• @NOT_RICK
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    211 year ago

    Make a translucent atomic purple one you pricks

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      They made a range of translucent models that sold out in less than a minute and (surprise, surprise) seemingly all found their way on to eBay for three times the original price.

      • @NOT_RICK
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        31 year ago

        Of course I missed that and of course they did

  • @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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?

    • @PrettyLights
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      51 year ago

      You’re commenting on an FPGA handheld with OLED, not an AliExpress android clone. Where are you seeing kits for less?

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          Just because they’re both FPGA based products does not mean they’re equivalent. The Pocket can use its FPGAs to replicate dozens of different consoles and arcade units. It also has sleep mode and save states when using original cartridges.

          Without adapters or OpenFPGA, the pocket can play GB, GBC, GBA original carts. With adapters, you can add in Neo Geo and Game Gear carts, and with open FPGA, you can add in NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, dozens of arcade units, and dozens more I’m just forgetting. I personally have DigDug, Q Bert, and all the ones I mention above on mine.

          The hardware alone on the Pocket is a massive upgrade over Funnyplaying, but when you include the OpenFPGA support, they’re not even in the same league. Not to trash the funny playing one, I think it’s great. It’s just not the same product category even imo.

  • @richard_wagner
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    31 year ago

    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?

    • @redsol2
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      61 year ago

      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 +

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      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.

  • @Son_of_dad
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    21 year ago

    Thing costs as much as a ps5 where I live

  • @Wodge
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    11 year ago

    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.