
As Blaze noted in a press release, the point of this feature is so that “communities can organise contests and competitions without fear of people using save states to achieve scores unfairly.” Switching this on disables save states, meaning you’ll be playing your retro arcade games the way that they were designed. In other Evercade VS news, there’s also new firmware update that includes a key new feature: Competition Mode. It looks pretty good! Especially as a bonus for simply owning the Evercade VS. Going through the grid you will collect the musical notes and keep the party going, whilst also helping the fleas have a little red-coloured refreshment.” It’s described as follows: “You play as the titular tapeworm who is a nightclub owner making sure that the customers (the fleas) are having a good time. The first of these will be a puzzle title, called Tapeworm Disco Puzzle. Rather than being retro titles, as much of the rest of the Evercade library is, the Game of the Month titles will be new indie productions, made by developers today that have deliberately limited themselves to utilise the hardware of yesteryear. The games will be available via the Evercade VS’ wireless connection, and will be taken from the Indie Heroes Collection 2 cartridge to be released later on in the year (so people with the Evercade handheld console can still look forward to them). That’s one free game a month throughout the rest of 2022.

Blaze Entertainment, the publisher of the Evercade series of retro consoles, has announced a new initiative for people who own the Evercade VS TV console: Game of the Month.
