Correction: We've removed Linus accidentally calling the Analogue Pocket "emulation" instead of "recreation" since it's FPGA which isn't really emulating, but actually replicating the original hardware and removed Linus calling out the OG GameBoy's lack of a brightness wheel since it was causing confusion about the original's contrast wheel! Sorry for the mixups!- Bell Thanks to Hohem for sponsoring this video! Use code YT20 for 20% off the Hohem iSteady V3 at bit.ly/4fdIHWJ Buy the Hohem iSteady V3 on Amazon at amzn.to/40pIQll
@@G0o0se Sooo, you´re a Mac Adress Fan, I take it? Weird to put a blatantly off-topic question like this under a totally different video and channel. They explained some of the reasons in the last WAN show. And for everything else, they don´t need to make everything public. Some things are simply business decisions and/or need to stay between the parties involved.
Linus also refers to the plastic window on top being IR. It's not an IR port, it's just a window for a wireless antenna. So it wouldn't be compatable with GameBoy Colors or the Analogue Pocket for wireless trading. Edit: I stand corrected. But it's still unfortunate that nobody opened the thing up.
I remember watching the live reveal earlier this year at the classic tetris world championship, it was pretty cool minus ofc that annoying Paul brother being there
Honestly it looks like a cross between Tetris DX aesthetics and features from the Rosy Retrospection romhack… and there’s a colorization hack for that. pretty sure there’ll be a ROM dump of Chromatic Tetris soon as these things ship anyway
I'm glad to see that people are willing to spend the time and money to make high-quality devices like this, and I hope there's enough interest to inspire more.
Some people just dont understand. As somebody who has carried a gameboy everyday since the 90s i get it. This console is for me. I never play my analouge pocket. It just feels not right and i always take my modded gameboys or an original with me instead.
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.
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
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
@@rustyshackleford7200 I never understood people claiming that controllers with built-in batteries were superior. Those batteries will die after a few years, but I can always swap out the AA batteries in my xbox controllers with some fresh Eneloops. Meanwhile, my PS3 controllers don't hold a charge anymore.
@@guspaz it seems like there's this sentiment among most people that cheaper is always worse. since using easily interchangeable, completely standard AA batteries is cheaper than a proprietary built in rechargeable battery that you need to take apart the entire controller to replace (assuming the battery for your gamepad is still in production, if not, time to find another one for a modern device with matching voltage and similar form factor, or pray to god that somebody else already did that work for you and posted their findings online. grrr, iPods.), that means it's a worse solution and it's only good for poor people. there's hardly any advantage, maybe it's more expensive to have the circuitry to charge AAs built into the controller compared to the circuitry to charge a Lion battery? but that would probably be offset by the cost of the Lion battery compared to dirt cheap standard AAs anyways.
@@guspaz the batteries on play station controllers are packs that are easily removed and xbox uses AAs and you can get packs that charge over usb c that can go on the back of an xbox controller
In my experience, the best way to play the original gameboy IS outside on a sunny day, under some kind of onning or deck umbrella so the reflections aren't as bad
The same principle applies to the original Game Boy as applies to e-ink - they are >reflective< displays, thus work much better in direct sunlight. LTT isn’t always right, just because he’s well known.
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
"You can see it slow down a little like the original hardware would. Authentic lag." At the time the Gameboy was released game consoles didn't have programmamable graphics hardware, and were so slow that they usually didn't even have an operating system on them. The games had to be in full control of the hardware that was present, which meant they had to be hardcoded to work with only that hardware and its limitations. This means that wherever an fpga or an emulator is used to play these games they have to behave exactly like the original hardware did. It also means that no matter what hardware you use to emulate these games they will never run any faster than they do on the original console. You will never see a Gameboy game run any faster than 59.73fps, because speeding up the picture processing unit means speeding up the cpu and everything it does including sound and game physics. This can actually be seen on the Super Gameboy which runs approximately 2% faster, and that is enough to noticeably affect the pitch of the sound as well as make the games harder than intended. A similar problem also occurres on some older pc games in which the game didn't use the system clock to limit the game speed. On modern hardware these games are unplayable without mods, sure to running too fast.
The GBC could be switched between two CPU clockspeeds without affecting the timing of the audio or graphics hardware. Many GBC games did not run at the higher clockspeed.
correction, the older pc games having that issue specifically because they were either tied to the system clock (the part that synchronizes the hardware through pulses (which at that time was thought to be at an always set frequency), precisely a quartz crystal which worked at a lower frequency back in the day), CPU clockspeed by using as much of it as possible (hence why there used to be "turbo" buttons to slow down the PC for backwards compatability), or fps (which makes fixing it easier by just limiting fps). what you're thinking of is games where the loops for updates are tied to e.g. the system time, which (should) prevent issues with the games speed.
TL;DR: Back when hardware resources were limited, and programmers (ACTUAL programmers) had to be cunning and resourceful, things were done creatively and with great ingenuity. “Programmers” these days are lazy.
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
GBA used a separate ARM CPU for GBA-specific stuff and included an entire GB/GBC inside as well (IIRC it was a system-on-a-chip implementation by that time, but don't quote me on that). The DMG/GBC was a Z80-based chip, not ARM, so it's not a straight shot upwards from GB/GBC to GBA like GB to GBC was. It's basically Nintendo doing with the GB/GBC to the GBA what Sega did with the Master System to the Genesis but portable, and it's a gorram miracle they were able to pull it off in such a small form factor back then.
I looked at all the gameboy remakes and I got the chromatic and will never look back. The screen is brighter than any other device I have and the accurate pixel display trumps the higher res ones available. No need for filters. Plus being as sturdy as it is, it’ll last forever. Battery life isn’t amazing with the backlight at max, so invest in batteries.
