/vr/ - Retro Games

Analog is a fucking scam

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I feel bad for all the tendïes who wasted their money on screen mods and emulatards who bought overpriced chinkshit instead of this

>>9131001
That thing is emulation, though.

>>9131006
t. emulatard

>>9131007
What?

>>9130994
sour grapes mixed with anti-societal manchild rage

This thing still doesn't have a way for people to make their own cores yet? I remember all the retards who preordered last year, what a laugh.

Don't mind me, I'll be over here enjoying my MiSTer with real controllers instead of some chinky d-pad.

>>9130962
Is the neet who rages about this device related to the one who rages about the Steam Deck on /v/

>>9131048
Thanks that told me absolutely nothing.

>>9131058
If you are a dev you can apply to join there dev program today.
Jotego might port his arcade cores to it but the poll on his patreon is not looking good. I have a mister and have no need for anologue shit so I voted no.

>>9131001
but that is overpriced chink shit

Jailbreak just dropped:

https://github.com/spiritualized1997/openFPGA-GBA/releases/tag/v1.0.0
https://github.com/spiritualized1997/openFPGA-GB-GBC/releases/tag/v1.0.0

You can finally play roms off SD card. Mysterious uploader who joined github yesterday hmmm

>>9131059
If not biologically, spiritually

>>9131058

see

>>9131108

>>9131108
Ah, these are the things that make me joyously blast shitty brown chunks out my rectum hole.

>>9131094
>no
God, that's funny. It's to be expected though, why would anyone pay more money for weaker cores? I'm sure someone will eventually do it for them.

>>9131093
not my problem

How does this shit look nicer than a $300 FPGA boutique handheld?

>>9130962
>game preservation
When will we drop the moniker and just say we want to play games without paying? Shit's cash, but I don't care if someone gets to play Clean the Cat Shit 64 ever again.

>Jailbreak just dropped

Currently importing the entire GBC and GBA libraries. Feels fucking good.

>>9131206
That may look nicer on whatever planet you're from but there's just one problem: this is Earth.

>>9131271
The Pocket looks like the most generic cheaply 3D printed handheld ever.

>>9131274
@LMAOing over my 1440p @615ppi screen.

Enjoy your poorfag 480p chinkshit.

>>9131283
Yeah I'm thinking f'pigga is the future with specs like this.

>>9131283
I don't own either. I play on original hardware or on my 55 inch 4k OLED. Also, any phone made in the past 10 years has a better screen than that. That's all you can brag about? Pathetic.

>>9131206
I think it looks nice. What's the emulation ceiling on that thing?

On top of playing games, these two devices can also mine endless salt from poorfags on /vr/. Feels fucking fantastic.

>>9131317
Up to PS1

>>9131317
>>9131334
Its less powerful than the mister. According to anologue's site "Developers have access to Pocket's Altera Cyclone V FPGA (49k LE) and RAM. The de10 nano in the mister has 110k LE.
The bigger mister cores like playstation will probably not fit on the pocket.

>>9131294
I don't think you understand how massive that pixel density is. The iPhone 13 "only" has 460ppi. LTPS technology is fairly new and the Pocket is using that.

>>9131274
i play on original hardware and crt/actual gameboy but i think it looks nicer than the chinese emulation devices

I've largely devoted my life to increasingly old video games for decades now and I don't know what any of this stuff is, or care

>>9131334
Do you mean it can do PS1, or is that the ceiling where it starts to get cruddy?

>>9130962
why is everyone mad at this?
Didn't they just finally announce support for custom cores on the pocket?

>>9131360
I'm not mad at all, just feel bad for those who bought one. They have a lot of problems.

>>9131365
I'm still waiting for mine...

>>9131370
I hope you get yours in good shape and have no problems, anon. This won't be the coolest post, but I think they may have worked out some bugs and early designs issues.

>>9131206
i dont think it looks better than this and it for damn sure doesnt feel as nice to hold. fucking lol at AP's shoulder buttons

>>9131378
Pathetic cope.

>>9131350
its a fucking 3.5 inch screen. you really would choose pixel density over ergonomics and being able to emulate every console up to ps1 from an sdcard the very day you buy the thing not a year later oh and you can only play gbp8 gbc and gba?

>>9131386
how are you enjoying playing snes games on your Anal Pocket? you can play snes games on your anal pocket, cant you?

