Analogue Pocket Updates Coming This Month, But Cart Adapters Are Delayed Into 2024

If that "must-requested feature" isn't being consistent in stock then what's the point

This is great (if overdue) news, but doesn't make up for nearly 2 years of spotty communication and radio silence on what was taking so preposterously long.

I think it’s wild that I still continue to get these kinds of news pieces not from Analogue directly but through you guys.
I own an Analogue pocket, am technically a (very happy) customer, and am subscribed to their news and never see any updates like those you posted above.

So let this be a THANK to Time Extension and also a wtf to Analogue! I don’t have Twitter is that my fault?!

Seriously, this is really great news from Analogue
Now we just need those Save States for Genesis, SNES, and some others. It’s a very hot topic…

Weird I'm not hearing this even though I'm subscribed to them on twitter. Oh well, can't wait to try this on my analogue pocket

@ChromaticDracula Yeah, save state on snes and genesis will be nice since not all of the games support internal saves, like megaman x snes that still use password system, or many genesis games.

@wiiware can you have Save States with FPGA? I thought that was not possible, and one advantage of Software Emulation.
(I don’t consider myself an expert on this subject)

@Gerald Well, gameboy, gb colors, gb advance, and nes core has save state, so I guess it depends on the core, not the FPGA I think. I heard the snes and genesis core isn't build with save state in mind, so it will be hard to add save state to those cores.

I actually didn't mind snes core didn't have save state since most snes games I've played has internal saves (mostly rpg), but there's a lot of genesis games that didn't have internal save, so I hope sometime in the future we can get save state for genesis core.

@wiiware @gerald
This is correct- I’m happy for the ones that do have save states but it’s always nice to have the option for the others.
I won’t even bat an eye at Ghosts n Ghouls without save states, for example!
What I gather is that when those cores were built, they didn’t include save states and now adding them in after the fact is extremely difficult.
Basically we’d need someone to step in and build a new core for these and add them in from the beginning rather than as an after-thought.
❗️It’s important to remember that these cores were built for the community for free so it’s not like Analogue or anyone owes us anything. Someone in the open-source community would literally have to just do it on their free time and then give it away to the community. Not an easy ask!

I have high hopes someone will step in and do it someday. Once AnalogueOS starts taking off more and the system itself gets some more traction…

I have a Pocket for well over a year and it’s honestly my least used handheld. The fact we’re still waiting on these basic features years later is pretty shocking. They make really nice gear but the customer support and the follow through on features is simply shockingly awful.

I’d honestly recommend anyone interested in emulation to simply save their money and buy a Miyoo Mini Plus.

The only use I have for FPGA technology is to keep my CRT’s in use. So CRT connectivity is something I was ultimately looking out for.

@davidtobin100 idk the hardware is kinda hit or miss like yeah the screen is very impressive but the buttons aren’t the greatest it often just won’t register when i press the A button on mine (which i’ve barely used mostly for this reason) while my second hand gba sp that i’ve had for three years and hundreds of hours of use works flawlessly. i’ve seen many others complain about the dpads or buttons being finicky so it’s not just me. i do have a dock so i can just use whatever other controller but that kinda defeats the purpose of a portable plus it renders the screen moot.

@foodmetaphors You may just have a faulty unit. I have a lot of complaints about Analogue (like... a lot), but I have zero problems with the controls on the Pocket. Even the usual troubles like phantom diagnoals just haven't been an issue. I certainly haven't had skipped inputs like you're describing.

It's a lovely piece of hardware in nearly every respect. The problem is the slow and spotty support, and the disturbingly anti-consumer practices of the company that sells it.

@foodmetaphors @Razieluigi I have definitely noticed improper inputs on my pocket and I literally just got it. I started playing superstar saga on cartridge and I’ll get mild weird diagonal inputs when I’m holding just left/right up/down moving around the overworld. And then on the bros blocks (the ones that alternate between Mario n Luigi) and you’re going hard between A and B it definitely won’t register A inputs sometimes and Mario won’t jump and it messes up the flow pattern.

These things aside, I’m obsessed with the pocket and haven’t even put a memory card in it or updated it. Just playing carts. It’s nice to know the updates are happening now tho

I just want to be able to use my Pokken controller on the dock. It's the only thing I don't like with the Pocket at present.

I just want to be able to remap the controls when playing on a Dock.

@ChromaticDracula The only way I can beat ghosts n ghouls is with save state every couple second, that game is so friggin hard lol.

SWEET!
I was just wondering about the display modes recently.

Amd good to know they haven't forgotten about my adaptors! Been wanting to try out my NGPC games on a backlit screen for quite a while now 😊

@Gerald yes you can. I think it depends on the core or system it is replicating though.

@wiiware SAME… literally every few seconds. Kill an enemy, save state, kill an enemy, save state, kill an enemy, save state.
I don’t know how people do it otherwise.
I’m someone who beat all 3 dark souls and Elden ring but Ghosts n Ghouls? Forget it!

Bout damn time.

@Razieluigi errant diagonals are definitely an issue. It was a problem on mine. My Life in Gaming also has the same issue on all their units. Their guess is they had help designing the controls from 8bitdo, which tracks because most of their controllers have the same issue.

@DestructoDisk I feel like newer 8BitDo models don't have the problem to the same degree as older ones. I remember having to mod all of them with those looseleaf reinforcement stickers to try to minimize the issue. But recent Pro models have been excellent.

But I just haven't found it to be an issue on the Pocket. Maybe it's just that I don't play that many run-and-gun games on that platform so I don't notice it, but I did play through the entirety of Operation C without a hitch.

But I certainly haven't noticed any dropped inputs like the prior posters are suggesting, and I feel like that would be noticeable in pretty much any genre.

@ChromaticDracula aren’t they spamming you with mail? I get all the anouncements twice about 12 hours before they are on time extension… aren’t they in your spam forlder or something?