To be fair, the Chromatic offers the best "battery" options possible on any of these handheld devices right now: You can choose to use three normal single use batteries or three rechargeable batteries or the upcoming rechargeable battery pack. Whatever works best for you personally. And, sure, some people might have expected the rechargeable battery to come bundled at the price, but I think I can forgive that give this thing really is premium.
WOW!! My nostalgia brain is FIZZING at how COLORFUL that thing is!! If it was a handheld system like the Steam Deck that could run more modern games on low settings, or install emulators, the price would be totally worth it! As much as it hurts to say I'm never in the mood to play my old GameBoy games anymore, the physical design of this device itself is SO CLOSE to selling me on it.
Did Linus even turn on the screen filters of the AP? Didn't look like it, that's the whole reason why it's a 10x resolution screen, it can insert very thin grids that will replicate the look of the old hardware's pixels. Would have been interesting to see how it looked compared to the Chromatik to him...
Pretty lazy not to change the filters on the Analogue. The screen is actually higher resolution while being perfect scale so if you change it it would look better not worse.
Playing games at their intended Ratios are underrated experiences . As a collector of GB & GBC I would love for somebody to release a Super Game Boy Color for use in my SNES. I'll be waiting... Probably forever but still I am here... Waiting on that very specific product I have dreamt of since 1996...
Now you need to correct the statement about charging nickel metal hydride batteries with the type c port. There is a custom li-ion battery that can be purchased for recharging through the type c port.
This makes so much more sense as there isnt a good way to have it decide if the AA batteries in the device are safe to charge or not. Although annoying at the same time.
@mitchk7655 very. I'm good with my Retroid Pocket 2+. These are niche handhelds and for the price I'd rather just buy the original hardware and play the way it was meant to play.
@@mitchk7655 how is there not? Smart NiMH chargers are nothing new and they have no problem determining this. Why can't this handheld just do what these smart chargers do?
Something that was hinted at but never explicitly said is that on the Analogue Pocket, aside from the open FPGA which can recreate dozens of old consoles and arcade boards, can play Game Boy Advance carts. The Chromatic can't, and obviously neither a modded GBC. Which mean that he biggest advantage the AP has over the Chromatic is being able to play gen 3 Pokemon, and at the end of the day, Pokemon is what is selling the majority of these handhelds.
If you would have pulled the batteries out you would have seen where a lipo battery being produced in the future could go. The USB C doubles as a PD charge port.
The main problem for me with the Analogue is the controls are a bit bubbly/fluffy. Chromatic ones are way better. I just can't feel comfortable enough with the pocket.
Original GB and GBC were fantastic outdoors. It quite literally was designed to need a bright external light (the Sun) in order to work. Why didn't one of the guys that is actually into retro gaming review this? Linus is clearly uninterested and unqualified to review this product. Should have gotten David to do this one.
That Lime Green is really getting at my emotions here. I had a Gameboy Color that exact color. (My Civic is also this color. Probably what drew me to it tbh) It either got stolen or lost during a move. I remember when Mom/Dad/Grandma bought it for me. Was like my 6th or 7th Birthday. Was raining outside so I played it literally all day. Surprise it was September and it was raining! Yay Eastern PA! I was devastated when it got lost or stolen... I was like 16 and cried for like 2 days. Not only was it bought for me by my Parents and Gram and i felt bad for losing it or having it stolen. However, it was my first console of my own. Had such an attachment to that thing. Every time I see one it takes every bit of me to not buy another one. Beat Pokémon Crystal, Red, (my brother had blue) Pikachu Yellow, and Silver on that bad boy.
thank you for that memory ❤ my grandparents got me a GBC and Pokémon Gold, I think it was a combo pack from Costco. god, they got everything from Costco haha. I played that thing for fucking hours and hours. I was only allowed to play it at their house so maybe three or five days a month but damn, I can still feel the excitement. it’s probably one of the few things I still have from my childhood. I don’t have the game boy but I do have the game still. Thank the gods for them, even my grandparents knew how boring their house was. They lived in a small RV for like 10 years while my grandpa was building their last house.
I remember the old gameboy's being easy to see outside, in fact I mostly played mine outside cause they were hard to see indoors without light right on them. I remember when smart phones first hit the scene my top complaints were that backlit screens were harder to see outside without crazy brightness. However I lost my original gameboy when I was super young so most of my memories are from the Gameboy Pocket and up.
I do love the love letter to it. I’d probably spring the extra over say a analog pocket. I mean, I’m happy with my gbc, and I never felt like I needed a hundred ways to play a game set I need on my phone. So to make it worth getting, it has to be something like this. An aesthetic device that doesn’t look like a gbc, but takes gbc to its end game.
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
As a kid who grew up with gameboy advance, its odd to make a device like this and not include gba since it could also run gb and gbc games so it woule serve the same function with a 10x larger library
When people that don’t understand DMG, GBC, FPGA Retro Gaming, review the ModRetro and compare it to the original systems and Analogue Pocket. Exactly what you’d expect. While their end analysis and recommendations aren’t far off, the side comments and explanations are not great. EDIT: Glad to see the correction, makes this a little more bearable.
9:16 No Linus, the original GameBoy did NOT struggle with being playable outside, since it had a REFLECTIVE Display, meaning the more light fell onto the display, the easier it was to read. Just like a cheap analogue alarm clock display or a calculator (which is actually what Nintendo sourced the display from). The problem of the GameBoy was that it was unplayable in the dark or in dim indoor lighting even. What you were thinking of then is every other older electronics device you reviewed, which used backlit LCDs or dim OLED displays, not the GameBoy. 😅
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.
