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The Analogue Pocket’s Dock accessory allows wireless controllers to link to the handheld. | Image: Analogue
Analogue has released a caller firmware update for its Pocket handheld with bug fixes and expanded enactment for wireless controllers. PocketOS v2.5 — available for download here — fixes an contented with backup prevention exports for Game Boy and Game Boy Color games, but besides introduces a agelong database of updates for the Pocket’s TV dock accessory that improves wireless gamepad compatibility and adds authoritative enactment for Nintendo’s NES and Sega Genesis controllers.
Similar to the dock that streamlines connecting the Nintendo Switch to a TV, the Analogue Dock is an optional accessory for the Pocket that lets you play retro games connected a larger screen. The Dock besides includes wireless controller connectivity, and implicit clip has expanded enactment to see everything from PlayStation controllers to the Switch’s Joy-Cons.
PocketOS 2.5 fixes fastener mapping issues with the wireless Super Nintendo and N64 controllers Nintendo released to marque the acquisition of playing retro games done its Switch Online work consciousness much authentic. The caller update besides adds enactment for Nintendo’s NES and Genesis wireless gamepads to the Dock, arsenic spotted by Time Extension, which antecedently lone worked erstwhile utilized with a third-party Bluetooth dongle.
The Analogue Pocket’s enactment for crippled cartridges is constricted to mostly older handhelds (TurboGrafx-16 games are supported done an adapter) including the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, and Sega Game Gear. But it was designed with further field-programmable gross array (FPGA) architecture allowing it to replicate the behaviour of galore antithetic consoles. That includes the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis done the usage of ROM files alternatively of cartridges, which tin present beryllium played utilizing the due gamepads.
Analogue besides announced yesterday that its reimagined 4K Nintendo 64 console was delayed yet again and is present expected to vessel “by July 2025.”
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