They can’t do anything about this. Analogue already made similar products for the NES, SNES and Game Boy.
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saltesc@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I hear the Nintendo war drums…
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 6 days ago
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 6 days 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”
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
Has Nintendo sued Analogue before? I assume that Analogue makes sure they’ve got their legal bases covered.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 6 days ago
suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Yeah, just because they haven’t, doesn’t mean they can’t.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
I doen’t think they have an angle, though. Reverse engineering is legal.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 6 days 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.
fluxion@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They’re selling their Gameboy one at least :
4am@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I own several Analogue products. They’re solid AF.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I was just saying I find Nintendo are slowrolling devs by waiting till the last minute to sue them.
ch00f@lemmy.world 6 days 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.
osprior@lemmy.world 6 days ago
OpenFPGA on the Analogue Pocket is official.
ch00f@lemmy.world 6 days 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.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 6 days 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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The cartridge connector is not proprietary. It’s just a commodity off the shelf card edge socket.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Fab, they’re probably fine then.
trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days 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
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 5 days 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.