I did start to buy some carts to begin with but then got lazy.
Got a N64 "cart" arrive of of aliexpress which was actually posted from uk, so arrived quickly. I had a good look at the different models and this cart will actually do me rather than the considerably more expensive everdrive. Did a lot of reserach on this and this one has pretty good reviews and 340 games I think. Need to get N64 back out the loft to test it !. I did not feel much joy for the n64,when initially played it , I thought I would love it more . Maybe still need to get a gamecube (but even that is complex what to get !!) , oddly I found a few hardly used gamecube controllers in my loft , even though never owned one !! Looking forward to trying out some games like bad fur day !
The Sega Megadrive for what I needed I thought the official everdrive x5 was a good price TBH and that I bought direct and they get posted from the Ukraine, so did not take too long. I managed to do firmware and do a nice cart of the Pal stuff. I do find the Megadrive looks worse in terms of colours on my LCD TV compared to the Nintendo consoles.
The Snes in my day I used to have a superwild card ! I feel the everdrives that do all the chips are just too expensive, and the other carts on aliexpress are like a minefield. Its a real headache to work out if they do super FX and then some have shit reviews. So not bought anything apart from a few bargain Snes carts for about £12 each from CEX.
Any suggestions on a decent cart of aliexpress anyone ?