• Dasnap@lemmy.world
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      I believe the FPGA modules are written with 100% unique, non-Nintendo code. Maybe the only issue could be the cartilage connector? I’ve had an Analogue Pocket for a while and that project hasn’t been taken down.

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      I don’t say this often, because big companies usually get what they want, but I think analogue is safe.

      It would be the same as all of those cheap SNES/NES/Genesis 3inones you used to see everywhere, Analogue just provides something more “premium”

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      The console doesn’t officially support ROMs. It must run games off the original hardware carts.

      However, there’s a fairly simple hack to get ROMs to play on the SD card slot of the Analogue Pocket that many suspect was unofficially developed by Analogue themselves.

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          Yes, but you still need to install the cores developed by the community in order to play ROMs.

          The necessary core for ROMs was released barely a day after OpenFPGA support was, but it wasn’t released by Analogue.

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      That’s why these things are always “so close” to being done. You hear the milestone is near, and then it disappears. I have a theory Nintendo waits for as long as they can so people invest a lot, then they send the papers. In a way it discourages people from even starting imo.

      Edit: why is this being downvoted. Nintendo slowrolling developers is just like, my opinion man. It’s not controversial

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    The biggest issue with Analogue is they only make a small amount of these devices then they are gone.

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    I just want component to 720 or 1080 for cheap. Don’t want to do soldering or anything xd.