Krikzz Puts a 64DD Inside the Cartridge with the EverDrive-64 PRO

On August 1, Krikzz announced the EverDrive-64 PRO and it is orderable now for $169. The headline feature is native 64DD support through a dedicated FPGA core, a first for Krikzz’s N64 carts. Nintendo’s Japan-only 1999 disk-drive add-on, home to the Mario Artist series and Ocarina of Time Master Quest, never launched outside Japan, and now its library finally has a mainstream flash-cart home. A physical button on top of the cartridge swaps 64DD disks mid-game, and yes, you supply the IPL4 boot ROMs yourself.

The hardware jump over the $149 X7 is real: a Cyclone 10 FPGA replaces the old Cyclone IV, SDRAM doubles to 128 MB, and USB Type-C transfers hit 20 MB/s instead of the X7’s 1 MB/s. You also get 480 cheat codes where the X7 capped at 34, custom menu themes, ROM metadata support, and battery voltage monitoring. Orders dispatch within three weeks, with Grey, Transparent Clear, and Ice Blue cases going out sooner.

Here is the honest context. The open-source SummerCart64 has supported 64DD for a while now at roughly $40 to $60. Krikzz is not first to this feature. What the Pro brings is the build quality and support infrastructure Krikzz has earned over a decade of flash carts, at a three-to-four times premium. Whether that premium holds depends on how many people need a 64DD core in a cartridge that costs more than most used N64 consoles.