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The original GameBoy DID have a slider/wheel (I believe for contrast) because how dark the screen was depended on how much charge there was left in the batteries. Also, the Analogue Pocket uses fPGA, not emulation.
@@dftfire Yes, I noticed it in an other comment. It has been too long since I played on an OG GameBoy/GB Pocket, this was all from memory from 20 years ago to be fair.
fPGA is still emulation, even if it is on the hardware level, because it's still not original hardware, emulation is by definition anyhting running it that isn't original hardware, hardware level OR software level emulation
Which is why they sucked everywhere else. I remember having a GameBoy Color with that stupid wobbly light attachment so I could play at night in the car and it was not great 😂
So! The Analogue GBC feature - the analogue screen is 4k and the filter for GBC actually recreates the original gameboy color sub pixels. The complains you had about the filter setting is because someone who used it last set a smoothing filter on it. That's not the fault of the Analogue gameboy color! try the original GBC screen filter, it's absolutely incredibe!
The Analogue Pocket does not have a smoothing filter. The display was very likely on the default setting which is just standard integer scaling, no smoothing or blending whatsoever. But yeah, he should have compared it to the GBC filters as those are the actually intended way to play the thing, and aim to properly recreate the color balance and saturation of the original consoles. In the exact same way the Chromatic does with its own color filter option.
@@CanriScrub1 Yeah, I definitely meant Pocket, I only have one myself - but kind of wanted to specify that when you stick in a GBC cart - it goes to Kevtris GBC core. Since the cores all have unique settings on the stock Poicket, and obviously the OpenFPGA cores, with their own. But yes, definitely the "Pocket"
@@RAHelllord Ha sure. I actually had to pull my pocket out and compare after seeing your comment. For some reason I also thought there was a super eagle sai setting (there isn't). But I am guessing he had the Analogue GBC display setting for Sharpness set to Zero - which is in fact - super blurry. Setting instead of Original GBC+ brings up that subpixel display :)
A Gameboy is 160x144. The Analogue Pocket is 1600x1440. So, an exact 10x scale. Also, it uses an FPGA, just like the Chromatic does. I have no idea if they use the same FPGA, but the Pocket uses a Cyclone V. I don't know what Linus was talking about with the sharpness of the image, I have a Pocket, and the screen is SUPER sharp.
Controversial opinion but I think handhelds should be smaller than the Switch and Steam Deck. Kids cant walk around with their steam deck and switch like we used to. It was so easy to carry and easy to play. I hope we get smaller handhelds again
the problem is that if we want 'handhelds' or hybrid devices to play games that aren't exclusively made for it then they kinda have to be bigger to compensate for all that power. It's also not viable nowadays to have a handheld that exclusively has its own ecosystem. If say nintendo went back to splitting their devices, it would not just hurt the home console side but their handheld (which is why they recently touted merging of the two). Good thing is tho Nintendo at least has made efforts like the Switch Lite and i expect that for the next system too. PC handhelds prob can go smaller depending on use case tho if they aren't trying to play Triple A games
I hate using the Switch for this reason. It's even worse with motion controls. When I got a Switch, I got Super Mario Odyssey, and the forced motion made me SUPER nervous. Also, the ergonomics of the Switch are TERRIBLE!
There are plenty of devices that will emulate up to PS2 w/ no issues. AYN Odin 2 is the current king. Plenty of options for less money, and less performance. Ambernic’s XX line will handle everything up to PS1 for $60 and comes in every conceivable form factor. My point is there’s plenty of option for “kids” to choose from. Russ at Retro Game Corps has in depth reviews for pretty much every device.
@@RogerEssigArtist a lot of it is rough and on my list of projects to restore them all, I went on a buying spree last year trying to get one of each "main" color of each variation as well as modded some more and started picking up special ones. There are definitely other UA-camrs with better collections than mine.
Some of the comments are confusing/wrong. The original GB/C were great outdoors, the brighter the sun the better. The Analogue Pocket is using FPGA not software emulation.
Unless you live somewhere that doesn't have much sunlight and you'd be struggling to see anything, or if it was early morning, or getting into the evening so... Less sunlight
I like the idea of the Chromatic that recreates the look and feel of the Game Boy more-so than the Analogue Pocket. The lower resolution screen actually suits Game Boy games the best since they're made that way. The Pocket actually looks off, even with filters on, like everything looks stretched you can see the square pixel outlines. Which is why I tend to carry a modded Game Boy Color more than the Pocket. Pre-ordered the yellow one months ago, so I'll have to wait until December to experience the Chromatic myself. I get the feeling I would love this FPGA Game Boy more than the other two options available.