For a lot of folks the tradeoffs analogue makes between "faithful to the original" and upgrades isnt worth the extra cost/limited functionality and they're happy with an anbernic. This isn't for people bargain shopping, it's for people who want to push that tradeoff even further than analogue did. I'm fine with separate devices for gb/gbc than GBA because the resolutions were different and tbh analogue isn't as good at recreating displays as they claim (after using a retrotink-4k, analogue is left wanting). Not saying this is for everyone, but I'm glad there's a high end market for this sort of thing!
The usual "why bother with this when x does the same thing and more for x price". You can't buy a 1:1 backlit gameboy screen at the moment. While I'm ok with my current modded GBC, I'd be tempted to get a swap kit for this screen if they decided to release one. And if they did the same with GBA I'd jump at the chance since every backlit GBA solution has one drawback or another that isn't always mentioned in reviews.
I'm in the camp that thinks the Analogue Pocket is too different in form factor from a GBC to be really good for playing GBC. I know a lot of people just play Pokemon and don't care but I play a lot of other games that are most comfortable with the GBC form factor (especially the B A buttons being side by side). So for me the cost to get a really good facsimile of a GBC is worth it.
Yes Linus the screen was completely custom manufactured. There's a who behind the scenes video they made he really did lose money making a screen from the ground up and other parts.
Not sure if Linus was overestimating the age of Palmer Luckey or underestimating the age of the Game Boy. But the Gameboy is older than Palmer Luckey and he was about the right age to get a GBC as a kid.
While I love playing my retro games on the OLED deck for the larger more vibrant scereen, I do love my Anbernic RG353M for all my retro games that I played as a kid. It's a nice and small landscape handheld with a really nice 3.5-inch IPS screen with 2.4/5G Wi-Fi/Bluetooth 4.2 built in so I can copy things to and from wirelessly if I want and update the OS over the air, great D Pad and even has hall effect joysticks. Installed ArkOS running Emulation Station as it's a rock solid OS and upgraded very often. Put a 1TB Micro SD card, so definitely not short of something to play 😄
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
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 FunnyPlaying FPGA system they have in the video is literally, like, $84, which is cheaper than it would cost to get a GBC and a modern screen and DIY it.
Don’t release a half assed review. Thankfully there are plenty of channels that will cover it in depth. I realize this channel isn’t in depth but basic facts were just wrong. Linus does not understand software emulation let alone FPGA. David should have hosted.
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
The d-pad of analogue pocket is awful. If this thing has decent buttons, volume wheel, and solid touch, it can be favorable to those who don't care about the extra openFPGA and GBA playability.
Linus almost forgetting he's making a video because he's playing a game from almost forty years ago tells us two things. First, that the game holds up that well means it's a great game. Second, it tells us that, yes, he is even a gamer.
I don’t know where people are buying the analogue pocket for half the price of the modretro chromatic, but on their website the analogue pocket is $219.99
If it’s in stock if not your playing scalper prices. I personally won’t buy from analog because I feel they keep their stock incredibly low on purpose to push fomo, and they only occasionally have stock now that competitors are finally popping up.
@@dinaya8560 FPGBC is really bad build quality by comparison and the Chromatic comes with a new Tetris game on a cart! Maybe Linus is just bad at math.
6:49 someone give the editor a raise. that's some quality line cherrypick there "Omg they come so fast, I need the stick!" "Yes I got the stick, its too HARD"
A RAISE? I’d dock his wages for cheesy, crude, mind-meltingly over obvious low-hanging-fruit attempts at ✌️”jokes”✌️ Crudity is a poor replacement for actual wit.
To me the original experience with that thing would be, to sit in the back of my parents car, during a nighttime drive and hoping for someone to tailgate a little, so the light of that car would shine on my screen, when i hold it up a little.
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.
@@SimonBauer7 That's not how FPGAs work, and none of these FPGA game consoles are attempting exact gate-level recreations of the original chips. They're just implementing the same external behaviours just like a software emulator would.
To be honest, I would 100% use that for hours a week, I'd prefer something pocketable compared to carrying my switch around with me as I use it out and about when travelling or just chilling on the sofa instead of mobile apps
plenty of options for that - the Anbernic RG35XXSP is e.g. a great option if you want something pocketable (emulation handheld designed after the GBA SP like the name suggests) - can even go up to PSP to some degree, altho I personally only use it up to GBA games. can't deny that the chromatic got its own charm tho.
yeah, I get why you'd go with something else if cost was your primary concern, but having a newly manufactured and purpose-built device for this from someone with reputation behind them is really exciting to me personally like yeah the Analogue Pocket does 'more' but having the extra buttons there for systems I might not be interested in is something that just annoys me, as irrational as that may be, not to mention the competing pixel densities and aspect ratios of the different systems really excited to see what they do for the GBA in the future
The compromise is the price and the fact it’s irrelevant to the majority of the people. Linus is right to tell people to avoid it when you can get 99% of the experience for a fraction of the cost. It’s a shiny display trinket much like funko pops except this makes you artistic in a different way.
@@Chairman_Wang wouldn't say the build quality of the shell and buttons and display is only 1% better. Not a trinket but a work horse. Got one for a 4 year old kid and he loves it. Don't have to worry about it breaking.
@@reveriestandard in durability perhaps but it’s irrelevant to most. Plus I haven’t tried to actually torture test it so maybe I’ll eat my words but plenty of plastics actually hold up far better than magnesium alloy. The screen? Maybe if you were actually a kid and took this around but let’s be real the majority of these will spend their times in a display case/stand. That’s the definition of a trinket.
