Comment on $250 Analogue 3D will play all your N64 cartridges in 4K early next year

saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The cartridge connector is not proprietary. It’s just a commodity off the shelf card edge socket.

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    • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fab, they’re probably fine then.

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  • trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Apparently Ryujinx the switch emulator has been removed even though it used unique code and the speculation is the owner got paid off to delete it. Makes me wonder if they get you either one way or another

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    • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The speculation is wrong.

      If your hobby is making Paper Maché Owls, and one day Hobby Lobby calls you and threatens to sue you in criminal court for millions, or you can silently stop your hobby?

      Unless you have millions to burn, you give up your hobby, because it’s not worth ruining your life over.

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• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They can’t do anything about this. Analogue already made similar products for the NES, SNES and Game Boy.

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• JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Has Nintendo sued Analogue before? I assume that Analogue makes sure they’ve got their legal bases covered.

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  • PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nintendo: Image

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    • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, just because they haven’t, doesn’t mean they can’t.

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      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I doen’t think they have an angle, though. Reverse engineering is legal.

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• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re selling their Gameboy one at least :

    store.analogue.co/products/analogue-pocket-white

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  • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I own several Analogue products. They’re solid AF.

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    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was just saying I find Nintendo are slowrolling devs by waiting till the last minute to sue them.

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• ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • osprior@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OpenFPGA on the Analogue Pocket is official.

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    • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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