Where are you seeing those prices? Both colors are $219 on the Analogue store and in stock. $50 for international shipping and $24 + taxes domestic. Plus, the Pocket can play more systems on one device, which might be more interesting to some people.
The Pocket is also FPGA. It's display is also high enough resolution that the display filters can replicate the GBC's sub pixel structure. It's ability to replicate the GBC pixel art with one of the two GBC filters should be identical to the Chromatic.
The comparison’s posted during the original announcement show that the subpixel arrangement is not replicated properly and can’t be due to how the original CGB display was manufactured (sub pixel alignment and spacing). Is it noticeable? Not really but your claim is also not correct.
3:45 that’s a nice touch, instead of having to find some proprietary battery you can just add some rechargeable AAs and swap them out in the future once they start to wear out
Came to say the same thing, for the price you'd think they'd piggyback on another products rechargeable battery that has a 3rd party market for replacements.
@@Drunken_Horse They do, NiMh rechargeable batteries to be precise. The Chromatic can charge those directly inside the device, though quite frankly they should have included a pack with the price tag instead of 3 alkalines. Panasonic and Ikea are two decent brands for those things, and chargers are also fairly cheap. I use the Panasonic Enerloop in nearly every battery powered device at home for years now and they're great. Quick to charge and last as long as alkalines in most scenarios.
For an extra 20 bucks you can buy the anologue pocket and also play GBA games and longer community support and emulation. Seems like a no brainer to me
The best value if you want that authentic experience with cartridges is the Funny Playing GBC (works with everdrive cartridges too). The full kit is about $84 and that's an FPGA just like this device and the Analogue Pocket. Or if you have ROM files and want to play more advanced systems, you're better off getting something like an Anbernic device. The RG35XXSP (currently $50) is great for GBA/SNES/Genesis, or maybe the RG40XXH (currently $59) that has analog sticks if you want to do something like PSP/N64.
Wait until people realize the original GB is more than 30 years old and 10 to 12 year old kids playing Pokemon during the end of the 1990s are now around or beyond 35.
Yep, im exactly 35. As a kid I bought a used gameboy from a flea market and played pokemon yellow on it. I finished the game on the N64 though using the Transfer Pack^^ I wanna go back in time please.... xD
because you are literally recreatimg that cirquit in an fpga. i did fpga programming, it routes the cirquits inside the chip to be a physical connection. its not like software emulation at all. if you call that emulation then you need to call everything except the first gameboy cpu chip ever made emulating the original@@Ragnorok64
@@Ragnorok64 iirc, Analogue does not like when people call it hardware emulation, so i think it's part of a concerted marketing effort. People also have inadvertently associated the word emulation exclusively with software
People seem very upset that he called the analogies devices emulation. I agree that they should have been consistent and called all the FPGA devices the same thing, but I think that FPGA emulation would have been the best term. More confusing to me was Linus's complaint that the analogues screen wasn't pixel perfect to the original Gameboy Color, but it is? The pockets resolution is exactly 10x the original Gameboy, so I would think the game should upscale perfectly and be very sharp.
i have literally only owned the Pocket as a kid. all my other gameboy adventures were much later on a jailbroken ipad with emulators. i wouldnt mind having this thing in my backpack to pull out and dazzle the other cool kids with back problems
Honestly I think people should really be looking at either original hardware modded with a new display or an Ambernic at this point, particularly if you're looking at a lower cost product. The SP style Ambernic is way cheaper while still having a much better display than the original hardware and being able to emulate a TON of different games beyond just the original GB and GBC, including beyond the GBA.
I was born in 1995 and got a yellow game boy color when I was a kid. I’ve got a photo of me screaming my head off with the game boy and Pokémon yellow. Sadly my home was burglarized and I lost all my childhood stuff. Baseball card, Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Pokémon cards cash guitars ETC I still have the case that I got with it though 🤙🏼
analogue pocket isn’t an emulator, it’s also an FPGA device and has a core that attempts to reproduce the GB/GBC/GBA hardware. and its display modes work excellently for reproducing the way the original consoles looked
@ it’s not emulating it but rather implements the consoles’ processor architecture. emulation was if it would be running on a host that has a different architecture, clock speed etc (say x86 or arm host, like a pc or a smartphone)
@@sigmamale6128 it's way more accurate than emulation plus works completely different, but eh kinda. People love to be all ☝️🤓 about FPGA and Wine, but for ordinary people it's basically just emulation.