>>9131108
How is that considered a "jailbreak"? It doesn't circumvent the software of the device at all, it just uses the second, developer FPGA to run the same cores that the original FPGA does.

>>9131389
Anon you don't understand, the pixel density is important so you can use filters to make it look like a game boy screen and come full circle again.

>>9131324
>comparing a cool homebrew project to retro collector shit from a scam company

>>9131420
Um, you don't need massive pixel density for a gb filter, anon.

>>9131393
>moving the goalpost
Again, pathetic.

>>9131389
You're assuming FPGA is the same as software emulation on a garbage low end SOC.

>>9131446
You're right, even a shit tier mobile soc can play a few n64 games.

>>9131006
lol, that meme never gets old... no wait. It isn't a meme and was old day one. Retardation isn't funny.

>>9131429
Yet it is still weaker than a cellphone and no superior xbox or PS4 controller. How sad.

>>9131059
SD deserves some hate unlike this. SD is worse or better than devices that came out 6 months earlier. In a short period of 2-3 months when the 6800u is out it will be completely overshadowed and they STILL haven't delivered to the pre-order groups.


Ignoring all the flaws with the SD I won't be getting rid of mind, however it is entirely underused compared to the Onexplayer I have.

>>9131451
Yeah? So?

>>9131451
Huh? I don't understand, what does a controller have to do with a handheld?

>>9131448
Sour grapes, etc.

>>9131461

>>9131463
>If I call it shit, then it is
Nice logic, faggot

>>9131474
Giving you reasons it's shit is sorta how it works, yeah.

For the price of this crap you could buy pic related and run those same platforms 10 times more accurately

>>9131429
didnt know you could do that with those, v cool anon

>>9131446
I can play snes9x with runahead on it. oh you think kevtris's core is more accurate than snes9x? then why the fuck did the supernt have fucking sound and graphical glitches on the most popular games 2 years after its release? problems even less accurate snes emulators didnt have 10+ years ago

>>9131409

Because the lead Analogue FPGA dev dropped it under a pseudonym just like the previous Analogue jailbreaks before. Although you're right, it is still using the official OS, which is cool. But for everyone asking/waiting for a "jailbreak" that lets them play roms off SD, this is it.

>>9131672
Why didn't they just make it SD capable in the beginning?
For fuck sake my Atari Flashback portable has the ability to boot your own roms and that's out of the box. Come on man.

>>9131271
I bet that sounded really cool in your head.

>>9131678
two reasons: $$$$$, they got adapters to sell, and it helps reinforce the idea that it isnt emulation to retards because retards think its not emulation if it needs a cartridge

>>9131690
Ok, that makes some twisted sense, but why are they afraid of emulation at all? At Games included directions on how to put more games onto via its SD port and it was apparently legal, so what gives?

>>9131698
Because they're not chinese, so laws actually apply to them.

>>9131048
kek. based. it means op is an assblasted pissmonkey

>>9131678

They want to be seen as a legitimate western company, their whole "thing" is a modern HD way to play your old carts legally. So they do a sneaky approach where their public firmware releases don't support rom loading, then they are quickly followed by mysterious jailbreak releases from an anonymous uploader which can load roms. All in all, it is a pretty acceptable compromise. They get to pretend to be a legitimate company, we get to put full rom sets on an sd card. Everybody wins. Except for you who seems incapable of googling

>>9131757
>Except for you who seems incapable of googling
Anon, I appreciated everything you said but that since that's a stupid thing to say on a message board where anons are expected to chat about games. If I want to talk to myself and google I can do meth until my mind is blown, but I'd rather not.

This is the most pointless device in the world. I have an actual Gameboy but if I really wanted to play on a device with a nice screen and rechargable battery I could just use my phone (and sometimes I do)
>BUT TOUCH CONTROLS!!!!1!
Get a backbone or something.

>>9131451
phones with controllers attached is literally the worst handheld setup possible, you'd have to be genuinely autistic to think otherwise

>>9131931
>TOMMY IS COOL!
>HE IS!!!!
>Have an Amico day!
:'(

>>9130962
so what the fuck even is openFPGA?
why should anyone use it? it sounds like it'll tie everything to analog's shitboxes.
also:
>Spacewar! on openFPGA - the worlds first video game preserved on openFPGA
the game was for the PDP-1. did they write a core for the PDP-1, or did they *specifically* make a core for spacewar?