People don't really get the Pocket. It's a hardware accurate, Nintendo Switch style device for every system up to mid the 90's: handhelds, consoles, and arcades. It's a whole era. It STILL has the best screen of any device out there (including premium Chinese handhelds). I have mine hooked up to a CRT -- you can play it handheld or with SNES controllers. Lol and I'm still buying a Chromatic, because I like having a smaller "Gameboy" like the FPGBC -- but with a better screen
This video made me pull out my old Gameboy Advance SP to take a look at it. I've lose the charger, and currently have no game body games on hand. But I'm surprised at how good this 20+yr old console buttons feel to click and press.
11:00 Ah, yes, that sound. the sound that prepares me for the hours of gaming session on a weekday, or the whoop-ass if my parents heard it on school days. Good time.
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.
It means it’ll last longer where as the recharge batteries will probably die, this using batteries you can pick up 30 yrs later and plug in batteries to play
@@RAHelllord should have come with eneloops then. Or make it a better user replaceable battery that’s widely available. Love the comments these will be good 30 years from now. Try to buy old stock Polaroid film lately?
@@SpaceJazz3K Yeah but my GBC, GBA and NGPC still work with fresh AAs. The same can't be said for my SP, or even my n3DS LL. I've sourced third-party replacement packs but they've all been poor, and not lasted very long.
If you truly only want to play game boy/color games then go with the funny playing FPGA kit. It has also an amazing screen and it's a lot cheaper. For some reason modretro's screen looks tiny and very old compared to what funnyplaying ships.
FPGBA is *just* OK. It’s good for the price but that is all. The screen, whilst larger is just not right as the resolution is not high enough to properly recreate the pixel grid (unlike the Pocket) and it is just really over saturated. The Chromatic screen puts even the AP screen to shame, it’s the brightest of the lot, is the perfect resolution and recreates the grid and structure down to the sub pixel level. Chromatic includes a metal shell, for which the equivalent AP cost $500. The Chromatic screen lens is made of sapphire, making it extremely impervious to scratches and it runs at the precise GBC clock speed, which the FPGBC can’t (it’s always either too fast or too slow. Its terms of upgrading the firmware, the Pocket is the easiest, as anything that can write to a micro SD can copy the file over (even a phone), the Chromatic has update utility for Windows, Mac and soon Linux. FPGBC requires Windows. Last but not least, the factory firmware for the Chromatic is open source, which hopefully means custom firmware with addition features is coming.
I mean, obviously not the same thing, but I bought an Anbernic RG35XX for like $35 from the TikTok Shop, and exceeded my expectations for the limited amount of gaming I was actually going to do on it. Before I bought it, I thought to myself "if I just bang out on version of Pokemon, I'll be happy" and it was more than up to the challenge.
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 😂
Correction: We've removed Linus accidentally calling the Analogue Pocket "emulation" instead of "recreation" since it's FPGA which isn't really emulating, but actually replicating the original hardware and removed Linus calling out the OG GameBoy's lack of a brightness wheel since it was causing confusion about the original's contrast wheel! Sorry for the mixups!- Bell
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It's hardware emulation though
It is emulation. Stop with that nonsense. It's just hardware emulation.
@@G0o0se Sooo, you´re a Mac Adress Fan, I take it? Weird to put a blatantly off-topic question like this under a totally different video and channel. They explained some of the reasons in the last WAN show. And for everything else, they don´t need to make everything public. Some things are simply business decisions and/or need to stay between the parties involved.
Linus also refers to the plastic window on top being IR. It's not an IR port, it's just a window for a wireless antenna. So it wouldn't be compatable with GameBoy Colors or the Analogue Pocket for wireless trading.
Edit: I stand corrected. But it's still unfortunate that nobody opened the thing up.
Correction: Weapons dealer implies he sells them to anyone. He only sells them to the US government, which would make him a defense contractor
so I've learned that the Chromatic port of Tetris was actually done by Chromatic and was properly licensed and even runs on a proper GBC, neat.
And it'll be ported on the switch in 2 years
I remember watching the live reveal earlier this year at the classic tetris world championship, it was pretty cool minus ofc that annoying Paul brother being there
I'm actually shocked it was properly licensed. That's pretty damn cool.
@@tommj4365 yeah was about to order and saw that those idiots were on board with the product.. can't stand those dumb guys
Honestly it looks like a cross between Tetris DX aesthetics and features from the Rosy Retrospection romhack… and there’s a colorization hack for that.
pretty sure there’ll be a ROM dump of Chromatic Tetris soon as these things ship anyway
I'm glad to see that people are willing to spend the time and money to make high-quality devices like this, and I hope there's enough interest to inspire more.
To be fair to the Chromatic, when the original Gameboy was released it cost the same in 2024 dollars as the Chromatic.
Chromatic was not made to run many systems good. It was made to run one system perfectly.
Some people just dont understand. As somebody who has carried a gameboy everyday since the 90s i get it. This console is for me. I never play my analouge pocket. It just feels not right and i always take my modded gameboys or an original with me instead.
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.
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.
@@bahamutbbob Something's wrong with it though, looks like someone activated bilinear filtering and forgot to disable it
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
I like how this is a pro now, and used to be a con. lol
@@rustyshackleford7200 I never understood people claiming that controllers with built-in batteries were superior. Those batteries will die after a few years, but I can always swap out the AA batteries in my xbox controllers with some fresh Eneloops. Meanwhile, my PS3 controllers don't hold a charge anymore.
@@guspaz it seems like there's this sentiment among most people that cheaper is always worse.
since using easily interchangeable, completely standard AA batteries is cheaper than a proprietary built in rechargeable battery that you need to take apart the entire controller to replace (assuming the battery for your gamepad is still in production, if not, time to find another one for a modern device with matching voltage and similar form factor, or pray to god that somebody else already did that work for you and posted their findings online. grrr, iPods.), that means it's a worse solution and it's only good for poor people.
there's hardly any advantage, maybe it's more expensive to have the circuitry to charge AAs built into the controller compared to the circuitry to charge a Lion battery? but that would probably be offset by the cost of the Lion battery compared to dirt cheap standard AAs anyways.
