taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

The Analogue Pocket was Not the only handheld to arrive into my possession today btw but I'll maybe post about the other one tomorrow

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

Okay I got the 12 in 1 working we're good

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

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

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....)

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

Sometimes the carts even nicely match the system

The hit rate for unlicensed games (and multicarts) seems Pretty Good, I've only had a couple of failures so far

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

Somehow this newly released variant didn't ship with the firmware update from May so I'm gonna install that before playing anything

My expensive Game Boy is here!
First Game Boy to ever make me agree to a EULA

One twitter thing I miss on here is getting notifications when followers like my RTs. I like knowing when people vibe with the stupid shit I share. That's really all I have to contribute most of the time. Curating furry art and animal pictures and people talking shit about UK politics