>>9131978
They ported the open source core of spacewar thats on github. From what I read there is a small credit to the author in the core.

>>9131978
They ported the open source core of spacewar thats on github. There is a small credit to the github in the core. From what I read they did not credit the author.

>>9131978
>did they write a core for the PDP-1
You know they didn't.

>>9131978
>so what the fuck even is openFPGA?
Basically they made the software on their devices open source so that other people will fix it for free.

I do not understand why the shills/baiters are so aggresive in these threads. FPGA and all that is genuinely cool, but Analogue is just a shitty company ran by a bunch of hacks who manage to fool the "retro gaming" crowd in to getting their overly expensive collecter's pieces that become available for like three seconds before getting sold out and cancelled after 3-5 years along with the shitty proprietary DAC.

>>9131449
What?

>>9132031
because. its fun.

>>9131757
wheres the cores for the other sytems? wheres the cores we were lead to believe would be released for the supernt?

fuck analogue. mister is cool and theres already one handheld out there you can make for and its only a mater of time until theres dozens.

>>9131698
>but why are they afraid of emulation at all?
because the only reason anyone would pay 3x as much for hardware that plays less games than an emulation device is if they convince them that they are missing out on something if they dont.

its the same mental illness that drives audiophiles to spend tens of thousands of dollars on tube amps and "special" cables

>>9132069
I'm with you. I just want the games to work without glitches and sometimes I'll let that slide too.

>>9132069
lol listen to you schizos. there's always a jailbreak. its not even some big secret. if you're into analogue, you're aware that there's always a jailbreak.
people want it because it has a nice big screen and they want to use their original cartridges still, and/or they knew they'd eventually be able to load roms. yeah, it's pricey. and there are other ways to do similar things. so?
the tribalization of every aspect of culture by some people is the real mental illness. take a look in the fucking mirror you absolute losers.

>>9132085
Not them, but there's reviews online now where people are saying it hurts their hands and even fucks up labels.

>>9131957
???

>>9132031
Because I missed the chance to get a Super NT.
It's the only thing they've made that I wanted.

>>9132110
Recently a video game developer bamboozled gamers out of the price of a console whose main selling point was that it was going to be able to use cell phones as controllers, it sounded very close in concept. Both are bad. The console (Intellivision Amico) isn't coming it, looks like it was a scam that never made it past prototype stage.

>>9131565
Enjoy your audio delay lol

>>9132119
What the fuck does that have to do with what I said or this thread at all

>>9132085
>>9132090
and half the carts people own dont work with it despite working on og hw

>>9132120
see its the same mental illness audiophiles have

>>9131271
you know the rules

>>9132031
I don't care if the product is good.

>>9131565
>I can play bad 90s emulator with a hack
very cool

>>9131324
The Mister provides a superior experience to traditional emulation, and at a VASTLY cheaper cost than all the original consoles you can play on it. The Pocket does also provide a superior experience to emulation, especially when compared to cheap chinkshit handhelds, but a IPS-modded GBA with a flashcart is cheaper, so why would you not just get that instead?

>>9132220
you wouldnt even be able tell if you were playing on an fpga or snes9x in a blind taste test. you will fail it just like every delusional audiophile failed similar tests

>>9132221
IPS mods have bad input lag and image retention issues, plus they absolutely demolish battery life. You're also limited by the OG GBA's aging hardware, with bad speakers, audio buzz through headphones, etc.

None of that with the Pocket.

>>9132221
prove it

>>9132236
Prove that a GBA is cheaper?

>>9132232
It's not about if you're able to tell the difference or not. If an imitation can fool your senses "just well enough" is it worth it for you, knowing human senses are so limited?

the Anal Pocket doesnt even get sound right. Modern Vintage Gamer immediately noticed this with Shantae and posted about it.

bbbbut its not emulation. how is it making the same mistakes shitty old innacurrate emulators use to make?

>>9132237
prove what you claim provides a superior experience does so.

and cheaper than what exactly? a modded gba is fucking more expensive than chinkshit and inferior in every way.

>>9132247
>a modded gba is fucking more expensive than chinkshit and inferior in every way
okay pajeet

>>9132249
unlike your mother's rapist, aka your dad, I am white

>>9132221
>The Mister provides a superior experience to traditional emulation
lol maybe emulation by 2010 standards or something.