@@guspaz the batteries on play station controllers are packs that are easily removed and xbox uses AAs and you can get packs that charge over usb c that can go on the back of an xbox controller
@@guspaz now if only the Xbox controllers could charge NI-Mh batteries and not just the Microsoft branded Lithium ones
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
Came here to say this
In my experience, the best way to play the original gameboy IS outside on a sunny day, under some kind of onning or deck umbrella so the reflections aren't as bad
Much better in the sun.
take his nerd card away
The same principle applies to the original Game Boy as applies to e-ink - they are >reflective< displays, thus work much better in direct sunlight.
LTT isn’t always right, just because he’s well known.
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.
"You can see it slow down a little like the original hardware would. Authentic lag."
At the time the Gameboy was released game consoles didn't have programmamable graphics hardware, and were so slow that they usually didn't even have an operating system on them. The games had to be in full control of the hardware that was present, which meant they had to be hardcoded to work with only that hardware and its limitations. This means that wherever an fpga or an emulator is used to play these games they have to behave exactly like the original hardware did. It also means that no matter what hardware you use to emulate these games they will never run any faster than they do on the original console. You will never see a Gameboy game run any faster than 59.73fps, because speeding up the picture processing unit means speeding up the cpu and everything it does including sound and game physics.
This can actually be seen on the Super Gameboy which runs approximately 2% faster, and that is enough to noticeably affect the pitch of the sound as well as make the games harder than intended.
A similar problem also occurres on some older pc games in which the game didn't use the system clock to limit the game speed. On modern hardware these games are unplayable without mods, sure to running too fast.
The GBC could be switched between two CPU clockspeeds without affecting the timing of the audio or graphics hardware. Many GBC games did not run at the higher clockspeed.
Running multiple DOS games on a 386 and things would be flying.
correction, the older pc games having that issue specifically because they were either tied to the system clock (the part that synchronizes the hardware through pulses (which at that time was thought to be at an always set frequency), precisely a quartz crystal which worked at a lower frequency back in the day), CPU clockspeed by using as much of it as possible (hence why there used to be "turbo" buttons to slow down the PC for backwards compatability), or fps (which makes fixing it easier by just limiting fps).
what you're thinking of is games where the loops for updates are tied to e.g. the system time, which (should) prevent issues with the games speed.
Super gameboy 2% fact is one of the best facts
TL;DR:
Back when hardware resources were limited, and programmers (ACTUAL programmers) had to be cunning and resourceful, things were done creatively and with great ingenuity.
“Programmers” these days are lazy.
man clearly never played an original game boy outside. That’s was the only place you could see the screen really well
The OG Gameboy speaker in the video at 7:50 is for sure dead. It DID NOT sound that bad when new.
yeah, the voice coils are probably rusted to hell! 😂
Too expensive for the man selling a $70 screwdriver! Come on Linus! People pay more for a little better. Isn't your backpack $350?
True
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'.
Can't make an fpga with high enough specs. Come on think
The Analogue pocket does work with gba too, and has those shoulder buttons
Resolution I think
GBA used a separate ARM CPU for GBA-specific stuff and included an entire GB/GBC inside as well (IIRC it was a system-on-a-chip implementation by that time, but don't quote me on that). The DMG/GBC was a Z80-based chip, not ARM, so it's not a straight shot upwards from GB/GBC to GBA like GB to GBC was. It's basically Nintendo doing with the GB/GBC to the GBA what Sega did with the Master System to the Genesis but portable, and it's a gorram miracle they were able to pull it off in such a small form factor back then.
I looked at all the gameboy remakes and I got the chromatic and will never look back. The screen is brighter than any other device I have and the accurate pixel display trumps the higher res ones available. No need for filters. Plus being as sturdy as it is, it’ll last forever. Battery life isn’t amazing with the backlight at max, so invest in batteries.
That GameBoy Pocket got me through NYC highschool travel in the subway.
To be fair, the Chromatic offers the best "battery" options possible on any of these handheld devices right now: You can choose to use three normal single use batteries or three rechargeable batteries or the upcoming rechargeable battery pack. Whatever works best for you personally. And, sure, some people might have expected the rechargeable battery to come bundled at the price, but I think I can forgive that give this thing really is premium.
WOW!! My nostalgia brain is FIZZING at how COLORFUL that thing is!! If it was a handheld system like the Steam Deck that could run more modern games on low settings, or install emulators, the price would be totally worth it! As much as it hurts to say I'm never in the mood to play my old GameBoy games anymore, the physical design of this device itself is SO CLOSE to selling me on it.
Did Linus even turn on the screen filters of the AP? Didn't look like it, that's the whole reason why it's a 10x resolution screen, it can insert very thin grids that will replicate the look of the old hardware's pixels. Would have been interesting to see how it looked compared to the Chromatik to him...
Pretty lazy not to change the filters on the Analogue. The screen is actually higher resolution while being perfect scale so if you change it it would look better not worse.
This is the most lazy LTT video so far.
Playing games at their intended Ratios are underrated experiences . As a collector of GB & GBC I would love for somebody to release a Super Game Boy Color for use in my SNES. I'll be waiting... Probably forever but still I am here... Waiting on that very specific product I have dreamt of since 1996...
So, what any weapons dealers have to do with this?
Now you need to correct the statement about charging nickel metal hydride batteries with the type c port. There is a custom li-ion battery that can be purchased for recharging through the type c port.
This makes so much more sense as there isnt a good way to have it decide if the AA batteries in the device are safe to charge or not. Although annoying at the same time.