@@TakisEnjoyer sure but in the video linus called the sponsored device and the FPGBC fpga devices then proceeds to call the analogue an emulator. better to be consistent rather than use wording that makes it seem worse than the other options. they all run cores that are nearly identical to what MiSTEr has, so accuracy wise all 3 fpgas in the video should be identical
The screen on it is a custom screen made out of sapphire so that $199 price tag is pretty cheap for what you’re getting I think and they are coming out with a charger pack for it.
I don’t get why so many of these types of things seem to top out at GB/GBC compatibility. GBA was fully backwards compatible with those, and you only have to add shoulder buttons To work with it’s huge library
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And even then... it's a Game Boy clone. You literally only have ➕ 🅰️ and 🅱️ as the main movement and gameplay buttons. You'd think he could figure it out just by playing 😂
Very nicely done. I'm thinking about getting this for my kids so they can do "mobile gaming" without smartphone perils. Also, the games are actually good!
Grabbed an anbernic cube xx for tis reason, compromise between power and older games. The real cost is getting two micro sd cards you trust, in case the genaric cards they send end up dying. But yeah, if you have a collection of game boy / color games, or if a series like pokemon is life, either og hardware with an updated screen and a rechargable battery drop in, or a device like this.
I recently bought an original GameBoy Color with an IPS screen mod, which means you have a very modern screen in basically the old real hardware. And yes, gameboy games look amazing on it.
You guys should do the r36s if your looking at retro consoles. Its the king of budget handhelds and will play anything from psx down for under 50 australian dollars.
Calling only the pocket emulation. Yes it's emulation but so is the mod retro. This is the second fpga game boy I've seen outside of analogue and that's a good thing. Means the boards are getting more common so the prices will come down
Or you can just Google the damn name he already gave you a couple of times. Jesus Christ I swear people are so inconvenienced by the most minor things these days. Do the leg work yourself. Quit depending on others.
It's quite likely that it's very much fixable. Those things were built rugged. If you get more involved with the matter, you might be able to do it. It could be a badly oxidized power switch only. All 3 generations of Game Boy need cleaning of their power switches on occasion.
If it’s a screen issue then it’s probably just a failing zebra connector. If it’s audio then probably caps. If it’s power then make sure everything is cleaned. Not much to go wrong on an original GB.
There are guys online that do refurbishing of those, they even have some UA-cam channels. Maybe try doing that, those things are worth surprisingly a lot.
@@SlickTater but it's not, that's like saying an x86 64 bit processor is emulating an x86 32 bit processor an FPGA is able to become anything, x86, arm, riscv, etc etc. hell an FPGA can become a full nes, from top to bottom: ram, cpu, ppu, everything. is _that_ emulation? i don't thing so
Meanwhile I was willing to spend 3x's the price of the ModRetro for a SteamDeck OLED and now I can play almost every console known to man plus PC games on it. >:D
FGPAs are quite expensive tbf. idk how powerful the one inside is ( you shouldn’t need a powerful one for the gameboy (color) but they might’ve gone overboard)
They should have compared it to a RG35XX device or some other emulation handheld just to show the difference in experience between these devices, like there is a difference between emulation and fpga, but is it worth 4x the difference if you are just casually playing Gameboy games
I’ve always suspected Linus as one of those “Old game bad because old” types. Ya know, the ones that never go back to older consoles or games because their age makes them inferior for whatever reason. What I’m trying to say is he was the wrong person to film this video
The review will be subject to an embargo, and hence why the upload must be done now. You'll see many other channels drop a video on this product, subject to their own embargo times, taking into account global timezone differences
If it could charge Li-Ion batteries I'd consider getting this, but I'm deeply entrenched in PC emulation after ripping all my carts and have no interest in pulling them out of storage.
I'll be honest.. I love my old GBC, but it's just collecting dust and if you're re-releasing the GameBoy, because you see a market in it.. wouldn't it make way more sense to re-release the GameBoy Advance? Because the Advance could play all previous GB and GBC cartridges..
why I have a strong feeling that someone turn the sharpness option from the default +3 to +0 for analogue pocket part? (and ontop of that not using the GBC LCD/LCD+ mode, sound like somebody want to portrait the device better than what it is)
The Analogue Pocket is not an emulator Instead, it uses Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology to recreate the hardware of classic gaming systems at a hardware level. This means: FPGA vs Emulation: Unlike software emulators, which simulate console hardware via code, the Analogue Pocket's FPGA mimics the original hardware circuits. This allows for near-perfect accuracy, as if you were playing on the original console. 2. Cartridge Support: The Analogue Pocket is designed to play original cartridges (Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, etc.), which is something most emulators don’t support directly.💎 Lastly , Additional Cores: While it is not an emulator, the Analogue Pocket can run FPGA cores for other systems like the NES, SNES, or Sega Genesis, provided they are developed and loaded onto the device. So guys therefore, in short, the Analogue Pocket provides an experience similar to emulation but achieves it through hardware replication rather than software simulation. Hope it helps to all
Great video but why not just get a used GBA and install the drop in IPS screen mods from funnyplay and then you have access to gb/gbc and gba games with a better form factor device and way cheaper
With a lot of retro GameBoy devices on the market with a lot of emulation. Will it be time that Nintendo brings an new GameBoy on the market? With options to play the old cartidges or all the GameBoy games of NSO with NSO?
