People are still blowing out the cartridges and gaming on their old NESs, SNESs, SMSs, Genesises… Heck, I still rock an Atari 2600 and a Commodore 64… Who needs emulators?! More impressive, though, is that hobbyists are still developing for these outdated systems. So with all this gaming and developing going on, isn’t there anything to make the whole ordeal simpler? As I said – who needs emulators? Nobody when crazy enthusiasts come out with custom cartridges that let you load ROMs into memory via USB – for instance, the Quickdev16 developer cartridge for the SNES. These sort of things come out every now and again, and are always built in small batches and therefore rather pricy… But come on, it’s totally worth it to get your own code on your dusty SNES, right? Quickdev16 is geared toward advanced users (not quite plug and play!), is being made in limited batches, and is currently available for an undisclosed and likely fluctuating amount somewhere around $100.

Quickdev16 on Assembla, and on optixx.org via Joystiq