This is one of your BEST VIDEOS EVER. You brought some amazing vintage tech together for this - thank you!

two things I didn't mention: 1) battery life - it's great. you'll get 4-6 hours of straight playtime (depending on brightness). if you don't think that's a lot, try playing a game boy game for 5 hours straight lol 2) price: it's $220

I'm excited to purchase one. I've contemplated dissecting my GameBoy Colors and installing updated screens, but this alleviates the need to do so. Thanks!

@Tobunari

2 жыл бұрын

How fast did you get the pre-order? Friend of mine took 7 minutes from the pre-order drop to get his order, he still has to wait until the end of the year before it ships.

The Analogue's approach of "playing it as it" instead of emulating is a key win and a huge advantage on other emulators. bummer that I can't get it anytime soon with them crazy prices and long wait time

@steel5897

Жыл бұрын

I know this is an old comment, but besides cycle accuracy for stuff like very specific glitches (relevant to speedrunners) and the purest of purists, as well as an input delay advantage that will be inperceptable to most (when compared to a good retroarch setup, no android crap), you can get a "pure" setup like that in software emulation devices as well. All you have to do is disable save states, disable rewind, disable fast forward, and configure the display for pixel perfect scaling. Boom, a "pure" experience, focused entirely on the game, just like old days but with better hardware. All I'm saying is, if that's all you want, you don't need to spend $220+.

Awesome vid Sam! Sick piece of tech glad you finally got yours and looks like you had a great time reviewing it!!

It is strongly advised to NEVER blow into a cartridge or a system. Blowing into them may seem to make them work better initially, but is doing much more harm in the long run (airborne saliva will stick to it and can cause tarnishing, corrosion, more dust to stick, etc...). Mucky cartridges can also muck-up any consoles they are inserted into, which is a much bigger problem than the dirty cartridge itself. To properly clean a cartridge, I suggest 91% (or higher) Isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs. Just wet the tip of the swab and rub over the pin connectors until clean.

@no2bio

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for the tip mate!

Man I love the look of this, nostalgia vibes for sure. Great video as always

This is such an excellent review. So excited to see what you do with the Playdate

Happy New Year Looking forward to what you bring XD

Amazing hardware deep dive! Excited to hear about the panic playdate!

Excellent video! Looking forward to getting my analogue pocket in 2023!! 🎮🕹

I totally love the Analogue Pocket, but the volume buttons could be better tbh. I hope with new Analogue OS that you can change the volume in the settings directly.

That was a great video Sam!

Beautiful video

Sam, remarkable review as usual.

Looks amazing

bought one. can't wait for 2023.

Nice watch! Classic! Congratulations!

sam love the subtle flex with the rolex

can't wait my pre-order is for 2023 I assume probably closer to the holidays.

Gosh this looks so good! Will probably pick one up if they every become available to just order and get.

@Tobunari

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think that will be for a while though.

@BeardDuder

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tobunari Tha's okay. It will come someday.

@philipalexander7493

2 жыл бұрын

You can pre order one at the moment but it will be 2023 until you get it.

The red mode is supposed to emulate a pinball display

I want one but not trying to wait 16 months lol

So now I want a Game Boy!!! Thanks Sam! lol

This is so sick

Nice video too!

damn, now i want one. i still got my gameboy advance sp that flips open

I'm going to need one of the Playdates when it launches

Because of an issue with my credit card, it took an extra 7 minutes for me to order when these went on sale after the initial wave of reviews, so I'm stuck in group B. Looking forward to getting it though

As someone that doesn't own a Gameboy game collection, I'm super excited for the Playdate

Soooo dope!

My only complaint is the small volume buttons. Weird coincidence but I have a gameboy advance with that same sticker of Samus. I think I picked the stickers up in the back of a Nintendo power.

I love my analogue pocket so much. I've played it every night and probably spent close go 800 bucks on GBA games from my childhood. One issue.....there are screen issues with mine. You can se pixel lines on the left side it looks like maybe it was cracked deep down some how not sure never dropped it. Still it has these weird lines

I NEED ONE

Options to sideload games on the sd card? Would be nice to have a whole library on hand without needing to carry around the carts

I finally got mine after more than a year 🎉

I ordered one and I'll get it by 2023Q1 which is not bad by that time I hope they be running new updates and hopefully jailbreak so I'm in no rush

Nice video. Retro Nintendo’s. I still have my original game boy and game boy color.

The menu layout is a design choice, and i think a really good one. It's off-centered on purpose.

OMG, i was 9 when you were born and OMG, it took that LONG for delivery?!? Damn. I owned the OG GameBoy and only had Tetris.

i need some more

Yep not getting mine till the end of this year :/ and I ordered like 1 minute after it opened (#99xxx).

This is really cool and props to everyone who still has their collection….but no emulation is a kill shot :/

@TessaBain

2 жыл бұрын

They always include emulation in a side firmware. That's just so Nintendo and friends don't kill them. Also technically you can that's what the GB Studio pocket format is for. People have already been patching the ROMs to work in that format. It doesn't support link cables so you wouldn't want to play things like main series Pokemon in that format if you want to complete them, but it works just fine for most which have limited to no multiplayer anyway so you probably wouldn't want it.