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The original GameBoy DID have a slider/wheel (I believe for contrast) because how dark the screen was depended on how much charge there was left in the batteries. Also, the Analogue Pocket uses fPGA, not emulation.
* contrast slider
I was gonna say, I remember a contrast slider 😂 used to use it on Gizmo
@@dftfire Yes, I noticed it in an other comment. It has been too long since I played on an OG GameBoy/GB Pocket, this was all from memory from 20 years ago to be fair.
fPGA is still emulation, even if it is on the hardware level, because it's still not original hardware, emulation is by definition anyhting running it that isn't original hardware, hardware level OR software level emulation
@@dilutedoxygen Yeah it's in the name, doesn't matter if it's hardware or software if it's not OEM it's "emulating" OEM.
The original gameboys were actually great outdoors because of the lack of backlight.
Reflective LCDs specifically.
That makes a lot sense 🤯
The Gameboy color on the other hand, was horrible in the sunlight. Needed to be indoors with an overhead light for best visibility.
yup just wanted to point that out. the OG was best in direct light
Which is why they sucked everywhere else. I remember having a GameBoy Color with that stupid wobbly light attachment so I could play at night in the car and it was not great 😂
So! The Analogue GBC feature - the analogue screen is 4k and the filter for GBC actually recreates the original gameboy color sub pixels. The complains you had about the filter setting is because someone who used it last set a smoothing filter on it. That's not the fault of the Analogue gameboy color! try the original GBC screen filter, it's absolutely incredibe!
Analogue pocket*
The Analogue Pocket does not have a smoothing filter. The display was very likely on the default setting which is just standard integer scaling, no smoothing or blending whatsoever.
But yeah, he should have compared it to the GBC filters as those are the actually intended way to play the thing, and aim to properly recreate the color balance and saturation of the original consoles.
In the exact same way the Chromatic does with its own color filter option.
@@CanriScrub1 Yeah, I definitely meant Pocket, I only have one myself - but kind of wanted to specify that when you stick in a GBC cart - it goes to Kevtris GBC core. Since the cores all have unique settings on the stock Poicket, and obviously the OpenFPGA cores, with their own. But yes, definitely the "Pocket"
@@RAHelllord Ha sure. I actually had to pull my pocket out and compare after seeing your comment.
For some reason I also thought there was a super eagle sai setting (there isn't). But I am guessing he had the Analogue GBC display setting for Sharpness set to Zero - which is in fact - super blurry.
Setting instead of Original GBC+ brings up that subpixel display :)
A Gameboy is 160x144. The Analogue Pocket is 1600x1440. So, an exact 10x scale. Also, it uses an FPGA, just like the Chromatic does. I have no idea if they use the same FPGA, but the Pocket uses a Cyclone V.
I don't know what Linus was talking about with the sharpness of the image, I have a Pocket, and the screen is SUPER sharp.
Controversial opinion but I think handhelds should be smaller than the Switch and Steam Deck. Kids cant walk around with their steam deck and switch like we used to. It was so easy to carry and easy to play. I hope we get smaller handhelds again
the problem is that if we want 'handhelds' or hybrid devices to play games that aren't exclusively made for it then they kinda have to be bigger to compensate for all that power. It's also not viable nowadays to have a handheld that exclusively has its own ecosystem. If say nintendo went back to splitting their devices, it would not just hurt the home console side but their handheld (which is why they recently touted merging of the two). Good thing is tho Nintendo at least has made efforts like the Switch Lite and i expect that for the next system too. PC handhelds prob can go smaller depending on use case tho if they aren't trying to play Triple A games
Ambernic has you covered
I hate using the Switch for this reason. It's even worse with motion controls. When I got a Switch, I got Super Mario Odyssey, and the forced motion made me SUPER nervous. Also, the ergonomics of the Switch are TERRIBLE!
