/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9295893]

>new cores releasing every other day now
is this pos worth buying yet

[Anonymous No.9295927]

>>9295893
Your phone is better than that hunk of shit
>make piece of shit chinkware to play "original games"
>it can't even properly hold game within the cartridge slot
>rips the labels of the $400 game you bought with your covidbucks

[Anonymous No.9295984]

>>9295893
It plays everything one of those AT handhelds from 2006 does.
For the price, it's not worth it.

[Anonymous No.9296014]

The ergonomics of this thing are still ass, so sadly no.

[Anonymous No.9296057]

>only dpad and 4 buttons

good way to lock yourself out of every game made after 1994

[Anonymous No.9296102]

Surely you would be better off just getting one of these and using your phone.

[Anonymous No.9296107]

>>9296102
>modern smartphone fits perfectly to the shape of a gameboy
>every phone controller goes for this dogbone shape instead
fucking WHY

[Anonymous No.9296153]

>>9296107
It's for phone games

[Anonymous No.9296223]

>>9295893
FPGA seems cool but I haven't ever been able to tell a difference between OG hardware and emulation on a decent chipset. I guess the screen resolution is supposed to be really good but paying $100 for that on top of not having access to as many systems as an emulation handheld seems pretty steep.

However if they ever make a portable FPGA machine in landscape and it has access to N64, PSX, and Saturn I'd consider it, but by the time that's released I'm sure emulation handhelds will have devices with N64 and Saturn support.

[Anonymous No.9296239]

Is that 3D-printed?

[Anonymous No.9297503]

>>9296239
Yes. Look at the uppermost right corner of the d-button. That's some pretty shoddy cut work for a supposedly pro-made product.

[Anonymous No.9297535]

>>9296057
it has shoulder buttons

[Anonymous No.9297542]

I like the pocket, but I'd like just about any other device with that screen too (though the fpga nature and compatibility with it is cool). It's not horrible or anything but the ergonomics aren't great especially when using the shoulder buttons.

But man that screen rocks though. Pixel perfect SNES looks like it was practically made to be played with that screen

[Anonymous No.9297567]

>>9295927
Imagine owning a """phone"""

[Anonymous No.9297573]

>>9296107
Hyperkin made a controller like that called the SmartBoy. It just turned out to be not very good.

[Anonymous No.9297575]

>>9297567
I have to call your mom somehow

[Anonymous No.9297578]

>>9295927
why do these dumbasses use the original cartridges and not a flashcart?

[Anonymous No.9297580]

>>9297573
I avoid hyperkin like the plague, but that's actually an amusingly designed device. What was wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.9297651]

>>9295893
Yea sure. While you're at it, i've got some magic beans you'd probably be interested in buying too.

[Anonymous No.9297709]

>>9295893
The anbernic rg351v does everything the pocket can do and more for far less. I don't see why people would buy the pocket if they're not using original carts other than >FPGA

[Anonymous No.9297717]

>>9297580
From seeing some reviews, it just works really poorly. You can maybe use it as a generic controller if you don't want to use the cartridge slot. The only problem is you aren't going to be able to see most of the screen when you're going through menus.

Interesting concept but I'll just stick with pic related.

[Anonymous No.9297721]

>>9297580
It's a big piece of shit that wouldn't fit even in a thick jacket pocket. Also, if the emulator doesn't support moving the controls around (it presses areas of the screen instead of being a bluetooth controller), or if your phone is of a different size than what hyperkin expects, then you're fucked and that just becomes a useless plastic chunk.

[Anonymous No.9297728]

>>9296107
If you have an android the Pizza Boy emulators take advantage of this

However its still touch buttons so its not ideal, although the haptic feedback helps a little.

[Anonymous No.9297737]

>>9297580
the hyperkin 6 button genesis controllers are really good.

[Anonymous No.9297941]

Get a cheap chink handheld like one of the 351 Ambernics and see if you like playing games that way. Even with AmberElec, those handhelds really feel like a slapped together user experience. Lots of shitty little things that I never hear mentioned, but it does it's job of playing Gameboy/GBA/SNES games perfectly well. If you wanna upgrade from that and have cash to burn, I guess the Analogue might be worth it. It's just so fucking pricey for how shit the build quality feels. The screen is lovely though. FPGA shit really doesn't fucking matter for the kinds of games you'd be playing on there honestly.

[Anonymous No.9298897]

>>9297578
Why buy a fpga device to play real cartridges and instead opt to use a flashcart? At that point you should have just bought a random chinker handheld and loaded it with roms

[Anonymous No.9298910]

>>9297567
yeah bro the way you actually fight the jews is by being a socially retarded hermit with no phone and no money who still masturbates frequently and pays for games on steam. go get em tiger

[Anonymous No.9298921]

>>9296107
We have adult hands now. Ironically the brick-boy's huge size is ok in adult hands, but smartphones are slimmer.

[Anonymous No.9298972]

>>9298897
>why buy an fpga device and not a real device
if you're going to buy fpga anyways a flashcart wont make it any less authentic, and you wont reduce the lifespawn of your precious plastic that way

[Anonymous No.9299035]

>>9295927
I don't play games on my phone because I am not a child

[Anonymous No.9299243]

>>9298972
The advantage of the Pocket is playing your precious plastic though, as there are quite a few carts with built in hardware that a flash cart doesn't have, such as a camera or motion sensors. Also, by buying an FPGA device you can avoid buying the flash cart in the first place.

I think most people don't really need portability though, so would be better served by a decent PC/MiSTer/Pi, and even if they would need portability a Steam Deck/chink device would be an acceptable choice. The minority of people with both a collection of carts with hardware, a boner for portability, and an Analogue Pocket, probably just consists of me, but I'm enjoying it, and the new cores are nice.

[Anonymous No.9299253]

>>9299035
Lol you play children's games on a toy

[Anonymous No.9299793]

>>9295893
What kind of retard would get the white one?

[Anonymous No.9300023]

>>9299793
A white supremacist?

[Anonymous No.9300149]

>>9297573
you fags will buy anything except original hardware and actual video games

[Anonymous No.9300193]

>>9300023
Wrong answer Steve