@mitchk7655 very. I'm good with my Retroid Pocket 2+.
These are niche handhelds and for the price I'd rather just buy the original hardware and play the way it was meant to play.
@@mitchk7655 how is there not? Smart NiMH chargers are nothing new and they have no problem determining this. Why can't this handheld just do what these smart chargers do?
Something that was hinted at but never explicitly said is that on the Analogue Pocket, aside from the open FPGA which can recreate dozens of old consoles and arcade boards, can play Game Boy Advance carts. The Chromatic can't, and obviously neither a modded GBC. Which mean that he biggest advantage the AP has over the Chromatic is being able to play gen 3 Pokemon, and at the end of the day, Pokemon is what is selling the majority of these handhelds.
Wait... The original Game Boy struggled with sunlight? I must be living in another dimension.
It didn’t of course.
I love my analogue pocket, but I also ordered one of these.
If you would have pulled the batteries out you would have seen where a lipo battery being produced in the future could go. The USB C doubles as a PD charge port.
The main problem for me with the Analogue is the controls are a bit bubbly/fluffy. Chromatic ones are way better.
I just can't feel comfortable enough with the pocket.
Original GB and GBC were fantastic outdoors. It quite literally was designed to need a bright external light (the Sun) in order to work.
Why didn't one of the guys that is actually into retro gaming review this? Linus is clearly uninterested and unqualified to review this product. Should have gotten David to do this one.
That Lime Green is really getting at my emotions here. I had a Gameboy Color that exact color. (My Civic is also this color. Probably what drew me to it tbh) It either got stolen or lost during a move. I remember when Mom/Dad/Grandma bought it for me. Was like my 6th or 7th Birthday. Was raining outside so I played it literally all day. Surprise it was September and it was raining! Yay Eastern PA! I was devastated when it got lost or stolen... I was like 16 and cried for like 2 days. Not only was it bought for me by my Parents and Gram and i felt bad for losing it or having it stolen. However, it was my first console of my own. Had such an attachment to that thing. Every time I see one it takes every bit of me to not buy another one. Beat Pokémon Crystal, Red, (my brother had blue) Pikachu Yellow, and Silver on that bad boy.
thank you for that memory ❤
my grandparents got me a GBC and Pokémon Gold, I think it was a combo pack from Costco. god, they got everything from Costco haha. I played that thing for fucking hours and hours. I was only allowed to play it at their house so maybe three or five days a month but damn, I can still feel the excitement. it’s probably one of the few things I still have from my childhood. I don’t have the game boy but I do have the game still. Thank the gods for them, even my grandparents knew how boring their house was. They lived in a small RV for like 10 years while my grandpa was building their last house.
@VS666 Those were the days.
I remember the old gameboy's being easy to see outside, in fact I mostly played mine outside cause they were hard to see indoors without light right on them. I remember when smart phones first hit the scene my top complaints were that backlit screens were harder to see outside without crazy brightness. However I lost my original gameboy when I was super young so most of my memories are from the Gameboy Pocket and up.
The screen and color look AMAZING!
I still use Gameyob on my DSLite, still 1:1 pixels, good enough for me. Prefer the DSLite form factor. Can do GBA and NDS too.
Outdoors was the ideal place to play the original Gameboy. If you're playing indoors you would actively seek out a window...
It's not a stick, it's called a Tetris! 😂
fyi: defense contractor Anduril Industries, a defense technology company focused on autonomous drones and sensors for military applications.
And for the confused nerds like me, nothing to do with Anduril flashlights lol
they also straight up make cruise missiles too
Ah yes, armed, autonomous "defense" systems.
Kind of surprising that I had to scroll this far to see a comment on this topic
Sounds cool
I do love the love letter to it. I’d probably spring the extra over say a analog pocket. I mean, I’m happy with my gbc, and I never felt like I needed a hundred ways to play a game set I need on my phone. So to make it worth getting, it has to be something like this. An aesthetic device that doesn’t look like a gbc, but takes gbc to its end game.
Oroginal Game Boy was perfect outdoors ai ai ai Linus. GBC too and GBA. Direct sun felt perfect.
Is Linus even a gamer?
Right?
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.
The original Gameboy absolutely never struggled with being played in sunlight. It wasn’t backlit.
I Remeber playing it at night and asking my parents to slow down so I could use the headlights behind us to use a light so I could see the screen.
As a kid who grew up with gameboy advance, its odd to make a device like this and not include gba since it could also run gb and gbc games so it woule serve the same function with a 10x larger library
When people that don’t understand DMG, GBC, FPGA Retro Gaming, review the ModRetro and compare it to the original systems and Analogue Pocket.
Exactly what you’d expect. While their end analysis and recommendations aren’t far off, the side comments and explanations are not great.
EDIT: Glad to see the correction, makes this a little more bearable.
9:16 No Linus, the original GameBoy did NOT struggle with being playable outside, since it had a REFLECTIVE Display, meaning the more light fell onto the display, the easier it was to read. Just like a cheap analogue alarm clock display or a calculator (which is actually what Nintendo sourced the display from). The problem of the GameBoy was that it was unplayable in the dark or in dim indoor lighting even.
What you were thinking of then is every other older electronics device you reviewed, which used backlit LCDs or dim OLED displays, not the GameBoy. 😅
Palmer is 32, only 3 years younger than the original gameboy. Totally old enough to get a Gameboy as a kid.
It's a shame they didn't review the Koss headphones as well. Those are amazing.
Do any of the others have video out? I could see that being a benefit for content creators
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.
