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What Better Game To Test The Dock
(lemmy.world)
The Simpsons via Analogue Pocket
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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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Yeah with Analogue you definitely need to go into their products expecting it will never be updated, and be pleasantly surprised if it does. I originally bought it just to play GB and GBA games via carts and everdrives, so OpenFPGA was a huge surprise when it was released (although my x7 didn't work until I replaced the filters, thanks Analogue for that incompatibility).
If you ever do decide you want a og Xbox (which honestly with the state of emulation, you probably don't need to), make sure it's working unless you want a potentially challenging repair. They are very susceptible to leaky caps and trace rot.
Yeah, I've learnt my lesson, haha, although I picked up a Pocket much for the same reason as you did (and OpenFPGA cores were barely getting talked about then, so I didn't have that many expectations in that regard) and my Super Nt has honestly been perfectly fine.
Cheers for the heads-up, I've been watching quite a few restoration videos on OG Xboxes and I've seen what those damned clock capacitors can do...
I'm actually leaning towards getting a 360, since it seems to have pretty good backwards compatibility, but most importantly (to me) the shmup catalogue is incredible on there.
Emulation is good enough, but my only PC is a Steam Deck, so that doesn't really cut it for Xbox and 360 atm.