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For players with original Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges: it plays them in hardware via FPGA, not software emulation.
The 3.5-inch 1600x1440 LCD is listed by Analogue at 615 ppi and can rotate for portrait-mode games.
Analogue rates the 4300 mAh battery at about 6 to 10 hours of play.
There are no analog sticks, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth; Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket, Lynx and TurboGrafx-16 cartridges need adapters sold separately.
At a glance
Screen
2.8″Miyoo Mini750 x 5603.5″Analogue Pocket1600 x 14406″AYN Thor1920 x 1080
3.5″ LTPS, 1600 x 1440. Screens drawn at the same scale.
Chip
Altera Cyclone V FPGA
Memory
Not listed
plus microSD
Battery
4,300 mAh
800 mAhcatalog range10,000 mAh
Weight
275 g
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1Anbernic RG Nano: 75 g
2Miyoo Mini: 104 g
3Analogue Pocket: 275 g
4AYN Thor: 380 g
5AYANEO Pocket DS: 540 g
Scale runs 75 g to 540 g across the handhelds we list.
Controls
No analog sticks
Digital triggers
2 shoulder buttons
Cross D-pad
System
FPGA
Video out
No video out
Wireless
No wireless
Cooling
Not listed
What it plays
Every rating links to the review or table it comes from. A system with no rating has not been tested by a source we use, which is not the same as not playable.
Full speed
Most games
Some games
Not playable
Not tested yet
Game Boy1989
Full speed
FPGA core running original cartridges, not software emulation
Yes. It has a slot for Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges, and Analogue sells adapters for several other handheld systems.
Does it have video out?
Not on its own. Analogue's Dock accessory provides 1080p HDMI output and wireless or wired controller support.
What is openFPGA?
It is Analogue's framework, added in a 2022 update per Wikipedia, that lets third-party developers write FPGA cores for the Pocket, loaded from the microSD card.
How long does the battery last?
Analogue lists 6 to 10 hours of gameplay from its 4300 mAh battery.
Game Boy1989 Full speed
Game Boy Color1998 Full speed
GBA2001 Full speed