There are plenty of devices that will emulate up to PS2 w/ no issues. AYN Odin 2 is the current king. Plenty of options for less money, and less performance. Ambernic’s XX line will handle everything up to PS1 for $60 and comes in every conceivable form factor. My point is there’s plenty of option for “kids” to choose from.
Russ at Retro Game Corps has in depth reviews for pretty much every device.
I own everything on that table and about 50 gb/gba/gbc/gbl/gbp variants. You are not the target audience.
g'damn, i wanna see a picture of your collection.
@@RogerEssigArtist a lot of it is rough and on my list of projects to restore them all, I went on a buying spree last year trying to get one of each "main" color of each variation as well as modded some more and started picking up special ones. There are definitely other UA-camrs with better collections than mine.
@@RyanMercer damn cool.
Some of the comments are confusing/wrong.
The original GB/C were great outdoors, the brighter the sun the better.
The Analogue Pocket is using FPGA not software emulation.
Playing my GBC outdoors in sunlight is magical. I may end up preferring playing it outdoors compared to the chromatic.
Unless you live somewhere that doesn't have much sunlight and you'd be struggling to see anything, or if it was early morning, or getting into the evening so... Less sunlight
@@brandon-butler the GBC did not do well in heavy sunlight, I constantly had to have a towel over my head when playing it by the pool in the summer
Also Linus complained about the Pocket's screen, which is a perfect 10x scale from the original.
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I like the idea of the Chromatic that recreates the look and feel of the Game Boy more-so than the Analogue Pocket. The lower resolution screen actually suits Game Boy games the best since they're made that way. The Pocket actually looks off, even with filters on, like everything looks stretched you can see the square pixel outlines. Which is why I tend to carry a modded Game Boy Color more than the Pocket.
Pre-ordered the yellow one months ago, so I'll have to wait until December to experience the Chromatic myself. I get the feeling I would love this FPGA Game Boy more than the other two options available.
Yep, i can just use my iphone if i want to play anything that the pocket can play. I'm getting the chromatic mainly for that wonderous screen.
The Chromatic Display is actually 1:1 accurate with the alignment and spacing of the sub-pixels.
The Analog Pocket is selling right now for $320 USD for black, and nearly $370 for white. It's...not cheaper.
it would cost me USD $60 extra to get a pocket in Australia compared to a Chromatic.
Where are you seeing those prices? Both colors are $219 on the Analogue store and in stock. $50 for international shipping and $24 + taxes domestic.
Plus, the Pocket can play more systems on one device, which might be more interesting to some people.
Seeing that these are out in the wild. I’m hoping Russ from RetroGamesCorp will get one soon to evaluate.
The Pocket is also FPGA. It's display is also high enough resolution that the display filters can replicate the GBC's sub pixel structure. It's ability to replicate the GBC pixel art with one of the two GBC filters should be identical to the Chromatic.
The comparison’s posted during the original announcement show that the subpixel arrangement is not replicated properly and can’t be due to how the original CGB display was manufactured (sub pixel alignment and spacing). Is it noticeable? Not really but your claim is also not correct.
It's a perfect 10x scale, and yes, the default GBC core does mimic the GBC's sub pixel layout.
I literally just pre-ordered a pair of super-cool & colorful Koss lookalike headphones from that website like 2 weeks ago! I hope I get it soon!
the video output on the chromatic sounds excellent for streaming gameboy games without an emulator
3:45 that’s a nice touch, instead of having to find some proprietary battery you can just add some rechargeable AAs and swap them out in the future once they start to wear out
How did you not properly compare the original display modes on the pocket to the Chromatic
IKR he even said he was going to! 🙄
AA Batteries? I don’t miss feeding those to my gameboy out on the road.
Came to say the same thing, for the price you'd think they'd piggyback on another products rechargeable battery that has a 3rd party market for replacements.
@@Drunken_Horse They do, NiMh rechargeable batteries to be precise. The Chromatic can charge those directly inside the device, though quite frankly they should have included a pack with the price tag instead of 3 alkalines.
Panasonic and Ikea are two decent brands for those things, and chargers are also fairly cheap. I use the Panasonic Enerloop in nearly every battery powered device at home for years now and they're great. Quick to charge and last as long as alkalines in most scenarios.
That GameBoy Pocket got me through NYC highschool travel in the subway.
that speaker on the OG sounds totally blown. I don't remember it sounding that awful
For an extra 20 bucks you can buy the anologue pocket and also play GBA games and longer community support and emulation. Seems like a no brainer to me
Palmer is 32, only 3 years younger than the original gameboy. Totally old enough to get a Gameboy as a kid.
