I received mine a few months ago and haven’t been able to put it down since! Gorgeous device, abhorrent support and communication, lol.
If you’re a fellow Pocket Enjoyer, please, share what you’ve been playing recently.
I keep being tempted to pick one up but I’m not a huge fan of old handheld games. Even growing up I was always like “I wish these were more like the PC or console versions.” My first system was a GBC so maybe a bit before my time. Happily playing PC games on a steam deck these days though. My childhood dream is real now! lol
But it’s not just handheld games. My analogue pocket has the entire SNES, NES, Mega Drive and Pc Engine libraries, plus Amiga. Loads of MiSTer cores have been ported.
Playing SNES on the pocket is amazing. And it’s better on the pocket than any other device I’ve ever used.
Those were all before my time, so I don’t really have any “favorites” I would want to play.
Before your time? Wait what
Fuck me, I’m getting old.
I was thinking about getting one but then I saw Retroid’s line of products. They run Android instead of using FPGAs so you can play regular Android games (including modern re-releases as well as Steam’s Remote Play) but they dual-boot a stripped-down version of Android for running emulators with better performance.
Was hella fun playing MediEvil on the flight from the US to India and that was with the Retroid Pocket 2, they have a much larger model out now.
Yes it’s fantastic. I’ve been playing some old school RPGs like chrono trigger, ff6, earthbound, and mother 3.
If you haven’t already you can run fpga cores for basically any console up to the snes/gba, then you can just load roms onto it. Check out this guide: https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/08/07/analogue-pocket-jailbreak-guide/
I’m part of the club! Although tbf I haven’t touched it much since getting it about a year ago (I just haven’t played that much retro stuff these days or most of it has been with my Super Nt).
One great addition I got recently was a 3D printed grip case, it made long play sessions sooo much more comfortable (obligatory “not affiliated” and I’m not the one making these, but I really like the quality which is why I’m linking it here).As far as what I’ve been playing on it recently… really just pick up and play, SoR 2 or Turtles in Time, but I completed Metroid Fusion (first time) a few months ago on the Pocket (that’s what made me get a grip case, it really wasn’t too great wrt shoulder buttons comfort).
What is an “Analogue pocket” for those of us … Out of the loop?
It’s an expensive high end GameBoy clone, basically. It uses some specialized hardware (FPGA) to run original GB cartridges and can also run other retro consoles pretty well. It’s a bit nicer than most other handheld emulator devices that are on the market right now, although it’s limited in some other ways.
A Game Boy clone console that can play original Game Boy (Color/Advance) cartridges with a terrific screen and support for many more systems’ ROMs via OpenFPGA.
Ordered mine earlier this year and am eagerly awaiting it. It says it’s supposed to come this year but I have my doubts lol
I have an order in that I placed last August. I’m hoping to get it by the end of the year, but who knows, they are really slow at manufacturing the devices.
I only have analogue pockets on my pants. I didn’t even know they made digital pockets.
