First impressions the screen fully bangs on this
And the tilt sensor works on this game which tbh is expected but hey
Next I'll try some really fucked up stuff
The hit rate for unlicensed games (and multicarts) seems Pretty Good, I've only had a couple of failures so far
More working games. The last one is GBA. Vast Fame's GBA games work but Sintax's don't. Honestly not surprising, they're picky enough about boot timing that they mostly don't even work on a DS, if anything was gonna fail I'd expect it to be those
more findings
- the Sintax GBA games with the "simpler" protection that work on DS work here too
- generally most unlicensed single game carts work
- multicarts are hit and miss but more work than don't work. sadly the VF 12 in 1 doesn't work
- strangely Li Cheng carts with their very simple protection don't seem to work, I wonder if the BIOS is rejecting the "Niutoude" logo (and does that mean this clone bios has a stricter logo check than the original....)
It has this library section which is supposed to log all the games you played but it only works on official carts so only one of the 30 I've tried is showing up lol
it wasn't sunny enough when i opened it to charge the glow in the dark i guess so i'll have to try and do that tomorrow and see how glowy it gets
so leaving aside its compatibility with weird carts.... my overall Gamer Opinion so far is that yes the screen is very very good and just about the best these games are ever gonna look
BUT i think it's less comfortable to actually play on than any official gameboy model i own? it's kind of a big heavy unergonomic brick of a thing
@lion eager to see what you think of it, though i assume the window to buy one of these if you wanted it was four years ago given how analogue tends to operate
@Xkeeper Yeah that's how it was for the regular units which is why I never bought one before, you had a shipping window of just "2023" (ordering in 2022) with no schedule or progress updates and I'm not fucking with that kind of uncertainty
But this glow in the dark version was released on the 1st of this month to ship a week later so I was like fuck it and jumped on it
All versions are sold out now of course
@lion my favorite videogame
@lion that tracks with what I've heard. The L/R buttons seem to be one of the more uncomfortable aspects too
@coffeentacos Yeah I just played some Mario Kart on it and I can concur with that
@lion didn't the GBA have a patched GBC bios that improved the logo check
@mavica_again Yeah it did but those Niutoude games worked on it anyway, I think even in the patched version it only ever checked the top half of the logo. I guess Analogue's reimplementation must be checking the whole logo.
@lion for some reason i hate the fpga logo in the lower left, but i'm not sure if it's because i associate it with the "fpga means it's perfect" marketing or it's just ugly lol
Somehow this newly released variant didn't ship with the firmware update from May so I'm gonna install that before playing anything