Every single product on their website is sold out and instead of producing more Pockets they release an “extremely limited quantity” painted one.
They really want to be the Supreme™ of tech. Fuck this artificial scarcity bullshit. Stick with emulators.
Make a translucent atomic purple one you pricks
I’ve seen one of these in person and the screen is super nice.
Is it worth buying if you don’t have any gameboy cartridges and would only use it for roms?
It wasn’t for a long time, but apparently they were able to crack it for emulation. That said, the whole appeal of the Analogue was for the genuine, native playback of physical cartridges. Emulation doesn’t seem to have basic features you’d expect from an emulation device like save states or fast-forward. If I were you, I’d go for something like the RG35xx or the Miyoo Mini +
If you don’t have cartridges, at the moment it may be hard to justify the price. The reason is the screen - it is so high resolution, it will emulate sub-pixel LCD screen characteristics from the original GB/GBC/GG screens, BUT ONLY for physical cartridges OR GB/GBC games that have been converted to .pocket files (you can do this easily, but it’s still an extra step).
So for most people, it will play similar to the much cheaper Miyoo Mini or other Chinese emulation handhelds.
However, there has been a long-held expectation that Analogue will enable display mode options in the OpenFPGA cores, which would erase this handicap and mean absolutely, if you want to get the real experience of these systems, this is the only game in town. But it hasn’t happened yet. You may not be able to buy a system later though, when it happens, so it’s kind of a gamble.
These are stupidly expensive. I’ve seen kits that are 1/3 this price. Or, if you love spending money, machines that do more for the same price.
An $80 kit that has an FPGA and swappable cores, super-high resolution screen, to build a machine in a similarly portable form factor? Where exactly have you seen that?
You’re commenting on an FPGA handheld with OLED, not an AliExpress android clone. Where are you seeing kits for less?
Thing costs as much as a ps5 where I live
Yeah… I’m gonna stick with my Ayn Odin. Those prices are silly. Kudos to them for finding a market for it though I guess.
