r/SummerCart64

https://github.com/bjerreman/N64FlashcartMenu-N64ever

Noobs: download sc64menu.n64 and put it on the root folder of your SD card.

Here are the highlight:

• Favorites Grid is the home screen — a masonry layout of cover art, not a file list.
• Universal "More" menu (R) — one menu for everything: launch, favorite, per-game art, grid settings, hardware, history, settings, file browser.
• Inspect popup (A) — cover + a 2+2 metadata block (name/developer over date/region) and a scrollable description sized to fit without scrolling for most games; sits on top of the grid.
• Shrink-wrapped File Browser popup — favorite ROMs (single or whole folders), launch, with a live favorites counter. Full file management (Copy/Move/Paste, Delete, Rename + Create folder via an on-screen keyboard), reachable even in an empty folder.
• ROM boot — optionally boot a chosen ROM on power-on after a cancellable art countdown (userland, no firmware autoboot; hold START at boot to disable).
• 60 fps render with per-frame animations tuned to match; grid Tile: Square/Box sizing.
• Great metadata support - don't sweat it.
• Built-in text database — 445 games with title/developer/dates/description (100% have a title + a back-of-box description). Binary-searched by 3-char base code.
• Special editions — ROMs that reuse another game's NUS code (e.g. OoT Master Quest, Smash Remix) get their own name/date/description + art, matched on the filename.
• Build-type labels — Demo / Prototype / Beta ROMs are recognised from their filename dump tags and flagged in Inspect (so a missing cover reads as "this is a demo", not a bug).
• Blank-cart placeholders — an uncovered game shows a realistic label-removed N64 cart (or 64DD disk) instead of a generic placeholder.
• 64DD disc support — expansion discs (e.g. F-Zero X Expansion Kit) link to a base cartridge; the link is a manual, per-region disclink config (English ⇄ Japanese cache independently), and launching an unlinked expansion disc from Files offers to link it.
• Animated screensaver — idle cover-art marquee; also used as the live background of the redesigned Menu Information (one scrollable list in a rainbow popup, N64ever logo on top).
• Cancel/abort — B aborts a folder-favorite (full undo) or an A-Z sort mid-run.
• Game Metadata register — on-device diagnostic of which art/text sources exist per game.
• Custom splash — user PNG as the boot splash.
• Everything is a popup over the grid (except a few deliberately-black screens).
• 2048-favorite cap.

Much love,
Bjerreman

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Hi everyone,

I bought an EverGenesis SummerCart from AliExpress at a good price a few weeks ago. Everything works perfectly: I've tested PAL games, NTSC games, and even ROM hacks without any issues.

However, I noticed from the very beginning that the ROM selection menu was displayed in black and white. Since the original menu is very minimalistic, it didn't really bother me. I even thought it was intentional.

Yesterday I installed the Super Menu N64EVER, which was released yesterday on this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SummerCart64/s/8edtNZvonD

Everything works, except that the menus and box art are also displayed in black and white.

I also noticed that when I launch a game and then press the Reset button, the menu briefly reappears in full color before switching back to black and white in less than a second.

To summarize:

My Nintendo 64 is a French PAL model (unmodified) using the original AV cables.

I'm using a CRT TV (I'm basically playing under the same conditions as back in the day, with the same hardware I had almost 30 years ago 😉).

Both PAL and NTSC games display in full color.

Firmware version: 2.20.2.

I replaced the original microSD card with a high-quality SanDisk card.

I tested on another CRT TV and the problem is exactly the same.

P.S. I'm aware of the color issues that can occur when running NTSC ROMs on a PAL N64, but my setup doesn't seem to be affected. I've played around ten different NTSC games for several hours each and haven't experienced any color problems at all.

Does anyone have any idea what's causing this or how I can get the menus to display in color again?

Thanks!

Hey all, I'm currently building a new version of the menu for Summercart, it will be based around a grid view with box art and have a lot of neat things packed into it. I'm gonna do one big release and hand off the code so it can be absorbed into mainline if those people want to use any of it. This is your chance to bring some suggestions if there is anything specific you have wanted. Maybe I will implement it. I'm considering doing some file management upgrades as well.