@@BoDoesStuffunderrated correction a good recreation is still a recreation
For a lot of folks the tradeoffs analogue makes between "faithful to the original" and upgrades isnt worth the extra cost/limited functionality and they're happy with an anbernic. This isn't for people bargain shopping, it's for people who want to push that tradeoff even further than analogue did. I'm fine with separate devices for gb/gbc than GBA because the resolutions were different and tbh analogue isn't as good at recreating displays as they claim (after using a retrotink-4k, analogue is left wanting). Not saying this is for everyone, but I'm glad there's a high end market for this sort of thing!
The usual "why bother with this when x does the same thing and more for x price". You can't buy a 1:1 backlit gameboy screen at the moment. While I'm ok with my current modded GBC, I'd be tempted to get a swap kit for this screen if they decided to release one. And if they did the same with GBA I'd jump at the chance since every backlit GBA solution has one drawback or another that isn't always mentioned in reviews.
I'm in the camp that thinks the Analogue Pocket is too different in form factor from a GBC to be really good for playing GBC. I know a lot of people just play Pokemon and don't care but I play a lot of other games that are most comfortable with the GBC form factor (especially the B A buttons being side by side). So for me the cost to get a really good facsimile of a GBC is worth it.
The most half hearted video i have ever seen from LTT.
It's because of Palmer Lucky isn't it...
Yes Linus the screen was completely custom manufactured. There's a who behind the scenes video they made he really did lose money making a screen from the ground up and other parts.
That packaging and Lisa Frank homage blew me away
Was just missing a radical or eat my shorts reference
Seeing that these are out in the wild. I’m hoping Russ from RetroGamesCorp will get one soon to evaluate.
They Arrive So Fast like mkbhd to his destination
Not sure if Linus was overestimating the age of Palmer Luckey or underestimating the age of the Game Boy. But the Gameboy is older than Palmer Luckey and he was about the right age to get a GBC as a kid.
Those Koss headphones are the same speakers as the Oculus CV1, so that's probably where that business connection came from
I need the stick. Yes i got the stick. Oh its too hard 💀 6:51
Right before that "Oh my God they come so fast"
@Scnottaken As God intended 💀
I got mine at GameStop and am VERY happy with the purchase! The build quality is tremendous! And my Gameboy and GBC games have never looked so good!
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!
While I love playing my retro games on the OLED deck for the larger more vibrant scereen, I do love my Anbernic RG353M for all my retro games that I played as a kid. It's a nice and small landscape handheld with a really nice 3.5-inch IPS screen with 2.4/5G Wi-Fi/Bluetooth 4.2 built in so I can copy things to and from wirelessly if I want and update the OS over the air, great D Pad and even has hall effect joysticks. Installed ArkOS running Emulation Station as it's a rock solid OS and upgraded very often. Put a 1TB Micro SD card, so definitely not short of something to play 😄
Tetris music just hits different.
I have one on order and super excited to play some Zelda on it
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
sory but that's not how the GB classic sounds, your speaker here is broken, the membrane seems to be pierced or something like that.
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
Plus $30 in shipping and doesn’t include Tetris
That's like saying for $20 less you can buy the chromatic with a better screen for GB & GBC games, better build quality & better D pad & buttons.
Yes but does analogue do war crimes?
@@MozTS i liked the part where you typed 'yes'
Got it backwards. Gameboys were at their best when outside at day. They sucked when it got dark and you needed a flashlight attached to it.
The moment you hear FPGA you know it's gonna be expensive as shit
The FunnyPlaying FPGA system they have in the video is literally, like, $84, which is cheaper than it would cost to get a GBC and a modern screen and DIY it.
@@bahamutbbob $84 prebuilt?
$69 not prebuilt and 89 prebuilt
@@luketingley5432 $167 USD in australia
@@RogerEssigArtistWhat do you mean $167USD in Australia??
The modretro also has usbc video out from the console, whereas with analogue you have to buy a seperate dock and use a controller to do that.
Don’t release a half assed review. Thankfully there are plenty of channels that will cover it in depth. I realize this channel isn’t in depth but basic facts were just wrong. Linus does not understand software emulation let alone FPGA. David should have hosted.
So many facts wrong and Linus takes doesn’t even make any sense, such a throwaway video.
Why isn't the Gameboy Color your comparison device for a device which plays gbc games in color?
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...
so?
I'm one of those pokemon kids and now 32. I'm so old :-(
37 and we got in trouble in elementary school for Pokémon matches and later it was the tamagotchi phase.
I think its so cool that Ryan Reynolds has a youtube channel. What’s with the earrings though? That only works if you’re an actual pirate.
The d-pad of analogue pocket is awful. If this thing has decent buttons, volume wheel, and solid touch, it can be favorable to those who don't care about the extra openFPGA and GBA playability.
Linus seeing homework and immediately tossing it to the side is so on brand.
I wanted one right up to the moment when he said the price lmao
Linus almost forgetting he's making a video because he's playing a game from almost forty years ago tells us two things. First, that the game holds up that well means it's a great game. Second, it tells us that, yes, he is even a gamer.
You don't have an original Game Boy Color to compare it to?
My brain finished it with “you can play it at night”
I don’t know where people are buying the analogue pocket for half the price of the modretro chromatic, but on their website the analogue pocket is $219.99
If it’s in stock if not your playing scalper prices. I personally won’t buy from analog because I feel they keep their stock incredibly low on purpose to push fomo, and they only occasionally have stock now that competitors are finally popping up.
He was talking about the FPGBC compared to the Chromatic, this one is half of the price and also plays „only“ GB and GBC games :)
@@dinaya8560 FPGBC is really bad build quality by comparison and the Chromatic comes with a new Tetris game on a cart! Maybe Linus is just bad at math.
6:49 someone give the editor a raise. that's some quality line cherrypick there
"Omg they come so fast, I need the stick!"