>>9131767

Sorry anon I didn't mean to be so rude. I love you

>>9132268
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you're the same fag that keeps showing up in every PS2 thread saying that PCSX2 "has been fixed for years" and "completely superior to a real PS2" and "if you have problems it's because you're using a build from a decade ago" despite still having microstutter hard-baked in to the engine.

There's no point arguing with people who are blind and deaf.

>>9132279
*blush* t-thanks :)

>>9132290
Hmm? I don't go into PS2 threads.
PCSX2 is decent but fails at like 40% of the games I like or runs them extremely poorly. The other 60 run like a dream though.

this is what i think of all frogs
https://youtube.com/shorts/tOuZilL_iMM

software emu vs fpga emu is the new genesis vs super nintendo and I fucking love it.

I think we can both agree that og hardware crt fags are those weird kids who had a gay console like tgfx16 or neo geo

>>9131681
I was actually referencing a line in Kung Pow.

>>9132323
wtf is that?

>>9132318
lol FGPAtrannies are the freaks.

>>9132335
FPGA is great. Keep crying nigger.

>>9132354
I never said it wasn't.

>>9131497
ching chong Chinese Newegg, yeah no thanks lol

>>9131452
Steam deck is also (less than) half the price of onexplayer anon.

>>9132369
I hate the dpad and button placement. I hate the size. I only want to play 8 bit and 16 bit systems and 2d ps1 games on the go anyway. everything else I rather play at the pc or on the tv.

>>9131001
>buy chinkshit for $100
>can emulate GCN and below
You're right, I should've bought this thing that can run 3 system's physical carts for $250 instead

>>9132428
>>can emulate GCN and below
What handheld, anon? Not them, just interested, I'd love a handheld that can emulate Gamecube.

>>9132439
retroid pocket 2
GCN on it ain't great, but I can play Bloody Roar on it, which makes me happy

>>9132439
Ayn Odin stuff can do it, but those are closer to handheld PCs

>>9131001
this but unironically, the pocket is great (and continues to get better)

>>9132452
Can it do Midway Arcade Classics or perhaps Rebel Strike?

>>9132459
>those are closer to handheld PCs
Sounds cumbersome.

>>9132559
Shit, my computer can't do Rebel Strike. Midway should be good if 3d games can run

>>9132573
>Shit, my computer can't do Rebel Strike
Fuck...what it is with these Digital Eclipse games?
Or if your computer a potato, no offense?

Been playing on the Pocket all day since the Jailbreak hit. Just left it out to charge. Simply amazing. It's so fucking responsive, there's literally zero input lag. Even comparing to a real system modded with an IPS screen, the added input lag from IPS is really noticeable, I just can't go back. Emulaniggers cannot even comprehend.

>>9132580
>IPS screen
dumb tranny

>>9131001
why?

>>9131324
>poorfags
>is cheaper than majority of alternatives
OK?
I'm gonna call you a poorfag because I use original hardware

>>9130962
>lol
>lmao even
You underage piece of shit
Kill yourself, go back and kill yourself

>>9132221
>The Mister provides a superior experience to traditional emulation
No it doesn't you shilling nigger.
It sucks for majority of arcade games compared to groovymame.

>>9131452
> SD is worse or better than devices that came out 6 months earlier. In a short period of 2-3 months when the 6800u is out it will be completely overshadowed and they STILL haven't delivered to the pre-order groups.
Begone, chinky.

>>9131919
>BUT TOUCH CONTROLS!!!!1!
>Get a backbone or something.
Notice how everytime someone comes into these threads with the "WhY Don'T yoU jUsT UsE a PhonE!" argument they always post a screenshot of them with touch controls running pokemon?

Try playing literally any other game in the library with those touch controls and no tangible feedback instead of a fucking rpg where you can get by with queuing up single inputs you dork.

>>9132031
The Super NT and Mega SG were good. Literally everything since has been snake oil and I feel like Kevtris is being held hostage.

>>9132701
>spending hundreds of dollars for crappy locked down systems that can't even play chip games
>good
I'll never understand the mentality of people who buy clone consoles. The whole value of FPGA is that you can reprogram it on the fly.

>>9131690
But it is emulation... It isn't PIRACY but it's literally emulation.

>>9132725
Normies are too stupid to think that.

>>9130962
>>9131978
>Spacewar! on openFPGA - the worlds first video game preserved on openFPGA
I thought Tennis for Two from 1958 was the first video game. Did you guys lie to me?

