Irem's R-Type Is Coming To Analogue Pocket

Cool, although I already have it on my evercade exp, with replay function of course since r-type arcade is really hard 😂

The problem is that while the Pocket screen is excellent, its size is just impractical for a lot of arcade games and makes them basically unplayable.

I’ve never been much of a fan of playing big screen console games on handhelds. I experimented a lot with this on the 3DS and found that old NES games in particular were much less enjoyable and immersive on such a small screen. Mega Drive and arcade games with bigger sprites fit better, but they too were less enjoyable than when played on a television or a laptop screen.

But for Game Boy, DS and of course 3DS games, the small screen is perfect. And there’s something very enjoyable about playing games on a small handheld wherever you are.

When I’m going to explore the Gameboy Advance library, it will probably be on a handheld of some type.

I wonder if the core will use the Pocket's variable refresh display to run the games at 55hz, which is what M72 games run at. My MiSTer runs them at 55hz on my LG C3 OLED, so it would be cool to have that on my Pocket as well!

@LowDefAl The Pocket has a dock. I also don’t find these games to be unplayable on it. I went through the PCE version on mine handheld.

I hope the Analogizer gets more promotion on this website and others - direct output to CRTs for $50. I have one it works great but it needs more core support for stuff like the arcade cores.

https://analogizer-fpga.com/en