There's a typo in your description, "I wanted over a year for this thing, and I think it's a must-have for enthusiasts".

Just the docking to my tv alone has me sold. I want medabots, Warioland 4, and Metroid Fusion on my tv soooooooo bad! Plus I do play my.switch alot at my job because there's alot of downtime, and it would be very cool to have the option all the time as well to play my favorite gb games. Idk this might be my one irresponsible tax return purchase this year 🤔

i want a video of just sam nitpicks on life

Great screen, great idea but you can see that the plastic is of poor quality, its texture is wavy in places. this spoils the perception of the entire device. I hope Nintendo will finally release its official version of the classic Game Boy, as it does with previous consoles (game & watch, NES micro) Integrated battery is also a big minus. In my opinion the original Game Boy Color with a modified screen is still a better option.

I think Elliott from the Retro Future Covered this too 🙂

2:53 Is that a Rollie on the wrist? I see you Sam! 🔥🔥

Thank god you changed the thumbnail and that's what actually made me click on the video. Thumbnails work😅

Appreciate what you said about teenagers using this, but availability and price will put it out of reach for most.

So i can get this and install it on a game boy advance boomerang body

You should do a review on the Soulja boy game boy looking thingy 😂😦 it looks really interesting

I got a gameboy color atomic purple but it doesn't save every so often. Do you know why its not saving?

@TessaBain

2 жыл бұрын

All GB and GBC and some GBA games use a battery to hold the save (note that though it may appear to be the case the GBA Pokemon games do not - they use their battery to keep track of real time, saving continues to work when it dies, time just doesn't pass anymore). You'll need to replace them to continue saving (or having time pass).

I got one in 1990 !

@samsheffer

2 жыл бұрын

nice

I paid 600 for the device and dock. I do not regret it

Just a note: it's inaccurate to say that the Pocket does "no emulation", despite Analogue's slick marketing. FPGAs are a form of hardware emulation, as opposed to the software emulation most people associate with the word "emulation", but they aren't any more inherently accurate than software emulation is--it's just that there are certain advantages to FPGA emulation that make it much less costly to attain cycle (i.e., perfect or near-perfect) accuracy. An FPGA is only as accurate as the work and documentation that goes into its code, which is exactly the same case in software emulation. Perhaps the biggest advantage is the fact that because FPGA is a hardware solution, it doesn't need to run everything through a software layer or OS, which means it can output directly to a display with zero added latency. The Pocket apparently has one single frame of added latency due to a difference in the way its panel operates compared to the panels of the original hardware it emulates.

You must pay jut after delivery?

it’s not 10 times the resolution of the old one, it’s 10 times for each axis, so it’s 100 times the resolution

it has a backlight... shows advance sp on screen.... so no backlight on the sp ? XD

Imagine if this had an oled display

well you can get one just gotta wait ill be 102 when i get mine haha

Watching this knowing I can’t have it 🥴

can use game genie? have a cheat option?

i just love your videos sam. keep it up buddy lots of love from israel 🇮🇱

When i was 10 cell phones were just black and white brick phones they didnt have smartphones yet phones were very limited u couldnt do much with them at that time I always had my gameboy and played pokemon red lol

why does everyone say fpga is not emulation???? it emulates oem hardware. it is still emulation. and it will never be perfect like oem. the marketing is miss guided. it emulates but in a different way. still not 100% compatible especially with aftermarket hardware.

If you think this is a long time to wait… don't get into custom keyboards. 😬

i will get my analogue pocket at 1 quarter of 2022 🌝🌚🌝🌚

@radetzkygal

2 жыл бұрын

cant wait anymoooooooooore

Like squad

A bit of a silly name for the video. The game boy color was the game boy pro you should have asked if it was the game boy advance pro.

Huh? Nintendo’s not suing?

Shoulder button seem like shit.i gonna get a modded gba instead...

@TessaBain

2 жыл бұрын

Not really a problem though since you can remap them to the extra face buttons which are otherwise unused for the default systems.

This poser needs to give away his pocket to somebody who actually enjoys video games.

oh its not doing emulation because its loading the game from a cartridge instead of a hard drive lol if these analogue devices arent emulation then why do they get patches fixing the same bugs emulators fixed years ago? go read the super nt patch notes and tell me these things arent just overpriced emulators

Why would anyone buy this when there are hq Chinese emulators like anbernic, rp2+ etc. Am I missing something?

@TessaBain

2 жыл бұрын

Carts.

Speak for yourself. I'm more than happy, at nearly 30 years old, to pull out my modded GameBoy Color and trudge through Pokemon Silver again on a 30 minute lunch break. I'm so burnt out on social media. lol The Pocket is cool for sure. But I really fail to see why it'd be worth $220 to have to wait over a year, when I have a real GBC right now (with an aftermarket IPS screen that is larger than the original) that can play everything pre-GBA, and a soft modded PSP that plays most GBA games pretty well via emulation. By the time I actually got my hands on it, I'd have probably lost interest in it already.