>>9132759
>I thought Tennis for Two from 1958 was the first video game. Did you guys lie to me?
No, someone was half-educated on the matter.
Your pic related is not a video monitor, thus is technically not the first "video" game.
So if you don't want to get that semantic over it, then it's the first one if you want it to be, but it's wrong.

>>9132031
the only product of theirs I was interested in was their FPGA NES and they'll never make new stock of it again, plus their latest one was $500 USD. They can go fuck themselves.

>>9131978
It's Analogue pretending they invented FPGA emulation again. Like how apple invented the touchscreen.

All the cores have superior open source alternatives already. This is just a cut down FPGA with a screen attached, which at least has more of a reason to exist than the rest of their products, which are locked down garbage for idiots who want a pretty box they can put on their reddit shelf.

>>9132787
>FPGA NES and they'll never make new stock of it again
Was that the one with the heavy aluminum frame?
I think the carts swayed in the slot like a reed in the wind and fucked up the games. The people that bought them got them for looks, I hope.

>>9132712
>spending hundreds of dollars for crappy locked down systems that can't even play chip games
As opposed to spending hundreds of dollars on 30 year old yellowed ABS plastics consoles because youtubers and collectors fucked the markets over the last decade? As well as collecting games which are now also overpriced?

The Mega SG and the Super NT weren't even that expensive. They are high quality clone consoles designed to play your original carts using original accessories or new ones. It's not like they were sold as some boutique overpriced scam product like the NES ones that were designed with artificial scarcity in mind to rip off collectors.
>can't even play chip games
Not sure what you mean by "chip games". The Super NT plays all DSP and FX chip games exactly.

>>9132774
If Tennis for Two is not a videogame, then Asteroids and Tempest are not vedogames either.

>>9132696
People who use phones use physical controllers, retard

>>9132860
>straping some creaky shit to your phone and draining the battery on a device that should be used for communication and emergencies only
cringe.

>>9132354
How is it great? What can it do that's better than RetroArch with run-ahead? Also, racism isn't allowed outside /b/. I'd watch myself if I were you.

>>9132863
Uh... you can use link cables and light guns.

>>9132862
>creaky shit
Bullshit
>to your phone and draining the battery
Bullshit again, it's just fucking buttons you retard
>on a device that should be used for communication and emergencies only
LMAO fuck off kid

>>9132868
>playing bing bing wahoo and babies first RPG on the subway with my phone jammed into a chinkesium enclosure that gives me questionable ergonomics and stiff feeling buttons
>suddenly get a phone call
>hold up device to the side of your head like your fucking sidetalkin' with a nokia ngage (device from before you were born, look it up)
>"y-yeah mom I'll be home in another hour"
>people looking at you and feeling second hand embarassment
cringe.

>>9132874
Sorry about your subway experience bro

>>9132774
And someone wasn't even 1/4 educated on the matter. zoom zoom.

>>9132576
I think rebel strike is just impossible to emulate well at the moment.
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Star_Wars_Rogue_Squadron_III%3A_Rebel_Strike

>>9132883
>can't address core argument
This is you conceding

>>9133326
What argument? "Phone controllers are le autismal" is not an argument.

>>9133464
The controller attachment actively taking away from the phone's primary function of being a phone is the argument, jackass

>>9133481
No, it's not. Demonstrate how my phone suffers a loss of functionality by having a controller attached to it.

>>9133503
it's shitty to shove alongside your face and talk into
you can't be this obtuse

>>9131678
>Atari Flashback portable
that thing is fucking dope. crisp screen, ready to run roms, lightweight..and atari games are perfect for portable system because you just play them for 10 minutes here and there

>>9133541
Spot on. It's also something that if I accidentally dropped in a pool (gonna float around enjoy vidya in one of those above ground pools a few steps above the kiddie ones) it won't be doomed, it'll just have to dry since there's no fans or hard drives, but yeah it'd have to dry well.
It's one of the best and plays almost every game, got 696 loaded, with probably at least 500 fully working.

Love playing:
>Smurfs
>Kangaroo
>Red Sea Crossing
and a ton more.

>>9133528
Over the past 10 years I must have had a grand total of 20 voice calls that were unexpected and would have caught me by surprise with a controller attached, grandpa

>>9133596
Not them, but deep inside the manual, they admit that the cell phone is COOKING your brains.
Enjoy.

