Analogue Pocket Is Getting Its Own OS - Allowing Users To Explore, Discover And Preserve Video Game History

So the Pocket got delay because they are working on this OS? Nobody ask for this Analogue. Your job was to make a product and release it, not an operating system that'll come with lame FPGA emulators a.k.a. cores.

I'd still rather have them announce a release window, but I understand and appreciate Analogue working on the software side of the product given that the hardware side of the business is going slowly at the moment.

Super Nt already can identify a particular cartridge, I discovered earlier this week (I finally tried dumping a game and the Super Nt correctly identified it by title).

Save states will be welcomed for all those games that lacked onboard save capabilities. No more annoying passwords.

I think it's time this website changed its name to "GamingLife". There seems to be more news on ROMs, crappy Kickstarter consoles and other random gaming news then there is actual Nintendo news. I'm losing interest in checking this site for information.

This thing is turning into a scam.

Fingers crossed these things ship out in December. I put my order in 14 months ago, haha.

Can't wait to browse the web on...that...

@MattyHammo

Glad you reported on it, Liam! I got so excited when I saw this news come out. I think that whole calendar and playtime thing, along with the artwork and stuff is so cool. I miss that feature dearly on Switch. I can’t wait to have this for my retro carts :: salivating ::

@imgrowinglegs you’re in a better position than I am. I didn’t even make the first preorder window. I know they said more are coming after the holidays but I want one NOOOWWWWW

I wish they would get more stock allotment instead.

Cool. Will it mean they retain any kind of inventory? That’s my only question.

Hey @MattyHammo your jokes suck

How I wish I could still see a screen that size.

@Specter_of-the_OLED Nowhere has anyone said this was related to a delay. In fact, it's been said repeatedly that the delay is due to manufacturing.

Looking at their website it states that you will only be able to play using the original cart, so what they are announcing here is basically the back end we expected in the first place.

I still want one of these bad and missed the initial preorder despite signing up for the email reminder.

@X68000

You will 100% be able to play ROMs off the microSD card, just as you can with all other Analogue products

Would have loved to have one.

But the Import was to unsure and expansive for me.
So i've upgraded a GBC with a McWill Screen and i'll buy a Everdrive for the Lazyness.

@KillerBOB this is from the analogue website.

Pocket is not designed to play copyrighted ROM files from the SD card slot. ... The SD card slot is for firmware updates and other unique features. Analogue does not support piracy.

@MattyHammo bye Felicia.

@N00BiSH oh I'm not joking. I seem to read more articles about non-Nintendo news here than actual Nintendo news.

@X68000 Of course they say that. If they don't, they will be sued.

@Daniel36 ah OK, i assumed they locked out the use of ROM files within it's firmware.

As for being sued, there are dozens of other systems which offer it straight out the box but I guess they mostly originate from China.

@MattyHammo surely you are the fanboy… you are only interested in Nintendo news and the odd non nintendo story has turned you off the site?

Your twisting my melon man.

@MattyHammo on their front page right now showing the last 32 stories they published 30 are Nintendo/switch software and 2 are not…..

Just stop

Hard for me to get excited about this, since I know it's going to be a huge pain to acquire.

I'll just continue to use my GPD XD+. It's a lot cheaper than the analogue OS, yet it's much better. It runs android as its os, and has all the modern buttons a controller should have (like 4 shoulder buttons, a D-pad and 2 clickable analogue sticks). Trust me I've tried emulating on everything. I didn't like retro pie, too much input lag, PC emulators are abandonware at this point, while the emulators dos android are constantly being updated, they work the best with basically zero input lag, and have the most features. Android is the best platform for emulation, hands down

And this GPD thing can be plugged into a TV with an hdmi cable, and you can link multiple controllers to it via Bluetooth. Meaning it's the absolute perfect complement to my Switch. I can load up Mario Kart 64 and link 4 Bluetooth controllers to it and play multiplayer on my big TV. I buy retro games when they're available, like I buy the mega man collections and the castlevania collections. But if they refuse to port games like mario kart 64 then I'll just emulate them on my GPD XD+. It cost me £170 about 2 years ago. But it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. I play it mostly handheld, in bed, like I do with my switch

But it's so good being able to, for example, get a few mates round and play the Simpson's Arcade beat em up together. It's the funnest time you can have

Also romhacks. You can't get romhacks on a switch. Well OK, maybe you can, like on the ports of Doom you can download and play classic fan made WADs (levels) from the 90s. But those are the only games I've seen for switch where you can do that

So I can play sonic 3 Complete, the definitive way to play sonic 3 & knuckles together as one game, as it was originally intended. Sonic 3 Complete was made by Christian whitehead, who later went on to make sonic mania. Sega refuse to port sonic 3 to anything these days, so I have my little handheld/home console GPD thing to play it on, with the proper original music too, of course

I don't understand some reactions. Its a console that emulates Nintendo hardware and can play Nintendo games. I'm thinking about buying a modded IPS V2 GBA instead with same money.

@MattyHammo

What Nintendo news? The Switch is old as the hills and they're going to keep on keeping on with it?

Oh and maybe there's another pokemon or something. something smash bros? that's about it.

@dimi a GBA + IPS screen is way cheaper but it is not apples to apples here. The Analogue product is dockable (so you save a whole GameCube setup here to play on tv) and has a 1440p low latency screen. Also have rechargeable batteries out of the box and supports Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket and Atari Lynx. It is not confirmed but sideloading ROMs have been always present on Analogue products, so you will not need an everdrive.

On other hand, GBA can connect to the GameCube, a feature that I doubt Analogue will deliver.

So what is the best option is something that will change from person to person.

More plastic garbage destined for a landfill.

@CovidBarbie
You seem like a fun person.

@abdias but really 1440p screen for gameboy games is kinda overkill!

@dimi look, the Analogue screen is exactly 9x the gba resolution. For a player that uses sharp graphics with no filters it is indeed overkill, but for who use filters, like the one that mimics the dot matrix screen, more pixels means a more accurate filter.
So again, is analogue better than gba + ips? I still depends on who is playing.

Bad journalism is bad. First off: provide some context. For all intents and purposes, this thing is vaporware, with major supply chain problems, tons of delays, production issues, kickstarter problems, etc. Now you write a follow-up article about the software / OS of a non-existent product, reference "A" (singular) recent delay, and allude to the fact that this will be available in December. Misleading junk content. NLife looks more and more like the Nintendo eshop. I understand Nintendo isn't helping you with major releases / major news, but you guys are better than this.

That's just piracy with extra steps

@Specter_of-the_OLED whoa, talk about entitlement. It’s their product and they can do whatever they want. They don’t need to ask for permission. It’ll be your choice to buy or skip.