporters who left patreon and the ones who directly sent me a donation.

Also, I don't want to force someone to join my patreon page just to answer this poll.

So, feel free to share your opinion in the comments of this blog article ! It's free and doesn't even require any registration; there's a mail address input field but it's optional and just in case you want me to contact you back.

　　ユーザーゲームはSDカードのSAVES → ＜年月日＞ → FDD1_＜ID＞ フォルダーからPC等へコピーお願いします。

Before February ends I should hurry to write an article here ... it's not like I'm forced to write things here, but as I'm paying to make my homepage being publicly available, it would be a good idea to put some contents on it from time to time

So, today topic is Gamer's Cartridge : few years ago I announced the end of their production, basically because I was lacking of free time to assemble new ones and also because I was lacking of a good plan to get cartridge shells.

Free time is still a problem, but as Gamer's Cartridge have the advantage to be easy to assemble, it is possible to produce some cartridges ... at a limited speed, but possible anyway.

The problem of cartridge shells is solved thanks to 3D printable case designed by zone66x : for a long time, Gamer's Cartridge was relying on Action Replay shells but now it uses original (and classy !) shells

I plan to open back Gamer's Cartridge sales around March 12th at the usual place, so please stay tuned until that time

大変遅くなりましたが、3月中旬にGamer's Cartridgeの販売を再開する予定です！

今までどおりのホームページから直販の取り引き方法に加えて、日本国内で便利なメルカリからも入手可能になります。販売再開までにお楽しみに♪

2023/03/10更新：メルカリに出品しています。よろしくお願いいたします！

（カートリッジについてのご質問等はメルカリのコメントでも当ブログでもどちらでも構いません）

2023 March 10th update : some cartridges are added on Mercari Japan. Please wait for a few days until I make available them from my homepage too.

Don't hesitate to write a comment on this article in the case of any question regarding Gamer's Cartridge or when they will be available back in stock etc.