>>9133604
Trump lost

>>9133623
This is a retro/classic video game board, anon; I have thought nothing of nor said anything remotely political, so please, stop or leave.

>>9130994
Analogue Pocket is a consumer-grade FPGA console (hardware-based emulator) for handheld systems. They put out a lot of marketing promising 100% flawless emulation of all supported consoles, which hasn't exactly happened as some games cause glitches. In addition, there are a variety of QOL features missing from the Pocket that most software-based emulation provides, such as the ability to play ROMs. Others take issue with ergonomics of the device or the fact that the cart slot is very loose-fitting.

People who prefer to play their games via software emulation or on original hardware enjoy making fun of people who bought the Analogue Pocket because they perceive it as being overpriced and/or inferior to other options for playing retro games.

Even among the FPGA space, many have poor opinions on the Analogue Pocket because the company itself does very little work in terms of pushing forward FPGA technology and instead relies on the unpaid work of enthusiasts to make its product more appealing by way of open-source emulation cores.

>>9132759
video games were invented in my village!

>>9132874
man even the homeless guy squatting in the corner taking a shit in a milkcrate would wince at such a sad display. damn phone fags are some pathetic ass shit

>>9133596
whatever, retard
enjoy your gay, clunky phone add-on

>>9132816
>As opposed to spending hundreds of dollars on 30 year old yellowed ABS plastics consoles because youtubers and collectors fucked the markets over the last decade?
My SuFami was literally 40 bucks, with 2 controllers. My MD was about 20.

I don't use either of them. I run all those games on my MiSTer with SNAC, which works perfectly and supports all my peripherals, from the Konami Justifier to the Super Scope.

>The Super NT plays all DSP and FX chip games exactly.
If you have the cart. If you don't? Well, that's another 200 bucks for an EXTRA FPGA in a fucking flashcart.

Not only were these scams more expensive than the direct competition (on the order of 10-20 times more expensive), they offer a meaningless Retron 5 tier feature with less function. You can plug in your carts? That's cute, I can scroll to whatever game I want in half a second.

>>9133653
the whole point to buy the pocket isn't even the FPGA cores, it's the display. The lead engineer is one of the biggest LCD display autists on the planet
which is also why it's the first analogue system that is worth buying

Would an IPS modded GBC look just as good? Arguably, but then obviously you're missing out on GBA/Game Gear/Lynx/TurboGrafx games (especially once someone cracks the sideload rom nut)

>>9133705
the SuperNT and the rest of their repro consoles are retarded because they don't even output an analog signal
what's the point of trying to be ultra authentic if the end result is going to be a digital signal? might as well just use a retropi at that point

>>9133710
>they don't even output an analog signal
what

>>9133708
Fair point, and one I should have included.

>>9133710
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Don't some of them have a converter? Obviously you have to pay like a hundred bucks for it, because it's the Apple style of consumerism where you charge everyone 20 bucks for a cable that should come in the box.

It'd be sad if it wasn't so fucking funny.

>>9133716
Despite being called Analogue, their consoles only output digital video via HDMI - you need this extra piece of shit to convert the digital signal to analog:
https://www.analogue.co/dac
which is maybe is the worst product ever sold by any any company ever, because it literally only works with Analogue consoles - you can't even use this to get a modern Roku working on your CRT or something like that

>>9133743
>which is maybe is the worst product ever sold by any any company ever, because it literally only works with Analogue consoles - you can't even use this to get a modern Roku working on your CRT or something like that

Wow. So it IS just like Apple (Samsung).

>>9133708
yeah the screen is a good reason youd end up spending a similar amount getting a console and adding a screen mod, you also get video out which is nice i want one but you still cant buy them so think im just gonna do a video out mod on my gba

>>9133747
Yeah and to me it's like, I know the Analogue Pocket gets a shitload of flak and a lot of it is pretty justified (like the price of their shitty plastic case, holy fuck), but at the same time it's the most fully realized and least bullshit product they've ever released
>screen is genuinely impressive on a lot of levels
>open preorders and none of that ultra artificial scarcity bullshit
>is expensive, but isn't comically overpriced like the NT Mini Noir ($499 for an NES clone lol)
>offers easy HD gameplay capture off of authentic carts, something that was previously only possible with console mods or expensive gamecube HDMI adapters

So to me its a good option - I just hope I can sideload roms into it soon.

>>9133708
Looks worse than the original.