The best value if you want that authentic experience with cartridges is the Funny Playing GBC (works with everdrive cartridges too). The full kit is about $84 and that's an FPGA just like this device and the Analogue Pocket. Or if you have ROM files and want to play more advanced systems, you're better off getting something like an Anbernic device. The RG35XXSP (currently $50) is great for GBA/SNES/Genesis, or maybe the RG40XXH (currently $59) that has analog sticks if you want to do something like PSP/N64.
Analogue Pocket uses OpenFPGA though... not emulation?
Hardware emulation is still emulation
Wait until people realize the original GB is more than 30 years old and 10 to 12 year old kids playing Pokemon during the end of the 1990s are now around or beyond 35.
Yep, im exactly 35. As a kid I bought a used gameboy from a flea market and played pokemon yellow on it. I finished the game on the N64 though using the Transfer Pack^^
I wanna go back in time please.... xD
I turn 40 this week, and played Pokemon, when it was new, in middle school...
I thought the analogue pocket was fpga not emulation?
Analogue pocket is also FPGA. It even says it at the bottom left at the front of the device.
Just an error
Exactly. ☮️
Hardware emulation is still emulation. Where did this perception that FPGA based emulation isn't emulation come from?
because you are literally recreatimg that cirquit in an fpga. i did fpga programming, it routes the cirquits inside the chip to be a physical connection. its not like software emulation at all. if you call that emulation then you need to call everything except the first gameboy cpu chip ever made emulating the original@@Ragnorok64
@@Ragnorok64 iirc, Analogue does not like when people call it hardware emulation, so i think it's part of a concerted marketing effort. People also have inadvertently associated the word emulation exclusively with software
People seem very upset that he called the analogies devices emulation. I agree that they should have been consistent and called all the FPGA devices the same thing, but I think that FPGA emulation would have been the best term. More confusing to me was Linus's complaint that the analogues screen wasn't pixel perfect to the original Gameboy Color, but it is? The pockets resolution is exactly 10x the original Gameboy, so I would think the game should upscale perfectly and be very sharp.
fpga isnt Emulation though, its literally creating the same electrical cirquit.
i have literally only owned the Pocket as a kid. all my other gameboy adventures were much later on a jailbroken ipad with emulators. i wouldnt mind having this thing in my backpack to pull out and dazzle the other cool kids with back problems
Honestly I think people should really be looking at either original hardware modded with a new display or an Ambernic at this point, particularly if you're looking at a lower cost product. The SP style Ambernic is way cheaper while still having a much better display than the original hardware and being able to emulate a TON of different games beyond just the original GB and GBC, including beyond the GBA.
why bother with an Ambernic when your smartphone can do all that. Nothing can do what the Chromatic can do, that's it's appeal. It stands alone.
I was born in 1995 and got a yellow game boy color when I was a kid. I’ve got a photo of me screaming my head off with the game boy and Pokémon yellow. Sadly my home was burglarized and I lost all my childhood stuff. Baseball card, Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Pokémon cards cash guitars ETC I still have the case that I got with it though 🤙🏼
2:53 it DID have a contrast wheel, however.
Analogue Pocket is also FPGA guys, please fix...
analogue pocket isn’t an emulator, it’s also an FPGA device and has a core that attempts to reproduce the GB/GBC/GBA hardware. and its display modes work excellently for reproducing the way the original consoles looked
So it has a core that emulates the hardware, got it. So it’s an emulator with extra steps
@ it’s not emulating it but rather implements the consoles’ processor architecture. emulation was if it would be running on a host that has a different architecture, clock speed etc (say x86 or arm host, like a pc or a smartphone)
@@sigmamale6128 it's way more accurate than emulation plus works completely different, but eh kinda. People love to be all ☝️🤓 about FPGA and Wine, but for ordinary people it's basically just emulation.
@@TakisEnjoyer sure but in the video linus called the sponsored device and the FPGBC fpga devices then proceeds to call the analogue an emulator. better to be consistent rather than use wording that makes it seem worse than the other options. they all run cores that are nearly identical to what MiSTEr has, so accuracy wise all 3 fpgas in the video should be identical
An FPGA device is still emulation at a different level. At which level the hardware logic is recreated doesn't change the fact it's emulation.
Yo Kirby's Dreamland is awesome!!!
The screen on it is a custom screen made out of sapphire so that $199 price tag is pretty cheap for what you’re getting I think and they are coming out with a charger pack for it.
I don’t get why so many of these types of things seem to top out at GB/GBC compatibility. GBA was fully backwards compatible with those, and you only have to add shoulder buttons To work with it’s huge library
why make an 'everything device'.
No trapper keeper? Are they assuming i was a poor growing up?
