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Unlike the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color, the Analogue Pocket's bottom half doesn’t open up to insert batteries. We didn’t have any issues with cartridges wiggling or feeling loose in the slot, but they still feel less secure than they do in the original, form-fitting handhelds.

The slot is wide open to accommodate adapters for other systems, which means your Game Boy cartridges stick out on the back instead of fitting snugly in a recess, and there is no dust cover to protect the slot itself when a game isn’t in it. The cartridge slot itself is a Game Boy Advance slot, which makes it backwards compatible with Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges. This design decision creates enough room for left and right trigger buttons around the slot, and ensures that Analogue’s upcoming cartridge adapters will fit without issue. The back of the Pocket features a thick, grippy bottom half and a much more narrow top half that leaves the cartridge slot open. You won’t accidentally press it, but you might have to take an extra second to adjust the volume. The volume rocker is a bit too small to easily find with a fingertip without looking. The left edge of the system holds a flat green power button and a tiny volume rocker, while the right edge features a microSD card slot. (Opens in a new window) Read Our OneXPlayer Mini (Intel i7-1195G7) Review And its controls feel tighter and more responsive than any emulation-based device I’ve used. Its screen is so high-resolution compared to the original handhelds that it can reproduce how their LCDs looked as easily as it can make every sprite look razor-sharp. The Analogue Pocket is the company’s first attempt at a handheld game system, designed to play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges with the same care and accuracy as their home consoles.

However, I don’t think I really respected just what a big difference this non-emulation technology could make until I held it in my hand. I’ve been sympathetic to this perspective, and deeply appreciate Analogue’s non-emulation, FPGA-based consoles like the Super Nt and Mega Sg for perfectly running Super NES and Sega Genesis cartridges, respectively, while making them look fantastic on a high-resolution TV.

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Exposed cartridge slot doesn't securely hold game cartridgesĬlassic gaming purists and collectors tend to eschew emulators, because the software doesn't provide the same experience as the original hardware (and generally can’t play cartridges to begin with, which makes collecting them pointless).

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We can't tell you how to get these ROMs outside of perhaps acquiring the hardware necessary to pull them off of your own physical cartridge collection, but we can tell you how to get the Analogue Pocket ready to play them. This effectively transforms the Pocket into one of the best emulation handhelds (at least for games and systems up to the GBA). That developer is Spiritualized1997 on Github (Opens in a new window), and they released these cores barely a day after openFPGA was enabled by the Pocket's v1.1 firmware update. And almost immediately, someone has effectively "unlocked" the Pocket with a new app that can read ROMs off of a microSD card. However, Analogue made the Pocket's FPGA hardware open to developers with openFPGA, letting anyone create their own cores and software for the handheld. You can't just load a microSD card filled with ROMs and play them on the Analogue Pocket. Instead, it's designed to play original cartridges from the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance (as well as Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket Color, and Sega Game Gear with adapters). It's also one of the most limited out of the box because it isn't intended to emulate game ROMs, unlike most other retro handhelds.

The Analogue Pocket is one of our favorite retro gaming handhelds.