>>9133773
I disagree, but luckily I still have my original if I ever feel the same way

>>9133772
>>screen is genuinely impressive on a lot of levels
>>offers easy HD gameplay capture off of authentic carts, something that was previously only possible with console mods or expensive gamecube HDMI adapters

On those points alone, I see the value. I guess for me it comes down to being satisfied with what I've got and not having that particular itch you got-and I'm not saying you're wrong or bad, we're just different in that respect. I'll still make fun of it, but it's with love.

>>9133695
I am
Cheers

>>9133628
Undounded conspiracy theories are political, so maybe you should leave too.

>>9133798
>Undounded conspiracy theories are political
It's not a theory, the manufacturers say what I said in the documentation: it cooks human brains, so hold the phone away from your head.

>>9133798
>can't even spell right
Fuck off, you retarded, subhuman, room-temperature-IQ, fuck-faced, pussy ass bitch, dumb ass, motherfucking, faggot fuck, sack of shit.

>>9133806
No they don't.

>>9133819
They do. Final response to your stupid crap. Now talk about games or leave.

>>9133819
Quick google search shows articles saying they can...
https://lmgtfy.app/?q=do+cell+phones+cook+your+brain

>>9133831
all the top articles disagree with you. Also, that wasn't the claim. The claim was that the MANUFACTURERS admit to cell phones "cooking your brain", which they don't.

>>9133860
Whatever. Not my argument anyway, just putting in my 2 cents.

>>9133809
>Believes mobile phones can generate enough power to "cook your brain"
>Accuses other people of retardation
retro games

>>9133864
I was just railing on him because of the typo, nimrod.
I'm not the anon he was arguing with.

>emulation vs mister shitfest

Why do you fags care so much about what setup one-another uses?

https://retrododo.com/analogue-pocket-can-now-run-roms/
it's over, Pocketchads won

>>9134000
MiSTerfags always rag on original hardware and say they're superior.
Emulationfags respect the originals and will admit original hardware is always superior.

>>9134059
lol

>>9131001
This is the most overpriced emulation device. While in certain regards it feels too nice to call chinkshit (even though it is made in and shipped from china), in other regards, such as the loose-ass cartridge port, the label fits.
But if I shelled out for one I'm sure I'd feel inclined to defend it too.

>>9134125
>cartridge port
see >>9134057

>>9133773
>i must be contrarian in all things

lmao just use a 3DS

>>9134258
the 3ds is kinda shit for playing gba games though

>>9134268
So is something with a 10:9 screen

>>9134057
>$250 device
>can finally accomplish bare minimum requirement
Oooh. Aaaahhhh

>>9130962
People paid money for this?

>>9133864
you know its been proven in peer reviewed papers the cellphones do cause brain tumors right?

>>9134346
What kind of cellphone and what kind of behavior? (talking on the phone all the time, just being close to it)?

>>9133798
>Undounded conspiracy
be sure to get your fifth booster and drink plenty of fluoride. I dont argue or try to confince you people with data anymore. I just try to hasten your demise.

>>9134268
you can play the games in 1:1 resolution and they run natively. I just recently played through zero mission low% on my 3DS and it was great

Man, nothing pisses off MiSTerfags, Emufags, OGfags, chinkshitfags, and flashcartfags quite like Analogue. I personally don't have the pocket, but I probably would if it was as readily available as pre-owned original hardware. Even if it has as many issues as mentioned in this thread, it seems worth it just to play with that screen.

>>9133481
>Spend hundreds of dollars on a computer that can do many things including entertain you
>Use it only for emergencies and the rare telephone call
You might as well get a $20 flip phone, but if I see you in public I'm automatically assuming you're a pedophile sex offender who shouldn't be near the internet. You ARE allowed to use the internet, right anon?

Anyway, how is this supposed to help me enjoy my retro games while I'm on the go? Are you implying that carrying an Analogue Pocket and a bag full of games and adapters is a less cringe solution? Or are you just a tourist derailing another thread?

>>9134057
Pocketchads, I kneel...

>>9133708
>(especially once someone cracks the sideload rom nut)
how's those genesis, nes, gb, gbc, and gba cores on the supernt because faggots like you said that shit would coming when shilling for that pos surely this time youre not lieing right?

>>9134587
Most but not all mister cores can be ported to this POS. The pocket has less ram and only 49k LEs compared to the de10-nano's 110k LEs.