"Yes I got the stick, its too HARD"
A RAISE? I’d dock his wages for cheesy, crude, mind-meltingly over obvious low-hanging-fruit attempts at ✌️”jokes”✌️
Crudity is a poor replacement for actual wit.
is linus even a gamer
To me the original experience with that thing would be, to sit in the back of my parents car, during a nighttime drive and hoping for someone to tailgate a little, so the light of that car would shine on my screen, when i hold it up a little.
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.
@@SimonBauer7 Emulating the hardware is still emulation, it's just at a higher level than using software.
@@SimonBauer7it literally is emulation. It's emulating the hardware. FPGA based emulation quality is based on the quality of the core written for it.
@@bahamutbbob technically it's a lower level 🤓☝
@@SimonBauer7 That's not how FPGAs work, and none of these FPGA game consoles are attempting exact gate-level recreations of the original chips. They're just implementing the same external behaviours just like a software emulator would.
A modded Gameboy Color cost almost as much as the Chromatic. So I'll take the Chromatic.
Correction! The original gameboy was awesome outdoors!
To be honest, I would 100% use that for hours a week, I'd prefer something pocketable compared to carrying my switch around with me as I use it out and about when travelling or just chilling on the sofa instead of mobile apps
plenty of options for that - the Anbernic RG35XXSP is e.g. a great option if you want something pocketable (emulation handheld designed after the GBA SP like the name suggests) - can even go up to PSP to some degree, altho I personally only use it up to GBA games.
can't deny that the chromatic got its own charm tho.
while trying to convince people to buy something else, Linus really just sells the chromatic harder as a no compromise product.
yeah, I get why you'd go with something else if cost was your primary concern, but having a newly manufactured and purpose-built device for this from someone with reputation behind them is really exciting to me personally
like yeah the Analogue Pocket does 'more' but having the extra buttons there for systems I might not be interested in is something that just annoys me, as irrational as that may be, not to mention the competing pixel densities and aspect ratios of the different systems
really excited to see what they do for the GBA in the future
The compromise is the price and the fact it’s irrelevant to the majority of the people. Linus is right to tell people to avoid it when you can get 99% of the experience for a fraction of the cost.
It’s a shiny display trinket much like funko pops except this makes you artistic in a different way.
@@Chairman_Wang wouldn't say the build quality of the shell and buttons and display is only 1% better. Not a trinket but a work horse. Got one for a 4 year old kid and he loves it. Don't have to worry about it breaking.
@@reveriestandard in durability perhaps but it’s irrelevant to most. Plus I haven’t tried to actually torture test it so maybe I’ll eat my words but plenty of plastics actually hold up far better than magnesium alloy. The screen? Maybe if you were actually a kid and took this around but let’s be real the majority of these will spend their times in a display case/stand. That’s the definition of a trinket.
That Lisa Frank callout hit me
People don't really get the Pocket. It's a hardware accurate, Nintendo Switch style device for every system up to mid the 90's: handhelds, consoles, and arcades. It's a whole era. It STILL has the best screen of any device out there (including premium Chinese handhelds). I have mine hooked up to a CRT -- you can play it handheld or with SNES controllers. Lol and I'm still buying a Chromatic, because I like having a smaller "Gameboy" like the FPGBC -- but with a better screen
This video made me pull out my old Gameboy Advance SP to take a look at it. I've lose the charger, and currently have no game body games on hand. But I'm surprised at how good this 20+yr old console buttons feel to click and press.
Stop, I have so many retro consoles it's becoming a financial issue
11:00 Ah, yes, that sound. the sound that prepares me for the hours of gaming session on a weekday, or the whoop-ass if my parents heard it on school days. Good time.
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.
It means it’ll last longer where as the recharge batteries will probably die, this using batteries you can pick up 30 yrs later and plug in batteries to play
@@RAHelllord should have come with eneloops then. Or make it a better user replaceable battery that’s widely available.
Love the comments these will be good 30 years from now. Try to buy old stock Polaroid film lately?
@@SpaceJazz3K Yeah but my GBC, GBA and NGPC still work with fresh AAs. The same can't be said for my SP, or even my n3DS LL. I've sourced third-party replacement packs but they've all been poor, and not lasted very long.
I like how no one told Linus he’s not using an entire game mechanic during Tetris.
If you truly only want to play game boy/color games then go with the funny playing FPGA kit. It has also an amazing screen and it's a lot cheaper.
For some reason modretro's screen looks tiny and very old compared to what funnyplaying ships.
FPGBA is *just* OK. It’s good for the price but that is all. The screen, whilst larger is just not right as the resolution is not high enough to properly recreate the pixel grid (unlike the Pocket) and it is just really over saturated. The Chromatic screen puts even the AP screen to shame, it’s the brightest of the lot, is the perfect resolution and recreates the grid and structure down to the sub pixel level. Chromatic includes a metal shell, for which the equivalent AP cost $500. The Chromatic screen lens is made of sapphire, making it extremely impervious to scratches and it runs at the precise GBC clock speed, which the FPGBC can’t (it’s always either too fast or too slow.
Its terms of upgrading the firmware, the Pocket is the easiest, as anything that can write to a micro SD can copy the file over (even a phone), the Chromatic has update utility for Windows, Mac and soon Linux. FPGBC requires Windows.
Last but not least, the factory firmware for the Chromatic is open source, which hopefully means custom firmware with addition features is coming.
I mean, obviously not the same thing, but I bought an Anbernic RG35XX for like $35 from the TikTok Shop, and exceeded my expectations for the limited amount of gaming I was actually going to do on it. Before I bought it, I thought to myself "if I just bang out on version of Pokemon, I'll be happy" and it was more than up to the challenge.
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