Why can't anyone make it in the form factor of the OG Gameboy Advance?
It was the only one my hands comfortably held once I hit puberty
Linus, thank you for showing the reviewers guide. Your channel keeps me coming back for its transparency
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I see literally no reason to get this when you can get an Analog Pocket which supports GBA games too.
especially at a pricepoint of 200€...
Not to mention other goodies like a rechargeable battery and support for other FPGA cores, including GB Studio.
I have one on order and super excited to play some Zelda on it
...Contrast? The original DMG had dials for volume on one side and contrast on the other.
Loosen the screws a quarter turn on the Analogue Pocket it will help some with the buttons
Linus: "i don´t even really know the controls..."
Me: "IT´S TETRIS!
And even then... it's a Game Boy clone.
You literally only have ➕ 🅰️ and 🅱️ as the main movement and gameplay buttons. You'd think he could figure it out just by playing 😂
There’s literally only 6 useable buttons and part of them do the same thing 😂
@@dftfiretechnically not a clone. They actually worked with Rogers, Pajitnov, and the Tetris Company so it’s a real Tetris game
It really bothers me not being able to find a Sponsor that wasn't previously an addict.
6:56 thats what she said 😂😂😂
The moment you hear FPGA you know it's gonna be expensive as shit
I'm surprised the FPGA cult hasn't crucified linus for calling the pocket emulation.
it's hardware emulation
The background music in this video unironically goes HARD
I'm creating a game for Gameboy, it's interesting to see that there is still a console market for the game I'm making.
Man that sound
Correction! The original gameboy was awesome outdoors!
Very nicely done. I'm thinking about getting this for my kids so they can do "mobile gaming" without smartphone perils. Also, the games are actually good!
Buy an analogue Pocket ?
Grabbed an anbernic cube xx for tis reason, compromise between power and older games. The real cost is getting two micro sd cards you trust, in case the genaric cards they send end up dying. But yeah, if you have a collection of game boy / color games, or if a series like pokemon is life, either og hardware with an updated screen and a rechargable battery drop in, or a device like this.
9:35 wtf do you mean the original gameboy was designed to be played in bright light such as the sun it works much better outside than inside
I recently bought an original GameBoy Color with an IPS screen mod, which means you have a very modern screen in basically the old real hardware. And yes, gameboy games look amazing on it.
It's not just the resolution but also the sub-pixel alignment. Also, more accurate clock crystal than the FPGBC and Analogue Pocket.
Miss these games. Hehe.
You guys should do the r36s if your looking at retro consoles. Its the king of budget handhelds and will play anything from psx down for under 50 australian dollars.
the original gameboy did have a brightness slider or a contrast slider i guess.
Reading Weapons Dealer made a Game Boy made me think for a moment that Seto Kaiba had become real ( ´∀｀).
Calling only the pocket emulation. Yes it's emulation but so is the mod retro. This is the second fpga game boy I've seen outside of analogue and that's a good thing. Means the boards are getting more common so the prices will come down
Would rather see a link to the actual product you're reviewing instead of a stupid selfie stick
Or you can just Google the damn name he already gave you a couple of times. Jesus Christ I swear people are so inconvenienced by the most minor things these days. Do the leg work yourself. Quit depending on others.
1:38 dang, for free Linus?
My "analog pocket" is an Rog Ally 😂
What the Bolt-M guy 😂 made a knock off "game Boy" hahaha
Looks expensive but worth it.
If a real weapons dealer made that gameboy. The buttons would be shell casings. 🤦 What a let down
I have an og gameboy somewhere and its just fully dead. Unfortunatly. I couldnt figure out how to fix it
It's quite likely that it's very much fixable. Those things were built rugged. If you get more involved with the matter, you might be able to do it.
It could be a badly oxidized power switch only. All 3 generations of Game Boy need cleaning of their power switches on occasion.
If it’s a screen issue then it’s probably just a failing zebra connector. If it’s audio then probably caps. If it’s power then make sure everything is cleaned. Not much to go wrong on an original GB.
There are guys online that do refurbishing of those, they even have some UA-cam channels. Maybe try doing that, those things are worth surprisingly a lot.
Glad Linus said fpga recreation. Emulation is the wrong term speaking about fpga devices. ☮️
But then he went and said the Analogue Pocket was emulation when it too is an FPGA
Hardware emulation is still emulation
@@SlickTater but it's not, that's like saying an x86 64 bit processor is emulating an x86 32 bit processor
an FPGA is able to become anything, x86, arm, riscv, etc etc. hell an FPGA can become a full nes, from top to bottom: ram, cpu, ppu, everything. is _that_ emulation? i don't thing so
@@aftdawn so they field-programmed a gate array to emulate several other processors but that’s not emulation?