>>9131479
>apparently, the totality of existence - not just the world - revolves around me
That's just your subjective opinion, you retard.

>>9133667
We played That's My Horse!

>>9133708
Isn't it a TFT screen in the pocket?

>>9134665
for cores that keep optional hardware like SNES's enhancement chips loaded all at once, openFPGA seems to support core variants so those might fit. for cores like PlayStation, definitely not.

>>9131428
>>9132221
>>9132664
Seethe hard poor fags

I've heard FPGA is good, I was curious though how do you use shaders, upscalers, and run ahead to prevent all lag? How do you access the cores to improve performance issues that caused slowdown on OG hardware? Also have they got it working for PS2 and GCN yet? Just for the analog pocket here, is there any mods that allow me to make the device landscape orientation instead of portrait considering I actually want to use the device. Also anyway to cover up the cartridge port I've heard this thing is hell on labels so I'd prefer it not fuck up my games considering now everything runs from an SD card like every other device released this century.

Seems like a worthwhile investment but I'm still not all the way sold.

>>9135026
>poor fags
I can afford to spend a hundred dollars on a cup of coffee, but that doesn't mean it's worth it

>>9135083
Things fine on labels, it was the game gear adapter that was ripping up labels. Gb/gbc/gba stuff isn't an issue.

>>9131256
>I don't care if someone gets to play Clean the Cat Shit 64 ever again.
thats cuz the game is trash, play the jp version Yume no Neko Unko its 1000x better

>>9132004
LOL So they used the open source PDP-1 core that MiSTer uses and are acting like they're preservationists. FFS that's why I can't support Analogue. They're such manipulative hateful cunts.

>>9135026
>Poorfags
I just finalized my purchase on a Steam Deck, so no. Besides, the Pocket ruins your games the more you switch them in and out of the cartridge slot, some of them don't work well with flashcarts, the dock needs a firmware update, some units' screens pop out.

Like, if you're having fun and the Pocket works how you wanted it to, then all the power to you. I'm not taking a chance, and even the nice screen is just not worth it to me.

>>9131001
They are emulators as well anon. No more accurate and no less input-laggy than free software ones.

If you think they're not i've got some magic beans you'd be interested in buying too, you can have them for $200US a pop.

>>9135107
>I can afford to spend a hundred dollars on a cup of coffee, but that doesn't mean it's worth it
Typical poorfag cope
>I-it's not that I can't afford it, it's just s-shit!

>>9135613
If you don't pay me $400 for a turd in a box, you're officially a poorfag.

>>9131919
Retard

>>9135670
My phone emulates everything leagues better than your Chinese plastic shitbox does. Seethe while I play PS2 on the go.

>>9135672
Why are you playing video games outside?

>>9135701
Why aren't you?

>>9131001
>emulatards
>bought

>>9135717
Well, you need something to play your emulators on.

>>9136228
What about cloud emulators

>>9135613
actual the most expensive coffe in the world is shit. literally. bat shit to be more precise. no kidding. people pay top dollar for coffee beans that have been shat by a bat.

>>9136312
uhh shit

>>9135701
Why are you in a handheld thread?

>>9135613
That's such a braindead defense lol
Imagine if it cost $100 to post here. Idiot

>>9135713
It's hot out

>>9136496
It soon won’t be, when winter comes and Russia closes the pipelines

I like it. Good screen, no input or audio delay, works with peripherals and the fliters are top notch. The cartridge slot is poor but I don't use it so doesn't bother me

not sure why everyone gets all worked up over it, it's just a gameboy lol

>>9136970
>no input or audio delay
lmao

>>9137991
Does it? Have there been any actual tests done?

>>9137995
No device has 0 input lag.

>>9138000
I meant in comparison to original hardware you ding dong

>>9137995
It has a latency of 50ms as opposed to 30ms on original hardware

>>9138073
Interesting. Is that due to the display? I figure the actual hardware doesn't introduce anymore delay than an actual GBA

Shame if so though, everything else about the screen is great

>>9138153
Don’t worry, no human has been demonstrated to detect a sub-50ms latency.

>>9131094
I'll yank my patreon if he starts working on that trash.

>>9131271
>>9131271
>That may look nicer on whatever planet you're from but there's just one problem: this is Earth.

Someone ported furrtek's neogeo core to this POS. Some of the larger neogeo makes might not work because of the memory limitations.
https://github.com/Mazamars312/Analogue_Pocket_Neogeo