@@aftdawn Yes, that is emulation. Getting tired seeing these same comments from people that have zero baseline knowledge of what an FPGA is.
Meanwhile I was willing to spend 3x's the price of the ModRetro for a SteamDeck OLED and now I can play almost every console known to man plus PC games on it. >:D
My iphone and samsung galaxy ultra plays all the older consoles. that chromatic screen though, that's a specialty.
It didn't have brightness but it did have contrast settings
FGPAs are quite expensive tbf. idk how powerful the one inside is ( you shouldn’t need a powerful one for the gameboy (color) but they might’ve gone overboard)
They should have compared it to a RG35XX device or some other emulation handheld just to show the difference in experience between these devices, like there is a difference between emulation and fpga, but is it worth 4x the difference if you are just casually playing Gameboy games
I’ve always suspected Linus as one of those “Old game bad because old” types. Ya know, the ones that never go back to older consoles or games because their age makes them inferior for whatever reason.
What I’m trying to say is he was the wrong person to film this video
3:11 *Game Boy Advance, not color. Color didn't have an IR sensor (at least mine didn't).
Color does have an IR sensor. Source my GB color here that has IR.
@@SanderEvers Interesting. Maybe my aunt gave me the poor-man's version as a kid. I'm retroactively angry.
Linus: I’m not really into Tetris
*literally forgets he’s filming while playing Tetris*
You said the pocket is emulation but the pocket is FPGA for GB, GBC, GBA.
Linus should be ashamed of his Tetris skills shown here.
Chromatic Tetris? So, Tertis DX?
Want. Too bad I have to go through GameStop to get the grey one.
The hell you mean $40 for a game..... Then again in the 90's games were $20-$30......and the GB color cost $90 so not too far off
If it plays original cartridges pretty sure it can be other types which I assume your aware of as well
Unusual time for LMG upload
The review will be subject to an embargo, and hence why the upload must be done now. You'll see many other channels drop a video on this product, subject to their own embargo times, taking into account global timezone differences
If it could charge Li-Ion batteries I'd consider getting this, but I'm deeply entrenched in PC emulation after ripping all my carts and have no interest in pulling them out of storage.
By an analogue Pocket?
@timetoshine2752 Why would I do that?
I'll be honest.. I love my old GBC, but it's just collecting dust and if you're re-releasing the GameBoy, because you see a market in it.. wouldn't it make way more sense to re-release the GameBoy Advance? Because the Advance could play all previous GB and GBC cartridges..
why I have a strong feeling that someone turn the sharpness option from the default +3 to +0 for analogue pocket part? (and ontop of that not using the GBC LCD/LCD+ mode, sound like somebody want to portrait the device better than what it is)
...GBC had a link port, didn't it?
The Analogue Pocket is not an emulator Instead, it uses Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology to recreate the hardware of classic gaming systems at a hardware level. This means:
FPGA vs Emulation:
Unlike software emulators, which simulate console hardware via code, the Analogue Pocket's FPGA mimics the original hardware circuits. This allows for near-perfect accuracy, as if you were playing on the original console.
2. Cartridge Support:
The Analogue Pocket is designed to play original cartridges (Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, etc.), which is something most emulators don’t support directly.💎
Lastly , Additional Cores:
While it is not an emulator, the Analogue Pocket can run FPGA cores for other systems like the NES, SNES, or Sega Genesis, provided they are developed and loaded onto the device.
So guys therefore, in short, the Analogue Pocket provides an experience similar to emulation but achieves it through hardware replication rather than software simulation.
Hope it helps to all
Yes
Meh, 3 AA batteries killed it for me
12:20 The buttons are quite clicky and loud it seems
i've already ordered one, no need to sell me on getting another one!
Great video but why not just get a used GBA and install the drop in IPS screen mods from funnyplay and then you have access to gb/gbc and gba games with a better form factor device and way cheaper
That looks nice, But I'd rather have a Nintendo Switch
Lol the entire sequence at 6:54 ...
FYI, it's $200 USD
For that much money, buy a used Switch AND a R36s.
With a lot of retro GameBoy devices on the market with a lot of emulation. Will it be time that Nintendo brings an new GameBoy on the market? With options to play the old cartidges or all the GameBoy games of NSO with NSO?
my aunt bought me a game boy when they were out only in japan
I think most fans know how are are at gaming
Any minute interest I may once have had in getting one of these disappeared when I heard the name "Palmer Lucky". Seriously, eff that guy.